http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/ Intrapromote Looks Under the Hood of Search Engine Optimization en Copyright 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:28:41 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sean Bolton The inclusion of Google Maps in natural search engine results is nothing new for queries such as Ohio, Indiana, United States, etc. but I just noticed something new today. Google is now showing maps of foreign countries. I'm sure everyone... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_maps_abr.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_maps_abr.html Google Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:28:41 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google has announced that it's much more able to crawl Flash files, extracting text and links. This is a quick summary and also lists some potential things to watch out for. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_to_index.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/google_to_index.html Crawling and Indexing Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:18:19 -0500 John Lustina Have you ever read anything that made Yahoo suddenly seem more insignificant? http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/yahoo_to_become.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/06/yahoo_to_become.html SEO Industry News Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:47:33 -0500 John Lustina This is from much earlier in this fleeting year, admittedly, but with most focusing on the average words per search query increase angle of the story, I wanted to make sure and dig out a fine morsel from the very mouth of Google that may have been lost had I not: 14% of Google clicks come from paid search and 86% of clicks are organic. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/post_8.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/post_8.html Organic SEO Wed, 21 May 2008 18:17:15 -0500 John Lustina He goes on to devote almost half of his e-mail to explaining how bad an idea Yang's Google threat is. I caught this on my Mashable feed as I began watching the original Frankenstein movie with my kids. No kidding. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/breaking_yang_g.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/05/breaking_yang_g.html SEO Industry News Sat, 03 May 2008 22:01:48 -0500 Erik Dafforn Sometimes Google sitemaps have real errors, sometimes they just look like they do, and sometimes they do, but they're not that serious. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/04/real_and_imagin.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/04/real_and_imagin.html Crawling and Indexing Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:52:14 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google is showing some robots-excluded links in Sitelinks -- at least in our case. This post shows examples of Sitelinks that point to URLs excluded by robots.txt and the robots Meta tag. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/google_showing_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/google_showing_1.html Google Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:33:29 -0500 Erik Dafforn By eliminating its paid online subscription model and allowing spiders to access content, the New York Times has more than made up for its loss of subscription revenue, according to Google. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/nyt_traffic_dou.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/nyt_traffic_dou.html Old Media Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:51:46 -0500 Doug Ausbury I was recently asked about the success factors of an SEO campaign. There are many, but let's take a look at three of what we consider the most important success factors. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/seo_success_fac.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/03/seo_success_fac.html Organic SEO Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:31:20 -0500 Sean Bolton As I kick off my day this morning enjoying the beautiful weather down here in Florida and sippin' on my starbucks, I noticed something I found to be quite interesting with Google. They have no user-friendly custom 404 page! Now... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/02/where_oh_where_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/02/where_oh_where_1.html Google Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:54:58 -0500 Tom Lustina I found myself in the midst of a double-take last night while watching Nip/Tuck. A patient revealed that she found McNamara Troy when she googled [free plastic surgery]. Now Nip/Tuck has a history of sprinkling web talk into episodes (YouTube... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/02/niptuck_drops_g.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/02/niptuck_drops_g.html Google Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:27:35 -0500 Brett Lane If you are a PR professional and looking for a way to track your newly syndicated press releases across a local platform then you've got to check out "Google's News" new local search feature. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/02/tracking_local.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/02/tracking_local.html Online Publicity Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:19:25 -0500 Tom Lustina What does first glance show the thousands of searchers looking for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each day? The first thing a results obsessed searcher might note is the number of results. Hillary has more than twice as many relevant... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/barack_vs_hilla.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/barack_vs_hilla.html 2008 Election Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:40:46 -0500 John Lustina Sometimes it's hard for us to imagine that there is a finite set of clicks on any given day. The business model in a closed set like this, then, must discover what to do to increase the value of the average click within the set on a given day. Cue the smart people at Google tasked with making more money. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/less_sponsored.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/less_sponsored.html PPC Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:27:34 -0500 Tom Lustina Matt Cutts talked a while back about algorithmic changes to heighten Google's host crowding capabilities. Now he said they would not apply this across the board, but the below serp for [google adsense] shows some kinks. And further down on... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/what_was_that_a.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/01/what_was_that_a.html Google Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:06:11 -0500