SES Toronto: Web 2.0 and Search Engines
With so many “Web 2.0″ technologies coming in to play with web design and online application development, the effect on the search engines’ ability to find, crawl and index content becomes an issue. As such, this session moderated by Kevin Ryan included deep dive advice from Chris “Silver” Smith, Lead Strategist from Netconcepts and Ambles Kwok, a Senior Engineering Manager from Yahoo Canada.
Chris Silver Smith was first up and gave examples of Web 2.0 technologies including the idea of folksonomy and tagging by showing a tag cloud from Delicious. It’s an alternative method of navigation based on user defined keywords assigned to a piece of content.
If you cannot implement the capability of tagging into your content, you can create a similar effect for SEO benefit by mining your log files for search engine referral keywords and generating a tag cloud from that data. Shows Cabella’s tag cloud as […]
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