Archive for the ‘Yahoo’ Category

Yahoo Answers is taking a breather…

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Google gave up and is Yahoo also doing so? "Yahoo! Answers is taking a coffee break. We appreciate your patience while it recharges! We apologize for any inconvenience." Or are they just taking a break? Where do they go when they take their break? If you go to the blog you can ...

Is Indextools Rubix being sold? The Crown Jewel of Data Mining!

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

We here at Optimize Your Web have seen a lot of activity on our blog recently where large corporations are searching for the phrase "Indextools Rubix" and showing up at our site. All of these companies are know either for their IT solutions or data mining tools. This is unusual traffic, ...

Bye, bye to my favorite SEO tool

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

It is official Yahoo is officially and finally discontinuing it's Overture keyword suggestion tool. Sad but true! So bye, bye, adieu, farwell. My favorite multilingual SEO 1.0 tool gone forever! Now all roads lead to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/

Get your Yahoo ringtone here

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

OK, so I am going Yahoo crazy now, I was recently at a seminar and I heard this strange sound everytime a drawer at Yahoo employees desk was opened - I thought this would be a great ring-tone. This was the Yahoo howler, YahOOOOoooo! - So with the help of my ...

Great! Yahoo wants people to be able to opt out

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

We and NeM have been strong advocates of Indextools over the years and for us when Yahoo bought the tool it was a bit of a shock. We have how ever over come and adapt and now feel that their lies an opportunity in this for everybody, specially those with ...

Google announces a “Flash indexing algorithm”

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Finally I must say, now that Adobe has made Flash indexable Google launches their Flash indexing algorithm. As most SEO people know the big problem with Flash-based websites has been that they could not be properly indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo. Flash websites have been favored by marketers and ...

Did your site get hacked? Get the malware of your server!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Does this show under you title in Google Results? "This site may harm your computer." If so get a Google Webmaster Tools account and identified the pages containing the malware the hacker left behind on your web. After you have removed it goto the http://www.stopbadware.org/home/faq#partnerwarnings-remove site and let them know. I have hear that that ...

Omniture really happy about Yahoo buying Indextools

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I believe that Omniture is really happy about Yahoo buying Indextools or as stated on their site "We at Omniture congratulate IndexTools and welcome Yahoo! back to the Web analytics business. Let’s be clear though: this move by Yahoo! was done to compete with Google. IndexTools does not compete “toe ...

Yahoo acquires Indextools…

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

With Indextools being one of the hottest and sharpest looking web analytics solutions around, I must say it's a sexy purchase. For many reasons I hope a lot of money changed hands, but I can instantly conjure up many ways in which Yahoo! can make sure it was worth their ...

Is Microsoft Adcenter converting better than Google in Paid Search?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

A recent study IndexTools has reinforced Microsoft's claim that their paid search product converts much better than Google's across a broad range of search verticals. The study was not a small one either, covering over 15 Million visitors from paid search, Indextools found that Microsoft Adcenter adverts converted into sales ...