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 [...]

Between 75% and 98.8% of visitors to Web sites come from searches made at search engines. If you’re going to get high levels of traffic – and hence the levels of ROI you’re looking for – it’s very important that the search engines can access all the information on your Web site. Do the search [...]

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 [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Overture now offers the Yahoo! Search Inclusion under its own branded name–Site Match. According to the page info from Overture, submitting your site to individual search engines is expensive and time-consuming. But with Site Match you can reach millions of users [...]

A recent Search Engine Experiment Demonstrates how by combining Key Word Rich Web Pages and Blog Entries (for a Highly Targeted Keyword Phrases) with Article Submissions to Top Ranked Article Directories anyone can Dominant the First Page of the Search Results in the Big 3 Search Engines. Recently I did a search engine Experiment where [...]

Contrary to what most people think, it is not necessary to submit your site to the search engines. In the early days of the web, when search engine technology was still primitive and search engines’ ability to crawl the web was somehow limited, it made sense to submit your site. Today, search engines like Google, [...]

Being listed in search engines and ranked high on searches is the overall goal a webmaster is trying to achieve when dealing with search engines. Search engine optimization is probably one of the most commonly used words among webmasters. In the Internet market becoming much more critical to business success this is almost natural. While [...]

Yahoo! allows you to set up your own front page called ‘My Yahoo!’. Even if you don’t use Yahoo! as your search engine, you need a My Yahoo! page which you log onto every day. That’s because having a My Yahoo! page that is set up correctly can do wonders for your search engine ranking. [...]