http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk Tips and ideas to improve the search rankings of NSDL sites Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:34:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I attended an evening class for search engine optimization strategies offered by Boulder Digital Arts and have a list of resources, tips, and tricks that may be of interest. Keyword Research Everyone describes things differently but you don't want to guess what your customers are searching for. To start, ask a ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/06/03/search-engine-optimization-tips-tricks-and-resources/ Carol MM wrote in the last paragraph in her post about Krishna Bharat - "He reiterated that new, frequently updated, and well-written content with lots of links to other perspectives would be found and ranked highly by Google News, but he did not offer specific methods." I thought it was ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/02/29/inlinks-who-is-linking-to-my-site/ Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News There are currently 41 editions of Google News in 18 languages. Founder Krishna Bharat began this shuttle service to news and networked information on the Web based on the idea that since Google had millions of global users anyway, why ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/02/28/editor-in-chief-at-google-news-mr-algorithm/ In honor of Kim Lightle's great presentation on her search engine optimization efforts on our last Pathways project teleconference, we've added a section listing some of the better SEO resources to the NSDL Technology Standing Committee home page.  If you know of other interesting SEO resources that might be good ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/02/26/6/ We are adding a meta description tag to the HTML header of each page of the NSDL Middle School Portal not because the addition increases the ranking of our content but because several search engines use this tag to display the snippet of text below the clickable title link in ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/02/22/meta-description-pick-me-pick-me/ This document – Search Engine Ranking Factors V2 - represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. Together, they have voted on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google's ranking algorithm (the method by which the search engine orders results). It ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/02/15/an-important-search-engine-optimization-seo-factor-title-tag/ This blog is being created to discuss search engine optimization ideas, but can and hopefully will evolve into any technical topic or discussion thats hot at the moment. Have at it ..... [Field of Dreams, 1989] http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/techtalk/2008/02/14/intro/