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Is robots meta tag needed for frequent and effecting crawling - search engine optimization tip 27 sunday 2005

By default robots are set to index all pages of the site, So robots meta tags are never needed for a site, Unless you want to block a robot from a specific page you dont have any need to use robots meta tags,

Read more on this in this attached text file,

SEO Blog Team,

Does server side includes(SSI ) cause problem for search engine optimization? - Seo tip feb 26 saturday 2005

Server side includes are widely used these days in web design, Lots of forums, large template based sites etc use Server side includes for better editing of certain pages, Many people have doubt whether Server side includes AKA SSI cause any problem for search engine crawlers, From our extensive experience NO, server side coding are done server side, what ever is parsed to the browser only matters, Lots of search engine crawlers like googlebot ( google's crawler ) , yahoo slurp ( yahoo's crawler ) , MSNbot ( MSN's crawler) are sophisticated enough to parse good html from complex server side coding, All these crawlers read clear html and they dont have any problem with server side includes,

Very important thing is the SSI code should be properly tested, if they are not tested properly server might not understand the coding and cannot parse proper html and sometimes important server side coding will be revealed to the browser,

it is very important only good clean code is delivered to the browsers, Revealing server side coding of a site might reveal important sql coding which might result in an attack on the server,

SSI code is never a problem these days for top search engine crawlers, For search engine optimization and search engine promotion purposes SSI is not an hindrance, SSI helps in editing large sites easily, We recommend using server side includes in your coding since it will be easy for you to add links especially template based sites like blogs, forums, message boards, large news sites etc,

SEO Blog Team,

Yahoo Video search Rocks, Yahoo's video search has some excellent videos for all type of searches,

Yahoo's video search is an excellent product from yahoo, yahoo has introduced ways to search videos online, they use their web crawler yahoo slurp to index millions of video URLS and give that to their Users, yahoo video search is excellent,

Today I was browsing through videos of yahoo and they have a huge database, I was very excited by seeing some videos which I had never seen before, though their product looks more similar to altavista video search they have more videos than altavista used to have those days, Now altavista is owned by yahoo and we can expect some technology implementation of altavista into yahoo video search,

overall yahoo video search is a great product,

To read more on yahoo video search visit their help page,

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/video/index.html

Also their search blog describes ways to include your own videos,

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000060.html

Yahoo accepts video URLs in Media RSS format,

To submit your videos to yahoo video search visit this URL,

https://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit.html

What is media RSS??

"Media RSS" is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilities of RSS 2.0. RSS enclosures are already being used to syndicate audio files and images. Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as well as provide additional metadata with the media. Media RSS enables content publishers and bloggers to syndicate multimedia content such as TV and video clips, movies, images, and audio.

You can even to advanced yahoo video search visit the yahoo videos help page for more information,

Google Maps Now supports Safari and Opera, from the official Google Blog,

Official google blog has announced that google maps their great product is now available for safari and opera browsers, Initially when it was launched it supported only Internet explorer and firefox,

From the google blog,

The Maps team was excited to see all the ideas and feedback that hit blogs around the Web after Google Maps launched a couple weeks ago, and we've been listening: Maps now supports Safari and Opera. Keep the feedback coming...

Log file analysis is the way for better ROI - Analysing log files, seo tip feb 25 friday 2005

Log file analysis is very important in success of website,

Log file information provides a baseline of statistics that indicate use levels and support use and/or growth comparisons among parts of a site or over time. Such analysis also provides some technical information regarding server load, unusual activity, or unsuccessful requests, and can assist in marketing and site development and management activities. Server log file analysis is also an important part of search engine optimization, it also helps in determining the best keyword that converts and best keyword mostly used,

What's in a Log File
Every communication between a client's browser and a Web server results in an entry in the server's log recording the transaction.

In general, a log file entry contains:
the address of the computer requesting the file
the date and time of the request
the URL for the file requested the protocol used for the request the size of the file requested
the referring URL the browser and operating system used by the requesting computer.

What Can You Learn From a Log File?

Data available from a log file can be compiled and combined in various ways, providing statistics or listings such as:

total files and kilobytes successfully served
number of requests by type of file, such as HTML page views
distinct IP addresses served and the number of requests each made
number of requests by domain suffix (derived from IP addresses)
number of requests by HTTP status codes (successful, failed, redirected, informational)
totals and averages by specific time periods (hours, days, weeks, months, years)
URLs from which user came to the site browsers and versions making the requests.
number of requests made ("hits")
number of requests for specific files or directories

How good are log files?

We should be able to differentiate between hits, page view and unique visitors, not all hits and page views are visitors, there are good free tools for separating the data that way, some are funnel web analyser, awstats, webalizer etc,

For more information on tracking and logging visit this forum thread, Tracking and Logging http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum39/

Is Javascript a hindrance for search engines - search engine optimization tip 24 feb 2005

Javascript is a complex language which needs lot of browser understandable coding to make it friendly for browsers, Search engine crawlers are not too sophisticated browsers, they dont have high capabilities like Internet explorer or firefox in understanding Javascript,

So best is to reduce the use of javascript in web pages intend to be search engine friendly, Large javascript coding also covers a lot of the page and search engines find difficult to index contents buried lower than the javascript, Best option is to add the javascript used for your site in an external .js file, that way the size of the page is reduced,

Search engines like google used to crawl only the first 101kb of the html of the page, so it is important that the higher level of the page is well accessible by crawlers, Also it is best to avoid Javascript dropdown menus, rollovers, popups etc, Search engines find difficult to crawl these stuff, if you have a javascript menu best is to add text only links to your inner pages, that way search engines wont struggle in finding your precious inner pages,

Googlebot google's crawler has recently been reported to crawl javascript, it is a great improvement but still it is in beginning stage, so better avoid javascript menus and avoid large coding in javascript,

Use external .js files to reduce the size of the page,

SEO BLOG TEAM,

Do search engines have to act to all spam reports- An extra ordinary whining thread in webmasterworld.com

When i was browsing through webmasterworld.com the ultimate forum I found a thread where the thread starter was worried that his competitor using hidden text and the site was not penalized,

Read more in this thread here "http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/28211.htm"

Read answers of great experts like Brett Tabke, Ciml etc they have seen this all the time from newbies and they are taking all the efforts to correct newbies so called seo experts,

One thing people should know that search engines are not for seos, webmasters or site owners it is solely run for end users who perform searching, Webmasters are just an other group of google users, Google needn't have to worry about how well they make webmasters happy, They just have to worry about their search users, If something is hurting their search users they will definitely take action on it, SEOs or webmasters needn't have to whine all the time that their competitor site is not banned by google or any search engine for spam( spam in seos mind ),

According to experts search engine SPAM report for so called search engine optimization experts is simply a waste of time,

A great expert gave a clean expansion for useless SEOs definition of SPAM,

SPAM - Sites Positioned Above Mine.

