Archive for Google Webmaster Tools
Are You Asking To Get Your Website Banned By Google?
It’s a simple question… Are you asking Google to penalize your website?
I’m sure you’re probably thinking; Well, of course not! Yet daily I see new people complaining in search engine optimization forums that their websites have been banned by Google and they “have no idea why”.
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Google Caffeine And The New Ranking Factors
Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm, the complex formula and calculations Google uses to rank all web pages, including yours.
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How Google’s PageRank Works
PageRank is Google’s method of giving a numerical value to the number and quality of the links pointing to a web page. It was the original foundation for Google’s approach to ranking, as expressed in the doctoral thesis by the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they attended Stanford University.
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NoFollow Tags
The NoFollow link attribute (rel=”nofollow”) was originally created to block search engines from following links in blog comments, due to the amount of blog comment spamming.
The theory is that if spammers are spamming in blog comments to get better SEO and anchored links for their sites, NoFollow would render such spam useless.
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A new face to Google News Sitemaps
Given the feedback we get from publishers, we’ve redesigned our interface to make Google News Sitemaps more flexible and easier to submit. [As a reminder, a Google News Sitemap is a file created by publishers which gives you even more control over the content you submit to Google News].
We’re currently in the midst of an exciting transition period and need your help to avoid interruption in crawling your content.
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Benefits To Get A Domain Indexed By Google
There are a few benefits getting a domain indexed by Google.
#1 Attract Natural Traffic From Search Engines
As we know, search engines such as Google are a good source to attract long-term natural traffic. They are not just low quality traffic. Indeed they are highly targeted traffic because people find your website by searching the specific keyword.
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Bing, SEO, and Google
website traffic and blog Bing is doing its best to distinguish itself from Google. The attempt to claim a high ground, Microsoft is positioning Bing as the first “decision engine” than its predecessors, the search engines.
Differentiation requires the use of different algorithms and a new design for search engine results page. New design or not to look like Google SERP on Bing at first glance.
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Google will remove all search queries after 18 to 24 months
In a nod to privacy advocates, Google com. said Wednesday that they will adopting a new data retention policy so that it’s harder to link users to what they search for online. Under the plan, the Mountain View Internet company will shroud the information it collects about users in anonymity, eliminating a potential treasure trove of evidence for government search warrants and subsistances.
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New parameter handling tool helps with duplicate content issues
Duplicate content has been a hot topic among webmasters and our blog for over three years. One of our first posts on the subject came out in December of ‘06, and our most recent post was last week. Over the past three years, we’ve been providing tools and tips to help webmasters control which URLs we crawl and index, including a) use of 301 redirects, b) www vs. non-www preferred domain setting, c) change of address option, and d) rel=”canonical”.
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Why You Don’t Need Submit to Search Engine Programs or Services
A quick search of the results in Google will show more than 8 pages of companies advertising their services or programs to submit your website to the search engines.
The prices varied wildly, but the fact of the matter is that any site submitter or company offering search engine submissions is just taking your money. (It’s kind of like paying an ATM fee).
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