Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
News and information about search engines and directories on the Web, including patent filings and white papers
Earlier this week, I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in a panel presentation on the future of SEO, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event was the first Digital Marketing for Business Conference (and it was filled with some great sessions). The presentation wasn’t a PowerPoint and pitter-patter type talk. Instead, I was … 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
This past February, Google filed for distributed storage patents that describe aspects of how it might share information from one data center to another, and some of the challenges that entail. Google’s Yonatan Zunger, who revealed on his blog that over the past few months that he was the chief architect for Google’s social systems, … Read more
When you design a web page with fixed dimensions, set for a specific display resolution, sometimes visitors will arrive at your page with a higher web page resolution level. What this means is that there can be empty space showing in their browser window when viewing your page. There are other times when someone visits … Read more