Stephan Spencer, from CNET’s News Blog, posted an informative entry about changes that are taking place with Google’s search engine. Of particular interest was the news from Matt Cutts regarding underscores in URLs. Traditionally, underscores were treated differently from hyphens. Hyphens have long been the preferred method for dividing keywords up in a link. Whereas, […]
There’s a lot of buzz going on about Google’s 950 Penalty. The problem webmasters are having has been called the 950 penalty, because pages that have traditionally performed well in the SERPs are being shifted from the top-ten position to the nine-hundredth position. The key thing with this so called penalty is that it’s only […]
Roger Johansson posted an interesting entry on his site entitled, “Elements and Attributes in HTML 5.” In his entry he lists some new elements that are being considered for inclusion in HTML 5 (the next major version of HTML). article A section of a page that consists of a composition that forms an independent part […]
For a long time, many search engine optimizers (SEOs) believed that links from government and education websites would help commercial sites perform better in search engine results pages (SERPs). However, that started to become a myth as many SEOs began to debunk it on their blogs and popular forums like WebmasterWorld.com and Search Engine Watch. […]
A recent PC World article, “Google’s Binary Search Helps Identify Malware“, shed light on a little known feature of Google’s search engine the ability to search binary files. Google is enabling security vendors like Forcepoint to detect websites that deliver malware to Internet users. In particular, they’re looking for websites that are hosting malware in […]
Back in my early programming days, before I switched over to web development, I spent most of my time writing software for Windows. I look back on that time with fond memories. 8-bit icons, OLE2, and no silly Start menus. With the recent Web 2.0 boom, many web developers have returned to their roots and […]
You don’t need to be the rocket scientist of the internet to get your site to stand out in search engines. The Register reported on new research that suggested: “49% of small businesses fail to submit their company’s website to search engines.” Furthermore, only “2/3 of Internet users told researchers that they only look at […]
If you go to just about any search engine marketing (SEM) specialist, you’ll find out that their main service usually involves pay per click (PPC) advertising. There has been an idea promoted by SEM service providers that SEM is PPC. PPC is only one facet of SEM, and can be one of the more expensive strategies. […]
