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Writing for People (and Search Engines): How to improve click-through rates for organic listings

January 15, 2008

Another new year has come and many of us are still analyzing the balance of successes and failures of the previous one. It is definitely a useful chore. I am happy to count this blog as one of my successes. It was humbling to see it included in SearchEngineLand’s blogroll and nominated for Best SEO...

Google: The New Market Gorilla

December 06, 2007

Every company, big or small, faces unfavorable market conditions at some point in its trajectory. The common sense thing to do is to try to adapt—modify the business strategy to survive and continue thriving. Unfortunately some companies, especially big and successful ones like Google or Microsoft, are stubborn and prefer that the market adapt to...

Google brings back the Search API … Sort of

August 09, 2007

I found an interesting bit of information that has been missed by most of the SEO community. As quietly as Google dropped the Google Search API at the end of last year, they decided to bring it back—but only to the research community. It’s now called the University Research Program for Search and brings with...

Content is King, but Duplicate Content is a Royal Pain.

July 19, 2007

Duplicate content is one of the most common causes of concern among webmasters. We work hard to provide original and useful content, and all it takes is a malicious SERP (Search Engine Results Page) hijacker to copy our content and use it for his or her own. Not nice. More troubling still is the way...

Why Quality Always Wins Out in Google's Eyes

July 13, 2007

Quality is king in search engine rankings. Of course spam sites using the latest techniques make their way up top—but their rankings are temporary, fleeting, and quickly forgotten. Quality sites are the only ones that maintain consistent top rankings. This wasn’t always true. A few years ago it was very easy to rank highly for...

Anatomy of a Distributed Web Spider — Google's inner workings part 3

July 06, 2007

What can you do to make life easier for those search engine crawlers? Let's pick up where we left off in our inner workings of Google series. I am going to give a brief overview of how distributed crawling works. This topic is useful, but can be a bit geeky, so I'm going to offer a...

The Never Ending SERPs Hijacking Problem: Is there a definite solution?

July 03, 2007

In 2005 it was the infamous 302, temporary redirect page hijacking. That was supposedly fixed, according to Matt Cutts. Now there is a new interesting twist. Hijackers have found another exploitable hole in Google: the use of cgi proxies to hijack search engine rankings. The problem is basically the same. Two URLs pointing to the...

Google's Architectural Overview (Ilustrated) — Google's inner workings part 2

June 22, 2007

For this installment of my Google's inner workings series, I decided to revisit my previous explanation. However, this time I am including some nice illustrations so that both technical and non-technical readers can benefit from the information. At the end of the post, I will provide some practical tips to help you improve your site...

Google's architectural overview — an introduction to Google's inner workings

June 13, 2007

Google keeps tweaking its search engine, and now it is more important than ever to better understand its inner workings. Google lured Mr. Manber from Amazon last year. When he arrived and began to look inside the company’s black boxes, he says, that he was surprised that Google’s methods were so far ahead of those...

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Custom Python scripts are much more customizable than Excel spreadsheets.  This is good news for SEOs — this can lead to optimization opportunities and low-hanging fruit.  One way you can use Python to uncover these opportunities is by pairing it with natural language processing. This way, you can match how your audience searches with your...

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Changes to the RankSense SEO rules interface

As we continue to improve the RankSense app for Cloudflare, we are always working to make the app more intuitive and easy to use. I'm pleased to share that we have made significant changes to our SEO rules interface in the settings tab of our app. It is now easier to publish multiple rules sheets and to see which changes have not yet been published to production.

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How to Find Content Gaps at Scale: Atrapalo vs Skyscanner

For the following Ranksense Webinar, we were joined by Antoine Eripret, who works at Liligo as an SEO lead. Liligo.com is a travel search engine which instantly searches all available flight, bus and train prices on an exhaustive number of travel sites such as online travel agencies, major and low-cost airlines and tour-operators. In this...

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