Happy Mother’s Day Moms! Today is Mother’s Day in the U.S. and we have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com and others. For the past Mother’s Day logos see our 2009, <a href="2008 and 2007 and 2004 collections, yes, I am missing 2005 and 2006.
Here are this year’s logos:
Google also had this logo in other locations:
Yahoo (animated):
Yahoo (static):
Bing:
Ask.com:
Baidu:
Orkut:
Sogou:
Cre8asite:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Also, Google today on some international properties has a logo for J.M. Barrie’s 150th birthday:
Happy Mother's Day Moms! Today is Mother's Day in the U.S. and we have logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com and others. For the past Mother's Day logos see our 2009, 2008 and 2007 and 2004 collections, yes, I am missing 2005 and 2006.
Here are this year's logos:
Google also had this logo in other locations:
Yahoo (animated):
Yahoo (static):
Bing:
Ask.com:
Baidu:
Orkut:
Sogou:
Cre8asite:
Search Engine Roundtable:
Also, Google today on some international properties has a logo for J.M. Barrie's 150th birthday:
Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle, recently published “Local Online Advertising for Dummies”, a book to help SMBs “plan and launch an effective local online advertising campaign”, “set up a Web site that draws local traffic” & “maximize your presence on top search engines”.
I haven’t read the book yet, and I am sure it has plenty [...]
Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle, recently published “Local Online Advertising for Dummies”, a book to help SMBs “plan and launch an effective local online advertising campaign”, “set up a Web site that draws local traffic” & “maximize your presence on top search engines”.
I haven’t read the book yet, and I am sure it has plenty of good info in it, but I was just looking at the this 343-pager staring at me on my desk and my first thought was “Step 1: hire someone else to do it”
fring just released its latest Android version. Brand new version includes a new buddy list look, brand-new profile screen and the long-anticipated dialer, among other improvements.
The new buddy list features your friends’ picture and mood line (from either fring or Skype), as does your call screen.
The new version comes with a new personalized profile, where [...]
fring just released its latest Android version. Brand new version includes a new buddy list look, brand-new profile screen and the long-anticipated dialer, among other improvements.
The new buddy list features your friends’ picture and mood line (from either fring or Skype), as does your call screen.
The new version comes with a new personalized profile, where you can upload a picture & edit your mood, your email address and phone number, all at the click of a button.
Following a huge user demand, we’ve added a dialer screen (including DTMF), so you can dial in numbers during a SIP/ SkypeOut call.
The version also includes voice improvements and many bug fixes. The new version is available for download here.
Today is Valentine’s Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine’s Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums – so make sure to check them out.
Update: Although Google shows an Olympics logo, as Michel points out in the comments below, if you hover your mouse over the logo an Alt tag (alternative text tag) pops up saying Valentine’s Day. Plus, the scatting marks shows a heart in the logo – nice touch Google:
Today is Valentine's Day but it is also the 2010 Winter Olympics. Google & Bing decided to stick with changing their Olympics logos, while Yahoo and Ask.com placed special Valentine's Day logos up today. I am constantly updating our Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logos, which is now up to thirteen logos from various search engines and forums - so make sure to check them out.
Update: Although Google shows an Olympics logo, as Michel points out in the comments below, if you hover your mouse over the logo an Alt tag (alternative text tag) pops up saying Valentine's Day. Plus, the scatting marks shows a heart in the logo - nice touch Google:
It can sometimes be impossible to find the correct typeface for your design needs, with this in mind I think it very important to have a large collection of fonts at your disposal. I hope you will find some new font favorites to add to your font collection and hopefully these will come in handy for your designs.
It can sometimes be impossible to find the correct typeface for your design needs, with this in mind I think it very important to have a large collection of fonts at your disposal. I hope you will find some new font favorites to add to your font collection and hopefully these will come in handy for your designs.
A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion about a potential duplicate content issues between HTML and PDF documents. In this case, the content found on the HTML is the same as on the PDFs. Be it an automated “print as PDF” feature or manual download of the content in PDF format.
How does Google handle the duplicate nature of such content available on the web?
JohnMu at Google chimed in saying that in most cases, they will use the HTML file. He does recommend that in these cases, you block the PDFs from being crawled and indexed. But ultimately, he said, that is your call. Google will likely just want to keep the HTML version in their index.
John said:
If you have the same content in PDF as in HTML pages, in most cases we’ll probably show the HTML versions above (or in place of) the PDF versions. If this is a problem for your specific situation, I’d consider using the robots.txt or x-robots-tag to prevent the PDF files from getting indexed. I imagine for most sites this is not really a problem, so I wouldn’t suggest blocking indexing of PDF files without confirming that it’s really necessary.
The only situation where I would consider doing something in advance is when the CMS automatically creates PDF-copies of normal HTML pages. Generally speaking, this shouldn’t cause any problems, but those PDF versions are likely not compelling enough to merit getting indexed separately (and crawling them will possibly put a load on your server that you could avoid). Ultimately, it’s up to you to determine which content you wish to have crawled and indexed — if you feel that PDF-copies of your content are compelling enough for users who search for your content, feel free to make them available.
