Reading Time: < 1 min When Microsoft launched Streetside a few days ago (a direct competitor to Google’s StreetView), I wondered how they could possibly catch up with the huge amount of coverage that Google already has in place. Their answer: Navteq. Navteq has vehicles on the road all the time, collecting road data (speed limits, bridge heights, etc). Microsoft […]
Why I don’t put my name at the bottom of your site
Reading Time: 2 min You see it all the time. Browse on someone’s website and you’ll see “Designed by xxxx” or something similar at the bottom. I don’t do that. Why? Simple: it’s bad for your business. My main goal is to help you succeed. By adding a link to the footer of your site, companies help themselves at […]
Wikitude app coming to iPhone soon
Reading Time: < 1 min One of the hottest category of apps we’ll see in the next year are is likely the Augmented Reality apps. These are programs that allow you to look through your camera, and see the world beyond it with information overlays on it. The possibilities of these kinds of apps are endless. One of the first […]
Has Google changed the way they handle social media links?
Reading Time: < 1 min The short answer is yes. And no. 🙂 Matt Cutts explains in the video below. In a nutshell, he says they haven’t specifically changed the way social media links count toward your site, but they’re always changing the algorithm and some of the changes certainly could have had an impact. They’ve made about 300-400 changes […]
Search queries are getting longer
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s something that I’ve suspected, but never had the data to back up — users are typing longer search queries into Google. As people become more comfortable with search engines, they’re learning that longer queries will help them find what they want much more easily. There’s also the thought that searchers may be refining their […]
All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use
Reading Time: < 1 min A new tool has been added to your arsenal to help fight against duplicate content on your site, and Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all on board with it. Introducing the “Canonical Tag”. This new tag allows you to specify the desired URL for a page that might have multiple URLS. For example, you might […]
10 things that non-Diggers are wrong about
Reading Time: 4 min While the title says “non-Diggers”, this really applies to anyone who would visit this blog and say “what’s SEO stand for?” I find that very smart people are very confused about a wide array of technology-related items. Here are the 10 I hear most often: 10 — The Wii Remote needs to see the screen! […]
SEOmoz asks — What’s PageRank got to do with it?
Reading Time: < 1 min Rand over at SEOmoz has done a nice little “whiteboard Friday” video about Google PageRank and what it’s really about. He covers four areas where increased PageRank can benefit a site: crawling, inclusion, freshness and ranking. It’s a fairly short video (8 mins) and it’s well worth your time. Do you agree with Rand’s conclusions? […]
Get more links by fixing erroneous links to your site
Reading Time: < 1 min Google has just released a handy tool to the webmaster portal that shows you all of your 404 errors with a link of pages that link to them. As Matt Cutts explains, it’s an easy way to get some links to your site. There are probably sites out there that meant to link to you, […]
Chrome is now available!
Reading Time: < 1 min Google’s new web browser, Chrome, is now available to download. You can read our previous information about the browser, which explain some of the new features. I’ve only been using it for a few minutes, but I can sum it up in one word: fast. This thing flies! I’m sure some glitches and/or shortcomings will […]