Glen Scott - Keeping it simple » seo

Would you let this company design your website?

Glen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:56:00 +0000

For a company that believes in “leading by example”, it appears that their own site hasn’t been updated since the mid-nineties:

Webserver Development

“View source” for extra hilarity: no headings, pointless/no alt attributes for images etc.

(Thanks for the heads-up, Bob)

Monitoring your online presence with Google Alerts

Glen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:27:48 +0000

If you are interested in monitoring your online presence, or simply for a laugh, you can be alerted whenever your name is mentioned on a website. Here’s how:

visit Google Alerts
enter your name within double quotes in the Search terms box. e.g. “glen scott”
enter your e-mail address in the Your email box

Now, whenever your name is mentioned in a newly indexed page, you will be e-mailed with the link… fun!

Search engine snippets, part 2

Glen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:09:09 +0000

This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Search engine snippets. My site has now got a meta description tag and Google and Yahoo have both picked up on it:

Google:

Yahoo:

Google shows just the content of the meta description tag, whilst Yahoo also adds some content from the top of my blog.

Search engine snippets

Glen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:48:33 +0000

An interesting comparison of what content the two main search engines have chosen to display for my blog:

Google:

Yahoo!:

Google seems to have just picked up the footer of my site , whereas Yahoo has picked up the header, some post content and the footer.

At the moment, there is no meta description on the page which I’ll add soon to see how the listings change.