Inside the Mind of the Searcher Part II: Search Behavior Explored
I've have to say I've been amazed by the response we've had to our first forays into researching the behavior patterns of…
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I've have to say I've been amazed by the response we've had to our first forays into researching the behavior patterns of…
Many website owners put the cart before the horse- anxious for search engine traffic and rankings, the first thing they do once their site is complete is buy a "submit to 1,000 search engines for $29" service. Unfortunately, what they receive is a tenfold increase in e-mail spam but no increase in search engine traffic.
The transition of recruiting into the cyberspace has been a global affair. On one hand, you are tempted to remain where you are and stick with newspaper and snail mail recruiting. On the other hand, the endless possibility of online recruitment seems very exciting.
1. Spam - The surefire way of getting your site blacklisted from the major search engines. Many people see creating thousands of cloaked or doorway pages with hidden text as the quick route to ranking success. It isn't.
There was a time when link building meant finding only high PageRank links that used no forms of tracking, but now, free high PR links are extremely difficult to find, and more and more webmasters are using various tracking techniques.
Several top search engines, including Google and Yahoo, are competing to make personalized search a reality. How long will it be before search engines are able to "understand" - and, more importantly, how will personalized search affect your business?