Don't whine if your site don't rank, Keep working on contents and backlinks, stop worrying what others use to rank their sites,

An other expert clearly said "If you think sites using hidden text or hidden links ranks high and you cant outrank them, it simply means you SUCK at search engine optimization"

Yahoo's Image search index increases to 1.5 billion images,

Yahoo image search index has increased to over 1.5 billion images, Initially yahoo had 1 billion images, then google updated their index with about 1,187,630,000 images, Now yahoo index has increased to over 1.5 billion images,

Detecting "rel=nofollow" - way to detect the new anti comment spam tag rel=nofollow using FireFox browser -- search engine optimization tip 23 2005

There is a new way to detect rel=nofollow tag using the firefox browser, Detecting this tag helps in catching cheating webmasters using this tag in their directories and link exchanges,

rel=nofollow tag can be highlighted in firefox by adding a simple line to the main CSS file ( usercontent.css ) which powers the appearance of the web pages in firefox browser,

we have to find the path of the usercontent.css file and add a simple line so that the rel=nofollow link appears in a different colour,

For Windows XP / windows 2000 users:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\hmgpxvac.default\chrome

hmgpxvac can be anything on your system,

For PCs using Windows 98 / ME:

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\hmgpxvac.default.default\chrome

Open up your new userContent.css file and add the following line:

a[rel~="nofollow"] { border: thin dashed firebrick! important; background-color: rgb(255, 200, 200)! important; } save the file,

if above code is used firefox will automatically highlight links in red,

You can highlight links in internet explorer too refer the attached for it,

https://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-blog/ie-detection-nofollow.txt

SEO Blog Team,

Hotbot says bye to yahoo search results, Now uses google search results

hotbot.com a search engine used by very low number of users was powered by Inktomi search now yahoo search, Until recently I used to check hotbot for our clients since hotbot results used to show the dates which the yahoo slurp crawler visited our sites and our clients, Now when I performed a search suddenly results were completely different,

then the results was compared to google and it was similar, It seems hotbot search engine has stopped using yahoo search engine results and now using google search results,

Not a big significant change but worth knowing,

Google introduces new command movies:, Google's movie review search hits the ground

Google has introduced a new feature search the movie: This new search helps users to find movie related information, For example we can find reviews, movie related etc using this search,

Movie: search also helps to find movie names you happen to forget, read what google says about movie: command,

Just in time for the Oscars, we've created a new "movie:" operator that enables you to find movie-related information faster and more easily, whether you're looking for titles or actors, director or genre, famous lines or obscure plot details. Can't remember the name of that film where Tom Hanks made friends with a volleyball? Search for [movie: Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball] and Google will tell you: it was Cast Away.

Google is reaching great heights and their new feature will be absolutely helpful,

Will automated submission to search engines hurt your site or hurt rankings - search engine optimization tip feb 22 2004

Automated submission are not good, Todays search engines are sophisticated crawler based search engines and they find sites based on links pointing to that site, Better and more the links better search engines will crawl the site,

Automated submission rarely hurt your site, Search engines understand that even your competitor can submit your URLs repeatedly to search engines, So automated submission rarely hurts, but we have to avoid automated submissions, Just for self satisfaction we can do a manual submission and leave it to search engines to find the site, crawl it, index it and rank,

Keep building links to your sites definitely all search engine crawlers will find your site,

Avoid automated search engine submissions,

SEO Blog Team,

Subdomains or sub-folders which is better for search engine optimization? SEO tip - Monday - feb 21 2005

Sub-domains or sub-folders for search engines, This has been an important questions among forums,

In our point of view to build a big quality site sub folders are better, search engines usually treat sub domains as different sites, Subdomains and subfolders use completely different standards,

A subdomain acts as a different site, places where sub domains are useful,

1. Say suppose you want to start a site completely unrelated to your existing site, but you dont want to buy new hosting or use some other domain, that time subdomains serve a very good purpose, if your site is real-estate.yourbrand.com then you can start a completely different topic site saying cosmetics.yourbrand.com here real estate site will talk about real estate and cosmetics will talk about cosmetic items,

2. Also if you are a free hosting provider it is will be costly process to give away domain hosting, so lots of free hosting companies give sub domain hosting, some sites like freeservers, netfirms, tripod etc give free sub domains, since sub domains are treated completely different sites people can use it freely without any problems,.

3. If your organization is an affiliate, subsidiary, or chapter of a national or international organization, you might ask the headquarters if you can get a subdomain within the organization's domain; if you can, this would save you the InterNIC registration fee (subdomains don't cost anything to register) as well as give your organization an address that indicates its affiliation.

4. One more thing to note is that, if you use cookies in your site, they only work within one domain. For security and privacy purposes, browsers will not transmit cookies to any site in a different domain from the one that set the cookie. They can be shared across subdomains and hosts within a domain, but not from one domain to another.

5. Subdomains is appropriate, especially if you have a domain name that has a high level of brand recognition, For example sites like google, excite, yahoo etc use subdomains to show diversity among their sites,

subfolders are always considered part of a site,

For example

here there are two subfolders, Both those subfolders talk completely about different topics, research subfolder talks about all research done by google, their research materials etc,

Services subfolder talks about all services provided by google.com, those they talk about completely different areas they virtually stay on the same site, So they literally belong to the same site, this type of division helps identify a site being an authority,

For better search engine ranking and becoming an authority site in search engines we recommend using subfolders than sub domains, Some major disadvantage of sub domains are subdomains are subject to a lot of spamming, Lots of spammers create 100s of subdomains for lots of keywords and just manipulate the search engine results,

because of this search engines frown upon these type of sites slightly, So better go for subfolders if you want to run a quality site,

SEO Blog Team,

Do search engines hate directories? Lots of big directories disappear from the results or are PR0ed

Recently lots of big directories started to disappear from google results, Many have speculated various reasons for it, Some people blame google tightening up the dupe content penalty which makes directories disappear since they have lots of duplicate pages,

Some speculate google is removing directories manually from their results since empty directories doesn't add any value to their search users,

it is true fact empty or very low listing directories doesn't provide value to visitors, There are some ultimate resource directories like dmoz.org, yahoo directory which provide great value to users to find good quality relevant sites, There are new empty directories just emerging whose sole purpose is to earn money, They simply start some junk directory take 40 for listing and inturn people who list their site there doesn't get anything in return than just a simple link,

There are directories out there whose sole advertising tactics is around google Pagerank, They get high pagerank by buying links from industry established sites and sell those pagerank indirectly to people who list their sites, So do those directories provide value to users -- NO, Most the categories in those junk directories are empty or with only 1 or 2 listings,

So we at search engine genie would like to warn everyone who submit their site to directories seeing their pagerank, Better check the number of pages indexed in google, check whether the category you submit has other good quality sites listed, check whether your category has google pagerank, check whether the category page your site will feature is crawled by top search engines like google, yahoo, msn etc. Be warned that there are people who run directories with the sole purpose of getting rich quickly, We don't like to mention their names here since it doesn't add any value to our awareness campaign, We just like to warn people before submitting their site to Junk directories,

SEO Blog Team.

