With the release of Wordpress 2.3, tags are now a standard part of all Wordpress bogs. However, many new bloggers don’t know the difference between tags and categories so I thought I’d elaborate.
Google Testing Search Result Categories
Google appears to be testing categories in its search results, according to reports in a webmaster forum, dividing results under headings like "comparison shopping" and "reviews."
New Google Image Search Categories
Last week a Google engineer told us “The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it.” And now, Google Images allows you to restrict your search to a specific category – albeit in an “unofficial” mode only – and one of these categories may well be powered by actual image recognition (as opposed to textual keyword analysis). Right now, the available modes are (at least) the following:
Google Categories (Changes to Competitive SEO)
Lee Odden blogged about Google Categories yesterday. I wasn’t able to duplicate the categories look, but it did get me thinking about the ramifications to online competition if categories in search become commonplace. As well as how categories might influence our SEO strategies as business owners.
Web 2.0: Broad Risk Categories
There are two main broad categories of risk with Web 2.0, social engineering and flaws in developer’s code. For people who are working web 2.0, having a risk table and mitigation standards for these two broad categories will help define policy and guidance when something bad happens.
Subscribing to Categories in WordPress
One nice feature in Wordpress is the ability to have a feed for each category.
Yahoo Talks Up Reporting Categories
Members of the Yahoo Publisher Network can use the Reporting Categories feature to track the effectiveness of ad placements and landing pages for their sites.
ScriptLogic Wins Awards in Seven Categories of Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards
ScriptLogic Corporation Dominates Management Category; Wins in Seven Categories in the Third Annual Awards.
Strategies for Categorizing Categories
How does a site containing thousands of pages of content get users to the content they seek quickly? There are many different strategies for organizing content on sites and we recently took a hard look at five of them.