Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Interested in finding a blog about a particular topic or place, rather than individual blog posts? A recent change with Google’s blog search is intended to make it easier to do so. The timing of the change interestingly corresponds to the granting of a Google patent on how Google may index and retrieve blogs last … Read more How Does Google Rank Blogs?
As much as I love exploring search engines, and how they tick, sometimes its good to get away from behind the monitor, and go exploring outdoors. I’ve been writing recently about topics such as how search engines might mine data found on the Web, and in their own log files to learn more about the … Read more Hornet’s Balls and Gold Mining
An Affiliated Page Link is a Link between Pages From the Same Owners Might Google rank links to pages differently based a perception of how related or affiliated those pages might be to each other? For instance, if three pages authored by the same person link to a fourth page, and two other pages, each … Read more Google’s Affiliated Page Link Patent
A new location-based service from Facebook is rolling out this week, known as Facebook Places. The announcement on the Facebook blog, Who, What, When, and Now…Where, describes Places as a way of letting your friends know where you’re at and what you’re doing in realtime when you check in. The Facebook blog post title caught … Read more Facebook Places vs. Yahoo’s Who, What, When, Where (W4) Communications Network Patent?
Does Google favor big brands when showing search results? That question has been bandied about on the Web for a while, but the answer may be more complicated than just a matter of brands. The question arose this morning on Malcolm Coles’ blog, in his post-Google treating brand names in search terms as site: searches? … Read more Not Brands but Entities: The Influence of Named Entities on Google and Yahoo Search Results