Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 18

12 Search Engines Which Can Replace Ask.com

As most of you most likely will know, Ask.com has just recently gone through a period of layoffs and restucturing. The future of Ask.com as an innovative entity will exist no more. Loren Baker at the Search Engine Journal asks the question – “Who Can Replace Ask.com?“ Loren discusses various scenarios and suitable replacements from semantic, open and media search engines.

Stumbleupon Now Using Captcha for Reviews

A somewhat unprecedented move by Stumbleupon has seen them resort to using captcha to verify reviews. As various bloggers have pointed out, captcha can be a usability nightmare for some users and the attraction of Stumble is its ease of use – adding in an extra security layer may be more secure, but could be a step too far.

Principles of Advanced Search Engine Optimization

The SEO Theory and Analysis blog discuss the principles of advanced search engine optimization and what those who consider themselves advance SEO’s should be doing.

Raven Recap

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