If you have an online business, it is a must that you do everything you can to stay ahead of the competition and generate a profit. Unfortunately, bad SEO practices can harm a website’s ranking and turn away customers. Fortunately, to keep out of the trap, here are 5 of the biggest and baddest SEO mistakes every marketer must avoid:
1. Failing to get more exposure.
If you do not have a domain or adequate internal and outbound links, you will not be noticed by Google’s web crawlers. …

Google has announced its Zeitgeist 2012 list of most popular search terms as seen through 1.2 trillion searches in 146 languages worldwide on Google Search over the past year.
This year’s world list, Google’s 12th annual year-end zeitgeist, followed the hottest trends and most popular search terms across the globe.
Google, the world’s largest online search company, had exactly 838 lists from 55 countries in a year when it included several new features, such as its interactive map for the …

Microsoft has warned consumers about risks in Google Shopping’s alleged ‘pay-to-rank’ practice and highlighted its commitment to deliver reliable search results on its Bing search engine.
The software giant claims that Google’s shopping search results are ranked according to the highest payer and thus are dishonest and unreliable.
“Instead of showing you the most relevant shopping search results for the latest coffee maker you’re looking to buy mom, Google’s new redesigned …

With the usual regularity, Google has released the Chrome 23 browser version, bringing improvements to the interface and optimizing hardware acceleration on graphic processors.

If the performance is virtually identical to the previous version, Chrome 23 promises an autonomy improvement in self-portable Windows systems using hardware decoding by about 25 percent compared to conventional CPU decoding.
Also the Omnibox address bar received a small update, the Site Information icon received a …

Microsoft has launched a contest to help demonstrate how its Bing Search will fare against main rival Google Search.
The software giant is calling for people to test both online search engines in a side-by-side comparison with such confidence that its Bing service will emerge victorious.
A blog post from Mike Nichols, Corporate VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft Bing, says Bing Bing regularly outperforms Google in web search results quality based on its tests.
“Since relevancy …

Google has created a new mobile search input feature that allows users to perform handwriting operations on touchscreen devices.
The well-designed new feature, creatively termed as Google Handwrite, lets users manually handwrite search inquiries on Google’s homepage by simply writing the characters anywhere on their device’s touchscreen using their own fingers. Note: This feature is currently on its beta stage.
Rui Ueyama, software engineer at Google, posted in a blog yesterday, …

Google Chrome tops Internet Explorer for second straight week. (Image: Guðmundur Bjarni Ólafsson, via Flickr / CC)

Google Chrome has overtaken Microsoft Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser for the whole third week of May.
According to StatCounter statistics, Google Chrome grabbed the top spot in the second week of May from 7 to 13, and maintained its position the following week, as it accounted for 32.8 percent of web browser usage worldwide, whereas IE had 31.9 …

Google's Knowledge Graph is the next big step of search evolution. (Image: via lifehacker.com)

Google will introduce “Knowledge Graph” in a few days, a tool that allows users to learn more about a particular subject without having to sift through various websites from search engine results pages. The Knowledge Graph will appear to the right of the results page.
According to Google’s official blog, “Knowledge Graph” allows you to find the right thing, get the best …

Google is the Most Used U.S. Search Engine in April 2012

Industry analyst comScore has released its monthly analysis of the search industry in the United States. Findings show that Google Sites has continued to be on the top of the most queried search engine in the U.S., handling 66.5 percent of the total search queries conducted by users.
Google Sites led the ranking with 66.5 percent of the total market shares – higher by 0.1 percent point than the previous month, followed by Microsoft …

Google Sites have garnered the top spots to lead in comScore’s monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace for the month of March at 66.4 percent of search queries conducted.
The qSearch analysis of the U.S. explicit core search market in March released three days ago by the leading source of digital business analytics comScore, accounted Google Sites to be on the lead with 66.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.3 percent while Yahoo! Sites settled for 13.7 …