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Search marketing and contextual advertising maven Jenn Slegg has posted an excellent short piece about how to choose anchor text for your incoming links. It’s vital stuff for driving traffic. Read on »
Boy, that Cat Seda’s got all the answers. My inbox this morning was graced by another of her useful posts—I’m a subscriber to her monthly newsletter, you see—this one offering several tips on using Yahoo! Answers to drive traffic. We’ve touched on this topic elsewhere, but Cat offers some fresh insight. Check out Cat’s blog for details »
Some of you may have noticed the new Search Suggest feature on the Yahoo! home page. This tricky bit of magic from the eggheads up at Yahoo! Search automatically offers search suggestions as you type your query. It’s actually kind of eerie, how accurate it is. I mean, I’ve got some pretty obscure interests (clean ones, OK?) and this thing picks them up right away. Read more about it on the Y! Search Blog and see what Barry Schwartz has to say over at Search Engine Land.
Finally, the Yahoo! Developer Network last week announced the release of a cool new open source tool that can help you troubleshoot and fix slow loading pages. “YSlow” measures web page performance and offers specific recommendations for improving it. Find out more on the YDN blog »
—Michael Mattis, Your NewsGrok Anchorman
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Hi,
I am asking my question here because I couldn’t find a contact email address that I could use to ask my question.
When, approximately, Yahoo Publisher Network is going to be open to people outside US (in my case Australia)?
Regards,
Behrang
August 8th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Dear Behrang,
Sorry, but we’re not ready to share that information. Hope you’re enjoying the winter down under!
Warm Regards,
-M2
August 12th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Alright mate! I will keep on waiting for the announcement! Beautiful winter down here. I hope you are enjoying the Summer over there
Love,
Behrang
August 13th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I bet you’re not ready to share when it’ll be available for people in the US either
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
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