SEO Files: June 2005 Archives

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Search Engine Watch Blog

[Exploring Rootsweb] It covers search engine submission, placement and marketing issues. It explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.

How To Get A Top Rank In MSN In 2.1 Days

[Floobo] I mean, make a site with semi-keyword laden content, and sign up for The Co-Op Advertising Network point a bunch of weight towards your desired keyword and you have a top ranking.

Posted at 09:54 PM

June 29, 2005

Search Engine Watch Blog

Posted at 09:56 PM

How To Get A Top Rank In MSN In 2.1 Days

[Floobo] I mean, make a site with semi-keyword laden content, and sign up for The Co-Op Advertising Network point a bunch of weight towards your desired keyword and you have a top ranking.

Posted at 09:54 PM

Secret to Top10 Google Ranking

[Marketing Defined] The above analysis of Google's patent application is written by Darren Yates from How-to-make-money-online.info which is a site focused on Making Money Online and Internet Marketing, listing the many and varied ways of making money online. Featuring, resources, Internet Marketing articles and useful links.

Posted at 09:52 PM

Google & Search Engine Optimization

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Its popularity means that Google should be the focus of your search engine optimization campaign. You're likely to get more traffic from Google than all the other engines put together.

Posted at 09:48 PM

Dear Blog Spammer

[ developedtraffic.com] While the particular item that you were attempting to promote is probably a good thing, bear in mind that I will now be associating it with spammer abuse from here on out. That's the wonderful public relations and branding effect your abuse has had on me,

Posted at 09:47 PM

Direct-to-Desktop Marketing - Itsy Bitsy Spider Part 3

[3R Marketing - The Ethical Direct-to-Desktop Marketing Blog] Direct-to-Desktop Marketing - Itsy Bitsy Spider Part 3 Posted by John Botscharow on June 29th, 2005 Jun29 Today we return to our...

Posted at 09:45 PM

Review of Text Link Advertising Services

[Graywolf's Wolf-Howl] A few weeks ago Nick over on Threadwatch blogged about people selling text link advertising on Ebay, always on the lookout for good links especially on the cheap, I gave it a shot. Since I've used the other major text link advertising networks I figure this would be a good opportunity to give a review of the services.

Posted at 09:44 PM

June 28, 2005

Googlebot versus MSNBot

[schestowitz.com] Wait, wait, wait, you’re blocking MSN bot from using a whole 100mb of bandwidth, because it only sends you 41 hits / month? Who cares, I mean it’s 100mb of bandwidth, just let it send you that wee bit of traffic?

Posted at 08:46 AM

SEO Analysis of Google Patent

[Lockergnome's Web Developers] You may have already heard or read about Google’s latest patent application regarding “information retrieval based on historical data”, but if you’re like me, you probably didn’t bother to read it all.

Posted at 08:45 AM

Blogging For Bucks

[Floobo] It’s easy to get traffic to blogs with targetted content for a few reasons. The main one being, people are more likely to link to blogs, due to the fact they contain quality, relevant, and timely information, however, one of the other substantial sources of traffic are pinging services such as Technorati and Blogs.us.

Posted at 08:43 AM

June 27, 2005

Podcast 19 - Domain Name Wars, Get More Space

[Web Hosting Show - Main Page] a distinct advantage when it comes to SEO. Do you know if this is true or a myth? Well let me start...t be the easy road, would it? In my opinion, in SEO terms the domain name is small potatoes. What you want

Posted at 02:32 PM

Scientists Need Love Too

[Graywolf's Wolf-Howl] Scientific American please stop with the completely ridiculous advertising in your RSS feed, it's pathetic and and starting to become embarrassing.

Posted at 02:30 PM

How to submit a reinclusion request to Google

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Assuming your site is clean (follows Google guidelines), you can politely ask Google to consider reincluding your site in the index. If, for instance, you had been banned for using shady techniques, you could clean up the site, and ask to be reincluded.

