Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Search Engine Optimization tips and strategies and information, from SEO by the Sea, to help make your website easier to find, and rank in search results.
Search Engine Optimization is marketing within the framework of the Web. Having an understanding of how Search Engines might crawl and index pages on the web, and rank content from those pages can help a site rank better in Search Results.
Many of the posts in this category focus upon search engine optimization, and different processes that search engines might use to improve the quality of search results for organic search and other types of search verticals.
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
How do Google Definitions appear at the top of search results? Over at Threadwatch, Graywolf started a thread titled Are you Optimizing for Google Definitions? There are some insightful comments in the thread, and I recalled a Google patent application covering the topic. I looked around the web to see if there had been any … Read more
I hate doing the very same task over and over and over again. I’d bet search engines do, too. Increasing the efficiency of search The chances are that your choice of a search engine, whether it’s Google, or Yahoo!, or MSN, or another, uses some methods to try to make what they do a little … Read more
Keyword Research One online marketing approach is to try to find words and phrases to use on your pages that you believe your customers will likely use to find your site while using a search engine and that you expect they will want to see on those pages and incorporate those words into your pages. … Read more
Keepgoing.org has a great history of one of the first great websites – the online Mad Magazine of its time. In The Big Fish, they take a look at Suck.com, ten years after its launch. I came to the party late and didn’t learn about suck.com until it had closed its doors and stopped publishing. … Read more