1. # of results per search engine in English
personally i dont care about # of results. if you search for "red" you will see there are millions of results. i dont think anyone is trying to...

search engines can process css dropdown links, they are starting to process javscript dropdown links and flash dropdowns are great if you want to hide links from search engines. it is best to make...

"microsites" pass link juice and page rank the same way that regular sites do. if you build these sites, dont do any link development and link them to the corporate site you will get no benefit. ...

Google Analytics took a little time to recognize Bing as a search engine. The first few days Bing was launched, Google had it listed under the referral section.

You may see an increase of traffic...

hi newagesmb,

i think you might be referring to something else because meta tags do not play a significant role of indexing websites in the major search engines. the search engines will not even...

#1 - Duplicate content is more about multiple websites repeating paragraphs. It seems you are talking about the anchor text (that is the clickable text of a link) being the same. Google likes to...

Welcome to DaniWeb chomkler!

When people are talking about site maps they might be referring to two slightly different things. In the early days of the internet people tried to make it easier for...

Ahhhh yes meta tags. I remember you so well. Just a few years ago (ok many years ago) all you had to do was stuff meta tags with keywords and you would rank #1. But no longer are they that...

If you syndicate your rss feed on multiple websites it can create duplicate content issues. This is because the same headline and snippet will be repeated on all of those sites. Search engines...

Here is a good resource to get started with SEO : http://www.seomoz.org/articles

As for your specific questions, PageRank was designed by Larry Page of Google. It is only used by Google. It...

the seo brokers are the seo conferences. look at who constantly speaks at them. most speakers are good at what they do (but not all).

i personally know 10e20 does a good job and has a very...

Let's be careful not to give out false information. I am not even going to say a certain person is wrong. All I ask is that readers of this post perform a simple test.

Do a search for any...

Congratulations on creating a large database driven site! It is beautiful and very useful, now if only you could figure out how to get people to find your site. Time for search engine optimization!...

Google will ban you for arbitrage. That is the practice of buying cheap ppc traffic and sending it to a page filled with expensive adsense ads.

It can be hard to choose a good SEO. I think it is important to educate yourself first so you know what questions to ask and more importantly what answers from potential vendors are warning signs.
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I didn't want to mention blog commenting because many people misunderstand it and other people immediately think of it as spam. I do agree with you that it is a good idea to comment on relevant...

You may have heard that search engines allow you to submit your website to them. That might sound like a great idea but it is actually a bad idea. Why? Because submitting to search engines means...

It is no secret that links are one of the most significant factor search engines use when ranking websites. Google even states that ...

i do think that the core elements of search engine algorithms are the same. i respectfully disagree about not worrying about the search engines. if you compare the top ten ranking sites on google,...

Hi 2bu,

It is not really controversial. It comes down to intent. Matt, Adam and the other members of the Google team have talked about this alot.

Situation 1 - Website about widgets decides...

hi alwaysworking,

my purpose was to help explain paid links. i don't think paid links are always a good idea and there are definite risks involved. if you can get quality websites to link to you...

jonathon is right. google frequently shuffles things around because they are constantly testing new items. if things dont bounce back here are some things to look at

-robots.txt is not blocking...

every e-commerce project is unique. here are some steps that i would follow in setting up a new e-commerce website

1-registering domain name
2-finding good, secure hosting
3-installing...

E-commerce is the ability to conduct sales transactions online. This includes selling items on your website.

The benefits of e-commerce is that you are opening new revenue streams. Instead of...

Search engines do not like paid links. They do not want webmasters paying for inbound links from other websites. Why? Because when done properly it enables webmasters to quickly and easily rank...

According to the industry numbers Google has about 65% market share, Yahoo has about 15% market share and MSN has about 8%. (these numbers differ depending which report you look at)

Since Google...

Off page optimization refers to anything that is not directly hosted on your site. The most important and largest aspect of "off page optimization" is link development.

This is because in...