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| Articles about Search Engines |
| | Search Engines Update Their SEO Tools | | 2008-08-07 09:18:53 | | A lot of search marketing companies produce their own SEO Tools, like geolocation tools, backlink checkers, header checks and various page evaluation tools using multiple data sources like Website Grader or SEOMoz's new Trifecta tool. However, some of the most valuable are those created by the search engines themselves.
Google has led the way for some time, with the excellent Google Webmaster Central, but also ones that are not site specific such as Google Trends and Google Zeitgeist and the latest update to the Adwords Keyword suggestion tool, which adds actual search volume data. Then there is the “invitation only” Google AdPlanner, which identifies sites by demographics and other data.
Yahoo also has a number available such as Yahoo Site Explorer – where the link: command is the most comprehensive source of backlink data that SEOs have. Plus there is ability to check what pages are indexed, and useful page removal tools. There was also the detection of intent in... | | By: Sonicatu | | |
| | Graphic Design Flaws to Avoid When Optimizing Websites for Search Engines | | 2008-08-04 00:00:00 | | If you have a business website, its design is extremely important. Undoubtedly, you want a website that is visually appealing. It’s the main reason why the web-designing business has grown in the last decade. Savvy web-builders with a flair for graphic design are in high demand. However, catchy graphic design is only one element to [...]... | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| Update- New search engines to delight your eyes | | 2008-07-31 08:20:00 | |
I wrote yesterday about a couple of new engines, cuil and searchme- they're pretty and there's no nasty surprises.
When I looked to see how that blog post was doing I noticed some blogs/comments about the relevance of cuil's results, and my colleagues pointed out the same. Not being one to believe everything I read or hear I dug deeper and found that 'yes' there do appear to be some relevancy issues:
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Joe BursellCampaign Delivery Manager... | | By: Sonicatu | | |
| | How to win Search Engines traffic | | 2008-07-30 13:28:00 | | By the time, you understand what makes traffic for your website. Search Engines, Like Google, are good for traffics, but not all keywords and topics attract people to your website.Some keywords are searched by millions daily, other keywords by thousands. But thousands is also a big number if you got listed number 1!Last days, I was surprised by the huge number of visitor for my 'Wonderful Blogger Template' article through Google.Here's the stat of this post and why it was successful.Two types of... | | By: Sprinf Of Life | | |
| | New search engines to delight your eyes | | 2008-07-29 11:50:06 | | You may have noticed yesterday the launch of www.cuil.com- a really beautiful search engine. It's intuitive to use and has a bunch of handy features and did I mention that it's a beauty? For everyday people cuil could easily replace the big G but while it is gorgeous it doesn't have the nice crunchy features of other engines. My biggest gripe is that lack of search operators, followed a close second simply by the SERP layout.
Taking a step back from being an SEO I can see that a magazine-style SERP layout works, information is ordered nicely and its refreshing to say goodbye to the list- but being an SEO I need to see where in a list something is- quickly, with a plugin that numbers it. I also might want to check how many pages of a site are indexed with a "site:" operator, but cuil doesn't seem to be able to let me.
