Updated April 2013 Did Google make a change in April 2013 in the way it is handling anchor text links? That is – how many words, (maximum) you get credit for in a plain html text backlink? Can you now fit 16 words in a link? I wanted to see if there was a maximum [...]
How Google, Yahoo & Bing Handle Title Snippets If They Choke On A Page Title
May 15th, 2009 |
UPDATED 2012-04-02 I showed recently Google will use the next available Header, be it a H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 if your page title element is screwed. The snippet below shows Google using a H6 header as the page title. Yahoo and Bing now much work the same (as Bing actually powers Yahoo [...]
Google Will Use H1,H2,H3,H4,H5 & H6 Headers As Titles For Page Snippet
May 11th, 2009 |
I like finding Google’s limits. I ran a quick test to see if Google will use any Header Tag as a page title if for some reason it does not like the page title element you give it (as I thought it might). The result was if the title element is malformed, Google will use [...]
Canonical Tag SEO – Canonical Link Element Best Practice
February 16th, 2009 |
Google SEO – Matt Cutts from Google shares tips on the new rel=”canonical” tag (more accurately – the canonical link element) that the 3 top search engines now support. Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all agreed to work together in a “joint effort to help reduce duplicate content for larger, more complex sites, and the result [...]
Google Promotes Uncool URLs? But Do You Need Keywords In A URL To Rank Better?
September 23rd, 2008 |
Google recently gave more assistance to webmasters, if you can call it that, concerning url rewriting, or changing dynamic variable filled URL to more search engine friendly, more human readable static looking URLS (OK, URI). They actually could be interpreted as recommending not to rewrite a website urls, because there is a chance you could [...]
