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Backlink Finder

By Jon | October 14, 2008

Here is a useful backlink finder - http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php

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Topics: Off-Site Optimisation, Web Marketing |

Cuil, a search engine to compete with Google?

By Jon | July 29, 2008

A New Search Engine in Town

I know what you are thinking… “There is always a new search engine in town” and you are correct but the difference is that this one has been created by ex-Google employees and the founder of Altavista (Anna Patterson, Russell Power, Louis Monier, Vince Sollitto, Pete Szymanski, Bruce Baumgart and Tom Costello). Does this really mean anything, well I think that we will just have to see. The search engine is called Cuil (an old irish word that means knowledge and is pronounced cool) and has a few features that I quite enjoyed.

You have a choice between a 2 or 3 column display with a thumbnail and a larger description which is quite nice but could be a problem to SEO experts and the click throughs.

I do like the way that it splits results into different sections which is quite similar to the Google “Searches Related To:” at the the bottom of pages but I do like the way that Cuil has this option at the top in ‘Tabs’.

Cuil has also got some other nice small features such as the search by category (’drilldowns’). This is something that I think users could benefit from and the layout is fantastic.

Will it compete with Google?

I doubt it to be honest, in time there may be a top 4 or 5 search engines that cuil can join but I think that Google is too powerful for Cuil. The recent (past couple of years) features of Google especially the universal search with one box listings have become so useful to searchers along with the ability for companies to have details on Google without a website. Let’s not forget that everyone has heard of Google, ‘Google it’ but Cuil have a very tough marketing campaign ahead.

Cuil Information

Cuil index - 121,617,892,992 websites at the moment (claiming to search more than any other search engine including Google)

Relies solely on the websites content and relevance rather than popularity metrics (PageRank?)

A completely new architecture rather than simply tweaking past search engines

‘Drilldowns’ in a ‘Explore By Category’ feature for a more specific / similar search. This feature also lets you hover phrases for a definition.

‘Tabs’ is simply tabs across the top of the search results to allow users the ability for a deeper search.

Navigation suggestion…. we’ve all seen this before with all search engines…

Cuil’s own summary of features:

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

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SEO Link Building

By Jon | July 28, 2008

As we all know link building is a time consuming very boring task but it is needed. Here are some tips on how to get the most out of link building.

Firstly when you are link building you need to use the correct text on the link. Having a page link to you with www.jdswebsitedesign.co.uk just won’t cut it. You need to work with the phrases that you are optimised for so for my homepage I would either use SEO Services, search engine optimizations or search engines optimization Manchester.

Here is a great little tool to help you find possible links - Solo SEO. You can also use the principals of this tool to create your own effective link building campaign.

There are many ways to build links into your website but you should use the most relevant possible.

One of my favourites of recent times is the use of emails… Not those annoying emails that people send out to 100’s of companies.

If you are selling products then you send out an email to confirm the order, the person that you are emailing already likes your shop so why don’t you add a line in the email asking if they would like to link to your website. There are a huge amount of people with websites and blogs now so many of your customers will probably have blogs or websites.

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Topics: Off-Site Optimisation, Web Marketing, link building |