The Hall Blog

There’s a lot of buzz in the blogosphere lately about Google’s seemingly instant indexing of blog posts. Unlike static sites, which may get indexed every week or so, Google is crawling blogs within minutes, thanks to it’s new Google Blog Search feature. Darren over at ProBlogger cites that his “Widgetbucks” post was indexed in 20… Read more »

There are a lot of reasons why we love to use WordPress blogging software — it’s a straightforward install, highly customizable, extremely SEO-friendly, and with its latest release, it’s jam packed with more features than any other blogging platform out there. And did I mention that it’s free? And open source? It’s just a no-brainer.… Read more »

While pretty helpful as far as search engines go (think: all the gems from Matt Cutts, Webmaster Tools, Analytics, etc.), Google still has a vested interest in keeping its search algorithm and ranking methodology top secret, and while they occasionally do comment on issues raised by SEOs and webmasters, they’re typically pretty taciturn about what… Read more »

You’ve seen it a hundred times, and may even be a culprit — you have a news or blog section of your site, and the information there is out of date. And not a week, two weeks, or even a month. We’re talking about two to three months, even a year out of date. As… Read more »