14Oct/090
Great things to learn about search this (or any) week
Here's a great collection of seo (mostly Google Search) tips, tricks, insights and analysis from Michael Martinez, posted on the self proclaimed best seo blog. The post is definitely worth a read through if these topics peak your interest:
- Google says “Links Are Only 1%”
- Want immediate consumer trust? Buy search display ads
- Half of all SEMs want to pay higher advertising costs – WTF?
- Google Web updates blog indexing faster than Blogsearch
- Bounce rate should not affect your (Google) rankings
- Yahoo! dropped the “keywords” meta tag
- Google wants to crawl your AJAX
Michael has some great analysis that suggest how the personalities behind the search giants (Sergey Brinn, I'm vaguely referring in your general direction) have a hand in what's weighed how. As always, Mike doesn't give any passes to the wacky apparent inconsistencies of the ever changing search engine optimization landscape. It's like there are people who's job it is to constantly shake up the algorithms making full time seo guys as manic and confused as these guys.