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. We've found that clients knowledge of SEO and mindset has been shifting for the last couple of...
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...
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.
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. Yesterday at the Search Engine Watch Blog, we discussed the “URL visibility factor” of advertisers in...
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...
Some search engines will catalog ALT text and text in comment and meta tags. Over Meta Tag Keywords: The new medium of search collides with trademark law, for the first time. 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). For example, many people recently posted messages in the Search Engine Watch Forums stating that their sites had been penalized, as they were no longer ranking well.
See also A Controlled Vocabulary to Assist in Describing Images for a look at meta data and photos. SES New York Agenda Posted + Search Engine Watch Articles + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + About The Newsletter
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. SES New York Comes Next + Search Engine Watch Articles + More From The Search Engine Watch Blog + About The Newsletter
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...
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...
Kayak, a new travel search meta site that I've mentioned several times on the SEW Blog, has just launched a beta version. Search Engine Strategies Set For Stockholm, Chicago + Search Engine Watch Articles + Best Of The Search Engine Watch Blog...
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.
Meta search major medical search engines and databases from this new service. New meta search site that lets you meta search several major search engines at once or allows you to search just major sites, paid listings, "pure" listings (Yahoo gets...
New meta search site that lets you meta search several major search engines at once or allows you to search just major sites, paid listings, "pure" listings (Yahoo gets dropped from this category, apparently because of its paid inclusion) and...
Meta search major medical search engines and databases from this new service. Here's a recap of major articles and some interesting forum discussions from Search Engine Watch since the last newsletter:
