Archive for the 'SEO' Category
Behind The Scenes At Google
Monday, October 24th, 2005
Although it is primarily written with Google Print in mind, SearchEngineWorld has a good article which delves into how Google indexes and caches sites (or books).
As far as I can understand, the index is a database of words made up of the content of pages with useful information (such as whether that word was in […]
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Search Engine Ranking Factors
Friday, September 30th, 2005
There’s a brilliant article at SEOMoz talking about Search Engine Ranking Factors. Well worth a weekend read, it goes into a lot of the details and covers many areas, including many that are new to me.
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SEO Tools Round-Up
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Over at ISEDB.com, there’s a huge round up of SEO tools, including linking, keyword and search engine position tools.
Plenty of stuff to start playing around with.
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URL Length
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
A post at SEO Roundtable seems to dispell the myth that long URLs will prevent you from ranking well in the search engines.
As far as I had previously understood, URLs where the page appears to be buried deep in the site were bad (more than a couple of directories deep, for example). In fact, […]
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Google Search For Multimap Gives Dodgy Results
Thursday, August 18th, 2005
I’ve just come across something that highlights the ways in which certain search results can be manipulated / hijacked in Google (and probably other search engines).
When doing a search for “multimap” on Google (with UK & Ireland results selected), the very first listing that appears is for the domain name “multimpa.co.uk” (notice the mispelling), and […]
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