SEO, Social Media and General Web Designs Stuffs
On January 22nd, Google announced the inclusion of event-related information in their Rich Snippets. The protocol will be based off the hCalendar microformat and will look like this: Now, let’s consider another post that covers Rich Snippets as well as something called “Answer Highlighting” which looks like this: “Consider the example, [empire state height]. The [...]
Interesting video post from Google’s Matt Cutts. Watch first and then let’s discuss. Video source: How do you rate links from sites like Twitter and Facebook? Original Article: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/answering-your-december-grab-bag.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/amDG+(Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog) Points of interest: Links aren’t any different if they come from .gov or .edu. “It’s not like a link from an .edu autmatically carries more weight.” [...]
Say goodbye to duplicate content, folks… Basically, all the search engines will let you suggest the preferred URL you’d like them to focus all the SEO juice on: To use Google’s example, all you put in the head tag is something like this: link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish” That’s all there is to it, folks. Here are [...]
Found this interesting today when going through a site’s Web Crawl error report in Google Webmaster Tools. I was looking at the 404s (not found) report and found a number of what looked to be partial URLs pointing at the site from hundreds of affiliate pages. Turns out that Google has tried to follow a [...]
@onecaseman sent me this video of Google’s Matt Cutts talkin’ ’bout webspam. Check it out!
A co-worker just sent me this link. I read through the article and it’s pretty interesting if you place a lot of value on Page Rank. “The Google PageRank Algorithm” It pretty interesting since he also includes a PageRank Calculator. Check it out folks!
So I was doing a search for a response I posted on this blog to a Search Engine Watch article. When I was logged in to my Google account in Chrome, my article was #1. When I was not logged in and using Firefox, I was #8. Just another example of how using SERP ranking as [...]
Google labs has put up some interesting new tools/ideas for enhanced searching functionality… and stuff. Check it out here :http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html