Posted at 02:28 PM

June 23, 2005

White Hat SEO vs. Black Hat SEO

[Search Engine Optimization Tips] White Hat Search Spam Debate", a public, and polite, discourse between Earl Gray, a "self-proclaimed professional Search engine spammer" and randfish, a "self-proclaimed professional white-hat SEO":

Posted at 08:17 PM

Mr. and Mrs. SEMth

[Usability, SEO and Web Design] They are legendary gurus, secretly working for other firms on opposite sides of the track. One is a "black hat" SEO, the other is a "white hat" SEO.

Posted at 08:15 PM

The story behind each ranking

[SEO Tips] Some people don't understand that Yahoo! is made up of two systems: directory results, and search (Google) results. When you search Yahoo!, if any results from Yahoo!'s directory are found, they are displayed first.

Posted at 08:13 PM

Hidden Links

[SEO Tips] Image links are a standard way of linking Web pages, and they're not a problem. As long as you don't go making transparent images into links, or teeny-tiny graphical links, you should be fine and dandy.

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Posted at 08:03 PM

June 21, 2005

Google bombing, link farms and other jargon

[Interactive PR] OJR's Mark Glaser has put together a great article on the 'dark side' of Search Engine Optimisation, specifically operators such as Quixtar. It includes some very useful distillation of why interactive promotion is so important, such as the following quotes:

Posted at 08:57 AM

Google's interpretation of nofollow tag

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] the best way to think of nofollow is "I don't want to (or can't) vouch for this link." That could be because it's a comment or referrer section, or it could just be that you don't want to endorse the page that you're linking to.

Posted at 08:53 AM

June 20, 2005

MelbourneIT are into search engine optimisation?

[stillhq.com - MelbourneIT are into search engine optimisation?, and other posts] To me that's just bizarre, MelbourneIT used to have their stuff together, and they just seem to be desperate for cash, any old kind of cash now. I feel dirty for having dealt with them, and will almost certainly move away from them when renewal comes.

Posted at 08:02 AM

June 18, 2005

Scraping the Surface of Google Ranking Secrets

[HTNet] However, I’m very impressed that somehow, the good people at Google can actually come up with an algorythm to calculate some of the seemingly unmeasurable criterias. I’m happy to know that lots of “weights”, are measured just to identify spam sites and lower their rankings.

Posted at 03:53 PM

June 17, 2005

Google Reveal Ranking Method

[schestowitz.com] Google also maintain a link ’sandbox’, which prevents quick growth of sites with spam content. ”¦Gone are the days of pages and pages full of link farms. You must grow your links slowly to stay below the radar and be careful who you exchange links with.

Posted at 07:36 AM

Doubt the effectiveness of tagging?

[The Newest Industry] I don't. I just checked my blog stats for referrals from search engines. Technorati outpaces Google. All because I started tagging my posts...

Posted at 07:34 AM

Are you ready for Adsense?

[Floobo] Any site that is ready to be released to the public, is likely ready to show AdSense, however, there are some reasons you might not want to. First, we’ll go through the “needs” to be ready to release to the public: Lots of Content - your site should have lots of content, enough that the vistor cannot read it all in one sitting, and will return to the site another day.

Posted at 07:32 AM

Link Building Campaign

[Daily SEO » SEO Blog Search Engine Optimization] But it does not mean that you can get 1 quality backlink and achieve the results you have targeted. Link Building is an ongoing process, and you have to keep working on your link building campaign if you want to compete with big names in your industry.

Posted at 07:31 AM

Find host by IP address

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Here you can lookup the host or website which an IP address belongs to. And it will show you the country where this host is located physically...

Posted at 07:30 AM

Interesting Tidbits

[SEO Tips] A new study by Cyveillance shows that the Web has grown to more than 2.1 billion documents. It is growing at the rate of 7 million pages per day.

Posted at 07:29 AM

June 16, 2005

FT.com Busted for Having Hidden links

[Graywolf's Wolf-Howl] The $64 question is was it done to benefit or harm the website in question? While it would be nice to hear from FT.com about this, I think the fact that they haven't responded after three days, and the links are still up, indicates they aren't monitoring the blogosphere. So I think links will probably just quietly disappear and the guilty party will most likely be sacked.

