Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Nov 20, 2009, 3:40 pm
In August, the Official Google Blog announced an upgrade to Google’s infrastructure code-named Caffeine, aimed at making the search engine faster, and Google opened the system up for testing to ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Nov 19, 2009, 12:48 pm
Usually, when you click on a link in a set of search results at Google, the search engine will deliver you to the top of a web page. But what if it didn’t? What if it brought you instead to th...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Nov 17, 2009, 2:19 pm
Google was granted a patent today on one aspect of a book scanning process that raises the question what kind of music helps someone scan books best. The patent is Pacing and error monitoring of manu...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Nov 16, 2009, 10:11 am
If you were to search for at Google or Yahoo or Bing, would you expect to see a list of movies that the former President and actor appeared in? It’s more likely that you would see a set of web ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Nov 3, 2009, 2:20 pm
The term “User Generated Content,” often abbreviated as “UGC,” covers a fairly broad range of the words and pictures, images and videos and sounds that you see and hear on the ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 31, 2009, 8:27 am
Imagine that a number of people use Google to perform a search for “orange,” and then “banana,” and then “pineapple” and then choose the web page “http://www....
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 26, 2009, 10:59 am
When I was fairly young, my family picked up roots and moved from New Jersey to Ohio. As a six-year-old, it was quite a culture shock. I remember how much more slowly people talked in the great Mid-...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 25, 2009, 9:26 pm
Some of the visitors to search engines are people looking for information. Other visitors may have other purposes for visiting search engines, and might not even be humans. Instead, those automated ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 21, 2009, 9:27 pm
When visitors to search engines use abbreviations or expand abbreviations in their searches, it’s possible that they might be missing out on some pages worth visiting. For example, use Yahoo to...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 20, 2009, 1:37 am
If you’ve ever heard or seen the phrase “Trustrank” before, it’s possible that whoever was writing about it, or referring to it was discussing a paper titled Combating Web Spam...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 15, 2009, 12:50 pm
Chances are that you’ve seen news on TV or your newspaper or the Web about polar icecaps melting, or rising sea levels, or changing weather patterns. It’s easy to be an observer on the si...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 14, 2009, 10:29 am
I wrote a comment yesterday in response to a couple of blog posts that attacked SEO and the SEO industry, attempting to illustrate to the author of the rants that search engine optimization brings a s...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 12, 2009, 12:45 am
In a recent interview with Priyank Garg, Director of product management for Yahoo! Search Technology, conducted by Eric Enge, we were told that Yahoo breaks pages down into template sections to distin...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 8, 2009, 2:02 pm
Last week, a confrontation between a San Francisco Police Officer, and a group of skateboarders was filmed and uploaded to YouTube, where it garnered a lot of page views, and had a lot of people on Tw...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 6, 2009, 8:53 am
Google’s Webmaster Tools offers web site owners tools and reports to learn more about how the search engine views your site, and to make it easier for the search engine to index the pages of a s...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 2, 2009, 9:51 pm
Imagine going to a restaurant, and having a great experience. Or going to a great movie and wanting to tell others about it. Or trying out a new gadget and having problems with it. You might tweet ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Oct 2, 2009, 12:59 pm
If a search engine were to collect a list of links pointing to a page, and all of the text used in links to those pages (anchor text), it might be possible to learn a lot about the page being pointed ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Sep 29, 2009, 11:42 am
Anchor text in a link pointing to a page is often used by search engines to determine what a page being linked to is about, and to determine what words and phrases that page is relevant for. But, t...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Sep 24, 2009, 8:57 pm
The purpose behind SEO isn’t to outrank every other site on the Web for certain queries. The purpose behind SEO isn’t to draw large amounts of traffic to a web site. Rather, the purpos...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Sep 23, 2009, 12:56 pm
The Google Onebox is a search result that sometimes appears below sponsored advertisements and above organic search results when you perform a search at Google. An example is when you perform a searc...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Sep 14, 2009, 1:17 pm
When I’m looking for information on a topic, I’ll rarely stop at one search regardless of how good or poor the information I find on the topic might be. I’ll look at some of the r...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Sep 10, 2009, 7:38 pm
Webmasters sometimes move web sites from one domain to another, change the URL structures pointing to their web pages, or rename those pages themselves. Changing the URLs for pages isn’t somet...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Sep 9, 2009, 9:52 am
We’re not often given too much insight directly into how a search engine like Google might check on the quality of their search results, and the algorithms that achieve those results. When we a...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 31, 2009, 11:44 am
How well do search engines understand the linking structure of a web site? Do they have ways to organize and classify individual links and blocks of links that they see on the pages of a site? Do ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 25, 2009, 2:44 pm
One of the things that I like to do for sites that I work upon is to create an SEO content inventory. I find it helpful to have information all in one place about the content that might appear on di...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 23, 2009, 9:22 pm
Can looking at how many times rare words appear in a search engines index give us an idea of the size of the database for that search engine? About a week ago, I wrote about some of the most common E...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 22, 2009, 7:11 pm
Sometimes Google, Yahoo, and Bing will show additional links for a search result under the description for that result. These are often referred to as Site Links, Sitelinks, or Quick Links by the sea...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 19, 2009, 11:04 am
Are large news agencies, with a wide scope of international coverage on multiple topics, with large numbers of reporters, and finely edited articles better sources of news than smaller and more local ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 15, 2009, 12:04 am
Just which words show up most frequently on the Web? I’m not sure that question can be answered, but it’s something I’ve wondered for a while. With a beta version of Google’s...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 12, 2009, 12:39 pm
With billions of pages on the Web, trying to find the right words to use when you want to search for something can often be hard, especially when you’re looking for information on a topic that y...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 10, 2009, 10:35 am
If you look up when the last five movies from Jim Carrey were released, and were able to sneak a peek at Google’s query logs, you’d see that searches for Jim Carrey spiked on those dates. ...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 6, 2009, 1:35 pm
Post your URL in an SEO forum, and get labeled as a Web Spammer? Maybe. There are some site owners and internet marketers who attempt to increase how well their web sites rank in search engines by b...
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Bill S. posted an article on SEO by the SEA - Aug 5, 2009, 10:55 am
Google announced on the Official Google Blog this morning that they have signed a deal to acquire On2Technologies: Because we spend a lot of time working to make the overall web experience better for...
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