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Google is now providing trendinig data for every keyword in their database. Try this: 1. Visit the keyword tool 2. Enter a keyword such as “PHP” 3. From the drop-down menu select Voila! Google will show a bar shart that shows the total search volume ...

Since I lost my best friend and business partner in December, I haven’t been the most productive man in SEO… but I am back at it, and thought readers might like to know what I’ve been up to. First, the 2006 ...

Both Google & MSN have an annoying habit of grabbing your site description from the DMOZ directory, rather than using what you have in your Meta Description tag. MSN has finally provided Webmasters with an option to override the default behaviour. What ...

SEOMoz.org has developed a fantastic tool that calculates something they call “Page Strength” which can be used in to gauge the importance and visibility of any Website or Webpage. I think it’s a great tool for any budding entrepreneur or marketer ...

MSN adCenter has released a cool keyword forecasting tool. Type in one or more keywords and you’ll get a breakdown as to the number of searches over the past year, and the forecasted number of searches for the next few ...

Yahoo! Search Marketing is finally catching up to AdWords and has launched new features (and highlighted old ones) to enable advertisers to exercise more control over where their ad dollars are going. Among them: Blocked Domains Now you can specify websites in ...

It seems that Google has recently changed their PageRank algorithm. A number of sites have experienced a significant drop in PageRank as a result. Boing Boing: Was 9, now 7. Engadget: Was 7, now 5. Forbes.com: Was 7, now 5. New Scientist: Was ...

SearchEngineLand’s Barry Schwartz has a good writeup on the news that Ask.com has fired 8% of its staff, and is planning on changing the strategy behind its search engine, to instead focus on its female user base. Ask.com is being refocused ...

After my recent post about Ask.com’s recent layoffs and change in strategic direction, I had an interesting chat to Nicholas Graham, spokesperson for Ask.com. Graham clarified a few details amid plenty of speculation that Ask.com would be retiring its search ...

We’ve extended the deadline for this competition by two weeks. You asked for more competitions, so here’s another one! We’re giving away two copies of Adobe CS3 Web Premium (kindly donated by Adobe) to the authors of the best articles about Adobe ...