Giving up Google is easier said than done. - A well written article,

Allan Hoffman reports how much he is addicted to google search engines, He describes he is a major google addict and performs 100s of searches in an active business day,

Yahoo seems to be the next priority to him, he likes yahoo's integration of email notification while doing a search,

read more on what he has to say about other search engines too,

http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/hoffman/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/110887143416190.xml

Is frames a hindrance for search engines, Seo tip feb 20 2005

Search engines have difficulty indexing framed sites, We seo people recommend not to build framed sites, Frames can help navigation of large sites but they are not search engine friendly, You can use frames to load a third party sites as well as any page inside your site, This is one reason search engines stay away from indexing contents inside a frame,

Those contents may not necessarily be from your site it can come from any site,

Say suppose your site is built in frames and you don't want to rebuilt them, best way to get some content crawled is to add the contents in a noframes tag,

these tags helps the search engine to identify frames and index content inside the no frames tag,

If you want best search engine ranking avoid frames totally and design sites which render proper html to the browser, Whether it is a dynamic site or static site proper rendering of html matters, Search engine crawlers are just simple browsers like netscape or firefox,

If you have a framed site we at search engine genie will help remove it and optimize it for better search engine rankings, Contact us if you want to get rid of your site from frames,

SEO Blog Team,

Google Zeitgeist Now displays country wide searches, Includes India, Ireland etc,

Google Zeitgeist has listed the top searches countrywide for certain countries, They have listed top searches in india,

Top 10 searches in India,

Popular QueriesJanuary 2005
1. tsunami
2. indian railways
3. sania mirza
4. trisha
5. aishwarya rai
6. anara gupta
7. ignou
8. bollywood
9. ndtv
10. australian open

Search For information on tsunami has topped the table, Tsunami ofcourse caused massive disaster in south asian countries, Weird listing is sania mirza who is a rising star in tennis in India,

Does Off-topic inbound links cause problem to your site or does search engines ignore them? - Search engine optimization tip feb 19 2005

Many of us have this problem with offtopic inbound links, Some people think off-topic links are bad for a site, The fact that is not the case, Internet is a huge network of websites, Any site can link to anysite that is just a simple rule of thumb,

For example if I run an ice cream site and my friend runs a real estate site is it wrong to link to my friend's site recommending his services to my visitors, Nope, Infact Seos or search engine optimizers are the ones worried about off-topic inbound links, Some misguided webmasters, site owners also worry about off topic links,

From Search Engine Genie team's point of view there is nothing wrong in getting off topic links for a site, Just get them natural not artificial by link buying, Our site gets a lot of natural backlinks from various sites simply for quality contents do that for your site too, Attract people to link to your site,

Search engines today are not sophisticated enough to identify quality or related inbound links, If they ever think of doing it, they have to spend a lot of on it and also it will use up a lot of resources for them,

Best rule
Dont get too many sitewide offtopic links,
Dont go for too many unrelated links,

SEO Blog team,

Gmail now available to all users who left their email ID to google

Gmail an ultimate product from google is now rolled out to all users who gave their email ID to google, Initially gmail was registered only be invites, First set of invitation was sent out to adwords and adsense advertisers slowly a massive webmaster crowd started using Gmail,

Got the following mail to one of the account where our email ID was given to google,

Hi there,
Thanks for signing up to be updated on the latest Gmail
happenings. We hope it's been worth the wait, because we're excited to finally
offer you an invitation to open a free Gmail account! Just click on this link to
create your new account:
gmail.google.com/**** Since last April, we've been
working hard to create the best email service possible. It already comes with
1,000 megabytes of free storage, powerful Google search technology to find any
message you want instantly, and a new way of organizing email that saves you
time and helps you make sense of all the information in your inbox.
And here
are just some of the things that we've added in the last few months:
- Free
POP access: Take your messages with you. Download them, read them offline,
access them using Outlook, your Blackberry or any other device that supports
POP
- Gmail Notifier: Get new mail notifications and see the messages and
their senders without having to open a browser
- Better contacts management:
Import your contacts from Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Outlook, and others to Gmail in
just a few clicks. Add phone numbers, notes and more. Even use search to keep
better track of it all.
We also wanted to thank you. For showing us your
support and for being so patient. And to those who have already signed up for
Gmail, thank you for giving it a try and for helping us make it better. Our
users are what have made this product great. So whether you're just signing up
for your account or you've been with us since the beginning, keep letting us
know how we can build you the best email service around.
That's it for now.
We hope you like Gmail and will share it with your friends. We've got lots of
cool new stuff planned and we can't wait for you to see our work in your Gmail
accounts! Stay tuned...
Thanks,The Gmail Team
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Now it has started reaching not too web savvy users too,

Google has recently sent out 50 invitations per active User ID,

Think slowly gmail will be available to general public, If they make it
public they have to handle 1000s to millions of registrations, So they will give
a deep thinking before making it public, Anyway everything is google news,

Http list of header status Important tip of the header status of a site - seo tip friday 18 feb 2005

list of HTTP status :-

100 Continue

The client SHOULD continue with its request. This interim response is used to inform the client that the initial part of the request has been received and has not yet been rejected by the server.

101 Switching Protocols

The server understands and is willing to comply with the client's request, via the Upgrade message header field (section 14.42), for a change in the application protocol being used on this connection

200 OK
The request has succeeded. The information returned with the response is dependent on the method used in the request

GET an entity corresponding to the requested resource is sent in the response;
HEAD the entity-header fields corresponding to the requested resource are sent in the response without any message-body;
POST an entity describing or containing the result of the action;
TRACE an entity containing the request message as received by the end server.

201 Created

The request has been fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created.

202 Accepted

The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed.

203 Non-Authoritative Information

The returned metainformation in the entity-header is not the definitive set as available from the origin server, but is gathered from a local or a third-party copy.

204 No Content

The server has fulfilled the request but does not need to return an entity-body, and might want to return updated metainformation.

205 Reset Content

The server has fulfilled the request and the user agent SHOULD reset the document view which caused the request to be sent.

206 Partial Content

The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource.

300 Multiple Choices

The requested resource corresponds to any one of a set of representations, each with its own specific location, and agent- driven negotiation information (section 12) is being provided so that the user (or user agent) can select a preferred representation and redirect its request to that location.

301 Moved Permanently

The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs.

302 Found

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.

303 See Other

The response to the request can be found under a different URI and SHOULD be retrieved using a GET method on that resource.

304 Not Modified

If the client has performed a conditional GET request and access is allowed, but the document has not been modified, the server SHOULD respond with this status code.

305 Use Proxy

The requested resource MUST be accessed through the proxy given by the Location field.

306 (Unused)

The 306 status code was used in a previous version of the specification, is no longer used, and the code is reserved.

307 Temporary Redirect

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection MAY be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.

400 Bad Request

The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications.

401 Unauthorized

The request requires user authentication.

402 Payment Required

403 Forbidden

The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

405 Method Not Allowed

The method specified in the Request-Line is not allowed for the resource identified by the Request-URI. The response MUST include an Allow header containing a list of valid methods for the requested resource.

406 Not Acceptable

The resource identified by the request is only capable of generating response entities which have content characteristics not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request.

407 Proxy Authentication Required

This code is similar to 401 (Unauthorized), but indicates that the client must first authenticate itself with the proxy.

408 Request Timeout

The client did not produce a request within the time that the server was prepared to wait. The client MAY repeat the request without modifications at any later time.

409 Conflict

The request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the resource.

410 Gone

The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known.

411 Length Required

The server refuses to accept the request without a defined Content- Length.

412 Precondition Failed

The precondition given in one or more of the request-header fields evaluated to false when it was tested on the server.

413 Request Entity Too Large

The server is refusing to process a request because the request entity is larger than the server is willing or able to process. The server MAY close the connection to prevent the client from continuing the request.

414 Request-URI Too Long

The server is refusing to service the request because the Request-URI is longer than the server is willing to interpret.

415 Unsupported Media Type

The server is refusing to service the request because the entity of the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.

416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

A server SHOULD return a response with this status code if a request included a Range request-header field (section 14.35), and none of the range-specifier values in this field overlap the current extent of the selected resource, and the request did not include an If-Range request-header field.

