Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'tags'

Several days ago Yahoo announced support for something called the common tag. In short, it basically gives developers a way to tag their content in a more unified way. Vanessa Fox has the most detailed explanation of how this all...

Posted on June 17, 2009 7:06 AM

Andy Beard started a Google Groups thread asking why Google seems to be handling tagged pages (tag cloud results) in a "fairly random fashion." Andy goes through examples of how Google sometimes indexes these pages, sometimes shows a cache page,...

Posted on September 26, 2008 8:07 AM

There is an interesting Google Groups thread discussing how Google handles the <base> HTML tag. The base tag specifies a base URL for all the links in a page. But how does Googlebot or Google handle indexing this tag? Google...

Posted on June 11, 2008 8:36 AM

Did you know that there are specific HTML markup tags for abbreviations and acronyms? Did you know that people sometimes use them? A Google Groups thread asks if Google actually uses these tags for indexing purposes? The example given in...

Posted on May 28, 2008 8:22 AM

We love it when Google Engineers spill the beans... on just about anything Google especially when it comes to revealing juicy secrets on improving your ranking position in Google. Or better yet ways that they recommend getting your site indexed...

Posted on July 13, 2007 1:20 PM

This past Sunday I launched a new element for locating content at the Search Engine Roundtable, I launched the Search Engine Roundtable Tag Cloud. Ever since we upgraded to the new version of Movable Type, which supported tags, I have...

Posted on May 17, 2007 7:31 AM

Google released this thing known as Google Image Labeler, it basically pins user vs. user to label images from Google images. The way you score points is if you both label the image with the same label. Here is my...

Posted on September 4, 2006 9:32 AM