SEO Files > May 31, 2005

The Death Of ToolBar PR

[Entropy] You will have noticed that you’re PageRank bar is greyed out, always! The above links are forum discussions on the matter - but I would like to point out that it IS NOT THE DEATH OF PR. If the big G has decided to kill off visual PR (toolbar pr) then thats one thing, but true PR is now, and has always been, very different to visual PR. Its still there - you just don’t know about it!

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From PageRank to Alexa Rank

schestowitz.comhttp://schestowitz.com/Weblog [schestowitz.com] It appears as though Google removed PageRank from the public. No official announcement has been made though. Google once warned about abuse of public PageRank and trading of links. They were probably most dissatisfied by the involvement of AdSense, their advertising program, in the midst of this abuse. It is difficult to surf the Web without an indicator of any kind. It is hard to establish trust in information unless there is a measure of reliability bound to it. As a substitute, Alexa rank can be used as part of a Firefox extension called SearchStatus...

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Posted at 06:19 AM

May 31, 2005

The Death Of ToolBar PR

[Entropy] You will have noticed that you’re PageRank bar is greyed out, always! The above links are forum discussions on the matter - but I would like to point out that it IS NOT THE DEATH OF PR. If the big G has decided to kill off visual PR (toolbar pr) then thats one thing, but true PR is now, and has always been, very different to visual PR. Its still there - you just don’t know about it!

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Posted at 06:45 PM

From PageRank to Alexa Rank

schestowitz.comhttp://schestowitz.com/Weblog [schestowitz.com] It appears as though Google removed PageRank from the public. No official announcement has been made though. Google once warned about abuse of public PageRank and trading of links. They were probably most dissatisfied by the involvement of AdSense, their advertising program, in the midst of this abuse. It is difficult to surf the Web without an indicator of any kind. It is hard to establish trust in information unless there is a measure of reliability bound to it. As a substitute, Alexa rank can be used as part of a Firefox extension called SearchStatus...

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Posted at 06:19 AM

Free online site map creator

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Just in case you have forgotten why a site map is a good idea to have, I will remind you. A site map gives the search engine spiders a quick, easy way to find links to all pages of your site, and provides them with a one-stop place to spider all those pages of yours. Put a link to your site map on your home page, and the search engines will know about every page on your site in a jiffy. Check out the site map tool at www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/spider-map/creator.php.

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Posted at 06:17 AM

MSN launches MSN China

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing]     To better localize its services, MSN is closely cooperating with 9 established Chinese partners including Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd, Shanghai Media Group Broad Band, Taobao.com, ourgame.com and ynet.com. MSN has vowed to improve its IM service, MSN Spaces and MSN hotmail services and promises Chinese consumers more offerings in the near future.

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Posted at 06:16 AM

Marketers Still Care About PageRank?

Greedy Girl[Greedy Girl] Whoa… let it die, people. Gaming search engines is like still having an angsty online diary when you’re 30. A fun pass time that’s time has really passed.

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Posted at 06:14 AM

Google Visual Page Rank is Back

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] About Daily SEO Daily SEO offers articles, information, and tools for search engine optimization and search engine marketing industries.

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Posted at 06:13 AM

Google PR Returns

[Entropy] Our beloved green bar is back - will google make a statement about where it went, or will someone venture an opinion worth reading? I’ll try keep you posted - but in the meantime, I’m happy to see it back

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Posted at 06:12 AM

Trends in the Search Engine Market

[Entropy] “Search engine marketing (SEM) is a fast-moving industry which is subject to the ever-changing algorithms and constantly changing business models of the search engines. I was recently asked to name what I felt were the most exciting trends in the industry…”

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Posted at 06:11 AM

Google Page Rank Is Dead - Part III

http://www.computertoaster.com [Computer Toaster] I never recommend a website that doesn’t feel right. 1st impressions mean a lot more than people think. At times, the internet is a sub-conscious activity and many things that we see make us react to it without even knowing it. You want people to like you and trust you enough to do with business with you.

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Posted at 06:10 AM

May 30, 2005

Log File Analysis and SEO

The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] Single Access Pages can often indicate that your target search terms are too broad. For example, you may be getting a lot of traffic by targeting “printer cartridges” but if you only stock a particular brand of cartridge, then people seeking other brands are not going to find what they truly seek when they arrive at your site so they will leave immediately. This can be resolved by narrowing down your search terms to be more targeted and focused on your niche products and services, for example, by changing “printer cartridges” to “HP printer cartridges” and so on.

