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How to Increase your Sales with Less Traffic

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:00:37 +0000

Search engine optimization is not about getting as much traffic as possible. It’s about getting the right kind of website traffic. Sometimes, less traffic can be better. Many website visitors aren’t necessarily a good thing Many webmasters try to get as many visitors as possible. They join traffic exchange programs and they optimize their web pages for [...]

Changing That Home Page? Take Baby Steps

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:00:14 +0000

A FEW weeks ago, Yahoo began what may be its biggest overhaul of its home page. But if you are among the roughly 100 million Americans who stop by Yahoo.com every month, the odds are that you haven’t noticed any changes.That’s because the job of revamping the Web’s most visited portal page is fraught with [...]

Official Google Statement : How to Get High Search Engine Rankings

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:22:55 +0000

This month, the Google Webmaster blog published an article in which Google’s Maile Ohye officially explained what it takes to get a high ranking in Google’s search result pages. Read it for yourself: Inbound links are important but content is even more important Google’s Maile Ohye writes the following about inbound links in his article: “Inbound links are links [...]

Google’s Gatekeepers

christine — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:00:03 +0000

In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site.‘If your whole game is to increase market share,’ says Lawrence Lessig, speaking of Google, ‘it’s hard to . . . gather [...]

Action plan : What to do when your Google rankings have dropped

christine — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:00:52 +0000

Has your website lost its rankings in Google? Did your rankings drop or did your website vanish completely from Google? Many things can cause a ranking drop. This article explains what you can do to get your rankings back. Three reasons why your Google rankings might have dropped: You changed your web pages. After a web page [...]

Ranking test : Can there be too many links to your home page?

christine — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:38:01 +0000

In an online webmaster forum, a webmaster described the link experiment that he did with his websites. He tried to find out how linking to the home page affected his rankings. What did the webmaster test? The webmaster tested the effect of links from sub pages of his website to his home page. He tried links to [...]

Optimize Your Internet Copywriting Skills

christine — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:26 +0000

Selling goods or services over the internet is different from other ways of marketing your business. Whether you are writing an advertisement for the internet or are writing content for your website, it’s very important to know the ins and outs of writing copy for the internet. Here’s some proven methods to live by: 1. Don’t [...]

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies

christine — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:00:53 +0000

No discussion about SEO would be complete without some mention of Google, Google’s algorithms, and eventually about which method is best for increasing a website’s rank. But the bottom line is this: only the higher-ups at Google know for sure exactly how the algorithms work and the precise formula for determining PageRank. Does that mean [...]

reCAPTCHA - Digitizing Books One Word at a Time

christine — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:00:53 +0000

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them - colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” [...]

CAPTCHA - Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically

christine — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:51:12 +0000

A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. For example, humans can read distorted text as the one shown below, but current computer programs can’t: The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by [...]