Pro Tip: A look back at some helpful tips from our SEO community in 2019
Here are 5 tips from our SEO community we think are worth a second look.
Topic: Content delivery network
PWA: How to avoid partial rendering issues with service workers
When there are issues rendering pages server side to prevent correct rendering, the content can have discrepancies shown to end users (or search bots).
Google’s ‘Signed Exchange’ solution let’s publishers use their own URLs for AMP pages
Publishers will need to create a Signed Exchange but Cloudflare (and potentially others) promise to simplify the process.
StrategiQ launches Spark, an SEO deployment platform
The tool employs Cloudflare Workers to make changes server-side.
SinglePlatform and Moz partner for restaurant SEO and content distribution
Each company will enable the other's customers improve visibility and local discovery in search.
Mobile speed case studies: Push for faster page loads
If you are not feeling the need for speed, don’t be surprised if your site stalls. Contributor Anthony Muller shares three case studies showing why now is the time to make your web pages load like lightning.
AMP: Above and beyond
Want to know more about Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? Columnist Max Prin recaps a session from SMX Advanced 2016 featuring John Shehata of Condé Nast and Google's Rudy Galfi, product manager for the AMP Project.
Google News Now Will Crawl & Index Images Hosted Off Your Domain Name
Google News updated their image crawl process to include images hosted off the publishers domain.
Study: Google Adds 1,200 Search Sites & 750 ISP Client Networks In Less Than A Year
A study published by researchers at the University of Southern California unintentionally discovered Google has dramatically increased the number of sites and ISPs it uses to serve client queries. According to the findings, between October 2012 and July 2013, Google increased the number of locations serving its search infrastructure from less than 200 to more […]
Mobile Site Configuration & The Vary HTTP Header
Yesterday, Google announced more changes to the Google mobile search algorithm, which we can expect to roll out shortly. This update is intended to improve the search experience for mobile users by “address[ing] sites that are misconfigured for smartphone users” — presumably by improving mobile rankings for sites that have been optimized according to their […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 31, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot Matt Cutts, international diplomat? That might be the more appropriate title for Google’s chief spam cop. According to the […]
Google To Offer Content Delivery Service For Page Speed
Google announced they are starting a new service named Page Speed service. Essentially, this service will be Google fetching the content on your web site and then serving it up with speed improvements of 25% to 60% to the rest of the world, including Google’s bots. Google will eventually charge for the service but has […]
Google: rel=”canonical” Now Supported In HTTP Headers
Google announced they are now supporting the rel=”canonical” attribute within HTTP headers. This enables webmasters to set up a canonical for linking to or from PDF files or other non-HTML based files. One of the examples given by Google is that a “webmaster can signal to Google that the canonical URL for the PDF download […]
Networks To Google TV: Talk To The Hand
TV is changing for better or worse. And perhaps sensing that their control over audiences and distribution is further slipping away and that their expensive programming is being reduced to mere “content,” the major broadcast networks are blocking access from Google TV. According to a story this afternoon in the Wall Street Journal: Full-length episodes […]
Google Demands Speed—Do You Need A Content Delivery Network?
With Google upping the ante on speed of delivery as a factor in relevance ranking, even medium to smaller sites may now need to consider a content delivery network to supplement the performance of their primary servers. A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of computers used to increase the speed of delivery of […]
Google Pushing Into TV, Original Content Distribution
One could liken Google to a house that keeps expanding, with new room additions every few months. Google’s house is already the largest on the block and it seems to keep getting bigger. Two related moves represent further expansion. The first is the announcement last week of the Google Media Server, which conveys content from […]
Viacom & Microsoft Announce Major Content, Ads Deal
Today Microsoft and Viacom announced a wide-ranging content and advertising deal that involves Viacom content distribution on Microsoft-owned sites, ad serving by Microsoft on Viacom properties, mutual distribution of game-related content and ads, as well as collaboration in other areas. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the announcement are apparent guarantees of Microsoft advertising on […]
Family Guy & Google Form Video Ad Distribution Deal
Google’s AdSense to distribute videos from BusinessWeek reports that Google and the creators of “Family Guy” and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show “That’s So Raven,” have formed a deal to distribute their videos with ads from AdSense. The TV programs will be distributed throughout the AdSense network and will contain ads either prior […]
AOL’s Truveo Introduces New Video Search Site And Consumer Destination
AOL acquired video search engine Truveo in January, 2006 and has used it primarily as a technology platform to power AOL video since that time. Simultaneously, the company has been supporting video search on third party sites. (See our previous coverage.) You could do video searches on Truveo.com but it wasn’t really presented as a […]
Ingenio Adds Medio Systems To Mobile Distribution
Pay-per-call provider Ingenio has added white label mobile search vendor Medio Systems to its distribution network. In addition to a range of online destinations, Ingenio is working with a number of mobile search sites and providers: JumpTap, Live.com/MSFT, AOL, go2, UpSnap and 1-800-FREE411. Last week Medio put out this release, claiming the be the leader […]
Video Search Challenge Isn’t Speech Recognition, It’s Content Owner Management
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them from the New York Times is a big giant love story to video search firm Blinkx, suggesting that the idea of finding video content will take a leap through new idea of speech recognition. In reality, it’s not a new idea. It’s been in […]