417 Expectation Failed

The expectation given in an Expect request-header field (see section 14.20) could not be met by this server, or, if the server is a proxy, the server has unambiguous evidence that the request could not be met by the next-hop server.

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
10.5.2

501 Not Implemented

The server does not support the functionality required to fulfill the request. This is the appropriate response when the server does not recognize the request method and is not capable of supporting it for any resource.

502 Bad Gateway

The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.

503 Service Unavailable

The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.

504 Gateway Timeout

The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, did not receive a timely response from the upstream server specified by the URI (e.g. HTTP, FTP, LDAP) or some other auxiliary server (e.g. DNS) it needed to access in attempting to complete the request.

505 HTTP Version Not Supported

The server does not support, or refuses to support, the HTTP protocol version that was used in the request message.

SEO Blog Team,

Keywords in domain name do the help ? Search engine optimization tip Thursday feb 17 2005

Lots of people in SEO industry are still worried about having keywords in their domain names, So are they worth having it, NO,

In our opinion best domain name is a domain name good for the users, Usually keyword domain names ar hyphenated and they don't have good value from users, These days search engines place so little value on keywords in domain names it is just a negligible factor,

There are more important factors than just keywords in domain name, Keywords in domain name help if you are spammer, Say if a spammer wants to do automated blog comment spam and guest book spam he might not always get the backlinks with the anchor text he expected, that time if the keyword is in domain name search engines give value to them,

For legitimate search engine optimization keyword hyphenated domain names are a waste of time and effort, Best we recommend select a domain name best your brand and business, Keyword domains are a thing of the past don't worry about keyword rich domain names unless you are spammer who want to spam search engines,

We hate spam and we hate people who do that,

SEO Blog Team,

Yahoo! Search Tips for Webmasters: Saving Bandwidth

Yahoo has helpfully provided sometips on saving bandwidth for your sites, Yahoo slurp is known to hit hard on dynamic sites consuming a lot of bandwidth, Now there is a good solution for it provided by the yahoo search guys itself,

Some effective features they mention,

Gzipped files
Crawl Delay
Smart Caching:

An extract,

If you run a public webserver, you have likely seen our webcrawler, named Slurp, in your logs. Its job is to find, fetch, and archive all of the page content that is fed into the Yahoo! Search engine. We continuously improve our crawler to pick up new pages and changes of your sites, but the flip side is that our crawler will use up some of your bandwidth as we navigate your site. Here are a few features that Yahoo!'s crawler supports that you can use to help save bandwidth while ensuring that we get the latest content from your site:

More info here, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000078.html

Is sitemap necessary for a site? Search engine optimization seo tip wednesday February 16 2005,

Site map is a term coined and used for a site to show a list of important pages of a site, To avoid the homepage or any other page look cluttered sitemaps are created and connected to an important page of the site, Mostly it is connected to the homepage of a site,

There has been various debates across various forums whether a sitemap is essential for a site, As an opinion of search engine genie we suggest adding a site map to your site, Site maps help in various ways both for visiting search engines and regular visitors,

Some benefits of sitemaps on a site,

1. Users wont get lost of your site if you run a big site, If you connect your important pages in your site map users can navigate easily to any page listed in the sitemap and return to the main page without loosing their path,

2. For large sites it is difficult to navigate deeper and deeper, A good sitemap prevents this and users can navigate to any page without getting lost, Also most of the inner pages will come more closer to the homepage and this helps effectively in good navigation,

3. Not all search engine crawlers crawl a site deeper and deeper, Some crawlers like yahoo slurp tend to go into a site only to a certain extent, For crawlers like slurp pages shouldnt be buried deeper, A sitemap will combat this problem, When a site map is used pages will come closer to top level and this help yahoo's crawler slurp to reach inner pages too,

4. Also suppose if a site has javascript menus, DHTM menus and other menus that are not search engine friendly a sitemap will definitely help in better crawling of a site, A sitemap with text only links to inner pages is very much useful,

5. Sitemaps also help in better spreading of a pagerank, Pagerank google's trademark algorithm

Site maps are good for large sites as well as small sites, Hope our tips on sitemaps will give your site a better exposure to search engines,

SEO Blog team,

Keyword research an important step towards effective search engine optimization - Seo tip tuesday feb 15 2005

keyword research is a vital part of search engine optimization, Targeting wrong keywords for a site will put all efforts in vain,

An effective keyword research and finding the right keywords will bring in targeted traffic to a site, Targeted traffic means good business,

Points to keep in mind when doing keyword research,

1. Compare the keyword suggestions of overture, wordtracker and adwords and see which are most searched and most popular,

2. Try running an adwords or Overture PPC campaign and check which keywords convert best,

3. Don't try optimizing for all keywords, eliminate keywords which are too low competitive and which are bound to bring very less business,

4. Always research for both singular and plural keyword phrases/keywords,

5. Don't go for spelling errors for a legitimate business site, it makes the site look bad,

6. Apart from the suggestion tools suggestion on the popularity of a keyword phrase we can analyze the competitiveness of a keyword/keyword phrase by checking the number of pages having that term in google/yahoo/msn, checking the number of pages added in title using allintitle: command, checking the targeted keyword distribution by using allintext: command in google, this command will reveal all pages having that keyword phrase on the page,

7. Short list keywords which are good for optimization, Separate words that are useless, words that are too authoritative and too competitive, Optimize for lower competitive keywords first and then move towards competitive keywords,

Hope the above tips are useful for your search engine optimization keyword research process,

Some tools for effective keyword research,

https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
http://www.wordtracker.com/

SEO Blog Team,

Yahoo's Toolbar features - Yahoo firefox toolbar and internet explorer toolbar

yahoo recently launched their toolbar for firefox browser, Firefox is an increasingly popular browser next to internet explorer of microsoft, you can down load firefox toolbar here,

toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox

Also their internet explorer toolbar version has various features some of them are,

Easy access to Yahoo! Search
Bookmarks and custom buttons that follow you anywhere
Search This Site to find results just for the current web site
Search History to remember your previous searches
Translate This Page based on the popular Babelfish tools
Mail notification when new Yahoo! Mail arrives
One click access to Yahoo! Games, Finance, News, Sports and any web site you choose
New Feature: One click "Add to My Yahoo" on sites that provide RSS/Atom feeds

Google offers Google hosting for wikemedia / wikepedia network of sites,

Google Inc the ultimate search engine company has offered to host wikepedia one of the largest human edited encyclopedia on the internet, It seems the board of directors of wikemedia are discussing this offer,

wikemedia says,

Google Inc. have made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.
The terms of the offer are currently being discussed by the board. The developer committee have been informed of some of the details via email. A private IRC meeting with Google is planned for March, 2005.

