Archive for August, 2004
Saturday, August 21st, 2004
Google and sponsored results
Search Engine Roundtable asks if other people are seeing top-line sponsored results in Google.
I am.
(Running Firefox under OSX, and have no reason to think I have a virus.)
Here’s a screen dump:
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Thursday, August 19th, 2004
Google and CSS
The Web Standards Project reports that there is discussion that Google might use CSS as part of its ranking. This is just so much codswallop.
Google does *not* use CSS to determine ranking, and this is easily verifiable by looking at the logs of any site that is crawled by Google regularly.
googlebot never reads the css […]
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Thursday, August 5th, 2004
Use of Headings
Over on Jogin (and elsewhere) there has been a lot of discussion of how to use headers.
My take is that headers are a structural element, and we define the structure before we apply the layout to it.
Thus, the H1 should always occur once on a page, and define the name/purpose of the page, without any […]