International SEO and Accents
September 30, 2009 - 10:28 pm by toddjensen
As high speed internet continues to penetrate other countries, many U.S. companies are now focusing their efforts on this world wide market. Google’s India site is now the twelfth most popular site in the world, and Baidu.com, a search engine in China, is even better at number nine. Companies can see huge sale increases from [...]
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Meta Tags and Google
September 29, 2009 - 6:43 am by toddjensen
Google dispels the myth that they use the Keywords meta tag. They use the description tag for snippets in search engines results pages, but that’s about it. Great summary by Mr. Cutts.
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SEO Ranking Factors Revisited
September 25, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
Several clients, recently, have specifically asked about the many factors that go into helping a website show up higher is search engines. Particularly, on-page factors. The best resource I’ve found in a long time is SEOmoz’s Search Engine Ranking Factors resource. One of the reasons this resource is so helpful, is that it’s from a [...]
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Google 24 Hour Hotline?
September 24, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
Google’s Matt Cutts explains what Google is doing to try and communicate with webmasters. No, they are not about to offer a customer support hotline, but they are trying to do a little more. It’s not much, really, but at least they know we want more information and contact- especially if we’ve inadvertently done something [...]
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Google Also Getting Visual
September 21, 2009 - 12:00 pm by toddjensen
A few days ago we posted about Bing going visual with their visual search, well Google is getting into the game as well. CNN posts a nice video that gives you a sample. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a><br /><br /> I like the direction this leads. The more visual search becomes, even more [...]
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Pipes vs. Dashes on Google
September 18, 2009 - 10:47 am by toddjensen
Matt Cutts from Google explains how they treat pipes (|) and dashes(-) and there use in meta titles. Essentially, he says it makes no difference to their engine, which you use in your meta title. For example if your title looks like this (on SEOmoz): SEO Blog | SEOmoz Blog Featuring Search Engine Marketing & [...]
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Canonical Tag and Duplicate Content
September 16, 2009 - 8:08 am by toddjensen
Greg Grothaus of Google explains very well Google’s philosophy of duplicate content. They realize that a lot of duplicate content is not manipulative but simply webmasters trying to take the same content and make is useful in different formats. For example, if you have content on a page about “10 tips on package fragile glass [...]
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Facebook & Bing Working Together…Taking on Google Together?
September 15, 2009 - 1:20 pm by toddjensen
We at TK have long mused wither Facebook would ever really try and get into the search business. Imagine, if you will, doing a search on FB for a local plumber and getting web results that integrate with your friends from FB. It could deliver results that had your friends searches and input as a [...]
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Bing Reaches Over 10% of Search Market Share
September 14, 2009 - 9:20 pm by toddjensen
Bing continues it’s steady and healthy adoption rate. It has just improved to over 10% by itself. If you include it with Yahoo, it’s recent search partner, it has over 26% of the total market share. Google is still the strong leader with over 64%, but the competition and with Bing bringing on cool new [...]
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Another Reason to Avoid Microsites
September 11, 2009 - 1:24 pm by toddjensen
I know, lately our blog is starting to look like the SEOmoz love festival. But, I do love those guys and festivals are fun…but I digress… Microsites don’t pass the link juice onto your main site like you may think. Instead, integrate your blog or microsite into your main site, and get all the links, [...]
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