Ideally, search engines should auto-detect your website/ blog but you may go in for submissions to catalyse the process, I use Keyword Country to submit my webpages to 158+ search engines. Up for it!

An XML sitemap: - Ensures better visibility by search engines - Enables you to rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site. - Helps with broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in other way - Alerts search engines to any changes/additions to your si...

It’s not that search engines open a Pandoras box each New Year...The techniques remain the same. But Google’s been focusing more on improving user experience....which means you should be continuing to offer value, keep useful content above the fold, not indulge in cheap link buying practices & w...

For traffic, you’ll need to expose your website to prospects using the following: - Submit your website’s updates to social bookmarking websites - Participate in niche related forums and communities - Contribute in social networking sites (Post on related wall pages) - Submit RSS feeds to feed direc...

Onpage is what you do on the pages of your website to to improve their search engine friendliness. Onpage optimization primarily includes: - Writing fresh, unique content - Including well-researched keywords in appropriate density - Optimizing title by placing target keywords in the title - Includin...

Google has stopped dancing. Before the implementation of Caffeine (January, 2011), Google used to update its results periodically. During those updates, the SERPs would fluctuate, stabilise, fluctuate again, stabilise again... and eventually settle down (until the next update). This behaviour of SER...

Since Panda was a quality change which nuked many sites that had programmatically generated (spun), duplicate content, it has significantly:
- Improved quality of search results
- Improved user experience

- Submit your website to Yahoo! search engine - Submit your website to Yahoo! directory - Participate in Yahoo answers community For more information, check this, http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/indexing/ Yahoo indexing is a little slower as compared to Google... so you got to be patient wit...

Exactly! PR is Google’s proprietary tool to assign value to web pages. Yahoo has its own called Web Rank. Yahoo WebRank is basically a rank assigned to a URL by Yahoo on a scale of 0-10. Yahoo Webrank was introduced in Yahoo toolbar somewhere in 2004 but was discontinued soon. There are little or no...

- Submit your website to Yahoo! search engine - Submit your website to Yahoo! directory - Participate in Yahoo answers community For more information, check this, http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/indexing/ Yahoo indexing is a little slower as compared to Google... so you got to be patient wit...

Black-hat are considered bad because they are unethical and something that’s designed to deceive search engines. Black-hat techniques like cloaking, hidden text, door-way pages etc may sound lucrative initially but if you continue employing this shotgun approach, you will be wiped off from search re...

No, they aren’t. They are just as alive and kicking.
*Meta keywords tag is no longer important for Google because webmasters have abused its usage. But, I am sure you are not optimizing your website for Google only, so you need to include them in your page for good ranking in other search engines.