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Case Study: Google Image Search and Marissa Mayer

October 2, 2005

SEO Case Study: Google Image Search Optimization
Experiment: To try to determine what factors play a role in optimizing for Google Image Search
Hypothesis: Image file names and alt tags play a role in determining image relevancy for a particular search term
Background: I was reading the Happy Birthday Gurtie post at threadwatch which led me over to [...]

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If You’re Hat Ain’t Black You Don’t Know Jack!

October 1, 2005

I was visiting a web forum this weekend and came across post after post of “if I do this to my website what will Google do” or “Google doesn’t like it when webmasters do this“. Yes we were all newbies and one point and asking questions is part of the learning experience, however doing things [...]

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Google Searches and Critical Mass

September 23, 2005

This observation is directly related to the ’sandbox phenomenon’. I have new some sites where I am optimizing in previously unoptimized spaces. The words are real words but nobody was optimizing for them previously. I was enjoying some nice top 10 placements right off the bat and a few thousand visitors a week from the [...]

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Google’s and Yahoo have Size Issues

September 22, 2005

We’ve all seen the “my dad is bigger and can beat up your dad” playground antics of search engines competing over size. The first salvo occurred when Yahoo innuendo it had indexed over 20 million pages. John Battelle talked with google about and they were baffled by this new number (via battellemedia.com), but that’s all [...]

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Google Force One

September 22, 2005

I’ve been listening to Danny Sullivan and Gary Price on Daily Search Cast on my IPod and every so often they give a little poke to Google about the 767 they bought, with the affectionate nickname Google Force One. Whether Google actually plans to use this in any commercial endeavor remains nothing more than speculation [...]

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Google Confused About CSS Hacks

August 28, 2005

Umm … Hey Google … umm when I search for [css hacks] I’m NOT looking for counter strike source hacks (css-screenshot.jpg).
Categories:( google | css)

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O’Reilly and Link Spam

August 25, 2005

I’ve been making a conscious effort to make things more positive around here, but every so often something is going to get under my skin and get my hackles up. The bru-ha-ha over this O’Reilly link spam thing did it today.
Google Engineer Matt Cutts recommends the following:
As others have noted, if you’re going to sell [...]

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Google Sitemaps Review

August 17, 2005

I launched multiple new websites in July (more than 2 but less than 10) and decided to give Google new Sitemap tool a try. To keep things as even as possible I put links to each of the new websites on different established website home pages, which had a PR of 4 or 5 (pagerank [...]

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