Ankit Rawat - SEM (Search Engine Marketing) & SEO Blog » Microsoft http://ankitrawat.com/blog Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Live.Com Love Link Exchange ? http://ankitrawat.com/blog/livecom-love-link-exchange/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/livecom-love-link-exchange/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:17:10 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=656 Yes, if you believe and agree with this post of Microsoft Office Live Small Business.

According to the post this is not only one of the best way to generate lots and lots of traffic but also a great way to generate thousands and hundres of links for your website.

Personally, I don’t think link exchange sometimes called reciprocal linking or link swaps is a vice way to generate link for your website. Microsoft is somewhere encouraging its users towards doing balack hat seo for there website !!

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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/livecom-love-link-exchange/feed/ Live Search Update For September 2008 http://ankitrawat.com/blog/live-search-update-for-september-2008/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/live-search-update-for-september-2008/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:08:50 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=410 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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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/live-search-update-for-september-2008/feed/ New Live Search Local Listings Features http://ankitrawat.com/blog/new-live-search-local-listings-features/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/new-live-search-local-listings-features/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:23:56 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=373 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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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/new-live-search-local-listings-features/feed/ Microsoft Updates adCenter keyword research tool http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-updates-adcenter-keyword-research-tool/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-updates-adcenter-keyword-research-tool/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:22:26 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=323 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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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-updates-adcenter-keyword-research-tool/feed/ Internet Explorer 8 Is Now Available With Privacy Mode http://ankitrawat.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-is-now-available-with-privacy-mode/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-is-now-available-with-privacy-mode/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:38:21 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=299 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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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-is-now-available-with-privacy-mode/feed/ Another CashBack Live Search Promotion http://ankitrawat.com/blog/another-cashback-live-search-promotion/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/another-cashback-live-search-promotion/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:03:36 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=209 Barry reported this on SearchEngineLand that, Microsoft announced a “back-to-school” promotion for using Live Search through the Live Search cashback portal. The promotion adds up to “double the cashback rewards on millions of products from hundreds of participating retailers.”

Example promotions include 36-percent off select shoes at Foot Locker, 18-percent off on Lenovo ThinkPad and 30 percent off on The North Face Doubletrack backpacks.

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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/another-cashback-live-search-promotion/feed/ Microsoft Becomes Official Apache Sponsor http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-becomes-official-apache-sponsor/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-becomes-official-apache-sponsor/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:53:53 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=187 Microsoft has agreed to provide monetary and technical support to the Apache Software Foundation, an open source effort that promotes community-built tools and services.

Jim Jagielski, Chairman of the ASF, had this to say about the sponsorship:

“We thank Microsoft for their generous sponsorship that goes towards supporting The Apache Software Foundation and the over 60 top level projects in use and development within the ASF,” said ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski. “The ASF Sponsorship program is an excellent way for companies and organizations to show their commitment and enthusiasm towards the ASF and The Apache Way, and helps to ensure that highly innovative, freely-available and community-based/consensus-developed software can continue to flourish and thrive within one of the most successful and respected communities in Open Source. Microsoft’s sponsorship makes it clear that Microsoft ‘gets it’ regarding the ASF.”

The European Commission, which already has imposed more than $1 billion in fines on Microsoft, earlier this year said it’s eyeing the possibility that the company is still violating monopoly laws by failing to make its products interoperable with competitors’ offerings and by illegally bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser with the Windows operating system.

Source: Information Week

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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-becomes-official-apache-sponsor/feed/ Microsoft BrowseRank is it Google PageRank Killer ? http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-browserank-google-pagerank-killer/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-browserank-google-pagerank-killer/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:51:40 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=185 Seems like Google PageRank Killer has arrived, Microsoft announced its new tool something similar to Google PageRank called BrowseRank.

Acording to BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance, a paper from the SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) conference this week in Singapore.

“The more visits of the page made by the users and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely the page is important. We can leverage hundreds of millions of users’ implicit voting on page importance,”.

Authors for the above PDF documents are Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, and Hang Li from Microsoft Research Asia and Ying Zhang of Nankai University, Zhiming Ma of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shuyuan He of Peking University.

Yes, this is something interesting and lets wish for the success of this technology ;) !! I think Instead of working hard on finding PaidLinks Google is supposed to find something like this !!

Source: cnet

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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/microsoft-browserank-google-pagerank-killer/feed/ adCenter Launches Quality-Based Ranking Algorithm In UK and Canada http://ankitrawat.com/blog/adcenter-launches-quality-based-ranking-algorithm-in-uk-and-canada/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/adcenter-launches-quality-based-ranking-algorithm-in-uk-and-canada/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:31:21 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=160 Over a year ago, Microsoft adCenter launched a quality ranking component to their search ads. That rollout was available to US advertisers…that is, until now.

The adCenter blog announced that the UK and Canadian ads will now be based off this quality-based ranking system. So now, for your ads to show in the “mainline” section (the ads that appear above algorithmic search results) you will need to pass a certain threshold of quality. This quality component seems to be made up of your click-through rate and maximum bid.

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]]> http://ankitrawat.com/blog/adcenter-launches-quality-based-ranking-algorithm-in-uk-and-canada/feed/ Major Live Search July 2008 Update http://ankitrawat.com/blog/major-live-search-july-2008-update/ http://ankitrawat.com/blog/major-live-search-july-2008-update/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:23:50 +0000 Ankit http://ankitrawat.com/blog/?p=154 Wallboy of WebmasterWorld reported huge SERP changes at Live Search. According to him he got pushed from #1 to #41 for his main keyword. He had also reported that other competitors are also disappeared from the main page. Where as on the other hand BaseVinyl reported that he got #2 from his previous #60 position.

This update has major changes as well. Most are happy, at the moment, but it does not mean that the results are more relevant. I’ll keep an eye over this and I’ll let you know about any significant changes.

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