Archive for the ‘New SEO Developments’ Category

Open Graph and SEO

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Even though Open Graph is meant to weaken Google’s role in the long term as the most important referral engine for traffic to a web site, Google will be extremely important in the near future. Furthermore, even if Google’s importance does diminish, it will likely always serve enough traffic to warrant serious attention from web marketers, and this traffic is extremely important to success with Open Graph as you can use it to catalyze the flow of content from your site into the Facebook referral engine.

Wolfram Alpha and Google Squared

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Wolfram Alpha and Google Squared have been getting a lot of press lately, and a lot of hype as well. Some of it is deserved, but both technologies still have a long way to go before they start to impact traditional search. But just what are these new search technologies, and what is meant by “structured results” in search?

Canonical Link Element - Not a Redirect Tool

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The Canonical Link Element is not a solution for redirecting URLs. It does not function like a 301 and cannot redirect a user to a new URL. Let the GSI Mythbusters explain why.

Universal Search, Eye-tracking and YouTube Optimization

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Google Blog (The Official Google Blog) released a new article today on Eye-tracking studies that reveals new information (though not many details) about the inclusion of thumbnail images in search results. And also has a trippy video of real time eye scan locations superimposed over real search results from a real participant in the study. Super cool.