Fox “News” Hates Me and Other SEOs
It is not uncommon for the right-wing “news” agency, Fox, to be spreading lies and fear to the general population, and last week they took a step further into the territory of spreading misinformation. According to their article, SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) are alone, friendless, and rightfully so, because we are apparently
… part of a [...]
Facebook Ads: How Do They Fare
Back when Facebook ads became available, it had piqued the interest of many advertisers due to the tremendous growth in Facebook’s user base, and its wide reach of Internet-savvy consumers. Below is a message I received from a friend of mine who had given Facebook ads a shot earlier this year. It details his experience [...]
Bing - Microsoft’s “Decision Engine”
The full deployment of Microsoft’s new search… I mean, decision engine called “Bing” is to be completed today via Bing.com. While Microsoft’s Live Search never really caught on due to poor marketing and, more significantly, poor search results, the company hopes to gain market share with the rebranded and reworked Bing search engine. Live.com’s HTTP [...]
W3C Source Code Validation and SEO
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 [...]
Google SERPs Using JavaScript to Track Clicks
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, [...]
