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Search Engine Watch May 18, 2009 Ron Jones |
Search Engine Submission 101, Part 2 Search engine submission is not a silver bullet that will instantly launch you into higher rankings. Today, submitting XML Sitemaps is not necessary, but could potentially offer better response time. |
Information Today June 12, 2008 Avi Rappoport |
New Robots Exclusion Protocol Agreement Among Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Live Search The search engines banding together and the publishers proposing their own solutions make it likely that there will be more conflict in the future with end users and libraries stuck in the middle. |
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2010 Benjamin Wayne |
Search Engine Success: Getting Video SEO Right With search engines now including video content in blended search results, video SEO offers one of the greatest opportunities for companies to cost-effectively drive increased site visitation. |
Search Engine Watch March 29, 2005 Eric Ward |
Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places? In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the major search engines, web site owners miss a far more important audience that's increasingly turning to topical search sites. |
Search Engine Watch March 20, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketers Prefer Manual Submission to Auto-Submit Tools The results of a survey of web site marketers has found that most prefer to submit manually to search engines rather than use auto-submission tools. Most marketers said that this was because they "know" manual submission is more effective. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch December 29, 2008 Ron Jones |
SEO Site Structure 101, Part 2 Search engines love sites that provide a great user experience. So as you consider your site structure please do not leave this out. You will reap great dividends by doing so. |
Search Engine Watch September 11, 2009 Chris Boggs |
When to Run Away from an SEO Company There are some tactics that should raise a red flag if your SEO company tries to sell them to you. Others are so outdated and worthless, that they should send you packing out the door. |
InternetNews November 16, 2006 David Needle |
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as Partners? Competitors put aside their differences to agree on Web search standards. |
Search Engine Watch September 23, 2008 Aaron Shear |
Worried About the Economy? Why Not Try SEO? Often times, a simple rewrite of your URL structure can be enough to move your site into a position to be indexed by the search engines. |
Search Engine Watch December 22, 2008 Ron Jones |
SEO Site Structure 101, Part 1 Understanding why site structure is important for natural SEO. |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
ONLINE May 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2010 Mathieu Burgerhout |
Why You Should Prevent Certain Pages From Being Indexed All pages are not created equal. Having fewer "unimportant" pages of your site indexed will put more emphasis on your "money" pages. |
ONLINE November 2001 Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
AskMen.com January 31, 2001 Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
Search Engine Watch February 15, 2010 John Greer |
Mastering Google Webmaster Central From site verification and crawl errors to newer tools and features, Google Webmaster Central is critical to the success of search engine optimization campaigns and keeping ahead of the competition. |
Search Engine Watch November 18, 2003 Shari Thurow |
Search Engines and Web Server Issues What is the best way to move a site from one server to another without affecting search engine visibility? After a site redesign, how can you communicate to the search engines that old URLs should be redirected to new URLs without affecting positioning? |
Search Engine Watch January 11, 2010 Ron Jones |
Article Marketing 101 How to establish credibility and drive traffic back to your Web site with article marketing and submission, and how to avoid getting flagged as duplicate content. |
Search Engine Watch July 17, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Building Directory Links: A Valuable SEO Tactic? One of the longest-tenured tactics in link building is to build links within topical free and paid directories. Is that still a valuable SEO tactic? |
ONLINE January 2001 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... etc. |
Search Engine Watch December 19, 2007 Eric Enge |
Search Engine Visibility and Site Crawlability, Part 1 This is the first of two articles outlining and explaining the SEO problems two experts identified with dynamic Web sites and solutions. |
PC World August 2004 Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 |
Internet Structure Search engines find content via spiders that go through the pages on a Web site by following the links among pages. Here is an overview of how search engines handle queries on the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch January 3, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Iconocast Poll Sheds Light On Search Engine Optimization Issues In November, the respected Iconocast newsletter surveyed its readers on search engine optimization issues. Here's a summary of key findings, based on 404 responses... |
Entrepreneur February 2010 Mikal Belicove |
Video SEO for Your Website Optimize your site's search engine ranking with video. |
Search Engine Watch January 3, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Ups Basic Submit Price The price of LookSmart's "Basic Submit" service has been increased from $79 to $99. Basic Submit guarantees that a site will be reviewed within eight weeks for possible inclusion into the directory... |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
InternetNews August 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Submission Changes & Other Developments AltaVista has a new Add URL system that promises faster addition of web pages to the index, as long as you are not using automated submit software... |
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Searcher September 2002 Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch March 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Submission Data Was Left Vulnerable Information in LookSmart's submission queue has been left open to the public, giving access to the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who have submitted sites to the service. Credit card data, however, was not exposed... |
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Proper SEO and the Robots.txt File By taking a good look at your Web site's robots.txt file and making sure that the syntax is set up correctly, you can avoid some search engine ranking problems. |
Search Engine Watch November 16, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Drops Free Submit For Commercial Categories Yahoo is now charging for all sites that wish to submit to certain commercial categories of its directory... |
D-Lib February 2006 Smith et al. |
Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites A description of the observed crawling patterns of various search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, as they traverse a series of web subsites whose contents decay at predetermined rates. |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2009 Ron Jones |
Local Search 101, Part 1 Are you looking to venture beyond the printed yellow pages? You should be. As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are turning to local search. |
InternetNews December 26, 2003 Sean Michael Kerner |
Outlook: Paid Inclusion Needs to Change its Ways Jupiter Research looks at the market outlook for the paid inclusion search model, and finds plenty that needs fixing before growth returns to the sector. |
Search Engine Watch August 16, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy The search engine companies are once again arguing about which search engine has a larger or fresher index. But there is still no metric to measure whose results are most relevant. |
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Hosting Issues and SEO When it comes to server issues, many of us would rather not get into the down-and-dirty details. But knowing the basics of server response codes - and when to use them correctly - is critical for any competitive Webmaster or search marketer. |
Search Engine Watch December 3, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketing: You Like It, You Really Like It Readers say in droves that they like the suggestion of Search Engine Marketing as a term to define promoting sites on search engines... |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
Search Engine Watch March 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users... |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
Search Engine Watch May 11, 2010 Adam Audette |
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework A framework for SEO strategy that captures the three primary elements of search engine optimization. First up: SEO and search engine crawling analysis. Part one of a three-part series. |
Search Engine Watch May 23, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
InternetNews October 8, 2009 |
Google Says, Have Your AJAX and SEO, Too Google puts a standard on the table for making AJAX-based Web sites crawlable. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
ONLINE May 2000 David King |
Specialized Search Engines: Alternatives to the Big Guys Most web searchers can now find almost anything in almost any imaginable field. But sometimes more is not better. At times, you may wish you could sit down to a simplified search engine that finds only on-topic information. Now you can, by using a specialized search engine. |