The title says it all. Complaints, reviews, rip off & scam are 4 searches that every commercial site, product and service provider should be aware off. Once your users started searching for these keywords + your business name, service or product, you know you have a problem.
I was just checking Google News, and I got 502 server error. It seems that Google News server(s) is down.
It seems Google recently had some major errors, Times Online reports Google was shut down for 40 minutes due to a human error in 1/31/2009
I was inspired by Bill Tancer book ‘Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters’. Bill demonstrates how our online searches reflect who we are.
So i thought let me search for what questions American users ask online; I used Google Keyword Tool with Match Type set to exact and searched for Who, What, Where, How, Why, and When.
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Some of the questions I found were extremely shocking and I wonder why would anyone ask such questions? Just keep reading and discover for yourself.
This is a time line for all news & newspaper related news. We will list the latest updates on online news, print newspapers, news headlines and SEO. This page will be updated frequently.
Early this year SEOmoz.com published search engine ranking factors 2007 document, they asked 37 well known SEO Gurus in the world of Organic search engine optimization to vote on the importance of a variety of Google Search Engine Ranking Factors that comprise Google’s ranking algorithun. Here is a summarized table of all factors in order of importance.
“it is my opinion that 90-95% of the knowledge required about Google’s algorithm is contained below.” Rand Fishkin said.
Ranking Factors are classified under 4 categories: Read the rest of this entry »
In every SEO conference I attend there must be multiple site clinic sessions. Webmasters and business owners ask questions to a bunch of SEO gurus. What I noticed is that there is no process or structured methodology to Audit a site. Also i noticed that most of webmasters/business owners are not very familiar with SEO or Coding. That’s why I created this comprehensive list of SEO check points for any site webmaster or business owner to SEO-Audit their site in an easy way:
Spiders can’t “digest” flash objects and JavaScript that well, links and text in flash are not followed or indexed.
The use of flash objects in the page layout sometimes could be necessary, but avoid having all your pages designed entirely in flash.
Acceptable uses of flash:
- Product demos and presentations
- Online videos
Dangerous use of flash:
- Entire site in flash
- Navigation menus
Spiders can’t read images, so you should replace images by text whenever it is possible. It is understood that sometimes design requires graphic headers and images, but if the image only contain text, you should consider using text instead.
Few things to consider when creating your images:
- All your images should have alt attribute
- All visible meaningful images should have alt attribute text
- Alt text should be representive to what the image is about
- Use keywords in your alt text but avoid stuffing
- Try not to exceed 5-7 words in your alt text
The purpose of this tag is to define what keywords apply to your page. However, only some search engines, such as MSN, will
read this tag. Search engines such as Yahoo! and Google do not place a great importance on it as they do with keywords identified in other areas of the page. Still, it is good practice to include this tag, plus MSN is a popular search engine channel and therefore you should generally include a META keyword tag on your page within the < HEAD > area. Read the rest of this entry »
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