The State of Technorati

Confusing Search Engine Bots?

There are two primary factors to getting a page ranked - discovery and relevancy. By and large, search engines are clever creatures, but the very best webmasters will always send out the right signals to gently guide the search engines, and in return receive great rankings for their content. Search engines discover content using their bots (or ‘crawlers’), and determine relevancy (and by extension ranking)…

Heatmaps from ClickTale

ClickTale is a service that has been in private beta for a while, and they now have a blog post explaining their Heatmaps service.

Healthline Give USNews A Shot In The Arm

Searching for information about health issues online can be a confusing experience. Healthline Networks would like to change that. They have teamed with USNews.com to offer them health information services on their site.

Job Search: Your Online Identity Plays a Role

Traditionally, a well-polished resume and rock solid interview technique were the standards that job seekers aspired to when venturing out to find new employment. As the Internet has become more of a user-generated medium, however, blog posts and online photo albums send just as important a message to potential employers about your character.

Technorati & the Blog Search Wars

Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has a new “state of the blogosphere” report out, although the first part of it reads more like a “state of Technorati” report — which my friend and fellow mesh organizer Mark Evans and some others believe is a bit of plumage-fluffing aimed at catching the eye of a potential suitor such as Yahoogle or MicroNews Corp.