Search Engine Panel

Posts on search engine optimization (SEO) from the Search Engine Panel blog in Toronto, Canada. Information on search engine optimization, keyword research, link building, website development, programming code optimization, and web analytics.

For the second year in a row now, Google has updated the publicly-visible Toolbar PageRank with the change of calendar years. The last update was approximately three months ago in October, so it’s been looking pretty steady with updates in January, April, July, and October. I find that having PageRank updates at regular intervals is [...]

At SMX East on Wednesday, Google set forth a proposal for crawling and indexing content that is dynamically created using AJAX. According to their research, as much as 70% of content on the web today is dynamically-generated (mostly through JavaScript), and this trend is only going to continue. So in an attempt to keep up [...]

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 [...]

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’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 [...]