Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Using an XML Sitemap to Index Fresh Content Quicker It’s nice to find support documents from Google that point out the benefits of using certain approaches, and Google published one on the benefits of using XML sitemaps. Search engines use programs to crawl the web and identify new pages and updated pages to include in … Read more
Many tasks are trivial for humans but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. Traditional computational approaches to solving such problems focus on improving artificial intelligence algorithms. Here, we advocate a different approach: the constructive channeling of human brainpower through computer games. Toward this goal, we present general design principles for the development … Read more
Does Having keywords in URLs Make a Difference to Rankings? Is there any value in using keywords in URLs of web pages? Would a search engine look at keywords that you might include in the addresses of your pages and associate those keywords with the content of your pages in the search engine’s index? If … Read more
Looking for Web Link Spam When searching engine indexes pages and other documents on the web, hoping to provide meaningful and relevant results to searchers, it doesn’t just rely upon the content found on web pages but also considers the quality and quantity of links pointing to those pages. A search engine like Google might … Read more
Just What Related Queries Are? Why does Google customize some search results based on previous related queries that you’ve performed? Is there a special relationship between those query terms, and if so, how did Google define that relationship? This is not from some third-party company. It is something that Google is doing – deciding that … Read more