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Posted at 07:45 AM

Search Engine Optimization

[Keven Johnson] A SEO or Search Engine Optimization Company can be an invaluable asset in your Internet marketing campaign. They specialize in knowing how to raise your search engine positions, monitoring those positions on the regular basis, and adjusting their strategies to account for undesirable results in any given month. Since this takes a lot of time, effort, and specialized knowledge, it can be in your best interest to go to an outside source rather than try to maintain high search engine positions on your own.

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Posted at 07:44 AM

Blogging won't wipe out journalism

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog [View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] "Blogging won't wipe out journalism, for the simple reason that journalism requires skills and resources that bloggers will never have. But it will...

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Posted at 07:43 AM

Farewell PageRank, Welcome TrustRank?

schestowitz.comhttp://schestowitz.com/Weblog [schestowitz.com] Google’s “Trust Rank” algorithm has been around for a while, but I don’t believe fully implemented. Maybe we’re seeing the change from Pagerank to TrustRank.

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Posted at 07:41 AM

Expert SEO for Yahoo and MSN

Marketing Defined[Marketing Defined] The Secret To Expert SEO for Your Website for Yahoo and MSN:As a follow up to the recent post Improve-your-search-engine-rankings this is a must-read...

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Posted at 07:38 AM

Increase web site traffic tips Part1

Marketing Defined[Marketing Defined] Admittedly the Top 10 ranking at Google only, is due to a back-road technique using the submission of my Blog to www.wwwcoder.com , nevertheless it has brought on the desired result of very impressive new traffic to this Blog .this was the only way I could get a desired high ranking at Google, prior to climbing out of the Sandbox, and prior to bringing our main website online .which is just days away from being published.

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Posted at 07:38 AM

May 29, 2005

Nothing beats the blogosphere for connecting people...Susie talks about blog-barter

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog [View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] A little while ago Susie wrote a nice post about the need for a blog mentor/coach/editor to help improve your blogging--Get a Big-Picture Person. Many...

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Posted at 07:48 AM

New Site and Sandbox: How to Get Rid of It

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] You have put lot of sweat in making your site. Now you want it to engender revenues and only source of traffic is search engines. You have completed your seo optimization well but there is no precursor of any traffic. Yes Google places new sites in "Sandbox" and this means that your site would not rank well for high traffic keywords for a certain period.

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Posted at 07:47 AM

Free Text Link Exchange

[Entropy] Description: LinkMarket is not as advanced and a bit more work, but its still free and a great way of making sure you’re link exchange is handled well. On linkmarket you can choose which members you want to exchange with, and it verifies that the links have been created before asking you to make yours. You also get asked, and frequently, which it notifies you about via mail. You can then approve / deny the linking and you manually add the link to you’re site.

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Posted at 07:46 AM

Oops we did it again...Viagra and the blindness connection

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog [View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] Okay it's not just Pfizer, but also Lilly/ICOS (Cialis), and GSK/Bayer (Levitra) are all in the same boat. The wonder drug of...

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Posted at 07:45 AM

Keeping Track of Google

schestowitz.comhttp://schestowitz.com/Weblog [schestowitz.com] Google Alerts: HTML-formatted E-mails which occasionally get sent. Recent changes in SERP’s of interest are highlighted.

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Posted at 07:44 AM

Yahoo launches new 300-picture e-mail service

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Yahoo, owner of the Internet's most popular free e-mail service, is adding features such as the capacity to send 300 photos in a message. Yahoo's...

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Posted at 07:42 AM

Google: your new site and the sandbox

[Marketing Defined] There is a lot of debate as to whether the sandbox filter is a good thing for Google to implement or not. Obviously webmasters who are trying to get their sites well positioned in Google do not like the sandbox filter as it prevents them from receiving the huge levels of traffic that a top listing in Google can bring. The filter was not implemented at random, however, and there is some good reasoning for the filter existing.

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Posted at 07:40 AM

Increase website traffic expert SEO tips

[Marketing Defined] Increase Free Website Traffic Expert SEO Tips: As promised, at the foot of this post are the download details for the expert SEO tips PDF aptly...

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Posted at 07:39 AM

May 28, 2005

Is Google Toolbar PR History ?

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] At first many thought it was a Google PR update after a Google backlink update, but then some started mentioning a rollback at google data centers, and now many think Google Toolbar PR is a history.

