Search Engines
How to Get Some Link Love!
While most bloggers like myself want to block hateful blog comment spam, we want to actively encourage thoughtful comments and conversations at our blogs.
That’s why I’m going to try something new at this blog. Earlier this month, I installed an add-in product called Lucia’s Link Love. Here’s what the add-in does:
After I accept 3 thoughtful, […]
Michigan Women Bloggers, Part II
So, yesterday, I blogged about the importance of identifying myself as a Michigan Woman Blogger — and why it’s important for other women to do so, too.
To summarize: Google currently gets over 50% of all search traffic. Google’s formula attempts to give top rankings to pages that provide the best information for the search term. […]
Everything you want to know about Canonicalization…
Canonicalization is important. If you haven’t set a canonical at your site, do it now.
If you don’t know what canonicalization is and you have a website, keep reading.
In short a canonical is a URL naming convention. Are you www.something.com — or are you just something.com — without the www in front? It makes a big […]
Google Image Search Trumps Regular Search
It happened yesterday: Google Image Search surpassed Google Search for a design site I help publicize. Here’s a stats screenshot from yesterday:
Regular readers will recall that I advocated optimizing sites for Image Search a few months ago. It’s not tough, and the payback can be huge.
Search Gets More Personal with Subscribed Links
If you have a business blog or website, you will want to think about the implications of this little button from Google:
What’s up with the above button? Well, you can touch it and find out!
(Go ahead and try it. First, touch the button. Next, go to Google and search for “PowerPoint […]
Google Blogsearch Updates Super Fast…
So yesterday, I posted a piece called “Take the Twitter Challenge“.
In an hour, I went to Google Blog Search and typed in “Twitter Challenge” - no quotes. As you’ll see in the screen shot below, the piece I posted came up to position four — in under an hour. That’s fast!
Today, I’m at number three […]
Google Blogsearch Updates Super Fast…
So yesterday, I posted a piece called “Take the Twitter Challenge“.
In an hour, I went to Google Blog Search and typed in “Twitter Challenge” - no quotes. As you’ll see in the screen shot below, the piece I posted came up to position four — in under an hour. That’s fast!
Today, I’m at number three […]
Avoid the F Word on Business Websites!
I was shocked to hear the “F” word three times this month during business meetings.
Yep, that’s right: three businesses were actually considering using Flash to develop their websites.
Regular readers know that a Flash-driven website can be a HUGE problem for oh, so many reasons. Do a search for “Flash” at this very blog, and you’ll […]
Flogging for Search: Beware of this Dangerous Approach!
If you get a phone call from a “web traffic expert” who suggests you can ”get more traffic” through blogging because it “helps with search engine traffic” — be careful.
These guys and gals are floggers. Flogging is a mashup term that means “fake blogging”. Floggers propose, for a hefty fee, to:
Set up your blog
Write x-number of keyword-rich posts a month […]
Don’t overbid on Adwords
Use www.spyfu.com to find out what your competition might be for your Google Adword keyword phrases. Spyfu uses scraped data, so it is often dated and incomplete — but it gives you a good idea of what a going rate might be. And before you make a bid, check out your Adwords competition. Only 8-11 […]
