tagSeoBlog: Seo for Images, Video-Seo, Google Doodle

London 2012 Archery Doodle

Today’s olympic Doodle celebrates “Archery” (July 28th, 2012). The Archery competition will call for pinpoint precision and nerves of steel. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, its main use is that of a recreational activity. Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Recurve archery is the only discipline of archery featured at the Olympic Games. Read on »

Olympics Opening Ceremony (Doodle)

[New: London 2012 Basketball Google Doodle Video] … Ok, let the games begin… The Olympic Games 2012 in London will be opened today. Google celebrates the Opening of the Olympic Games 2012 (July 27th, 2012). It is the first of 17 olympic Doodles that will be shown on Googles homepage during the next two and a half weeks. Five athletes represent the five continents: Europe, Asia, North-America, South-America and Africa. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894. Since then, the Olympic Games are held every four years. Read on »

Inofficial Eyetest Doodles

[New: London 2012 Basketball Google Doodle Video] … There are two kinds of Google Doodles: those that are shown only in specific countires, and those that are presented international in mostly all countries worldwide. They are called “global doodles”. Usually Google shows global Doodles about one in a weeks. After 5 doodles in March, 4 Doodle in April, 6 doodles in May there was just one Doodle in June. And in July – since now – nothing. The last Doodle is passed 19 days, and then before 43 days. To long period for me – so I decided to design some inofficial doodles :-) Read on »

Alan Turing Doodle

Alan Turing was born 100 years ago. Google honors the English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist with an amazing Doodle on the homepage. It is an interactive “Turing machine”. The goal is to programm six binary strings with special methods. The doodle-machine proofs each string. If it is correct one char of the Google logo is filled with color. Here the solution if you have problems: Read on »

youTube Video-Seo: Ranking Factors

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. What factors play a role in order to be listed in the top results of the youTube search? Nowadays it is no longer sufficient to represent these factors only as a list. It is not enough to write the keyword in the video-title, description and keywords. The youTube algorithm evaluates many more signals. And all of the individual factors are related to each other. The following infographic gives an idea of what is important. Read on »

3 methods of SEO

There are many misconceptions when we talk about search engine optimization (SEO). This is because every Seo has his own point of view on what SEO is. Many people suggest that SEO must be something evil, because it manipulate the objective Google search results. But also within the Seoshpäre some heated debates are the result of different approaches, what methods and concepts are applied by Seo. Therefore, I tried to break down the question to three fundamental ways of optimizing for Google and Co. – and I turned it into an infographic :-) Read on »

Peter Carl Faberge Doodle

Google celebrates the 166th birthday of the russian juweller Peter Carl Fabergé. He is best known for his “Fabergé Eggs”. Peter Carl was born as the first of two sons in a jeweller-family. With 26 years he overtook the company. The company was also involved with cataloguing, repairing, and restoring objects in the Hermitage during the 1870s. 1882 Fabergé succeeded the breakthrough: Tsar Alexander III. bought some pieces. The first of the “Fabergé eggs” the Tsar hoinors with a medal. The frist Faberge-Easter Egg is not born in Peter Carls head – it is designed by a Finnish goldsmith named Eric Kollin, who worked for Faberge. The basic idea was very simple: the Russians loved the Easter egg tradition. Read on »

Bob Moog Doodle

Google honors again a pioneer of electronic music: Robert Moog was born on May 23, 1934 (78th birthday). He invented the Moog synthesizer. For Moog it was a machine, but for musicians it’s an instrument. “Bob Moog’s innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, the Animoog iOS app, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.” Source. Read on »

Mother's Day Doodle 2012

Google wishes Happy Mother’s Day with a lovely Doodle. Two o-childs gives her g-mother a flower-gift. Nice. If you are a man, or without children you fail today. But, of course: you have a mother too. So take your chance a do something good – for the industries :-) As Valentine’s Day a strong campaign came over us. But, be sure: what did your mother would appreciate the most? Present her a power drill – and ask her if you could borrow sometimes… Read on »

youTube Video-Thumbnail bestimmen

How does the selection of the youTube video thumbnails work? Is it by random? Can you change the preview image that is displayed on youTube lists? Two years ago I described a method of how it worked (at that time). Therefore you could use a timer. Included to the video you could read the frame-timecode of the three video thumbnails. With this knowledge you could replace in the video exactly these three frames. After uploading again you saw your preview thumbnails. Now I have tested this method again. And, unfortunately: it fails. This article shows the experiment and the results. Maybe someone has another idea? Read on »