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Hi Carlos

The comments are all good but you also have some serious server issues. Search engine bots use GET HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 to retrieve pages for indexing. When I use a robots simulator I get 2...

SEO is a very funny industry in it self and you can't help but sit back at some of the events and laugh. It's either very funny or it's very frustrating and it can actually be both. Maybe that’s why...

Brians comment makes me wonder where related sites information comes from. I always assumed it was determined based on texture content on the website itself. Your comment indicates it's not based on...

garris wrote:


Although adding pages and content to a website is not likely to have any adverse effects (unless it’s duplicate content from other websites) on rankings, customers working on their...

cyberious brings up an important point. The search engines have stated at the SES conferences that they don't penalize for inbound links from a site using shady tactics or links farms as long as you...

You mean page one on MSN Search right. Page 1 in 81 Million competing pages is pretty impresive, nice going.

Got hand it to MSN since they have come a long way since they started hiring engineering to develop a search engine.

Although I don't think they will overtake Google easily or nor would we want...

Site maps are good for the visitor. Some sites the navigation leaves somethign to be desired so the first place I head for is the site map. I can often find what I am looking for.

It also ensures...

hi nagarjuna55334

We are seeing more and more none .com .net .net etc domains getting the rankings. As the number of new domains that get registered the rankings are also increasing...

Hi Web Gazelle:

Once the content has been sufficiently changed and Google reindexes the site it will provide credit based on the unique content. We have found however Google is not as interested...

I would recommend using the Yahoo change form if you have a legitimate reason for making the change. If the current listing doesn't represent what the website currently offers Yahoo will make the...

It took me awhile to get time to check out your idea paulhiles. It doesn't appear to be a permissions problem, we tried all the variations in MS Server 2003 to no avail. Then I tried switching the...

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I get the same 404 error but the file actualy does reside on the server at that location. I can download it etc but not load it in a browser. Its located at...

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We are trying to set up a RSS on our website.
http://www.seo-promotioninc.com/resources/questionperiod.asp

Not knowing what we were doing we tried to set up a RSS feed we could submit to...

You are right ronniethedodger, they are using a no cache tag. In fact two no cache tags, these guys have planned this out. This is from their page when you view source on one of the doorway pages.
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Has anyone else seen huge increases in general liability insurance that seem disproportional to the actual risk in our industry?

After 8 years in business and no claims against we were told our...

Thanks for all the information sfowler You've done a wonderful job categorizing them for everyone.

Do you mean when does your website saturate the search results (SERPs) or when does the competition saturate the SERPs?

Your saturation:

That depends on how many products or services you have...

Does anyone have some good travel related directories. I noticed a few in amongst those submitted but need some more for North America.

Thanks

If link text is involved aren't the experiments really just testing the value of link text and not the value of the link itself?

There are literally thousands of link directories (veritcle as well...

Linda522 I assume your original question is related to indexed not ranking.

Yahoo is not real good about following links. Web pages you submit to Yahoo get listed much faster than those that you...

I think this is an important point. its the depth of the tactic that develops the increased probability of being filtered (or penalized for that matter) by Google. For example; It's unlikely that 10...

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Has the Page Rank on some of the sites increased because they updated the information displayed in the Google Toolbar or is it caused by a change made to how PR is being calculated?

We also...

Hi americana

There are several other solutions. If www.SpySite.com is successful why not fix or replace the shopping cart. They aren't all that expensive anymore and I think it would be less than...

Hi robinev

You can disallow the secondary domain in your robots.txt files that sits in your root. If you don't have one just create a file called robots.txt and upload it to the root directory.
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