Search Engine Trends

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One of the most important pages in a search experience, the search result page, can deeply impact conversion rates. Here I’ll go through different search engine tactics with the help from Smashing Magazine’s article on search engine trends. By going through a wide variety of websites we can conclude some of the best practices from examples other sites have set.

Google Search box, with searched words, remains prominent at top Option to view an “advanced” search page Total number of results shown at top Ajax-driven auto-complete for typed follow-up searches Sponsored links at top and right Paginated results Results titles are large, bold, and hyperlinked Searched words are shown in bold in a page snippet, in context URLs shown in a different color under each result Each result allows options to view “similar” and “cached” Visited links are in a different color Related search phrases listed at bottom Search box with search terms repeated at the bottom “Show options” link opens a sidebar for further filtering of the results Bing Very similar to google but has some differences Lists the user’s “search history” in the sidebar The history to be cleared or turned off The search history remains intact Pagination unit at the bottom of the results page is more user-friendly Pagination rolls over when moused Yahoo Yahoo’s search results page includes a couple of JavaScript-driven enhancements Ajax-driven slide-down unit that appears below the search box when a search query is being typed “Search Pad” which allows the user to record notes on searches “SearchScan” to help protect from harmful websites Youtube easily-accessible filtering options near the top of the search results YouTube search result page lists detailed information Including a thumbnail preview Running time of the clip User rating And age Also if a particular item is part of a series Twitter Offers a very clean, intuitive JavaScript-driven interface that includes “Realtime” results Their page also offers a list of “Trending topics” and a “Search tip” Additionally, Twitter gives the user the option to refresh the page after it detects additional results in real time Digg Each result on the Digg search results page includes the number of comments that have been posted for that particular story In addition to other features that are unique to Digg, including “share” and “bury” Delicious Lists search results in a very simple, list format that includes tags associated with each result Plus the number of times the result has been bookmarked Amazon allows for the results to be sorted based on a variety of methods, including “Bestselling” and “Avg. Customer Review” Amazon’s results page indicates if a book has the “Look Inside” feature Ebay eBay’s search results page  allows for easy filtering via tabs at the top eBay also has the option to view the thumbnail preview images in a different size: Other features unique search results page are the options to change the amount of items displayed per page and the ability to go directly to a specific page by entering a number into a text box Flickr Flickr  displays results by default in a simple grid-based format Flickr also allows the images to be displayed either in a detail-heavy list-style view or inside of a Flash-based slideshow gallery Photobucket Photobucket allows filtering of search results by “Most viewed” and “Most commented”. It also includes a link strangely titled “Follow”, which allows the user to enter their email address to receive notifications when the results for a particular search term are updated. A more appropriate title for this feature would be “Subscribe”, or similar.

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Trends in Search Engine Optimization

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Denver web design
Web design Denver

Trends in Search Engine Optimization
As Denver web design
companies
vie for higher and higher ranks on results pages, the major search
engines keep changing the rules. Google, in particular, works
constantly to update and improve the way they select the results for a
users search terms. The changes have been gradual, but with each
successive alteration in the rules of the search engine optimization (SEO) game, some websites get left behind. What may have been a
high ranking website yesterday could be a low ranking site today if Google
has reprogrammed their spiders overnight.

Old Rules

According to the pervading wisdom, keywords placed in a large bunch
over a small space should attract the attention of search engine web
crawlers looking for this information. META tags with the keywords that
people most often search for, whether the words have anything to do
with the content of the page or not, are the way to get visitors to the
site. And tons and tons of reciprocal links will show the search
engines that the site is popular and well worth the trip.

These are the old rules. Denver web design teams were making websites to fit these parameters as
recently as last month. But today, the rules have changed.

New Rules – Keywords

If you have placed five keywords per paragraph on every page of your
website, it’s time to call your copywriter and get some new content.
This kind of keyword jamming will not get you the ranking results you
want anymore. Today, major search engines like Google are looking for
naturally occurring keywords that signify quality content. They want
users to find what they are looking for so they will come back to
Google for their next search. If Google sends the customer to a site
basically composed of a bunch of junky keyword articles with little or
no real information, they won’t use Google for their search next time.

The same holds true for the placing of keywords in META tags, alt tags,
page titles, and page descriptions. If the page or the picture does not
have anything to do with dog grooming, don’t use this keyword phrase.
Use only keywords that apply to the page or picture content, and don’t
try to fool the web crawlers with keywords in META tags that don’t
apply to that particular page on your site.

