So, the verdict is out: Google will no longer have any Belgian newspaper stories or articles published in Google News. Big win for those Belgian newspapers? They may feel like they have had a victory now, but I’m willing to bet that they will seriously regret their decision to sue in the near future. Why they filed the suit in the first place is a huge mystery to me. Google was linking the headline of the story to their newspaper’s websites. I wish Google had more links to my websites. Can anyone shed some light on the Belgians for me?
Although there are many great paid tools out there that help you do in-depth keyword research, there are also some free ones that are actually pretty helpful for those who don’t want to have to pay. Here is a list of the best free keyword tools out there:
I would just like to put a plug in for Web Targeted, a Utah SEO firm located in Lehi city. Although this search engine marketing firm only has 4 employees, they are competing very well with the big time national companies out there. TOPSEO’s has just recently ranked this Utah based SEO firm the 11th best SEO company world-wide (that’s out of an estimated 10,000 existing SEO firms).
I beleive this is because of the wonderful success they are having with their clients, their unbeatable SEO prices, their fantastic support and customer service, and their high standard of integrity. Having a small SEO firm working for you has some incredible benefits and these guys (I include myself in “these guys”) deserve the accolades they have been given.
I was surprised to see the percentage of people who used Firefox over Internet Explorer this last month. According to w3schools, Firefox had an incredible 31% of the browser market share. There are other stats that say IE still has around 80%, but w3Schools only puts them at 58.6% for the month of January.
Personally, I love using Firefox. It’s much more customizeable and user-friendly. It’s nice to see that there is an ever-growing number of people who agree with me.
WordTracker just launched a free keyword tool that shows daily search volume estimates within the last 90 days. It seems like a pretty decent keyword tool, and who can complain about free?
If you’re looking for an intense in-depth keyword tool though, this isn’t the one for you. I performed a couple of searches just to test out its capabilities and was a little dissapointed to see that they don’t even have “Utah SEO” in the database even though I know for a fact that that keyword has been searched on in the search engines within the last 90 days. You’re not going to find anything more specific than that, but the tool is good for a quick industry look at keywords. It reminds me of the overture tool.
I have been a slacker for the last week and haven’t posted anything to search banter or really even kept up with the latest search news. I have just been a little busy doing what some people like to call work. No excuses though, I’m back at it.
I noticed today that MSN has finally indexed my homepage along with 19 other pages. This has been quite interesting for me to see because usually, MSN is the first search engine to index sites then Yahoo and Google follow shortly thereafter. I have noticed that blogs usually work differently though. Anyway, YAHOO for MSN!…he he he.
It looks like there is now a better tool to look at your back links than just typing in link:yourwebsite.com into Google. Now, if you have a webmaster account (if you don’t you should), you can go in click on the “Links” tab and see both internal and external links that are indexed by Google.
There is usually a big difference between typing it in in the search results and looking in your account. For example, one of our clients has 2 links showing up when you type link:yourdomain.com into the search engine, but they have 58 showing up in their webmaster account.
Matt Cutts repeatedly says this about the links you see though: “Do not assume just because you see a back link that it’s carrying weight.” For those of you who are trying to analyze his words, I think what he’s trying to say is not to assume that just because you see a back link that it’s carrying weight.
One interesting thing I have seen so far about this new link analysis tool is that when you type in our company URL at Google.com you see 99 backlinks whereas inside the webmaster account, there are only 19 and none go to the homepage. I’m guessing this is simply a fluke so far, but I’ll look more into it in the next couple of days to see if I can discover the real meaning.