Posts Tagged ‘search-engines’

Fabulous RSS Applied Technology

Friday, July 21st, 2006

RSS Applied blogs have some pretty cool features that I do not see with other blogging platforms. The genius is in the simplicity of executing the application, and in the extra fields provided by RSS Applied blogs that make them more searchable by search engines.
Keyword and link fields
RSS Applied blogs come with fields that allow you to put [...]

Draw Search Engines to Your Content

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

A primary reason for business blogging is to draw search engines to your content. 
This happens because search engines index your content each time you ‘ping’ them that you have updated.  Because blogs are updated frequently, they ‘ping’ frequently and are therefore indexed frequently.
And, because blogs are made up of a great deal of text, [...]

Blog Headlines

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Achieving two purposes, blog headlines need to attract search engine visitors and readers as well. 
Attracting VisitorsSearchThe main thing to remember when writing headlines for search engines is that keywords placed in headlines, especially on a blog platform that places <title> or <h1> tags around them, can yield you positive SERP (search engine results pages) [...]

Watching For Your Blog In Search Engines

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Yet another blogger experiment attempts to discover the way we search for news online. This experiment, from Robert Scoble, should give us insight into how our blogs are ranked, dependant upon keyword usage and tagging.
"Here, let’s play a game. Everyone in the world
say "brrreeeport" on your blog and you’ll be listed on this Technorati
page [...]

Intentional Blogging for Business: Don’t Link to Sites That Aren’t Worthy

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

This article is the third in a 6 part series.
While we all understand that the number of links pointing to your site boosts your ranking in the search engines, many fail to realize that the quality of the links is more important than the quantity.
Linking to a site Google considers spam can immediately cause your [...]

Google Announces Another Record Quarter

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Google is continuing to see amazing profits thanks to their status as the most used search engine. It seems the ads they run along the top and down the side are pretty lucrative for the search engine giant.
In what is becoming a quarterly ritual, Google Thursday again announced another record earnings period, posting revenues [...]

Small Businesses Are Blogging

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

From dentists to grocers, more and more small businesses are choosing to market their brand through intimate business blogs.  These business owners understand the importance of keeping their name in front of their customers and prospects as much as possible.  And, compared to print and television, blogging is less expensive and is just as likely [...]

Covering Search Engines

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

While many of us use news search feeds regularly, most of the online world does not.  However, the average man/woman is now slowly but surely getting acquainted with RSS technology.
Shari Thurow has some tips on optimizing your feed:

Review your robots.txt file or the robots exclusion meta-tags to ensure that you are not preventing search engine [...]

“How Do I Get My Site Into The Search Engines?” Part One

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

It’s a question that has been piercing the consciousness of web property owners since the beginning of Internet time.
"How do I get My Site into the Major Search Engines?"
To answer this question, I’ll have to go into a series of posts explaining what is largely misunderstood about this process, as well as many [...]