Google Guy Matt Cutts explanation on reinclusion requests,

Google guy matt cutts has explained how to do a site reinclusion request into google incase the site has been banned, please read it here,

First off, what’s a reinclusion request and why would you want to do one? If you’ve been experimenting with SEO, or you employ as SEO company that might be doing things outside Google’s guidelines, and your site has taken a precipitous drop recently, you may have a spam penalty. A reinclusion request asks Google to remove any potential spam penalty.
The first step is to take a long, hard look at your website. Is there hidden text, hidden links, or cloaking on your site, especially on the front page? Are there doorway pages that do a JavaScript or some other redirect to a different page? Were you trying to use some automated program to get links or scrape Google? Whatever you find that you think may have been against Google’s guidelines, correct or remove those pages.
Now where should you send a reinclusion request? This has changed in the last few months from an email address to a web form. The best location to go is http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py . You can select “I’m a webmaster inquiring about my website” and then select “Why my site disappeared from the search results or dropped in ranking.” Click Continue, and on the page that shows up, make sure to type “Reinclusion Request” in the Subject: line of the resulting form. Upper- or lower-case doesn’t matter, but make sure you use the words “reinclusion request” in the subject line so it gets routed to the right place.

For more information visit here, http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto

Google Toolbar Pagerank Dies – Page rank display in google toolbar dies

We speculated long time back why google’s toolbar was not updated frequently http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-blog/2004/09/toolbar-pagerank-is-dead-googles-page.html , Now it seems google will abandon toolbar pagerank all together very soon,

For the past 2 days google’s toolbar pagerank was greyed out, Usually grey pagerank display means the toolbar cannot fetch pagerank for that particular site from google server,

This is the case around the world, So is this the death of toolbar pagerank???, Lets wait for a few more days to know for sure,

We at Search Engine Genie dont care if google abandons toolbar pagerank, We dont measure a sites quality based on the pagerank of that site, Also we dont measure links based on pagerank,

SEO Blog Team,

Does search engines use click through data – Search engine optimization tip – May 1st 2005

Click through data is the information collected by the search engines when users click the results for different queries, Search engines always have an extensive log of the click through data for most of their results,

So is click through data used for search engine ranking purposes, NO, search engines dont use click through data for ranking algorithms, In other words they dont use click through data of their results to rank sites for keyword queries,

They do record the data but they use it for quality and auditing purposes, Google has been known to do extensive click through data logging when they do a algorithm update, Yahoo too tracks click through data but they use it only to determine the quality of their search engine results,
SEO Blog Team,

SEO Blog Idle for a long time due to active work

Hello active readers,

sorry SEO blog was idle for a month due to excessive work for people who maintain this blog, We will resume our regular posting in this blog from this month, Keep visiting our blog regularly,

thanks,

SEO Blog Team,

Does long URLs hurt in search engine rankings – search engine optimization tip March 23rd 2005

Long URLs with keywords has been long used as a tactics for search engine optimization, Many webmasters, SEOs, site owners think long URLs help with keywords help a lot in search engine ranking, The fact it is not true, Search engines do index URLs but keywords in URLs have very less value in search engine rankings,

Users have to concentrate on what is good for users than what is good for search engines when it comes to keywords in URLs, if the keywords in URLs help users it is worth using them,

Difference between a possible link farm and a directory – search engine optimization tip march 22nd 2005

Difference between a possible link farm and a directory – search engine optimization tip march 22nd 2005

Link farms are links pages that are solely build for the purpose of building links for search engines, Usually a link farm will contain links to lots of unrelated pages from a links page,

But directories have relevant categories and they link out to sites only from relevant categories, Directories provide value to visitors as well as search engines, Link farms are solely build for search engine purposes, if search engines don’t exist link farms wont exist,

Also there are sites doing excessive cross linking even those sites are called link farms since the cross link to cheat the search engines for link popularity,

Can keywords be repeated in title tags – search engine optimization tip march 21st 2005

Title tags are very important part of search engine optimization, A good title tag will give good relevancy to that page, A title tag should be relevant and effective, Good title tags should contain important phrases for the page that is optimized,

So can keywords be repeated, YES keywords or keyword phrases can be repeated in title, But title is an important factor in search engine algorithm, Also the first 6 words are very important and is given the most weight so it not good to repeat the keywords or phrases in this first 6 keywords, we can repeat the words after the first 6 words but the first six words has to be utilized to the most, We can use singular/ plural version of the keyword in the first 6 to 8 words that way we target 2 version of the same targeted keyword,

Conclusion we would like to say dont waste precious title tags, Make sure title tags are optimized to the best and contains all important keywords in it,

SEO Blog team,

Is misspelling a good seo tactic – seo tip march 20 2005

Misspelling seo has been there for a while, Many people have used this tactic for their site to rank for main commercial phrase misspelling,

usually search engine crawlers also have spell check feature integrated into their algorithm, A good site without any spelling is always good, But that is not the dead line, There are numerous number of sites ranking for misspellings as well as correct spellings, Misspelling optimization is not always wrong, For some areas it is essential,

For example for keywords like microdermabrasion or mesothelioma many people are bound to make mistakes, They cannot spell the word correctly so they sometimes misspell when they search, These people are still targeted just that they dont know the correct spelling, So it is necessary optimizers target this crowd too, That is why misspelling optimization has been used,

But abusing misspelling is not good, It is important misspelled words are used only if it is 100% essential like the above examples, Google / Yahoo / MSN all have spelling suggestion feature where they show the correct spelling when a person search for the wrong spelling, But this feature is shown just in one line and most people don’t notice it,

So we recommend doing misspelling optimization when the keywords are complex and difficult to spell,

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,

Search engines page cache limit – search engine optimization tip – march 18th 2005

All search engines have a cache limit for pages they crawler, The html of a page is considered as the size of the page the search engine crawler,

For yahoo bot ( yahoo slurp ) cache limit is 500 KiloBytes, Maximum size of a page yahoo robot crawls is 500 KB,

For Google robot ( Googlebot ) cache limit is Unknown, Before couple of months the cache limit was only 101 kb, Pages above that size was partially indexed, Anything above the 101 kb limit was ignored, Now it has changed and googlebot is known to index files of size more than 400 kb, So it is unknown exactly what the new cache limit is for googlebot,