An interesting replies well to this offer from google in slashdot.org,

"I fear that authors/editors would withdraw from Wikipedia if it were
under the arm (or in the iron-fist) of a for-profit company. If these people
felt like Google was profiting on the backs of their freely-contributed content,
these content creators would leave and the Wiki would whither for lack of
fresh/updated content. Donating time so that other may profit does not seem
likely.
What is interesting is that Amazon makes this work. The company is
clearly a for-profit entity. Yet its crown jewels are the volunteer-created book
reviews. I'm not sure what makes this work. It might be that friends-of-authors
are motivated to post glowing reviews, it might be that people who disliked the
book are motivated to post scathing reviews, it might be that some reviewers
simply like to publish, or all of the above. Perhaps Wiki/Google-pedia could
borrow this model to mix free-labor with for-profit.
Looking further into
the future on an alternate path, I wonder if Googlepedia could become a fully
for-profit (or at least self-sufficient) professionally run and staffed
encyclopedia. With micro-royalties to authors/editors (and moderation-based
revocation of payments for "bad" content), the organization would attract
content creators on a for-pay basis. This aligns the motivational underpinnings
of the organization with those of the content creators. The current Wikipedia is
for-free people creating for-free content. A future Googlepedia could by for-pay
people creating for-pay content.
One overriding lesson from Wikipedia (and
Slashdot for that matter) is the ultimate necessity of sources of hard currency
for online sites. As long as something is small (and below a certain scale of
popularity) it can survive on donated hardware, bandwidth, or the benevolence of
a monied patron (someone who pays the hosting bills out-of-pocket). But once it
reaches a certain scale, the cost of serious server power, bandwidth, and
professional administrators pushes the budget far beyond the hobby scale.
Although pleas for donations can help, I suspect large-scale sites must,
ultimately, turn to ads, tie-in product sales, and subscriptions.
What is
fascinating, in a long-term trend sense, is that the cost of scale are steadily
declining. Cheaper hardware, declining bandwidth costs, and improvements in
systems management tools mean that sites can reach ever-larger scales before
generating prohibitive burn rates on costs. The number of visitors that a
hobbyist/free-site can support continues to rise. Perhaps Wike need only wait
for the singularity point when the cost to reach (and serve packets to) the
entire world is within the reach of a home-grown, volunteer-run
organization."

Meta Description tags - Meta keywords tag Do they help in search engine rankings Search engine optimization tip Monday 14th february 2005

Meta description and meta keywords tags are used in olden days when the search engines didnt have crawler capabilities and cannot crawl a whole site, They used to read only those tags and evaluate a sites ranking based on that, Later search engine spammers got aware of this tactic and started abusing these tags a lot, they just stuffed keywords in these tags,

Then crawler based search engines came into existence and they started seeing much more on a site than just just meta tags, they say onpage factors including alt tags, visible text on the page etc, Slowly the use of meta tags by search engines have become lesser,

But not all top search engines completely dropped using these days, Various top search engines use various meta tags for different reasons,

Yahoo uses meta description tag as part of their ranking algorithm, they see the keywords in that and use it with all the other factors of a site, similarly MSN uses meta description tag in their ranking algorithm, We have proved the above in our tests across these search engines, Also we have proved yahoo and MSN doesn't use the meta keywords tag,

When it comes to google, NO they don't use meta description tags,

How we tested for google??

We made up some bizarre phrases and added them to the meta description tag, only our site has those phrases, so when we search for those phrases in search engines we don't see the result coming up so mostly google don't use the meta description tags in their algorithm, But google uses snippets of meta description, google indexes the tag and during query time if the relevant words are present in the meta tags they just fetch it and display it, So it never hurts to add the relevant phrases to the page in the description tag, Keywords tag is completely ignored so we can just forget it,

SEO Blog Team,

Froogle an important shoppnig search engine - Search engine optimization tip Sunday 13th february 2005

Some tips on froogle can be found on our froogle section of the site,

https://www.searchenginegenie.com/froogle-feeds.htm

What google says about froogle:-)

Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle applies the power of Google's search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase.

To use Froogle, look for the Froogle Product Search box on the advanced search page or go directly to the Froogle home page. Type in the name of the item you want to find and click on "Froogle Search." Almost instantly, you'll see photos of relevant products and links to the stores that sell them. Or you may choose to browse through the merchandise categories listed on Froogle's home page until you find exactly the item you want to buy.

As with all other Google search results, Froogle ranks store sites based only on their relevance to the search terms you've entered. Google does not accept payment for placement within our actual search results, and advertising that appears to the right of Froogle search results is always clearly identified with the label "Sponsored Links."

new pagerank 10 site found in google SERPs

As regular visitors to this blog has noticed we have a comprehensive list of pagerank 10 sites, these page rank 10 sites / pages were found digging down deep into search engine results using lots of pagerank software including seochat's pagerank search tool,

Now we found a PR 1o site which enter's the pagerank 10 sites list for the first time, its http://toolbar.a9.com

Do search engines penalize link exchanges? - Search engine optimization tip saturday 12th february 2005

Search engines dont penalize a site based on link exchanges alone, link exchange itself is nothing wrong, reciprocal linking has been around long before the origin of pagerank a google's technology based on links, and it often makes sense organically,

links are the building block of the web,

though search engines dont penalize sites which exchanges links with legitimate sites they are known to frown upon sites using link exchange softwares, link exchange softwares highly disturbing to website owners and webmasters,

Also if we link to bad neighbourhoods too much there might be some sort of hidden filter that will play on the site and possible penalize them, So it is save to say link exchanges are not bad but doing them in too much aggressive way does cause some problems,

SEO Blog team,

Pfizer and Microsoft Sue Viagra Spammers

spammers are getting their share, Microsoft and pfizer are after some companies who spam selling bogus and fake drugs, news here,

According to some industry estimates, one out of every four pieces of
e-mail spam are advertisements for fake Viagra or similar drugs.
The lawsuits
specifically target what Microsoft and Pfizer characterize as "international
spam rings," run by the companies or individuals behind the Web sites
cndpharmacy.com and myepharmacydirect.com, Ezydrugstore.com and
others.
Additionally, Viagra maker Pfizer took legal action alleging
trademark violations against companies or individuals operating 10 Web sites
with names such as www.viagrastories.com, www.cheapviagrastore.com and
www.viagra.com.ua.
A reporter's e-mails seeking comment sent to some of the
companies involved in the suits went unanswered yesterday. One of them,
cndpharmacy.com of Canada, apparently shut down within hours of the announcement
of the lawsuits.
technewsworld.com/story/news/40524.html

Do you need a Robots.txt file for search engines?? Search Engine Optimization Tip 11 February 11th Friday 2005

Robots.txt is a text file placed on the root of the server to tell the search engine crawlers that there are restrictions for the crawlers in crawling the targeted site,

We can perform various tasks with robots.txt, some of them are prevent search engine crawlers from crawling the site, stop crawlers from specific pages/directories etc,

Robots.txt is not necessary for better search engine crawling, it will be good if an empty robots.txt text file is uploaded to the root, that way you can prevent 404 errors when crawlers request fetching the robots file,

Robots.txt file is not for users, it is only for search engines so nothing will be affected if there is no file, But adding one wont make any harm, An empty robots file will be nothing wrong in that,

keep visiting for new tips,

301 redirect to conserve pagerank and distribute proper link popularity , Search Engine Optimization Tip 10 February 10th thursday 2005

301 redirect is the most effective way for telling the search engine crawlers that a particular page is moved, For example if you want to drop a old domain and create a new domain then you are bound to loose all link popularity of the old domain, For new domain you have to create link popularity from scratch,
with 301 redirect we can tell then search engine crawlers that the page has moved to a new location and that the link popularity of the old site or old page should be transferred to the new page or site,
A simple way of creating a 301 redirect from a page to a new page is
redirect 301 / http://www.anysite.com"

since we cannot post the whole tip here due to server issues we are attaching it here Please read the 301 redirect tip in this text file

Search Engine Optimization Tip 9 - Writing articles an ultimate way of building free links, February 9th Wednesday 2005

