SEO
Blinkx Wiki on Video SEO 101
The video search engine Blinkx has created a Wiki for optimising video. With over 65% of internet bandwidth taken up by video, getting those who upload videos to follow some best practice is a great idea.
There’s a lot of useful information about the evolution of video search engines, from first generation early engines, where […]
Bush Google bomb fixed?
Finally Google has changed their algorithm to prevent Google bombing from working. All the old favourites like a search for ‘miserable failure’ which returned the George Bush page on the White house site, and ‘liar’ which returned the Blair page on the number 10 site have been cleaned up.
According to Google, they have made […]
Google local filter fixed
Matt Cutts says Google has fixed the geo-targeting filter for non-US country specific Google queries.
For the last six months, Google has been dropping the home page of some locally hosted (non-US) .com domains, when the local sites only filter is selected. I.e. a .com domain hosted in the UK will have the home page […]
On-page optimisation in an age of links
An interesting post by Brian over at SEOMoz got me thinking about the importance of on-page optimisation. Couple of years ago as Google’s trust in what other people had to say about you increased, traditional on-page factors seemed less relevant. A lot could be achieved by a an anchor text focussed link campaign with content […]
Webmaster World Las Vagas 2006
If like me you didn’t make it to Vagas for the 14th WMW conference, there’s some great coverage at Webpronews including interviews with Matt Cutts from Google, and Brett Tabke who started WMW. I haven’t had the time to go through all the video, but there’s even more talk of social media than ever before. And […]
One sitemap protocol for Google, Yahoo! and MSN
The three big players in search have finally agreed to a single protocol for submission into their indices. Google Sitemaps was is a system for enabling site owners submit their web site through a XML version of their URL feed. While, Yahoo! Introduced their own version soon after, the two systems required different formats which […]
Google News Suggest - search terms
As more and more journalist turn to search to attract readers, finding that common language is going to be crucial to reaching that audience. Finding the right search terms has always been a science in itself and for most commercial queries, there’re many established tools provided by the search engines to show you exactly […]
MediaWhiz acquires Text Link Ads
New York based ad firm Media Whiz has bought Text Link Ads. These guys are in the business of brokering links, which can help sites to rank in search engines. I’ve seen Patrick Gavin many times at various search marketing events, but have managed to stay away from buying their services. I’m very surprised about […]
Beating the Google sandbox
Just when you thought we’d kicked this subject to death -there’s actually quite an interesting article on SEOMOZ
I tend to agree with most of what it has to say, though, I’m not too sure about the practicality of the solution suggested - building links to trusted sites that links to you. Guess the theory is, […]
I love Jews - Google result
Some of you may remember a couple of years ago, when a Google search for ‘I Love Jews’ returned a spelling suggestion ‘I Love Jesus’. Well this was sorted out farily quickly when it was bought to attention. At the time this was deffintely considerd a Google ‘hand job’, but, is it still the […]
