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 [...]
Defining Meta Tags is much easier than explaining how they are used, and by which engines. The reason is very few engines clearly lay out what they do and do not look at, and how much emphasis they put on any one factor. So, we’ll start with the easy part Meta Tags are lines of [...]
It is official, the search engine wars are in full swing. On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 MSN officially rolled out its new search solution to all of its websites, including MSN.com. This comes on the heels of growing speculation that Google plans to launch its own browser, possibly in an attempt to attack Microsoft’s greatest [...]
Every webmaster knows that the free search engines are a major source of traffic. They also know that applying all the SEO techniques in the world will not in itself get their web pages spidered, indexed and listed. Yes, sure, a “perfect” page, once indexed and listed will surely rank high for its keywords but [...]
Most web surfers start their sessions at a search engine or a web directory. There are a number of different methods you can use to capture their traffic and drive it to your site: Stick to the big names: The two largest directories: Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) and the Open Project Directory (http://www.dmoz.org), and the two largest [...]
The “robots” meta tag, when used properly, will tell the search engine spiders whether or not to index and follow a particular page. For the purposes of this article, we will be using the “( )” symbols to represent the “” in html coding. Some examples of robot usage are as follows: (meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow”) [...]
The "robots" meta tag, when used properly, will tell the search engine spiders whether or not to index and follow a particular page. Some examples of usage are as follows: <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> Let us first examine what these terms mean before we explain the usage [...]
The "robots" meta tag, when used properly, will tell the search engine spiders whether or not to index and follow a particular page. Some examples of usage are as follows: <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> Let us first examine what these terms mean before we explain the usage [...]
