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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Earlier it was reported in July and looks like its another update this month as many of the webmasters started reporting about some of the changes in there SERP’s.
Personally, I had also noticed some major fluctuations in my rankings and can confirm about this issue !!
Most of the webmasters are happy with the changes in the SERP’s, Lets wish for some more good traffic from live.com.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Chris posted some details about Live New Local Listing Features. Local listing center is a place where you can add your business to Live Search Maps.
Some of the changes includes:
- Multi-select control on the Edit Listing page of Parking Options to enable user to select various parking options.
- Added Reservation URL and Menu URL in the Category properties page. The user will be able to specify reservation URL for hotels and menu URL for restaurant.
- Added a warning to the Edit Listing page for YPC paid listings. This will alert the user that the listing he has entered is also contributed by YPC and some his data may be overwritten by YPC data.
- Modified the enumerations as provided by the content team.
- For advertisement listings i.e. the listings that does not have postal code or city. If the user tried to edit such listings he/she will be redirect to the standard error page. This functionality will not allow user to edit the advertisement listings.
Source: Search Engine Land.
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Microsoft adCenter blog, officially announced about the redesigned of there keyword research tool according to The adCenter blog this tool will help Advertisers more efficiently in finding the right keywords and plan campaigns in adCenter.
This new resource complements the Microsoft adCenter Add-inBeta for Excel by providing access to the same deep audience insights directly in the adCenter Research tab.
I tried this tool personally and its really helpful now !! Thanks Microsoft for this great tool.
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Often called porn mode or secret mode, There are few names given to this. The latest version of the Apple Safari browser already has this mode and it works well on Apple OS.
It is now the turn of Internet Explorer to offer this facility to the Windows operating system users. The browser will offer the privacy mode so that information regarding the websites surfed on the browser is not avaiable.
Two new patents have been registered by Microsoft related to this feature, they go by the name - “Cleartracks” and the other by “Inprivate”.
Mozilla Firefox which is one of the most widely used browsers are in the process of developing this feature. The IE8 version by Microsoft is due to be released by december or early 2009.
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