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Bing is Now Powering Yahoo!’s Search Results

Recently, Yahoo! announced that the transition from Yahoo Search results to Bing search results is now complete!

Here’s what Bing said:

Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in the US and Canada (English only for now, the other languages will come in the weeks and months ahead)…

Google Realtime Search Now has a Homepage plus More Features

Google Realtime Search now has its own home page http://www.google.com/realtime with new tools included such as Realtime Alerts, Conversation View and Geographical Filtering…

Smart Traffic Plan Strategy in Response to Record Online Spending

Smart Traffic the UK’s largest SEO Company reflect on recent data from IMRG which shows online spending at record levels

Bristol, 26 August 2010 – A recent report released by IMRG shows that online spending is up 18% compared to the same period last year with many Smart Traffic clients reaping the rewards…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #67 – Time Saving Analytics Verification

Google Analytics is very useful for tracking your website traffic and Google just made it easier for us, from setting up to ownership verification saving time and effort. Prior to verifying ownership, you need to add a Javascript tracking code first to your web pages specifically…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #66 – SERPs Showing More Results from a Single Domain

Google just recently announced and launched a change in their ranking algorithm. With this change users can now find a larger number of results from a single site in a much easier way. Compared before, the new ranking algorithm shows more results from the relevant site for queries indicating strong user interest in particular website..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #65 – Google Adds Video Sitemap Errors in Webmaster Tools

Google has added a new report named “Video Sitemaps” to the Webmaster Tool under the Labs Section. This includes errors specific to video sitemap files..

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #64 – Specifying Location Tags in Video Sitemaps

When adding video information to a Sitemap or mRSS feed you must specify the location of the video…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #63 – Disadvantage of Rel=Canonical

We all know that rel=canonical is an alternative way of dealing with duplicate pages instead of using a 301 redirect. But incorrect use of canonicalization can badly hurt your website’s presence in search results. Here are examples of inappropriate use of ‘rel=canonical’ and its negative impact…

Updated version of the Adwords Keyword Tool finally coming out of Beta

Google recently announced that they’re going to be releasing the keyword tool from Beta by the end of August. You’ll notice in the updated keyword tool the increase in functionality, combining the features from both the Keyword Tool and the Search-based Keyword Tool into one comprehensive tool…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #62 – The value of Videos in Search Engine Optimisation

Many businesses have embraced and made videos as a central part of their online marketing. This started when Google integrated video into its universal search offering in 2007…