What should a developer know before building a public web site? - Stack Overflow
november 2010 by ohskylab
Honking great lists of things to remember.
standards
code
development
performance
security
seo
stackoverflow
web
november 2010 by ohskylab
SEO: The Free Beginner’s Guide From SEOmoz
august 2010 by ohskylab
I mostly hate myself for saving this.
seo
seomoz
web
august 2010 by ohskylab
Does Google Censor Tiananmen Square? How To Create an Internet Hoax « Aza on Design
august 2010 by ohskylab
Answer: no. Clever hack with security implications. "In effect, this is taking the old phishing trick of homoglyph attacks—an attack consisting of using confusing look-a-like URLs like paypa1.com with the numeral one replacing the letter ell—and adding a dash of cross-site scripting but where you become the agent of infection: the supposed “censorship” may be shocking enough to cause you to forward the link."
google
hack
phishing
search
seo
security
web
via:alastc
august 2010 by ohskylab
How to Use Link TITLE Attribute Correctly | Search Engine Journal
february 2010 by ohskylab
Useful one to point clients at. "A couple of years ago, Googlers confirmed they did not use TITLE attribute in the algorithm because it was used too seldom. This has changes since then but I still failed to spot any evidence that link TITLE attribute somehow influenced the rankings."
via:alastc
accessibility
seo
links
title
attributes
web
february 2010 by ohskylab
Open Site Explorer Link Analysis
january 2010 by ohskylab
SEOMoz's new link popularity checker and backlink analysis tool.
web
tools
marketing
seo
metrics
seomoz
january 2010 by ohskylab
Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool
september 2009 by ohskylab
"Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results."
tools
testing
google
seo
microformats
september 2009 by ohskylab
Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz
august 2009 by ohskylab
"Each participant was asked to rate more than 100 search ranking factors along with specific questions about hot issues in the SEO field. This document [helps] provide transparency into what matters (and doesn’t) for best practices in search engine optimization."
web
seo
statistics
seomoz
august 2009 by ohskylab
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Optimize your crawling & indexing
august 2009 by ohskylab
Some handy tips, not all 100% obvious. Like the phrase "infinite crawl space".
tools
seo
google
optimization
urls
via:ihart
august 2009 by ohskylab
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich Snippets
may 2009 by ohskylab
Google has started looking for microformats and RDFa. Finally, something concrete to put in front of clients when arguing for microformats.
microformats
web
google
seo
may 2009 by ohskylab
Using social media for SEO | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
may 2009 by ohskylab
"The shift is from one of web page optimization and link hounding to content and engagement optimization. In short, search engine optimization and social media are now undeniably intertwined."
social
seo
optimization
search
via:stevenparker
may 2009 by ohskylab
Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies - ReadWriteWeb
april 2009 by ohskylab
Weird analogy but some useful points.
marketing
seo
metrics
social
web
april 2009 by ohskylab
Ending the Great H1 Debate | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs
march 2009 by ohskylab
According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.
seo
google
h1
web
semantics
html
accessibility
march 2009 by ohskylab
Content-to-markup ratio bookmarklet / phpied.com
march 2009 by ohskylab
"When you care about performance, or SEO (or just doing a good job as web dev) an interesting data point is the ratio of page content vs. the markup used to present this content. Or... how much crap we put in HTML in order to present what the users want to see - the content."
web
seo
performance
markup
bookmarklet
metrics
march 2009 by ohskylab
The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it
february 2009 by ohskylab
"While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam."
google
ia
ux
seo
web
february 2009 by ohskylab
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
february 2009 by ohskylab
"We now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL."
canonical
web
seo
google
february 2009 by ohskylab
The country's new robots.txt file
january 2009 by ohskylab
[this is good]
web
seo
robots.txt
transparency
funny
usa
bush
obama
january 2009 by ohskylab
wpSEO - The ultimate SEO-Plugin for WordPress. SEO made easy!
january 2009 by ohskylab
"wpSEO stands for efficient, fully-automated and affordable SEO in WordPress, the state of the art Weblog-System. WordPress SEO made easy." Pay.
tools
seo
wordpress
plugins
january 2009 by ohskylab
Google Analytics Blog: Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can!
november 2008 by ohskylab
This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
web
flash
google
seo
analytics
metrics
tracking
as3
november 2008 by ohskylab
Coding Horror: Designing For Evil
may 2008 by ohskylab
"When you design your software, work under the assumption that some of your users will be evil. They'll be out to game the system, to defeat it at every turn, to cause denial of service exploits, to attack and humiliate other users, to fill your site with
spam
web
seo
craigslist
codinghorror
evil
may 2008 by ohskylab
Where SEO and accessibility collide | AlastairC
may 2008 by ohskylab
"The cheat sheet is from seomoz.org [...] Some of the advice directly contributes to an accessible site (which is something many have noted before), but a couple of items will impact on the experience for people using particular technologies."
accessibility
seo
web
may 2008 by ohskylab
The Miseducation of SEO | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility
april 2008 by ohskylab
Another miseducated SEO rears their ugly head and slanders a well-known development technique as well as a high-profile SEO, accusing both of being spam. Better yet [...] Image Replacement has been dubbed “poor man’s cloaking”.
css
web
accessibility
seo
hiddentext
april 2008 by ohskylab
Access Matters » Blog Archive » “Off left” banned by Google?
april 2008 by ohskylab
Short answer is no. Thank goodness. "Yes, Google was right. Spam was stuffed into hidden text on my site. They were not complaining about my accessibility technique."
