Categories: Search Engine News
NowPublic.com reports that Google is being spammed with searches for “white people stole my car”.
The idea, as far as we can tell, is to inflate the Google Trends data to make “white people stole my car” seem like a suddenly popular term. Thus, luring people who use Google trends to the spyware-o-rific websites that rank for that term.
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Categories: Web Development
Yes folks, it’s official, Microsoft has stopped error checking its own site using IE6:
So is this the final nail in the coffin of Internet Explorer 6?
Unfortunately, no, not really. Continue Reading Post - MSN.com Broken in IE6
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Categories: Organic SEO
The webmaster central blog has a post about using a link tag to specify the best URL to use for a page.
Wow, this could be a useful shortcut for websites with thousands of duplicate pages and no easy way to clean them up.
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Categories: Organic SEO
We had our first annual Halloween bash today! What a blast! Every one got dressed up which was really fun, there was great food and Garry (the CEO) even handed out prizes for best costumes. Check out the whole gang and our first ever video blog entry:
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Categories: Organic SEO
Just like any other business, here at SEO inc, we’re always looking to expand. Earlier in the month, we put up an ad for an opening we have. But something strange has been brewing over the last few weeks. As we get closer to Halloween, we get more and more…unusual applicants. But we’re an equal opportunity employer. Whether the applicant is human, zombie or undead, we give all applicants equal consideration. Continue Reading Post - SEO Monster Bash
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Categories: Optimization Management, Organic SEO
There are many, many ways of improving a websites search engine rankings. When approaching a subject like SEO, that is fairly complicated somewhat and confusing, it is best to start out with what not to do & work from there. Continue Reading Post - Bizarro SEO: The 5 best ways to get banned
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Categories: Organic SEO
Though this may read like a short version of the seven deadly sins, it is actually a list of the five hardest industries to get a website ranked well in.
You may notice that your junk email folder is currently full of emails from companies in these industries, hounding you to use the money you win from their poker website to buy penis enlargement pills to take while you look at their porn. That’s because these industries are so large, and these kinds of companies are such cut throats that they have no reservations about sending out ridiculous amounts of spam emails and doing whatever it takes to be on top of the search engine results. Continue Reading Post - The Five Hardest Industries to Get Ranked in
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Categories: SEO and Accessibility
In 2006 the National Federation of the Blind filed a class action lawsuit against target on behalf of blind internet users who were unable to buy products on target.com.
The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, requires that visually impaired users who depend on screen-reading software to use Target.com “may acquire the same information and engage in the same transactions as are available to sighted guests with substantially equivalent ease of use.” Continue Reading Post - Target Settles Landmark Web Accessibility Lawsuit
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Categories: Organic SEO
There are many a blog post out there detailing the advantages and features of robots.txt files, but does your site even need one?
Robots.txt is used to block search engine spiders from crawling certain pages or directories. On most sites private information is already blocked because it is delivered using SSL, so there is no point to having a robots.txt file. Continue Reading Post - To Robots.txt or not to Robots.txt (that is the question)
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Categories: Organic SEO
Some folks would have us rebuild the entire internet in the light of this revelation. I mean it’s like some designers fantasy to have the rich user experience of a Flash without the painfully obvious downside of being about as good as not having anything on the page according to Googlebot.
I’m not that excited though, because I know that entirely flash based websites simply can not be as competitive in the search engines as their HTML based counterparts, and here’s why: Continue Reading Post - SEO Friendly Flash (In the Pan)
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