In the session "Up Close with Google Maps & Local" the panel focused on factors that influence what appears and how it is ranked.
Get Your Blog Google-Ranked In 30 Days or Less
Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They’re easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that’s been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do. So here are 25/50 tips to get your blog ranked by the world’s biggest SE.
Getting Ranked In Google News
The Google News Team has an interesting blog post about the "truths and myths" of how Google includes and ranks articles.Some of the facts that stand out include "Having an image next to your article improves your ranking MYTH. While having a good image with your article does improve your chance to get your picture shown, it has no impact on the ranking of the article itself."
Getting Your Blog Ranked Well by Google Blog Search
As a web analytics junkie I tend to notice trends and changes in my blog statistics. One recent trend I’ve noticed is that I get more search traffic from Google Blog Search than I used to get.
Search Ranked #1 for “Invisible Entrepreneurs” But No Traffic?
I am ranked #1 for that silly phrase at Google. So What?
Getting Flash Sites Ranked in Search Engines
Reader Question: What would be the best approach to make a whole Flash Web site indexable for search engines? I have thought of generating a database driven, artificial HTML structure-hierarchy with the right meta tags and content which would redirect the user to the appropriate Flash page/content.
Juniper Networks Ranked Market Leader for SSL VPN by META Group
META Group Attributes Juniper Networks’ Leadership to Dominant Market Share, Vision, and Strength in Innovation and Delivery of New SSL VPN Functionality.
Vivisimo Ranked Second Most Popular Search Engine
In a study done by About.com, who polled a focus group of 181 men and women between the ages of 20 and 64, found that metasearch engine Vivisimo tied with Yahoo for the second place in popularity with a score of 4.6 out of 5.