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Getting your domain banned and complete website deindexed is by far the worse penalty that a search engine can impose on your website. Such an occurrence instantly drops search traffic to zero, and drags down leads and revenues along with it. A banned website effectively does not exist in the eyes of search engines, [...]

It has been a little over a week since the unveiling of the complete Live Search Webmaster Center, and there seems to be only a little interest (if any) in this latest Microsoft product. Not only is there a lack of interest in general over Webmaster Center, but there’s a lack of acknowledgment over it. [...]

Many people have heard of PageRank, which seeks to numerically value the importance of a webpage based on the quantity and quality of inbound links to, and outbound links from, a webpage. Microsoft researchers and developers have created a better (according to some) method of evaluating a page’s importance, dubbed “BrowseRank.” Rather than ranking based [...]

Every now and again a new search engine will hit the market, claim to be the next Google, make a small ripple in the search ocean and then dwindle off. The lucky few are bought and internalized, although most fall into debt and disappoint their VC backers. Some of the ambitious search engines include Wikia, [...]

Nielsen Online’s December search share numbers have been sending small ripples through the search marketing world. According to Nielsen, Microsoft’s Live Search was the only of the “big three” search engines to increase its market share in December, from 12% to 13.8% for queries performed in the United States.
On the other hand, Yahoo and Google [...]