Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Are you a robot? A spammer? A sock puppet? A trusted author and content developer? A trusted agent in the eyes of Google? (More on trusted agents below.) When you interact on a social network, or write a review online or update information to an internet mapping service, how much does the service you are … Read more
Many years back, I remember being humbled by a homework assignment crayon drawing by a friend’s son which listed what he was thankful for and included his parents, his sister, and shoes that Thanksgiving. We take so much for granted that we should be thankful that we have. A few friends and I had gathered … Read more
Do Human Evaluators Influence Search Rankings? A Google patent granted last week describes how the search engine might enable people to experiment with changing the weight and value of different ranking signals for web pages to gauge how those changes might influence the quality of search results for specific queries. The patent lists Misha Zatsman, … Read more
I gave a presentation on SEO and Social Media at the Internet Summit 2011, in Raleigh NC yesterday, in an Advanced SEO session with Lindsay Wassell, Michael Marshall, and Markus Renstrom – head SEO of Yahoo! Daryl Hemeon has a nice write-up of the presentations at Advanced SEO – Internet Summit Day 2 Notes. I … Read more
Imagine being able to highlight any text on a web page and search the Web based upon that text? Or an easier way to embed videos or other content in windows that will appear and open up without launching a new browser window. Now imagine that your Google Plus Circles could engage in friend relationship … Read more