#seo (111 links)
Another miseducated SEO rears their ugly head and slanders a well-known development technique as well as a high-profile SEO, accusing both of being spam. Better yet [...] Image Replacement has been dubbed “poor man’s cloaking”.
- Access Matters » Blog Archive » “Off left” banned by Google? access-matters.com
Short answer is no. Thank goodness. "Yes, Google was right. Spam was stuffed into hidden text on my site. They were not complaining about my accessibility technique."
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Handy list.
- SEO and Accessibility » SlideShare slideshare.net
Developer-focussed, gets to the point.
- NUCONOMY | Insights you never imagined nuconomy.com
Go beyond the old Page View model and start to measure engagement. Understand your users' activities and how they interact with the various features of your site.
Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles.
a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.
- Social Media Marketing eBook: Blogger Relations, Facebook Marketing, SMO and Word of Mouth on the Web socialmediaready.com
This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook.
- Subdomains and subdirectories mattcutts.com
Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen.
- Link Value Factors | Wiep.net wiep.net
Opinions of 17 well respected, international SEO and Link Building professionals on nearly 40 factors that possibly influence the value of a link.
- The Best SEO Tools techmagazine.ws
A new domain, even for many of the world's largest brands, is not a particularly good idea.
- 20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To searchenginejournal.com
or How to be a POSH SEO!
- StumbleUpon Will Love Us Even When Google Doesn’t nowsourcing.com
Some interesting stuff on StumbleUpon.
- Readability, Uniqueness, Hackability and Meaning in URL Design - Article - andrewingram andrewingram.net
URL design is arguably one of the most important areas of website developement. Not only do URLs generally have huge visual priority in web browsers but they’re also shown on search result listings and get used for matching search terms.
- 5 Things That Will Improve Your Web Site Traffic (Plus 1 to Avoid) « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Some reasonably useful basics.
- IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders iplists.com
"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.
- Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com socialmarker.com
"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.
- nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure nextthing.org
Great article following up on a robots.txt survey. The linked HTTP headers survey is amusing, too.
- 99 Ways to Promote Your Blog for Free << Vandelay Website Design vandelaydesign.com
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.
- Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility googleblog.blogspot.com
- WordPress Web 2.0 Guide | Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er howtospoter.com
This article will [...] walk you through the Guidelines and point out things that typically go wrong.
- Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It? | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Over the last weeks we’ve done an extensive research and selected dozens of facts and suggestions about PageRank, which seem to be true in practice.
Good intro to SEO for client-types.
SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place.
- Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips dailyblogtips.com
- You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' mem
- Unprecedented: Preparing PDF Documents for search precedent.typepad.com
Treating your PDF documents in this way will make it easy for people to find the most relevant documents on your site from both your internal search engine and external search engines
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: What's new with Sitemaps.org? googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Every website can have a robots.txt file in a standard location, so we decided to let you tell us about your Sitemap in the robots.txt file. All you have to do is add a line.
- Compete - SnapShot snapshot.compete.com
Check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more
There are a number of methods available for getting information about a Macromedia Flash movie picked up by popular search engines such as Google.
While Ask & Google use the title and meta description directly from Netflix, Yahoo! and MSN are pulling data from the Yahoo! directory and DMOZ (respectively).
Some of the worst problems plaguing companies who attempt to enter the world of blogging.
The same emotional forces that prompt us to buy can also cause us to link, bookmark, and Digg. The context is different, as are the nuances, but it’s still a matter of providing compelling benefits in the form of content.
- Google Webmaster Tools - Site Status google.com
Use this step-by-step process to learn more about your site's status in the Google index.
- 101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer conversion-rate-experts.com
Info on Google's new Website Optimizer tool.
- SEOmoz | Page Strength SEO Tool seomoz.org
Designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page's relative importance and visibility.