Stated with an optimistic eye, blog carnivals are communities where people share content, some editorial review is, or isn't, provided by the person running the carnival, and other publishers can then come find articles for publishing on their site.
As a précis to that – today I wanted to give you an overview of the key changes the industry has faced in 2012 and share my list of top articles that highlight change throughout 2012. Penguin then came along and cleaned up web spam and tried to put...
It’s no longer a case of finding a list of directories, articles, blogs, and forums you can submit to. So while Google have openly admitted that social not a strong, or at least a direct, factor at the moment – if Facebook or Twitter have that much...
While I can’t say for sure whether it is related to their public tongue lashing, I have noticed that Business Insider has recently begun to take steps to reduce the annoyance of their "short-term" tactics such as giving readers the option to view...
That same article also documented how using social media's "wisdom of the crowd" (showing the most liked articles) was something that Bing tried, but then later removed. Two great articles a month will do far more for you than 4 decent ones a month...
Encourage users to submit to Digg by including the Digg button (with counts) on articles. Close articles with a call-to-action that encourages sharing and place sharing button(s) promptly after the article.
This allows users to click-through to view other articles by the author in case the particular topic isn't of interest, but the author is. Blog/News Page: Get users to follow you socially, click-through to articles, click-through to author pages...
Does the site have duplicate, overlapping, or redundant articles on the same or similar topics with slightly different keyword variations? Brands and big business rule, on and off the web, but that wasn’t always true.
Spain's data protection authority has demanded Google to remove links to nearly 100 articles from its search listings, and five of those disputed articles were contested by the search engine's legal team in a Madrid magistrates' court this week.
For those who missed this in my previous articles, I'll break it down for you: You can purchase Linden dollars (inworld money) in exchange for USD. What if people on your twitter or facebook friends list could interact with you while you were...
If you'd like to pitch your story to a journalist who writes more articles that appear in Google News than any other journalist, then you'll love the new Newsknife ratings.comScore ARS Research Highlights Importance of Advertising Creative in...
Below is a recap of major articles from our daily SearchDay newsletter, SEW Experts columns, and important Search Engine Watch Blog postings since the last newsletter. Newsknife names top sources in Google News for environmental articlesWhile the...
Sure, you can make all this effort to go after Web search and post your articles in Digg, Furl, and so on, but that doesn't look nearly as good on a mobile phone. For example, does visiting an unindexed Web page with the Google toolbar installed in...
Below is a recap of major articles from our daily SearchDay newsletter and important Search Engine Watch Blog postings since the last newsletter. See the Search Engine Watch Newsletters & Web Feeds page for sign-up instructions.
That's terrible if you want to find news articles about a particular event further back in time. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
Is it cloaking if the New York Times puts up a page in front of those clicking from Google to reach paid articles? How did a web site recently get so many spam pages indexed so quickly in Google? Answer -- our article is one of many that...
Alerted by a post by Nathan Weinberg on Inside Google we learn that Mark Stahlman, an analyst at Caris Infotrieve's ArticleFinder Database is Now Free - Dean Giustini has a good summary of recent articles about how Google Scholar is being used...
By default, some existing item types are suggested: Course Schedules, Events & Activities, Jobs, News & Articles, People Profiles, Products, Reference Articles, Reviews, Services, Vehicles, Wanted Ads.
Rather than spend on search ads, the company has tons of articles that serve as fodder to attract natural search engine traffic. Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count - Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous...
We've had articles about judges searching the web themselves to see if they can dig up evidence. Search Engines Rank Web Pages page originally back in 1996: They also can't rely on judgment and past experience to rank web pages, in the way humans...
