Google doesn't use the keywords meta tag in web search they way AltaVista did 10 years ago, so optimizing your keyword meta tags is dead, dead, dead. Mike McDonald of WebProNews Videos interviewed me recently at OMS 2010, aka SES San Diego, for a...
All of us know examples of IT departments in big companies who are still optimizing the meta keywords tag. But, is anyone still trying to get a high ranking is AltaVista anymore? Well, these factors mattered 10 years ago -- when AltaVista was still...
It's just that AltaVista dropped its support for the Meta keywords tag in July 2002, prompting Traffick.com's Andrew Goodman to declare “the end of the metatag era, full stop. And Google never supported the Meta keywords tag.
Over Meta Tag Keywords: The new medium of search collides with trademark law, for the first time. AltaVista's Refine Feature: The next time someone pitches you that we'll be flying through search results and using flashy query refinement tools...
Paul Flaherty, A Founder Of AltaVista, Passes Away - Sad news that Paul Flaherty, one of the founders of AltaVista, passed away on Friday on a heart attack. This is a big move for Google, what seems to be the first time they've allowed people to...
But what about that other type of tagging, meta tagging -- you know, things like the meta keywords tag that let you associate words with pages, to better describe them. Great google, yahoo, overture, altavista, search history
Looking at the google tag today, I saw bookmarks about the new Google Earth service or the new Google Maps I tag like a madman with Photoshop Album. Indeed -- if you don't tag a picture, you pretty much have no good way of finding it.
This is someone who found Search Engine Watch's meta tag page via AltaVista. FYI, if the AltaVista address looks odd to you, that's because the example is from logs in 1997. Here's another example: squid.execpc.com - - [15/Jun/1997:21:00:34 -0600...
How About An Ignore Tag? Why not give designers a tag telling search engines to ignore portions of a web page? Peter Da Vanzo's 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the rightful tag, The Original...
Even though I liked many features introduced in other toolbar offerings from AltaVista, Teoma, Dogpile and others, I found that the using the Google Toolbar had become an ingrained habit, difficult to break.
Enter a URL, and this free web-based service will report back on the number of times and percentages various keywords appear within it.idesignbusiness Meta Tag Generator Search Engine Update mention, Dec.
Excite and Infoseek play laser tag, instead. Excite came in a close second with 12 points, followed by AltaVista with 6 points and Infoseek with 4 points. AltaVista launches LiveTopics search assistance feature.
Agog about Google: Europeans tag along International Herald Tribune, March 17, 2003 No, we used good tools like AltaVista and Yahoo to efficiently locate information everyday. It's the smaller players such as AltaVista that have really fed into...
A former AltaVista employee is accused of taking some of AltaVista's source code. MSN Search Employee Arrested for Allegedly Hacking AltaVista Search Engine Watch Forums, July 12, 2004 http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/showthread.php?
MSN Search Employee Arrested for Allegedly Hacking AltaVista Search Engine Watch Forums, July 12, 2004 http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forum/showthread.php? A former AltaVista employee is accused of taking some of AltaVista's source code.
Yahoo also lists the home page, but ironically, gives it a bad description because of a coding error in that site's meta description tag. The alternative of tabs, resurrected by Google after AltaVista abandoned them, were recently dropped by...
Does the exact order of elements within a meta tag make a difference to search engines? Unlike the AltaVista Prisma feature (see http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160251) at its sister site, the refinement tool lets you also...
Meta Tag Lawsuits The link above will take you to a page within Search Engine Watch that summarizes major lawsuits and court cases involving meta tags. China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista The Search Engine Report, Sept.http...
To them, aggressive means that they think they need to place H1 tags around everything, or that every ALT tag should be filled with keywords, or that they should use the useless meta revisit tag because somewhere, somehow, they heard this was what...
To them, aggressive means that they think they need to place H1 tags around everything, or that every ALT tag should be filled with keywords, or that they should use the useless meta revisit tag because somewhere, somehow, they heard this was what...
