Every event has the option of creating a custom URL that can be used around the web to promote the event. For example, hosting your 5K run on the same day as an established one is not a good idea. Make sure that you aren't hosting your event on the...
From fake Twitter followers, to ghost publishers, this argument is going to persist for the web for a long time. Manual clicks intended to increase your advertising costs or to increase profits for website owners hosting your ads.
Overwriting plagues the Web and kills the digestibility of your content. This is a net positive since most content on the web sucks. Hosting it on YouTube is easier, YouTube videos appear in the blended results, and you leverage the power of...
We cannot expect awesome web designers who create amazing themes to be SEO experts. The .htaccess file is the first set of code the server reads before it loads any web pages. Google will count each web page, even though they are technically the...
Also, my last post covered how to use the web developer plugin to assist with audits. Don’t want older pages sitting on the web for anyone to find. You can also use the web developer plugin (covered in my last post) to check on-page optimization.
If you have non-HTML content on your web pages, a good example is a PDF file, you can use rel=”canonical” HTTP headers to indicate the canonical URL for HTML documents. Servers are most likely becoming a decreasingly important signal to search...
The guidelines state “As a result, sites featuring mainly content from affiliate networks can suffer in Google's search rankings, because they do not have enough unique content that differentiates them from other sites on the web.
Indispensable Bookmarklets for Web Developers and Designers Evernote and some blogging software and hosting solutions). Curating and sharing content can quickly become time consuming, but is more important than ever as social and SEO become ever...
The websites try to avoid detection by Google's Safe Browsing service by adopting several techniques, such as "rapidly changing their location through free web hosting, dynamic DNS records, and automated generation of new domain names".
Search results consist of information about the domain nhl.com (i.e.web hosting, web statistics for nhl.com, site rank and HTML element hierarchy graph). It works by interpreting your input and generating the results for you by indexing web pages...
This will increasingly include the mobile web. A third model will be the development, optimization and hosting of mobile websites for small businesses (and large businesses for that matter). Though ad networks and search engines like Google see...
For many people, web analytics on a budget means Google Analytics. Piwik is a web analytics package that aims to be a free software alternative to Google Analytics. While this is not a definitive list, here are some major features Piwik has that...
First, it may convert some of those 10 million potential customers into paying customers for its web hosting and commerce offerings, as well as upgrading users from free to premium versions. We're now taking it beyond web hosting to, 'How can you...
Google has finally shut its Wave tool and told web users they can no longer access their group discussions and collaborative projects from the service, unless they are Chrome browser users. Last November, the web giant had warned it would pull the...
Thanks to Google’s unending need for speed, you can surf the web with both hands by using more than one mouse on the same computer. A direct result of your feedback and demand, The YouTube Collection is a first of its kind offering in web video.
It’s unclear whether it’s an algorithmic update or manual penalty, but it’s likely not a coincidence that Google recently discussed the deindexing of web hosting services earlier this month. Where Panda set out to rid the web of mass-produced, low...
For free web hosting services that don’t want to see all of their sites removed from Google’s index, Google has shared seven preventative tips. Detecting languages of newly created sites (e.g.thousands of Japanese sites appearing overnight on a...
Searchers who are logged-in may see different results tailored to their own social networks, but based on industry reports of visits that are ‘[not provided]’, ~75 percent of users are still surfing the web while logged out).
First, and not specifically related to SEO, is that the day of the semantic web has arrived, at least in some sense. At the least, search engines see the semantic web as an opportunity to get us to explicitly specify more then we've ever had the...
Researchers scanned every QR Code, Microsoft Tag, Spyderlynk SnapTag, BEE Tag, JagTag, Digimarc watermark and other codes with an iPhone or Android device, activating every campaign, running every video and visiting every web page.
