TL;DR: A little-known property of Google Books search highlights co-occurrence as a ranking signal.
The concept of co-occurrence (not to be confused with co-citation) has been on the radar of many search professionals for a while. I accepted the idea …
Jim Munro spotted an interesting anomaly in Google’s search results the other day, a case of Google indexing its own search results. This is not something you see every day. I went to investigate and noticed that all Google’s URLs …
In 2012 we examined Google’s document title rewriting behaviour in order to create a list of contributing factors.
In the follow-up experiment we’ve focused on one signal only – anchor text…
Google+ wants real identities for both humans and organisations. There can be only one!
That said, look what happens when you search for “Red Bull” in Google Plus:
We’re seeing two official Red Bull pages, both verified. So which one …
Today I’m going to share a dead-simple Google Webmaster Tools hack that will help you split up pure organic impressions and clicks from Google’s local results. Hack is maybe a strong word, in any case it’s a workaround which compensates …
Look at this perfectly looped image sequence. It’s link building, chain making, Futurama, factory… it’s satisfying, and hypnotic. Google, however, won’t be able to link these concepts well enough unless it’s fed structured semantic data. They must find creative ways …
NOTE: An updated, 2016 study is available here.
Exactly two years ago, I published a little study on link anatomy [PDF] from link builder’s point of view and many were surprised to see so many attributes attached to something …
This article explains how to crawl a single domain and generate a complete list of all external anchor text used.
If you’re running a small-to-medium sized website, visualising website architecture isn’t difficult. What do you do if your website exceeds 100,000 or even 1,000,000 pages?
Visio, PowerMapper, SmartDraw and similar applications won’t do the trick. They produce great visualisations in …
I’ve been doing technical SEO assessments a lot here at Dejan SEO, and lots of different websites on lots of different CMSs have gone through my hands. What I noticed is, a lot of different CMSs create at least one …