Looks like Google is up to tricks again, now they are unveiling Google Sitemaps where you can generate an XML file with a complete Sitemap for Google to index. This ought to have developers scrambling to complete sitemaps for submission.
It also means that there will likely be a new round of plugins for CMS [...]
Once people understand the concept of how inbound links can increase your search engine rank, the next question comes “How do I find sites to link to me?” Does your industry have any association websites? Are you a member of a chamber of commerce that includes links? Soon people exhaust the more obvious potential linkers [...]
Many people have recently discovered a patent filed by Google which discusses many of their techniques for rating websites. Knowing exactly how Google ranks sites would be a gold-mine for search engine optimizers as there would no longer be speculation as to the best way to achieve high rankings in Google.
It should be noted [...]
Yesterday in a routine overview of server log files I came across one website that had substantially more traffic than usual. An investigation started. I was hoping to find evidence of the “slashdot effect” and discover the traffic was real. However that was not the case.
Instead I discovered that one particular IP address had [...]
Last week I blogged about how many websites use images to create fancy text instead of using actual styled text. An extreme example of this is the website for Sky Designs Products.
Sure, there is plenty of text on the site you and I as humans can read. However 100% of that text is comprised [...]
One of the bigger struggles I have as a website developer is explaining to people the difference between actual text, and a graphic image of text. Think of the photographs from your last vacation. Do you have any photos of yourself or your family beside a sign showing where you were? (If not, just pretend [...]
For those who don’t know, there is a fantastic resource called Wikipedia, self described as the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. I have occasionally used Wikipedia to research topics when I wasn’t having luck with Google.
Recently while reviewing website log files for one of my websites I discovered one of the Wikipedia pages was [...]