SearchMetrics just released an infographic on search ranking factors, and it’s a bunch of bunk. I won’t dignify them by linking to their site, but here’s an Imgur link if you want to lose some brain cells. Where to begin with this mess? First of all, the title of the infographic is misleading. “Ranking Factors” …
Why Google Reader Shutting Down Is A Good Thing For RSS
In a little over a week, Google Reader will be shutting its doors for good, leaving me and thousands of others scrambling to find a replacement RSS reader. Like many others, I was pretty annoyed when I first heard the news that Google Reader would be shutting down, but as this article from Google Operating …
Image Title Test for SEO
You may have noticed a couple days ago I published a blog post called “Image Post Test” that included nothing but a picture of a dog. That was part of a test I was conducting to determine whether the title attribute of an image has any impact on SEO. It’s always struck me as odd …
What Yahoo’s Purchase of Tumblr Means for SEO
The big news today is that the rumors have finally come true, and Yahoo has purchased Tumblr for 1 billion dollars. As I detailed in my presentation about Tumblr, Tumblr is the 3rd largest blog platform next to WordPress and Blogger, and also one of the top social platforms and microblogging platforms out there. They …
Google Site: Search Hack
If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, then you’re probably very familiar with the “site:” search on Google. If you’re not familiar with the command, if you go to Google (or Bing) and search for “site:domainname.com” it will show you the pages from the site that are indexed. It’s a useful command for getting …
My First Website
#Throwbackthursday! This is the very first website I created, sometime back in 1998. It was a website about a popular Mac RPG called Realmz, and it was my first foray in HTML and web design. It was originally hosted on Geocities (Area51/Hollow/3695) and moved around over the years until it’s final resting place on Tripod, …
Problems With Bing Site Verification
So the other day, I was trying to access some data in Bing Webmaster Tools for one of the sites that I manage, and I noticed that all of the sites had become unverified. I tried to re-verify the sites, but it kept timing out with the following message: “Timed Out If you were adding …
New Current/Past Contributor Feature In Google+
I just noticed that there is now a designator for “current contributor” or “past contributor” in the “Contributor To” section of Google+. Presumably this is for people who might have been contributors to a publication or a blog, but have since moved onto another company. My first thought was that this is related to Google …
Google Glass Explorer
So, apparently I’ve been accepted into the Project Glass Explorer program and I didn’t even notice it! I just noticed today that someone had left a comment on my post, but apparently I was accepted back on March 27th. Now the only question is: Where am I supposed to get $1500 for these glasses?!
Google Crawl Stats Exporter
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but it looks as though Google is now providing exact numbers in their Crawl Stats report in Google Webmaster Tools: I’m not sure how accurate these numbers are, but since they don’t appear to be rounded, I’m going to assume that they’re fairly accurate. So far Google has …