Pipes vs. Dashes on Google
Matt Cutts from Google explains how they treat pipes (|) and dashes(-) and there use in meta titles. Essentially, he says it makes no difference to their engine, which you use in your meta title. For example if your title looks like this (on SEOmoz): SEO Blog | SEOmoz Blog Featuring Search Engine Marketing & […]
Google Captchas reCaptcha
Google is buying reCaptcha, to help with their book scanning initiative. reCaptcha specializes in those captcha’s you see on forms, that prevent spam bots from inundating a site with information requests. The company uses robust scanning technology to get the images from old books. Google is also in the business of scanning old books, so […]
Canonical Tag and Duplicate Content
Greg Grothaus of Google explains very well Google’s philosophy of duplicate content. They realize that a lot of duplicate content is not manipulative but simply webmasters trying to take the same content and make is useful in different formats. For example, if you have content on a page about “10 tips on package fragile glass […]
Facebook & Bing Working Together…Taking on Google Together?
We at TK (now Gravitate Online) have long mused wither Facebook would ever really try and get into the search business. Imagine, if you will, doing a search on FB for a local plumber and getting web results that integrate with your friends from FB. It could deliver results that had your friends searches and […]
Twitter Updates-2009-09-15
Google value it's own links for PR? Matt illuminates: http://bit.ly/4NwnX # girls update FB status when in danger: http://bit.ly/lTchR #
Bing Reaches Over 10% of Search Market Share
Bing continues it’s steady and healthy adoption rate. It has just improved to over 10% by itself. If you include it with Yahoo, it’s recent search partner, it has over 26% of the total market share. Google is still the strong leader with over 64%, but the competition and with Bing bringing on cool new […]
Bing Launches Visual Search
Bing is bringing in the cool features with their new Beta of Visual Search. As one who is always looking for the next best thing on the horizon, this may have some potential. Essentially, you start your search with a page that shows you the main categories, hot topics, ect. You can start with one […]
Just Plain Cool
This post has nothing to do with SEO, SEM or internet development, it’s just about something that’s pretty cool. The University of Washington is developing a contact lens with an internal LED. Allowing the viewer to have ‘enhanced’ site, not just 20/20 site. More advanced options will include all kinds of great information, like health […]
Don’t Forget the Long Tail
Much has been said about long tail searches, and the video below illustrates how important these unique, less searched phrases can be to your site traffic. It is critical that you pay some attention to them as an SEO. Sometimes as much as 75% of your overall site traffic can be attributed to the long […]
Google Announces New Micropayments
Google just announced, in a lengthy 8 page pdf (see below) plans to launch a new micropayment process that will allow content developers to put some of their premium content behind a paywall. Many believe this has the potential to save newspapers, or at least infuse the cluttered internet with higher quality, “Pay-Per-Veiw” content. I’m […]
Facebook Penetration Exemplified
Okay, it’s official, Facebook has reached critical mass. A couple young girls in Australia got caught in a drain and instead of dialing 000 (their version of 911), they posted their predicament on Facebook. It was promptly seen by a friend and they were rescued by the fire department. They were only 10 and 12 […]
Twitter Updates-2009-09-08
Considering a premium membership for SEOmoz. Feedback? Is it worth it? Let me know what you think….thanks! # FB pay per click is killing it! I'm going to start playing around with other social site ppc models, any suggestions where to start? #