Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:59:19 by Pete Handley
Seeing as Hannah started the habit, if we are looking further afield than Google, Yahoo have now started highlighting the key terms you are looking for on a page when you look at the cached version they have stored on their database!
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:08:17 by Hannah Parker
Afternoon all.
I'm being too Google centric. I've looked at all my posts and they're all about Google. The other search engines deserve a turn.
MSN has its adlabs - which is (currently) a beta feature that it has provided to support its Pay Per Click (PPC) model adCenter.
The Search Funnel in adlabs is my favourite. By default, it shows the top 5 outgoing funnels - i.e. the ...Read More.
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Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:06:29 by Pete Handley
Google have started distributing stickers to some clients as part of a marketing strategy in the UK. Thought this looked quite good!
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Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:40:22 by Hannah Parker
Another short one from me. If you've got 5 mintues spare - go and play with Google Image Labeller..
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
It's addictive so beware. You get automatically paired with another player. You both get shown the same picture which you both try to label. If you both come up with the same term then you score a point and move on to the next picture. You have 90 secon...Read More.
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Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:18:59 by Matt Hopkins
Here's something that you wouldn't necessarily expect to hear - but according to Hitwise, search engines have now overtaken porn sites in UK market share.
It seems that search is a growth industry and the seemingly ubiquitous adult-content web sites are now in decline. In January, search engines had a 21% year-on-year growth in terms of market share compared with a 14% decline by adult w...Read More.
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Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:47:09 by Pete Handley
One of my clients recently asked me about utilising social bookmarking to help articles and press releases on their site to get more coverage on the web and ultimately gain more traffic.
Sites such as Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati, Blinklist, Furl, Reddit and many others are springing up which is what is causing this phenomenon.
Social bookmarking, is where users cli...Read More.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:12:05 by Pete Handley
Many people in the Search Engine Optimisation world still talk about the phenomenon that may or not be the Google Sandbox.
This is where Google treat new sites differently from other sites that have been established, penalising the rankings and not allowing them visibility in the search engine rankings until such time as a series of factors is met that allow them to begin rankings for the...Read More.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:13:06 by Hannah Parker
As Matt has talked about Google Maps - I thought maybe I?d do Google Base.
If you?re ecommerce enabled then you?re missing a big opportunity if you?re not in Google Base.
Google Base might not do anything for your organic rankings but it can really help your traffic - often listing your products right at the top of the organic search. Furthermore it feeds its product...Read More.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:05:14 by Matt Hopkins
There's been a lot of discussion lately on various forums about Google Sitemaps and whether or not they should actually be submitted.
If you don't know - Google provides a service called "Google Webmaster Tools" (http://www.google.com/webmasters/) to help website owners with indexing and SERPs. Various graphs and diagnostic tools are provided to allow you to see what Google see's on your ...Read More.
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:45:42 by Joe Ogden
Hi Guys,
I have just read an SEO article about Google and the DMOZ directory (handy for search engine optimisation!). According to the article, Google have removed all links to the Open Directory Project from its results pages, which has some implication in relation to SEO and search engine marketing as a whole.
Obviously there is still great value to be had in being included in the DMOZ ...Read More.
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:27:09 by Pete Handley
CSS is used by web designers to style various elements of websites, from fonts to page layouts.
It is good for reducing the code to content ratio on a site, which is always good for optimisation purposes.
However, there are some unethical designers and optimisers who will use CSS for the purpose of hiding content on their site from viewers, stuffing the pages of a site full of keywords, a...Read More.
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Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:20:16 by Hannah Parker
Sometimes we evaluate sites which are not indexed in some search engines or are ranking very poorly.
This MIGHT be because they?ve been banned for dastardly spamming techniques like heavy interlinking between domains or it might be because the site is brand new - alternatively it might be due to technical issues which we can advise on.
A big problem is sites tha...Read More.
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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:13:53 by Pete Handley
As many people who work in or around SEO, or who own website may know, the correct method for transfering the PageRank of one page to another is through the use of the 301 redirect.
We all know that using a 302 redirect can cause no end of problems for transfering this, but this often seems the standard method with hosting companies as well as many web designers who are ignorant of SEO.Read More.
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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:41:50 by Matt Hopkins
Over the past year, I have had a couple of problems with hosting providers for a few of our sites. It happens ? and to be fair, sometimes it is out of the hands of the hosting provider when hard drives fail or servers crash (in fact recently Google has released a report on the hard drive failures in their data centres with an average failure rate of 8-10% from hard drives at least 2 ye...Read More.
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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:22:41 by Hannah Parker
My next favourite thing is showing lots of results per page in Google - up to 100 in fact.
To do this without delving into Google Advanced Search is simply a matter of changing the URL slightly after you search.
Say, for example, you are searching for "chocolate chicken" on Google...
Your URL would look like this:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=71&hl=en&q=chocolate...Read More.
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Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:53:04 by Matt Hopkins
You may have noticed that Google sometimes displays "local" businesses in its results pages for some search terms along with a map reference. Have you ever wished that your company could appear in these results (right at the top of the page)?
Unlike most things with Google... the good news is that getting yourself displayed in this area is actually free!
Yep - no kidding.
C...Read More.
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Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:23:54 by Pete Handley
I came across a slightly changed version of Google that was designed for accessibilty (web search for the visually impaired) at http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Having used this version, although there was some variance in results from the standard international version of Google, I found it really refreshing to use a search engine that did not have any paid for ads visible on the results p...Read More.
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Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:27:10 by Hannah Parker
Morning all - quick one.
http://searchengineland.com/070202-224617.php (Danny Sullivan 2 Feb 07)
The upshot of this is that if your search history is enabled and you are logged into your Google account then Google notes the type of sites you select from search results and gives them a boost in the rankings.
Just something to be aware of if sea...Read More.
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Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:57:46 by Hannah Parker
Did you know...
You know when you're looking for how many pages of a site are indexed so do a search for:
site:www.vertical-leap.co.uk
Well did you know you can restrict it to the supplementals? Yes? Of course you did. But in case you forgot - here's the syntax:
site:www.google.com *** -view
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