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,

http://www.24x7updates.com/FullStory-News-Yahoo_Test_Drives_a_New_Search_Technology-ID-37838.html

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

First yahoo images reached the 1 billion mark now google image search has crossed 1 billion images, Google now has more than 1,187,630,000 images in their index,

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

Screenshot:

Hacked site; www.seorank.com