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I will have one client who won't know what meta data does, other use tools like screaming frog on a weekly basis” said Alex Moss, head of SEO at Pleer. In parallel, the closure of Yahoo Site Explorer and gradual reduction in the number of free...
These are: robots.txt directives meta robots tags XML sitemaps nofollow link attribute rel=canonical meta tag internal linking One topic that wasn't covered was Google's preference for webmasters to not exclude duplicate content with robots.txt or...
Google Webmaster Tools can give a quick report on duplicate title tags, missing title tags, short title tags, and similar data for your meta descriptions. If you were a search engine, how would you treat a site that looked like it had 20,000 pages...
Write unique page titles and meta descriptions for each page. Join us for Search Engine Strategies Chicago December 8-12 at the Chicago Hilton. Search engines don't care how the words are delivered -- paragraphs or bullet points are fine -- just as...
Search engines will see the duplicate meta descriptions and sometimes judge a page as duplicate before they get to the actual page content. One of the most common I see is duplicate page titles and meta descriptions.
Meta tags, links, metadata, content, relevancy, competition, and page title all affect page ranking. Page titles can make or break search engine rankings for a small business Web site. There needs to be a blend between search engine friendly and...
Mobissimo is one of the few travel search aggregators to take an international approach to aggregating fare and pricing data, truly positioning itself as a meta-search engine for the travel space. On top of the online travel industry growing at a...
Again, not even a META description is used. Looks like that site needs one of the very basic SEO deliverables, however: a META description tag. A growing number of viewers, more than 70 million this year, will go online to find out more about the...
This is a shame because the META description on the page clears things up, describing the DSL-loving turtles, but is not being used by Google as the search result description. Again, not even a META description is used.
Not Obeying NoIndex Meta Tag? Index with NoIndex Meta Tags. The details come from a WebmasterWorld thread where two members I would trust claim Google is not obeying the noindex meta tag. Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search...
Over Meta Tag Keywords: The new medium of search collides with trademark law, for the first time. Some search engines will catalog ALT text and text in comment and meta tags. We'd done the submission, made use of the meta tags the search engines...
Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way - A new meta search engine allows you to compare results from the four top web search engines, and tweak their relative importance in the mix by adding to or subtracting from the relative importance of each.
Title of the listing in Google is the domain (no meta title information). Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters.
Hitwise: Meta Travel Engines Show Gains from MediaPost covers how stats from Hitwise show new meta travel search engines like Kayak, Farechase and Mobissimo, along with Cheapflights, have a 3 percent share of visits for those going to "travel...
Hitwise: Meta Travel Engines Show Gains. Notably, you can also change your default search engine from MSN Search to any other search engine. Firefox users take note, however: If your default browser is Firefox, initiating a web search from the MSN...
See also A Controlled Vocabulary to Assist in Describing Images for a look at meta data and photos. The article itself looks at display ads, the Yahoo purchase of the European Kelkoo shopping search engine and online auctions.
Search engines revved up for one-stop travel service takes a look at some of the new travel search meta search engines including Kayak (they just announced a deal with AOL), Sidestep (download required), Mobissimo (just out of beta), and Quixo.
Meta Tag Lawsuit Filed in Florida By Gary Price, Dec. Out-Law.com reports about a lawsuit filed in Florida involving meta tags. Day 2 of Search Engine Strategies has Barry covering the following sessions:
Other products Copernic offers include a metasearch client app (Copernic Agent), a free toolbar that allows you to add any search engine to it with a single click (Copernic Meta Toolbar), and summarization software.
In addition to meta search results provided by partners Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and a number of paid placement networks, Dogpile now displays links to news, video and other specialized content when relevant, similar to what Ask Jeeves has been...
