#seo (124 links)
- Ending the Great H1 Debate | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs viget.com · Archived on
According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.
When you care about performance, or SEO (or just doing a good job as web dev) an interesting data point is the ratio of page content vs. the markup used to present this content. Or... how much crap we put in HTML in order to present what the users want to see - the content.
- The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it multichannelmerchant.com · Archived on
While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
We now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL.
- The country's new robots.txt file kottke.org
[this is good]
"wpSEO stands for efficient, fully-automated and affordable SEO in WordPress, the state of the art Weblog-System. WordPress SEO made easy." Pay.
- Google Analytics Blog: Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! analytics.blogspot.com
This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
[Matt Cutts] generally uses descriptive titles for blog posts but his URLs are short, neatly written and use only relevant keywords.
"When you design your software, work under the assumption that some of your users will be evil. They'll be out to game the system, to defeat it at every turn, to cause denial of service exploits, to attack and humiliate other users, to fill your site with
The cheat sheet is from seomoz.org [...] Some of the advice directly contributes to an accessible site (which is something many have noted before), but a couple of items will impact on the experience for people using particular technologies.
- The Miseducation of SEO | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility standardzilla.com · Archived on
Another miseducated SEO rears their ugly head and slanders a well-known development technique as well as a high-profile SEO, accusing both of being spam. Better yet [...] Image Replacement has been dubbed “poor man’s cloaking”.
- Google I am hiding my text! | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility standardzilla.com · Archived on
Short answer is no. Thank goodness. "Yes, Google was right. Spam was stuffed into hidden text on my site. They were not complaining about my accessibility technique."
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Handy list.
- SEO and Accessibility » SlideShare slideshare.net
Developer-focussed, gets to the point.
- NUCONOMY | Insights you never imagined nuconomy.com
Go beyond the old Page View model and start to measure engagement. Understand your users' activities and how they interact with the various features of your site.
Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles.
a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.
- Social Media Marketing eBook: Blogger Relations, Facebook Marketing, SMO and Word of Mouth on the Web socialmediaready.com
This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook.
- Subdomains and subdirectories mattcutts.com
Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen.
- Link Value Factors | Wiep.net wiep.net
Opinions of 17 well respected, international SEO and Link Building professionals on nearly 40 factors that possibly influence the value of a link.
- The Best SEO Tools techmagazine.ws
A new domain, even for many of the world's largest brands, is not a particularly good idea.
- 20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To searchenginejournal.com
or How to be a POSH SEO!
- StumbleUpon Will Love Us Even When Google Doesn’t nowsourcing.com
Some interesting stuff on StumbleUpon.
- Readability, Uniqueness, Hackability and Meaning in URL Design - Article - andrewingram andrewingram.net · Archived on
URL design is arguably one of the most important areas of website developement. Not only do URLs generally have huge visual priority in web browsers but they’re also shown on search result listings and get used for matching search terms.
- 5 Things That Will Improve Your Web Site Traffic (Plus 1 to Avoid) « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Some reasonably useful basics.
- IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders iplists.com
"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.
- Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com socialmarker.com
"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.
- nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure nextthing.org
Great article following up on a robots.txt survey. The linked HTTP headers survey is amusing, too.
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.
- Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility googleblog.blogspot.com
- WordPress Web 2.0 Guide | Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er howtospoter.com
This article will [...] walk you through the Guidelines and point out things that typically go wrong.
- Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It? | Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Over the last weeks we’ve done an extensive research and selected dozens of facts and suggestions about PageRank, which seem to be true in practice.
Good intro to SEO for client-types.
SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place.
- Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips dailyblogtips.com
- You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' mem