You reached home after a long winter night, but you realized that you left the key behind at the bar! A similar miserable situation you may be in is, you have the information but you can not use them. Privacy of the information, you create, is important. The common practice of protecting text data in [...]

Skype is one of the most common communication programs used by individuals on the Internet. Folks with Skype accounts will decision one another and talk with each different verbally with pc microphones. Phone calls from normal landlines will even be received and handled through a Skype account. Rates for calls through Skype are cheaper than [...]

The higher the PR of your site the higher will be its search engine position. So the goal is to get lots of sites linking to your site. But quality is much more important than quantity. The higher the PR of the sites that link to yours the more they boost your sites PR. When [...]

Getting Honest With The Search Engines I spend a lot of time reading newsletters and forum postings about Search Engine Marketing. More often than not, people are asking about methods used to improve Search Engine rankings: what works, what doesn’t, and what will get you in trouble. Search Engine*: A program that searches documents for [...]

Back in November 2004 I discovered a way to get a top 10 ranking in Google. I tested the technique for 3 months before I shared my findings with the world. Some people worked my technique and are still holding on to their top Google rankings. Others criticized it, and decided not to give it [...]

An Introduction to Link Exchange Initially, when the internet was in its infancy, webmasters used links as a way to complement the content of their website and to help their visitors find information. As the importance of links increased, the focus shifted away from helping the visitor to helping the webmaster. This came about as [...]

If you read The Search Engine Showdown, you know Google is my favourite search engine. Why? Google always offers the most results for any given search (they currently have over 8 billion pages indexed), it’s faster than the Audi Quattro we test drove this morning, and 9 times out of ten, in my experience, all [...]

Getting SEO right is an art and it’s based on theory and best practice. The search engines don’t publish their algorithms so getting it right is like finding the exact formula for Coca Cola. SEO is about getting free TARGETED traffic. That is folks who are looking for what you’ve got and finding your site [...]

One of the most overlooked, but important components, on your web page is the Meta title. The Meta title is the text or page title found at the top left of your browser window and it is also the title saved when a web site visitor bookmarks your website. Some people will argue that search [...]

In my last newsletter I wrote about how your websites Alexa rating is not actually that important to the success of your online business. In this issue, I want to look at another popular statistic – Google Page Rank – and ask a similar question – is it that important? First a quick overview as [...]