Google is deploying “universal search” – a comprehensive search result that provides semantic results from multiple content sources. Given that a Google search will produce relevant Web pages, blogs, photos, videos, audio clips and other media types when a user types in a search term, can you really optimize for semantic search?
In a word, yes. [...]

Utilizing tags in conjunction with your blog is a crucial method to get your blog postings recognized through a search engine.  So what are tags?  Put simply, tags are keywords about the main ideas in your blog entry.  They need to describe your post specifically, but without being too “wordy.”  If you plan to use [...]

Thanks to my colleague Peter Kim, I’ve been tagged so I have to respond with this post. What’s going on? There’s this viral thing going on called "Blog-Tag" where the blogger writes five things about themselves not widely known, and then "tags" five other people to continue the chain. This online tagging game was recently [...]

Using tags to identify your Web pages and images can help make your content more searchable by search engines, thus boosting your search engine rankings and making you more visible to online users. Tags that use keywords to identify text and images can help you promote your content more effectively. Additionally, when your content is [...]

One of the fastest ways to rank highly on a search term is by it’s inclusion in headlines within your posts.  For instance, notice I’ve used the term "SEO Strategies" as the title for this post.
Within a few weeks I should begin seeing ranking performance on the key phrase SEO Strategies.  My rankings here will [...]

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 [...]

Technorati may have a future at Microsoft, if Mark Evans‘ latest post is any indicator.

Stephen Baker (posted the original story)
Robert Scoble (on a similar buy)
Ray Ozzie (read between the lines)

Microsoft has yet to enter the currently intense buying war in a big way. Technorati, while it has some glitches, is a blogosphere leader and [...]

The social aspects of web 2.0 are exciting.  And as the original social bookmarking and tagging website, del.icio.us draws a considerable user base (300K).  On Friday, Yahoo! bought del.icio.us for an estimated $20 million.
Launched in 2003 by Joshua Schachter, Del.icio.us uses a non-hierarchical keyword grouping system whereby users "tag" each of their Web bookmarks [...]

Don’t be surprised if Flock, the newest addition to the browser market, begins to garner much attention in the coming days.  Flock, an offshoot of Firefox, offers the user a rich, social experience, integrating the sites Flickr and  Del.icio.us directly into the menu bar.  Most exciting, though, is the way Flock goes about drawing attention [...]