Regardless of its comparative limitations it is very, very nice ...as is searchme another new engine launched a little while back. searchme adds a great twi... | | By: Sonicatu | | |
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| Find Your Album Cover Art for Free with These Search Engines | | 2008-06-26 07:00:27 | | Shankar over at KillerTechTips has compiled an amazing list of search engines to help you find all of those missing album art covers. I have always found myself to be too lazy to fill all of the gaps in my album art, but this list has definitely made me more motivated to get out there [...]... | | By: LostInTechnology | | |
| | Get Your Blog Listed On Search Engines and In Top Blog Directories | | 2008-06-25 18:29:04 | | Once you have posted your first piece of private label content, inserted Adsense ads, etc, it is time to promote your blog.Go to masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ and submit your blog to as many of these blog and rss feed directories as possible. Some of them may not accept your Blog. Use your key phrase in the title and at least once in the Description if you are able to enter one. This is going to take many hours, but the effort is well worth it. Go to http://yahoo.com and set up an account if you don’t already have one. Add your RSS feed to your "My Yahoo" account as a news feed you want to monitor. You will need to add RSS Beta to your My Yahoo content if you don't have it. For more info on how to do that, go here: http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html and add it. You will now add your blog into the RSS feed in my yahoo. To do that, click on edit in the RSS feed section.Enter the url of your blog. Go to MSN.com, create an account, and do the same. To do that, enter your ... | | By: Money-making-Systems | | |
| | Add your blog or site in search engines | | 2008-06-10 02:38:00 | | Submitting your blog or site to search engines is an important way for visitors to find your blog. Here are 8 search engines that you can manually submit to.Submit to YahooSubmit to DmozSubmit to GoogleSubmit to ExactSeekSubmit to ScrubthewebSubmit to MsnSubmit to SearchSight.comSubmit to Jayde... | | By: computer internet technology | | |
| | Google, one of the best search engines | | 2008-06-09 05:38:00 | | Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2008 the company has 19,156 full-time employees. As of October 31, 2007, it is the largest American company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. (Infos from Wikipedia)... | | By: Random Information Everyday | | |
| | Submit your Blog to Search Engines | | 2008-05-25 05:25:16 | | Search Engine Optimization (SEO) aims at increasing the volume and improving the quality of traffic to a website from search engine results. Search engines work on different algorithms to analyze the contents and keywords, and present the search results. Google, for instance, assigns page ranks to the sites and sites that rank highly will appear early in the results. Of course, many other factors are considered by search engines, such as relevance, unique content, coding and quality of links. Th... | | By: online JOBS | | |
| | Improve your Search Engines Rankings | | 2008-04-30 05:35:00 | | We'll focus on improving your ranking for the natural search results. Getting in the first few pages of the SERP will ensure that most people will find your content.Traffic volume is the most important parameter when it comes to monetizing your blog (more visitors = more money). A large portion of traffic volume comes from search engines. To monetize efficiently, it's crucial to get your blog contents in the top list of any search engine result pages (SERP). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps you to achieve this goal.Photo by cambodia4kidsorg.There are two types of search results:Natural (a.k.a organic).Paid (e.g. sponsored links in Google SERP).Search engines basically need one thing to know where to put your blog on their list - your rank on the keyword(s) used to search. For example, if your blog title is Tiki Tiki Guide to Making Money, you might be ranked high if people search for the keywords 'tiki tiki guide'. But you might be far beneath the thousands of other pages on th... | | By: What's Up | | |
| | | How Do Search Engines Work - Web Crawlers | | 2008-04-16 07:45:54 | | It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. Hence it is better to know how these search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search. There are basically two types of search engines. The first is by robots called crawlers or spiders. Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site's Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages ... | | By: Make Money Online : Tips from I Digg Anything | | |
| | | Unstoppable Search Engines Evolution and SEO | | 2008-03-18 09:25:56 | | We are in the middle of unstoppable search engines evolution. Search engines will increase role of the images in their search results. Of course images will have to be properly tagged for that.
What Will this Mean to SEO? Basically a few existing...
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| | Is a blog better for search engines? | | 2008-02-25 02:19:00 | | This is always a little frustrating for me. It's a question that suggests right from the start someone is planning to create content primarily for search engines. So my stock answer is usually something along the lines of explaining a blog is just a Web site (driven by a content management system). Is it the format the end user would prefer to receive your content in?I understand people ask the question because blogs create and attract fairly dense linkage data. Everyone knows how important linkage data is. But that always leads to my quality-over-quantity mantra.
