POST UPDATE 04/09/2015 Its been almost a year since we tried this…we think it is still vaild – but scroll down for some new links. What did we test? Well – we wanted to know if Google indexes hidden div’s in HTML code. Seems logical that Google would – but who flippin’ knows – right? … Read more
I’ve been waiting for a while now for SEO Mofo to tell us Google’s limit on the number of pixels Google will display in the title of a snippet. He created a 107 character title that Google displayed completely. But it was unclear whether this title was in fact the absolute limit on pixels. In … Read more
This is a follow-up on my buddy Dave’s post a few days ago: “Do Keywords in the Meta Description Count as Keywords” He tossed out a test which checked to see if keywords in the meta description were a good, helpful thing…it turns out, then are not. Worthless in fact. Here is what he did … Read more
Creating my own SEO curriculum for the purpose of training employees is a major pain in the ass. So, I’m reading through an “SEO training manual” to see if I’ll be able to use it to train people. Unfortunately, as so often happens in the SEO world, the material is plagued by unverified, unproven and just … Read more
UPDATE: 2012/07/10 Check it out below. Well – here we are again, we have a new test to look at. This time we are looking at the effects of strict HTML on the way Google measures a page. The essential question of does Google look at more than the H1 tag when analyzing a … Read more