Are Toyota breaking the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
It might not be malicious, but whilst looking at the Toyota website today I noticed that they may well be breaking the webmaster guidelines (albeit not as blatantly as BMW did).
Their homepage re-directs using javascript (presumably for tracking purposes) but looking at the source, just under the javascript you may notice the following:
<body bgcolor=”#ffffff” […]
SMX Advanced Seattle - Day 2 Round Up
Day 2 of SMX Advanced Seattle was a definite improvement on Day 1. With more sessions in an open format, devoted entirely to questions or discussions, there was a lot more that actually lived up to the advanced name.
The session entitled Better Ways allowed attendees to ask some of the most respected names in […]
SMX Advanced Seattle - Day 1 Round-Up
Following the rather disappointing session on duplicate content, the later sessions were a (slight) improvement.
The session on social media saw Rand from SEOmoz listing the most influential social media sites for ranking & traffic is, which had YouTube at #1. It also included Yelp which I had never heard of before, and the nugget of […]
Duplicate Content Session At SMX Advanced
The first session proper of the day, on how search engines handle duplicate content, is not the best ad for Danny’s new event.
Whilst the name of the show is SMX Advanced, after listening to the presentations by representatives of MSN, Ask, Yahoo! & Google, I’m wondering whether in the interests of trade descriptions, it […]
Matt Cutts At SMX Advanced Seattle - Day 1
It’s day 1 at Danny Sullivan’s inaugural event since splitting from Search Engine Strategies, and there’s a room full of people listening to Google’s Matt Cutts. It’s an interesting mix at what has been billed as the first search marketing event aimed solely at those with more advanced knowledge; plenty of the more well known […]
Mahalo: Human (Ego) Powered Search Engine
Jason Calacanis is a well known personality in the internet sector. He has done everything from running a newspaper during the original dot com boom, to founding blogging network Weblogs (which he later sold to AOL). His latest project is a human powered search engine called Mahalo (it’s Hawaiian for ‘thank you’).
Calacanis prepared for this […]
Who Is Big Brother?
Although it seems like only a couple of weeks ago since the last series ended, it would appear that Big Brother is back. Yes, in what is now a better indicator of the imminent start of the British summer than washed out test matches, the new series of Big Brother started last night.
Being the search […]
MSN Doesn’t Dig Digg
People often ask why MSN hasn’t been able to dominate the search landscape as it has in the PC sector. One reason might be that it doesn’t provide results as relevant as the other major engines.
For example, Threadwatch have pointed out that if you search for the social news site digg on MSN Live, the […]
Google & Gordon Brown
A post on the ever excellent SEOmoz about how well candidates for the 2008 US Presidential elections are making use of SEO got me wondering whether the politicians involved in the iminent campaign to elect a new Labour leader and deputy leader were doing any better.
When searching for the names of the three likely candidates […]
How To Write For People & Search Engines
There are many buzz phrases that fly in & out of fashion in this sector, but recently most have centred on the fact that for a succesful website, you have to have great content:
Content is king; Conversation is king - content is something to talk about; etc..
So, when thinking of search engine optimisation and the […]
