Stay Tuned for a Video SEO Test…
I'm also curious about the effect a video transcript has on the rankings of a YouTube video with captions turned off and with captions turned on. In the case of a transcript uploaded without timing...
View ArticleGoogle Video Test Results: Captions Vs Description Vs Speech Recognition
YouTube and Google Video search both index and factor into rankings the keywords found in Caption files but not (yet) the keywords said in videos without captions or transcripts.
View ArticleTalking Microformats – Embedded SEO Dojo Radio Episode Six
As for Micro-formatting, there are a lot of great resources out there for this as well. But I found the conversation below to be a good listen. Right around 43-minutes in they start discussing all of...
View ArticleDoohicky Widget Review – Testing RDFa for Rich Snippets in Search
This review gives the doohicky widget 4 out of 5 stars because it proved to be the best widget for the job. Compared to the thingamabob widgets, these dookickies are real show-stoppers. They come...
View ArticleOne Reason to Scrap Your Meta Description
here's the problem: If Google uses your meta description in the SERP, they're not giving you a pull quote in the preview. It's strange, and probably a glitch that will get fixed, but for now it is...
View ArticleA Tool I Use All The Time: Simple Web-Based HTTP Header Status Checker
I keep coming back to this HTTP header status code checker that I've been using for years. It's a free, web-based tool from the SEO Consultants Directory and isn't anything complicated, but it works...
View ArticleWhy Not Let Webmasters Put Rel Canonical in the Body?
This week some really smart people discussed the advantages of rel canonical over 301 redirects. See Canonical Tag or 301 Redirect by Tony Adam, and Cross-Domain Canonical: The New 301 by Rand Fishkin....
View ArticleFiller Content VS Useful Content
I don’t like filler content. Visitors don’t like it. Google doesn’t like it. And panda bears hate it about as much as they hate having sex with each other. The problem is most of us have blind-spots to...
View ArticleMaking the Leap From EMD to Branded EMD May Be Harder Than You Think
If you have an exact match domain (EMD) for a popular query you may be noticing that it isn’t as easy to stay on top for that query as it used to be. If not, you may be noticing it soon because many...
View ArticleDo You Have a Dirty Sitemap? Here’s How to Check…
In an interview a few months ago with Stone Temple Consulting, Bing’s Duane Forrester said this: “Your Sitemaps need to be clean. We have a 1% allowance for dirt in a Sitemap. Examples of dirt are if...
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