Here is the brief summary of search scape: latest stats about the search engine.. Social Media Sites are growing throughout the world and are presenting certain themes when people search on them. Search engine queries are long tail in nature and increasing while success rates are decreasing for all search engines.

Just because you have a great website that is optimized well, has great photos and content, there could still be a few items that will prevent your website from getting great visibility in a search engine. Read on to find out what your website could be missing.

The session “Local Search Marketing Tactics” at SMX 2009 in Santa Clara looks at a variety of local search tactics that are not necessarily tied to your physical location’s listing. Speakers in this session are Scott Dunlap from NearbyNow, Inc., Matt McGee from Search Engine Land, William Scott from Search Influence, Atif Rafiq from Yahoo, and Dennis Yu from BlitzLocal LLC.

Shawn Moore, President & CEO of ThinkProfit.com, concluded some tips to get website on page 1 organically at SES Conference in San Jose.

We are all familiar with the Google Webmaster and Yahoo Site Explorer tools. These tools provide webmasters a great deal of insight into the performance of a site by providing site metrics such as when the site was last indexed (read) by search engines, if the site has any HTTP errors, if there are certain URLs that search engines cannot read, etc.

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1. MSN’s Windows Live Academic lets surfers search academic journals, conferences articles, whitepapers, etc., pertaining to the fields of computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and more. You can find out details about the author, date, and publication. etc. Find details at: http://academic.live.com/.

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MSN Bests Google & Yahoo in Search Shootout

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