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| | Easy site submission to the top search engines and directories | | 2008-02-24 23:13:29 | | I have a website, but since I don't have products or services to promote, I don't bother submitting my site to the search engines and directories like through this website: www.SubmitSiteNow.com. I only need to submit my blogs, and I did to some of the major search engines like Google and Yahoo, and directories I could find around the net, and one of the sites for it is the www.SubmitSiteNow.com. Now, for those of you who are running an online business and looking to build traffic, you might be interested to know that you can find your site out there within 24 hour period upon submitting your site. You can do so, through a website I found to be helpful in that regard. See about such site and Sign Up Now To Get Massive Hits To Your Website! You will be amazed at how quick you will find your site on Google and other top search engines and directories. In fact, it doesn't cost much compare to the other search engine optimization websites offering the same service. So, there you go, it is ... | | By: Simply Me | | |
| | The SEO Approach - Know Search Engines, Don’t Submit To Them! | | 2008-02-21 02:09:37 | | MSN submit site page states: “Generally our web crawler, MSNBot, can find most pages on the Internet. However if your site does not appear on Live Search, you can send us the address… ”
Google on the submit site page also states: “We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the [...]... | | By: online college | | |
| | Find your site on major search engines with Apogee | | 2008-02-18 21:24:19 | | This is for those that are having having trouble with finding their websites on the search engines. I know there are so many people that needs help with getting their sites out there. In fact, I came across a website where someone mentioned about not being able to find his website on Google. Well, I would say that, it takes a special way to find your website out there especially when it is getting quite crowded out there nowadays. There are so many sites competting to be at the very top searches of Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other search engines. It takes a certain company like Apogee Search Engine Marketing firm in Austin, Texas to get the job done. Apogee strives to make sure that their clients are not disappointed, by providing them a better service, and if we talk about Pay Per Click, Apogee can definitely help. One doens't have to worry about Search Engine Marketing Malpractice, because Apogee focuses on the more important spects of what works. Apogee has a variety of proven online m... | | By: Simply Me | | |
| | Alternative Search Engines to Google | | 2008-02-07 21:49:27 | | Will there be any alternative search engine to really challenge Google’s stranglehold in the near future? Will spam sites and parked domains continue to rate highly? Will we be able to search and actually easily find exactly what we are looking for? Will we be able to access a good range of valuable information on [...]... | | By: Blogging Sueblimely | | |
| | How to get visitors for 5 cents in pay per click search engines | | 2008-01-07 06:56:31 | | How to get visitors for 5 cents in pay per click search engines when mostpeople are paying 57 cents..Pay per click search engines are a great way to generate traffic. The problem is that most of the good keywords cost 50 cents or more. Here's how you can get traffic for much lessIf you want to get the maximum number of visitors, then you should implement all three strategies.This page assumes that you understand the basics of how pay-per-click advertising works, and that you understand how Google and Overture work.How to get 5 cent visitors from GoogleOk, so let's start with Google. Remember that the system for Google is totally different to Overture. We are dealing with Overture and Google on this page because they are the ones that are going to drive the majority of traffic for you. It is actually much easier to get clicks for 5 cents or even lower at other pay per click search engines, but it is difficult to get very many clicks.So basically the secret for Google is to do proper research for your keywords and find every combination of keywords that you can think of.Let's say for example that you have a site that sells wine. At the time of writing, the minimum bid on Google for "wine shop" is 57 cents and the minimum bid for "buy wine" is 35 cents. And that's just the minimum which will likely put you at the bottom of the list of 8 advertisements and get you very few clicks.Instead, have a look at these combinations of keywords:wine saleswine storeswine salepurchase winediscount winewine pricewine cheapwine shopsorder winewine on linewine priceswine clubwine cheapestAll of the above keyword combinations are available for five cents. (Although they might not last long at that price if some wine sites are reading this article!)It doesn't matter what business you are in, there are some keywords or keyword combinations that other people have missed. I have even managed to get clicks for web hosting traffic at 5 cents per click, which is probably the most difficul... | | By: Pro designs | | |
| | | Q & A Search Engines Answer | | 2007-11-09 20:38:57 | | Free Interesting Question And Answer Search EnginesHave Questions? Want Answers?Do You Have An Inquiring Mind?Want To Know?Would You Like Some Interesting Thought Provoking Writing Prompts?Look At These Question And Answer Search EnginesThey Deliver Info, Facts, Knowledge, Opinions, News, Tidbits And TriviaOnline Knowledge And AwarenessFreewww.Answers.com/bb/ www.FactBites.com www.QueryCat.com ... | | By: Free Jobs At Home Blog | | |