Contents are called spider food, Search engines are basically blind browsers they dont see your flash , DHML, or fancy javascript they only see visible text, anchor text etc, Contents play a vital role for a site,

There are various ways to build free links, One best way is to write article about your industry, Bloggers, message boards forums etc pick well written articles, Also allowing articles to be republished with a back link is an other great way of link popularity, when you distribute an article make sure it reads well,

Use article submission softwares to submit your articles to various good resources,

wait for more tips tomorrow,

SEO Blog team,

The Google India Code Jam 2005 - google plans to hire top minds of india through a code jam contest,

Google bangalore office has planned to organize a contest to select employees, Google code jam a famous google contest is now organize india only,

Google says the following on the organizer page ( topcoder.com )

"Do you have exceptional programming skills? Can you make computers perform like silicon puppets with cleverly crafted code? Are you at ease when faced with a hard deadline and a group of peers scrutinizing your work? Here's your opportunity to demonstrate the art of Computer Science in a reward-rich environment. Google is looking for engineers with the programming skill to rewrite the world's information infrastructure. The Google India Code Jam 2005 is one way we hope to find them. While we don't impose arbitrary deadlines on our engineers, we do put a premium on well-implemented code. And we appreciate the thought process required to create it. In fact, we appreciate clear thinking in all its forms, from puzzle solving to chess mastery (one of our engineers is an International Grand Master). "

Search Engine Optimization Tip 8 - Tips for buying text links, February 8th Tuesday 2005

Tips for buying text links, text links have become a vital part of off page search engine optimization when it comes to search engines, Google's foundation algorithm was built around links, every search engine treats links as an important factor in ranking sites, Google relevant anchor text links from quality sites matters a lot in search engine ranking algorithms,

Now there are lot of link broker sites / link auction sites out there, textlinkbrokers.com , text-link-ads.com , textlinkbrokerage.com , linkage.com , easytools.org, linkworth.com etc, Though these company sells links on sites which are well established in business there are some drawbacks too, we have to be careful on what basis we buy links, here are some useful tips on link buying,

First check the URL of the site where your link will be placed see how good their site is where they get all their link popularity, whether that site is truly a valuable site for users or just a useless site, Check to make sure you will get some traffic from buying links from their site, Check their back links. Check to see how many pages they have indexed. Check the web archives pages and see how their site used to look and how they improved their business,

Always try buying relevant links, though search engines don't have the capabilities now to relate the source of links to the target site in future we never know search engines might move more semantic and sophisticated and they will be capable in detecting relevancy in a much better was, so it is always good to buy relevant links, Also relevant links brings good targeted traffic which might in turn bring some good business for you,

Vary your anchor text in incoming links; having same anchor text in all inbound links will trigger some sort of penalty in search engines. Though search engines haven't implemented any sort of filters like that, we might never know what future holds, so it is better to shuffle anchor in inbound links,

Don't buy links based on Toolbar pagerank, Toolbar pagerank is not an absolute measure of the quality of a site, A sites quality is determined only by judging the value ability of the resource, A site can easily gain PR8 but that doesn't mean that site is a quality site,

Track your paid links referrals and the impact on your anchor text popularity for your target term. If your link doesn't send quality traffic and doesn't work with search engines it is best to try an different anchor text on a different site, Best is to stop buying links on sites which doesn't send any value when it comes to search engines and visitors,

Buying site wide links are good for traffic but not good for search engines, Search engines are not too comfortable when you get site wide links, Best option is to get links only from some pages of the linking site,

Avoid buying links from pages with too many outbound links to other sites, This type of tactic typically looks like a Link farm (Definition: A set of web pages that have been built for the sole purpose of increasing the number of incoming links to a web site. This is done in order to increase link popularity and search engine rankings. Link farms usually require a reciprocal link from sites seeking listings. Link farms are a known spam tactic and sites that participate in them are likely to be penalized or banned from the major search engines. ),

Avoid buying links from sites that link out to Viagra, spam pharmacy sites, porn sites, phentermine and spam drug sites,

Avoid buying links as a package from link brokers, usually packages has bad links packed within some good links, those bad links will never be sold and those brokers just include them as package, so beware of those scam tactics, If you want to buy a package make sure all sites listed in your package are legitimate sites and not sites built solely for selling links,

Hope the above tips will help in buying quality text links,

More to come, Keep visiting everyday,

SEO BLOG TEAM.

Yahoo Test-Drives a New Search Technology

Yahoo Test-Drives a New Search Technology according to a news article,

How It Works.

In the Yahoo News implementation, headlines are accompanied by Search Related Info links, which trigger a YQ search. A small search-results box pops up on top of the Web page being viewed. Users have the option to click on one of those results, close the results box, or click on a link that leads to a separate page with a longer list of results. With the DemoBar, users highlight portions of the text of the Web page they're visiting

Google maps http://maps.google.com an ultimate product from google

Google has introduced a new product from google labs, Its google maps, google maps shows map of US cities, states etc, its a great free resource to see your way through the cities,

Have a look yourself, http://maps.google.com/

Google image index have more than 1 billion images now

Google blog says " If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Google Image Search is now worth 1 trillion, 187 billion, 63 million words. Yes, that's right, math majors; we've updated our image index, and now offer users precisely 1.18763 billion newly updated images"

Is Gmail About to go public - will it be available freely to register by everyone

Google has recently given out 50 invitations to most of its gmail Users, Rarely anyone will use 50 accounts so google should be ready for the official launch of the gmail,

Gmail is still in beta version,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 7 - Why a Dmoz listing is important for a site??, February 7th Monday 2005

Dmoz.org as we all know the largest human edited directory on the web, There are more than 4 millions sites listed and more than 66,777 editors edit over 590,000 categories, Dmoz is really huge, Also Dmoz is an ultimate starting point of crawling for search engines like yahoo, MSN, google, Gigablast, exalead etc, These search engines like sites listed in dmoz and there is always a slight edge over the normal ranking in dmoz,

There are various good points to be listed in dmoz,

1. 100s of mirror sites use Dmoz RDF file to create their own directory, so one link from dmoz is equal to 1000 links from all the sites which use dmoz RDF including a link from the google directory which is a RDF dump of Dmoz,

2. Dmoz is called the best expert directory and yahoo has made it clear it definetely like sites listed in dmoz, Google also feels sites listed in dmoz as authority and gives a small plus for that site,

3. Dmoz data is used by the google directory and google directory is an important listing, google directory shows the pagerank display next to it and sites listed there can check their pagerank values and how their site is performing by checking the categories where their site is listed,

4. Dmoz directory listings perform well in search engines, dmoz categories rank in various places so they get good search engine traffic and all those traffic are returned to the sites listed in that category, so a good top level category listing in dmoz will give good targeted traffic, Though the traffic is not huge it does drive some useful traffic,

5. Dmoz categories have good pagerank, Those pagerank is inherited from their root level pagerank, Dmoz usually has pagerank 9 and more of the top level categories have pagerank range from 4 to 8, Google whose foundation algorithm which was built around pagerank likes links from dmoz categories which has high pagerank,

6. Dmoz links are themed links, those links originate from relevant pages and it is very good when it comes to related pages,

7. Good anchor text from an expert/authority site, If you get a good anchor text when listed in dmoz it is a very good boost for that particular keyword or phrase,

