Tag Archives: Google

Google Instant Scraper – Free SEO Keyword Tool

Posted on February 7, 2011

This tool allows you to dig multiple levels deep in Google Instant Search - start with one keyword or a list of keywords and get thousands of relevant keywords!

Start by entering a seed keyword in the Seed Keywords field below.

Seed Keywords (comma-separated)Tip: try not completing a phrase; instead of "Plumber", use "Plumb"	Example: Cats,Dogs
Exclude (comma-separated, optional)	Example: Grooming,Food
With More than # Queries (optional)	`0` will remove keywords without query numbers
# of Levels Deep	The higher the level, the longer the search will take.
Results Display	Table CSV Keyword-Only List

Tagged Google, Google Instant, Google SEO, Instant Search, Scraper, SEO | 1 Comment

Google Rewrites Your Search Result Titles for Relevance

Posted on January 7, 2011

Google is changing your titles for you…whether they’re “optimized” or not!

Google is overruling your title tags when they determine that your content headlines are more relevant.

Previously, I had only seen this behavior when there were not well-structured title tags, keyword-stuffed title tags or no title tags at all. This has been well documented and discussed. This is the first time that I have noticed Google taking a more aggressive stance in rewriting title tags that have been well crafted. Read more…

Posted in Google, SEO | Tagged Google, Page Title, Search Results, Search Results formatting, SEO Title Tags, Title Tags | 1 Comment

Fixing the Interspire Google Base Feed

Posted on August 17, 2010

Google Base updates their guidelines faster than Interspire updates its Shopping Cart.

Upon launching the new MakeUpMania.com website, I discovered that the XML feed that Interspire generates for Google Base is not properly structured. There were many hits and misses before making the modifications necessary to get the feed approved.

Fixing the generated feed

Below are fixes to three issues that kept throwing errors on the Google Base side. Read more…

Posted in Google, Interspire | Tagged Google, Google Base, Google Base Feed, Interspire, Interspire Customization, Interspire Development, Interspire Mods, Interspire Shopping Cart | 11 Comments

How to prevent your Google background image from fading in slowly.

Posted on June 7, 2010

Google fade-in loads slowly. Real slowly.

Google + slow loading = not worth having background images.

In trying to keep their homepage as minimal as possible, in December Google switched to fading in the home page links only on an event: moving your mouse or tabbing out of the search box. This was fine when the home page was only white, as it wasn’t taxing on computers to fade in on white.

Now that Google allows for custom image backgrounds (likely in response to how beautiful the Bing backgrounds are), the fading in process can be tedious, even using blazing-fast Chrome. I can only imagine what users using Internet Explorer 6 are going through: fading in images takes a lot of work and time!

This was annoying me, so I made a quick modification to my SEO Stylesheet (a Custom Stylesheet to display search results and no-follow nicely in Safari, IE and Firefox). This mod will make the image load solid, with no fading or resulting lag. Read more…

Posted in CSS, Google | Tagged CSS, Google, load time, User Stylesheets | 5 Comments

Google Chrome Frame Plugin for WordPress

Posted on September 23, 2009

Google Chrome Frame — the Beginning of the End of IE Tyranny?

Google just introduced a new tactic in the browser wars, and this one’s juicy. It’s called Google Chrome Frame.

What it does is it makes Internet Explorer render websites using Google Chrome in a frame. That means that IE can have HTML 5 compatibility and all the other WebKit goodness. The catch? Google Chrome Frame will only activate if webmasters ask it to by adding a meta tag. So I created a plugin that does just that.

Download the Google Chrome Frame Plugin from WordPress.org

Hopefully, GCF will start to shift users from rendering sites in IE 6/7/8 to Google Chrome. Read more…

Posted in Google, Plugins | Tagged chrome frame, Google, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Frame, IE, IE 6, IE6, IE7, IE8, Internet Explorer, meta tag | 4 Comments

SEO Google Profiles – Google Adds NoFollow to Links

Posted on September 16, 2009

Just a quick post to show that Google has started to nofollow all links on new Google Profiles. This is too bad for a quick SEO shot in the arm, but also makes sense, since most of the people who knew about Google Profiles were SEO’s anyway

Here’s my do-follow Google profile: Zachary Katz – Google Profile.
Here’s a no-followed profile: John Sileo – Google Profile.

Oh well, on to greener pastures!

As an user on BlogCatalog notes,

The links on your Google profile will be nofollow, but the links on your Google Reader shared items page (as of the time I write this) are NOT nofollow. Read more…

Posted in Google, SEO | Tagged Google, Google Profiles, Link Building, Links, Nofollow, Nofollow SEO, Personal SEO, Profiles, SEO Link | 12 Comments

How to Create a Google Profile and Manage your Online Reputation

Posted on May 20, 2009

As seen on 7News – View the video on TheDenverChannel.com

Why Google Profiles matter to you

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As featured on the May 20th 7News program featuring Zack Katz of Katz Web Design, Google Profiles are a great way to be found online for your own name, even if you don’t have a website.If you set up an online profile with Google, a person looking for you online will be able to find you more easily.

Your profile will show up in search results

In the past, if you wanted to be listed in search results for your own name (it’s called a “vanity search”), you often needed your own website. Google is changing that, and giving users the power to show up in a search result with a picture and link to their profile.

The Google Profile box embedded in the search results for Zack Katz

In April, Google has started giving Profiles a prominent placement in search results. It is safe to presume that Google will be further incorporating the Profiles in the future, and assigning them more value. If you want to improve your findability online, setting up a profile is a great step to take. Read more…

Posted in Google, SEO, Tutorial | Tagged Denver SEO, Google, Google Alerts, Google Profile, Local SEO, Online Reputation, Personal SEO, Profiles, Vanity Search | 7 Comments

An Inside Look: 4 Step SEO for a Denver Solar Company

Posted on March 3, 2009

4 Steps to optimize a website — a Denver solar case study

This is an inside look into my process for optimizing a pre-existing website. This will cover lots of the aspects of the SEO I’ve done, but not all of it…These steps are often my first round of optimization on a site. Once I do these four vital SEO steps, I move on to content SEO and more link-building. Read more…

Posted in SEO | Tagged Denver SEO, Denver Solar, Denver Solar Panels, Google, Google Local, Google SEO, Local, Local Search, Local SEO, SEO, SEO Profiles, SEO Steps, Sitemap, Solar Installation, Yahoo Local, Yahoo SEO | 3 Comments

SEO It! Bookmarklet – Improves Search Results in iPhone & Safari

Posted on January 28, 2009

Format your search results for SEO

Works great for SEO searches on the iPhone!

ArrayIt’s frustrating doing searches with SEO in mind, then having Google add SearchWiki, personalized results, and other localizations that mess up what you wanted: accurate results. Here’s the solution: The SEO It! Bookmarklet. Read more…

I do lots of searching as an SEO. I look for ranking, competition, additional keywords, etc. I use Google a LOT. And I use Apple’s Safari browser.
By default, I am logged in to my Google account, and have Google preferences set to showing 100 results at a time. The problem? Google shows different ranking and links based on the number of results you see.
I have Google Web History enabled, and Google provides me with “Personalized results based on my search history.” When doing SEO, I don’t want these results: I want what others will see.
I use SearchWiki to move up results of websites I have created. When trying to get accurate SEO ranking, this is frustrating.
I do SEO searches on my iPhone, too – where I need to manually strip out the annoying &client=safari to see a normal results page.