Which web page elements lead to high Google rankings?

A Recent study was done by a German company, Sistrix, where they analyzed web page elements of top ranked pages within Google to find out which elements lead to high Google rankings. According to the study, they analyzed 10,000 random keywords, and for every keyword, they analyzed the top 100 Google search results.

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What does your office or workspace look like?

Josh Dorkin of Time For Blogging recently came up with an interesting challenge: What does your office or Workspace look like?

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Friday afternoon humour. Come on, it’s already weekend

They say a picture is better than a thousand words….

Is this your future? The Wheels of Life!

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Search Engine Stategies Worldwide conferences

For some time now I have just dreamed about visiting some form of Marketing conference such as the Search Engine Strategies conference events. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend these international events simply because of expenses. Well, it looks like I have to continue dreaming as they do not seem to have an event scheduled on African soil soon.

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Mobile and Web New Media Marketing Conference updates

I previously posted about the Mobile and Web New Media Marketing Conference that is currently happening at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The conference has already entered the final day and I was hoping to be there to catch up on topics that covered Web Optimization, Analytics and Search Marketing issues and news.

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Yahoo! updates Search Index

According to the Yahoo! Search Blog, a new search index was “rolled out” a couple of nights/days ago. The blog notes that there may be some changes in website ranking as well as some shuffling of pages that are included in the index. This will last throughout this process and the whole update should be complete very soon.

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Google upgrades Google Trends tool

While reading my news and feeds this morning, I discovered that Google made some upgrades to their Trends tool by adding a “Hot Trends” tracker. Google Trends is a great resource for keyword research, and now this new “Hot Trends” feature makes it easier to see what’s hot on Google on a daily basis.

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What is Google Universal?

Google has changed the way the search engine finds and displays results. In their latest move, they now integrate search results which includes text, photos, videos, news, books and other related results, all onto one page.

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8 Tips for Effective Web Design

Here are some essential tips for designing a professional and high quality web site.

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Akismet spam filter plugin: Are all spam comments really spam?

Akismet is just one of many plugins for WordPress that can be used to effectively block comment spam within your blog. 95% of comments in blogs are considered spam and therefore a plugin like Akismet will make comments and trackback spam a non-issue and to restore innocence to blogging. Akismet makes it easy, so you never have to worry about spam again, ever. Well almost…

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