Regardless of whether you think that search is a popularity contest, for years Google categorized the web in terms of “haves” and “have nots” by creating two indexes — the normal, regularly crawled results, and the supplemental results, those slightly off, unpopular, ugly performers who, try as they might to hang with the cool kids,…
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Post PubCon Videos — Matt Cutts on SEO
One nice thing that always follows major conferences is the AV brought home by the different companies in attendance. While you can never recreate the exact feel of being somewhere, often it’s the conversations that are the most valuable and exclusive, hands-on interaction with some of the biggest people involved with the search world. Matt…
End of the Year Blogging Inspiration Tips
I’m embarrassed, a few days ago, Fred kindly reminded me that the only posts on the first page of our blog were from him…I haven’t written in a little while. Yikes, I’m Sorry! I’m supposed to be the blogging guru, aren’t I? Well to be honest, I’ve got a problem. I can’t think of a…
Google Confirms Position on META Data
We thought this one was already a closed case, but apparently the question of META tags still gets asked to Google engineers frequently. So today on the Google Webmaster blog, there’s a nice article on what META tags Google uses and which they do not. The META keywords is quite notably omitted, with love going…