by Brian Ussery on January 26, 2009 | 
As mentioned on Search Engine Roundtable and Blogoscoped.com, last weekend I noticed favicons in my Google search results for queries using the “site” operator. At first I wasn’t sure if this was a Google test or something else but this issue was later confirmed as a test by Googleer JohnMu.
Additional screen shots of fav icons in Google SERPs.
by Brian Ussery on January 3, 2009 |
Google has launched a new experimental version of their recently introduced SearchWiki interface which helps better target results. This latest Google Labs experiment introduces sound effects that make removing results from SERPs fun! When users participating in the experiment take aim at the “X” icon which removes results and and then click, they’ll hear target practice like sound in addition to the SearchWiki animation. According to Google, the new sound effect was recorded by Co-Founder and President, Technology, Sergey Brin.
To check out the experiment visit:
http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html#SearchWikiPoofNoise
UPDATE: seems this feature isn’t as new as first believed……
by Brian Ussery on December 29, 2008 |
There have been a number of recent posts focused on link building and finding quality inbound links. In addition to those better known sites offering non-nofollowed link love, here are some other examples you may not have noticed.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all and remember to link safely in 2009!
by Brian Ussery on December 5, 2008 |
Thanks for all the great feedback regarding my recent post on Flash! I’ll be talking about this more on Wednesday during the “SEO Friendly Flash” session at SES Chicago but, wanted to provide a little update to my original case studies.
Without going into detail, Google seems to be associating text content in Flash with the correct parent URL and indexing both as a single entity on an increasingly frequent basis. While I haven’t been able to get any type of “Official” confirmation from Google or Adobe, this just might be very big news when it comes to SEO for Flash. Implication being, the marriage of meta data about hypertext structure with text content in Flash for the first time from the perspective of search engines.
by Brian Ussery on October 26, 2008 |
Since my previous post about Google removing, “Directory Submissions” from Webmaster Guidelines, I’ve noticed the UK version of Google’s Link Schemes page now includes the following sentence:
“In addition, submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.”
This sentence seems be available in the UK version of the page but, not yet in other versions.
Is this a simple mistake or a sign of what is to come?