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Posted at 08:23 AM

Yahoo SM vs. Google AdWords

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] In our experience, advertising with Google AdWords has resulted in higher conversion rates than with Yahoo Search Marketing (SM). However, both programs have advantages and disadvantages. How does Yahoo SM compare with Google's AdWords?

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Posted at 08:19 AM

Sandbox at MSN?

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] There is an interesting thread at DigitalPoint, where members are suspecting that MSN has its own sandbox....

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Posted at 08:18 AM

On blog hype...I didn't quite make my point

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog [View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] ...or why you shouldn't blog tired at 10:30 PM. Last night I felt compelled to write about Paul's post--this should've been a warning sign--and this...

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Posted at 08:17 AM

On blog-vertising, Juan Cole, almost gets it.

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog [View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] I picked up from C|Net yesterday this really good article by Juan Cole on blog advertising (aka blog-vertising)--Blogs- The next...

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Posted at 08:16 AM

May 27, 2005

Reprise Media Search Engine Marketing Company

[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] Co-founding Reprise Media in February of 2003, this entrepreneurial pair had a wealth of experience within the internet marketing business. When their first internet marketing company was acquired by Ask Jeeves in 1999, the pair joined Ask Jeeves’ executive management team before striking out on their own again three years later. Believing that media planners didn’t yet have an optimally effective way to sell internet marketing, the pair saw a niche in creating viable search engine marketing plans for clients–consulting with them to choose keywords, bid on them, and then place ads to show up on the results page when someone does a search on Google, Yahoo!, and the like.

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Posted at 08:22 AM

May 26, 2005

yahoo! vs. google search results

[theMaablog] Found this cool tool that will take a search, run it on yahoo and google, the graphicly show you sites that were found in both.

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Posted at 10:54 AM

Search Engine Tips & Techniques

The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] Meta tags & keywords - Meta tags are included in the section of your site and are read by the search engines. The two most important kind are “description” and “keywords” Description is a description of the content of your site and keywords is a list of keywords relevant to the page.

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Posted at 10:51 AM

Diller: Ask Jeeves Might Get New Name

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog [Search Engine Watch Blog] Ask.com would seem to make sense. Instead of searching for an answer, one would "ask" for an answer. How polite.

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Posted at 10:50 AM

Core metrics - Traffic Analysis Tool

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Coremetrics Online Analytics 2005 represents the most comprehensive Web analytics solution for online businesses today. From determining marketing strategy and managing site investments to making tradeoffs between content and creative versions, Coremetrics delivers the tools to organize data meaningfully and the detailed information you require to drive actionable results. By building an application instead of simply providing a toolkit for reporting, Coremetrics delivers targeted business solutions that allow marketers to uncover value quickly and take action.

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Posted at 10:45 AM

Google Backlink Update

[Entropy] There was a GDPR and BL update over at Google - at last! I find myself constantly waiting for something to update at google. But regardless, its happened - more coverage at SEW.

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Posted at 10:44 AM

Flush the flash

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Flash presentations and animated website intros can provide a visual and audio experience to the customers/visitors. Sometimes it happens that you may want to present an online tutorial, complete with speech and animation across to people visiting the web site.

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Posted at 10:42 AM

May 25, 2005

Have blog, will travel..more on the "hired-gun" blogger

http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog [View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] Arieanna found this post by Doug Fisher this morning while she, Ianiv and I were eating breakfast--Common Sense Journalism- Hired-gun bloggers. She...

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Posted at 08:58 AM

How your firewall can destroy your search engine rankings

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Some webmasters recently experienced a delisting from the search engines without any good reason. The webmasters had not done anything wrong and their web sites were optimized for search engines. Nevertheless, the web sites had been removed from search engines.

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Posted at 08:56 AM

What is Google Bombing?

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] For example, if a user registers many domains and all of them link to a main site with the text "... is a living legend" then searching for "living legend" on Google will return the main site higher in the ranking, even if the phrase "living legend" doesn't appear on the main site. A common means of exploiting this is through weblogs, where although the entry may disappear from the main page quickly, the short-term effects of a link can dramatically affect the ranking of a given site. Empirical results indicate that it does not take a large number of websites to achieve a Googlebomb.

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Posted at 08:54 AM

May 24, 2005

Google Opens Portal to Confront Yahoo, MSN

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] The company intends to eventually add advertisements to the page, but not for a several months. Yet unnamed, the new feature was announced at the end of the so-called Google Factory Tour, a day-long event for reporters and analysts, who were briefed on Google's current efforts and future plans.

