David Wilkinson is a 12-year-old blogger that covers some very diverse topics. He also gets a decent amount of traffic and doesn’t spend a dime doing it. He has written an article for ProBlogger detailing how he does it. Care to guess what his first method in getting traffic is? Search Engine Optimization.
No big surprise [...]
According to CarstenCumbrowski of Search Engine Journal the massive Wikipedia site is now utilizing the NOFOLLOW link attribute to reduce the credit spammers are given by having links from Wikipedia to their sites. Every link on every page is now a NOFOLLOW link. This won’t eliminate spam at Wikipedia but what the NOFOLLOW link attribute [...]
Wired:
Microsoft is formally launching its new internet search engine, several months after it debuted in test form.
Microsoft’s own search engine will permanently replace the Yahoo search technology that has been used on Microsoft’s MSN website. But Yahoo’s technology will still be used for the “sponsored” listings that companies pay for, and that appear separately alongside [...]
Originally Written 20 Dec 2003
This article is designed to help individuals build web pages that are search engine optimized as well as human friendly. It will focus intently on the process used to develop web pages for this web site and how pages are optimized before being published on this web site.
Any good web developer [...]
A simple, yet powerful search engine optimization (SEO) checklist
This SEO Checklist is one of many that can be found on the Internet. What makes this SEO checklist different than everyone else’s is that it’s accurate and simple. It’s a listing of all the search engine optimization used across various Short Consulting web sites. This list [...]
The Hardest Part of Search Engine Optimization
Link popularity is a key to improving search engine rankings of any web site. One of the hardest parts of search engine optimization (SEO) is improving the visibility of a web site by increasing link popularity. But, link popularity is the most effective way of SEO. Every search engine’s [...]
As the Short Family Web Site has been increasing in popularity I’ve started to pay some attention to the statistics about our traffic collected by Alexa.
Alexa is an Amazon.com company that was founded in 1996. According to their web site, “Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and [...]
Google’s social network, orkut, has long been dominated by Brazilian’s. I’ve known this for quite some time but I was shocked when I looked at orkut’s demographics breakdown today. Why? I think the numbers speak for themselves:
country
Brazil: 62.06%
United States: 10.89%
Iran: 7.58%
Pakistan: 2.89%
India: 2.51%
Canada: 1.21%
Estonia: 1.16%
United [...]
Google has been working on this for a little while but nonetheless it’s a good thing, http://desktop.google.com/
This tool allows you to:
Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly
View web pages you’ve seen, even when you’re not online
Search as easily as you do on Google
Reuters says:
The Google Desktop offering takes direct aim at Microsoft Corp., [...]
What started on 6 October 2004 appears to be complete. Google has finished a round of PageRank updates to web sites in their index. This latest update was probably the most anticipated update of the year.
Judging from the PageRank changes over at the Short Family Web Site it would appear that the updates [...]
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