information retrieval


Welcome ot another edition of ‘7 Days of Search and Social‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. Last week was a particularily busy one in the blogosphere which made it even harder to try and keep the list managable. Even in the world of patents it was a busy one. I sure hope you have your reading caps on because this edition is a HUGE one. As such we’re also not going to have a ‘lead story’ as there is so much to cover and nothing really stood out as the ‘big story’ for me…

Anyway, let’s get on with it shall we?

Talk of the town

21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries – was a great post from Garrett French over on SEL which the gang at the SEO Dojo were put to use in giving some input on. If you’re a fan of link building and Google dorking, this is a must read.

How Google News uses click data for rankings – is an interesting piece that looks at some of the statements made recently by a Googler on using query analysis and click data in the News SERPs… always an interesting topic.

Hidden H Tags by Google – funny stuff here.. Google using some hidden tags? Yikes… say it ain’t so! Go get ‘em Irish!

What is Whitehat Automation? – Rob Adler is taking a stab at the world of white hat SEO by bringing some of his dark-side automation over to the other side. You know U want to play with us Rob, nice stuff brother!

5 Worries that can kill your SEO campaign – Stoney uncovers some common issues that can bring a search campaign to its knees.

Linkbait vs. Linkbuying – Paul Carpenter takes us through the ins-and-outs of link bait V buying. As long time readers would know, I am a baity’ kind o guy. Why buy what you ca get for free?

Does Reading Level Matter in SEO? – David Waterman over at The Search Agents played with an interesting theory of how reading level might affect rankings, or at least how it relates when studying existing rankings. Fun stuff… tin foil likely required.

Keyword Research: A Proven System – friend of the FireHorse, Garrett Pierson dropped a post over at Search Engine People. While it’s not the most in-depth piece ever written, it contains the concept that KW research is one of THE most important aspects of SEO; something I believe in and not enough peeps state it as such… so it’s worth noting.

Do More Domains Help SEO – was the question being asked AND answered (sort of) by Michael over on the ‘best SEO blog’. I liked this one as it highlights the problem with ANY question in SEO; it depends on the situation and reason for doing so. Nice one MM!

10 Resources: SEO Going Underground Again – is a bit of a rant from Tad on the joys of being pegged as an SEO out in the online world. He relates his experiences and the venom faced by many of us in social circles.

Three Pages from the Same Domain in Google SERPs? – Alan was noting some interesting 3 page listings (main and 2 indented) and why there hasn’t been more buzz about it. Dear Alan, methinks it is because this only happens with navigational searches, so it really doesn’t affect most of us… m’kay?

Building Links “Outside The Box” – as always Debra has some interesting perspectives on link building methods beyond the every-day. Of particular interest this time out, is actually building links by identifying your target demographic – kudos as always Deb!

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Search Geek Central

Search Stuff

Search Taxonomies and Search Engines: Answering Questions vs. Indexing Webpages - SEO by the Sea

How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages – SEO by the Sea

Exploring Exploratory Search – Noisy Channel

FacteryLabs Launch FactRank Engine – Search Engine Watch

Information Glut, or Information Gluttons? – Haystack Blog

Random linguistics – the Lousy Linguist

Social Search 

Local-Social Search: A Powerful Marketing Channel For Small Businesses – SEL

Ask Making A Bigger Bet On “Social Search” Or Q&A – Search Engine Land

Yahoo Adds Fresh, Social Content to Search, Twitter Included – SEJ

Collecta Powers Real-time Search for Identi.ca – Alt Search Engine

Local SEO

6 Ways Local Domains Crush Dot Coms In International SEO – Search Engine Land

The 3 Variables of Google Local Search – Search Engine Guide

Mapsicle 1.0: Annotating Street View Panoramas – Google Geo Developers Blog

How to use multiple sitemaps on one domain for geo-targeting – Search Cowboys

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Videos

Marketing in the Age of Google – Web Pro News

Bruce Clay on the Business of Local Search – Web Pro News

Fliqz Launches Online Video SEO Tool - SEW

Google’s new KW research Tool – Jim Stewart

Cutt’s Corner

Matt on Load speed and Caffeine

Why would an FAQ page rank above a site’s homepage?

Weapons 

3 SEO Browsers to Evaluate on-Page SEO – SEJ

How to Track Competitor Search Engine Rankings with SEJ Tools

Use Google Speed Tool to Speed Up Site – RustyBrick

Google Analytics Filter Best Practices – Search Engine People

Playing with Google Analytics Intelligence – Blog Storm

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Search Patents

Google

Artificial anchor for a document

Agent Rank

Microsoft

Multi-modal search wildcards

Multi-modal query refinements

Ranking functions using an incrementally-updatable, modified naive bayesian query classifier

Yahoo

Search Results with a Word or Phrase Index

Search results with most clicked next objects

Search processing with automatic categorization of queries

Indexing information and providing results for a search including objects having predetermined attributes


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David Harry aka the Gypsy

‘7 Days of Search and Social’ is a joint effort from Search Engine Journal and the SEO Training Dojo to bring you the latest in SEO and Social Search news. Each week (on Tuesdays) we’ll be posting the highlights of the most recent (SEO Geeks) newsletter here on Search Engine Journal.

Be sure to grab the SEJ feed for the latest or sign up to the SEO Dojo newsletter to get it straight to your inbox.

 

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Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 11/24/09


The fine folks here at SEJ recently asked if we’d bring some of our search geekiness for you as part of a ‘Search Geek News’ series. Essentially it’s a look back at the past week of SEO (and Social) happenings from the world of search. My name is Dave… (aka theGypsy) and starting this week I’ll be your guide into all the latest search reading for the seriously obsessed..

