Thursday, August 28th, 2008
You heard me, make Google your bitch!. Come join the fun at Barcamp Nashville, October 18, 2008 from 9AM to 4PM.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Oh sweet “nofollow!” I use you on my blog to keep my link juice from spilling out onto the shady, dark world of the Internet underbellies. I even use you to sculpt my sites, hoping to wrangle PageRank and content into my own little silo of SERP love. Yet you ...
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
At least that’s true if you’re unlucky with Google. As a follow up to Search Diving on “Live” for Fun, Amusement and Mild Pleasure, we present to you Google Last, the most unlucky search on the Earth. It’s certainly unlucky to be at the bottom of the top 100 results, ...
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Search Engine Journal recently demystified the Google algorithm. It’s really a matter of perspective. Google Engineer’s Perspective Search Marketer’s Perspective Of course this isn’t totally true, and money doesn’t need to be involved, but it’s still damn funny.
Monday, March 31st, 2008
By now, most people are familiar with Google Maps Street View feature. Street View shows you a 360 degree view of any address you enter. Google accomplishes this amazing task by using an army of specially outfitted vehicles that drive around and take pictures of every street in the city. ...
Friday, March 28th, 2008
So today I went to provide someone with a Google Map link to our house. When I pulled the address up on my browser I noticed a small picture of my house! Wow. So I clicked it and there it was … a view of my street. As I zoomed-out ...
Monday, January 28th, 2008
I’ve always found Google’s Blog Search to be less then stellar. It’s excellent at indexing, sorting and presenting current blog entries. What it’s not excellent at is returning quality results. However, today it hit an all time low. I was doing some research for a client — searching for “chicago ...
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Sramana Mitra recently wrote about Google’s Achilles Heel. In her article, she suggested that vertical search engines are Google’s worst vulnerability. Google has so far stayed focused on horizontal, generic search with a simple, one-bar user interface. And it has brought them a remarkably long way. However, as users get ...
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Like most code based SEO enhancements, optimizing an image with text involves utilizing existing accessibility options already built into HTML. For example, adding the text in an image to the ALT attribute into the IMG element will help users with certain disabilities (or users with a text browser, like Lynx) ...
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Update: Nathan Buggia, Lead Program Manager at Live Search, contacted me to let me know they’ve fixed the problem. Here’s what happened, in their own words. Live Search is offering a new way for AdWords customers to get click-throughs — their own natural SERPs. They appear to be indexing AdWords ...