Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

Google News ranking factors, 2003 patent revealed

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Via WebProNews by Chris Crum A patent application by Google "Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles" was Granted on August 18, 2009. The patent was originally filed about 6 years ago on "September 16, 2003". Interesting analysis in human readable language at Seo By The Sea by ...

Goodbye Alexa : Google Trends for websites is here!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Earlier, every now and then I would go to Alexa to see my ranking to massage my ego. Now, Google has come up with a reality check - Google Trends for websites. Google announced a new layer to Google Trends in an official blogpost. Matt Cutts and Barry Schwartz also blogged ...

Me won Google schwag!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

On last week's Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz, Barry Schwartz of seroundtable.com said he would is expecting schwag from a few companies, and he ran a video contest. The contest was to predict which companies schwag would arrive first. The correct entries would get the schwag as a prize. ...

Secrets of Google News…What I learnt the hard way!

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Just now I noticed an interesting post from seroundtable on my feed-reader and it immediately caught my attention. Nice to hear things directly from the horses mouth, most of them are what I assumed. searchengineland also posted some comments on this issue. Having an image next to your article improves your ...

thaindian.com now has sitelinks on google SERPs

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

w00t! Just noticed today. Thaindian.com now has sitelinks on Google Search Result Pages. I found it while mucking around inside the Google Webmaster tools. In the web master tools, I can "block" pages from the sitelinks if i wished to do so. Click to Enlarge Click to enlarge Now i wish I would have ...

SEO and news.google.com - Run your own news website

Friday, March 7th, 2008

As a relatively new news publisher accepted into the Google News Search, I am exploring/testing various ways to rank better in the Google News Search. When I first started, I faced many problems like the MTU issue, but since there was(and still is) a lack of online resources and blogs ...

Google Webmaster tools now on iGoogle homepage!

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Just noticed a new feature on Google webmaster tools. Now we can get important information directly on iGoogle homepage. Adding this gadget is very easy. Simply log in to webmaster tools and under tools there is a new option called Gadgets. Thank you Google and keep coming up with cool ...

SEOs Dance with Google - Tuesday 26th Feburary 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Yesterday was Google Dance day and the SEOs are perhaps still dancing today (Tuesday in US). Some say that page rank is useless, but i tend to believe it has some relevance. At least it is an indicative of the link authority of the site. First noticed it yesterday evening(early a.m. ...

Drupal vs Joomla - The SEO viewpoint - Part 2 (Meta Tags)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

This is the Second part of my side by side comparison of Drupal and Joomla from an SEO viewpoint. In the first part i wrote about Search Engine Friendly URLs, this part will talk about meta tags. Meta tags are an important part of the web page. They are used to ...

Drupal vs Joomla - The SEO viewpoint - Part 1 URLs

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Last month I started using Drupal and explained how Drupal is better in terms of organizing content when compared to Joomla. Today I am going to explain some SEO benifits of using Drupal over Joomla. This is the first part of a series and I will blog about Search Engine Friendly ...