#seo (124 links)
- Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content vincentschmalbach.com
From my experience, Google now seems to operate on a "default to not index" basis. It only includes content in its index when it perceives a genuine need.
Via Popular.
- Gameplanning the SGE Apocalypse hitsubscribe.substack.com
Let's assume that SGE is a wild success and that Google gambles its entire ad revenue business on replacing search results with direct question answering. This means that your search engine traffic drops to zero tomorrow. What do you do?
- data-nosnippet stefanjudis.com
How to exclude elements from being shown in Google Search results
Via monospaced.
- NoML Open Letter noml.info
A specification for those who want content searchable on search engines, but not used for machine learning.
Via monospaced.
Over the last 9 months we’ve deleted close to 80% of the marketing footprint off ibm.com. Tens of thousands of pages. The result is that traffic, conversion and all our experience and NPS metrics are up. It was a gross project but I’ll tell you about it.
Just build a normal website.
Via benterrett.
- Gut Check Time: The "Are You Sure You Want Organic Traffic" Checklist hitsubscribe.substack.com
- A glitch in the SEO matrix izzy.co
- The Complete JavaScript SEO Guide | Impression impression.co.uk
- The Google SEO Bible: Everything a Startup Needs to Know salon.thefamily.co
Maxime Blondel Follow Oct 4, 2018 · 14 min read This outfit was made with ❤ by KYMONO 🙈 I’m Maxime, I’m 23 years old and I started studying Search Engine…
- Google Structured Data Codelab codelabs.developers.google.com
Add structured data to your web pages.
- The hreflang Tags Generator by @Aleyda aleydasolis.com
Generate the hreflang tags for your multi-language or multi-country site easily and fast! This tool wil help you to generate the hreflang tags patterns to use…
- Industries Dive into Schema.Org Extensions and Semantic Web Technologies - DATAVERSITY dataversity.net · Archived on
The schema.org Global Semantic Vocabulary expands its reach through means including hosted/reviewed and external extensions. The former is managed and published…
- 2016 was a coming-of-age year for Baidu SEO; why you should invest in 2017 searchengineland.com
Recently, I attended Baidu’s annual search conference for agency partners in Beijing. One of the premier search events in China for SEO professionals, the…
Google makes significant changes to its (structured data) developer guides Google has just updated its documentation related to structured data, as detailed…
Google launches rich card-generating, structured data-powered job postings in the search results As anticipated ( http://bit.ly/2sPkC51 ), and as semi-announced…
Translating the World’s Content to be Understood by Search Engines Automate. Scale. Leverage. Learn More Free 14 Day Trial Deploy Schema Markup To any Platform…
- The State of Schema Markup: Summary of Survey Results schemaapp.com
Have you ever wondered who in the world is doing schema markup and what are the challenges they face day to day? We were curious, and so this past February and…
Visibility trends for Monster.com on Google US (top) and Monster.co.uk on Google UK (bottom) About two months ago, Monster changed quite a bit of their internal…
- Ask HN: How to promote non-english websites/content? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Lack of clarity about SEO rules in this regard. Eg: Will Spanish content rank higher than english one if I search in spanish? Or will google do a combined…
Today we're excited to make freely available the new Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0 . Ever since the indelible Danny Dover created the original version in…
- A technical guide to SEO ma.ttias.be
If you're the owner or maintainer of a website, you know SEO matters. A lot. This guide is meant to be an accurate list of all technical aspects of search…
- stevenvachon/broken-link-checker github.com
Find broken links, missing images, etc within your HTML.
- The Truth About Multiple H1 Tags in the HTML5 Era - Tuts+ Web Design Article webdesign.tutsplus.com
- WooRank woorank.com
- Underscores vs. dashes in URLs - YouTube youtube.com
Freshest info (August 2011) from Matt Cutts.
- Google Finally Takes A Clear Stance On Mobile SEO PracticesSearch Engine Land searchengineland.com
In short, Google recommends you go with a responsive design when possible, otherwise you can use device-specific HTML but Google asks you to take certain steps to communicate when you are using device-specific HTML.
- SEO for Web Developers: Page Construction - Nefarious Designs nefariousdesigns.co.uk
Honking great lists of things to remember.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Working with multi-regional websites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Via alastc.
- SEO: The Free Beginner’s Guide From SEOmoz guides.seomoz.org
I mostly hate myself for saving this.
Answer: no. Clever hack with security implications. "In effect, this is taking the old phishing trick of homoglyph attacks—an attack consisting of using confusing look-a-like URLs like paypa1.com with the numeral one replacing the letter ell—and adding a dash of cross-site scripting but where you become the agent of infection: the supposed “censorship” may be shocking enough to cause you to forward the link."
Via alastc.
- How to Use Link TITLE Attribute Correctly | Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com
Useful one to point clients at. "A couple of years ago, Googlers confirmed they did not use TITLE attribute in the algorithm because it was used too seldom. This has changes since then but I still failed to spot any evidence that link TITLE attribute somehow influenced the rankings."
Via alastc.
- Open Site Explorer Link Analysis opensiteexplorer.org
SEOMoz's new link popularity checker and backlink analysis tool.
- Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool google.com
Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results.
- Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz seomoz.org
Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search ranking factors along with specific questions about hot issues in the SEO field. This document [helps] provide transparency into what matters (and doesn’t) for best practices in search engine optimization.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Optimize your crawling & indexing googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Some handy tips, not all 100% obvious. Like the phrase "infinite crawl space".
Via ihart.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich Snippets googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Google has started looking for microformats and RDFa. Finally, something concrete to put in front of clients when arguing for microformats.
- Using social media for SEO | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing ducttapemarketing.com
The shift is from one of web page optimization and link hounding to content and engagement optimization. In short, search engine optimization and social media are now undeniably intertwined.
Via stevenparker.
- Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Weird analogy but some useful points.