| | 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers and Search Engines | | 2007-11-02 02:09:54 | | Author:Jennifer SleggEveryone and their dog (yes, there are a few dogs out there with their own blogs) have started up a blog these days, but many people just aren’t taking the steps needed to optimize their blogs for both readers and search engines. While blogs can be business related (another blog about mesothelioma anyone?) they can also be personal where you talk about the great ham sandwich you had for lunch today or the crappy service you had at that trendy restaurant last night.But whether your blog is business or personal, you should ensure that you are optimizing your blog for both your readers (after all, you want to keep those readers coming back) and the search engines. Unfortunately, optimization is an important step that far too many blogs seem to be skipping over, even those that have a broad appeal to surfers and have the potential to be monetizable.However, optimizing a blog is a bit different than your standard website search engine optimization (SEO), particularly because most blogs run off standard blog platforms, or worse, run as a hosted blog on someone else’s domain name. And there are design issues that can be unique to blogs which can impact your rankings.Let’s face it, when you commission a styling’ new blog template, most blog designers focus on making your blog look the way you want it to. But unfortunately for bloggers, not very many of those great blog designers are also SEOs by trade, meaning that the blog design you use could actually be hurting your search engine rankings. While you may have a great design that looks wonderful to readers, new readers might not find you if your blog isn’t ranking well organically in the search engines.Also, when you optimize your blog for the user experience, you make it easy for users to return and engage in your blog without dealing with any of the hassles that can cause them to abandon other sites or blog entries. Repeat visitors are the cream of your blog, so by following these tips you ... | | By: Pro designs | | |
| | SEO-Writing for Search Engines vs Writing for Humans | | 2007-10-15 09:16:00 | | Second article in my SEO series, this post demonstrates how writing for humans and writing for search engines are different. [Read first part-SEO fundamentals](I'm no SEO expert. These are some simple observations only)Post TitlesWriting for humans: Readers can sense the excitement, criticism, pun, hidden meaning etc in a title, though the words do not convey it. But search engines read the word and store it and do not interpret other meanings/perspective of the phrase.For example, a title “What a bike Yaar!” might sound exciting and readers can understand that you’re likely to describe some new bike in that post. But for search engine, the title looks meaningless. Because, the keywords are missing in it. The words ‘what’ ‘bike’ ‘yaar’ are quite common and are not focused. On the other hand, a title “Bike review: New Honda Unicorn 2007” will gain you better visibility on a search engine, because search engine can understand that your post will be quite relevant t... | | By: eNidhi - A professional amateur | | |
| | 4 Reasons Why The Smaller Search Engines Matter | | 2007-10-03 22:13:45 | | By Bill Platt
These days, all search engine optimization gurus only seem to talk about Google, as if Google was the only search engine on the Internet.
Of course, we all know that there really are hundreds of search engines and directories available to us, and we know that some of the smaller search engines serve a very tight niche of users.
Honestly, I can understand why there is a lot of... | | By: Ebook Review - Make Money | | |
| | Shopping Search Engines | | 2007-09-21 20:27:37 | | Some time ago, I wrote a post about the Social Shopping Sites that have become very popular on the Internet. In that post, I promised that my next post would be about Shopping Search Engines—and, OOPS, I forgot. So, here it is.One of the most overlooked segments of the social networking market is the shopping search engines—not Deal Time or My Simon. This is the new generation of shopping search engines.StyleHiveStyleHive is a fashion-oriented social commerce site—definitely a good one for the jewelry business. In addition to the typical bookmark/join groups/add friends stuff, you can click on tags to see the most popular product recommendations in each category. You can grab a hive it widget for your browser, which saves all the items you've hived. And they’ve included a forum. But they probably explain it better than I ever could:The Stylehive is a global social shopping community, dedicated to discovering and sharing the most exciting products, the stores that sell them, and the people that find them. You don't have to join the hive to enjoy it. Casual readers can just browse, search or subscribe to it via RSS. You'll discover and share what you find in the hive by exploring tags, individual people's hives, popular or recent bookmarks, and popular sites in the hive. Or, you can simply check out our blog, a publication that constantly covers what trends our editors are seeing emerge in the hive.Of course, if you decide to join the hive, you'll get to do more! Build your own part of the hive by creating tagged collections to share. Comment and converse with other hive members. Build your own 24/7 shopping magazine by following the people you like. Build and share your own shopping wishlists for the holidays, weddings and parties. Professionals can promote themselves and get noticed by the world for their style. But, most importantly, you'll be joining a community that is reshaping the world of retail, design and fashion by changing how we shop. The