CSS Image Replacement February 26, 2006
(Visited 36049 times)I guess we all know, Search Engines cannot read the letters on a jpg file. If on the mast head of your website you have some image that uses a really nice font saying:
“My Company Name - My Unique Selling Proposition Why You Should Get My Service.”
Search engines cannot see that. That is one reason why the Alt Attribute supposed to be used, but if you want to use purely text, you can do a CSS Image Replacement technique.
In your HTML File:
div id=”myimage”
span
My Company Name - My Unique Selling Proposition Why You Should Get My Service
/span
/div
In your CSS File:
#myimage …
Microsoft offering MSN search logs for academic study February 9, 2006
(Visited 16242 times)Microsoft Live Labs is offering MSN search logs and enhanced API access in the Accelerating Search in Academic Research 2006 program. This is a request for proposals for the academe to enhance research and publication in search. Microsoft is funding projects worth $35,000 on the average.
The research project can be related to SEO since the log excerpts will be made available. However, these may not be used for profit as is. Instead, they can be used to develop new optimization techniques based on relevant data.
I think local universities can make use of this opportunity, especially since salaries and other …
