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,

http://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.

From http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/

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,

http://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,