In my opinion, temporal based data is one of the most valuable kinds of information that feeds into a modern search engine's algorithm. With it, search engines know when terms are getting more popular, when new terms are being used by searchers a...
Thanks to Michael (Graywolf) for his exceptional effort to bring us the answer to a vexing question - what is the "best" possible title tag: From his research, it's - "keyword phrase" : site title That would have been my guess as well, but I'm glad to see it confirmed (with some wiggle room). Of course, the SEs could always change the...
Domain name selection gets tougher and tougher as more names get snapped up. If you're unwilling (or unable) to afford buying an old domain (which I highly recommend), your best option is to follow some of these basic rules for domain name selection: Keywords are Nice, But they Don't Matter MuchDon't choose a domain name based on keywords in the URL. If you can't ge...
I am always running the logs on my websites seeing where the traffic is coming from. One of my websites has a blog and I post to that blog almost every day. My initial set-up for that blog had seven posts on the homepage and the archiving was done weekly. After I had been ...
If you like watching what the world is searching for, search spies (programs that output the searches that are being performed on the site in real time) are a fun resource. Over at SEOChat, Mick's asked the question and Jammer & Skipsel have provided very nice lists. There's quite a few: ...
Rod Coleman emailed me last night about his new rank checking and monitoring tool. It's free to sign up for 10 terms or $5/month for up to 75 terms. It checks the following engines: Alltheweb Altavista AOL...
Earlier today I watched a documentary about Finnish welfare society. The message was simple: politics measure everything in money to find the most efficient solution. This way making hard decisions where emotions and other factors could disturb comes simpler. I have to admit that ke...
At SEOChat, a 100th posting from expat reveals a very simple and down-to-earth approach to SEO that's brought him some recent success: I inherited a stale store site without many links and a low PR. I came to the conclusion early on that trying to jump to Google's crazy da...
A recent thread in SEOChat forums asks an important question – how to estimate Google traffic by keyword? All professional SEO’s are familia...
Dr. Garcia (Orion) let me know of an updated paper on his site (Targeting Documents and Terms Through Co-Occurrence Data) regarding a method for finding which of 2 terms in a 2-word phrase has a hi...
Yesterday I posted "Tweaking My Algo", a brief experience report on using a site search utility to inform content development. Today I would like to give a few ideas on what the optimal site search utility might include and solicit your ...
I was inspired by comments from LoveTheCoast and Sorvoja to my post titled Give 'em What They Search For. So, I signed up for a site search account over at freefind.com. They said that I would be up and running in minutes an...
This is sort of a back door to keyword research and website analytics... but I have one of those google search boxes on a couple of my sites. Lots of people use it. For a long time I've wondered what my visitors are searchin' for. If I knew what they were using as keywor...
Today has me thinking on the subject of measuring keyword performance. I'm about to begin a relatively large scale campaign on both the organic and PPC side for a client and have wrestled with the neccessary facts and figures to track in order to have reasonable metrics. Here's a sh...
