Do search engines hate directories? Lots of big directories disappear from the results or are PR0ed

Recently lots of big directories started to disappear from google results, Many have speculated various reasons for it, Some people blame google tightening up the dupe content penalty which makes directories disappear since they have lots of duplicate pages,

Some speculate google is removing directories manually from their results since empty directories doesn’t add any value to their search users,

it is true fact empty or very low listing directories doesn’t provide value to visitors, There are some ultimate resource directories like dmoz.org, yahoo directory which provide great value to users to find good quality relevant sites, There are new empty directories just emerging whose sole purpose is to earn money, They simply start some junk directory take 40 for listing and inturn people who list their site there doesn’t get anything in return than just a simple link,

There are directories out there whose sole advertising tactics is around google Pagerank, They get high pagerank by buying links from industry established sites and sell those pagerank indirectly to people who list their sites, So do those directories provide value to users — NO, Most the categories in those junk directories are empty or with only 1 or 2 listings,

So we at search engine genie would like to warn everyone who submit their site to directories seeing their pagerank, Better check the number of pages indexed in google, check whether the category you submit has other good quality sites listed, check whether your category has google pagerank, check whether the category page your site will feature is crawled by top search engines like google, yahoo, msn etc. Be warned that there are people who run directories with the sole purpose of getting rich quickly, We don’t like to mention their names here since it doesn’t add any value to our awareness campaign, We just like to warn people before submitting their site to Junk directories,

SEO Blog Team.

Do search engines penalize link exchanges? – Search engine optimization tip saturday 12th february 2005

Search engines dont penalize a site based on link exchanges alone, link exchange itself is nothing wrong, reciprocal linking has been around long before the origin of pagerank a google’s technology based on links, and it often makes sense organically,

links are the building block of the web,

though search engines dont penalize sites which exchanges links with legitimate sites they are known to frown upon sites using link exchange softwares, link exchange softwares highly disturbing to website owners and webmasters,

Also if we link to bad neighbourhoods too much there might be some sort of hidden filter that will play on the site and possible penalize them, So it is save to say link exchanges are not bad but doing them in too much aggressive way does cause some problems,

SEO Blog team,

beta.exalead.com search engine shows more than 2000 results

http://beta.exalead.com/search a new search engine which powers a small part of ask jeeves shows upto 2000 results, Google/yahoo and MSN show only top 1000 results, But exalead shows 2000 results, It is very good for SEO research purposes people have look,

A search for search engine optimization reveals results upto to 2000 results

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Happy New year from Search Engine Genie Team

Search Engine Genie has a team of dedicated professionals qualified in PPC, SEO, shopping feeds, implementing shopping cart, web development, programming in PHP/Mysql and most of the server / client side languages,

it has been a successful year for Search Engine Genie, We will be pleased to post more interesting articles on our site in coming months which will benefit both end users as well as people searching for information they need,

We mourn for the tragic tsunami which took more than 100,000 lives, We made all efforts to the needy people in Tamil Nadu,

We take this opportunity to thank everyone who visits this site for quality information as well as providing us good business,

Search Engine Genie Team,

Iprospect cashes out for more than 40 million dollars

Iprospect one of the leading search engine marketing firm has cashed out, they are sold to Aegis a leading company who has been acquiring lots of quality companies lately,

News story in yahoo news,

Isobar Acquires iProspect to Create World’s Number One Search Engine Marketing Entity

Isobar, the global full service digital network created earlier this year by U.K. firm Aegis PLC, today announced it has acquired 100% of iProspect, the Original® Search Engine Marketing Firm. The news marks Isobar’s first acquisition in the U.S. market, and the 7th for Isobar globally in the past six months.

Source: biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041222/sfw009_1.html

How much they were cashed out information here

Aegis has acquired US internet search marketing agency iProspect.com in a deal that could net the founders of the firm $50m (£26m).

Aegis will pay an initial £16.7m with a further £9.4m deferred and payable over two years, subject to performance-related targets. IProspect will become part of Aegis Group’s digital media network Isobar, which has made a number of acquisitions over in the past six months, including Korean digital agency Agency W and Australian digital agency One Digital. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, iProspect is one of the pioneers in search engine marketing. Earlier this year, it was named among the top 50 fastest-growing companies by Inc.

Source: www.revolutionmagazine.com/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=ViewNewsArticle&ID=231352

Another interesting beta search engine toolbar released,

MSN the new player in search engine has launched its beta version of their new toolbar, Check it out here, beta.toolbar.msn.com

Features of the new MSN toolbar beta includes,

1. Find anything on your computer Documents, photos, music and more!
2. Find e-mail messages in seconds From Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express
3. Try the New MSN Search Search the web smarter and better
4. Block annoying pop-ups Surf without interruptions
5. Fill out forms online Fill out forms and web site passwords in one click

Search engine strategies conference coverage by seroundtable.com

Barry of seroundtable.com has an excellent coverage of the latest SES conference in chicago, It is very interesting to see the various discussions happening,

Please visit this site for more information on the various topics on this,

www.seroundtable.com

Speegle launched as first talking search engine

A SCOTTISH computer speech technology company has launched what it claims to be the world’s first talking search engine. CEC Systems, which operates from Edinburgh, has based its Speegle search engine on the look of Google and on its own PanaVox computer speech technology, which it launched last year. While the results of a search on Speegle are spoken with voice of an American girl, newsfeeds from the BBC, the New York Times, Reuters and MSN are heard in a Scottish accent.

More here – theherald.co.uk/business/27350.html

Netbooster, Absolute Référencement, CVFM, Ability Référencement 1ere Position Banned

Some Leading European search engine marketing and search engine optimization companies were banned by google, The main reason for their sites removal and their client sites removal seems to be the use of excessive doorway pages ( pages stuffed with keywords and redirects to the desired landing page ) and excessive keyword stuffing, Google always frowns on these type of tactics and not they removed the sites from google’s index,

Following companies were penalized Netbooster, Absolute Référencement, CVFM, Ability Référencement 1ere Position.

Source of news here ,

Ask Jeeves Launches Japanese-Language Search

Ask Jeeves has launched a beta version of a new Japanese-language search engine. Based on the Emeryville-Calif. search vendor’s Ask.com search portal, Ask.jp was developed by Ask Jeeves Japan Co. Ltd, a joint venture of Ask Jeeves and Japan-based transcosmos.

With the launch, Ask Jeeves joins Google and Yahoo as one of only three search portals in Japan that provide their own search technology.

Source: Yahoo News