Monthly archive of 9 October 2009
Yahoo drops Meta tags from search algorithms
Posted Friday 9th October 2009 by admin
The landscape of Search Engine Optimisation has been changing for some time now, with several internet search engine companies altering their algorithms to help in achieving a more focused output for their users.
The latest news on this topic relates to Internet giant Yahoo, who have now moved in line with several of their rivals by removing the meta keyword tag from their search statistics.
The meta keyword tag is used by companies to describe the context of their business purpose. However, in the past several individuals abused this tool, flooding their sites with irrelevant keywords in an attempt to force their sites to the top of the search engines.
Google Proposes Crawlable AJAX
Posted Friday 9th October 2009 by Allison
Google has just announced a new proposal for making AJAX-based websites crawlable. Currently, when AJAX is utilised, search engines cannot read and index the content of the applications which use AJAX. Now that Google proposes crawlable AJAX, this could all change.
AJAX, the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is actually a group of web development techniques that merges content, data and design into a whole. It allows web applications to retrieve information from the server asynchronously without affecting the display of the current page.
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