Tag: Inktomi

Getting Your Site Seen By Search Engines

Posted on Jul.17, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

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 engines add sites to their database. Then we’ll cover some tips that you can put on your own website that will help you to get listed [...]


Meta Tags – What Are They and Which Search Engines Use Them?

Posted on Jul.03, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

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 HTML code embedded into web pages that are used by search engines to store information about your site. These “tags” contain keywords, descriptions, copyright information, site [...]


Look Out MSN Search, Here Comes Gbrowser

Posted on Jun.19, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

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 strength in Internet Explorer. Is it possible that MSN actually rolled out their search engine to prevent Google from doing the same thing they did [...]


The Hottest Tip On Getting A Web Site Listed Quickly by Yahoo, Inktomi, MSN, FAST and AltaVista

Posted on May.31, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

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 unless it is found by the spiders, it is pretty useless.
It is no secret that the process of a web page being found by the spiders [...]


Common Sense Approach to Search Engine Optimization

Posted on May.22, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

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 search engines: Google (http://www.google.com) and Inktomi (used by MSN search (http://www.msn.com) and AOL (http://www.aol.com) are likely to deliver 80% of your traffic, so concentrate on those [...]


Effectively Using Robots Meta Tags

Posted on Jan.18, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

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”)
(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 for each one:
“index”- This directive tells the search engine [...]


Using “Robots” Meta Tags

Posted on Dec.08, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

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 for each one:
"index"- This directive tells the
search engine robots (or spiders) that it is okay to index the
page. Another words, you are allowing the search engine to
include your page within their search directory.
[...]


Using “Robots” Meta Tags

Posted on Nov.24, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

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 for each one:
"index"- This directive tells the
search engine robots (or spiders) that it is okay to index the
page. Another words, you are allowing the search engine to
include your page within their search directory.
[...]