webmasters

Web Accessibility organization WebAIM has posted results from an interesting survey on the use of screen readers. Webmasters should pay attention to this, as accessibility is an important part of your online presence, but is often ignored or overlooked. Just ask Target, who settled an accessibility lawsuit last year for $6 million.

Minimum bid increases that apparently started yesterday have site publishers absorbing the impact of a Google Slap.

An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.

The webmaster forums are lit up with reports that the Google Webmaster Toolbar is showing zero backlinks, and some are reporting a decrease in traffic shortly after.

At the recent SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle one of the big sessions was on duplicate content. There is great blow by blow coverage in posts by Vanessa Fox and by Chris Boggs.

Updates to Google's Webmaster Central tools give webmasters more options for removing content from Google's index.

It’s really annoying to suddenly remember I have a few domains of 2-3 years of age, that I actually set up links for - but never had any real content on. Reason being: complacency. I bought the domains for an early client, with the aim of setting up a small network for link benefits for them. However, early success meant the domains went undeveloped.

One of biggest thorns in the side of all search engines is non-relevant search results. Whether the cause of these types of results...