Archive for June, 2010

Giving Customers What They Want: A Search Behavior Analysis

2010/06/25

Improving website performance is hard work, and SEO alone will not get the job done. The following analysis of human search behavior is the first step in developing a world-class website strategy

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5 Tips For Giving Your Readers Their Best RSS UX

2010/06/25

If you blog, you neglect the RSS reader experience at your own peril. Even while Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms are becoming mainstays for news and content consumption ( often at the expense of RSS ), the reality is that RSS is still a vital part of blog optimization

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Another Google MayDay Tweak, June 23/24th?

2010/06/25

A new WebmasterWorld thread that has continued Google obsessive watching, is showing signs that Google did another tweak to their latest ranking algorithm.

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Want Google To Show Your Rich Snippets? Here Is How

2010/06/25

Over a year ago, Google launched rich snippets, giving webmasters a way to show richer search results within Google and giving Google a way to better determine content within a particular page.

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Using PPC Ads To Fine Tune Your Organic Ad Copy

2010/06/25

I’m a huge fan of treating Page Titles and Meta Descriptions as ad copy. Using language that speaks to a person’s motivation for shopping and buying will encourage the click through when your listing appears organically, as well as in a paid position. The problem Having a “testing” environment for organic ad copy has, until recently, been *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below

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Ranking Well in Facebook Search: Facebook SEO

2010/06/25

Marty at aimClear posted his Facebook SEO Ranking Factors, 2010 Study Results, which he presented at SMX Advanced just a month or so ago. A Sphinn thread has discussion around the study.

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Ranking Well in Facebook Search: Facebook SEO

2010/06/25

Marty at aimClear posted his Facebook SEO Ranking Factors, 2010 Study Results, which he presented at SMX Advanced just a month or so ago.

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GoogleBot Back In Business, Crawling & Crawling

2010/06/25

About ten days ago, I reported that GoogleBot stopped crawling many web sites, or at least slowed the crawl.

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Yahoo’s CEO, Carol Bartz, Always Having To Defend Herself

2010/06/25

Yahoo Chief Defends Her Site, Strategy from the Wall Street Journal is one of the latest in an ongoing pattern of Yahoo’s CEO constantly having to defend herself to investors, reports and users. Carol Bartz became Yahoo’s CEO one year and five months ago. And if you read through the stories mentioning her name, you *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the “View Original Post” link below

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YouTube Hits All-Time Highs In May, ComScore Says

2010/06/25

May was a banner month for YouTube. ComScore’s latest video rankings report shows that the site hit all-time highs with 14.6 billion videos viewed and more than 100 videos seen per user.

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