First Link Priority? Do Multiple Links From 1 Page to Another Page Count?



Hi Matt. If we add more than one links from page A to page B, do we pass more PageRank juice and additional anchor text info? Also can you tell us if links from A to A count? STOP PRESS – All-round nice guy and official representative for Google published a a video recently telling [...]

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How Many Words In ALT Text For Google, Yahoo + Bing?



How many words will Google, Yahoo and Bing count as part of ALT Text on a page? Someone asked me this on the other day and I wondered if a little simple test might offer an answer. This sort of post is usually a decent way of picking up natural forum links wether it’s right [...]

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Does Google Count Internal Keyword Rich Links To Your Home Page?



One time (at band camp) I manipulated first link priority to the home page of a site for the site’s main keyword – that is, instead of using ‘home‘ to link to my home page, I linked to the home page with “insert keyword“). Soon afterwords the site dropped in rankings for it’s main term [...]

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Dynamic Titles In Google SERP Snippet



UPDATE – In 2012 – it is VERY COMMON for Google to create it’s own search snippet title, and effectively ignoring the title you specified for the page. I’m seeing a LOT more of Google choosing itself what the best snippet title it can generate in search engine result pages, rather than rely on what [...]

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Google Ignores Link Title Attributes, Acronym & ABBR Tags?



Recently I discussed a few observations about how Google treats certain elements of a page – a meta description test and keyword in the uri test. The test page itself has a few other points of interest: Does Google Count The Acronym Tag? As usual, I look at what I rank for, in this case [...]

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