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Posted at 09:21 AM

ODP Resource Zone discontinues status checks

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] [SEO Scoop] No longer will you be able to check the status of your DMOZ submission. The resource zone forum will be discontinuing status checks as of May 21, 2005. According to the announcement, There were a number of factors involved in making this decision, but probably the biggest was that these requests were always beyond the mission of this forum.. He then goes on to say, Our feedback indicates that the information we are giving out really is not a practical help in the vast majority of cases.

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Posted at 09:20 AM

Worthwhile SEO Reads

Read today that fx from Entropy introduces SEO Files to his readers. Thank you, I'm glad. -rob

[Entropy] I recently noticed (thanks to Technorati and WP) that a site was linking to me, namely SEO files. Upon further investigation it would seem this is infact quite a nice site, with a bunch of valuable, fresh links to other SEO bloggers and articles. Its certainly worth checking up on -> SEOfiles.

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Posted at 09:18 AM

May 23, 2005

Get Your Keyword To Spot #1

[Entropy] I was recently tasked with a rather trivial task of getting an organisations name to result #1 on the big 3 - Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Naturally I said it would take a max of about a month. Now 3 days later I see it is complete, and I have a happy customer.

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Posted at 10:02 AM

Some interesting stast from Search

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] That's a long way from 1997, when researchers estimated the indexable web (that part considered for indexing by major engines) to be around 200 million pages. The largest search engines at that time included Hotbot, Altavista, Excite, and Infoseek (awww...remember them? how cute).

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Posted at 10:00 AM

10 Tips for Web Site Design And Writing No-No's

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Don't use words your web site visitors might not understand. People are not going to stop and look in a dictionary, they will just go to another site.

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Posted at 09:59 AM

May 22, 2005

Search engines page cache limit - search engine optimization tip

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] For Google robot ( Googlebot ) cache limit is Unknown, Before couple of months the cache limit was only 101 kb, Pages above that size was partially indexed, Anything above the 101 kb limit was ignored, Now it has changed and googlebot is known to index files of size more than 400 kb, So it is unknown exactly what the new cache limit is for googlebot,

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Posted at 10:02 AM

Is your SEO black-hat?

[Entropy] The SE Spam Detector is a simple yet effective way of finding the easier to identify black-hat SEO tactics and learning about how they can negatively effect you. It mainly detects many tricks belonging to three classes of methods: keyword stuffing, doorway farms and text hiding

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Posted at 10:00 AM

How well index’d are you, next week?

[Entropy] Its common knowledge to SEO experts (and a good handful of common website owners) that google is distrubuted, very distributed. To the rest what that means is that google is not just one server, and not just in one place. This means that the information on each google server (cluster) is not always the same.

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Posted at 09:58 AM

SEO And Dissemination Of Google PR

[Autism blog, web design blog. Left Brain/Right Brain] Allegedly. There is a significant school of thought that claim PR is useless as a measurement of the success of a site in Google and yet another school of thought think that it was once used seriously by the Google search algorithm but since the Autumn 2003 ‘Florida’ event, Google have been using it less and less and some even suspect its used as a double-blind technique to make SEO black-hatters (those who use dodgy SEO techniques) falsely optomise their pages for PR.

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Posted at 09:57 AM

May 21, 2005

Google My Search History Beta

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] It can be a very useful tool for SEO consultants who does professional research, and also college students who use Google for academic research.

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Posted at 01:25 PM

Google PR Update Coming Soon

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] After reviewing all the discussions, and movements in different data centers, I believe we’re getting very close to the next PR update, and my prediction is we’ll see the PR update either last week of March, or first week of April.

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Posted at 01:24 PM

Defining Black Hat SEO

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] ·         Keyword stuffing: Keyword stuffing is the art of placing keywords in the pages. Don’t do it. There is a correct way of placing keywords on the webpage such as: embedding keywords in the title tag, meta tags and in the image alt tags.

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Posted at 01:23 PM

Google Results Undergoing Update

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] When a backlink update occurs, it usually indicates more updates are on the way. Because Google also uses relevant backlinks to help determine PageRank scores, a backlink update is normally followed by a PageRank update.

