Responsive Web Design has taken web developers and designers by storm, changing the way they approach the development of a website. However, it isn't perfect and has its limitations. According to Archive.org, images constitute about 62% of the total weight of a webpage on average, suggesting that there's a need for a better way than CSS rules to deliver images responsively to a virtually infinite number of screen types and sizes. Meet the new HTML 5 Picture element.

Read more »

Keyword stuffing is one SEO habit of old that will probably land you a penalty. But you know what's worse than keyword stuffing? URL keyword stuffing. That's right. This is a black-hat technique that's designed to manipulate search engines to give the page a higher rank than it deserves. When it comes to web spam, Bing isn't one to stand and take abuse while Google extricates itself. Bing recently revealed that it now has a spam filter in place to keep URL keyword stuffing in check. Let's take a look at what this is, and how search engines in general (and not just Bing) look at keyword stuffing

Read more »

Bing launched an amazing image search widget last month that let you embed images from Bing Image Search queries directly on your website. The widget displayed the image stream in a nice collage or slideshow mode, and it added a cool feature in the Bing arsenal. But owing to a lawsuit against Microsoft filed by Getty Images over the feature, it has been taken down indefinitely,. However, the already installed scripts are still functional.

Read more »

Image search accounts for the second most popular form of search queries after web search. According to Bing, these queries make more that 10 % of total search queries, and as much as 40% of search results include some kind of a visual component. Capitalizing on that fact, Bing has made significant advancements which make it your go-to place when looking for images. Google might be king of web search, but it's image search is no match for Bing's.

Read more »

Sitelinks are Google's way of letting users know what links could possibly be most relevant to them. They help users find content more quickly. Building upon that understanding, Google has implemented a new site search box that appears within sitelinks. This search box will make it easier for users to search for and reach specific content on your site directly from the search results page and through your own site-search pages

Read more »

SEO signals, or metrics, are a way of quantifying a website's usefulness in a variety of areas. The (late) Google PageRank is a common example. Others include Moz Domain and Page Authority. These are the most common ones, and there are hundreds of others as well that allow us to quickly analyze patterns and trends. Not very signal is useful however, and some have been phased out with changes in SEO over the years. Surprisingly, people still use some of them. Here are the top 5 SEO pointers you need to stop looking at!

Read more »

In our last post, we talked about how Google has killed Authorship from search results once and for all. Up until last month, this was an important of SEO and it helped reputable authors get more traction on the search engine. But Google's decision to remove author images a month ago, and Authorship itself more recently took webmasters by surprise. So what do these changes mean for authors? Does this mean the end of AuthorRank?

Read more »