February 27, 2007

How to work around Google’s spam filters - Part 3

If you use the wrong search engine optimization techniques then Google won't list your web site. Read this article to learn how to avoid getting caught be Google's spam filters.

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February 20, 2007

15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part 2

If your web site gets caught by one of Google's spam filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. Did you check your web site against these three link filters? Read on to learn more.

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February 13, 2007

Live Search for Mobile Launches at 3GSM

Searching for Love? Or Just Love to Search?

On the bus home from work, Jim realizes it?s Valentine?s Day and he hasn?t prepared any dinner plans with his wife Katie! Instead of panicking, he pulls out his Windows Mobile device and opens Live Search for mobile.

He navigates the Categories list to Restaurants, then Ethnic Restaurants until he finds Italian Restaurants, Katie?s favorite food.

He scrolls through the results until he recognizes a place his buddy Frank recommended to him last week. Bringing up the details, he clicks one more time to call the restaurant and make reservations.

Just to be sure, he gets step-by-step driving directions to the place, and checks the traffic. By the time he gets home, he?s ready to surprise Katie with his plans for a romantic Valentine?s Day dinner!

If you?re looking for a romantic restaurant like Jim, or need to find the nearest florist on the go, download Live Search for mobile at http://wls.live.com (from your phone) and find the way to a loved one?s heart.

Version 1.0 Released

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, we announced the official release of our client application for Windows Mobile devices as well as compatible J2ME capable devices in the US and UK. You might have heard about the beta release back in November, but we?ve added some new features in addition to the great things you can already do.

? Category-based local searching -Search businesses and restaurants through our category system and save your thumbs from typing.

? Maps and Directions - Get maps of your area and directions to your destination. Hook up a GPS* unit to search around and track your current position.

? Traffic - View real-time traffic in selected US cities to save time and help plan your routes.

? New! Contacts list integration* ? search for a contact?s address without typing it or save a business to your contacts to use again later.

? New! SMS a friend* - Send a text message with business? address and phone number to your friends so they know where to meet you.

If you don?t have a compatible phone, try typing mobile.live.com/search into your phone?s browser. For those without data plans, you can always send a text message to 95483 (WLIVE) with your search query.

Learn more about Live Search for mobile.

Send us your feedback at: lsmobile@microsoft.com.

-Darwin and the Mobile Search team

* Feature currently only available on Windows Mobile version.

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15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part 1

If your web site gets caught by one of Google's spam filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this article series, we'll take a look a the 15 most common Google spam filters and we'll tell you how you can get around them.

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February 6, 2007

Live Search SOAP API ? Updated!

We?re proud to announce that we?re taking our search API out of beta, and rebranding it the Live Search SOAP API 1.0, to reflect the search engine that is powering it.

This release provides continued enhancements to the original API, from which you submit up to 10,000 queries per day for News, Local, or general Web content. We?ve reviewed a lot of feedback from our developer?s forum and this blog, and have made the following improvements:

Additional Languages: ???
Search Results: increased from the first 250 to the first 1,000. And added a flag to disable host collapsing (the suppression of more than two results from a top-level URL) to facilitate the development of accurate paging algorithms.
Search Tags: enhanced to return results as a comma-delimited list or as an array of name/value pairs. Results can also be filtered by the Search Tag name.
Local Search: no longer do you need to specify lat & lon for location, you can now city names and zip codes, just like in the web UI. We?ve also added local data support for the following markets: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US, es-US, fr-CA, fr-FR, and it-IT.
PhoneBook Results: now sort by distance and relevance
New Code Samples: we have greatly increased the number of samples in the documentation as well as added a new quick and dirty sample Console Application that you can use to quickly experiment with the API, or you can use the updated Windows Forms version in C#.

Check out the SDK for a more in-depth look at the new features.

I know the SOAP API is all fine and dandy for the Java or ASP.Net developers out there, but what about everyone else? Yes you - JavaScript, PHP, Python, and even Ruby coders! What are you guys looking for from a Search API? REST, JSON, ASCII? We?re all ears?

-- Nathan Buggia, Live Search Marketer

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The top 5 factors for successful web sites in 2007

If you want to have a successful web site and if you want to get high rankings on search engines then your web site must have the right factors. Here are the top 5 factors for successful web sites in 2007.

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