Search Engine Panel

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Controversy has always surrounded the topic of having validated source code (XHTML or HTML), and whether it has any impact on search engine optimization. Here at SearchEnginePanel.com we are validated to W3C’s high standards of XHTML 1.0 Strict - a fairly difficult task to accomplish for most websites. Web developers who attempt validation normally settle [...]

It’s a well-known fact that Google tracks click-throughs from its search engine result pages (SERPs) to the webpages listed there, and it seems that they have recently changed the way they track these clicks. Until recently, listings in the SERPs would use the simple URL redirects of “google.com/url?q=referral” to determine where traffic is coming from, [...]

In last month’s post on Improving the User Experience with Site Analytics, we have theorized that producing quality content is not only best for our website, but more importantly, is best for achieving the main objectives of our presence online. In more general terms, we should seek to market our website to the user experience [...]

Last week, the experts in click fraud at Click Forensics disclosed of their newest version of the Click Forensics traffic quality management platform. This system is intended to detect instances of click fraud such that advertisers and publishers alike can improve on converting quality traffic to sales.
How do they do it?
Well, CF monitors [...]

Google’s Webmaster Tools is in the process of changing its look. The old main “Dashboard” page now hides behind “Home,” and unread messages from the Message Center are now prominently displayed at the top.
The new “Home” page (click to enlarge):

I’m happy to report that the side navigation is much faster now (optimized AJAX?), so browsing [...]