I’m a Firefox user and up until recently the only way I could stay logged in to my Google account and still see non personalized Google search results was to open my MS Internet Explorer browser where I was not currently logged into a Google account and do a search. Now thanks to the Firefox […]

The title tag is widely believed to be one of the more influential factors in determining a pages ranking in Google results. You can find reference to this many places including Rand Fishkin’s recent article Search Engine Ranking Factors v2 and Jill Whalen’s article All About Title Tags.
The title tag is also about the easiest […]

Google Reader gave us a little gift for the new year with some stats about our rss subscriptions.
A bar chart similar in looks to the original Google Trends chart gives you a snapshot of the number of items you read for the following:

past 30 days,
by time of day
day of the week.

The Reading Trends collection of […]

The big three of search engines, Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Live, each announced yesterday evening that they have all agreed to support the use of sitemaps. With this agreement, a new version 0.9 of sitemaps has been released. The official home of sitemaps now resides at www.sitemaps.org.
Google has already has been accepting sitemaps through […]

Back in May we saw some reports that Google was testing this tool and now Vanessa Fox has announced the new crawl rate tools are available in your webmaster tools. Four new tools in all were announced including:

Googlebot activity report charts

Number of pages crawled per day
Number of kilobytes downloaded per day
Time spent downloading a page […]