http://www.addurltodirectories.com Webmasters Blog - Search Engines, Directories, SEO Thu, 15 May 2008 08:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I was checking the links that have been popping up to SEOmoz, I noted that many come from international SEO communities, forums & blogs. I'm flattered and certainly quite pleased, but it also got me thinking about the value of international links in the eyes of the search engines. Following ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/international-links/2008/05/15/ Even a great technological innovation like PageRank will eventually be supplanted. For a web information retreival model, PR has already had a remarkable long life, yet its downfall has been predicted across the web by some of the very best in the industry. Here's a short list: Does Google still use ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/approaching-the-end-of-the-pagerank-era/2008/05/15/ Many in the SEO world have long questioned the neccessity of re-writing dynamic URLs - those that pull content from databases - into static URLs that appear to end with a finite .php/.asp/.html/etc. A dynamic URL is often criticized by search optimizers because of the difficulties search engines have had ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/static-vs-dynamic-urls/2008/05/15/ The great advantage of a sitemap (for SEO purposes) comes from its ability to reduce the number of links that must be followed in order to reach all pages on a site. Sitemaps have a unique ability to garner the attention of search engine spiders and crawlers - making for ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/sitemaps-and-spidering/2008/05/15/ Code validation is an issue that has been tossed back and forth in the SEO world for years. The W3C's standards appear to have the general support of the validation and standards organizations across the Internet, thus leading SEOs to ask the leading question, Does having validated code help with search ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/w3c-valid-code/2008/05/15/ The duplicate content penalty has been around for several months, perhaps even a full year, but SEOs still aren't fully aware of how dangerous and malicious this tactic can be. The penalty starts when Google or another search engine finds an exact duplication of a certain amount of web content on ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/duplicate-content-penalties/2008/05/08/ The following is a quote of a Google representative writing to JohnGalt of search engine watch forums: "The PageRank that is displayed in the Google Toolbar is for entertainment purposes only. Due to repeated attempts by hackers to access this data, Google updates the PageRank data very infrequently because is ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/a-google-reps-comments-on-pagerank-in-the-toolbar/2008/05/07/ Three phenomenal tools from MarketLeap offer SEOs some great, all-in-one services. The link popularity check is straightforward, but the comparison piece and graphic interface are an excellent touch. The search engine saturation checker and keyword verification are nice additions, although the latter is more of a ranking tool than anything ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/marketleaps-tools/2008/05/07/ An excellent thread at SEOChat is helping to uncover an uncomfortable phenomenon at Google - sites that rank well are very, very old. While this has been speculated about for many months, these are the first publications of any scale to be released. Read the thread - Proof Of Search Position ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/age-of-websites/2008/05/07/ In the initial testing of the survey, one fact that consistently appears in the results that rank in the top 10 are sites that have been around a long time. Obviously, these sites have had greater time to build links & content, but there appears to be little correlation between ... http://www.addurltodirectories.com/older-sites-succeeding/2008/05/07/