Yahoo! has announced that the company will be shutting down Site Explorer today. The failing search giant is requesting that customers switch to Bing Webmaster Tools so that users can “ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic.” While Bing’s tool set does have many of the features that were available in Yahoo! Site Explorer, Bing lacks the back-link data which was used for competitive research by some SEO services experts. (more…)
Earlier this week, comScore released the search engine rankings for September. Google once again has the largest share of search queries, with roughly 65.3% of all searches funneling through their servers. This is a .5% increase from the total queries recorded in August (64.8%), showing the company is maintaining strength. See which engines have the highest search volume so you know where to focus your SEO services. (more…)
TechCrunch is a well known blog that has been a staple of digital industry news lately. Sadly, the exposure the site is receiving is not due to breaking news reports, but rather due to the antics of their founder, Michael Arrington. It may be time for the blog to re-evaluate their digital strategy and possibly cut all ties with their troubled founder. (more…)
