SEO

There are some technical specialties that not only provide great employment opportunities, but also create the possibility of using them to start your own business. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of these skill sets.

Paxfire disputes that it 'hijacks' search requests from ISP customers, gathers personal information and uses it covertly. BAH! It fixes and redirects searches, stores data to improve future searches and gives results enhanced with information from its partners. So there.

Google is tying its Analytics and Webmaster Tools applications more closely together in an effort to give Web publishers a joint view of internal site traffic and search engine optimization (SEO) data.

Google is retuning its search algorithms to weed out content farms that waste readers' time with keyword-stuffed Web sites that waste time in a bad way.

Search behemoth Google says it's taking a stab at raising the bar on search results by penalizing Websites that offer copycat content and sites that are clearly trying to game the company's search algorithm. Google announced changes to its search algorithms, in an effort to improve rankings of Websites offering high quality content. The move is set to impact over 10 percent of U.S. search results and is widely seen as a direct attack on so-called 'content farms' that generate articles based on popular search queries.

If you're into search engine optimization intrigue, check out this article in Saturday's New York Times about how retailer J.C. Penney for months used "black hat" SEO techniques to rig Google search results in hits favor -- and how it got caught.

Internet content farm Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) finished its first day of trading on Wall Street at $22.65, up 33.2 percent from the offer price of $17 per share.

Cybercrooks continue to abuse the Web, boosting their ability to produce what's called search engine optimization poisoning so that individuals making use of search engines such as Google's increasingly are ending up with choices that are dangerous malware-laden URL links.

Optimize your Website to improve your search ranking and get more business.

Security researchers are looking into not just how Koobface infects users’ PCs, but how its creators manage to spread the worm across popular social networking sites to maximize its effectiveness.

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