Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Google remains a bit of a "black box" when it comes to understanding how it ranks websites. But over the years many people have managed to devise certain principles that will help a page rank high in their SERPS. These principles aren't hard and fast rules, but following ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Google has a remarkable aspect to its algo these days. That's the phenomena where a website either ranks for terms or it doesn't. And we're not talking about hardcore competitive terms, either. For lack of a better term, it looks like "Trustrank" comes into play when a ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
After experimenting with several SEO techniques in 2009, I'm definitely feeling that "less is more" when it comes to what techniques to use. In the past, fairly heavy handed SEO used to do a great job to land rankings, but Google has developed a more subtle algo as the ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Do a search in Google. Notice anything strange? I did for my results. Next to every single result is the ominous message "This site may harm your computer."
This is happening on every page for every result.
Even the word "Help" turns up the ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
I feel like I can finally put a nail in the coffin of cross-linking websites. Let me be specific, cross-linked, thematically unrelated links appear to push little or no value to other websites. In fact, it's fair to say excessive cross-linking surely hurts in Yahoo and is very ...
Posted in Google | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Bounce rates are being discussed regularly by SEOs
Apparently SEOs have been having very heated discussions about the concept of "bounce rates" on SEO. Myself, I figured a high bounce rate is meaningless. Consider blogs. Most of the traffic to a blog arrives from a search engine and ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Can a blog be useful for SEO purposes?
It can, but blogs are a different animal than static websites, and must be treated as such. A blog is very useful because it provides a website with plenty of related fresh content. Considering many websites don't have content ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
It looks like Google has updated backlinks again in the last few days. They seem to running on a pretty tight schedule as far as backlink updates go. At least in the search engine. Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) also shows a backlink update, but this one was ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
To me it appears Google has increased their strategy of getting users to log into the "internet" and stay logged in. OpenID and OpenSocial as well as Google Friend Connect are all steps in this direction. I'm okay with idea, too, as long as the "anoymous" internet doesn't ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Google has been running the SearchWiki experiment for a few weeks now, and I haven't been using it. There's something about the idea of voting SERPs up and down that is quite sitting right with me. I also don't see the purpose of commenting on SERPs.
I'm sure ...
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