Google continues to dominate the search engine wars while Yahoo and MSN make only a feeble attempt to wrest control from the search engine giant. Do you, Yahoo? I don’t and here is why.
SEO Best Practice: Befriend The Directories
Why Directories Are Important
Directories should play a major role in your SEO efforts, well, at least the big and important ones, for the following reasons:
– Listings within major directories provide “context” to search engines. For example, if your web site is listed in the Open Directory Project under the category Pets -> Weird Pets -> Blue Cats, search engines will assume your web site has something to do with blue cats. Your web site and pages will be indexed fast…
SEO Tools Poem
I am in my cave, and looking out kind of furtive,
The reason being, psychologically, I am low assertive,
It seems to me with dinosaurs just outside the cave,
Its entirely reasonable now, to be anything but brave,
But the tribal psychiatrist insists that I must face my fears,
And he issued me with stones, and little wooden spears,
And so I went out bravely, into the land of fools,
And got quickly eaten because I lacked the proper tools.
?You see things haven?t change…
SEO To Become A Dinner Party Topic
Thanks to a ground-breaking agreement between Dell and Google, SEO may soon be a mainstream topic of conversation. Dell, the world’s leading maker of personal computers, has announced that it is testing a pre-installed package of Google software, including a Google-powered Dell home page, Google Desktop Search, and a Google Toolbar.
While the home page and Desktop Search will be an undeniable boost to Google’s share of the Search market, and maybe even a threat to Microsof…
Link To a Bad Neighborhood and Get Penalized
“If you link to sites that are banned by Google for spamming, you are inviting the risk of getting banned for linking to a bad neighbor.”
Mastering The Google Dance And The Use Of Page Rank
Introduction
Google Dance is one of those terms that crop up all over SEO websites. This article looks at the basics of the Google Dance, what it actually is and its potential impact on webmasters and SEOs.
Here’s 4 Quick and EASY Steps To Getting Your Website IN Through Googles ‘Back Door’
This article explains in a 4 step process how to get your website index in Google using there new service called Google Sitemaps.
How to Feed the Spiders and Grab the Top Spots
I have 24 fully operational websites and this evening (30 November 2005) I did a progress check on the very first site I ever launched: http://www.writing-for-profit.com.
Importance of Genuine SEO Techniques
This article tells you of how you can do SEO genuinely and the importance of doing it. Without doing genuine SEO, you can penalize yourself, and your website, by permanently removing your site from the search results of major search engines.
Is Google Broken?
Defeatism among webmasters and SEO companies.
Jagger, Google Analytics, and the Future of Search & SEO
Two big things have just happened in Google-land: Jagger and Google Analytics. Together, these two events may have changed the face of search forever.
Largest Webmaster Community Bans Googlebot And Other Search Engines
Every webmaster dreams of having tons of pages indexed in Google and other search engines. The thought of receiving millions of visitors each month is enough to make any site owner shiver with joy. Why then did Webmaster World, the nets largest community for webmasters, close the doors to all robots…including Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft?