You'll get turned down a lot and you may even be accused of being a scam artist, and getting links this way is definitely seriously hard work, but you can get some fantastic links this way. While they can be a good way to build links, they can...
In the not-so-distant past, we’ve seen a hard-coded Bing Easter Egg declaring Google “more evil than Satan himself;” the Hiybbprqag honeypot drama, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s declaration that Google is just copying Bing.
Searching “more evil than Satan himself” displayed a hard-coded definition at the top of the SERP: =10^100 (a googol). Three geeky new Easter eggs from Google display the number of search results in the number format searched, as in the “binary...
It’s a hard thing to do, but it’s necessary with the speed at which business moves right now. One of their employees coded a system giving hundreds of employees the ability to use the Twitter handle @twelpforce.
Because the Lab makes a small commission on each item sold on Marketplace, they have been pushing it very hard over the past year as a convenient alternative to inworld shopping (on which they make no direct cut).
Unfortunately, this also meant that they copied and pasted the hard coded string that set the domain in the canonical tag. Misdirection is something that stage magicians do to get you to look away while they slip your watch from under the...
With over 20,000 articles on the Search Engine Marketing and the greater online advertising So please join me in congratulating the Incisive Media team, including Jonathan Allen, Rebecca Holz, and Mark Stephens, and also designer, Neil Tweddle...
Hard-coded image GET requests. It's not as hard as you think, and may save you a ton of custom development and testing time. But with great choice comes great opportunity to define advanced segments, workaround organizational immaturity, and gain...
Many innocent sites that may have a few flaws -- the ones a natural site would have if not worked over hard by an SEO -- have fallen through the cracks. Google News users are familiar with the color-coded categories on the left side bar.
OK, so that was the hard part! While it's a little more complex than this, a properly coded site will render correctly in the webkit (smart phones). Seen as a type of website welfare, only for the few, they are often ignored as an "only if I have...
As such, just about every idiot who has ever coded a page of HTML will tell you that they "do SEO. SEO is hard enough. It's hard work. Our industry is hot. Red hot. I've written before about how this gives our industry a bad rap.
We are dealing with what I call the Ugly Baby Conundrum – the site really is a bit ugly in terms of SEO, but you have to find a way to deliver this message so IT does not get defensive about how they have coded and architected the Web site.
How does Google 'see' this product, since there is no hard-coded link to this product on my site? Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine Watch Forums, and other search marketing forums...
New Paper Discusses Blocking Blog Spam That Requires No Training and No Hard-Coded Results, ResourceShelf Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately: From The SEW Blog.
We have been poking hard at Google for disappointing search results, but t Hand Coded, SEO Blackhat From The SEW Blog. Craigslist Adds Cities, Now 300 Strong According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (sub.req'd) over the weekend and a...
Each individual calendar you create is listed in your list of calendars, and is color-coded so its events are clearly distinguished from events in other calendars. We tried really hard to make it easy to get calendaring information from any source...
I think we have all seen areas in the past that were loaded with what looked like hard coded sites sitting on top of the regular results, but this looks like its creeping into more and more areas. Search Engine Strategies San Jose 05 Session...
To play with all the queries shown above, see the hard-coded answers posted at the RelevancyRank demo page. More important, the ratings mark the first use of technology Claria hopes will let it improve the results of major search engines or perhaps...
LookSmart says that in some cases, MSN may have "hard-coded" certain listings to come up in response to popular terms. It may be that some hard-coded links using LookSmart tracking codes may have accidentally remained.
This page never existed before I did the search, and virtually no one would have thought of this search and hard coded a hyperlink to it. I've had several different link-and-Google related issues come up recently, so I thought I'd roll them all up...