Some draw backs with dmoz,

1. Takes any where between 2 weeks to 2 years for a listing,

2. Many categories dont have editors though higher level editors edit lower level categories it is a slow process,

3. Difficulty in finding status, Except resource-zone.com there are no good ways to find the status of your submission,

There are not many drawbacks with dmoz, A dmoz listing is very good for all sites, though it is not the only solution it is a vital solution for a site, So submit a good site and wait to get listed,

SEO Blog Team,

Brazilian Hackers hack into seorank.com an online search engine optimization and our rival,

Brazilian hackers hack into a search engine optimization site seorank.com, They replaced the homepage with their own version,

the following message was displayed on the screen,

Un-Root Acredita em um Mundo melhor. Ainda acreditamos que os verdadeiros valores da vida não foram perdidos.
Somos todos marionetes de um sistema que não deu certo, um sistema que mesmo todos sabendo que não é o certo, todos usamos. Desde pequeno somos influenciado por uma sociedade mesquinha e fútil. Não falo que o socialismo é completamente correto, e nem que o capitalismo é completamente errado. Falo sobre uma sociedade capitalista com influencia socialista, uma sociedade que absorva o melhor dos dois sistemas. Quando Karl Marx escreveu as bases do socialismo, ele não levou em conta que, quando o homem se sente forçado a fazer algo, ele não irá fazer direito. Mas o mais importante é, uma sociedade justa, uma sociedade onde não tenha pessoas passando fome, sofrendo maus tratos.
greetz for all friends: Fatal Error - h4ck3rsBr - r00ted - int3rc3pt0r - priv8crew - SimienS - F4kelive - Prime Suspectz -hax0rs Lab - Ka0tic Lab - Silentium of Anacron Group Italy - Command Tribulation - hack3rz - Smartboy_ - H4rD_L3v3L"MADE IN BRAZIL"
IRC.GIGACHAT.NET #UN-ROOT

English Translation of their hacked page: -

Un-Root Acredita a better World. Still we believe that the true values of the life n?foram lost.
We are all marionettes of a system that n?deu certain, a system that exactly all knowing that n? certain, all we use. Since small we are influenced by a stingy society and f?l. N?falo that the?ompletamentecorrect socialism, and nor that the capitalism?ompletamente missed. Ispeak on a capitalist society with influences socialist, a society that absorbs the best one of the two systems. When Karl Marx wrote the bases of the socialism, it n?levou in account that, when the man iffeels for?o to make something, it to n?ir?azer right. But mostimportant?uma society joust, a n?tenha society where people passinghunger, suffering maltreatment.

greetz will be all friends: Fatal Error - h4ck3rsBr - r00ted -int3rc3pt0r - priv8crew - SimienS - F4kelive - Prime Suspectz - hax0rsLab - Ka0tic Lab - Silentium of Anacron Group Italy - CommandTribulation - hack3rz - Smartboy _ - H4rD_L3v3L
"MADE IN BRAZIL"
IRC.GIGACHAT.NET # UN-ROOT

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Hacked site; www.seorank.com

Search Engine Optimization Tip 6 - MSN Search the new Player in town, February 6th Sunday 2005

MSN Search has officially come out of the beta version and is now available in search.msn.com main domain, So what type of seo works well for MSN search this has been a question that has been circulating a lot in forums, blogs, message boards etc,

We at Search Engine Genie has been doing testing in new MSN from the day it was launched as beta, MSN search Algorithm has not changed much from the beta launch, MSN search engine seems to be more loving to good number of links with relevant anchor text, Also they favor onpage factors too, There seem to be a balance needed for MSN when it comes to backlinks and onpage factors, Meta tags never matter for new msn search engine, they are just negligible factor,

Keyword in domain is also a negligible factor,

Important factors or the visible contents and good number of backlinks from many sites with proper anchor text,

MSN has still not sorted out with the duplicate pages, There are a lot of duplicate pages in MSN, so there is no dupe content penalty like google, Also MSN search crawles sites really deep so it is important to make sure the site has themed contents and all the pages have words which are in close proximity,

More to come in SEO blog tips on the new MSN, Keep visiting our site,

SEO Blog Team

Search Engine Optimization Tip 5 - Pagerank No more an important commodity, February 5th Saturday 2005

There used to be overwhelming obsession about google technology PAGERANK, Pagerank is google's way of measuring a page's value based on Links, Pagerank of a page can be viewed on the google toolbar or using online pagerank checker,

Measuring links based on pagerank was an important way of google judging the value of a page, Now pagerank is no more a priority, google uses various other ways in judging the value of a link, Especially google likes links originating within an authority site, Any good relevant page on Microsoft.com and Google.com domain will rank, So there are lots of new factors involved in measuring the quality of links than pagerank alone, So we recommend anyone not to worry about your Pagerank any more, Keep building links regardless of the pagerank of the linking page,

Now toolbar pagerank updates happen only once in 3 months, So google itself is not worried about pagerank much, So we recommend not to focus on pagerank of the site and never watch pagerank updates eagerly to see what your new pagerank is,

SEO Blog Team,

Google Local search link now on homepage - Bound to attract more users to google local search

Google's local search is a great improvement from google, It is an excellent product to find a particular information in a local area,

Before this google's local link was not there on their homepage, it was there on a subpage which was connected to the google.com homepage, Now the local search link is directly on the homepage,

This is what google says about their local search link on their homepage,

There's been such great demand for Local search results that we've added a Local link on the Google homepage so you can find nearby businesses around the U.S. and Canada even faster than before. Try it out and tell us how it's working for you. We suggest keeping an eye on Local, too - you'll soon see even more features. Whether you're at home or traveling, you're now one click closer to whetting your appetite.

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is there really a Google Update - webmasterworld guys report update

Webmasterworld.com guys are reporting a possible algorithm update in google, But we havent noticed anything like that if you are interested in whining like the newbies in this thread Please pay a visit and share your feelings,

Update Allegra - Google Update thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/27801-1-10.htm

Also some people are reporting google backlink update in this datacenter,

216.239.39.104

Search Engine Optimization Tip 4 - Effective Search engine friendly Title tags, February 4th Friday 2005

Title tags are the most important tag when it comes to onpage search engine optimization, Search engines uses title tags as the title for their search engine results,

Also during Query time in search engines, They have a split of a second to crawl through billions of documents to find an exact match, So search engine engineers mostly design their query time algorithm to fetch matches from quality sites title tags first, if the match is not found they move into content and then title and content of lower level pages,

So if you run a good quality site with lots of backlinks and if the search engines consider your site to be an authority it is important every page of your site has an effective good title tag,

When it comes to google they virtually show only the first 64 characters of a title in their SERPs ( search engine result pages ) , But our experiments show they read more than 120 characters, we added some bizarre words after the first 64 characters and google did find those words matching for the query, So google reads long titles to,

We recommend writing titles of around 12 words or 100 to 130 characters, Some search engines like yahoo, MSN etc tend to show even long title in their search engine results so long title never hurts,

Some SEO experts predict that long titles dilute the effect of a title tag, But there is no evidence to this theory, it is fact that the first 3 to 6 words are the most important words in the title tag, but that doesn't mean words after the first 6 words or ignored or they dilute the power of the words occuring first,

Our basic recommendation

1. write titles which are related to the page,

2. write titles that are unique, don't just copy and paste the same title on all the pages, this is especially important when you have different pages targeting different information, title tags are the gateway to that page and if the title tag is not written properly for a targeted page you will loose google targeted traffic for that page,

