Tag Cloud - search engine optimization

Social media sharing has a proven impact on the search engine results pages according to data presented by SEOMoz at the SMX Elite conference in Sydney. While Google and Bing are still experimenting with how large an effect social sharing has on personalized searches, the overall effect on the SERPs is becoming clear.

Search Engines support micro formats in local and SEO search. Deploying micro formats can help in SEO and Local search results and rankings.

A new set of data visualization tools can now render data visually. Charlotte Bourne of Mediative and Wister Walcott of Marin Software discuss the applications and tools for visual analytics.

Never leave a webpage alone. There’s always room for improvement. Make the small changes in design and content, and you may see a significant improvement in conversion. At SMX, the experts outlined some easy-to-follow frameworks on how to look at your webpages and see what can be adjusted to further enhance conversion value.

Google dramatically expanded its collection of information about the real world with its introduction of Place Pages – a webpage for every place in the world – for businesses such as hotels, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities. If you haven’t yet claimed your place page you’re missing out on a fantastic opportunity for controlling your own destiny and gaining valuable search traffic on Google Maps.

Here are three easy steps on how a marketer can use real time search to influence their online optimization efforts: know what’s hot in the news, create relevant content and publish it on the right channels.

Google has introduced a new Sitelinks feature which allows customers to further engage users on their websites by listing up to four links to click on an individual advertisement.

Webmasters who want to keep on top of algorithmic changes affecting Google’s SERP ranking will be interested to know that the speed of websites, or download time, will now be factored in by Google when ranking websites. Google’s new Page Speed Tool will help webmasters assess and improve their site’s speed, performance, and user experience. According to Google’s Matt Cutts, if two websites have equal relevance to the search term, then the faster site will rank higher.

Recently Delicious launched a new tool called Fresh Bookmarks and Flickr started providing photos and videos search results in an efficient manner.

Awesome session was arranged featuring SEO ranking factors in 2009. Danny is moderating the session and Rand Fishkin from SEO Moz, Laura Lippay from Yahoo and Marty Weintraub from aimclean are few other speaker.