Posted at 08:08 AM

June 15, 2005

Permanent Redirect From Root Links

[Daily SEO » SEO Blog Search Engine Optimization] Search engines treat and evaluate http://domain.com , http://www.domain.com and http://www.domain.com/index.php seperately. So if you have incoming links to your root domain (domain.com) you are losing some great value of incoming links.

Posted at 05:28 AM

Correct Search Engine Submission

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Now there is a tool called the Search Engine Commando that you can use that is fully safe and easy to use. It has built in rules that enable it to submit your pages in the same responsible and effective manner that a professional search engine marketer would, making sure that you will not be tagged for spamming or have your submission ignored for failing to observe the rules. To learn more about it, see:

Posted at 05:27 AM

Meta Description displayed in Google Results?

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] That's something that we've been experimenting with for a little while. To be honest, I'm not sure what the exact criteria are for using the meta description instead of a normal snippet, but it's independent of the update. You can assume that we're always looking at different ways of giving snippets (from the text of the page, from an ODP description, from meta descriptions) and trying to find what's the most useful result for a searcher.

Posted at 05:26 AM

Latest Google PR/Backlink update is odd

[SEO Tips] Google's latest PageRank and Backlink update started on June 22, 2004 and had finished propogating across the datacenters on June 23, 2004. While most people reported normal changes, with a rise in backlinks corresponding to a rise in PR, there were some reports (myself included) of large increases in backlinks, with a decline in PR.

Posted at 05:24 AM

Ka Webspy Network Declining

[Ka Webspy Personal Blog] Ka Webspy Network Declining Posted by Ka Webspy under Ka Webspy Network , SEO No Comments It is not surprising to know that the popularity of the some...

Posted at 05:23 AM

Latent Semantic Indexing And Google

[Autism Blog Web Design Blog] Interestingly all three of these major updates are only really indicative of what Google are planning when examined together. Florida removed a lot of sites from Googles overall index. Austin out some back (people speculate that Florida went a bit further than even Google expected and Austin was an attempt to pull things back a little) and now Brandy seems to have reinstated almost all sites –

Posted at 05:22 AM

June 14, 2005

Google Bourbon Revisited

[schestowitz.com] Unlike the many rumours, an article from WWW Coder draws a clearer picture: Google is undergoing some of the most sweeping changes in its short, seven year history. As of next week, Google will have finished sorting what might be its largest algorithm shift ever as the final points of the 3.5 part Bourbon Update were installed last Monday.

Posted at 07:37 AM

webconfs

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] 301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It's not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page.

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Posted at 07:33 AM

Bourbon Update: Its Summer Again

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] It looks like the update included a backlink update and focused on adjusting the treatment of poor quality links, with off-topic or low quality reciprocal linking being penalized. Google also appears to have made changes to their duplicate content detector, which has been reported to now erroneously pick up original sites as duplicate content in some cases.

Posted at 07:31 AM

Google Site Maps Submission

[Autism Blog Web Design Blog] Its long been established in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) circles that having a decent site map can definitely help search engines spiders and bots to more accurately index your site. Now Google has taken this one step further and introduced the .

Posted at 07:30 AM

Safe Redirects for SEO

[Autism Blog Web Design Blog] We all know that Search Engines hate change. Whenever we decide to do a total restructural change of any site we run the risk of pissing off search engines. And when we piss off search engines, we start to drop down the rankings.

Posted at 07:29 AM

What is URL Rewrite

[SEO Tips] URL rewriting is a technique where the web server rewrites the URL requested by a client and returns a document from a different location. URL rewriting can be used for many tasks such as creating top-level URLs which do not exist in the physical directory structure, hiding the fact that the physical location of a document has changed or even that the implementation of the document has changed. URL rewriting can also be used in a limited fashion to obtain some of the same benefits as Content Negotiation.

Posted at 07:28 AM

Important SEM Resource

[Razvan Antonescu] Accidentally I have found a pretty good resource on search engine marketing. The site is called Marketing Experiments Their motto is quite self explanatory for what you can find inside: Research + Testing = Results, Discover what really works Their mission statement comes to clearify their goals: “MarketingExperiments.Com is an online laboratory with a simple (but not easy) five-word mission statement: To discover what really works.

