How to Create a 'Perfectly Optimized' Webpage for Search

BY Kevin Allen

Just what is search engine optimization, anyway?

It's the practice of creating a digital piece of content or web page that is Google-friendly. If a page is SEO friendly, it's findable when you search for it. It's easier said than done, though. But a new infographic from Moz makes it a bit easier.

"The perfectly optimized page" gives an example of a bakery that has a splendidly findable chocolate donut recipe.

It's keyword-targeted, bot-accessible and incorporates relevant metadata that helps the bots browsers use to crawl websites place pages in searches.
For more on how to create your own perfectly SEO friendly page, check out the infographic:

EASY MONEY MAKING SEARCHING WITH SWAGBUCKS!!!

from www.slickbudget.com

If you are like 90% of the people in this country, then you use Google as your main search engine. The other 10% use yahoo to find their information. But, what do they give us as users? Just quick results with Google and a nice homepage with news from Yahoo!

My wife introduced me to swagbucks just over two months ago and I am ticked I didn't know about it before. It is a search engine which uses Google and Ask engines combined and then pays you to use their site. My initial thought was that it couldn't pay you that much. But I was wrong. I watched my wife earn over 500 swagbucks in a matter of eight weeks just by inviting 6 friends and all of them using the swagbucks search engine. This 500 swagbucks was then turned into $55 worth of gift cards from Amazon which she quickly spent. : ) Before you say that it isn't that much, think about a search engine giving you over $330 a year just to use them for searching. You can still use Google and Yahoo or Ask for that matter, but when you want to earn money, use swagbucks.

Look at it this way, if someone says I will give you a free PS3 or Coach purse for using this search engine in addition to your normal routine, who would say no? There are no offers to fulfill and no hoops to jump through. It is like a slot machine, ever time you search, you have a chance of winning a range of dollar amounts. It will come in handy around Christmas time.

Check it out and trust me, there is nothing to lose and only free money to gain. Have fun swagbucking!

The easiest way is to download their toolbar which gives you a search box right on the top of your screen and then you don't have to go to their site to do the searches and make the money. It is the easiest money you can make. Remember the tips...in the morning and at night if you don't use it at all but still want the swagbucks. (see above article)

You can always get a swag buck by shopping or uploading videos. This is soooo easy to make a couple of bucks for Christmas. Join the fun!

As of November, I have made around $600 in real spendable cash from Swagbucks. This search engine is by far the best thing I have ever stumbled upon. I can't stress enough that the toolbar is key to attaining the swagbucks everyday. Just make sure to use it in the morning and at night due to the fact it is partly based on time between uses. You will accumulate swagbucks very quickly if you follow my advice.

You can sign up and get credit for other people signing up by using the banner on your blog or website with your own link embedded. I would have to say that this truly is the easiest way to make money doing what you do on a regular basis anyways. Thanks for looking and it is really easy to make some cash doing this. AND NO IT DOES NOT COST A PENNY!!!

http://swagbucks.com

Best Practices for Product Search

from the GoogleWebmasterCentral.blogspot.com

If you run an e-commerce site and you'd like your products to be eligible to be shown in Google search results, then check out their "Product Search for Webmasters" video. In addition to the basics on Product Search, this video will cover:

• Attributes to include in your feed
• Improving products' rankings by including custom attributes in your feed
• When product listings expire after 30 days
• How often to submit your feed

Make Money Every Time You Share a Video

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Make money every time you share a video on your blog,
website or social networking profile. It's easy to do!
blinkx's technology matches relevant, in-video text
ads to any video. Whenever someone clicks on an ad
in your video, you make half the cash!

blinkx AdHoc is the revolutionary new video advertising
platform from blinkx, the video search company. AdHoc
was launched last year and has been used primarily
for a closed beta program that has tested the
effectiveness of contextually targeting ads in video.

