Web Tune-Up Pros

Learn how your domain name, domain age and even your hosting company can determine your trust and search ranking result in Google Secrets Part II.

A new series in my Marketing Resources section gives inside tips on optimzing your site for Google using one of Google’s own patented algorithms.  It’s a two-part series beginning today and continuing tomorrow.  Learn how to stay out of that Google sandbox.  Read it Here.
Tags: Google, Google sandbox

A new search site named Pagebull displays results visually by showing the home pages of sites found with your search term(s).  I typed in “cookware” and saw page after page of Web site images and immediately began wondering how the results were indexed (who’s first, second, last, etc.?)
It didn’t take long to figure that one out.  Toward [...]

I was stuck out in the middle of nowhere Friday and trying to edit a .jpg image when I realized my companion bare-bones laptop lacked Photoshop.
What to do?
Tags: Photoshop

A new search engine named Hakia (www.hakia.com) purports to be breaking ground on a more semantic-rich algorithm, which will search for knowledge “bits” rather than keywords, resulting in a more relevant search result for content.
Thus, when you visit the Hakia search page (which resembles Google’s remarkably), it boldly instructs you to “Enter a question, sentence, [...]