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Google today announced their own Search Engine Optimization Guide at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. Aimed at helping webmasters with their website's performance in Google, the Guide provides "a wealth of search engine optimization information" based on "best practices... that could improve... crawlability and indexing." The Guide covers many SEO topics, including: title and description META tags, URL structure, site navigation, content and image optimizati... Read Full Story

In the past, we have covered the launch of Google's Webmaster Central and Microsoft Live Search's Webmaster Tools. Today, we explore Yahoo! Search's Resources for Webmasters... Your site might already be in the Yahoo! Search index if it has been crawled by the Yahoo! Search spider following links to your web pages. If your site is not already indexed, you can Submit a Website / Feed to be included for free. To ensure your website gets listed in the index, read the Yahoo! Search Co... Read Full Story

SpaceTime today announced the public release of its free 3D Web Browser at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The SpaceTime application allows users to search and browse the web, with 3D browser windows floating in an unlimited virtual space which you can navigate through (you really need to see it in action). With several bugs eliminated during BETA testing last year, the latest version of SpaceTime is an impressive web interface, though still noticeably slower than a ... Read Full Story

The world's largest Web Hosting company, 1&1, today announced it will supply all European data centres with electrical power from renewable resources like wind, water, or solar energy. Switching to "Green" energy will save 30,000 tons of CO2 emissions each year. Achim Weiss, CTO of 1&1: “In our European data centres, we currently run some 40,000 servers which consume between 50 and 60 GWh per year. Hence, by switching to environmentally friendly energy we can significant... Read Full Story

Back in March, the "link:" operator function was removed from MSN Search, due to "mass automated usage for data mining". The MSN Search team then set about creating dedicated resources for webmasters (requiring users to sign-up & log-in), with the Private Beta of the MSN Search "Webmaster Portal" announced in August as "a single, friendly place to find all tools and information relating to Live Search SEO". Recently rebranded as the Live Search Webm... Read Full Story

We never planned to compete with Google for the search term: Webmaster Central. For years, we could tell anyone: "Search for Webmaster Central on any major search engine... We're always the top ranking result!" Then, last August, Google launched their own "Webmaster Central", when they re-branded their tools and resources for webmasters. A year later, with all the online coverage of Google's Webmaster Central, you might expect that www.WebmasterCentral.co.uk may ha... Read Full Story

Two promotions for broadband customers offering a FREE Laptop have been announced in the last couple of days. PC World & Orange were the first (this in-store offer has now expired), followed by The Carphone Warehouse & AOL: Get a FREE Laptop* (worth £500) & FREE Wireless Internet router (worth £50) with AOL Broadband. The catch? With the AOL offer you have to commit to a 2 year broadband contract & there's a *delivery charge of £14.99 for the laptop. Both FREE Laptop promo... Read Full Story

Launched in 2004, FeedBurner provides a range of feed management & marketing tools. (See Really Simple Syndication to learn more about content distribution via feeds.) Enabling web publishers to customize & monetize their feeds, FeedBurner also offers detailed traffic statistics & extends the reach of feed content. Firstly, FeedBurner optimizes your feed by converting any feed format into a browser friendly HTML page that provides visitors with various options for subscribing (exa... Read Full Story

Microsoft & Apple founders Bill Gates & Steve Jobs took centre stage at tonight's Wall Street Journal's D5: All Things Digital conference. Amongst much friendly banter, Gates & Jobs discussed the relationship between the two companies since the mid-80's. "We've kept our marriage a secret for over a decade now," Steve Jobs joked. "It's been fun to work together," Gates added. The conversation covered developments in computing, the Internet, m... Read Full Story