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Yahoo Mail Servers Rejecting Email
Yahoo Bouncing Email - 451 ErrorIf you use Yahoo! mail as your main email account, you might not be receiving all of your emails. What is Yahoo thinking??? Recently Yahoo has started "greylisting extremely deprioritizing" almost every email that goes through their mail server. Greylisting This is a way of attempting to block...
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Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo
Counting BacklinksEasy way to get accurate backlink counts from Google and Yahoo. If you are a regular Google user and website owner, you know that the link: modifier doesn't give accurate results for the number of backlinks pointing at a site. In the good old days we'd go to alltheweb.com and do a search with link:www.ahfx.net...
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Search Engine Usage for 2009
Search Engine Statistics 2009Search engine usage is out for June 2009. The Nielsen Company reported search engine usage for June 2009. Here are their findings. Search Engine Percentage Google 66.1% Yahoo 16.2% Bing 8.8% AOL 3.0% Google is still the master of search and expanding its grasp...
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What exactly is a bot like Googlebot
Googlebot and other SpidersGooglebot, Yahoo Slurp, and MSNbot and similar spiders, bots, and crawlers are the programs that harvest information for search engines. For anyone tracking statistics on their website, Googlebot, MSNbot, and Yahoo Slurp can be welcomed guests. These three search engine bots gather (harvest)...
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A New Wave of Spam
Junk Email (Spam)Nine out of Ten emails sent over the Internet are unsolicited, plain, old, ugly Spam.The New York Times recently ran an article about the increasing wave of E-mail Spam. The newest wave consists of penny stocks, new mortgage applications, bank account change notices, seemingly long lost friends, and...
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Search Engine Usage for 2010
2010 Search Engine StatisticsSearch engine usage and statistics for July 2010. The Nielsen Company reported their findings for July 2010. Here are their top results. Search Engine Percentage Google 64.2% Yahoo 14.3% Bing 13.6% AOL 1.9% Google has dropped almost another full percentage point...
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Search Engine Statistics
Search Engine StatisticsSearch Engine Usage Statistics for February 2006 Nielson/Net Ratings has released new search engine statistics for Feb 2006. Each of the search engines is maintaining their market share with less than 1% change in the main search engines. Overall, there were 5.3 billion searches performed in February...
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Four Steps to a Better Ranking in the Search Engines
Better RankingsFour basic things you can do now to improve your search engine rankings on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The single question I am asked more often than any other is, "How can I rank better in the search engines." While there are thousands of different things that people can do to rank well, we have found...
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Dynamic Pages vs. Static Pages
Dynamic Pages vs. Static PagesDynamic pages can pose problems for search engines compared to static pages. Following these tips will help avoid the problems that dynamic pages can create with search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Now, while search engines do not care if your webpage ends in .htm, .html, .asp, .php, etc.,...
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Search Engine Usage for 2008
Search Engine Statistics 2008
Nielson/Net Ratings has released new search engine statistics for May 2008. Google has increased its market share over the Nov 2007 search engine results we posted last year. Google pulled ahead a little farther from 57.7 to 59.3 for a 1.6% increase in market share. Google captured just over 4.7 billion...
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SmarterMail Receiving Slowly
After wondering why SmarterMail was receiving so slowly after restarting the MailService, I came across this answer. The ASP.net performance counters were becoming corrupt. After chasing this little change for 3.5 hours, here is the simple fix (try at your own risk, your mileage may vary): cd \windows\system32 lodctr...
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Free SEO Report - Review
Free SEO ReportA quick review of Shoemoney's "Free SEO Report". I've been a big Shoemoney follower for a long time, but when I read about his latest adventure I was suprised because I had already used the service - Free SEO Report, without knowing that he was behind it. Here is a quick review: The report contains...
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Google's Big Daddy
BigDaddy UpdateAlthough the "Big Daddy" update has happened at Google, many data centers are still in flux. Matt Cutts, Google employee and avid blogger, recently commented that the Big Daddy Update was fully deployed: Q: “Is Bigdaddy fully deployed?” A: Yes, I believe every data center...
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Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?
Search Engine Friendly WebsitesIf your website isn't search engine friendly, your website is not earning you enough money. Far too many web designers are actually graphic designers claiming to be website designers. Unfortunately, they know nothing (ok... maybe next to nothing) about how search engines work and what is necessary...
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SEO and Forget It
Google's Sandbox - SEOIn this "fast-food", "fast-paced", "broadband" era, many people don't realize that it takes time to get out of the sandbox before they can move up on the search engines. I don't know if it is just the fast-paced time that we live in, or if people have just forgotten that patience is a virtue,...
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Is Good Coding Key to Great Placement in MSN
Good Coding for Ranking in MSNThe two "big dogs," Google and Yahoo, now have a new competitor. MSN came out with a new search engine in February 2005 that has added good coding as a part of their ranking algorithm. They no longer get their results from other search engines, but now they have spiders of their own. Just...
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Shoemoney SEO Contest
ShoemoneyShoemoney has thrown down the gauntlet to other SEOs and challenged them to dethrone him for the keyword "shoemoney". While this is just another SEO contest, Jeremy Schoemaker at Shoemoney has openly admitted that outranking him for #1 for the keyword shoemoney will be next to impossible....
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SEO World Championship SEO Contest Begins
GlobalWarming Awareness2007 ContestWell there is another SEO contest going on, so we'll see how much SPAM comments start accumulating on discussion boards and blogs all over the world. This contest is for the keywords "globalwarming awareness2007 ". Those that rank highest on the big three (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) will...
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Search Engine Usage for 2007
Search Engine StatisticsNielson/Net Ratings has released new search engine statistics for Nov 2007. Google has really increased market share over the Feb 2006 search engine results we posted last year. Google jumped from 48.5 to 57.7 for a 9.2% increase in market share. Google captured just over 4.2 billion searches in Nov...
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) TipsBasic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques that are so simple that anyone can do them. While there are numerous tricks and tips to get better search engine placement (let alone the tips specific to every individual search engine), here are some very basic search engine optimization tips...
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AHFX.net Aquires Sevenate
AHFX.net Aquires Sevenate.com
AH Digital FX Studios, INC acquires Sevenate.com. A week ago I saw a sign on a business that said, "We refuse to participate in a recession." I totally agree with that statement. As further proof of our hope for the future, AH Digital FX Studios, INC has just acquired Sevenate.com and all of their...
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Don't Make These Mistakes in Your Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) MistakesToo many companies fail in these incorrect assumptions about SEO when dealing with search engine optimization to get first page results. Rand Fishkin mentioned these two ways companies often incorrectly approach SEO. The biggest mistakes I see around SEO is that they consider it two ways, both of which...
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Web Design vs. Graphic Design
Web Design vs. Graphic DesignThere are numerous graphic designers out there who really know their stuff when it comes to print design, brochure layout, and Pantone Matching System (pms). However, not all graphic designers are good web designers. Web design is a totally different medium where the "paper size" (the screen...
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Placement in the DMOZ.org directory - Pure Power
DMOZ / Google DirectoryMany people may wonder why anyone would jump through all of the hoops to get listed in the DMOZ directory (dmoz.org). They would argue that nobody uses the dmoz directory to find businesses. Well, people might not use the dmoz directory like they use yahoo or google, (some people might not even...
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Integrated Marketing
Integrated MarketingIntegrated marketing is essential to getting a better return on investment (ROI). By integrating all marketing materials you can increase profits at very little expense. What is Integrated Marketing Integrated marketing is more than just having a consistent look and feel to all of your marketing...
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