The blinkx AdHoc widget allows regular online users
to add advertising to videos they embed online. When
viewers watch the videos, they are shown the ads.
If the ads are clicked on, the user is diverted to
a URL of the advertiser's choice and the
advertiser's budget is depleted by a single
cost-per-click charge. Thanks to AdHoc's
targeting, widget users only get relevant,
useful ads, and advertisers only have to pay
when their ad actually delivers a user.

AdHoc looks at meta data and parses any speech
in the video to match the clip with an appropriate
ad. Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder and CTO
of Blinkx, says their network has improved ad
yields anywhere from 10-150% depending on the
content of the video. Short entertainment clips
don’t tend to see as much improvement, but longer
informational clips see higher gains by picking
out advertisements related to the concepts
being discussed.

Blinkx has done their best to not obstruct the
operation and ads of the original player. Ads
show up as drop down text links at the top of
video or as a static box displayed above
the player.

blinkx AdHoc rewards you for sharing videos.

Next time you embed a video from a video-sharing
site, simply run the embed code through blinkx
AdHoc first to start making money. When you add
the embedded video, it will have contextually
relevant ads placed near or on it.

If your viewers click on these ads, the advertiser
pays blinkx, and blinkx will share 50% of that
revenue with you.

Video sites that work with AdHoc tested include the
following are known to work: MySpace, GoogleVideo,
YouTube, Revver, Metacafe, Veoh, DailyMotion,
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To create an account, all you need is an email,
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adhoc.blinkx.com
blinkx.com/products/AdHoc

ONLINE RESOURCE OF THE MONTH

Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search
Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new
approach to search, unveils its innovative search
offering, which combines the biggest Web index with
content-based relevance methods, results organized
by ideas, and complete user privacy.
Cuil (http://www.cuil.com/) has indexed 120 billion Web
pages, three times more than any other search
engine.

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and
relevant results based on Web page content analysis.

The search engine goes beyond today’s search
techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to
analyze the context of each page and the concepts
behind each query. It then organizes similar search
results into groups and sorts them by category.
Cuil gives users a richer display of results and
offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify
subjects, images to identify topics and search
refining suggestions to help guide users to the
results they seek.

“The Web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and
other search engines are unable to keep up with it,”
said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil.
“Our significant breakthroughs in search technology
have enabled us to index much more of the Internet,
placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of
every user. In addition, Cuil presents searchers
with content-based results, not just popular ones,
providing different and more insightful answers that
illustrate the vastness and the variety of the Web.”

Cuil’s technology was developed by a team with
extensive history in search. The company is led by
husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and
Anna Patterson.

Mr. Costello researched and developed search engines
at Stanford University and IBM; Ms. Patterson is best
known for her work at Google, where she was the
architect of the company’s large search index and
led a Web page ranking team. They refused to accept
the limitations of current search technology and
dedicated themselves to building a more comprehensive
search engine. Together with Russell Power, Anna’s
former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil to
give users the opportunity to explore the Internet
more fully and discover its true potential.

“Since we met at Stanford, Tom and I have shared a
vision of the ideal search engine,” said Anna
Patterson, President and COO of Cuil. “Our team
approaches search differently. By leveraging our
expertise in search architecture and relevance
methods, we’ve built a more efficient yet richer
search engine from the ground up. The Internet
has grown and we think it’s time search did too.”

Cuil’s methods guarantee online privacy for
searchers. Since the search engine ranks pages based
on content instead of number of clicks, personal
data collection is unnecessary, so personal search
history is always private.

Summary of Cuil’s features:

* Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has
indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than
any other search engine

* Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style
layout separates results by subject and allows
further search by concept or category

* Different results—Unlike other search
engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on
each page, not its popularity

* Complete privacy protection—Cuil does
not keep any personally identifiable
information on users or their search histories

TOOL OF THE MONTH

Welcome to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive is building a digital library
of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free
access to researchers, historians, scholars,
and the general public.

About the Wayback Machine

Have you found a website that a search engine says,
"THAT SITE NO LONGER EXISTS?"

Want to go back and find an old schedule or
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Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from
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The resulting pages point to other archived pages
at as close a date as possible.

Keyword searching is not currently supported.