| 51 | How To Conceal Your Website's "Fingerprint" From The Search Engines Preview: The internet marketing industry is now flooded with various page and portal generators. In the good old days the gateway page generators did very well, earning a lot of money for many people. Then the search engines began to crack down on robot-generated pages, a trend which has led to the demise of such tools. But how is it that the search eng... (more) Published By: Satyajeet Hattangadi Submitted: 13 April,2005 |
| 52 | Trying and trying to Submit to Yahoo! Preview: Getting into Yahoo! is a definite coup for any website. Yahoo! has ruled the "Search Engine Roost" since it was started way back when. Over the years, it has become increasingly difficult to get your website listed in this Internet Directory. One of the reasons that Yahoo! can be so discriminating is because each site that makes it into the direc... (more) Published By: Alison Berke Morano Submitted: 20 November,2001 |
| 53 | Goto.com: Small Investment, Big Payoffs Preview: [skimp: To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material. To give inadequate funds to; be stingy with: misers who skimp their own children.] Your web-based business is your baby. This article is all about not being stingy with your baby! I recently completed a series of articles about search engines, and it got me thinking. Everyone know... (more) Published By: Andrew Goodman Submitted: 21 November,2001 |
| 54 | Latest Bytes on Search Engine Marketing Preview: The search engine world is always changing. They are always up to something new, using new technology, coming up with new requirements and rules, and, of course, running into new glitches. As a web site owner, you need to know exactly what they are up to at any one moment so that you can get your site well placed in their indexes. After all, searc... (more) Published By: David Gikandi Submitted: 21 November,2001 |
| 55 | New Search Engine Marketing Practices Preview: A new study by Cyveillance shows that the Web has grown to more than 2.1 billion documents and is growing at the rate of 7 million pages per day. Another study by Berrier Associates indicates that people who spend five or more hours a week online spend about 71% of their time searching for information. That goes to show the power search engines st... (more) Published By: David Gikandi Submitted: 21 November,2001 |
| 56 | Search Engine Positioning Going Mainstream Preview: Lately, using doorway pages to gain top search engine positioning has become a major topic in Web circles. Doorway pages, also known as entry or bridge pages, are Web pages designed specifically to rank highly on the unique ranking algorithms of each search engine. They are often identified with spammers - at least until now. Danny Sullivan’s Sea... (more) Published By: David Gikandi Submitted: 21 November,2001 |
| 57 | Web & Search Engine Facts You Need to Know to Win the Marketing Game Preview: To achieve any goal, you first need to know everything there is to know about your goal and its influencing environment. That way you can formulate a plan of attack that will work, and avoid time-wasting activities that will not. This applies to everything: running a business, waging a war, winning a race, and of course, marketing your web site. I... (more) Published By: David Gikandi Submitted: 21 November,2001 |
| 58 | Harmonize Elements for High Ranking Preview: Ranking high in search engines is like a carefully balanced high-wire act: you can't tip too far to either side or you will not reach your goal. When creating a website, you must use both content and meta tags effectively, but not excessively. There are four main elements that you must harmonize: Meta Tags, Description, Title and Content. Meta T... (more) Published By: Bet Cox Submitted: 22 November,2001 |
| 59 | SPIDERS AND YOUR WEBSITE Preview: An effective website must have a clearly defined purpose. And it must lead visitors to the action you want them to take. Nothing can be allowed to interfere in this. The chance of a search engine spider liking such a site is slim to none. Your presentation may be pointed at making a sale, generating a lead, obtaining information, etc. But at... (more) Published By: Bob McElwain Submitted: 22 November,2001 |
| 60 | "The Number One Answer is Search Engines..." Preview: We surveyed 100 people... What is the best way to draw traffic to your website? Our survey said... Search Engines 53 Article Distribution 30 Ad Swaps / Links at other sites 14 Banner Advertising 8 Signature Files 5 Ironically, it seems possible that we could have selected a different set of people and the answer for search engines would have... (more) Published By: Bill Platt Submitted: 23 November,2001 |
