The Use of the URL and H1 Tag in SEO
After adopting the perspective of someone who is searching for your content and creating your <title> tag (covered in my previous post), the next step in optimizing your page is to craft its URL and H1 tag.
Stop SOPA
If you're not aware of the stop online piracy act (SOPA) and the growing opposition to it, take a moment to read up on it. If you're as concerned about it as I am, I encourage you to make your protest known...
Think Like a Searcher
How does one think like a searcher? First, read the page you are optimizing, then ask yourself,
Offline Thinking
It helps to get offline sometimes. Offline thinking has been a theme I can trace back through just about everything I've written on this blog and elsewhere over the years, from the future of the web to the post-screen web to the web of tomorrow to offline thinking for screen workers to offline information architecture planning to my recent PRINT Magazine columns, Smarter, Better Cyborgs and Future Daydream. Here, I'd like to suggest a few ways you can try to integrate offline thinking into your own process...
How To Succeed With Google
It always amazes me how many shortcuts people will try in order to do well with Google when Google makes it so easy to succeed if you simply play by the rules. There is one catch, though, and I want to get it out of the way at the outset. You have to write. If you regularly add unique, expertise-based content to your site, then SEO will be easy. We will take a close look at how exactly to do this in the content strategy section. If you do not regularly add unique, expertise-based content to your site then doing well with Google is not an option for you and SEO is not worth wasting your time on.
Google isn’t a Public Service, it’s a Corporation
You may have already heard that Google has announced an adjustment to the way their search engine works, something they're calling "Search, plus Your World"...So, yes, search is going to be very different. Less objective, more personalized. And despite on the internet in response, this isn't really a surprise. It's been clear for some time that Google's best bet in retaining user commitment and let-me-help-you-experience-the-internet dominance is in increasing personalization...
Future Daydream
My original title: "A Post-Screen Future." No matter. The illustration by Zut Alors! is as if someone opened the hidden door behind the file cabinet and crawled down that strange tunnel into my brain and saw what I saw and took a snapshot. I guess that's exactly the point
What’s Good for Google is Good for the Gander
Google has made it simple for us. When talking about SEO, the only SE you really need to consider is Google. They have had over sixty- five percent of the organic search engine market share for the past ten years running (they currently have approximately eighty-four percent). Their sheer popularity is not the main reason that what
Even Big Huge Massive Companies Make Mistakes
In this month's newsletter, I've done my best to explain the effects of Google's recent move to encrypt search queries made by users logged in to their Google accounts. Maybe it really was the result of a sincere care for user privacy