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Google Explains Search Rankings After Complaints in Europe
Feb 26th
Google has offered a general explanation of how it ranks its search results, one day after the European Commission said it was looking into antitrust complaints against the company.
In a blog post Thursday, Google Fellow Amit Singhal also referred to a recent op-ed piece suggesting that regulators should control how search engines rank results. He stressed that developing search rankings is very difficult, implying perhaps that regulating search would be hard for any government to do well.
Laying out the challenge, Singhal said Google processes hundreds of millions of queries a day, with at least 20 percent of them totally new. To handle the volume and variety of queries, the company uses a collection of algorithms to sift through data.
“Our algorithms use hundreds of different signals to pick the top results for any given query. Signals are indicators of relevance, and they include items as simple as the words on a webpage or more complex calculations such as the authoritativeness of other sites linking to any given page,” he said.
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Google SEO resources for beginners
Jan 24th
All webmasters has a dream that his / her site should get high page rank by google and earn some handsome for them, but don’t know how to achieve that, for those guys n girls google has provided detailed video which helps peoples like us. Just check it out its awesome.
Long Tail Keywords : Are They worth to Invest Time?
Jan 14th
Does it pay to invest your time in long tail keywords?
What are long tail keywords?
Long tail keywords are long and specific keyword phrases that generate little traffic and few conversions each.
Long tail keywords usually consist of several words and they have a low monthly search volume.
Comparison Between Short and Long Tail Keywords
New site not indexed on search engine? Here’s what to do
Jan 12th
One of the most popular problems among webmasters is not being able to get indexed by search engine despite search engine submissions and long waiting. Search engine takes time to index some new sites and this can be frustrating. But most of the times, the reasons for search engine not indexing your site is from your side, although not many people realize it, and hence to frequent complaint. So if you have a new website and is awaiting indexing by search engine, here are a few things that you might want to consider in the first place.
Checklist for search engine indexing.
1. Check if your CMS has an opt in option where, it blocks search engines.
Well technically they shouldn’t but some CMS’s like WordPress has a default option which will be checked already where it will block all search engines from crawling the website. This is to make sure that your website is not indexed while you are only setting up the site. But when you forget to uncheck this option, the CMS adds a Nofollow meta tag to the pages whereby search engines will not crawl the site.
2. Check if you have set the correct Robots.txt
Robots.txt files are used to control (not fully though) search engines crawling the website. Make sure you have not blocked bots from crawling parts of your website. Read the rest of this entry »
Important Steps for Increasing Website Traffic
Jan 7th
Increasing web or blog traffic is the focus of many bloggers or website owners. They need the traffic to increase their page rank, and with high page rank, it means that they will earn more money from their sites. You will find many tricks and tips to gets more traffic for your site and make many visitors come to your site. Many people do not memorize site’s name when they need to get information. They usually use search engine like google, yahoo, msn, aol etc. to find the website which contained the information that they want.
There is one simple trick which can be said as marketing method or free advertising act. You should publish your link to your website everywhere you can, so that everyone can be redirected to your website. The first act is to contribute yourself to Yahoo answers, and put a link to your website in your name or below your post.
Next, you can join an online forum or discussion, make your own signature and a link which will go to your site, and start participating in the forum. You can also browse to some website or blog which have similar topic with yours. You can also write a comment and leave your back link there, make sure that you are allowed to do so by the owner of the website or blog.
Next, now a days twitter, Facebook, Orkut are very popular social networking websites and its my general observation that if you regularly tweets, scrap etc with your url in tweets and scraps then it will help in boosting your web site rank.
You can also create press release and publish on web site here are some press release examples for you if you are not aware. Press Release are also very powerful tool to drive traffic to your site. PRlog.org, Free-Press-Release.com, WorldPressRelease.org and many more.
You can also submit your web site to directories. If you don’t know from where you can find directory list just check DirectoryCritic.com it provides categorized list of directories accepting web site. Number of back links pointing to your blog or site also plays a vital role in driving traffic to your site or blog.