seo
Search Engine Optimization
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Mi Islita – Truly Advanced SEO
Dr. Garcia, well known by his nickname – Orion – at SearchEngineWatch forums has an exceptional resource that all SEOs looking to delve seriously into the industry should read thoroughly. The site, Mi Islita, a Puerto Rican based SEO company, offers fantastic resources for SEOs willing to read and absorb. Of particular note are the articles posted under critical reports…
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A Google Rep’s Comments on PageRank in the Toolbar
The following is a quote of a Google representative writing to JohnGalt of search engine watch forums: “The PageRank that is displayed in the Google Toolbar is for entertainment purposes only. Due to repeated attempts by hackers to access this data, Google updates the PageRank data very infrequently because is it not secure. On average, the PR that is displayed…
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Google’s Results Different for Everyone
The creation and promulgation of the SEO tools here has led to many people noting that the results returned by the tools are often different from the results they see. This problem can be pinpointed to the datacenter at Google that is being used to get the results. It turns out that people all over the world and those just…
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Serious Sandbox Theories
An impressive thread, started by yours truly at SEOChat – Sandbox just a Google-Only Algorithm Piece? has initiated some of the best high-level discussion on Google’s unique filter in recent times. A great variety of SEO theorists, practioner and others who have direct experience on the subject have weighed in with theories both plausible and kooky to try to answer…
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W3C Valid Code
Code validation is an issue that has been tossed back and forth in the SEO world for years. The W3C’s standards appear to have the general support of the validation and standards organizations across the Internet, thus leading SEOs to ask the leading question, Does having validated code help with search engine rankings The general consensus on the issue has…
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Site Flavored Theme Detection from Google
In September of 2003, Google acquired Kaltix Corp. While this was well reported in the blogosphere and the SEO industry, it’s fascincating to see the direct correlation between this acquisition and a quick application in the form of Google’s so-called site-flavored search. Luckily, the connection isn’t hard to figure out, as Google has named the logo on the page –…
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Folksonomies
An impressive new idea from the world of librarians, cataloguers and other reference technicians called Folksonomies has taken root in the world of web search. This new technology exploits users’ time to classify and meta-label the web through browsing. The promise of this new categorization sytem would be the documentation of the web by each website’s and web page’s visitors.…
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Local Authority vs. Global Authority
A fascinating remark made by the Vice President of AskJeeves, Jim Lanzone, on the subject of the recent nofollow tag that is being adopted by Google, Yahoo!, MSN and many of the major blogging services gives us great insight into the world of search. Here is an excerpt: On the other hand, when it comes to our particular engine, we…
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Sitemaps and Spidering
The great advantage of a sitemap (for SEO purposes) comes from its ability to reduce the number of links that must be followed in order to reach all pages on a site. Sitemaps have a unique ability to garner the attention of search engine spiders and crawlers – making for much faster indexing, and thus, faster rankings. The boost provided…
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How to Remove the Google Filter when Searching
Early last week, Google removed its 10 words per query limit, and increased this number to 32. Some suspect this was to combat MSN Beta’s ability to search up to 32 words per query. Whatever the reason, the new systema appears to have re-openend an old chink in Google’s sandbox armor. Searches performed with more than 16 words in the…
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