Ever since I began surfing on the web (it’s been well over a decade now), I’ve considered search essential. More so, on sites with a large amount of content, I find myself searching within the site for ease of locating results, especially because even before I understood what SEO was, I knew that not every page was...
read moreGiven that I’ve only recently become involved in Internet Marketing, it still is something that I am learning more and more about, and there are a lot of blog posts and books that have helped me along the way. In light of my anti-Digg post, I wanted to take this moment to appreciate the best [blog] posts in the Internet...
read moreSEO is a very insular field. My impression from my readings of SEO blogs is that many SEOs themselves are so involved in search engine optimization that sometimes they forget that there’s a whole wide world of individuals who still don’t know about it and why it is necessary. A few months ago, I didn’t know what...
read moreSo much for those fun and games. Zoo.com, which was lauded as a safe online haven for kids, may not be completely what it seems. Child-friendly? Maybe, though it depends on your sources. Is it completely effective? Doubtful. Effort has been made in the past to create a kid-friendly search engine, and we thought this one was it. ...
read moreMSN Live Search is definitely catching up. It has a pretty decent site index and cache, a nifty IP search tool (just type in ip:ip.address.here in the search box), and a nifty way of seeing your backlinks using linkdomain:site.com. (Anyone want to add some more to this budding flower?) The most recent addition to live.com seems to...
read moreThe Washington Post has an article about Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. The button has a goal to bring the user the first result for a search term (which a lot of SEOs aspire to), but I’m generally more interested in the 2nd through 7th results. I generally ignore the first. That’s just my...
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Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. She provides consulting in internet marketing and is Mashable's Global Advertising Director. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
