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Search Engines

How to Use Word Clouds to Analyze Keywords in Blog Posts

November 9, 2009

Wordle is a website that will create a word cloud from any text or a URL that you tell it to analyze. You can use these word clouds to tell at a glance whether the keywords you are targeting are the dominant words within your text.

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How To Guarantee You Never Beat Google

April 20, 2009

Remember Cuil? The upstart search engine that launched with a bang and a whimper last year? I’d forgotten about them too, until today when they happened to pop into my mind and I decided to see whether they still existed and what they’ve been up to since I last checked them out.

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How to Configure a Sitemap For Your WordPress Blog

April 2, 2009

A sitemap is an XML file that contains information about the URLs associated with your website as well as some other metadata such as when they were last updated. The purpose of the sitemap is to help search engines crawl your site more efficiently. The Google XML Sitemap plugin will automatically maintain a sitemap for [...]

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Is Cuil off to a good start?

July 30, 2008

Cuil is the new search engine developed by ex-Google engineers and launched in the last week. There is a lot of talk about Cuil at the moment so I thought I would give it a quick test to see how it performs. The easiest way I can think to test it is to try some [...]

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