Long-Tail Keywords Increase Rankings, Conversions : On-Page Optimization Not Dead

By Miranda Miller at Search Engine Watch On-page optimization for long-tail keywords can result in ranking more than a page higher in search results, compared to half a page optimizing with head terms, according to a study by New York-based SEO & SaaS company Conductor. They also found that long-tail keywords converted 2.5 […]

Top 10 Internet Memes of 2011 : Know Your Meme releases the top picks

By Abby Johnson at WebProNews What do you remember most about 2011? So far, we’ve looked at the most tweeted events, Facebook’s top status trends, celebrities who joined Twitter, Twitter’s top topics and hashtags, Yahoo, AOL/Ask, andBing‘s most searched for items. So, what does that leave? Internet memes, of course. What was your favorite Internet meme of […]

Google, Facebook Asked to Screen User Content in India : Indian Government Demands Content Censorship

Indian UPA Government Demands Content censorship on Technology Companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft By DAVID ANGOTTI at SEJ India, which has over 100 million active internet users and is the third largest country in terms of internet activity, wants certain types of content screened by technology companies. The India Telecommunications Minister, […]

Happy Birthday Google : Google Turns 13 – Google history & key milestones

Happy B’day Google – 13th Birthday In 1996, Larry and Sergey became Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year-eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university. In 1997, Larry and Sergey decide […]