people in the Stylehive are quickly becoming a major force in the shopping world and you can be part of it, and share in the rewards of the Stylehive's unique community.This is the hot site for women’s fashions and accessories. It allows users to publish images and links of cool design and fashion. Prices and links to your website are allowed. Users tag items that interest them and share their list with others, leaning toward the under 30 crowd. MyPickList This site is much different. Members pick products from an approved list of retailers, and earn commissions when someone buys something from their list. The is what MyPickList has to say:MyPickList.com helps consumers make informed purchase decisions. Once a user creates a pick list it can be shared with family, friends, or the public by adding the widget to any site that accepts it, including popular sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, etc. Any product from a retailer on the internet can be added to the PickList but only products that are sold through a retailer in our network are eligible for a product commission when someone purchases something off a member's pick list.But guess which products the members are going to pick? Most likely the ones they get paid for. I can't see any great benefit for independent designers, unless you're on their list of merchants.Like Visual Shopping Like.com is a new shopping search engine where you browse by image, not text. Your choices are shoes, handbags, apparel, accessories, and jewelry and watches. Browsing by product type, you select the product you are looking for, e.g. watches -> leather bands -> square face. The search results are a number of photos of watches that match your criteria. You can refine your search by color, shape or pattern.ShopWikiNow this one is kinda interesting. It crawls the web picking up products from etailers on its own. Like general search engines, ShopWiki scans the Internet to find the best results for its users' searches. All purchases are done through the online retailer. You can SUBMIT YOUR SITE. Or read more about getting listed at their MERCHANTS PAGE. Shopping search engines can help you reach out and interact directly with your target audience in ways that are impossible with traditional shopping search engines like PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, and Froogle.... | | By: Designing Divas Handcrafted Jewelry Independent De | | |
| | Be friendly to search engines: 8 ways by Monte Enbysk | | 2007-09-14 10:50:54 | | Here are seven other simple tips that Thurow offers in her 300-page book.1.Use keywords that match what users are typing into search queries. Thurow says she's baffled at seeing "Welcome to our home page" in big letters on a business Web site, or home pages with only Flash or graphics and very little text. If your business is selling help-desk software, say "Help-desk Software" on your home page; that is what search engine users will be looking for, she says. "You need words, and the right words," she says, adding that Flash sites and graphics-only sites do not perform as well on search engines as HTML sites. Don't know what search queries are being used to reach your site? Do keyword research through various search engines, or check out Microsoft Submit It!'s search engine submission tool, which recommends the keywords you should use and analyzes your site prior to submission. 2.Worry more about getting keywords into title tags and body text than in meta tags. Meta tags have two components: a brief summary description of your site and a series of keywords that you'd want people to use to find your site. Together, they provide a framework for search engines to know where to list your site. Many people, however, spend more time strategizing on keywords for meta tags than for their Web site content, which is a mistake, Thurow says. "The title tag is far more important than the meta tag," she says. "The meta tag is important, but for different reasons." Some search engines, such as Inktomi and Fast Search, will display your meta-tag description on their search results pages. Again, concentrate on getting keywords on the text on your site. 3.Put your most important keywords on the first part of your Web site. People shouldn't have to scroll or surf very far to find the keywords they're seeking on your Web site. Many users won't have the patience. You want them to land on a page that provides what they are seeking, but also offers a representative view of what you... | | By: Tips How To Make Money Online | | |
| | Submit Blog to Search Engines | | 2007-09-06 10:36:00 | | Search Engine Optimization (SEO) aims at increasing the volume and improving the quality of traffic to a website from search engine results. Search engines work on different algorithms to analyze the contents and keywords, and present the search results. Google, for instance, assigns page ranks to the sites and sites that rank highly will appear early in the results. Of course, many other
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| | Easy and Simple Steps to Get Listed in Search Engines | | 2007-08-23 17:22:00 | | Search engines are one of THE best resource for free advertising. Better your web site's search engine position better be the traffic generation. 85% of internet users go to search engines and find the information they want.So you better hurry to follow these simple tips to get guaranteed listing and good positioning in search engines.1. Put a link to your new web site from already indexed web site(s). If you don't have a web site that already indexed then propose a joint venture with other web site owners for link exchanges. Needless to say that the web site you are going to exchange links must be indexed already. Search engine crawlers love to follow the links from one web site to other. So there will be more chances of your site crawled thru these links.2. Put some content on every page. Minimize graphics. Search engines can not read graphics. Only ALT tags (not all search engines). So if there is graphic don't forget to put ALT tag. Try to sprinkle some important keywords that p... | | By: Get Paid, Work at Home | | |