Posted at 07:27 AM

June 12, 2005

How To Get A Top Ranking In Google

[SEO-easy] Every man and his dog is producing some cheap $29.95 pdf eBook that contains nothing more than reprinted information that’s freely available for anyone with the brains to use a search engine. Alexis presently is dealing with the horror of her daughter having to contend with Leukemia, so her books are no longer available. I’ve not read anything else produced by this lady, but if it’s anything like the following article, it would be brilliant.

Posted at 10:36 AM

How Google Indexes Content From Your Web Directory

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the way Google indexes content from web directories. Excluding your template, the most important line of code is the first title you add to your main body.

Posted at 10:35 AM

12 Ways To Promote Your Website Offline

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] Nikki Pilkington is owner of Milton Keynes based Internet Marketing Company Nikki Pilkington.com, and writes articles, hints and tips to help people looking to promote their website for free, as well as running paid e-marketing campaigns. For more of her articles visit http://www.nikkipilkington.com and sign up to the newsletter.

Posted at 10:34 AM

June 11, 2005

Bourbon Update

[schestowitz.com] Google are making significant changes to their ranking system. The changes have recently been entitled the Bourbon Update and a Google employee spread (leaked) the following information: Here’s the advice that I’d give now: take a break from checking ranks for several more days. Bourbon includes something like 3.5 improvements in search quality, and I believe that only a couple are out so far.

Posted at 11:53 AM

Blogs can increase traffic

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Most people who perform searches using search engines are actually looking for information, for solutions. The more helpful and relevant content you have, the easier it is for you to attract visitors and also to turn them into loyal readers and subscribers.

Posted at 11:52 AM

The Search Engine Marketing Kit

[TopRank Search Engine Marketing Services Firm - Natural Organic Optimization] Anyone in the SEO industry has most likely heard of the new search engine marketing book by search marketing veteran, Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs...

Posted at 11:49 AM

Looking for Audience

[Ka Webspy Personal Blog] The image above is the evidence that I am now downloading the Naruto Episode 138. I was late a little bit, but it’s okay, at least I started downloading now.

Posted at 11:47 AM

Niche Bot: Cool Keyword Generation tool

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Niche Bot is a new and free Keyword generation tool that allows you to discover untapped keyword phrases in your niche market.

Posted at 11:46 AM

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.

[SEO Tips] Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

Posted at 11:43 AM

$25 Billion By 2009

[digital axle] Merrill Lynch issued a report this week that predicts paid search will increase 47% this year, from $3.5 billion to $5.1 billion, according to this Mediapost article (registration required). Paid search combined with paid inclusion would be $5.5 billion - representing 45% of ML's prediction for total online ad spending in 2005 - $12.4 billion. The report goes on to predict that online advertising will reach $25 billion by 2009.

Posted at 11:42 AM

June 10, 2005

What is Google Content Blocker

[SEO Tips] Google's mission is to organize the world's advertising for maximum exposure to Web users. Unfortunately, annoying Web content often overwhelms the page, causing many users to become distracted and overlook the ads.

Posted at 06:33 AM

More About Phi

[DG's Desk] Remember these? Phi, Pi, Fo Fum More On Phi This Phi Thing Again Well, found someone that agrees, at least in part. The 70/30 Rule Of Search Courtesy of Gord Hotchkiss via Stuntdubl...

Posted at 06:32 AM

June 09, 2005

Traffice Increase Cause Located.

[The Newest Industry] Ok, my theory of having reached a tipping point was completely and totally unfounded. It seems that Google re-worked their algorithm. As a result, my Google results skyrocketed, both personally and for this blog. This shocked me, and I am trying to decide whether I like the new alogorithm or not. I can say that it is nice to see the numbers go up more quickly than they have in a while.

Posted at 12:20 PM

Google - 100 Results in One Page

[schestowitz.com] Google search sometimes require the ’scanning’ of many entries. There is no need to step page by page looking at just 10 results at a time. The following will display 100, which is the maximum number:

Posted at 12:17 PM

Google Sitemaps Protocol

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"> <url> <loc>http://www.petefreitag.com/</loc> <lastmod>2005-06-06</lastmod> <changefreq>daily</changefreq> <priority>0.7</priority> </url> <url> <loc>http://www.petefreitag.com/tags/</loc> <priority>0.2</priority> </url> </urlset>

Posted at 12:16 PM

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Posted at 12:14 PM

June 08, 2005

How effective is SEO in B2B marketing

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Marketing prof has a good article on the effectiveness of SEO in B2B marketing at http://www.marketingprofs.com/5/bruemmer a summary of which is given below: How Flexible Is SEO/SEM? Want a marketing strategy where you can pick and choose?

