SEO Dance

You have a new phone and a new address but the old information is scattered throughout the Internet. How do you get that information updated?

Do a search for your old information on the top search engines. Contact the top search results webpages and let them know the webpage that needs to be updated on their website and include new information. This might work well. It just depends if the website is still being updated or how the information is given to the website like a directory listing.

Also include a webpage on your website that doesn’t have to be linked from your main website but should include your old address along with your new address. For your business name and location your website should have a good search engine ranking. This way by still having the old address you can get listed in the search results for it while also pointing surfers to the new information.

It will probably be nearly impossible to have all old references removed but making sure to include both old and new on your website will help keep your search rankings for the old information.

Google has another special logo for today in honor of Valentine’s Day:

I love that it features what looks to be an older couple still happy after many years together. Hope everyone has a great Valentine’s Day.

Another thing I noticed while visiting Google was a link to Doodle for Google. It’s a contest open to school age children k-12 to doodle on the Google logo. The favorite voted by visitors will appear on the homepage May 22nd. Fun contest. Too bad I’m way past being qualified to enter and the little one is still a few years away from kindergarten. Still it’s a fun idea and a great class project.

Wanting to improve you search engine rankings and your website? Here are 7 links to very useful tips and techniques for both blogs and websites when it somes to SEO.

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I’m terrible at organization and sadly it spills over to the World Wide Web. After reading a tip about the usefulness of subdirectories for SEO and organization, I am now convinced that taking the time to get everything in its proper place will be worth the effort.

Giving your subfolders relevant names will not only help jog your memory as to the content of the folder but will be indexed by Google for that keyword. Sub directories can be very useful to not only organize your content for your website but to be helpful in search results. Just like the name of the webpage is important for search results, the name of the sub folder is equally important. Naming a folder ‘pets’ that holds pet articles will could potentially increase search traffic and better placement in search results. I write about a lot of games, so I could make a folder for each video game console. This will help to keep images and articles organized, something my websites desperately need.

So, not only can I organize my content by subject but I can possibly help better the search placement of those web pages for those keywords.

Ask.com has been tracking football-related searches for the two weeks prior to the Super Bowl. It’s no surprise that New England as well as keywords surrounding the Patriots(Tom Brady) were more popular searches than keywords having to do with the New York Giants.
With the Giants win, I’m sure this week there will be a little more interest in the team and their quarterback Eli Manning. Here is an article on more of the search results.

Software giant Microsoft is once again vying to buy Yahoo! Friday Microsoft offered Yahoo! 44.6-billion-U.S.-dollar merger offer, or 31 dollars per share. If the sales goes through, could the combined forces of Microsoft and Yahoo! dethrone the king of search engines Google?

The La Times has an interesting story where it puts the search engines to the test for the search word coffee.

It’s hard to imagine that even the dominant Microsoft teaming up with Yahoo! could take down Google and become king of searches. The search results for Yahoo! might be just as good, or even better for some keywords, than Google, but it will take a huge campaign to convince Google die hards to turn their browsers away their favorite search engine.

For more details on the Microsoft/Yahoo! merger, check this news story.