| | How we are found via Search Engines | | 2007-08-09 08:33:00 | | When it comes to being found online besides being located at the following blog communities; Mybloglog, Blogcatalog, Spicypage, and Bumpzee. We are also located within some of the major search engines by using the following top 5 keywords.Become a travel agentIndependent travel agent How can I become a travel agentGlobal Travel InternationalOnline travel AgentThe keywords are just a few that were used this week to find our site/blog. The communities that which we are joined helped us in our rankings and the steady flow of traffic. Thanks to all those who have visited or commented on the blog.... | | By: Start a Travel Business - Global Travel | | |
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Pay per click search engines and pa... | | 2007-07-13 15:19:00 | | Pay Per ClickPay per click search engines and pay per click advertising provides web site owners the opportunity to buy their way to better positions on search results pages. Learn about pay per click, the costs, and if it is a viable option for your site.1. What Is Pay Per Click?Pay per click advertising on search engines allows you choose keywords you would like your site to appear for when a search is performed. You decide how much you are willing to pay each time a person clicks on the search results. The more you are willing to pay per click, the higher your site will appear in the results for the keywords you choose.2. Which Search Engines Allow Pay Per Click Advertising?There are hundreds of pay per click search engines.Generally, the larger the pay per click search engine, the more you will have to bid to get to the top for your keywords. This is why it is worth investigating different search engines to find what it would cost to bid on your keywords and how much traffic they d... | | By: Various Ways to Earn Money Online | | |
| | How To Get A Flash Website Listed On The Search Engines | | 2007-07-12 07:38:00 | | Flash-based websites are notoriously difficult to index in the search engines. Here we lay out some practical tips to help you overcome this barrier. If implemented they are guaranteed to help propel your flash website into a high search engine ranking position.Flash is the #1 way for web sites to deliver animation, multimedia interactivity and sound. After all, Macromedia claim (via NDP Research) that 98% of all computers connected to the Internet have a Flash player installed. But, as owners of wholly Flash-based web sites know, too much Flash can make it difficult if not impossible for search engine spiders to crawl the site and assign it a descent search engine ranking.The reasons why Flash is so problematic to index are numerous. Current search technology simply does not yet have the ability to deal with issues such as the “auto re-direct” function from a Splash page, or the capacity to judge relevance of Flash content to a web site’s registered search keywords. For owners o... | | By: work at your home | | |
| | | Get Your Site Indexed by Search Engines | | 2007-05-23 00:38:00 | | First of all, you need quality content. That does not neccesarily mean a long boring article about some subject in your niche. For example, a friend of mine has a site with photos. Each page has a photo with a brief description of the subject. Each and every page of the site is indexed. Searchers usually find these pages because they are looking for a photo of the subject. So quality content can not only include articles, but also photos, tools, jokes, discussions, forums, videos, commentaries, advice, FAQs or a myriad of other types of content. Be brutal. If you came to your webpage as a regular visitor, would your page be entertaining and/or informative? Would you find your way around the site easily? Would you stay? And, more importantly for our next point, would you recommend your page to others?You need incoming links! The best incoming links are what search engines call organic links. What are organic links? It is where someone likes your site, and adds an unsolicited link to your site from their site. Sounds easy? Wrong. Gaining organic links takes a long time if you sit back and wait for others to link to you. There are quicker ways to gain good incoming links which we can't cover here but I can thoroughly recommend this page - 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006. Of course, all links are not created equal. As a general rule of thumb, links from sites which are more authoritive relevant to your website carry more weight with search engines. Least weight is given to irrelevant links from low ranking sites. To give examples, if I have a site about growing cactus in the UK, a link from the British Cactus and Succulent Society would be an ideal link. A link from a home loan site would be totally irrelevant and would probably be ignored by search engines.To summarize links, search engines consider links from other pages to your page as a 'vote' for your page, however some votes are better than others. As Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall say on the abovemention... | | By: Ask the Blogger - Adsense Tips and Tricks | | |
