Archive for the 'Search Engine Optimization' Category
Google Auto Selecting Title Tags
Since I have been practicing SEO (to long to really remember accurately) Google has always auto populated the value of a title tag if there was no value specified. IE <title></title>. The type of data it decided to place in the title tag depended on different factors. Within the last few weeks I have noticed [...]
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SEO Meeting Turn Local Search Presentation Turn Good Info
Our SEO department Tuesday meeting turned into a company wide local search presentation! Off topic yes, but valuable it was. The staff got to learn in depth about how local search has gone wild with possibilities. The brief informal presentation covered topics like Google Local going to Google Places, the new Dashboard interface with awesome [...]
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The Value of Anchor Text in Links
I stumbled across an excellent article today from SEOmoz. They talked about the value of anchor text. It appears if you have more than one link that has the same target / destination url only the first link crawled gets the value. Of course this makes sense because engines read from left to right / [...]
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7 Additions to Google Analytics
1. Analytics Intelligence with Custom Alerts Using an algorithmic driven Intelligence engine, Analytics Intelligence monitors data patterns over daily, weekly and monthly periods. Significant changes in data trends and insights you may not have noticed are surfaced directly in your account. You can also create your own Custom Alerts that monitor your selection of dimensions [...]
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