At LinkAdage [ http://www.linkadage.com ] we get many questions on the Google sandbox. Here is a Q & A we’ve put together:
Q How do I know if I am in the sandbox?
A If your site is indexed by Google yet you do not rank in the top 1,000 for any of your main keywords, you...
As the world turns, the internet is getting stirred up by these new Google updates showing up all over the web. For the past few weeks people have been recording two GoogleBots showing up on their site stats.
While updates may be good for some, it also means welcome to the real world for...
If you don’t believe Google’s Duplicate Content Filter exists, I have Dramatic Proof their Internet content filter exists and it’s very effective.
On July 5, 2005 I published an article entitled “7 Top Ways to Avoid Link Theft” which was picked up and...
When youre a search engine that accounts for over 46% of all searches on the Internet, you are a bona fide Big Daddy. But for Google, its more than a nicknameits the future.
For months now, the 7-year-old search engine has been testing new crawling and indexing systems with the hopes of...
A while back, I read an article that explained how to get a good google rating without ever submitting your site to their submission forms. Like you, I was kind of shocked by this statement so I decided to give it a try.
In the beginning, I used to submit my site all the time to Google...
After a little digging up, I found enough evidence to believe that…
Google searches are never case sensitive – as we already knew.
Google PR is case sensitive – as I suspected, according to web standards, URLs are case sensitive. Google and other search engines...
PR is a measure of how important a page is (according to Google). For the purpose of this article, I will only discuss PR in the SEO context what it means and how to use it.
First things first: PR is not the cause or the result of high rankings.
PR depends mainly on 2 things:...
The recent patent application filed by Google details numerous items the search engine uses to rank web pages. The specific application is summarized as:
A method for scoring a document, comprising: identifying a document; obtaining one or more types of history data associated with the...
The recent patent application filed by Google details numerous items the search engine uses to rank web pages. The specific application is summarized as:
A method for scoring a document, comprising: identifying a document; obtaining one or more types of history data associated with the...
This article will guide you through the importance of the toolbar, and its accuracy at reporting PageRank. I will also discuss the feature about it that most people, including many SEOs are not aware of. If you have an existing site, use this as a reference to ensure that you are using the...
In todays incarnation of the Internet search engine optimization or SEO is more important than webpage design skills. The best designed webpage has limited usefulness if no one visits it. A website is a product and a product that people dont know about doesnt sell. With the many search engines...
Many webmasters are obsessed with the Google Page Rank. Articles and books have been written about Google PR (Page Rank). Forum postings cover the topic over and over again and about every 3 months tensions are rising when a possible Page Rank update is eventually happening. Page Rank updates...