Microsoft launched its new search engine called Bing on May 28, 2009. It is a rebranded and far superior search engine than their previous one, Live Search. I think the marketing ($80 million worth) and functionality of Bing will help it gain significant market share. Let’s face it, not many people used Live Search because of the unsexy brand name and lack of differentiators against competing search engines.
With the introduction of Bing, I think Microsoft will make significant headway in the market. Increased and innovative competition in this space can only help us, the consumers. The worst thing that could happen is for Google to actually completely monopolize the search market, and this makes that less of a possibility.
So how does Bing compare to Google? Surprisingly well. The gap between Google and Live Search has closed with the launch of Bing. Here is a head to head comparison of Bing VS Google in terms of speed, brand, functionality, and quality of results.
Ever since Google introduced nofollow links in 2005, they have been hotly debated in the SEO community. Their controversy seems to have grown each year, and with recent changes in Google’s algorithm the blogosphere is buzzing more than ever about them.
If you have a website and have a link building strategy (which you should), it is very important to know about the difference between dofollow and nofollow links. This post provides a solid overview of nofollow links, and some additional resources to learn more about them.
WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms today, and also makes a great content management system (CMS). WordPress is fairly well optimized for SEO out of the box, but there are definitely areas where it is lacking. Thankfully, a strong development community has led to many Wordpress SEO plugins that fill in these gaps, helping you get better search engine rankings for your website.
Here are seven Wordpress SEO Plugins I’ve found to be the most useful:
I’ve started compiling a list of the top marketing blogs on the internet in the fields of seo, social media, and web analytics. These are the marketing blogs that I’ve found to be the most helpful and useful for novice and expert marketers alike.
TopRank’s BIGLIST inspired me to start this list, which is another solid collection of marketing blogs.
The Top Marketing Blogs list will continually be updated and refined.
Keyword research is the first step in SEO to drive website traffic. Free keyword research tools used in combination with web analytics can be just as good as using paid tools. Not implementing website analytics to measure and optimize your SEO efforts is a big mistake.
Here are my four favorite free keyword research tools that I use (I used them to research this very post):
