I’ve recently involved myself in a series of experiments aimed at getting a better understanding of how search engines function. Our first experiment is complete and published. I hope Web masters find this interesting and useful!
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Approximately four months ago, a small group of Web developers representing the International Web Developers Network (IWDN) devised an interesting search engine experiment. The question had been raised whether the text within a link’s title attribute gets picked up by search engines or not. None of us knew the answer, and before long, we discovered we didn’t know the answer to a lot of questions regarding how search engines index text in HTML.
The purpose of this experiment was to see which methods of presenting information on a Web site would get picked up by search engines and which methods would be ignored.
Read article test cases and results.
About Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is a moderator on WebHostingTalk.com, the largest Web hosting community on the Internet, and he is a founder and Core Team member of the International Web Developers Network (IWDN). He is co-owner of Studio1337, a Web design and development company located in Akron/Canton, Ohio, West. Hartford, Conn. and Teesside, U.K. Paul received his bachelors degree from Kent State University in Electronic Media Production, with minors in Computer Information Systems and Sociology. He earned a masters degree in Media Management from Kent as well. Through his theWHIR blog, he will offer perspectives on developments in design technology for the people who create what Web hosts host.
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