SEO & GEO
10 Aug 2011
Google realtime search currently on hold
Google Realtime Search quietly disappeared the moment Google+ arrived. With the Twitter deal expired, the story is likely over — at least for now.
Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
Google Realtime Search quietly disappeared the moment Google+ arrived. With the Twitter deal expired, the story is likely over — at least for now.
Everyone talks about Google's quality, nobody talks about Bing's — and yet Microsoft has just published a rather sensible vademecum on what makes a quality page.
Yahoo's search back-end has been switched over to Bing across twelve European countries. From an SEO standpoint, there's now one less algorithm to worry about.
Facebook's much-hyped big announcement turned out to be something Google did three years earlier with Google Talk. If the idea was distracting from Google+, it didn't quite land.
Yahoo Site Explorer is on its way out — the only free backlink console worth a look is going, and Microsoft's plans for what's left are gradually taking shape.
After more than 10 years, Google directory has gone
First it was doorway pages, then selling links, now buying them. Google's warnings in Webmaster Tools keep piling up — and the wording matters more than it seems.
Rankings are no longer enough to prove SEO is working. The whole point is free traffic — so it's analytics that tell you what's really going on.
Google extended rel=canonical to the HTTP header — so PDFs, videos and other non-HTML files can finally declare which version belongs in the index.
In SEO there is a mantra: Content is King. I think the time has come for it to change. A small Google experiment links articles to author profiles — and the author starts to matter more.