If you’ve been too busy to get out and read the latest, be sure to drop in each week for some of the more interesting stories. Each edition we’ll cover general interest, geo/local, IR goodies for the geeks, social search and even the latest patent’s that came out. Be sure to tune in each week for the BEST in Search and Social news!

Now, on with the show!

The Buzz Bin

 

Google Soon To Allow Cross Domain Canonical Tag: This Is Big – Barry was reporting on a very interesting development for the rel/canonical tags. It seems we will soon be able to use them across multiple domains – is it really big news? We’re not so sure it would get used all that much… but interesting.
Google on handling Duplicate content – Shaun over at Hobo, had some related coverage of some Googler comments on handling duplicate content issues. The skinny? Don’t block the dupes – redirect the juice, (but we knew that already right?) – Here is the official Google post on the topic.

Recovering from link building mistakes – is a great post that looks at rehab for link building campaigns gone wrong! Considering the large amount of work I do with SEO Penalties… these are some solid tips for webmasters (hopefully most SEOs know better than to shoot themselves in the foot).
Can Gibberish rank? – our fav geek and SOSG namesake, CJ, had a fun post that looks at search engines and content analysis. Def a must read for the geeks out there.

16 Things I’ve Learned About Business while Being an SEO Consultant – Todd over on Stuntdubl.com had some common sense tips that anyone (in the SEO game) can use to improve how they go about the every-day! (’take lots of notes’ is a personal fav… note making madness over here I tells ya!)

The best SEO strategy – with yet another tightly targeted title, Michael Martinez drops some good strategy for geeks and noobs alike! If you learn one thing from MM… it’s TARGET YOUR TITLEs…lol (great posts to go with them of course)

Where are all the women SEOs? – is the title of our very own Angie the copywriter! This one actually started as a discussion on the boards then evolved to Twitter and eventually this post. A great topic that certainly had legs.
Yahoo also drops the meta KW tag – while mildly interesting… VERY mild, it seems worth noting. This is the coverage from the gang at Search CowBoys.
Header tag sculpting theory – showing some definite skillz in the humour dept. – the Lamp (office or house?) penned a fun and educational post on Header Tag Sculpting. Thanks for a great laugh gang!

Bing SEO Strategies – is an interesting round up of Bing centric SEO ideas from the gang at SEO Book. Peter has some good insight… for me? It’s heavy with; On-Page SEO/TITLE/URL and the links aren’t quite as powerful as with G.
…and the winners are! – we’d also like to give a quick shout out to the latest Chicks on the scene! The winner’s of SEO Chicks recent contest (to find new members) finished up late last week – drop in to find out who the lucky winners are.
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Search Geek Central

 

Search Stuff

Here are some of the search geekiness that caught our eye for this edition;

Google Webmaster Tools Patent on Crawl Rates – SEO by the Sea

A relevance rank for communication – Geeking with Greg

Google is sharpening it’s squares – the Noisy Channel


Social Search

These stories are mostly related to the emerging world of Social Searching;

Twitter Talking With Google, Microsoft About Data Sharing – Search Engine Watch

Goby: A Search Engine to Cure Your Boredom – Mashable

Twitter Search Refines Trend Searches To Give You More Real-Time Results, – TechCrunch

Local SEO

The happenings from the world of local/geo search;

Google Geo Targeting Some UK Sites to France?, Search Engine Roundtable

Everything you need to know about Google local business center – Think Seer

Be wary of tracking numbers in local search – Search Engine Land

Exploring Local Google Maps – The Brand

Videos

All the latest videos for SEO peeps that we thought were interesting;

Google Faculty Summit 2009: Google Wave – Google Tech Talks

Search Round Up - Barry (via Search Engine Roundtable)

Which is better and HTML site map or an SML one? – Matt Cutts

Un-crawled URLs in search results – Matt’s got a white board

Un-crawled URLs and Yellow Pages – Jim Stewart (some commentary on MCs post)

Weapons

If it’s tools you’re after, here’s what we found for you this week;

Foxy SEO; a quick way to access multiple tools – Search Engine Journal

Google keyword tool v KW external – SEO Gadget

Monitor Any Page with Website Monitor Google Gadget – Search Engine Journal

SOSG Alerts

Here we have alll kinds of geekiness for the seriously obsessed (outside of the Big 3);

NewsDots – nifty visual approach to news search/recommendations

Whoozy – a new people search engine.

Nu2Me provides a central location for links from UsedEverywhere.com, Kijiji.ca and Craigslist.ca!

UsedEverywhere.com was founded in 2003 with the vision that an effective, free, online marketplace for the sale of used goods would reduce landfill content and benefit the environment.

Pillbox was developed to aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticals.

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Search Patents

This week’s interesting awards from the world of search patents;

Google -

Zero-minute virus and spam detection

Search result ranking based on trust

Detecting spam documents in a phrase based information retrieval system

Microsoft -

Quality of web search results using a game

Dynamic search with implicit user intention mining

Ranking search results using biased click distance

Yahoo -

System for classifying a search query

Hybrid term and document-based indexing for search query resolution

System and method for improving online search engine results


 

And that’s it for this edition – be sure to tune in next week for more from the search obssessed!

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David Harry aka the Gypsy

‘7 Days of Search and Social’ is a joint effort from Search Engine Journal and the SEO Dojo to bring you the latest in SEO and Social Media news. Each week (on Tuesdays) we’ll be posting the highlights of the most recent newsletter here on Search Engine Journal.

Be sure to grab the SEJ feed for the latest or sign up to the SEO Dojo newsletter to get it straight to your inbox.

Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.

The latest in Search and Social