A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion about a potential duplicate content issues between HTML and PDF documents. In this case, the content found on the HTML is the same as on the PDFs. Be it an automated "print as PDF" feature or manual download of the content in PDF format.
How does Google handle the duplicate nature of such content available on the web?
JohnMu at Google chimed in saying that in most cases, they will use the HTML file. He does recommend that in these cases, you block the PDFs from being crawled and indexed. But ultimately, he said, that is your call. Google will likely just want to keep the HTML version in their index.
John said:
If you have the same content in PDF as in HTML pages, in most cases we'll probably show the HTML versions above (or in place of) the PDF versions. If this is a problem for your specific situation, I'd consider using the robots.txt or x-robots-tag to prevent the PDF files from getting indexed. I imagine for most sites this is not really a problem, so I wouldn't suggest blocking indexing of PDF files without confirming that it's really necessary.
The only situation where I would consider doing something in advance is when the CMS automatically creates PDF-copies of normal HTML pages. Generally speaking, this shouldn't cause any problems, but those PDF versions are likely not compelling enough to merit getting indexed separately (and crawling them will possibly put a load on your server that you could avoid). Ultimately, it's up to you to determine which content you wish to have crawled and indexed :-) -- if you feel that PDF-copies of your content are compelling enough for users who search for your content, feel free to make them available.
Last week we unveiled our newest toy, Open Site Explorer, to the world and the response was phenomenal. Now we want to take some time and really show everyone just what this powerful link analysis tool is capable of and answer your questions, so we’re hosting not one, but two FREE Webinars this week (it’s the same content, run twice to help accomodate schedules and time zones).
The presentations will be 60 minutes each, 25 minutes of slides, followed by 35 minutes of Q+A on Wednesday, January 27th at 2:00PM (PST), and Thursday, January 28th at 10:00AM (PST) In each live webinar, Rand will show you around Open Site Explorer, offer tips and strategies for getting the most out of it, explain our new Domain Authority & Page Authority metrics, and answer your questions.
Here’s the catch: each webinar is limited to 1,000 attendees. The last time we announced a webinar on the blog, we had over 3,000 people try to register in the first hour, so if you want to attend one of the live sessions, register quickly. If you can’t make it, we’ll have a recording of the presentation available in a couple of days on our webinars page.
Looooove Webinars and can’t get enough of ‘em? Then you should totally become a PRO Member! In the last couple of months we’ve started running regular webinars just for PRO Members and they’ve been really popular.
A slide from our December PRO Webinar on Link Building Strategies
A slide from our January PRO Webinar on SEO Strategies for 2010
In February we’re stepping it up even more. In addition to our monthly educational webinar (February 4th on Analytics), we’re adding a second monthly webinar where we’ll be performing live site reviews of sites submitted by our PRO Members!
PRO Members can head over to the PRO Webinars page for more info on February’s webinars, as well as recordings and slide decks from past webinars. If you’d like to join us for the next PRO Webinar–and possibly even get a live site review–sign up for PRO to access the PRO Webinar page for registration details or just watch your inbox for an invite.
Last week we unveiled our newest toy, Open Site Explorer, to the world and the response was phenomenal. Now we want to take some time and really show everyone just what this powerful link analysis tool is capable of and answer your questions, so we're hosting not one, but two FREE Webinars this week (it's the same content, run twice to help accomodate schedules and time zones).
The presentations will be 60 minutes each, 25 minutes of slides, followed by 35 minutes of Q+A on Wednesday, January 27th at 2:00PM (PST), and Thursday, January 28th at 10:00AM (PST) In each live webinar, Rand will show you around Open Site Explorer, offer tips and strategies for getting the most out of it, explain our new Domain Authority & Page Authority metrics, and answer your questions.
Here's the catch: each webinar is limited to 1,000 attendees. The last time we announced a webinar on the blog, we had over 3,000 people try to register in the first hour, so if you want to attend one of the live sessions, register quickly. If you can't make it, we'll have a recording of the presentation available in a couple of days on our webinars page.
Looooove Webinars and can't get enough of 'em? Then you should totally become a PRO Member! In the last couple of months we've started running regular webinars just for PRO Members and they've been really popular.
A slide from our December PRO Webinar on Link Building Strategies
A slide from our January PRO Webinar on SEO Strategies for 2010
In February we're stepping it up even more. In addition to our monthly educational webinar (February 4th on Analytics), we're adding a second monthly webinar where we'll be performing live site reviews of sites submitted by our PRO Members!
PRO Members can head over to the PRO Webinars page for more info on February's webinars, as well as recordings and slide decks from past webinars. If you'd like to join us for the next PRO Webinar--and possibly even get a live site review--sign up for PRO to access the PRO Webinar page for registration details or just watch your inbox for an invite.
On January 25, 2010, In SEO, by Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization - RSS Feeds
One of the most important and common measurements of ranking success is the search engine results position. Since this factor is quantifiable it should be very easy to measure the success of an SEO campaign. As you might guess with anything concerning SEO it s not as easy to determine as you might think. Geographical location plays a major role this article will explain how to take that into consideration….
