March 1, 2007 | Posted By : Paul Hirsch at 9:53 AM PERMALINK | Blog Comments (2)

Do Search Engines Index That?

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.

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November 19, 2006 | Posted By : Paul Hirsch at 10:01 AM PERMALINK | Blog Comments (0)

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, live together in perfect harmony...

If you are a Web designer/master, and you care about your search engine rankings, you probably have a Google account and a list of sites with submitted site maps which you submitted in order to speed up the indexing and ranking process.

(If you don't have an account, you need to stop everything you're doing right now, create an account and start uploading XML site maps for the Web sites you manage!)

You're onboard, right? Good, because I have some news for you. Microsoft and Yahoo! have adopted the Google site map XML protocol for their own submission purposes. All that extra work you've been doing to get yourself noticed on Google can now pay off with the other two largest search engines on the Net.

Not comfortable creating your own XML sitemaps? XML-Sitemaps.com can do it for you. Input your URL, generate the markup, save it to an XML file, upload it and tell Google, Yahoo and Microsoft where to find it. It's that simple.

Best of luck with your future rankings!

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