Filed under: SEO Factors
Over the last couple of days we learned of some new Google changes. It has been years since Google has rolled out some new search engine changes. Some of them are exciting and some, well blah.
1. Page Load time will affect your ranking - So, this is pretty interesting all along it didn’t seem to matter a whole lot. Your page load times, if they were really slow were annoying to your visitors, but wasn’t as impacting on the search engines. Now all that changes. I have a few areas that this is a serious concern, guess what I will be working on in Q1? (more…)
December 8, 2009
I have told so many people I work with in many parts of the company time and time again – “Always use a 301 redirect when moving any page or site from one area to a new area” or “Why is there a meta refresh here? Please replace this with a 301″ ’till I’m blue in the face it seems
Continue November 7, 2009
Not sure who out there is not aware of this, but yes my friends it’s been true for a long while now. I guess it’s a slow day in SEO, for Google to have to make a special point about their not including the Keywords Meta within their algo.
So, for those of you who have been under a rock for these last 6 years or so, Google ignores your keywords meta tag! There you have it news you can and should use!
**I have to confirm this for sure, but I was under the impression this is NOT the case for international search engines. From what I understood from Vanessa Fox and others in Seattle this passed June, the Keywords Meta is seen and sometimes recognized within other search engines from around the globe. I think it just isn’t that bad a practice to include a few 2-4 relevant keywords in that country specific language within your Keywords Meta. Certainly couldn’t hurt! If anyone can debunk this – please let me know!
September 23, 2009
I have heard from many and most recently Stephan Spencer at the most recent SMX Advanced in Seattle talk of “pagination” What the hell is it anyway? Sounds pretty intelligent, just say the word, seriously …”Hey Frank, you have some serious pagination issues on that site” – you sound like a bloody genius!
Ok, I digress… Pagination can easily be described as a process for organizing content on web pages, i.e. the ugly (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8…) From an SEO perspective, this is hideous and I don’t really think I need to explain why, do I? OK, then, no keywords? No way of showing a list, i.e. alphabetically, or chonologically, and in some cases providing a linear perspective isn’t very necessary – no matter the subject there should be a more organized way to approach this. How about having one main index page that could contain the groups of info in an easy to sort, logical way? This way each of your pages stands a better chance at getting viewed by visitors as well as reducing duplication.
From a user experience perspective, it can be downright confusing especially if you have a few hundred pages to go from 1-159 could be really monotonous.
I found a good, plain speaking site that helps describe this a bit further – from David Hamill’s blog and from reading blue acorn’s technical details – still think eliminating pagination all together and just stick to showing articles, or products, etc listed within neat categories – improve your indexation and avoid duplication!
Cheers!
August 27, 2009
Optimization for Bing appears to come down to some well known SEO tactics and one possibly not so well known one, external linking.
• Domain age – the older the better!
• Tons of original content – think of your visitors!
• Title tags should be keyword rich – This should go without saying.
• Linking out favored over reciprocal – interesting and one I do agree with, shows my relevant content linking out to other relevant content.
• Lastly, be sure not to exclude Bing from your PPC activities.
Not sure what your site’s stats are, but for those sites I am responsible for, we now have an much greater increase in Bing traffic over Yahoo, by approximately 20% – so I am certainly more mindful of who and what Bing is now more than any other MSN search engine.
August 18, 2009
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