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Monday, September 24, 2007

 

Google gettin' stronger

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.87, 7.98 and 3.41 percent respectively. So Google gained about 4% over last year. MSN is in a free fall.

Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Domain

Aug-07

Jul-07

Aug-06
www.google.com

63.98%

64.35%

59.99%
search.yahoo.com

22.87%

22.13%

22.73%
search.msn.com

7.98%*

8.79%*

11.86%
www.ask.com

3.49%

3.21%

3.37%

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:14 AM

Monday, August 13, 2007

 

SEO blogging tips from Matt Cutts (video)

Check out Matt Cutts at WordCamp where he discusses SEO tips for bloggers for about an hour.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 11:48 AM
 

Blogging alert: Rss feeds

If you're a blogger who's interested in optimizing your site for search engines, make sure you have enabled your full feed in your RSS settings. Turns out that Google only indexes your rss feed, not your blog, in their blog search engine. So if you only enable a portion of your feed you are missing out on potential traffic.

In blogger those settings are in the "Site Feed" section.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:11 AM

Monday, August 06, 2007

 

SEO help from Topix

Link building is an important part of SEO for any web site. Getting quality inbound links from related websites is important for ranking high in the search engines. There are a number of sites such as Cheezhead's wiki that you can take advantage of by entering your own information --- aka the right keywords --- that you want to rank well for.

Topix.com is one of those sites. They now offer a forum for Human Resource news that anyone can post to. It's got a google page rank of 5 so it's a quality inbound link. I use it to post my press releases and other announcements.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:15 AM

Thursday, May 24, 2007

 

Google Playing With Search Results

Search Engine Land is reporting: Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. Read more

You should start to see changes in the coming weeks. SEO is getting more interesting. I'm really curious as to how much video will start appearing in search results. Get those YouTube clips ready!

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:28 AM

Friday, April 20, 2007

 

Submit your blog to the new MySpace News

Myspace is launching a Digg-like news site where users can vote. So get your blog/site/feed submitted now. Click here.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 8:58 AM

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

 

Making the case for Jobcasting

For those HR folks that dont know much about jobcasting or if you need to prove its worth to your boss, give them this PDF file: Making the case for Jobcasting.

In the first week, the existing podcasts on Jobs in Pods were downloaded or listened to over 300 times.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 4:32 AM

Thursday, March 08, 2007

 

Blogs: SEO in Action

Blogs are great for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Here's a case in point.

Job in Pods, which is only a few days old is already producing keyword search results. Take a look at the image below. A search for "rf engineering jobs march 2007" produced an organic link back to the post I did for some T-Mobile jobs. Just another reason to podcast your jobs.



Get the latest Internet recruiting scoop at Cheezhead.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:06 AM

Saturday, March 03, 2007

 

The future of SEO

When Danny Sullivan, 'the king of all search media guy' talks, I listen. His daily search cast is a daily ritual for me each weekday. Anyway he wrote something on his blog recently which caught my eye.

What's significant about personalization, however, is the direction that it sets for Google in the future. Google has been very cautious about introducing personalization into the search experience but expect the degree of personalization to increase as Google gets more confident in their ability to present truly personalized and relevant results. And that signals the end of the universal or monolithic search result. As I've said a number of times, that has significant implications for search engine optimization.

Once Google starts making personalized search results a part of everyone's page, SEO is going to take a giant turn. Where's it going? I cant say for sure. But it should be an interesting ride.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 2:22 PM

Saturday, February 17, 2007

 

SEO tip for your Domain name

There's a recent patent by Google which indicates that the length of your domain’s registration is important for ranking. Why? Because many spam sites have short registrations and a longer one indicates that you’re building a site with substance and are in it for the long haul. I'd recommend at least minimum of 2 years for your domain name and if you can afford it, go for 10 years.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:16 PM

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

 

ZoomInfo zooming

The founder of ZoomInfo sent out the following note which I thought was interesting.


"2006 was a good year for ZoomInfo…we enrolled 812 new clients and saw sales grow to well over $10 million. Just last week we were honored with a Selling Power Sales Leadership award for the Top Software Sales Organization and we continue to build our presence in the market with all 10 of the top Executive Recruiting firms and 20% of the Fortune 500 using ZoomInfo’s PowerSearch. I want to thank our thousands of customers for spreading the word about ZoomInfo and for continually providing us the feedback we need to improve it. I look forward to an exciting 2007 and wish you all the best for the holiday season and the New Year.