Posted at 09:29 AM

How to Improve your Odds

[SEO Tips] Frequency: This is commonly called keyword density and each search engine treats this a little different. Before you spend too much time dwelling on the numbers, the bottom line is that words with a higher frequency on your page will seem more relevant to the search engine. But, don't over do it. The newest Google update may penalize sites with a keyword frequency that is too high.

Posted at 09:28 AM

Join the Google Sitemap revolution

[Chris Brauer Media Project [BLOG]] I installed it on my web server, changed the permissions on the files (666 for sitemap.xml and 775 for phpsitemap.php), and ran the script. I picked the directories and file types I wanted to exclude from the sitemap output and it generated a script that was subsequently submitted to Google through the script. I followed up at Google and submitted my sitemap.xml file myself. This is useful as you can track status (my submission is currently pending);

Posted at 09:26 AM

Keyword prices drop 15 percent in May

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] The average keyword price fell 15 percent from April to May, reaching $1.66 from $1.95, according to the Fathom Online Keyword Price Index, MediaPost reports. The drop follows an increase of 11 percent from March to April. Mortgage-related keywords, which had increased 20 percent in April, dropped 30 percent in May, to $4.52. Only automotive search term prices increased in May, reaching $1.50, for a month-over-month increase of 7 percent.

Posted at 09:24 AM

Google Sitemaps Beta Create Your Sitemap

[Daily SEO » SEO Blog Search Engine Optimization] Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

Posted at 09:23 AM

A view on Google’s Patent: Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] Obviously a strong improvement of 1 single factor would not be a direct indication of spam, generally multiple factors are showing strange behavior when a site is using spam to increase rankings. It would not be in Google’s interest to penalize a site for advertising. However, excessive advertising in sites/pages that are totally unrelated will not do your site any good.

Posted at 09:19 AM

Tangled Webs

[DG's Desk] Stuntdubl delves into the mayhem of misinformation. So we understand WHY Google feels the need to lie to us, but is it really beneficial? Have the pre-IPO idealistic folks who started an exciting and innovative company really fallen into the realm of search copy-cat mediocrity and disinformation to maintain the status quo?

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Posted at 09:12 AM

June 07, 2005

Getting More Traffic To Your Blog

[Entropy] There are a number of things you can do to help it along, from getting your blog listed in online blog directories to old-fashioned offline networking. Wayne Hurlbert provides many, many ideas for those who want to see their visitor traffic numbers go up.”

Posted at 10:30 AM

Help Google Index Your Blog

[Entropy] WP SiteMap Generator is a tool for WordPress users to create a sitemap for google’s new sitemap feature thats getting great reviews.

Posted at 10:28 AM

June 06, 2005

By jove, I think you’ve grok it!

[The Blog Factory] There are a few other search tools like this out there, but I really dig Grokker. Basically, they’re a visual search engine tool. It takes search engine results (the free results only pull Yahoo search), and it groups everything in little circles.

Posted at 09:46 AM

Dear Bill Gates, You Clever Fox

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] You did it. You casually left a live grenade at the Grand Charity Gala and walked out of the room to see if anybody, especially Google, will notice...

Posted at 09:45 AM

If I Google you, would I find you?

[Blog Consulting & Professional Blogging a View from the Isle :: Main Page] Paul is doing a little sociology/Internet experiment while he's traveling--Infectious Greed- Google & Invisible People- A Question--essentially to...

Posted at 09:43 AM

June 05, 2005

Google tests tool to aid Web indexing

[Makovision Handpicked News For Internet Developers] In order to use the tool, known as the Sitemap Generator, a Web administrator must create an XML file, know how to transfer files to a Web server and know how to run scripts. Sitemap Generator requires Python 2.2 or higher, according to Google.