New Rules – Linking

The new rules for linking are very similar. When using the old rules
for web design, Denver
businesses were joining link communities that artificially create a ton
of reciprocal links for their sites. This will be a red flag to the
major search engine spiders today. You need to take the time to attract
legitimate links with companies that are related to the type of content
you provide on your site. If you are a dog groomer, link to pet stores,
pet medication sales sites, and doggie sweater companies, but not to
any old random site that wants to up their search engine rankings.

Overall, the new rules promote useful, natural-looking sites, which is
great news for internet users everywhere.

This article was written by Sytsma Morris-Reeves. Mr. Morris-Reeves
runs NewMediaDenver,an Internet technology company located in
downtown Denver, Colorado (http://www.NewMediaDenver.com).
Mr.Morris-Reeves is a highly respected Denver SEO Expert since 10
years, and he constantly develops and stays current with all the latest
SEO and Link Building
Techniques.

Google Use Search Trends to Track Flu Outbreak in the U.s.a

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As soon as the leaves fall from the trees the inevitable flu virus starts to spread. The symptoms are often the same, head-aches, coughs, fevers, sore throats and muscular pains. Google noticed an increase in the use of search terms for flu related symptoms. The data directly related to known outbreak areas and the results were in real time as the searches were taking place while someone was ill. This has given rise to Google creating an early warning system which actually tracks the spread of flu outbreaks across the USA. The system is called Google Flu Trends and it can be found at www.google.org/flutrends .

Tests of the new system by the company’s philanthropic unit have so far suggested that the system may be able to detect regional outbreaks 7 to 10 days before they are reported by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

It’s being reported that this amazing tool could help public health experts increase their response time to a potential flu outbreak, allowing the vulnerable and weak to be inoculated before the levels of risk become too high. This could really save lives and stop the spread of disease.

“The earlier the warning, the earlier prevention and control measures can be put in place, and this could prevent cases of influenza,” said Lyn Finelli, lead for surveillance at the influenza division of the CDC.

“In theory, we could use this stream of information to learn about other disease trends as well,” said Philip M. Polgreen, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Iowa and a co-author of the study based on Yahoo’s data.

A website called www.whoissick.org has been trying to do this very same thing by inviting people to report about their ailments. The results are superimposed on a map. The problem is that they do not have the levels of online exposure that Google receives and as a result they have a very small level of visitor traffic.

Google.org has also backed the HealthMap project which is affiliated with the Children’s Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School. The system scour the web for news, articles, blog posts and electronic newsletter to a worldwide create map of new diseases.

Google Flu Trends uses the world’s largest source of user generated data in order to track and map Flu trends. As with all things Google, if this pilot project is successful it could see the start of a new age of preventative medicine, allowing information to fight the spread of disease.

Expand Your Home Business Using Myspace Marketing Trends

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I want to paint a serious picture of how you will be able to use MySpace marketing to endlessly expand your business. There are massive Web 2.0 trends that are occurring right now and you can profit off them to no end. There is a psychology of what people are really looking for and you can offer it to them.

You can create attraction marketing based profiles that will suck hordes of interested prospects directly to you. You can laser target your market so you can build your business like a science.

And I’m going to tie in a crucial piece of the puzzle that’s going to fill your pipeline with an immense amount of new business partners just like it’s doing for me and my team. And that piece of the puzzle is traffic. Lots and lots and lots of traffic. And once you have that piece of the puzzle you literally light your entire MySpace marketing campaign on fire!

You see, there is a special little tool that we smart marketers use on a daily basis that automates our entire business on MySpace marketing. This trick to get maximum leverage and tons of fresh prospects is letting technology go to work for you. I

It’s being clued in to what’s happening with technology so you are at the cutting edge and can benefit from it tremendously. Don’t get me wrong, there’s tons of potential on MySpace even if you are marketing manually but imagine what you can do when you have software that automates the entire process. The key to creating maximum traffic, leverage, and profits from this wonderful

MySpace marketing medium is having a program that can do all of the time consuming work for you. Imagine how much power you will have at your fingertips for creating never ending success. When you know how to automatically target the hottest groups on MySpace and collect tens of thousands of Id’s at one time.

You can automatically send out an infinite number of friend requests so people are constantly coming back to your profile to see who you are and being weaved into your story. Automatically message, comment, and post bulletins so the amount of exposure you get for your business is literally never ending. You see, this is one of my little secrets about profiting to no end off MySpace.

This is how I generate never ending prospects, sign ups, sales, and distributors for my business on a daily basis. That’s the beauty of having a teacher. You’re plugged into what’s happening at the cutting edge of technology, and can profit to no end because of it.

