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 ...