Jun
10
U. S. Government on Search Engine Optimization
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This page on the US Gov’t. web management site, is just about one of the simplest, clearest beginners’ guides to basic SEO you can find.
http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/community/forum/may11meeting_minutes.shtml
It’s really neat that there’s concern over search engine visibility for Government sites, and from what I’ve seen at first glance, it seems that the whole website is definitely worth browsing through.
Nov
6
How competitive: temporary stair access. Huh? Say what?
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Yet another interesting discussion ensues about how to assess how competetive a search phrase is, in an older thread at Search Engine Watch Forums that was bumped and reactivated this week, in which there seems to be a difference of opinion on how competitive the phrase temporary stair access is, which comes up as an example for some strange reason.
I totally fail to see what that sub-topic has to do with the original topic of the thread, which is essentially asking about keywords in domain names, but it ends up raising again a topic that’s critical to search engine promotion, particularly in the planning stages of websites, when keyword phrases are chosen and the site’s architecture and navigation are planned out prior to going into the design and production phrases of development.
IMHO too little attention is paid to that detail, which can later on prove detrimental to not only the search engine placement of a site, but with regard to conversion factors as well.
Jul
10
This looks to me like a more important topic than meets the eye, not only for using a 301 redirect from one domain to another and for changes or moves with individual pages or sections on sites, but right now I personally believe that Google is doing some odd things with “sitewide” considerations that need more understanding than we’ve had.
Discussion at Search Engine Watch Forums:
Does age in URL transfer with a 301?
Jun
15
New domains were purchased and nameservers set at 6:30 am Saturday, June 4th, 2005, resolving with the hour.
Site-J
Content was put up on several pages of Site-J over the weekend of the 4th - 5th. Within 6 hours of putting up one link to the Site-J (I’ll have to check notes for just when that was), Googlebot visited, fetching just robots.txt and the index page, with just the homepage appearing in the index within a couple of days.
It’s now the 15th and all the pages of the site, 19 of them, are in the Google index and cached. The homepage has a cache date of June 14th, others have a cache date of June 11th.
Only the homepage is indexed at MSN, with a crawl date showing in the cache of June 10th.