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 [...]

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 [...]

The Google Sandbox Effect has been discussed at length in our case study of a new website first crawled in May by Googlebot. We can now further the case study with indexing comparisons and discuss interesting Googlebot crawler behavior after release, at the 75 day mark, of the study website from that very confining Sandbox. [...]

Search Engine Optimization, optimizing your website for it to be visible in the search results of a search engine’s query or in a search result of a directory. Basically, SEO is a marketing strategy for your site. To be included in the top ten search results of an impressive search engine/directory guarantees a return of [...]

You probably do this already – complete regular searches in Google for your key phrases and see how high you rank. It’s well known that the first three results are far and away the sites that get the most clicks. If you can get one of the top three results in your key terms then [...]

So you want to get listed on Google? And you want a GOOD listing on Google? “But my website is not popular and is too new to be noticed by Google,” you say? Well, I have a solution to your problem. There are couple ways to get listed on Google. First, there’s the wrong way. [...]

Creating a new website is only the first stage in what is a long, arduous process to internet success. Millions of new websites, many of them intended to be commercial, are created every year and then????nothing happens. No, or very few, visitors come to the site. But what can seem worse, not even the search [...]

When you want your brand new site to be indexed into major search engines, you usually go to their free submit page and submit your website, correct? Seems like the right thing to do, right? Well, many people fail to realize that not submitting your site is usually better than actually submitting it. Let, me [...]

Introduction The Google Sandbox is a metaphorical term to explain why most new websites have very poor rankings in Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). Very few people know for sure if the ‘sandbox’ actually exists, but it seems to be a filter added to the Google algorithms sometime around March 2004. What is the [...]

As a search engine optimization specialist I often optimize existing web pages for small business clients, upload them to the site and see pages re-indexed by Google within a week. This only happens with existing business sites that have been online for a few years. Google seems to be updating their index as often as [...]