A recent article in Search Engine Land’s blog got me thinking about refining Wordpress’s URL structure. When writing blog posts Wordpress creates a link structure like so (provided you uploaded .htaccess and set permalink structure correctly): http://www.yourdomain.com/2009/03/19/article-title/ What Search Engine Land’s case study reveals is that the above URL is less likely to get clicked …
Mobile search is becoming ever more popular. Businesses who are serious about their search engine rankings better take notice of what their clients/consumers are doing on their cell phones. Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search New Google Search results pages for iPhone Google Maps for mobile Introducing Google Product Search for mobile
Two days ago Google released some exciting new search add-ons and changes in their algorithm. The search add-ons are explained nicely in the below video, so you can watch the video in your own time to find out more information. Today though, I want to focus on the algorithm update as I feel it’s much …
Google is adding two improvements to their search algorithm as of 24 March 2009. The first helping understand associations and concepts relating to your search and the second is longer search result descriptions (snippets). Starting today, we’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of …
2 weeks ago Google updated their Webmaster Guidelines to omit a single line that reads: “Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.” In the Google Groups thread, Google’s John Mueller explains why Google removed that line. Let me quote John: …