Jonathan Stern
Founder and CEO

P.S. - If you haven’t checked our product out recently you should. We’ve listened to our customers and adapted and improved the product accordingly. Sign up for a demo and free trial today to see what’s new and improved."

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:21 AM

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

 

Human Resource Experts: exact match domain

This is a perfect example of something called an exact match domain which Oaseo alluded to recently.

http://www.humanresourceexperts.com/

Created by the marketing company HRmarketer, its SEO in the most purest form. Do a Google search on human resource experts and its the #1 result.

Note that the keywords are not only in the domain but part of the title on the page and mentioned at least 2 times in the opening paragraph.

And if you are an HR Expert you can get added to their directory.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 5:53 AM

Friday, December 01, 2006

 

Best of the Web Directory offering 10% off

Good SEO techniques include getting your site or blog listed in directories. BOTW is one of those. They just announced a discount so I thought I would share...

Use the following Promo Code to Save 10% on ALL web and blog directory submissions as well as all category sponsorships and be entered to WIN a 50" Sony WEGA HDTV with matching stand:

Promo Code: SONY4ME

When submitting your sites and signing up for sponsorships, simply use promo code: SONY4ME during the checkout process. The discount promo code will expire and the contest drawing will end on December 31, 2006, midnight EST. So from now until the end of the year, you can save 10% on all new directory submissions, blog directory submissions and sponsorship advertising (in both directories).

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posted by C.M Russell  # 7:33 AM

Friday, November 10, 2006

 

New PPC Program for Amazon.com

Clickriver Ads is an advertising program - currently in beta - that allows businesses to place sponsored links on Amazon.com, next to search results and on product detail pages.... It's a closed beta at the moment.

This could be a significant traffic driver for many websites who utilize PPC. I wonder if advertisers will be able to place ads next to boolk categories or even specific book. That would be cool.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 4:59 PM

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

 

Google Adds Blogs to News Alerts

I love Google's News alerts. They keep me updated on the job search industry.

Now in addition to traditional online news sources, they have added blogs to the mix. Just enter the keyword, and google will email you items with that keyword from blogs or other news sites.

This is great news for bloggers, keep those keyword posts coming!

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posted by C.M Russell  # 7:04 AM

Monday, October 30, 2006

 

Free Sourcing Tool search engine

Today the Fly releases Talent Search, a search engine for sourcing passive candidates. Find candidates from LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, Jobster and more.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 9:18 AM

Thursday, October 12, 2006

 

ScrapeApe

This seems like a strange service to offer. I'm not sure why they charge for something that require basic webmaster skills to implement.


ScrapeApe.com (www.scrapeape.com) is a new tool that job boards across the country can utilize to receive job feeds of their clients job postings.

Naples, FL (PRWEB) October 11, 2006 -- ScrapeApe.com is a new tool that job boards across the country can utilize to receive job feeds of their clients job postings. Scraping or spidering jobs from a companies corporate career site can be a time consuming, frustrating and expensive task. ScrapeApe, which gathers and aggregates jobs from over 50,000 corporate career sites in the U.S. can eliminate the problems associated with developing, managing and maintaining scrapes on your own.

Here's the press release

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posted by C.M Russell  # 7:42 AM

Friday, September 22, 2006

 

RecruitingFly Offering Sponsored Links

If you visit the homepage of RecruitingFly, we now offer the ability to purchase text links on a weekly or monthly basis. A 7 day text link ad is just $17 or a 30 day is $65. Visit this link to sign up now. Or click the 'advertise here' in the Sponsor box.

Promote your recruiting blog or product. Target recruiting professionals from across the country, the UK, Australia and India. RecruitingFly is the most comprehensive directory of recruiting and HR blogs online today.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 8:57 AM

Monday, September 18, 2006

 

Web 2.0 Logo Generator

For those of you who are "graphically challenged", here's a simple tool to help you create a Web 2.0 looking logo.

http://msig.info/web2.php


Browse and search recruiting blogs.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 5:50 AM

Thursday, September 07, 2006

 

SEO Tip: keywords in file names

Matt Cutts, who is Google's webmaster go-to-guy confirms that keywords placed in file names helps with search engine ranking. Here's the quote;

"Most bloggy sites tend to have words from the title of a post in the url; having keywords from the post title in the url also can help search engines judge the quality of a page."

And here's the full post.

Most blogs already include keywords in their file names for each post. But if you are creating static html pages (or dynamic url's) , it's imperative you name them appropriately to rank well.

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posted by C.M Russell  # 6:19 AM

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