Posted at 10:36 AM

Blog of the Day :: SageRock Web Marketing Weblog

[Free Traffic Tips - the blog] Learn how to get free web traffic - that's right, I said Free Traffic - because it's not just how much money you make in your internet business, it's how much money you keep.

Posted at 10:34 AM

Increase Your Search Engine Ranking - What Works Now

[THE ONE MINUTE BLOG] The methods employed to increase your search engine rankings may seem like rocket science to you, so you have probably avoided dealing with this issue. I am here to tell you - the time has come to face your website! A high search engine ranking for your website is so essential that if you have the slightest desire to actually succeed in your business, there is no way you can continue to avoid this issue...

Posted at 10:33 AM

Search Engine Rankings & Customer Conversions

[SEO Tips] The words that are visible to people reading the page are the key element that search engine spiders use to determine what your page is about. Once the engine knows what the page is about, they can show that page to people who are searching for the words found on that page. That sounds pretty simplistic, but it's amazing how many pages only contain a picture and a few words, or flash animations, or other non-text items.

Posted at 10:31 AM

Finding Keywords and Search Phrases

[SEO Tips] Arguably the most important part of the optimization process is finding the correct keywords to target. If you target the wrong keywords you could be number 1 but if no one searches using the term then you will not be found.

Posted at 10:30 AM

Maximum Exposure: Ten Ways To Effectively Increase Your Site’s Prominence On The Web

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] It’s a strange world, this place we call the internet. Many things here are stark opposites of their real life counterparts. Take for example the following. Whereas blind dating is a most dubious manner of meeting people in real life, it is the norm in cyberspace.

Posted at 10:28 AM

June 04, 2005

google sitemaps beta launched

[stream of conscious] 1) Don’t set your priority really high all the time. Google folks are not stupid. It will penalize you for making everything have a high priority. My advice is set everything at 0.5 and set a few high priority pages as .

Posted at 09:00 AM

Google Sitemaps

[jpatrickm.com] This is a great way to fast-track the spidering of your site content. As always, Google doesn't guarantee inclusion of your site or your content, but this is definitely a no brainer on getting your pages looked at. There are a couple of ways to submit a sitemap to Google: their recommended format is XML but you can also submit a text file with a single URL in each line. They also offer a Sitemap Generator script, but you need to be familiar with uploading and executing scripts on your web server before diving into that.

Posted at 08:59 AM

Google Sitemaps Explained

[23rd World] The file also gives you another opportunity to instruct Google what to crawl and when to come back. Google will continue to crawl as usual, but is hoping that this protocol will help webmasters ensure that important and/or comprehensive links on their sites are indexed. Google offers a free sitemap generator to help in this process.

Posted at 08:57 AM

Google toolbar voting just for fun - serving rednecks and silly SEO’s

[zerovis] That’s what seems to me Google did with their voting buttons. There are many who make their day when they can vote against the pages of their competitor. Many weirdos who spend minutes of delight every day voting against the pages of the proponents of thoughts they disagree with.

Posted at 08:56 AM

Why Blogs Have Become the Search Engine Optimization Equalizer

[THE ONE MINUTE BLOG] Alexa Weighs In... For those who are unaware of Alexa, it offers an interesting tool to webmasters...

Posted at 08:52 AM

Search engine optimization tips

[SEO Tips] The title tag is critical. It’s important not to overcomplicate your design and technical approach with things such as Flash, Java, frames and dynamically built websites.

Posted at 08:46 AM

Search engines page cache limit - search engine optimization tip

[SEO Tips] 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,

Posted at 08:43 AM

Podcast Secrets Revealed

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] There you are, flipping through the radio stations yet again, looking for SOMETHING, ANYTHING, worth listening to. Maybe you’ll find a song here or there that you like, or a talk show on a subject you are interested in. Then it’s time to flip the stations again. “What I need,” you think to yourself, “is my own personal radio station.”

Posted at 08:42 AM

June 03, 2005

The Search Engine Marketing Kit

[Code Genie] Pay per click and paid inclusion The book also provides insight into running a SEO business and includes interviews with well known names in the business including Jill Whalen and Andy Beal, tools and resources. On top of all this, the kit also comes with a CD that includes search engine business documents including sample proposals, worksheets, agreements, etc.

