SEO by the Sea

Having Fun with -Onyms in Keyword Research

Bill Slawski — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:23:20 +0000

You’re writing a page about a new stadium in your City, soon to enjoy the sounds of crowds in the bleachers watching duels between batters and pitchers, hoping to watch balls batted over the centerfield fence, or shutouts pitched, or the perfect doubleplay.

Your page could simply contain a picture, a street address, and maybe a [...]

How What you Tweet, Tag, or Blog May Determine What Ads You See

Bill Slawski — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:18:25 +0000

In my last post, I wrote about a patent application describing how Yahoo might come out with a widget that could be used with blogs, to recommend old posts on those blogs based upon your lifestreaming activities.

It appears that Yahoo may have even grander and more financially motivated intentions behind collecting information about [...]

A Yahoo Widget Using Social Network Activity to Recommend Blog Posts? Working with MyBlogLog?

Bill Slawski — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:03:15 +0000

Many blogs display a list of “recent” blog posts or “most popular” blog posts in their sidebars, using a plugin widget. But those lists of blogs stay the same regardless of who is visiting the blog.

Imagine a sidebar widget for a blog that can consider the online activities of visitors at sites like Facebook, [...]

Paid Search Results and Query Expansion using Synonyms and Related Concepts

Bill Slawski — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:09:32 +0000

Search for “cheap cars” at Yahoo in the future, and you might see web search results and paid search results for terms like “job searches” or “bicycles” in the future, according to a recently published Yahoo patent application.

If you’ve been keeping a close eye on Google search results lately, you’ve possibly noticed that sometimes when [...]

Virginia SEO and Internet Marketing Meetup for Small Business

Bill Slawski — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:38:52 +0000

In its very earliest of days, SEO by the Sea began as an idea to have a gathering of people interested in internet marketing and search engine optimization away from the big cities, the expensive hotels, costly conferences, and crowded conference centers.

The idea of returning to those roots is something I’ve been considering [...]

Facebook Patent Filings

Bill Slawski — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:30:06 +0000

The last time I wrote about Facebook’s intellectual property was in a post from August of 2007 titled Facebook Timeline and Patent Application. At that time, Facebook only had one patent filing published at the US Patent and Trademark Office, Systems and methods for social mapping, which focused upon how members of the social [...]

Apple vs. Google vs. Yahoo on Location Awareness and Parking

Bill Slawski — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:19:19 +0000

I usually help site owners with increasing traffic to their web sites, and keep an eye on patent filings from companies that are involved in delivering information to people on the Web. But there seems to be another kind of traffic on the minds of companies like Apple, Yahoo, and Google.

The intersection between [...]

Google Synonyms Update

Bill Slawski — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:38:29 +0000

Over at the Official Google Blog, Google’s Steven Baker just announced a major change in the way that Google handles search results by including synonyms for some words that may be used in queries, in the post Helping computers understand language.

I wrote about the change on December 22, 2009, in my blog post How Google May [...]