Contrary to what is generally circulated as accepted knowledge among search engine gurus, you can actually put a fair amount of invisible text on your web page without being penalized for it by search engines.
Achieving Top Rankings With the Search Engines
It’s “promote, promote, promote” all the way. Cut up your activities into small, easy to handle chunks.
Decloaking Hazards – Why You Should Shun Caching Search Engines
While all search engines use one form of caching or another to build their indices, some of them make a point of displaying cached web pages to their users. The commonly quoted pretext for this is that it offers searchers fast access to a page’s content, making it easier to check out whether it’s what they are really looking for in the first place. Of course, what this actually does is keep visitors on the search engine’s site, making them more susceptible to banner ads and other means of promotion.
Over 100 Million Americans Use Search Engines
Nielsen//NetRatings recently reported that 1 in 3 Americans use search engines in their daily lives. This means that over 76% of the online population uses one of many available search engines in their day-to-day browsing.
8 Steps to Design a Surfer Friendly Website That Search Engines Love!
1) Crystal Clear Source Code (HTML/CSS)
Many web-designers give far too much importance to the look and the graphics of the website while ignoring the clarity of the source code. Clean and well-written source code is the first step to website design success. If a spider cannot find your keywords, you might just as well forget about search engine optimization.
When it Comes to Search Engines, Think Links
Website owners: do you know how many links are out there on the Internet, pointing back to your site? If you’re interested in getting free search engine placement for your site, you ought to know. An easy way to find out is to download the Alexa toolbar from http://www.alexa.com. One of its many useful features is that it shows you how many links are pointing to the site. High quality links are one of the most crucial aspects of good search engine optimization. When you think about it, this makes sense. After all, this is the Internet, the World Wide Web, we’re talking about. And in a web, everything is… right, everything is LINKED.
How Can Search Engines Help You with Your Business?
The world wide network known as the Internet, is gradually becoming more and more similar to the physical space inhabited by human beings. Surely, you know (or knew some day) one or two ‘nerds’ who long ago settled in the Internetland, and now find there everything to serve their needs. They work and earn their living in the Internetland, find their newspapers, books, magazines, movies, and music, have fun, visit e-shops, and pay for everything with e-money. They occasionally leave their hermitage, for a short time, to appease their hunger and to find more confirmations that ‘Offlinia’ is pretty lifeless.
Websites for Search Engines or People?
Who is more important to you as a webmaster: the visitor or the search engine?
Link Popularity is About More Than Just Search Engines
Increasing link popularity is important in search engine optimization and effective linking can give a real boost to rankings.
Getting Listed In German Search Engines
How does one get listed in Google.de? If you’re in the US Google will you automatically show up in Google.de? What other German search engines or directories are there for sites who want German-speaking visitors?