Posted at 08:10 AM

Usability Metrics

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] This normally refers to the degree to which errors are avoided and tasks are successful, measure by "success rate" or "task completion rate".

Posted at 08:09 AM

SEO blogs

[Interactive PR] Here's an overview of blogs about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) that Lee Odden helpfully annotates.

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Posted at 08:08 AM

Opentracker - The difference between hits, visitors, and page views

[Roberts Echo Blog] Because we will be asked by your clients (in PR Campaigns class) to explain tracking of traffic to your sites, we’ll need to familiarize ourselves with these terms. Hits, visitors, pageviews, etc…

Posted at 08:07 AM

Search Conference by WebmasterWorld

[Daily SEO » SEO Blog Search Engine Optimization] In an unprecedented move, Google is sending a team of engineers to support WebmasterWorld’s World Search Conference, being held in June 21-24, 2005. Conference delegates can get involved in roundtable sessions with the Google engineers on specific subjects of interest. In addition, the event will feature an invitation-only cocktail party where conference delegates can meet the engineers on specific subjects of interest and relevance.

Posted at 08:06 AM

US Manufacturers Do Not Use SEO Effectively

[Daily SEO » SEO Blog Search Engine Optimization] “U.S. Manufacturers Resist Natural Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Online Sales Leads,” prepared by Cleveland, Ohio-based Fathom SEO, covers such SEO topics as web site page titles and META descriptions, site architecture barriers and visible text.

Posted at 08:05 AM

June 02, 2005

New Article Looks at SEO "Gone Bad"

[Search Engine Watch Blog] But my complaint is that this is something that you don't want everybody to know about, because you know that it's deceitful, and it's not about providing value for people. It's not about providing a great information resource that will be the #1 site on the Web. It's about flooding the Web with crap, and in that sewage, [they're] going to bury everyone else. That's my main concern.

Posted at 10:34 AM

Keyword Density : The FAQ

[Entropy] “How frequently should you use your keyword to rate highly for it in the search engines? How can you avoid penalties for keyword stuffing? Do the different search engines have different standards for the amount of times you can use your keyword on your site without invoking a penalty?”

Posted at 10:32 AM

Why Seth Godin Doesn’t Like CEO”¦ Maybe

[Greedy Girl] I have no idea if this is why Seth Godin doesn’t like SEO. It is, however, a pretty accurate list of why I don’t do SEO.

Posted at 10:30 AM

Keyword Density in Your Web Site

[Lockergnome's Web Developers] Keyword density is a combination of the number of times a keyword or a keyword phrase, in proportion with other words, appears on a Web page. The more times the keyword appears in relation to the total number of on page words, the greater the overall keyword density. The more times that other words appear, the lower the proportion of keywords, resulting in a lighter keyword density.

Posted at 10:29 AM

How To Create Effective Web Titles For Your Blog Articles

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Posted at 10:27 AM

Google Patent Application - Seo Highlights

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] In a new twist, Google claims that it analyzes the number of years of domain registration as part of the ranking process. The application suggests that domains that are registered for longer periods of time are given more value because such a commitment shows the site is not a fly-by-night jump page. It is recommended that you extend all domain registrations for as long as possible as part of your search engine optimization efforts.

Posted at 10:25 AM

How and when should I submit my website to Google?

[The Pheedster SEO/SEM and Beyond Blog. . .] With an estimated 8.8 billion pages indexed (approximately 76% of the Internet), Google is number 1 when it comes to search engines. It’s argued that once Google has indexed your site, the other search engines will follow. Theoretically, you don’t actually need to submit your site to Google either because it’s always on the lookout for new content and will eventually find your site of its own accord. Google actually states, “Given the large number of sites submitting URLs, it’s likely your pages will be found in an automatic crawl before they make it into our index through the URL submission form.” (“Google Information for Webmasters” - http://www.google.com.au/webmasters/1.html#A1) Personally, I wouldn’t like to take the risk.)

