Facebook’s OpenGraph Search

Facebook recently released their own OpenGraph Search Engine, based on their OpenGraph system. If you were wondering what those like buttons that display everywhere are for, the OpenGraph Search Engine is the answer. Facebook’s OpenGraph Search Engine will display liked pages in search results. What does this mean for search engine optimisation? The OpenGraph Search Engine is in its infancy as of now, but it’s a very big deal. If Facebook manages to pull this off, we’re going to see a future where the Like has replaced the link as the web’s currency. One study has revealed that people are spending ... 0 Comments

Syndicating Your RSS for Faster Indexing

We've been talking about RSS feeds and what it can do for your website. We know that incorporating RSS feeds into your site results in more frequent visits from search engine spiders and thus leads to faster indexing. Have you realized however that by syndicating your RSS feeds successfully you can achieve the same results? How so? If you have subscribers when a search engine spider crawls your subscriber's site (assuming that your subscriber incorporated YOUR feed into his own website) the feeds will of course contain a link back to your website. Once the ... 0 Comments

SEO in the Facebook Age

Facebook. What started as a social network site for College students, has now grown into a big company and force to be reckon with on the Internet. It has slowly encroached on many things and affected and disrupted online industries as it grew. One of these is SEO, a field that as its name suggests, used to concern only with traditional search engines. Currently, people rely heavily on search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing to find information on the internet. Google’s success on search -- making information available (fast and accurately) to users has jump-started ... 0 Comments

Yahoo! Sports Search

Yahoo! launched a new look for their Sports and News search early this month. I am more impressed with the sports search since Google's News search pretty much suffices for my news search needs. A look into Yahoo's Sports search was pretty fun though. Below is a screenshot of what the sports results pages looks like. As you see at the top when I searched for the braves it showed the Atlanta Brave's logo. It then gives links for the team's page, news, scores and schedules, and photos. Right under ... 0 Comments

Caffeine: The New Google Search

When Google unveiled its newer (better?) search engine everyone in the SEO world, or more accurately in the IT world, got all excited. Maybe it’s the caffeine in Google Caffeine or maybe its just simply because it was something from the big G. So what exactly is Google caffeine? Google caffeine is Google’s biggest and baddest change in search algorithm. The key to this change is that it is an actual change in the formula and not just minor tweaks. Parts of the entire search infrastructure was, according to Google, completely rewritten. The results? A search engine that will "push the ... 0 Comments

About Your SEOmoz Page Strength

Last time we talked about how you can find out your SEOmoz Page Strength. Today we'll be talking about what the results really mean and how SEOmoz came up with it. First of all according to the SEOmoz website what the tool really does for you are give you: * The Relative Importance and Visibility of a Webpage * The Potential Strength and Ability of a Page to Rank in the Search Engines * Data on Popularity, Links & Mentions of the Page Across the Web This simply ... 0 Comments

How to Increase your Technorati Links – Part 2

So we've discussed the organic way of getting more links. Now if you have a good blog but are puzzled that your Technorati rank is still not as good you might be getting short-changed by Technorati. Of course not that they are doing it intentionally but the truth is that you might have more links than they actually give you credit for. So what you can do is bring this to their attention by finding all your inbound links on your own and submitting the real list to them. According to SEO expert Stuart, ... 0 Comments

How to Increase your Technorati Links – Part 1

So now that you are part of the Technorati community you want to make sure that your having joined actually benefits you traffic-wise. To increase your rank in Technorati the number of URL's linking back to you will be counted by them. So again this bring you back to a basic SEO technique - link building. As always we've said that the first thing you really need to do to increase links is give good solid linkable content so that your number of links will grow organically. You of course do that by: - keep updated ... 0 Comments

Joining the Technorati Craze

So you want to have a popular blog and you know that Technorati is the key. Joining Technorati is really easy all you need to do is follow the steps below and keep on blogging like crazy. Have fun! To join technorati, you have to undergo their signup process which is actually very quick. The signup page can be found at this link. You have to provide your name (first and last) as well as your desired username, which should be at least four characters in length. Your email, desired password and your Country ... 0 Comments

About Technorati

I have mentioned the importance of Technorati as a traffic determinant. I realize, however, that I haven't really discussed much about it. So for the my next several posts we'll be focusing on Technorati. Technorati is a blog search engine - that is, an Internet Search engine that specializes in searching blog contents. It started with a very simple blogsearch but has since grown into one giant blog site that features an RSS/Reader (Technorati Favorites), Blog trends watcher (Technorati WTF - "Where's the Fire"), and a has paved way to web-content annotation through the famous ... 0 Comments