Inline tags <b><font><u><i> etc are, at best, frowned upon, in xhtml, html4 and above and should be replaced by css
<h anything> styled to your preference, is better than <b>old

Single best,,
Read how-tos from Google, Google101 (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897&hl=en)
they are beginner instructions,
start at the beginning,
so much of...

MSN search
died because it could not compete with googles market share, replaced by
Live search
died because it could not compete with googles market share, replaced by
Bing search
will die...

SEspiders are good but
consider the worst case
If the search engine misses something, hiccups, when spidering your relative links and does not record a baseref
then your hard written pages end up...

Great comment,
comparing current search results with the practices of prior years, and looking at the wayback machine
there are huge changes in algorithms used,
it wont be long till pages...

the only opinion on link exchange that matters
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
The most common effect is downgrading

Again, Google have a pretty coherent statement about why you should submit your site for to the addurl page, http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897&hl=en and why you...

apache mod_rewrite in .htaccessRewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml? makesitemap.php
sitemap generated from the database whenever anything looks for a sitemap

The adsense reporting, includes google's monitoring javascripts so may give you a better sense of what pages are getting hit, So you can optimize your site content

BUT
Google adwords adsense,...

Google is Your friend
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=free+tutorial+information+security&meta=lr%3D&aq=f&oq= 24 million responses

links wont display till google next crawls the page the links are on, (till then the SE does not know they exist, Yahoo's bot has ocrawled the page) and determines that your site is worth displaying....

google will find your site,
eventually
If you don't want to wait for eventually,
for there to be links to your site from indexed sites,
submit your site

google suggest submitting your site...

THe algorithm is the biggest secret they have
lots can tell you the results
few know how it is achieved,
the few all work for search engine companies -- with a non disclosure clause
for the...

CanadaFred
I'm on page one for all of my search terms
beat three larger competitors
got 9017 referrals from google last month September,
4152 from Bing, dont track yahoo, its insignificant
Have...

follow the instructions
each google page links to others an explanatory list and then detailed instrcuctions on how google indexes and see the siteYes Fred, you get paid for SEO
and you don't want...

follow the instructions Google 101 (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70897)
google seem to know a little about how google index web sites
Pretty much nothing...

most sites expire the posts, individual operators can set the expiry dates, and how they expire, whether deleted or sent to an archive of 'old' threads

we have multiple ads on sites, from the...

page rank,
on quality of your page
on keyword density in page text,
keyword in meta tags
completion of code: alt title meta header descriptons
accessibility of your pages
number of inbound...

Use google 101
the guidelines on the webmaster site to get your site indexed properly, before there are any backlinks from other sites
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

an xml sitemap to...

what website
what are you in competition with
are you good enough to compete ( does your site reach out and grab attention in the first 8 seconds )are you unique, original, funny, sexy or...

If you cant understand the math, then you won't develop a suitable algorithm to create the rank either

bad translation
page rank = sum of all inbound links as (stability factor times number of...

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

just for fun, Googles April 1 approach

48 hours goto google (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en)
enrol as a webmaster (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en)
register...

It depends on the keyword

A really obscure keyword/trade/business/target-audience or one is a small geographic region, is easy to keep in the high ranks, there arent many other players on those...

Asking, works quite often.

Have sent email,
"We found your site useful to our tenants and customers and have placed a link to your site on ours.
Is there a logo you prefer us to use in the...

Yes, there have been a number of SEO articles where the only instance of a phrase has been in the alt text of a linked image. The tyext appeared in google almost immediately, and hit on searches as...

Do that,
the rest of us will stupidly follow Google's protocol,
Google, after all, have no idea what Google want from site design

User-agent: *
Disallow: /temp/
Allow: /temp/abc.htmlIn practice this is a bad idea - it's too fragile. Someone may publish a link to your files on their site. Or it may turn up in a publicly...

no

bbcode is a way to input some user modification without allowing html, and html security flaws, in that input
the output pages are still html and no effect on SE

importance on the site should be referenced on the home page, above the line where the 'average' fullscreen user's browser cuts the page off.
that cutoff is the 'fold line'

As well as the addurl link


goto the google webmaster tools page,
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home
register and verify your site and ownership
add your sitemap
you get the...

Google local business center (http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter?gl=US&hl=en-US)
of course it will have effect, how muc or what effect I dunno,
but 3 of our locations get a lot of...

<a href='yourhref'></a>

<a href='thispageatthere.com' style='display:none'>goto thispage</a>
another method
<style type='text/css'>
.hidden { display:none }
</style>
<a class='hidden'>bla,</a>
hidden links make search...

I use php script to determine mobile browsers, and redirect to a mobile version of the site, very small icons instead of images, mostly containing directions to the properties, with links to the full...

from http://gdymov.com/google-indexes-title-attribute-in-a-tag/

While searching I observed a strange phenomenon. For this search, look at the page codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Statistics that...

Google webmaster tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/) read and follow the instructions from the only place that matters

goto google webmaster guidelines (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769) and read the instructions
Nothing anybody else has to say about search engines matters,...

goto google webmaster tools
read the instructionsthat will tell you what works and what does not, and what SEO really is
follow the instructionslots don't
submit the sitewhen set up properly to...

links pointing back from valid(from a search bot perspective) web sites, related to the content of your site.
Links from link exchanges, web sites promising to increase your SER by dumping hundreds...