Posted at 10:24 AM

Anti SEO Google interface

[Learning Search Engine Optimization] I was perusing my favorite Google Blog and noticed this post about a search engine interface to google that randomly displays the results. The site is called smoogle and is oft working here

Posted at 10:23 AM

GoogleGuy Shares Advice About Bourbon Update

[Search Engine Watch Blog] Here's the advice that I'd give now: take a break from checking ranks for several more days. Bourbon includes something like 3.5 improvements in search quality, and I believe that only a couple are out so far. The 0.5 will go out in a day or so, and the last major change should roll out over the next week or so. Then there will still be some minor changes after that as well.

Posted at 10:22 AM

June 01, 2005

Yoda, the podcast: Blog you must for your business!

[View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Main Page] My little post with Yoda giving sage bits of wisdom, seems to have gotten a lot of attention. Thanks to all of you who linked to...

Posted at 07:55 AM

[SMM] Search Engine Optimization, Montreal, 2005 - SEO In The Here And Now

[BPWrap - Internet Marketing From A Different Point Of View] All search engines have Terms of Service, which specify what websites they will index in their databases. In summary, these TOS's require that the web pages presented to their spiders or robots are exactly those seen by their human visitors. The search engine robots are constantly surfing the Internet, following links from one web page to another, and cataloguing the content of these web pages. By clever programming, it is possible to show a different web page to the robot than is seen by a human visitor.

Posted at 07:52 AM

IceRocket.com - Search Engine

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] Simply enter your term into the search box and click "Search" to find web documents that match your results. If your query contains more than one search term, IceRocket will automatically (and by default) return results that match ALL the search terms. You can search for a phrase by putting double-quote marks " " around the terms of the query. You can use the plus (+) and minus (-) signs to ensure that certain words are included or excluded from your query, e.g.

Posted at 07:47 AM

SEO Files > June 29, 2005

Search Engine Watch Blog

How To Get A Top Rank In MSN In 2.1 Days

June 29, 2005

Search Engine Watch Blog

How To Get A Top Rank In MSN In 2.1 Days

Secret to Top10 Google Ranking

Google & Search Engine Optimization

Dear Blog Spammer

Direct-to-Desktop Marketing - Itsy Bitsy Spider Part 3

Review of Text Link Advertising Services

June 28, 2005

Googlebot versus MSNBot

SEO Analysis of Google Patent

Blogging For Bucks

June 27, 2005

Podcast 19 - Domain Name Wars, Get More Space

Scientists Need Love Too

How to submit a reinclusion request to Google

June 23, 2005

White Hat SEO vs. Black Hat SEO

Mr. and Mrs. SEMth

The story behind each ranking

Hidden Links

June 21, 2005

Google bombing, link farms and other jargon

Google's interpretation of nofollow tag

June 20, 2005

MelbourneIT are into search engine optimisation?

June 18, 2005

Scraping the Surface of Google Ranking Secrets

June 17, 2005

Google Reveal Ranking Method

Doubt the effectiveness of tagging?

Are you ready for Adsense?

Link Building Campaign

Find host by IP address

Interesting Tidbits

June 16, 2005

FT.com Busted for Having Hidden links

June 15, 2005

Permanent Redirect From Root Links

Correct Search Engine Submission

Meta Description displayed in Google Results?

Latest Google PR/Backlink update is odd

Ka Webspy Network Declining

Latent Semantic Indexing And Google

June 14, 2005

Google Bourbon Revisited

webconfs

Bourbon Update: Its Summer Again

Google Site Maps Submission

Safe Redirects for SEO

What is URL Rewrite

Important SEM Resource

June 12, 2005

How To Get A Top Ranking In Google

How Google Indexes Content From Your Web Directory

12 Ways To Promote Your Website Offline

June 11, 2005

Bourbon Update

Blogs can increase traffic

More Hidden Links

The Search Engine Marketing Kit

Looking for Audience

Niche Bot: Cool Keyword Generation tool

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.

$25 Billion By 2009

June 10, 2005

What is Google Content Blocker

More About Phi

June 09, 2005

Traffice Increase Cause Located.

Google - 100 Results in One Page

Google Sitemaps Protocol

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.

June 08, 2005

How effective is SEO in B2B marketing

How to Improve your Odds

Join the Google Sitemap revolution