Content freshness: Don’t just dump a bunch of new content on your Web site, but  consistently add new articles or content on a regular basis. Watch how the search engine robots behave when you start doing this consistently.

“Of course we all want webpages to load as fast as possible, but now research has finally shown it: four seconds loading time is the maximum threshold for websurfers.

Akamai and JupiterResearch have conducted a study among 1,000 online shoppers and have found, among other results, that one third of respondents have, at one point, left a shopping website because of the overall ‘poor experience.’ 75% of them do not intend ever to come back to this website again.

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Google has launched a customizable search engine, so now we can all have a #1 result!

The tool offers various options that you can configure to suit your needs, but the way I see it working best for webmasters is that it allows us to increase the perceived relevance of the sites we select (and yes, we can exclude sites from the results). The results that appear after those are pulled from Google’s regular search results. You simply add the code for the customized search engine to your site.

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Prior to its release, many were predicting that Internet Explorer 7.0 would break the internet.

Indeed, Microsoft itself admitted that certain sites that worked well in IE6 would fall apart in IE7. However, no one seemed to know exactly how many sites would be affected by the launch of the new browser. Etre.com decided to fire up a couple of machines and compare the homepages of a hundred different corporate websites in both IE6 and IE7.

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It seems that the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is on the verge of releasing a whole new set of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines called WCAG 2.0. With numerous changes in place, it now seems that the whole set of guidelines that many of us have worked so hard to implement are now not sure what the best way to implement accessibility is.

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JotSpot, makers of Wiki application, has been bought by Google.

It was announced by JotSpot site and Google Blog. For now the new registrations have been closed but new users can sign up in their waitlist and know about re-opening of registrations. Details about the deal have been discussed in a FAQ about the deal on JotSpot site.