A great tip for parents  as the kids head off to school next week.

source: Geek And Poke

Some news events, such as Iraq’s invasion into Kuwait way back when, have me go “whoaaa!”, awaiting the big media or world response – but it takes a little while, making me doubt my initial reaction.

On the other hand, sometimes items drift through my river of news views that have me shrug my shoulder – and now the whole world is on it, again making me doubt my initial reaction.

Google Suggest is one of those non-events of the latter category, for me.

But for its historical value (“… and on that day Google…” yadah, yadah, yadah) it’s simply one of those things that make me go “hmmmm?”

Meta-search engine is a web-based service that aggregates data from a number of search engines. A meta search engine doesn’t have a database of indexed pages of its own. Instead it “sends a user’s query to multiple search engines and blends the top results from each into one overall list.”

Some helpful features meta-search engines offer are:

• search results clustering (i.e. search term grouping and classification based on the word derivations and phrases). Like I previously suggested, this feature can be effectively used for keyword research and brainstorming);
• related term suggestions (also used for expanding keyword lists);

How frequently do you write blog posts knowing that they’ve got a very limited shelf life, or post a news post knowing it’ll be out of date in a months time?

All the time right? Then why not make the links garnered by those posts work for for you? A 301 redirect is the best way to do so!

Well, now there’s a quick and easy solution for the more non-technical amongst us. SEP has developed a 301 redirect plugin for Wordpress.

What Does It Do?
This plugin permits you to:

A navigational query is one where the searcher knows where she wants to go to find something.

An informational query alternatively is one where the searcher knows what she’d like to do or find but does not know how this can be achieved.

Navigational queries come in two types:

1. a word, name or brand strongly or uniquely associated with one particular web site: HP, ebay, hotmail, new york times, yahoo.
2. a partial or complete web address: ebay.com, www.hotmail, yahoo.co

The 1st type is what is usually meant with navigational query.The 2nd type is called a URL query.

Traduction française de l’article écrit par Jeff Quipp le 11 août dernier (2008) : iPhone Search Result Optimization Tip #1: Phone Numbers in Meta Tags

Est-ce que les PDAs du type iPhone sont la voie du futur? Est-ce que la plupart des recherches seront faites à partir de ces dispositifs? Je ne crois pas qu’aucun d’entre nous peut s’objecter contre ceci…cela arrivera…et le fait est que la transition est déjà bien avancée.

Par conséquent, J’ai cru qu’un nouveau sujet, celui d’obtenir de meilleurs résultat avec iPhone, appelait à une nouvelle série de blog, commençant par un joyau rapide et simple, dont vous trouverez les détails ici-bas. Dans les semaines qui vont suivre, j’amènerai d’autres conseils alors demeurez des nôtres!

Snatch of conversation:

- I beg your pardon? Assets? You probably meant to say “puppets” didn’t you?

- Yes, of course it does, but it can’t effectively be policed and it can’t possibly be ever enforced…

Google Insights is one of those services that makes me go "hmmmm" in a yummie kind of way. I like numbers, data, stats, a lot. Doesn’t have to be meaningful either; just about any statistical insight is a good one.

For example, Philippe Kahn shares that it’s a statistical fact that people with larger feet are better spellers. Why? "It’s because people with bigger feet are older."

It is in this vain that I share with you the following Google Insights

Source: Geek And Poke 

Traduction française de l’article écrit par Jeff Quipp, le 12 juillet 2008 : « 12 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid »

Si le contenu est roi dans le monde de la recherche, alors les blogs en sont le royaume!

Pour ceux d’entre vous qui blogue dans le but de générer des revenus supplémentaires pour vos produits et/ou services (contrairement à faire des revenus en partenariat provenant du trafic), et n’ont pas encore vu les bénéfices de tels blogs, il y a de l’espoir. Ci-contre, vous trouverez 12 des erreurs les plus fréquentes que l’on retrouve lorsque nous récupérons un compte où le propriétaire de celui-ci blogue. Ceci est important car ces blogueurs vont ultimement devenir frustrés du peu de résultat obtenu et vont abandonner l’idée de bloguer du même souffle.