Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
If you own a small business, how comfortable are you with web sites that allow people to leave reviews of your business online? I worked as a cook in a few restaurants during my days in college. A couple of those establishments were well respected, in the middle of town, with customers who would return … Read more
Duplicate Pages at Different URLs There are sites where (substantially) the same page may be found under different Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) or addresses. For example: http://www.google.com/news = http://news.google.com/ http://www.nytimes.com = http://nytimes.com When this type of Duplicate Pages happen, there can be some negative results from the perspectives of both search engines and site owners, … Read more
Garrett Rogers, at Googling Google, writes of new domain names registered to Google, including a number that hint at a Google Archive service, perhaps similar to that offered by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Some comments in a post over at ResourceShelf take up the idea and offer some additional commentary in Yet Another Day … Read more
Take a search query, and grab 100.000 relevant pages in response to it. Take those 100,000 results, and rerank and sort them looking at some other factors. Then pull the top 1000 of those, and shuffle their order based upon other features from them. Take the top 500 and rerank them using other criteria. Then … Read more
What are the implications of a search engine deciding that your web site fits within a certain classification? That’s one of the questions that may have been raised with my last post, which looked at a patent application from Microsoft (Microsoft Looks at Category Based Link Weights) and described the assignment of category weights to … Read more