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William Slawski posted a comment

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:50:40 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Justin, Thank you. I visited your site, and read your lengthy and thoughtful post ( Block or Remove Google's Artificial Anchor Tag Insertion ) about the the script that you developed. I have a lot of the same apprehensions that you do about...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:46:00 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Shameer, Thank you. I'm beginning to think that if someone wanted Google to insert these artificial links in the middle of their pages, that a suggestion in the Google blog post for getting Google to link to already exiting named anchors might be...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:39:32 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Jimmy, I hadn't tried to find an example of the links to named anchors that was mentioned in the Official Google Blog post, but figured that it might help us think about how links to "artificial" named anchors might work. The W3C pages on HTML...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:21:54 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Buzzlord, In the Official Google Post that I linked to above, it's mentioned that Google might only deliver visitors to actual named anchors that they find on pages some of the time. It's interesting that the announcement was made by someone on...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:59:30 -0800

Duplicate Content Issues and Search Engines
Hi Joel, It is possible that the duplicated content may be causing a problem, such as pages from the site being filtered out of search results. It may also be possible that Google may have considered the use of that content as spam, and may have...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:52:03 -0800

Google to Upgrade its Memory? Assigned Startup MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents
Thank you, Auditor. I appreciate your providing some details about this controversy. I've started to do some research. The patent from Netlist in question appears to be this one: Memory module decoder Abstract A memory module...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:50:28 -0800

Google to Upgrade its Memory? Assigned Startup MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents
Hi Buzzlord, It wasn't just one patent - the USPTO assignment database shows 49 patent filings assigned from MetaRAM to Google. There's a possibility that Google may already be using some of this memory technology, though I haven't seen anything yet...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:40:03 -0800

10 SEO Questions
Hi Toronto SEO, I agree with you completely. Sometimes there are rare opportunities where some small changes may have some dramatic impacts when it comes to SEO, but the vast majority of the time it does take patience and hard work. An effective...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:32:58 -0800

The Importance of Page Layout in SEO
Thanks. It's pretty interesting to see how search engines are evolving, and the idea of segmenting content like this may make a difference in how pages are ranked by search engines in the future.
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:31:09 -0800

Patent Shows Google Book Scanning a Musical Process
Hi seoyourblog, When I worked with Delaware's Courts a few years ago, we had started a scanning program to begin moving our case records to electronic documents. We visited a couple of other agencies that had begun the transformation of records from...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:43:15 -0800

Google to Upgrade its Memory? Assigned Startup MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents
Hi seoyourblog, I was overwhelmed by the number of patent filings myself - it took a while to go through all of them, but I wanted to make sure that they were all assigned to Google, and on the same day, and that they all focused upon memory and...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:20:45 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Charles (Mr. Aloha), I wonder, given your point about analytics, how we might learn about visitors who arrive at artifical named anchors. Would Google start telling site owners about these visits in Google Analytics, or Google Webmaster Tools? ...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:06:00 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Bullaman, When search engines start bringing visitors to places on pages where query terms might appear, are they potentially skipping past information that those visitors should see before they get that content. Most designers are going to assume...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:50:49 -0800

Google to Upgrade its Memory? Assigned Startup MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents
Hi James, It does make sense, doesn't it. The acquisition of MetaRam's patent filings is a pretty serious move, considering how many patent filings were involved, and the potential impact on Google's computing power if they were to incorporate the...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:20 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Frank, I've seen some sites with the floating menus that you mention. I believe that most of the time I've seen those that they've been implemented with java script. I have to confess that I've found those distracting on most of the pages that...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:33:06 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Charles (Mr. Aloha), Helping people find helpful information at the right places on sites may just be a good thing. But I do think that if Google started delivering people to the middle or bottoms of web pages, we may find a lot of people deciding...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:26:50 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Stefanos, I agree with you that it is in the best interest of site owners and search engines to work together to serve information to searchers and site visitors in the best way possible. I'm not so sure that search engines and site owners are...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:12:59 -0800

Search Taxonomies and Search Engines: Answering Questions vs. Indexing Webpages
Hi Frank, Is there a comfortable balance or equalibrium that a search engine can reach between being a portal that tries to keep visitors on its own pages as long as possible, and shows them advertising, and being a search index that gets visitors to...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:55:12 -0800

How Google Might Personalize Search Results Outside of Personalized Search
Hi Mal, Some very interesting points. Ideally, traffic increases should come from both head terms and long tale terms, and ranking reports aren't going to necessarily capture all of those increases in an effective manner, especially with...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:46:12 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Steven, I don't mind searching within a page myself either. I don't find myself convinced that using artificial name anchors like the patent filing describes is necessarily a good user experience. One of the reasons that I become interested in...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:26 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi Dave, This patent isn't the first one I've written about that says that a search engine may attempt to measure the quality of content that it finds on web pages. PageRank itself, which has been around more than a decade now, is supposed to be a...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:17:25 -0800

How Search Engines May Rank User Generated Content
Hi Joey, That may be something that search engines have considered. It's possible that search engines could classify query terms differently, so that one type of query might be treated differently than another when it comes to the kinds of results...
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William Slawski posted a blog entry

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:52 -0800

Google to Upgrade its Memory? Assigned Startup MetaRAM’s Memory Chip Patents
In August, the Official Google Blog announced an upgrade to Google’s infrastructure code-named Caffeine, aimed at making...
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William Slawski posted a comment

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:28:23 -0800

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
Hi Anna, Thank you. The point you raise about including multiple calls to action on a page is a good one. I'm not sure how much harm this would do to the black/gray hat methods you mention. I'm more concerned with the design implications behind it....
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William Slawski posted a comment

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:22 -0800

Search Taxonomies and Search Engines: Answering Questions vs. Indexing Webpages
Hi Steven, Good questions and points. Quick answers can be good, and it's possible that attribution in the form of a link does make it worth being the "source" of information shown. There are other questions that can be asked though. Is there a...
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