New Tool to Clean Up Duplicate Links on Your Site
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element designed to help clean up duplicate links on your site. This new element helps the search engine find the primary or canonical location of your page. This is a particularly handy tool if you have a number of dynamic pages that [...]
Personalization is Coming. How will it Change our World?
Search is changing that is for sure. As someone who spends a great deal of time online and as someone who works in online marketing I am torn about the new changes. On one hand the increase in personalization will ultimately help provide more relevant search results. On the other hand [...]
Google SearchWiki
Yesterday Google launched their new SearchWiki feature. I don’t know that this will be particularly useful for me as most my searches are one-time searches but if you make regular searches on a topic you can now personalize the search results so they show the results you would like to see in the order [...]
3 Examples of Why Cuil Sucks
I was recently reading a follow up article on Cuil. Some of you may remember Cuil got a lot of press in July of 2008 when their search engine launched. Many felt it was likely to be the first search engine to provide real competition to Google. A lot of this publicity [...]
Static URLs or Dynamic URLs… Which is Better?
I came across a post on the Google Webmaster Central Blog titled Dynamic URLs vs. Static URLs. I personally have had an issue with this topic for quite some time. I have built websites with both types of URLs and I have seen no visible difference in search engine rank between the two. [...]