I tell my students and partners all the time that the people who take time to develop real skills, that 99.9% of the rest of this world doesn’t have, will make more money then 99.9% of the rest of the world. It’s that simple.

Specialists get paid the most in any industry they are in go to www.myspace-marketing-secret.com So when you develop specialized skills like marketing on MySpace you will have severely increased the amount of money you can make. The more you increase your value the more you have to give.

And the more you give the more money you will make. Once you know how to profit to no end off these hot social networking Web 2.0 strategies you have a skill on your hand that will pay you tons of money for the rest of your life.

CES – 40 years of Consumer Electronics Trends

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Over the past 40 years the first week of January is one of the most important weeks, if not the most important, for consumer electronic manufacturers and the reason for that is because that is when the most prestigious Consumer Electronics fair is on.

Held in the city of Las Vegas Nevada, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a major technological related trade show. Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association, the CES is a trade-only show not open to the general public, and it is where manufacturers announce, introduce and preview future products.

A little bit of history:

The first CES show was held in New York in 1967. From the years of 1978 to 1994 CES used to be held twice a year, once in the summer in Chicago and once in the winter held in Las Vegas. However, SCES begun to loose popularity and in the summer of 1995 organisers decided to put the show on the road, consecutive failures led to the cancellation of the summer show and a once a year format was adopted.

Throughout the years the Consumer Electronics Show has been the main stage of notable products introductions, it would be virtually impossible to list all products and technologies introduced at CES over the years, so here is a compilation of the most notable ones in chronological order:

1970: Was the year when the Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) was introduced.

1974: Was marked by the introduction of the Laser disc player.

1981: Two notable introductions this year; the Compact Disc (CD) and the Camcorder.

1985: First notable revolution in the gaming industry with the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

1996: Year when the DVD was introduced.

1998: HDTV was introduced.

2001: Microsoft introduced its gaming console the Xbox.

2008: Panasonic stole all the attention by releasing a 150 inch <a onClick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.giantbuyer.com/”>Plasma TVs</a> as thin as 0.46 inches.

2009: Highlights to the impressive number of exhibiting companies, +2,700 and the introduction of 3-D Home Entertainment.

Using Myspace Marketing Trends To Expand Your Home Business

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I want to paint a serious picture of how you will be able to use MySpace marketing to endlessly expand your business. There are massive Web 2.0 trends that are occurring right now and you can profit off them to no end. There is a pyschology of what people are really looking for and you can offer it to them.

You can create attraction marketing based profiles that will suck hordes of interested prospects directly to you. You can laser target your market so you can build your business like a science.

And I’m going to tie in a crucial piece of the puzzle that’s going to fill your pipeline with an immense amount of new business partners just like it’s doing for me and my team. And that piece of the puzzle is traffic. Lots and lots and lots of traffic. And once you have that piece of the puzzle you literally light your entire MySpace marketing campaign on fire!

You see, there is a special little tool that we smart marketers use on a daily basis that automates our entire business on MySpace marketing. This trick to get maximum leverage and tons of fresh prospects is letting technology go to work for you. I

t’s being clued in to what’s happening with technology so you are at the cutting edge and can benefit from it tremendously. Don’t get me wrong, there’s tons of potential on MySpace even if you are marketing manually but imagine what you can do when you have software that automates the entire process. The key to creating maximum traffic, leverage, and profits from this wonderful

MySpace marketing medium is having a program that can do all of the time consuming work for you. Imagine how much power you will have at your fingertips for creating never ending success. When you know how to automatically target the hottest groups on MySpace and collect tens of thousands of Id’s at one time.

You can automatically send out an infinite number of friend requests so people are constantly coming back to your profile to see who you are and being weaved into your story. Automatically message, comment, and post bulletins so the amount of exposure you get for your business is literally never ending. You see, this is one of my little secrets about profiting to no end off MySpace.

This is how I generate never ending prospects, sign ups, sales, and distributors for my business on a daily basis. That’s the beauty of having a teacher. Your plugged into whats happening at the cutting edge of technology, and can can profit to no end because of it.

I tell my students and partners all the time that the people who take time to develop real skills, that 99.9% of the rest of this world doesn’t have, will make more money then 99.9% of the rest of the world. It’s that simple.

Specialists get paid the most in any industry they are in. So when you develop specialized skills like marketing on MySpace you will have severly increased the amount of money you can make. The more you increase your value the more you have to give.

And the more you give the more money you will make. Once you know how to profit to no end off these hot social networking Web 2.0 strategies you have a skill on your hand that will pay you tons of money for the rest of your life.