In November 2006, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to support the Sitemap protocol. The Sitemap protocol is a standard that can help you to submit all of your web pages to search engines.
Last week, Ask.com joined the team so that now all four major search engines support the Sitemap protocol. In addition, search engines can now automatically detect your Sitemaps file.
Online users use Google for research purposes. Google provides pertinent information related to a search query entered by the online user. As much as possible, Google wants to provide it's users with quality content alone. Because of this, it abhors low quality and spammy websites.
Google has come up with various spam filters to get rid of websites that aim to spam its ranking algorithm. What are the Google Spam Filters?
In a recent thread on WebmasterWorld, people observed that there is a change in Google's ranking algorithm. It looks as if more pages are added to Google's supplemental results and that Google might re-rank the results based on new quality criteria.
You probably know Google's informal company motto "Don't be evil". Google is a very successful company that knows a lot about its advertisers and users. In addition, Google has a market share that would allow them do certain things.
What could Google do if they were evil? Note that the following is only hypothetical.
Google is testing a new advertising system that allows businesses to advertise on a cost per action basis. You can find Google's own announcement here.
Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this article series, we're taking a look at the 15 most common Google spam filters and how you can get around them.
Duplicate content, false use of the robots.txt file and Google bowling can be the reason if your web site rankings on Google dropped. This article will help you to find a solution.
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is placing a fairly large bet that people can trump technology in the search engine game. According to a recent report in Yahoo, He's putting $4 million (of other people's money) plus an undisclosed 'large amount' from Amazon on the line, betting that he can steal 5% of the total search market away from Google with his new project, Wikia.
Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this article series, we're taking a look a the 15 most common Google spam filters and how you can get around them.
It is no secret that Microsoft and Google hold no love for each other. Over the last few days I noticed increased amount of Microsoft's 'copyright infringement' finger pointing at Google. Personally I find the use of 'mudslinging' tactics highly distasteful, often reserved for shady politicians. If Microsoft is the new champion of exemplary business ethics, then may I suggest that they look at their own boardroom first?
The entire altruistic campaign to bring Google to justice was spearheaded by Tom Rubin, senior Microsoft lawyer. Actions like this often result in a flurry of lawsuits. To me this is simply a brilliant tactic executed by lawyers, to further strengthen the preponderance of lawyers in the business world.
Yahoo announced support for a new meta tag called "NOYDIR". The new tag will complement the "NOODP" meta tag that is already supported by all major search engines. Read this article to learn how to use the new tag on your web pages.
A few days ago, Yahoo announced support for a new meta tag called "NOYDIR". The new tag will complement the "NOODP" meta tag that is already supported by all major search engines.