The Google Phenomenon: Greatest Hits Collection As my readers know, I've been one of Google's harshest critics. However, I'm also a firm believer that it's okay to criticize, as long as it's justifiable and fairly balanced with deserved praise. H...
The Google Sandbox Explained The Google Sandbox exists to allow Google to filter out Flash-in-the-Pan websites from those with p to date, relevant content. This article expalins the basics of the Google Sandbox and how to recognise when your website is in it.
The Google Sitemap For Idiots I don't mind admitting that every time some new fangled idea or piece of technology arrives online, I have a small fit and wonder how long it's going to take me to understand what it is, what it's for and whether I need to use it to stay 'up there'. It's even more frightening when the experts start explaining it and really only serve to confuse the matter when they use their 'techno-speak'.
The Great Search Engine War, Where Content is King The development of search engines and search engine spamming and how the best strategy for consistent, long-lasting rankings in the Search Engine Results Pages is, and always will be, good quality content.
The Long And Short Of It Is That These Two Sales Techniques Are The Same With the Internet beginning to stand up and be counted as an online business medium, many are beginning to realize that selling online is not only possible, but very profitable. People are seeking ways to improve their sales technique online and close on more of their website visitors. It was bound to happen...
The Power Of Article Marketing With SEO... There are many ways to market your business on the Internet, and using search engine optimized articles has to be one of the "keeper" strategies for getting pre-qualified 'natural' search engine traffic to your web site...
The Rhetoric of Search Engine Optimization: The Attention Economy Did you know that we have left the Age of the Information Economy behind and are now well into the Age of the Attention Economy? What does this mean? It means that if you rely upon the Internet to conduct your business, the age of putting up a web site and getting instant results are long gone. Now you must clamor for the attention of web surfers, your prospective visitors and customers, who are lured by the frantic actions of the billions of pages currently indexed on the web.
The Role of the Robots.txt File to Improve Site Ranking! Not many web master take the time to use a robots.txt file for their website. For search engine spiders that use the robots.txt to see what directories to search through, the robots.txt file can be very helpful in keeping the spiders indexing your actual pages and not other information, such as looking through your stats and dynamic pages!
The Search Engine Showdown If you're anything like me, you have a favourite search engine and you're loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research difficult for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-all and you even go so far as to deny any shortcomings it may have. But is your search engine truly the best? Inspired by a great article at the BBC News (BBC News: Search Wars), we decided to compare the major search engines. Here's what we found.
The Secret To Getting Indexed In Yahoo Getting indexed in Yahoo has become very difficult in the last few months. The indexing robot, Yahoo!Slurp, has become erratic. For some sites, the robot will view all pages, but only add a few to the Yahoo database. For other sites, sub-domain listings actually start disappearing! So, what's the secret to getting indexed?
The SEO Game - Do You Play It? Most people do not think of SEO as a game. Let me take 5 minutes of your time
and explain how SEO is simply a game of Chess...
The Simple Formula To Search Engines Search engines are one of the best tools to bring targeted traffic to your business. Millions of people are always using them every day to search for information that's suitable to them. Understand that this gives you an advantage to give your prospects whatever they are looking for.
The Two Most Important Things You Must Do For Google Top Ranking Attaining a top ranking in Goggle or any other major search engine nowadays is a herculean task indeed. But webmasters are archieving this enviable position continuously. The common thing about many of these top sites is that they have plenty of good content and quality one way inbound links.
The Ultimate Free Google Ranking Tool The first months my website was online,I was constantly checking the search engines to see if my site was listed under the keywords that I was targeting.
And always with the same negative results.
The Unethical SEO Myth "The use of black hat SEO techniques are completely unethical." Really? I completely disagree. Is it unethical because these techniques are attempts to give a webmaster an advantage over their compe...
The Wait for Google ... Google updates are not always fun. Especially if they are not happening often enough. Since ever Google became a publicly traded company their update processes seem to become less frequent. In the early days updates seem to happen much more often and webmasters were able to respond in a timely manner.
Tips To Enhance Website Position Here, I have given some key tips to dip you in the technical aspects available on the net to assist how to optimize your website.
