http://www.blogseo.com Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:16:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever wondered what it takes to support that simple-looking homepage? Watch this video to learn about Google's "backbone" and those who maintain it. It's not a secret that Google uses some of the coolest technologies to maintain their services. But seeing it once is much more impressive than hearing mind-blowing numbers ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/inside-google-how-google-works/ We have recently spotted a new interesting and very effective tool for checking one’s site’s usability. This tool, called UserFly, is located at http://userfly.com and can be used free of charge by anybody, who registers and inserts a special JS script into site templates or directly into page code. UserFly ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tools/userfly-website-usability-testing-easy-way/ According to Peter Linsley, Product Manager at Google, working on Image Search, their mission is to “Organize the world of images”. Their idea is, as always, simple - show relevant and useful images for the query, which will satisfy your users and make them to come back for more. ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tips/optimizing-for-google-image-search/ Pageboss.com has rolled out their new version of basic analytical SEO tool. With the help of this tool website owners and those, who may be interested in comparing competitors’ sites, can request simultaneous ranking, page count, backlink reports from Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Alexa, and a number of other statistical ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tools/page-boss/ A few notes on "nofollow links" by Matt Cutts. Watch this video to get a better understanding of nofollow links and the way they are treated by Google. Why some (not most) websites choose to implement nofollow links. Concerns of online publishers and possible workarounds for the issue. http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tips/nofollow-links-by-matt-cutts/ The BlogSEO team has laid the foundation for our new project that we decided to call The SEO Jumpstart Guide. It is our collaborative attempt to help every novice, as well as an advanced blogger, to assess and optimize his or her blogging platform for a top-notch performance. Blogging is ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/seo-jumpstart-for-bloggers/ For the first time PubCon by WebmasterWorld will be hosted at Austin, Texas. Therefore, we are guessing, the upcoming event is called PubCon “South”. It will start off Wednesday, March 11 and will be buzzing through Friday, March 13. So if you are in the area, don’t forget to drop ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/pubcon-south-2009/ We have added a page on the best SEO page layout. If you are about to design your own template for your blog, make sure you check out this page it will save you some time on designing the basic optimized structure. So you can spend more time on bells ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/the-summary-of-updates-for-january-09/ Unleash the power of social sharing! BM Button (BM stands for BookMark) is a great FREE solution for those folks, who wish to be promoted by their visitors to a multitude of bookmarking, sharing and social news sites. It makes it so much easier to submit the pages from your site! ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tools/bookmark-button/ Monitoring search results When it comes to SEO, having the right tools is what makes all the difference. Today we are introducing our readers to a new tool - Exact Factor - that may come in handy for the website owners who would like to track the success of their online ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tools/exact-factor/