Entries tagged with “seo” from Search Engine CookBook

Sign at the Googleplex

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It's been a while since I've heard of new meta tags being introduced (or maybe I just wasn't aware of any)

Google has just introduced a new tag:

<a meta name="google" value="no translate">

You can use it to mark pages on your site that you DO NOT want the Google translator tools to translate.
They've also introduced a method of marking text within a page as not be translated:

 class=notranslate

You can read more about this on the official blog

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SeoMoz Survey

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SeoMoz are running a survey on search marketing / SEO

I tried to complete it earlier, but my connection was a bit flaky!

SEO Quake - SEO Browser Plugin

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Both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox support extensions which add functionality to the browser.

Personally I prefer Firefox and since I don't use Windows that much I don't have the option of using IE7 that often.

One of the more interesting extensions that I've come across recently is called SEO Quake.
The plugin is available for both Firefox and Internet Explorer and gives a webmaster, marketer or SEO access to a wealth of information about the sites you are visiting, search engine results and whole lot more.

For a full range of features and an explanation of how they work have a look at the article on the developer's site

DMOZ Editors Abusing Power?

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For those of us who have been involved in the online industry since the mid-90's The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) will always have a special place.

Of course for anyone involved in SEO it's not merely a matter of nostalgia, as DMOZ "feeds" many of sites and search engines. Getting a listing on DMOZ might not be the holy grail, but it's still considered valluable.

Jay Westerdal's most recent article, however, underlines a serious issue with the system where editors maybe abusing their powers to grant listings or remove them entirely.

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