A joint venture by search engines for sitemap submission

Google, Yahoo and msn together provide one sitemap protocol (http://www.sitemaps.org/) where you could submit your site pages to major search engines jointly in one submission.

Interesting articles on web spam and search engine spam,

Everyone will be interested to know how search engines combat spam, here are 2 papers from stanford which explains perfectly how search engines combat spam,

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/spam.pdf

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/spam1.pdf

One article says everything done to improve ranking is spam, we disagree with it,

Article says

What is web spam?
Spamming = any deliberate action
solely in order to boost a web page’s
position in search engine results,
incommensurate with page’s real value
Spam = web pages that are the result of
spamming
This is a very broad definition
SEO industry might disagree!
SEO = search engine optimization
Approximately 10-15% of web pages
are spam

new Bigdaddy datacenters report huge increase in search result pages

comparing to the previous google the new improved googlebot which powers the bigdaddy datacenters are having huge increase in indexed data, Could this be because of new googlebot’s ( google’s crawler ) effective way of crawling sophisticated Javascript, flash, frames etc??

A search for *.* showed 9,660,000,000 now its showing 25,270,000,000 ( that’s more than 25 billion ) results,

A search for “the” showed 8,660,000,000 now its showing 22,010,000,000

Is new bigdaddy infrastructure datacenter a step ahead in google’s crawling technology??????

Online shoppers turn to Google for search – report

A new report shows Google being the leading search engine for online shopping search users,

Online shoppers picked Google Inc. as their search engine of choice this December while making their holiday Web purchases, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
Internet measurement firm Hitwise found that 11.1 percent of all December shopping-related visits originated with Google, a 28 percent jump over last year. But online auction giant eBay Inc was the biggest driver of traffic to shopping sites, generating more than 13 percent of retail traffic.
Search engines Yahoo! Search and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN Search drove 4.05 percent and 0.79 percent of retail visits, respectively.
Online retail giant Amazon.com, which is the second most visited online shopping site after eBay, generated only 0.75 percent of visits to other shopping retailers, Hitwise found.

For more read click here,

danny sullivan? – Who is danny sullivan? Editor of Search Engine Watch.

Who is danny sullivan?

Danny Sullivan is the Managing Editor of the famous Search Engine Watch. A well known authority in search engines, he is widely known as the “Search Engine Guru”. His creativity and knowledge in writing articles is indescribable. Danny is also a well known speaker in conferences and is known for his eloquence.
Danny worked in news papers like LA Times and Orange County Register and then turned his concentration over to web. Danny Sullivan started his career in the web world in 1995, managing a web marketing company which later became Search Engine Watch.
Danny strongly believes search engine marketing has a future. In a conference he spoke, Dannie compared search engines to a ‘reverse broadcast network’.
Danny successfully provide website consulting services, from site conception to internet publicity. He also authors the monthly search engine report newsletter. In the search engine strategies conferences focusing on search engine marketing issues, he writes expert session content.
Danny Sullivan is climbing heights in the field of search engine marketing, alert of changes in trend and making newer innovations in the field.

tim mayer – who is tim mayer? the search king of yahoo.

who is tim mayer?

Behind the product direction of Yahoo! Search technology is the brilliant brain of Tim Mayer. He has over 10 years of search experience in Yahoo added to his achievements in Overture, Inktomi, FAST Search & Transfer.
Tim was the Project manager of the SAEGIS and NameStake search platforms. A literature Graduate with an M.B.A. from Babson College he has been successful in all his career endeavors.
Tim spent two years in product management and product marketing in the web search division at Inktomi. Then Tim became the Vice President and General Manager of the FAST Web Search division.
At overture he successfully did production direction and also managed the major web search affiliate partner relationships.

How to remove yahoo search engine algorithm penalty,

Yahoo is severe in imposing penalties to sites, If any site goes outside yahoo’s quality guidelines and gets caught they will be immediately removed from yahoo’s index, Symptoms of yahoo search penalty

1.Only homepage will be available in site:yourdomain.com search,
2. the sites pages will start to drop out of index completely,
3. yahoo slurp never visits a site for a long time even if the site has good links,

remedies to get rid of the penalty,

1. Clean up all potential search engine spam and ask yahoo for a reinclusion,
2. Clean up the site and wait for yahoo’s slurp to recrawl the site,
3. submit via yahoo’s content submission program after clean up of site,

SEO blog team,

Do Search engine crawlers index and use title attributes in search engine algorithms – search engine optimization tip march 19th 2005

Title attributes are used with the Href tag it show a display of text or image when the mouse is dragged over the text,

Syntax, it comes into the href tag like this,

title=”search engine optimization seo company search engine genie”

So does search engines use this tag in ranking algorithms, From Search Engine Genie point of view we would say no, Atleast the top search engines like google / yahoo / MSN dont use them, We have done extensive test with this tag and we have not seen any search engine show the text in this tag,

We add some junk big phrase which is no where used and text it, Search engine dont the text is this tag when searched for it,

So we can conclude they dont use this tag for search engine algorithms, But it is important to note this tag is very good and very useful for usability, So dont hesitate to use it but make sure you use it when it is really necessary,

SEO Blog Team,

Does H1 header tags help in search engines? – search engine optimization tip – march 11th 2005

Header tags used to carry weight in search engine algorithms, Today header tags carry very low weightage in search algorithms, Infact you can build sites without it, It is never needed infact, Quality contents and high quality backlinks are more important than header tags,

It never hurts to use header tags, It doesnt help too much too,

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”