This is the first of a series of articles about a subject so many people want to learn; the un-sizzled truth of search engines. What do you really know about how a web site is placed? Are you being told the truth? Not only will these articles enlighten you, but along the way, I will [...]
Search engine optimisation is big business. Ezines and websites litter the Internet with strategies to boost your search engine ranking. Search engine specialists charge large amounts of money to apply their strategies to your website and will go so far as to guarantee you top listings in the webs’ major search engines. And, in my [...]
Sometimes, the search engines act really strange. And this story will prove how I’ve got top positions (80% on no.1) into the major search engines – such Google, Yahoo!, MSN – without lifting a finger! What is REALLY strange? I did not optimize my page! But first allow me to give you some backgrounds. Couple [...]
Search engine listing delays have come to be called the Google Sandbox effect are actually true in practice at each of four top tier search engines in one form or another. MSN, it seems has the shortest indexing delay at 30 days. This article is the second in a series following the spiders through a [...]
Is your website listed on search engines? When people search for you, does your site show up on page 1 or page 20 of the search engine results? Optimizing your site to get it ranked highly on the search engines can be a complicated subject. To simplify things, it’s helpful to first understand how search [...]
The Why But what is the reality of reaching a number 1 position on any of the big three search engines ? Google, Yahoo, and MSN ? and staying there? Somewhere between a remote possibility to impossible. Why? Because there are well over 16 million websites battling for the number 1 position on "any" given [...]
According to the dictionary, the definition of the word “overture” is as follows: “An opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement, etc.; a formal or informal proposal or offer.” Hmmmmmmmm…very interesting definition–especially that part about “a new relationship.” I think pay-per-click giant Overture should look up the definition of their own [...]
On November 16th, 2003, Google commenced an update (the Florida update) which had a catastrophic effect for a very large number of websites and, in the process, turned search engine optimization upside down. It is common to give alphabetical names to Google’s updates in the very same way that names are given to hurricanes, and [...]
In October 2002, the Yahoo! portal changed the way it delivers search results. In the past, the most prominent results were exclusively culled from websites listed in the Yahoo directory itself. Since October, sites listed in the Yahoo directory no longer enjoy this privileged status. The Google search engine now drives the primary search results [...]
Completely by accident and through no effort of my own, besides the effort to get my site spidered by Yahoo’s Slurp Search Engine Spider and Google’s Googlebot Search Engine spider, I’ve seen an accidental increase in the visitors to my web site. Suddenly, I was ranking first page for Google, Yahoo and AOL for the [...]
