Yesterday I put up a quick post about Alt Tags and Image Search. Today I want to offer a more robust description of what you can do for image search. First the prevailing opinions on what affects image search.
Insert keywords into your alt tag.
The first step is including keywords in your alt tag. Images […]
Recently I have been receiving a growing number of visitors through Google Image Search. So I am going to talk a bit about the difference between search and image search.
One of that first differences it that what you call your images, file name and alt text, is not the only factor in the ranking for […]
Tags: conversion · Google · SEO
Today I started my daily blog reading with SlightlyShady’s primer for black hat networks and decided to travel through the blogroll and comment links. Every once in a while it is good to stretch into the corners of the business that I don’t read often. I found that many of these people frequent SEO-Theory. I […]
Three posts about how search engines work:
Rand Fishkin - covers how databases are likely used and what are dependent and independent variables. At the core it is a good question. He should continue this line by talking about how Yahoo! and Google work differently — especially since he places high value on links.
Micheal Martinez - […]
At the risk of butchering a statistical principle I will explain how search engines can determine the quality of links.
Search engines have a difficult job to perform. They need to take quantitative values (data points) and fulfill a qualitative criteria, users’ value of relevance. To accomplish this the search engines create algorithms — sets of […]
After my vacation in Puerto Vallarta I have been finding few things really comment worthy until today. Frankly I have been busy dealing with tax preparation, switching to 100% self employment, and holiday chaos.
As I thought to myself today, I really should post some blogs I saw thatYahoo! wants me to join them in an […]
Tags: Yahoo
Micheal Martinez is an interesting fellow. He writes expansively. Most days he puts out more written content than I put out in a week, and today is no exception. I actually have a little trouble reading his entries because of the small type and compact organization — but that is beside the point. Today he […]
Tags: conversion · Google · SEO · Yahoo
Because of my interest in the lovely and talented Vanessa Fox, and her blog Vanessa Fox Nude I have become entwined in the reputation of both Vanessa del Rio, to whom I am not related, and Vanessa Hudgens, who I have never met. All from a comment “The beautiful and talented Vanessa Fox, who I […]
Ben, one of the participants in the Netflix Prize, says that studying statistical inference suggests that Google’s Signals may have a very arbitrary relation to relevance.
One implication is that Google’s algorithm is less principled and more pragmatic than the average web designer might expect. If crappy websites tend to use more red text, using […]
