Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'search engines'

Ann Smarty has written a post at Search Engine Journal about how the mindset of webmasters who launch sites with and without SEO in mind. If SEO is a priority, choose a relevant domain name and think over website structure....

Posted on March 27, 2008 9:28 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that new installations of the popular blogging software, WordPress, is by default blocking all search engines. He said, when you go to the Privacy Options section in the administration panel, by default, it is set to...

Posted on January 22, 2008 6:53 AM

Bill Slawski discovered a patent application by Microsoft that seeks to "restrict the results for queries to be from blog pages." Does that mean that blogging has had its day? Well, if the key word is restrict and Microsoft is...

Posted on December 24, 2007 8:59 AM

A discussion at Cre8asite Forums goes into a lot of questions about what a search engine prefers to see in a homepage. Is dynamic content preferred, or does a static homepage do just as well? For instance, the big contenders...

Posted on October 26, 2007 9:33 AM

An interesting question at Cre8asite Forums has been asked: when you click on the cached version of a website, does it show up in the website's log files? One member says yes, as long as there are images on the...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:36 AM

When you maintain a blog or a regularly updated website, is there an optimal amount of time you should wait before updating your articles, or should you post them all at once? In a WebmasterWorld thread, a website publisher is...

Posted on June 28, 2007 11:16 AM

Moderator: Jeffrey K. Rohrs, VP, Agency & Search Marketing, ExactTarget Panelists: Anton E, Konikoff, Founder and CEO, Acronym Media Matt Greitzer, Director of Search Marketing, Avenue A|Razorfish Scott Greenberg, SVP, Advertising Services, Marchex T. J. Kelley, VP, Marketing, LookSmart Tom...

Posted on June 5, 2007 3:41 PM

A webmaster posted a question at both Search Engine Roundtable Forums Search Engine Watch Forums asking what is the htdig-noindex meta tag do. Both threads point to http://www.htdig.org/, which is an open source search engine. This open search search engine,...

Posted on March 22, 2007 7:07 AM

The holiday season is here and most of the search engines are already sporting holiday season logos. Tonight is the last night of Chanukah, so we took down our logo for Chanukah and put up the Christmas logo. Here it...

Posted on December 22, 2006 8:24 AM

Just wanted to wish you all a happy thanksgiving! Here is a rundown of the search engine's special logos for the day. * Google is sporting a home page logo that links to a query for thanksgiving that looks like:...

Posted on November 23, 2006 8:58 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks how can one prevent scraping of his site's content by a non-authorized spider, while not hurting his rankings in search engines? This is a serious issue, serious enough that there was a session...

Posted on September 12, 2006 7:06 AM