Google has entered the arena of social media outreach and is engaged in directly contacting publishers about Google products and offerings, asking people to write about them. In a nut shell, they are link building now. It is through a third party, but they are doing it. I received an email a couple of days [...]
I have made quite a few websites and they tend to do well. It isn’t because I am particularly gifted, it is because of the decisions I make before creating a website. I do not try (and fail) to make a million zillion dollars on the web. I do try (and succeed) to make a [...]
The Google webmaster guidelines recommend that you support the “If Modified Since” HTTP header. It wasn’t easy for most people to figure out if they supported it or not. I wanted a tool for my webmaster tools page that simply answered the question… “Does my website support If Modified Since?” Here it is… If Modified [...]
This new tool checks images and alt text on a web page to see how well it can be “seen” by search engines. One Google guidelines states… Make sure that your title elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate. My new free image SEO tool lets a user enter a url and check how [...]
Many Google videos and much Google documentation refers webmasters to the page: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ This webpage used to contain a wealth of information that was useful to new and/or struggling webmasters. It explained and linked to several resources that helped the webmaster community. Rather unbelievably, the page now is almost worthless to new webmasters, and I [...]
With mentions in Mashable and SearchEngineLand this Digg like gadget is off to a very good start. The What’s Popular gadget shows stories, videos and images that are popular. You can submit your own stuff to the gadget and these things can be voted on. What’s Popular? How about What’s Probable? There are some notable [...]
Getlisted.org has a new tool that examines web pages for street addresses. It is like a spider simulator that checks street addresses to determine if they can be seen by spiders and if there are any potential problems. It is based on address formats in the USA only at the moment. Addresses are very important for [...]
Here is a gadget that displays the latest videos from Matt Cutts and the Google Webmaster Help team. Whenever they put new videos up they will be displayed automatically in gadget. This pulls the latest videos from The Google webmaster help YouTube channel which can be found here. (if you can’t see gadget in feed [...]
I was reading Janes blogpost over at SEOMOz about the advice given by Google on dynamic urls. There was some drama about this throughout the web as we all know. As I read Janes post I thought I could provide the explanation of why the advice given by Google could seem confusing. My take on [...]
The above video of Taniya Nayak is just one of several and is from the Tv page of her website. Or see her video from a local news site. On HGTV there are multible episodes with her but they can’t be found via a video search. I feel bad to pick on HGTV, but I [...]
