Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
In September of 2007, Google research scientists Bill Schilit and Okan Kolak announced a new feature for Google Book Search which they called Popular Passages. The announcement came in an Inside Google Book Search blog post titled Dive into the meme pool with Google Book Search Popular Passages provides us with the ability to find … Read more
Would it surprise you if over 40 percent of the queries entered into search boxes at search engines consist of proper nouns, such as the names of specific people or places or things? Or that combinations of proper nouns and nouns might make up over 70 percent of most searches? At least those are a … Read more
Understanding Searcher Intent When you type a search query term into a search box at Google or Yahoo or Live.com, the search engines might go through their indexes and try to find the most relevant and important pages in their databases for the word or phrase that you want to find out more about. But … Read more
I’m in a testing mood tonight and put together a list of tests that you can run your blog or website through if you feel up to learning more about your pages… 1. See what grade level your blog is at with a Readability Test. (The original link has been replaced with a more informative … Read more
It’s a little unusual to see a document from a search engine discussing search engine optimization. It’s even rarer to see one providing details on how that search engine might optimize websites for search engines. A patent application from Yahoo, published at the start of January, details how the search engine could automatically optimize web … Read more