Posted on February 8, 2009 | 18 Comments
In the first chapter of this series we saw how robot.txt and sitemap.xml play big roles in exposing what all can be crawled on a site. The Search Engine (SE) bot may have reached your site during its frequent prawl or a visit via an inbound link (cou
Continue Reading →Posted on February 6, 2009 | 25 Comments
In first post of this series for beginners, we learned how search engines find your site and read its relevant public contents. Search engines use the web pages found on your site (and numerous other sites) to tag and index them logically in a way th
Continue Reading →Posted on February 4, 2009 | 37 Comments
How can I get my site on Google search? I have answered that question at least 10 times on Yahoo Answers and several times over email. Instead of responding to yet another question individually, I thought of creating this reference post - and time p
Continue Reading →Posted on January 15, 2009 | 18 Comments
Last five or six years have witnessed the Internet based tools and technologies changing at an alarming pace. This has also transformed the way in which the web user searches and digs out information. These days, the information retrieval is so fast
Continue Reading →Posted on December 26, 2008 | 15 Comments
In Feb 2006, BMW’s official site was blacklisted by Google for indulging in unethical SEO activities that manipulated the page ranking system. Getting blacklisted by Google would mean that your site’s PR suddenly drops to zero and no more pages f
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