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Still fighting off the flu, so we’re going to have an appended version of Search Engine Tuesdays today. There won’t be an audio tip because I can barely speak… I sound like Ms. Piggy would after smoking three packs of cigarettes in five minutes.

Not. Cute.

On with the news….

Normally I’d have my own two cents to add to the story below, but I think the quote below says it best:

“Big deal, you might say. Yahoo News, a service from rival Yahoo Inc., long has done something similar in its ‘My Yahoo’ area, which also features weather, stocks and other content besides news.

In fact, all the big Internet services – Yahoo, Time Warner Inc.’s America Online and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN – let people save personalized home pages.

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I’ve been in bed with the flu since Thursday afternoon – yikes that was a bad one! Since I’m starting to feel like an actual human again, I thought I’d extend my Happy Easter thoughts to you. Hope you had a great Easter Weekend.

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The Yahoo site of the day is YahooSearchRankings.com . Though still in testing, its free online SEO tool will check your site ranking in Yahoo.

Occasionally I find it doesn’t work, but of course, as with anything in testing or Beta mode, this is to be expected. Most of the time running your query again will give you the results you were looking for.

From the site that bring you a reliable Google Ranking checker, you’ll also find tools that will help dtermine the best keywords for your site, according to your site content, as well as give you your current ranking for those keywords.

With that function, you can get a better idea of what your site currently ranks for, which tells you whether or not your site is geared towards the keywords you want, at least as far as Yahoo is concerned.

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» JavaScript Kills Google Autolink On Your Site – Search Engine Journal: “JavaScript Kills Google Autolink On Your Site

The fine folks over at Search Guild have posted a snippet of javascript code that breaks the Autolink feature in Google’s new toolbar, preventing it from making on-page alterations. The links that would have appeared on the page are still available if the user chooses the drop-down on the toolbar however links will not appear on your page.

Full instructions included, some html assembly required.”

Search Engine Optimization For MSN Search : Internet Search Engine News:

“Buried within the help files of the site, there are several wonderful clues to assist web site owners, web site marketing and promotion firms and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals in gaining visibility within MSN search, for themselves or for their clients. “

MSN search ads will compete with Google, Yahoo! – 03/22/05: “Microsoft’s MSN has introduced its answer to Google and Yahoo!’s pay-per-click text ad programs, called MSN AdCenter. Advertisers love search ads because they pay only if users click the ads, which show up next to search results.

MSN currently runs search ads provided by Yahoo!’s Overture unit, with a contract that runs through July 2006.

MSN AdCenter will begin testing in two markets — France and Singapore. Microsoft is vague about when the test will begin, saying only that it will be within the next six months.”

Wondering Whether to add Adsense to one of your site? Here’s an interesting perspective from E-Commerce Times :

“‘This is a program that rewards people not for creating the best content, but for how to create sites to attract more advertising,’says Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch online newsletter. ‘AdSense has nothing to do with search. It effectively turns the Internet into a billboard for Google’s ads.’

Google, whose executives often say their mission is to organize the world’s information, naturally begs to differ. ‘If I do a search for the New York Times and see an ad offering a subscription discount, that’s useful to me,’says Susan Wojcicki, Google’s director of product management.”