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HTML clipboard If you have ever taken a look at one of your website's pages or its competition within Google's cache, you may wonder why some pages are indexed more frequently that others. Those sites which are crawled more...
: by Dante Monteverde : Google now indexes Flash… but should you create an all flash site? Last month Google rolled out a new algorithm that allows them to index flash pages . Google Search Spider, Googlebot, can now navigate...
Yahoo!'s Site Explorer service is an excellent way for web professionals to understand how their sites are being indexed in Yahoo! search. You have the ability nopw to submit feeds, delete URLs, report SPAM and even rewrite dynamic...
What's the difference between "on page" and "off page" SEO? These terms are routinely tossed around as if those new to the art and science of search engine optimization were to understand them without question...
There are thousands of factors that search engines use to rank your website amongst its competition. Identifying problems on your own website is one way to correct things that may hinder your overall, long-term SEO success, and enables...
Starting the Process or PR Sculpting If you are starting a PageRank sculpting process for your website (read part one of PageRank Sculpting for SEO Profit ), proceed with caution. SEO’s must first do an in depth analysis of the...
One of the most interesting things I've ever heard an SEO say to a client when asked if the SEO could get them more traffic was, "I don't know." Now this was a good, if not great, SEO, so why did she say this? In...
Adobe announced last night that they are providing "optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable...
ICANN has formally accepted a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain names (TLD's) ending in virtually any extension they choose. Readers, this is the biggest news in the domain name industry in a long...
If you're looking to create flash websites or widgets, then recently launched online application Wix may be worth looking into ( especially if programming and design are not your strengths ). Wix is essentially an online editing...
eBay provides several ways to help their merchants optimize their stores for placement in the search engines. Store naming and custom URLs, store descriptions, custom pages and categories, and search engine keywords to name a few....
Zillow API partners have been receiving important notifications overnight which aims to clarify their API Terms of Use. Specifically, Zillow is requiring that links to Zillow are "followed" and that developers do not modify...
Once the darling of the search engine optimization world, many believe that meta data (meta elements and tags) have gotten less important to the search engines over time. The truth is, meta data still matters. Let's look at the...
Effective local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is comprised of many different factors but the keywords and phrases you choose are the biggest considerations of all. Once your keyword research has helped you determine which keywords...
Yesterday we discussed how the number of results in the search results and the number of queries conducted were good ways to determine how complex it will be to garner high rankings at popular search engines. Today let's look at...
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