Yahoo has provided an Ajax interface (Search Assistant) for search suggestions since September 1995. Now Google is forcing their version of search suggestions including a result count into the equation.

Google's version is, in typical Google fashion, quite plain, but very effective. It's fast too.

C'mon Google, give me an easy way to turn this thing off if I want to go back to my browser saved queries! I can't even turn it off in Preferences.....

MSN search has become somewhat weird for months now with cloaked "traffic" followed by bots to weed out page content cloaking and they seem to be falling even further behind on the information side of the equation for webmasters, which to me is a really bad idea.

Whether you are a new webmaster or a seasoned pro, these mistakes are easy to make. The phone rings, honey-do's, or just maybe its Monday!

So OK, here is a reminder for owners of websites and blogs to prevent falling into the top 5 publication disasters that can prevent successful Internet marketing.

Maybe nobody looks at the page title when browsing a web page but it is the most captivating, constructive part of the SERP snippet. Everybody scans the big, bold text when Googling, Yahooing, or Liveing. The bold text in the snippet is your title tag for the page.

Throw a bunch of keywords in a title tag and nobody will click on the SEO'ed garbage you end up with. Never change your title tags, or use really similar title tags and the search engines will hate you.

Why do you build links? Is it for PageRank, or because you realize that one way link building is the ticket to rank with the search engines.

I hear it now...they are one in the same. Wrong. It is easy to build PageRank simply using your domain name. While this can be good to build a brand, it isn't the most effective one way link building method to jump start competitive keyword ranking.

We are proud to release a new product providing detailed link analysis statistics FREE!

To use the product a simple registration process is required to enable upload of link data, and to email the Excel spreadsheet containing the link report back to you.

The report provides a lot of detailed analysis including:

♦ Total Links
♦ Deep Links
♦ Deep Link Ratio
♦ Unique Domains
♦ Nofollow Links
♦ 301 redirects
♦ Edu & Gov
♦ Unique Class C's
♦ Page Title
♦ Anchor Text
♦ Page H1 Heading
♦ No of links on page

The link attribute nofollow is used widely to control comment spam and not pass reputation or link juice to 3rd party sites. Strong opinions continue to be voiced about the use of the attribute on internal links within one's site.

The concept of using nofollow on internal links is to prevent bleeding PageRank to pages that are not useful in the index and don't contain content relating to your niche. Nofollow on a link on page1 to page2 prevents page2 being crawled and eliminates passing reputation, link juice, PageRank to that page.

Other Methods
The meta robots tag is available to nofollow all links on a page. The combination index, nofollow will allow the page to be indexed but all links on the page are nofollowed, while the noindex, nofollow combination prevents indexing and nofollows all links.