| 61 | THE FIRST STEPS TO GETTING NOTICED ON THE VAST WORLD OF THE WWW Preview: Thought I'd share a few hints on getting traffic to your web site out there in cyberspace, based on our experiences over the past four and a half years.... Most of our search engine "traffic" comes from the 12 MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES - we estimate about 95%. In listing our various web sites, we only concentrate on the major (12 or so search engin... (more) Published By: Craig Lock Submitted: 24 November,2001 |
| 62 | Secrets to Getting MORE Search Engine Hits Preview: Every Website owner would like to get more traffic from the Search Engines. But it's getting tougher and tougher to get a good listing these days. There are over 2.1 Billion other webpages and documents online right now. And that number is growing by 7 million pages per day. Most of us don't have the time or expertise to carefully edit and r... (more) Published By: Chris Small Submitted: 24 November,2001 |
| 63 | Search Engine Submission Guide Preview: Below is a quick mini-guide to submitting your site to the search engines. Outlined are submission URLs, guidelines and tips for getting listed in each of them, along with the average time it takes for a site to become listed. AltaVista --------- Submission URL(s): http://doc.altavista.com/addurl/ http://add-url.altavista.com/cgi-bin/newurl? (... (more) Published By: Dan Grossman Submitted: 26 November,2001 |
| 64 | SEVEN TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH KEYWORDS TO GET A LOCAL LISTING Preview: Want to get a top listing for your local Internet webpage? Here are seven changes that you can implement today that can make a big difference on your search engine rankings. Some of you may have the working knowledge to make these HTML changes, others of you may need a little help. These tips will help make your website search engine friendly. I... (more) Published By: David Dimas Submitted: 26 November,2001 |
| 65 | 2 Brand New Search Engine Tactics Preview: To carry on in the tradition of the classic e-book "Search Engine Tactics" (as you surely know, written by Mark Joyner in 1995), I would like to propose 2 new tactics in use today. With all due respect to Mr. Joyner, a lot has changed since 1995… Here are two brand new tactics that the "search engine optimization gurus" are talking about: 1. New... (more) Published By: Dr. Roger Wilcox Submitted: 26 November,2001 |
| 66 | Are Those In Search Of The Success Enjoyed By Search Engines Misled? Preview: Are you misled by the success of search engines? Most webmasters seem to be. Of course, several of the most-visited sites on the Internet are indeed search engines or directories. "And what do engines and directories have? A zillion unrelated links to everything. Therefore, I'll do something like that." Whoa! People don't go to engines or ... (more) Published By: Dale Armin Miller Submitted: 26 November,2001 |
| 67 | Branding, Sloganizing and Search Engine Marketing Preview: The descriptions search engines offer when displaying search results are generally retrieved from two sources: a) the displayed page's title tag; b) the displayed page's description meta tag or, in default of same, the first characters of the page's body text; the number of characters displayed is limited, with some engines picking up a maxim... (more) Published By: Ralph Tegtmeier Submitted: 27 November,2001 |
| 68 | It pays to study the Search Engines Preview: Vive la difference Here we were, very complacent at the significant progress our site was making in the search engine placement stakes. Number 3 on Excite, with a number of hits coming in, number 7 on Northern Light, no hits from there, and so on. We were starting to get a number of hits from Google and Fast and then ... we appeared on Lycos, ou... (more) Published By: John Saxon Submitted: 27 November,2001 |
| 69 | PDF Files - Your Undiscovered Gold Mine Preview: It is a well established fact that search engines simply adore (relevant) textual content above anything else. However, in our experience many corporate web sites are at a loss when required to generate search engine optimized content, be it for cloaking, be it for more conventional techniques of optimization. Yet, quite a few of these companies ... (more) Published By: Ralph Tegtmeier Submitted: 27 November,2001 |
| 70 | The New Millenium Search Engine Strategy Preview: In the olden days of the net, circa 1997-1999, we small business types used to have a fighting chance to get our site listed in the major search engines. Well the year 2001 has now arrived, and with it has come the end of our fighting chance. Many of the major search engines and directories have recently abandoned their fair business practi... (more) Published By: Marc Goldman Submitted: 27 November,2001 |