London Bombings and Number Patterns (03 May 2007) There are patterns in everything if you have the eyes to see. Where some people hear music and see the chords, we see numbers, patterns and synchronicities. For us this is a major part of SEO work; spotting the trends, analysing how small changes affect page rankings and which keywords are being used to find our pages.
Google has an Achilles Heal - Will Their Competitors Notice? (03 May 2007) Even though Google Revenues continue to soar, the hidden problem that may stifle growth and may even allow Yahoo or MSN to overtake the paid search market in the future lies in two critical phrases: Customer Support, and Customer Training
A Naive Mistake Cost Me My Google Rankings (03 May 2007) Jim Bruce, of Ristvin Marketing tells how simple, naive mistakes cost him not only his google rankings, but being indexed at all on Google. He also explains how to remedy these mistakes to get back in the good grace of Google.
Optimze Your Web Site on a Shoe String Budget (03 May 2007) Are you having the search engines blues? Feeling frustrated cause that upward climb through to the top ranks seems impossible? Don't worry. Follow these simple steps and you'll weave your way to web heaven.
Sales And Crawlers, Update! Update! Update! (03 May 2007) If you are in the world of internet marketing, you probably already know what a web crawler is. It's that little wild animal without which your site may as well not exist.
4 Tricks For Lightning Fast Indexing (03 May 2007) Getting into the search engines has become harder and harder. However there are standard tips you can use to speed up your indexing. Learn the quickest ways to get indexed in all of the major search engines...
Cache in the Bank: Understanding Googles Advanced Operators (03 May 2007) The Google cache feature can be particularly helpful to webmasters who want to see when their site was last indexed by Google. It has also been used to retrieve "lost" web pages, and by forensic investigators. Google offers other helpful operators as well, including "LINK", "INTITLE", and "INURL". This article offers an overview of each of those operators.
Site-Digest 7 Simple Steps To Place Your Site Map On Steroids (03 May 2007) The Site Map is a too often overlooked piece of the Search
engine Optimization Puzzle. Here is a Simple Step 7 step
approach to create a Super Charged Site Digest on Steroids
that will get your web pages indexed faster and more often.
Yahoo Dopey, MSN Goofy, Google is Mickey Mouse Lost in a Sandbox (03 May 2007) Third in a series on Google Sandbox Effect - listing delays for new sites are often
different depending on the targeted market segment. Google has Sandboxed this
new site for 72 days as of this writing, despite links from previous case study
articles reproduced in hundreds of popular webmaster sites online. Yahoo and MSN
have several thousand pages indexed, yet Google and AskJeeves continue listing
delays exceeding ten weeks.
The Google Sitemap For Idiots (03 May 2007) I don't mind admitting that every time some new fangled idea or piece of technology arrives online, I have a small fit and wonder how long it's going to take me to understand what it is, what it's for and whether I need to use it to stay 'up there'. It's even more frightening when the experts start explaining it and really only serve to confuse the matter when they use their 'techno-speak'.
Five Simple Steps to Getting Links to Your Site (03 May 2007) Today if you want your site to survive in the search engines your going to need backlinks. Almost all the major search engines rank sites based on the number. So, how do you build your link popularity? I'll show you 5 simple steps that will help you build your site's link popularity.
Are You Getting Nuked By Google Lately? (03 May 2007) Since the last Google update, there have been many instances and examples of the Google Nuke Bot! This is what I call it anyway. Have you visited a favorite website lately only to realize they've been nuked by Google?
Writing Search Engine Friendly Webpages (03 May 2007) In order to tap the huge stream of targeted traffic an internet search engine can provide a website you need to master a few common sense principles when crafting your webpages. You can rest assured no sites receive top search engine rankings by chance in competitive keyword markets.
