Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'optimization'

Saad Kamal notes on his blog that Google has released a blogger's best practices guide in the Webmasters/Site owners help forum. The ideas behind the blogger's guide are pretty self-explanatory: write great content often. Make sure it's discoverable. And finally,...

Posted on November 24, 2008 9:05 AM

Let's say you have a very dynamic web site and you also generate your meta keywords dynamically. Could you be penalized (or receive a warning) if those meta keywords are very similar? In a nutshell, yes, though there's a 'debate'...

Posted on September 8, 2008 10:18 AM

Shimon Sandler wrote a controversial post about the options available to sites who cannot actually make code changes to optimize their site. He explains that you can build links, and that's perfectly legitimate as it's called "off site optimization." The...

Posted on July 29, 2008 10:15 AM

A Google Groups thread asks if there's any such penalty for using the z-index HTML attribute underneath images. Would that be deceiving the search engines if you're putting text underneath an image that is not apparent to the visitor? Bergy...

Posted on November 15, 2007 10:02 AM

On Cre8asite Forums, Rand Fishkin asks an interesting question: how do you create search-friendly URLs out of foreign characters, particularly Arabic? Ammon Johns says that DMOZ can handle it, so it should be spiderable content. A.N.Onym says that he creates...

Posted on October 15, 2007 10:00 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if cleaning up code will improve Google Rankings. Can removing bad code get better rankings in the SERPs? Not so much for Google, as one webmaster points out. He has had better success with MSN when...

Posted on September 12, 2007 9:00 AM

Those of us in the US are not seeing the same results in the SERPs as UK web surfers. Sites can be ranked higher or lower in the US SERPs compared to the UK SERPs. So what is one to...

Posted on August 14, 2007 9:33 AM

There is currently a lot of discussion taking place in two forums about comments left by Matt Cutts of Google in a post here named Google Attacked Over Webmaster Relations. Now, Matt responded to some question left by a comment...

Posted on May 14, 2007 8:15 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums member has discovered a way to optimize images for long tail searches that will yield results in both Google Web Search and Google Image Search. He says that the best way to optimize the images is to...

Posted on March 29, 2007 9:59 AM

A thread at WebmasterWorld speculates about how Google is weighing factors throughout the site rather than on a single page on a domain. Some people are seeing that Google is placing heavier emphasis on so-called "landing pages" that might bring...

Posted on March 26, 2007 10:10 AM

Senior Member, Billy, at WebmasterWorld has a solo post asking if anyone else noticed a shift in traffic from Ask.com. Seems to me that Ask underwent a recent update. My traffic just about doubled. Anyone else seeing anything. I have...

Posted on March 5, 2007 8:31 AM

In a generous move by Google, the Adsense team has offered to help optimize Adsense ads for some webmaster sites. The Adsense team has sent out some invitations this past week to some people for improving their ads performance. The...

Posted on January 11, 2007 12:48 PM