3. Commas and spaces in title tag are same, But spaces look better than commas so use spaces between phrases,

4. Don't just load all the keywords on the title just target 2 to 4 phrases per page and add upto 2 phrases with good keyword combination in the title,

5. when you are targeted a particularly competitive keyword, use both singular version and the plural version of that keyword,

6. make sure the title tag syntax is proper, Title tag should be placed in the head section of an html page, Also make sure you close the title tag,

If the above guide lines is followed effective title tags will be got and they will be a powerful onpage optimization effort for your site,

Comeback for tomorrow's tip on search engine optimization from the SEO Blog Team,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 3 - Google sandbox does it exist??? February 3rd Wednesday 2005

As everyone is aware of there exist some sort of filter in google's algorithm which prevents new sites from ranking even if the site is well optimized and has numorous number of backlinks, So what causes this google lag,

We at Search Engine Genie conducted Numerous tests on why this lag exists for new sites and some new pages, We cannot conclude what causes this effect,

Questions which were unsolved in this test

1. Does it affect only new sites or even existing sites??/

2. Does it pertain only to links or it is caused by onpage factors,

3. Does it relate only to certain type of links like forum links/blog links/guest book links/site wide links etc???

4. Does it affect all sites or only certain type of sites??/

5. What type of algorithm triggers this type of filter??/

6. Will ever sites come out of the sandbox algorithm??/

All the above questions were unanswered when it comes to this google lag on new sites,

But we do have some tips which worked for some phrases for certain sites, Though our tests didnt bring any site out of the sandbox algorithm on the whole it did make those sites rank for some low competitive phrases which has been a small source of traffic for our client sites,

Atleast those tactics helped bring some smile in our client's face,

Tips,

1. Avoid getting links from guestbook, spam sites etc,

2. Avoid site wide links from unrelated sites,

3. Dont have duplicate contents on your site, Means dont have contents that are copied and manipulated from other sites, have unique contents,

4. Get links for your inner pages, Dont get all links directly to your homepage, Links to your inner pages matters, It you have pages talking about particular widge say green widgets get links to those pages with anchor text as "green widgets" don't just all anchor text to your homepage,

5. Get as much natural links as possible, write articles, testimonials, press releases, reviews etc and gain natural back links,

6. Target lots of related phrases for your site, Targeting some phrases wont bring traffic if your site is caught in the sandbox algorithm, adding numerous number of phrases will give lots of keyword combos and with bring good targeted traffic,

Hope the above SEO tips help your site from getting traffic from google even if the site is caught in the sandbox algorithm,

Google's new referral program - Pay's out 20$ per referral

Google has introduced a new referral program which pays out 20$ per referral, Criteria for earning 20$ google says this on their site,

How you get paid
One of your visitors clicks on the graphic or link and is taken to a Google sign-up page.
That person signs up for an AdWords account or applies to become an AdSense publisher.
Advertisers qualify as completed referrals after they spend $20 with AdWords. Publishers qualify after they earn $75 in AdSense revenue.
Every month, Google calculates the number of completed referrals you have directed to Google.
Once you accrue $100 (five completed referrals) or more, you will receive a check. Google only issues checks once a month (for details, see the FAQ).

More information here: https://www.google.com/referral/

Google Images search Updated, Google updated its image search

Google has updated its image search, Google has previously agreed that they update their image search only once in 2 years, Now it seems google images has been updated,

Anyone willing to check whether their images are included into google images check it out,

https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Search Engine Optimization Tip 2 - February 2nd Wednesday 2005

Today's SEO tip,

When Preparing contents for your website make sure the copy reads properly, Search engines are moving towards semantic analysis of a document, they see the distribution of keywords, theming of the sentence, formation of the sentence etc, make sure all pages created for your site reads properly,

Dont stop creating contents for your site, Keep adding some new content everyday to your site, Write some articles, add some small titbits of information here and there, Add a blog to your site, Add a forum where people can participate and add their own contents, Add a review section if you have a product website,

Contents are an important part of search engine optimization, All search engines like content rich sites, Good contents also attract lot of backlinks which is an other great benefit, Good unique contents are a great food for the visiting crawlers give them what they want( good unique contents and lot of backlinks to your pages),

SEO Blog Team,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 1 - February 1st Tuesday 2005

Before starting with any search engine optimization work Do a complete research of your industry, Analyze your competitor sites, check how their site is built upon content wise as well as link wise, Check using commands like link: and linkdomain: to find out all backlinks to your competitor sites,

For yahoo,

link:http://www.anysite.com will show links to that particular page, so suppose your competitor has some articles which has good backlinks, check the backlinks of that page using that command, for example link:http://www.competitorsite.com/article-123.html

this way you can understand how your competitor site ranks, Good popular inner pages are also a power to your main page, a good popular article page with good backlinks is very good in transfering link popularity to your homepage,

linkdomain:www.anysite.com will help determine most of the backlinks that whole domain possesses, this includes links to inner pages of that domain,

Competitive Analysis is a vital part of search engine optimization, If this part is done properly most of the further SEO work will be over, Put all that you research on your competitors in a file and do that for your site, you will see good ranking improvements,

Wait for tomorrow's time
SEO Blog Team,

Seo Blog Introduces Search Engine Optimization Tip of the Day,

First off we wish to thank all readers who have paid visit to this blog frequently, We are very happy on the traffic our blog gets, To make our blog more interactive we would like to introduce a new section the TIP OF THE DAY, this search engine optimization tip of the day will give out a new tip on SEO for site owners/SEOs/Webmasters and everyone who likes to know something new about search engines and their algorithms,

Some tip may be common but some may be very new and interesting, We wish everyone who visits this blog will be benefited by our SEO tips

thanks Search Engine Genie Team,

Google Now caching more than 101 kb limit,

Google which used to index only 101 kb of html of a web page seem to have dropped that limit now, they now index more than that size,

Some pages on our site are more than 101 kb and they are fully cached,

For example this page size is more than 200 kb and when the cache of google is checked it shows the whole page being cached https://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm,

66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:jHNYpRA2zIoJ:www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm+google+pagerank+genie+explained&hl=en

Finally we can have big pages, Also some good information pages will be cached to its fully length, So what is the new google limit, Anyone aware of it,

MSN Search service live now - Feb 1st msn comes out of beta search officially

MSN search which has been in beta testing for a while is live now in the main MSN homepage, www.msn.com

Bill gates has released a letter on this, it states,

Greetings,
I would like to introduce you to the new MSN Search service and MSN.com home page.
Based on your feedback, we have designed the new MSN.com home page to be faster, simpler, and more organized. We've also made MSN Search more precise and powerful, so you can quickly find the information you're looking for.
Our mission at Microsoft is to use the power of software to solve our customers' toughest problems. Searching the Internet today is a challenge, and it is estimated that nearly half of customers' complex questions go unanswered. That's why we're proud of our new MSN Search service, a simple and powerful tool that helps you find the answers you want from sources as diverse as Web pages, images, news headlines, music downloads, and even files on your PC.
Input from millions of our customers - including me - was crucial to our efforts to make MSN Search the best it can be. If you have not already tried it, I encourage you to visit www.msn.com and type in your question. We'd love to hear what you think, and I promise that we will continue to improve MSN based on your feedback.
Sincerely,
Bill Gates

Source: specials.msn.com/letter/billgates.html

Google is now a ICANN credited domain registration company

Google Inc has been included in the Icann credited domain registration list,

google is listed number 895

Check this page for more information,

www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids

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