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Posted at 01:22 PM

Googlistics: messing with the big "G"

[[blog.forret.com] - music media IT technology belgium podcast brussels] Andy Baio (Waxy) broke the news on March 30th, at a moment when Matt was on holiday (and off-line), so he only replied on April 1st, about a thousand angry emails later. His defense is that it was a interesting idea, badly implemented, not followed up and never evaluated. Since Matt does not have the profile of a cash-hungry opportunist, and he's explaining this to an audience of people that understand these reasons (reads like an IT project management what-not-to-do list), the storm will probably blow over.

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Posted at 12:17 PM

Anchor Text Usage and Optimization

[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] Our main target keyword is SEO , is it a wise choice to use SEO as anchor text on every backlink ? No, in this case, this action will act against natural linking. You should create combinations of anchor texts, and use different anchor texts for different backlinks.

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Posted at 12:16 PM

Google Acquires Urchin Software

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] Thousands of Internet sites use products from San Diego-based Urchin to help better understand their users’ experiences and track the performance of advertisements and other aspects of visits to Web sites. Google expects the service will help Web sites increase their advertising returns. 

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Posted at 12:15 PM

Google's New launch- "My Google"

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Available through Google Labs later today, you can sign-up for the page if you have a Google Account. Once created, you'll see something that looks almost the same as the regular Google home page. But below the search box, you've got new options:

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Posted at 12:12 PM

Converting More Free Downloads to Paid Customers

The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] Do you give web site visitors the opportunity to download a free trial of your product or service with the intention that they will come back and purchase? How are you following up with these visitors? Asking them to fill out a form and immediately giving them the download on the next page is not the best way to generate a quality opt-in list. Collecting accurate opt-in information from these visitors is essential to follow up education and making the sale.

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Posted at 12:10 PM

Tips for increasing your PR

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is.

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Posted at 12:08 PM

May 20, 2005

NAVIGATION STRUCTURE, a necessary evil

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] A site loses all sense of structure and organisation if the site is not provided woth good navigation structure. Navigation structure can be presented in: a bar down one side of the screen, along the top and bottom, or in a frame that stays throughout the visit to a site. It is important to allow access to the rest of the site from anywhere. Ideally, you should be able to go to any page in a maximum of two or three clicks, with the main pages accessible in one.

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Posted at 09:22 PM

Google Backlink Update

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] I have spoken to some SEO experts this morning and there’s a discussion about if a new PR update is coming very soon or not.  Let’s cross the fingers and wait. I hope your websites have gained new backlinks with this new Google Backlink Update.  Majority of my websites gained links, and a few have lost some backlinks. This new backlink update shows that I have to work more on link building. I will be writing about link building this week.

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Posted at 09:17 PM

Image Optimization SEO

Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles[Daily SEO » Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Articles] About Daily SEO Daily SEO offers articles, information, and tools for search engine optimization and search engine marketing industries.

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Posted at 09:16 PM

Exactly Where Search Engines Want To See Your Keywords

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Google no longer looks at this tag - nor do most of the other major engines - but it cannot hurt to put in a few keywords for those small, specialized engines that consider this tag additional relevant text on your page. Include your most important keyword for the page first. Then add a few related keywords or keyphrases.

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Posted at 09:14 PM

The Sirens Call for Search Engine Marketing

Makovision Handpicked News For Internet Developers[Makovision Handpicked News For Internet Developers] Tempting as it may be to put all of your eggs in one basket for convenience sake, Google is not the only major source of quality website visitors. In the most recent search engine rankings issued by Nielsen/NetRatings in March 2005, Google was first with 47% of searches (among work and home users in U.S.); Yahoo second with 20.9% and MSN third with 13.6%. If you only focus on Google, you are missing access to over 53% of the marketplace.

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Posted at 09:12 PM

404 Error - The Page Cannot be Found

The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] Internal links, or links to pages within the same website also get 404 errors from time to time. Unfortunately this is due to the webmasters neglect of his own website. If modifications were made to the website, he should have checked his website, or ran an automated program to check all of his links. Broken internal links look bad and unprofessional.

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Posted at 09:09 PM

SEO, Public Perceptions and GoogleBowling

http://www.dgsdesk.com [DG's Desk] First up, Threadwatch’s Public Perception of SEO, which ties in nicely with a thread I wrote a few days ago. I don’t know anything about Mary Hodder, but I do know that she chose a really bad phrase for comparison.

