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Google’s Matt Cutts has an interesting video up (one of many) on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel that deals with switching to a new content management system and how that can affect search engine rankings. Someone asks:
We are changing a farily large HTML site to CMS. What are the essentials to keep in mind so that we do not lose our search rankings?
I am a strong believer in the idea that comments increase the value of articles. This holds true on small blogs as well as large news sites. Comments expand the conversation, and can provide insight into the original subject matter that was lacking from the piece to begin with.
Twitter has adjusted the title tags for member pages. Where they used to go "Twitter / username" they now go "User’s Real Name (username) on Twitter"
Increase your website’s Google rankings with an effective FAQ page. Learn how FAQs enhance SEO and best practices to implement.
Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. In areas where others have advantages over it, Facebook seems to be making changes to improve.Obviously there is the new Twitter-like functionality of its real-time news feeds/filters. But Mike Arrington points out another thing that Facebook is starting to do – vanity URLs.
According to Nielsen Online, nothing earth-shattering happened in terms of search rankings between August and September; Google didn’t finally corner three-fourths of the market, and no major competitors switched positions. There were some significant losses and gains, though, and they affected the top search companies.
The search advertising company doesn’t go in and tweak the results that come up for queries, except for the times that it does.
Despite massive server farms with processing power to burn through mountains of user data, Google relies on a quaint approach to tweaking its rankings.
The strategy of purchasing existing websites with strong search rankings for SEO purposes provides an opportunity to boost one’s site in the results pages at Google and beyond.
In the session "Secrets for Getting More and Better Links for Higher Search Rankings," Stephan Spencer founder and president of Netconcepts talked about free tools to use for checking link popularity.
