Meta-Tag Optimization Tips: A Search Usability Perspective

I know. I know. Seasoned search engine optimization (SEO) professionals might yawn and roll their eyes when the subject of meta-tag optimization comes up, as they might think, "Meta-tag optimization is SO 1990s." Personally, I think meta-tag content gets a bad rap because, in the past, many ...
Related Searches: Meta | Meta Tags | Metatags

May. 29, 2008 at 7:55am Eastern by Shari Thurow

The Anatomy Of A Google Search Result

... the anchor text of a link to that page or from the Open Directory Project (ODP). You can prevent Google from using the ODP title by using the noodp meta robots tag: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">. You can generally prevent Google from using anchor text as the title by ...
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 3:31pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To "Legally" Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines

... closure include IMG, BR and HR. I work with a company that is soooo anal on these tags. Before I came in I never put any serious attention on the Meta Keywords tag after just playing around in SEO contest and looking at what other people are doing already gave me the idea the tags is nearly useless ...
Related Searches: Keywords Tag | Meta Tags | Meta Keywords | Flash

Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:42pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Free Web Design Tools From The Big Three: SEO Friendly Or Not?

... of the abilities each tool offers for various ranking criteria. The items I selected for review are: Title Tag Heading Tag Bold/Strong Tag META Keywords Tag META Description Tag Alt Attribute Tag Filename Control Sitemap XML Support Test One – Title Tag Control Will the tool let you control the text ...
Related Searches: Javascript | Sitemap | Alt Tags | Meta Tags

May. 3, 2007 at 1:15pm Eastern by Christine Churchill

Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey Developer Tool In Limited Preview

... of results with SearchMonkey: Enhanced result: may provide a more descriptive title, additional navigational links below the description, and other meta data. Infobar: Retains the original title and description, but provides additional information below the result. The tool and documentation announced ...
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Apr. 24, 2008 at 11:36am Eastern by Vanessa Fox

A Closer Look At EveryZing

... relevance to the queried topic. These results are housed in a template that is made to order for natural search optimization. The template generates meta data for each page that combines the targeted keyword into a pre-set template. To demonstrate their approach, I’ve made the keyword bold in each ...
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Apr. 24, 2008 at 7:44am Eastern by Eric Papczun

Video Search Challenge Isn't Speech Recognition, It's Content Owner Management

... understand what it is about any more than they can see images. Instead, to really understand what images or videos are about, they tend to look at metadata -- text about the video that is either embedded within the video file or surrounding where the video is placed on a page. Metadata is a pretty poor ...
Related Searches: Video Search

Feb. 26, 2007 at 10:20am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google's Webmaster Tools Adds More Diagnostic Features & Video Sitemaps

... Title Tags: Google flags titles that are potentially placeholders. My guess is this would be things like "Untitled" and "Title." Meta Description Issues Google often (although not always) uses the text from the meta description tag as the snippet shown in the search result. See The ...

Dec. 13, 2007 at 6:48pm Eastern by Vanessa Fox

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Video Sitemaps

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced Google has added a Sitemaps protocol for videos. If you have videos and want to give Google more metadata on those videos to make them more searchable via Google Video Search, you now can. Login to Google Webmaster Tools, click on Sitemaps, and select the ...

Dec. 18, 2007 at 9:09am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google's T-Mobile Ad On Why To Do SEO

... and its contents are search-friendly. For example, keywords relating to your business should appear regularly in the content, titles and in your 'meta' data -- the tags and labels inserted into the HTML code. OK, it doesn't explicitly says to use the meta keywords tag -- which Google doesn't use -- ...

Jun. 14, 2007 at 11:24am Eastern by Danny Sullivan