Tuesday, January 10, 2012
I thought it might be interesting to look at the traffic that comes my way from search engines. Here are the top 5 posts that consistently bring in searchers: Style a Fieldset with Rounded Corners Using CSS CSS3 Transitions: the Basics What is a Wrapper Div? ARIA Roles 101 Tumblr Tag Search I’ve written about [...]
Monday, September 5, 2011
For a while lately I’ve been noticing that I’m getting search engine traffic from the phrase “backchannel adoption.” I’ve written about the backchannel several times, I’ve even reviewed a book about it. But I’ve not mentioned backchannel adoption. So what’s up with all the searchers who are coming here looking for info who probably aren’t [...]
Three Ways To Display Your Latest Google+ Updates On WordPress from wpmods. searching for signal gives us: The Most Important Parts of HTML5, or Why audio and video are Boring, or The New Web Platform, or an Introduction to HTML5. Yes, all that. YouTube Tips: Blown Away by Phyllis Khare tells you some tips that [...]
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Jared Smith wrote an excellent WebAIM article talking about how Accessiblity and SEO are moving closer and closer together in their goals and techniques. He talks about a variety of things, including HTML5 and SEO. Look at Jared’s list of similarities (links are to WebAIM articles): The list of accessibility and SEO practices that are [...]
With the unavoidable presence of mobile devices and social networking, 2011 saw some major changes in the way websites are designed. In order to have any presence in the new online experience, web designers have embraced a number of changes, but here are four trends that won’t be going away any time soon. Image Credit: [...]
Google Search By Image: Use a Snapshot as Your Search Query. Wonder if it will do faces – that’s sort of scary. Maybe match fingerprints? Useful :nth-child recipes. Nice examples that clarify the concepts. A terrific article by Karl Groves called Barriers to improving the Accessibility Game Plan makes a number of good points. This [...]
Google, Yahoo and Bing announced schema.org yesterday. Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables [...]
Google +1 is now live. If you want to make it part of your process, here are some tips for getting started. Add it to Your Web Page Mashable has directions for adding a +1 button to a WordPress blog. Others can add it by using this bit of JavaScript at any point in a [...]
Media Queries: a collection of responsive web designs is a new site with selection of sites to study. (Also, see my post on Media Queries 101.) If you’re teaching one of those introduction to the Internet classes where you show students how to search effectively, here’s a helpful post. How to search & do more [...]
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