mikeindustries.com — Mike tried to rank for the term lodefizzle on Google. He wrote a dozen different pages to find out what aspects of HTML Google really cares about. Scroll down to the Google Vacuum Tests section for the interesting stuff!
Feb 2, 2006 View in Crawl 4
thussFeb 2, 2006Submitter
I find search engine optimization to be a bit of a black box with a lot of rough theories on the importance of using a title tag, h1, well formed HTML, etc... so I thought Mike's article was great because he put the concepts to the real test.
Closed AccountFeb 2, 2006
The most depressing thing about this whole article is that I own every CD Dream Theater has ever produced... (yes, even the really old ones pre-that-opera-like-singing-guy) ... and I think Mike Portnoy is a fantastic percussionist.It's sad he had to get a drive-by bashing in the process of a pagerank analysis. I'm guessing he probably had his neice or nephew write his web page.My wife, who hates Dream Theater is in the other room laughing at me.
headzooFeb 3, 2006
His test with the invalid table, test 3 I think, and the pages not appearing on Google at all probably doesn't have anything to do with Google "blackballing" the page, but more to do with the invalid tags breaking the pages DOM. If Google's page parsing software uses the document's DOM to do its work, and we can assume it does, then the invalid tag probably breaks it, so Google's software simply doesn't index the page.
headzooFeb 3, 2006
Thanks for explaining why you disagree.
isulongseophJun 24, 2006
Dugg!<a class="user" href="http://isulong.seoph.org">http://isulong.seoph.org</a>
sentersoftechMar 2, 2009
been a pleasure to read... I agree with all of the above
dsfdsfdsfFeb 3, 2010
to save time, one could take advantage of this neat tool i've found: <a class="user" href="http://ministatus.com," rel="nofollow">http://ministatus.com,</a> ... not to mention that the entire amount of data related to one query can be download (the big red pdf link)