| | Know how Search Engines Function | | 2007-05-20 03:36:00 | | Just because your site has been crawled, doesn't mean your site will be indexed by the search engines. Lets take a quick look at how search engines work. There are 3 stages - stage one is where search engine crawlers visit websites collecting the information on webpages and following links on those pages to other pages to collect the information on those pages and so on and so forth. On some websites the crawler may decide to only crawl a few pages if the site isn't considered too important (and we'll come back to this later, as that 'not so important' site may be yours!). After collecting all that information, usually hundreds of millions or even billions of pages, the search engine starts indexing those pages. The search engine analyses each and every page to see what the page is about and how it fits in the site and the overall world wide web. The search engine decides which search queries the page may be relevant to, and then ranks that page against all the other pages on the web which are about the same topic. A single web page may be relevant to few or even dozens of different search terms so these all have to be taken into account. Obviously this is quite a simplistic view of how this works but I just want to give you some idea of the enormity of this task.When a searcher types a search query into the search page, the search engine searches through it's index for what it thinks is the most relevant pages which will match the searchers request. This typically (and quite amazingly) only takes a fraction of a second, and the searcher is presented with a list of webpages that the search engine believes matches their request. For example, I just did a search for "home loans" and there were 34,000,000 results returned. Consider for a moment that you would like your webpage to rank in the top ten for the term "home loans", your page would have to better than 34,000,000 others! Of course, that is not impossible but unless you are a large national or multination... | | By: Ask the Blogger - Adsense Tips and Tricks | | |
| | Make Your Site Become Search Engines Friendly | | 2007-05-17 15:31:00 | | A very important point made by Google, MSN and Yahoo (and the others) is that your website should be designed for humans, not for search engines. I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment but you still need to make sure a search engine crawler can find it's way around your site.You have to make sure every page on your site will be found by search engine crawlers and crawled properly. Your site and pages have to be set up correctly for this to happen. You need at least basic HTML knowledge to understand how to do the following. Your website will need internal links that a search engine understands.Your website should be linked together so that every single page can be found by clicking a link from another page. The best way to do this is to have a site map. A site map is a single page (or series of pages if you have a huge site) which links every page that exists on your website. If you use a javascript menu, you will need a "noscript" section as well. Another important point to remember is that, generally speaking, the more clicks away from the home page a webpage is, the less likely that page is to appear in the search index (but we'll cover the exceptions later). Your web pages will need a unique titleChoosing titles for your web page is not hard - just choose a short sentence or phrase which accurately describes what your page is about. If your page is about growing cactus in the UK, there's your title... Growing Cactus in the UK. This is also what people will see in the search engine results pages, so if they see your relevant page they will click on your link, even if it is number four or five in the search results. Make sure every page has it's own unique title. Your web pages will need a unique meta descriptionMake sure your pages have a unique meta description. An effective meta description is a short synopsis of what visitors will expect to see on the webpage. This is NOT a place for repeating keywords or telling lies about what the page is actually ab... | | By: Ask the Blogger - Adsense Tips and Tricks | | |
| | 10 Ways To Indirectly Get To The Top Of Search Engines! | | 2007-05-17 05:32:06 | | There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in
the top 20 spots of the major search engines. That
amounts to a lot of competition! I say if you can't
get listed at the top, indirectly get to the top.
How do you do this? Look up the top 20 web sites
on the major search engines under the keywords and
phrases people would find your web site. The key
would be to then advertise on those web... | | By: Freshapps-The best blog about blogging | | |
| | The Search Engines Have Been Busy this Week - A Recap | | 2007-05-04 20:44:00 | | This week the search world has been rampant with news of buyouts and related rumors. Here is a snapshot of the events of interest:The Dow Jones is up for sale and rumors started by a connected analyst state that Google may be interested. I say "don't hold your breath." This is likely a tall tale. Here is another article from Bloomberg: "Dow Jones Holders Say Murdoch Bid May Trigger Auction (Update4)"Yahoo responds to Google's purchase of DoubleClick by purchasing the remaining shares of Right Media for $680 Million; an ad buying exchange very similar to DoubleClick.Microsoft has expressed interest in purchasing 24/7 Real Media; one of the few remaining media companies in the Internet advertising industry that have not already been snatched up. In fact, 24/7 Real Media appears to be the only advertising firm that would provide Microsoft with the ability to compete with Google and Yahoo in this advertising exchange space. According to a recent posting by the Houston Chronicle on 24/7'... | | By: The SEO Blog | | |
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