SEO.
Search Engines Unite On Unified Sitemaps System
In alphabetical order, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to all support a unified system of submitting web pages through feeds to their crawlers. Called Sitemaps, taking its…
GPS, Geotagging, Images and Maps
The NY Times has a long and relatively interesting article on geotagging images and mapping. It primarily discusses Flickr and, to a…
Google Effect Of Domain Name Change Of Ownership
This morning I wrote Does Change of Domain Name Ownership Hurt Rankings? a question that has been bugging Danny and myself since…
Yahoo’s Tim Converse Colors SEOs
Tim Converse, the “spam fighter” at Yahoo, has a fun post he named Search engine optimization (SEO) from black to white. He…
Google Interview With Shashi Seth On Custom Search Engine Product
Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting posted an Interview of Google’s Shashi Seth. Shashi Seth is Product Lead of Search and was…
Competitive Intelligence & Link Searches
Rand over at SEOMoz has a great write up on Long List of Link Searches where he goes through a sample client…
Yahoo Adds NOODP Support & Weather Report Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo has finally added support for the NOODP META tag. You can deploy this two ways;…
United Press International Selling PageRank
Threadwatch reports that the United Press International is selling links based on PageRank values. If you visit the advertising section, specifically for…
ResultR – One Search Many Useful Results
ResultR is an interesting new search engine for a number of different reasons. However, the basics first – it’s a multi/meta search…
How Can Search Engines Rank Results? Let Bill Count The Ways
20 Ways Search Engines May Rerank Search Results from Bill Slawski at SEO By The Sea looks at the many ways search…
Resources For Finding Statistics For Any Web Site
Rand over at SEOMoz wrote an excellent post detailing all the different resources publicly available to gather statistical data on pretty much…
Free Local Search White Paper From TeleMapics
Consulting firm TeleMapics is offering a free local search white paper, which you can get here. Called “Local Search: Time for a…
Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
This is a rant. It’s a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the “killer”…
Google Code Search Live, Offers Code Searching For Programmers
Google Code Search is now live, a new service from Google designed to allow computer programmers and others seek out computer code…
vFlyer Seeks To Overcome Classifieds Fragmentation For Sellers
From a marketer’s point of view, one of the undesirable characteristics of the Internet in general and the local Internet in particular…
How To Game Digg & Why You Shouldn’t
Peter Da Vanzo shows how you can pay someone to Digg your content for a fee. SEO Blackhat reveals a guaranteed way…
Google’s New SearchMash Test Site
Google’s gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google’s brand somehow skewing the…
Bush Bio Changes For Miserable Failure Query Due To White House Change
Since 2004, a search on Google and Yahoo for “miserable failure” has almost always ranked the the official George W. Bush biography…
Checking Back Links From Wikipedia Articles
Steve Rubel spotted a new page at Wikipedia that allows you to quickly locate all the links pointing to a specific site…
The Ten Linking Commandments By LinkMoses
Eric Ward posted a fun but true list of what he calls LinkMoses Linking Commandments. But honestly, number five makes me wonder…
Big Brands: Do You Know What Wikipedia Saying About You Via Google?
Steve Rubel produced a small study on the top 100 advertisers, according to AdAge, to see where in the Google rankings does…
When Good Search Bots go Bad
Most people realize the importance of creating a search engine friendly site, but many don’t take the final step of assuring that…
Search Engines Handle No Index Inconsistently
Matt Cutts has a nice illustrated survey of how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex…
Social Media Optimization: It’s Like SEO, For Social Sites
One of the coolest things about the rise of social networking and sharing sites like MySpace and YouTube are the new opportunities…
InsiderPages’ ‘Answers’
InsiderPages, one of the top “social directory” sites, has launched its equivalent of Yahoo!’s Answers: “Insider Advice.” It’s only available to members…
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