Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
There are several patents from Google, both granted patents and pending patent applications, that describe ways that Google might learn about entities and about facts associated with those by extracting knowledge base facts from the web instead of relying upon people submitting information to knowledge bases such as Freebase. We saw Google show off how … Read more
If you’ve spent any time on the Web, chances are that you’ve run into an entry on Wikipedia for a specific person or place. A recent paper from a Microsoft researcher explores the idea of using pages like those, from the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” to try to resolve any confusion about who … Read more
One of the fastest growing and controversial pages on the Web is the Wikipedia. As of a few moments ago, the front page of the site indicated that it had 1,416,076 articles alone in English. There are many other articles in other languages. The Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination indicates that there are presently “somewhat active” Wiki encyclopedias … Read more
I’ve been unhappy for a long time with what is on the pages of Wikipedia for Search Engine Optimization. So I decided this weekend to start making some changes to present the subject from a more rounded perspective. Some of the things that bothered me about the article as it was: 1. It presented the … Read more
One of the many excellent presentations that I was able to attend this week was the one on SEM Via Communities, Wikipedia & Tagging. The first speaker, Jeff Watts, talked about the risks and benefits of creating a new entry about your company and leaving it to the community to create content about the company. … Read more