One of the most important and common measurements of ranking success is the search engine results position. Since this factor is quantifiable it should be very easy to measure the success of an SEO campaign. As you might guess with anything concerning SEO it s not as easy to determine as you might think. Geographical location plays a major role this article will explain how to take that into consideration....
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This week we’ve got a special Whiteboard Friday double feature! As you’ve probably heard, we launched our new link checker and backlink analysis tool, Open Site Explorer, this week and it makes use of some exciting new metrics: Domain Authority and Page Authority. We asked our old chum, Will Critchlow, to talk to Rand about these metrics to help everyone understand what they are, what goes into them, how to use them, and why we created them.
In Part One, Will and Rand discuss how to use these metrics to gain insight and intelligence on your (and your competitors’) pages, domains, and link profiles, as well as why these metrics can be a better predictor of ranking success than others that you may have used in the past.
In Part Two, the guys dive into detail about what exactly goes into Domain Authority & Page Authority: how they were modeled, how they compare to actual search results, why your DA & PA scores may change over time, and lots of other details to help you better understand how these metrics work.
Both videos are viewable below, simply select the one you’d like to watch from the playlist on the right of the player. I’d recommend watching them in order, but it’s not necessary.
These new metrics have already been quite popular among users of Open Site Explorer, and one of the big questions is, "When can I get them in the SEOmoz Firefox Toolbar?!" Well, surprise, surprise, we’re on top of it! They’ll be available in the new toolbar update coming out next month…here’s a sneak peek
New scores, new features and much more are on their way in the February version of the mozbar
If you’ve got questions about Domain or Page Authority, please leave us feedback below. We’re trying to make these metrics as useful and valuable as possible and would love your suggestions.
This week we've got a special Whiteboard Friday double feature! As you've probably heard, we launched our new link checker and backlink analysis tool, Open Site Explorer, this week and it makes use of some exciting new metrics: Domain Authority and Page Authority. We asked our old chum, Will Critchlow, to talk to Rand about these metrics to help everyone understand what they are, what goes into them, how to use them, and why we created them.
In Part One, Will and Rand discuss how to use these metrics to gain insight and intelligence on your (and your competitors') pages, domains, and link profiles, as well as why these metrics can be a better predictor of ranking success than others that you may have used in the past.
In Part Two, the guys dive into detail about what exactly goes into Domain Authority & Page Authority: how they were modeled, how they compare to actual search results, why your DA & PA scores may change over time, and lots of other details to help you better understand how these metrics work.
Both videos are viewable below, simply select the one you'd like to watch from the playlist on the right of the player. I'd recommend watching them in order, but it's not necessary.
These new metrics have already been quite popular among users of Open Site Explorer, and one of the big questions is, "When can I get them in the SEOmoz Firefox Toolbar?!" Well, surprise, surprise, we're on top of it! They'll be available in the new toolbar update coming out next month...here's a sneak peek :)
New scores, new features and much more are on their way in the February version of the mozbar
If you've got questions about Domain or Page Authority, please leave us feedback below. We're trying to make these metrics as useful and valuable as possible and would love your suggestions.
A new HighRankings Forum thread asks if there is any downside in terms of SEO for using JavaScript that disables the ability to right-click on the page. The thread asks:
One of my company’s sites has right-click functions disabled (yes, I realize this doesn’t really stop people from stealing content – it wasn’t my choice). I’ve noticed when I use a spider emulator (seo-browser.com) that our image alt tags appear to be invisible to the spiders. I can see the alt tags on the actual site, and I’ve verified that they are in the code, but they don’t seem to show up for spiders. Could this be caused by our right-click disabling?
Most people in the thread say that it should have no impact on spiders crawling the site.
I then saw an older thread from Google Webmaster Help where Googler, JohnMu, said the same thing. He said and I bolded the key point:
Personally, I find the use of right-click-blocking JavaScript slightly annoying because there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use the context menu (eg to bookmark the page) and it doesn’t really stop people from viewing the source (Ctrl-U brings it up if you don’t want to use the main menu). That said, this is not something that would bother Googlebot .
A new HighRankings Forum thread asks if there is any downside in terms of SEO for using JavaScript that disables the ability to right-click on the page. The thread asks:
One of my company's sites has right-click functions disabled (yes, I realize this doesn't really stop people from stealing content - it wasn't my choice). I've noticed when I use a spider emulator (seo-browser.com) that our image alt tags appear to be invisible to the spiders. I can see the alt tags on the actual site, and I've verified that they are in the code, but they don't seem to show up for spiders. Could this be caused by our right-click disabling?
Most people in the thread say that it should have no impact on spiders crawling the site.
I then saw an older thread from Google Webmaster Help where Googler, JohnMu, said the same thing. He said and I bolded the key point:
Personally, I find the use of right-click-blocking JavaScript slightly annoying because there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use the context menu (eg to bookmark the page) and it doesn't really stop people from viewing the source (Ctrl-U brings it up if you don't want to use the main menu). That said, this is not something that would bother Googlebot :-).
— if you feel that PDF-copies of your content are compelling enough for users who search for your content, feel free to make them available. 
