Search Engine Optimisation

Experiments, Libraries and general articles on the Search Engine Optimisation industry, internationally and in Australia.

May 21, 2007

Case Studies - Evaluate Your Website in 30 Seconds

You know how to toggle CSS and Javascript on your own website so now let’s put it to the test. In just under 30 seconds let’s see what problems we can reveal with actual live websites, and learn how to interpret the results. Get your web developer toolbar ready, we’re going in.

May 15, 2007

How to Evaluate Your Website in 30 Seconds

A quick and dirty technique to evaluate your websites for accessibility, best practice web development and if search engine can index them efficiently all in under 30 seconds. Anyone can do this, you don’t need to be technical or a web developer.

May 3, 2007

Yahoo meddles with “no-content” class

Yahoo declares an inline “no-content” class to dictate to it’s search engine which content on your page is not actually content worth crawling and indexing. For real? Have they not heard about Microformats or the recent concepts regarding POSH development practices? Yahoo is meddling, and not in a good way.

May 2, 2007

Web 2.0 and Search - CeBIT Presentation

Extra resources and summary of presentation for CeBIT, Australia. This presentation was on Web 2.0 and Search, covering technologies such as AJAX, Flash, audio and video and how to make them accessible and search engine friendly.

April 19, 2007

Spamming Search Engines with Flair

Awesome… I figure if you are going to spam the search engines, why hide behind your silly white-on-white text CSS trickery?
Step up and show them who is boss :-)

The text above was found at the bottom of a website, under the actual content. I guess you could call it a ’super-footer’?

April 12, 2007

Search Engines and Web 2.0 - Report Card

Can search engines access all of the content on the web? An ongoing experiment in search engine indexing capabilities, and the accessibility and standards compliance of each method used, should give us some idea of where we stand with modern web development.

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