SEO daily links: Hotelfinder, enterprise SEO, diversity, Page Speed, Promoted tweets

August 1 Learned about Google’s new hotel finder service/experiement from Mike Bluementhals blog. Good timing: I wanted to reserve two nights for later in August today. Played with the interface, but the price range didn’t go low enough for my budget. Nice interface though, particularly the mapping of the geographical area where one is looking for lodging. Daid Roth summarized...

SEO daily links

I’ve been bookmarking blog entries since my last SEO post, just didn’t have the time to post about them. So now here is the sumary of two workdays. More coming later. Learnings of the days: How two mark up reviews using schema.org’s review specs: schema.org/Review How to create a custom YouTube channel including a very specific custom image. I finally...

SEO Daily links: Google Places' features, problems and citations sources + mobile linkbuilding and CTR estimation

Useful fact of the day: WordPress MU (MultiUser) allows running multiple blogs from one installation, under different subdomains or directories Useless fact of the day: There are more Americans on Facebook than have passports. 150 million vs. 115 million. (Source: Tripl) And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments in italics: Mike Blumenthals pointed out three features that got...

SEO Daily links: Multiple XML Sitemaps, QR codes, RichSnippets

Learning of the day: A few days ago I was struggling with redirecting a whole directory to a single page using the RedirectMatch command. I was told I should use what works on our server, which meant RewriteRule. I found the solution today: RewriteRule ^oldsite/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L] New fun tool of the day: I got my Spotify account today and started...

End of a Barnes and Noble account

Last week I posted a note how my Amazon.com account ended. There I mentioned my attempt to set up a  Barnes and Noble account as a substitute. Well, that didn’t live long. I received this email from them today: Dear Publisher, Thank you for your continued support of the Barnes & Noble Affiliate Program. Barnes & Noble has made the...