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An article in CIOL/Cybermedia News notes that increasingly companies abroad are outsourcing search optimization work to Indian vendors.

IndiaInfoline reports on ING Vysya Life’s launch of its new blogging portal that has made them the first insurance company to provide an online presence to its top insurance advisors.

Among the most effective techniques that can help build quality links to your website is the use of press releases. In fact, using an optimized press release is a very powerful method of building links.

Too often companies make their websites read like a sales brochure. They start by talking about themselves, continue the conversation by… talking about themselves… and end it, you guessed it… by talking about themselves.

Google is still the Big Mama of search according to the statistics of fo search results in 2005. Some results below:

Remember how I tom-tommed the fact that we got a new domain from PR0 to a very healthy PR5 in under two months? Actually it was less than two months because we didn’t get started on the linking till a month after we bought it. But never mind that.

In an article title SEO For The New Google, Dave Davies writes about the latest 3-part Google update, nicknamed Jagger, that has essentially changed many of the rules and have thrown the SEO community for a loop. The key areas, he notes, that have been affected with this update are:

Google’s duplicate content filter has been the target of much discussion on search engine forums. Recently search engine hackers Googlewashed Matt Cutts’ blog, to prove a point. Those guys sure do some interesting stuff.

A while ago, I wrote an article on how to benefit from article marketing by using unique content, which I […]

The forums are buzzing with the news that Google has filed for an organic search patent, Personalization of placed content ordering in search results , to serve organic search results based on user profiles. The patent deals with profiling Google users based on their search history in order to personalize Google ads with behavioral targeting

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This thread on WebProWorld discusses Google’s ongoing Jagger Update. Some webmasters have noted that their traffic from Yahoo jumped during the update and wonder if the public dislikes Jagger as much as SEOs.