A few days ago, I wrote a blog post about Google engineer Navneet Panda’s work to design a real time web page classifier for text and image data and suggested that web page layout may indeed be a ranking factor under this new “visual search” technology. Right on cue, Google launched Read More →

There are several ingredients to a successful web page in the age of Panda. First and foremost, your goal should be to create pages that "Wow" users with useful information about the subject matter Read More →

In this article, I’d like to share a bit of what I’ve learned in preparation for a book I’m writing on building high ranking websites that Wow users. To set things up, lets take a look at a very enlightening conversation that Wired magazine had with two of the engineers Read More →