accessibility
seo
web
april 2008 by ohskylab
SEO and Accessibility » SlideShare
february 2008 by ohskylab
Developer-focussed, gets to the point.
accessibility
seo
web
february 2008 by ohskylab
NUCONOMY | Insights you never imagined
february 2008 by ohskylab
"Go beyond the old Page View model and start to measure engagement. Understand your users' activities and how they interact with the various features of your site."
analytics
metrics
seo
statistics
web
february 2008 by ohskylab
Waxy.org: Daily Log: The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
january 2008 by ohskylab
"Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles."
spam
thetimes
seo
web
january 2008 by ohskylab
SEOmoz | Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization
january 2008 by ohskylab
a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.
seo
web
january 2008 by ohskylab
Social Media Marketing eBook: Blogger Relations, Facebook Marketing, SMO and Word of Mouth on the Web
december 2007 by ohskylab
"This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook."
marketing
books
web
social
seo
december 2007 by ohskylab
Subdomains and subdirectories
december 2007 by ohskylab
"Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen."
google
seo
domains
web
subdomains
december 2007 by ohskylab
Link Value Factors | Wiep.net
december 2007 by ohskylab
"Opinions of 17 well respected, international SEO and Link Building professionals on nearly 40 factors that possibly influence the value of a link."
seo
web
links
december 2007 by ohskylab
SEOmoz | Subdomains, Subfolders and Top-Level Domains
november 2007 by ohskylab
"A new domain, even for many of the world's largest brands, is not a particularly good idea."
seo
seomoz
subdomains
domains
web
november 2007 by ohskylab
Semantic HTML and Search Engine Optimization - Opera Developer Community
october 2007 by ohskylab
"or How to be a POSH SEO!"
seo
web
markup
posh
october 2007 by ohskylab
StumbleUpon Will Love Us Even When Google Doesn’t
october 2007 by ohskylab
Some interesting stuff on StumbleUpon.
stumbleupon
google
pagerank
web
seo
october 2007 by ohskylab
Readability, Uniqueness, Hackability and Meaning in URL Design - Article - andrewingram
october 2007 by ohskylab
"URL design is arguably one of the most important areas of website developement. Not only do URLs generally have huge visual priority in web browsers but they’re also shown on search result listings and get used for matching search terms."
usability
url
web
uri
seo
philosophy
october 2007 by ohskylab
5 Things That Will Improve Your Web Site Traffic (Plus 1 to Avoid) « Web Worker Daily
october 2007 by ohskylab
Some reasonably useful basics.
seo
traffic
blogging
optimization
october 2007 by ohskylab
IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders
september 2007 by ohskylab
"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.
seo
search
ip
google
geo
september 2007 by ohskylab
Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com
september 2007 by ohskylab
"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.
web2.0
bookmarks
social
web
del.icio.us
seo
spam
september 2007 by ohskylab
nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure
september 2007 by ohskylab
Great article following up on a robots.txt survey. The linked HTTP headers survey is amusing, too.
web
http
robots.txt
seo
statistics
september 2007 by ohskylab
Redirection - Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe
august 2007 by ohskylab
"Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have."
wordpress
plugin
seo
htaccess
web
august 2007 by ohskylab
Do-it-yourself SEO and SEO Project Management | SoloSEO
may 2007 by ohskylab
"SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place."
projectmanagement
seo
web
tools
may 2007 by ohskylab
You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com
may 2007 by ohskylab
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' mem
google
search
names
seo
identity
marketing
may 2007 by ohskylab
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: What's new with Sitemaps.org?
april 2007 by ohskylab
"Every website can have a robots.txt file in a standard location, so we decided to let you tell us about your Sitemap in the robots.txt file. All you have to do is add a line."
sitemaps
google
seo
sitemap
search
web
robots.txt
april 2007 by ohskylab
popuri.us :: quickly check your site's Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and more!
march 2007 by ohskylab
"Check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more"
statistics
seo
google
web
traffic
march 2007 by ohskylab
Adobe - TechNote : Flash and Search Engines
march 2007 by ohskylab
"There are a number of methods available for getting information about a Macromedia Flash movie picked up by popular search engines such as Google."
seo
flash
flex
web
march 2007 by ohskylab
SEOmoz | Be Wary of How the Engines Use your Title and Meta Description Tags
march 2007 by ohskylab
"While Ask & Google use the title and meta description directly from Netflix, Yahoo! and MSN are pulling data from the Yahoo! directory and DMOZ (respectively)."
seo
dmoz
search
html
march 2007 by ohskylab
SEOmoz | Reasons Why Corporate Blogging Fails
february 2007 by ohskylab
"Some of the worst problems plaguing companies who attempt to enter the world of blogging."
blogging
seo
business
february 2007 by ohskylab
» Paid Search Marketing Vs. Natural Search Promotion
january 2007 by ohskylab
"Consider promoting your website in natural (organic) search results."
seo
google
web
organic
search
january 2007 by ohskylab
How to Create Content That Ranks Well in Search Engines | Copyblogger
january 2007 by ohskylab
"The same emotional forces that prompt us to buy can also cause us to link, bookmark, and Digg. The context is different, as are the nuances, but it’s still a matter of providing compelling benefits in the form of content."
seo
blogging
search
google
content
copy
web
january 2007 by ohskylab
Google Webmaster Tools - Site Status
december 2006 by ohskylab
"Use this step-by-step process to learn more about your site's status in the Google index."
google
tools
seo
web
december 2006 by ohskylab
101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer
december 2006 by ohskylab
Info on Google's new Website Optimizer tool.
google
seo
web
analytics
metrics
december 2006 by ohskylab
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