Inside Google: How Google Works
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.
UserFly: Website Usability Testing Easy Way
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 will record every action performed by a visitor at one’s site and will organize them by visitor sessions. Then one can play back and see everything a given visitor did with his mouse or keyboard, just as if the tester was standing behind the visitor’s back. The importance of initial and recurring Continue Reading »
Optimizing for Google Image Search
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. So, we have figured out what benefits from crawling, classification, indexing and ranking of your images Google may have. Now we will try to see what is in it for you.
Page Boss
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 online services.
Nofollow Links by Matt Cutts
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.
