These Animated Search Engine Bot Crawl Visualizations are the result of a one year experiment on the behaviour of Yahoo, MSN & Google search engine bots. You can click on the pictures to watch the animated visualizations from drunkmenworkhere. MSN Bot Visual Animation Yahoo Slurp Visual Animation Google Bot Visual Animation Definitely worth further study. [...]
Linkology is the “50 most linked to blogs relate” according to data derived from Technorati. What makes this interesting, is the implied assumption that these are 50 of the most important blogs. When looked at from an SEO perspective, then the value is relatively obvious. However when looked at from a PR and/or effective reach [...]
“About This Site” is a plugin for Firefox that makes it easy to check: * Alexa traffic detail and related sites * Del.icio.us linkbacks * Google related pages, cache and link information * Kinja site readers * Netcraft reports * Open Directory site listing * Popdex search for citations * Technorati link cosmos * Wayback [...]
Google Analytics launches. Lot’s of features including “Funnel Visualization” that have been lacking from easy to use free stats packages.
SEOmoz | Search Engine Ranking Factors Here is a list of factors in SERPs, aggregated & weighted by a very respectable group of SEOs. Excellent reference for SEO.
Targeting Documents and Terms Through Co-Occurrence Datais a paper written by Dr. Garcia. In which he explains in detail how to choose which keyword in a two term phrase to focus on for SEO. By way of example the phrase “car insurance” is analyzed, with the end result showing that it is better to target [...]
This has almost entirely replaced my use of the SEO Open plugin. It’s incredibly useful when exploring potential link partners for offpage optimization.
Here is the Meta Tags windows : Finally the Keywords Density windows Originally from SEO & Web Marketing News One of the most useful extension for Firefox have upgrade to v 1.9 and now offer you NoFollow Links Highlighting and Keywords Density since version 1.6.
Here is the picture of Search Status who appears unobtrusively at the bottom of the browser on the status bar.
This is the Menu picture when you click on the Quirk logo in the status bar.
Do yourself a favor. Close the door, turn on your speakers and devote seven minutes to watching this flash movie .
When I first came across this about a year ago it blew my mind. It’s a tiny bit dated, but still incredible. Go ahead, watch it now! (then read the rest of this post)
While I think some of the specifics are unlikely (or even silly) the examples of the New Media Economics and business models are brilliant. The personalized content meme is definitely out there.
Today at SEO Blackhat I saw a very interesting question tied to the Googlezon idea.
“Who is really pioneering the computer generated content, the rewording and content scraping technology of the Web?
http://seoblackhat.com/2005/07/28/seo-black-hat-enabling-googlezon-and-the-greater-good/”>SEO Black Hats.”
Search engine spam technology keeps improving, so search engines keep evolving. The best SE spammers are the ones who provide as close to EXACTLY what the search engine is looking for as possible. The best search engine is the one that finds as close to EXACTLY what the user is looking for as possible. Therefore as search engines improve, SE spammers will have to evolve as well to deliver EXACTLY what the user is looking for, transforming them from a hated nuisance to a valued resource.
“Evolution has a nearly infinite multiplier on its search power and it just happens to invest its search effort in the mathematically optimal most efficient search allocation” link
Sometimes closing your eyes gets you exactly where you want to go. Evolution is blind, in that mutations occur without design. Yet even so, evolution produces the most optimal adaptation for any given environment over time.
“Evolution is an information processing system building vast database of information and synthesizing complex measurements of that information and doing an incredibly powerful search and mining of that information database to discover and refine improvements.” link
Sounds a lot like what some of the Big Boys and others are up to, as well as some of other players.
One of the obvious models that Search can learn from Evolution is consequences.
In nature, adaptations/mutations have consequences. Constant feedback is provided by the environment using signals ranging from prosperity to death.
The adult entertainment industry has been doing this for years via Toplists, TGPs (self sorting based on productivity), and partner accounts (symbiotic relationships).
Google is on the track with the toolbar voting buttons, and others like del.icio.us are even further along.
More accurate/efficient feedback means shorter cycles/generations which means less time to optimization.
Not many people bother to give feedback unless it is automatic, or they see immediate benefit from doing so. Personalization or Customization is terrific incentive for people to give feedback.
Maybe what Search needs is to introduce Death into the equation?