Snap.com, whose founder also was responsible for the creation of Overture and Picassa has built a robust and very impressive series of tools based on the queries that are entered at their engine each month. Sin...
Blogpulse, an incredible piece of software for the web, tracks 9.5 million blogs online through RSS and scraping and culls a repository of monthly and daily data for each term mentioned by the bloggers. It is able to highlight ...
In reference to a thread at SEOChat on the anatomy of a good keyword by Robert Paulson, I have deleted the specific terms out of one of my own keyword spreadsheets and am offering it for download. You're welcome to re-use this a...
Along with many other revolutionary ideas of business, the web is now destroying the concept of the retail 80/20 - the statistic that says that 80% of your sales will come from 20% of your inventory (the most popular 20%). On the web, however, this is proving to be a complete mis...
For many designers & graphic artists, a first experience with disambiguation will be during an image search at a site like Getty One or Corbis. We'll conduct a search for "marine" and a pag...
Rarely do I give a colleague praise so publicly, yet Dan Thies deserves it. His efforts are unmatched in the area of keyword research and targeting, an often under-appreciated specialty in the SEO business. Recently, Dan has started a ...
A report from emarketer today - Search Query Keyword Insight - details the results of some research over the pas...
WordNet is a lexical database (a collection of words) that has been used by major search engines and IR research projects for many years. The database can be accessed through Princeton University's website and even ...
Many in the SEO world have long questioned the neccessity of re-writing dynamic URLs - those that pull content from databases - into static URLs that appear to end with a finite .php/.asp/.html/etc. A dynamic URL is often criticized by search optimizers because of the difficulties search ...
Advanced search engine optimization demands that the SEO go above and beyond the basic optimization/ranking process and look deeper into the methods the search engines use to understand the structure of the web. One of these methods is concept discovery through the use of putting t...