mike | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | google, search, news, subscription, pay wall
Google made a *policy* change to their First Click Free program. This is all about Google anti-"cloaking" policy. A web site may not show one thing to Google, and another thing to users. If you do - Google will remove you from their index.
But they have exceptions for subscription/registration sites. They are allowed to put up a pay-wall (subscription/registration requirement) as long as clicks coming from Google referred pages (News and Search) are exempted. As long as your landing page on your site is visible to users with it's full content, you can put up a pay wall on subsequent clicks in your site.
This weeks announcement allows publishers to be a bit more restrictive in their policy. They can now block the 6th and later link from a Google site each day. Google is doing nothing new here - but just changing their allowed policy for publishers implementing First Click Free.
ShareViewed: 1 Time- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 10 2009 | google, search, microformats
Google now recognizes microformats and uses them in augmenting search results with structured information (Google calls these "Rich Snippets").
They claim to support schema for Reviews and for People at this time. But they also document microformats for Products and Businesses - so these may be coming soon.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 07 2009 | google, search, api, ajax, json, jsonp
The Google Search API can be used by directly calling the URL and getting JSONP formatting data back. They recommend this for "non-JavaScript" environments where you can use the Search API library directly. But it's also a nice light-weight way to get search results into a web page.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2009 | google, canonical, seo, search, links
Duplicate web pages should specify the canonical link - so that google will put that page in the index, and not the duplicates.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 02 2009 | google, search, seo, images, img
Nice summary of the atl and title attributes of an img tag - which are more important for search engines and for users.
Quoted: How to properly use alt text and title text image attributes in HTML for search engine optimization and browser tool tips.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 20 2009 | google, search, canonical, seo
Quoted: Watch a video on canonicalization. What is a canonical page? Why specify a canonical page? A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content. It's common fo
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2009 | google, search
Caffeine is down now - I'd love to try it out.
Quoted: You may think Google is the fastest search engine around, but that doesn't mean the company doesn't want to improve.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2009 | search, google, seo, conference
SEO conference with Vanessa Fox in SF on June 12th.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2009 | search, noindex, yahoo, google
Yahoo supports this "robots-nocontent" tag to not index a section of a web page. I've not found any equivalent support by Google (or better yet, as a search engine standard).
Quoted: For over a decade, search engines have supported standards allowing you to prevent pages from being spidered or included within a search index. Today, Yahoo
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2009 | firefox, google, search
This browser extension is getting 1,000 downloads per week.
Quoted: KwiClick enhances the way you view and retrieve information from your favorite services. KwiClick removes the need to open a new tab to get information from Google Search, Google Maps, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, FriendFeed and much more.
Send Mike a friend request or a personal message instead.