Friday, December 4th, 2009
Google Releases Site Performance Tool As mentioned by Matt Cutts at PubCon Las Vegas, Google may be introducing page loading time as a ranking factor. Right now, it’s not clear just how much significance will be placed on page speed, but the release of the Google Page Speed tool and ...
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
While Bing debuted several new features with their updated and rebranded search engine, Google continues to one-up them with new features of their own. Google’s new features are changing the search engine optimization landscape once again, and are also providing new opportunities for Internet marketers that practice SEO. The new ...
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
If you haven’t tried Google’s Fast Flip, yet, it’s worth a click. Earlier this month, the company released a “labs” version of its latest product. The web and mobile pages of Fast Flip are designed to allow users to quickly access content from 39 prominent news sources, such as BBC ...
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
One of the nicest features of Google Chrome is the single input field for entering URLs or search queries. One of the nicest features of Firefox is that you can search on different sites (search engines or apps) in their search engine input field. I’ve always wanted that feature on ...
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
I’m in the market to buy a new car, so on a whim, I thought I’d try a little experiment. See, here’s the thing, if I’m going to spend $20k or more on one item, why should I be the one who does all of the work? Shouldn’t these dealers ...
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Over at SEO Black Hat, QuadsZilla demonstrates correlation between traffic, specifically Google traffic, and bounce rate, claiming that bounce rate is being used to determine quality and factoring into rankings. Except his or her graphs show direct, rather than inverse, relationships between traffic and bounce rate. In other words, in ...
Friday, November 21st, 2008
If you’re signed in to Google this morning and have performed a search, you’ve no doubt noticed that they’ve introduced interaction elements that allow you to move results up or down or suppress them from your display. Google is calling this feature SearchWiki. According to the Google Help Center article ...
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Stop words are words that search engines, like Google, traditionally ignore in searches. For that reason, they’ve been shunned by SEO specialists in regards to how they name domain names, page titles and other keyword-centric onsite SEO elements. However, that strategy has been changing lately, because search algorithms are starting ...
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
This morning when I was doing my daily check-up on client SERPs, I noticed something interesting. Above the number of returned results, Google informed me that my results were customized for the Nashville Metro area. My search wasn’t based on locale and was a pretty standard search term. So I ...
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
It’s been a few weeks since the release of Google’s Chrome, and many people have now had the opportunity to try it and comment on its potential impact on the browser landscape. Much of the discussion has centered around how Chrome performs, what features it lacks, and how the interface ...