The key realization here is that getting your indexing issues resolved and the keywords addressed is only the start of the SEO process. Footnote 2: Definitely check the indexing status in Google Webmaster Tools instead of using the "site:" query...
Delicious recommends tags used by other bookmarkers on new bookmarks, so tag your content wisely to feed suggestions with keywords you want others to use. The embedded video indexing option allows you to potentially drive traffic and clicks to your...
Content or markup follows patterns that may be associated with deceptive practices e.g.the content of the keywords meta tag is very long or contains duplicate keywords SEO Checker "helps you optimize the pages in your site for discovery and...
Make sure to block spiders from indexing the staging server, and let them in where you want them to be on the production site. So why have a generic description tag on each page? Tailor your meta tags to the content of each page, target the right...
In addition to looking for duplicate title tags, make sure that your keywords are the first words in the title tag (and H1 tag). Then check the indexing stats available within Google Webmaster Tools (the results are often quite different than what...
Although the search engines are currently working on improving their indexing of Flash content, Adobe advises that at this point, it's still best to offer them an HTML representation of the content. They suggest using the NOSCRIPT tag, since Flash...
While great for users, Flash still poses a challenge to search spiders as they're still working out the indexing kinks. Limit paragraphs to a few short sentences, break up copy with lists and sub-headers, and opt for the visual explanation over the...
As you can see, incorporating a call to action with blended keywords can help your title tag stand out from all the other search results, which is especially useful in a competitive niche. Search engine spiders tend to give some weight to title...
I've always suspected that streamlining HTML code is a good way to facilitate indexing. Dan suggested that each day Google has a large but limited number of URLs it can spider, so for large sites it's in the site owners' interests to help the...
Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval" - part of the Google picture? Webmaster World "There are MANY ways of weighting (rankings) documents within the Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval system and as always, ‘playing with the dials’ will produce...
Over Meta Tag Keywords: The new medium of search collides with trademark law, for the first time. Leads To Linking, Indexing Dispute: Book publishers upset with Google's library scanning program are just the latest in groups upset with being...
Did you have a meta keywords tag? Removing barriers to indexing. Did you put text into an H1 tag? Worthless. Shady. Criminals. Do SEO? This means you. That's how you're being described. Those characterizing search engine optimization this way are...
Tim Bray tests whether Google, Yahoo and MSN image search services can find images that make use of keywords only within the the ALT and TITLE attributes of an image tag. Google is the only one that can.
How About An Indexing Summit! Or better yet, how about a coordinated summit among search engines and webmasters to advance the state of site indexing overall? The National Geographic Publications Index provides indexing (including subject...
How About An Indexing Summit! Or better yet, how about a coordinated summit among search engines and webmasters to advance the state of site indexing overall? The National Geographic Publications Index provides indexing (including subject...
How About An Indexing Summit! How About An Ignore Tag? Will Branded Keywords Kill Search? I've used the Google Toolbar daily ever since it was released more than four years ago. The year 2000 was the first full year that Google began to dominate...
A report from ChinaTechNews says that Chinese search engine Baidu is recruiting technical staff, "to research and develop a new search tool for indexing millions of hours of movies. Peter Da Vanzo's 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article...
Issues with IP addresses, robots.txt files and firewalls as they pertain to search engine indexing are all covered in this article. Is the meta description tag still worth doing? The HTML title tag is one of the most important factors you can use...
Google needs to address this issue, perhaps by indexing blogs separately from web pages or by standardizing a syntax to suppress (or select) blog results. Agog about Google: Europeans tag along International Herald Tribune, March 17, 2003
A new tool makes it easy to recall everything you've seen on the web, automatically indexing all of this content and creating your own personal web archive. Does the exact order of elements within a meta tag make a difference to search engines?