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Posted at 09:08 PM

Content Spam

http://www.wolf-howl.com [Graywolf's Wolf-Howl] Your bijon frieze's articles about mesothelioma and debt consolidation probably aren't really providing much value. Aaron of SEOBook points to an new company Constant Content who provides original articles, that you can license for your website, an interesting concept. So is creating an article around a high paying topic spam, maybe, but it is and always will be a part of being a publisher, both on the web and off. Here are some tips for not being flagged as spam:

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Posted at 09:06 PM

Remember That Parity Thing?

http://www.dgsdesk.com [DG's Desk] When I wrote a few weeks ago about search engines playing for parity, I only offered the results of one of the many searches I performed to test for relevancy. Rustybrick has been compiling quite a bit more data on the subject of relevancy and you can see the early results here.

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Posted at 09:05 PM

A boon for creatives?

[digital axle] Does Google's and Yahoo's decision to add graphical banners to their search results mean increased revenues for creative shops? In theory the number...

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Posted at 09:03 PM

Looking Past Visual PR

[Entropy] The Need for a New Gauge - this is quite a good take on something a lot of SEO’s are talking about - a better way to measure a sites worth than PageRank. Its been known for a while now that Visual PageRank and actual PageRank are two VERY different things, so why are we still using google? Read more on the article…

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Posted at 09:01 PM

Google, take me to Yahoo Movies! (How Internet Search Became Offline Search)

Makovision Handpicked News For Internet Developers[Makovision Handpicked News For Internet Developers] Google Ride Finder helps you find a ride in an absolutely incredible way. Yahoo! has come out with a tool that suggests movies you'd like to watch. The idea of using one search engine to find a movie and the other to find a taxi to get there was so amusing, I thought I'd review both.

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Posted at 08:59 PM

Mesothelioma & Google?

http://jefte.net [Jefte.net] Mesothelioma is one of the deadliest diseases known to man; the average life span of an inflicted person from the time of diagnosis until death is less than 6 months. It’s a disease that strikes approximately 3,000 United States citizens each and every year - a disease that is almost 100% preventable; the only known cause is via exposure to the deadly mineral Asbestos. It comes from inhaling the particles and dust of the asbestos as it decomposes. Asbestos fibers have been used in building materials, auto parts and other products for decades, but are linked to cancer and other diseases. Hundreds of thousands of injury claims have forced many companies into bankruptcy and now a $140 Billion bill is being milled over by a committee in the senate. This bill would compensate those affected by Mesothelioma and the lawyers are all over it. So are the google-mongers. So how does a deadly disease intersect with the internet? What could they...

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Posted at 08:57 PM

Fathom Out In Front, Again

[digital axle] Of course it's worth recognizing that keyword prices rose 11% in April, but what is more interesting is how Fathom continues to dominate the SEM PR and marketing game. Makes sense, as the management team is certainly a group of well-seasoned marketers.

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Posted at 08:55 PM

Manual Submission To Directories

The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] One Of The Most Tedious Part Of Managing An Online Business (but also one of the most crucial part) It is time consuming, and… don’t you agree… a tiny bit boring! Because of that, many webmasters are tempted by the countless offers you find online telling you they will use a software to submit your site to 500 000 directories...

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Posted at 08:53 PM

Increase Web Site Traffic Tips Part3

[Marketing Defined] It is sometimes laughable at all the tricks new webmasters employ to get traffic to a new website or Blog, and then just as soon have the visitor...

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Posted at 08:45 PM

Add a Teaser or Read-More Tag to a Blog

[Marketing Defined] How to add a "Teaser" or "Read More" tag to a Blog to shorten your Posts: By popular request, here are the instructions to add a "Teaser" Tag or "Read...

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Posted at 08:44 PM

Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

[Marketing Defined] How to improve your Search Engine Rankings: Most people think of search engine optimization to improve their search engine rankings as being such a...

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Posted at 08:41 PM

Anatomy of Profitable Content Sites

[Marketing Defined] The Anatomy of a Profitable Content Site is amongst the important SEO and Internet Marketing articles included in the main Marketing Defined Site when...

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Posted at 08:39 PM

Increase web site traffic tips Part1

[Marketing Defined] How to increase web site traffic to my blog using back-door methods has been a major focus, with positive results way beyond my expectations ... and...

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Posted at 08:37 PM

Increase Web Site Traffic tips Part2

[Marketing Defined] As a follow on to Increase Web Site Traffic tips Part1 .. a series started in this Marketing Defined Blog in March 2005 .. this Post reveals how we...

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Posted at 08:34 PM