Archive for the 'SEO' Category

Yahoo SEO Operators - linkdomain

linkdomain: Shows other pages with links to that url.
Example: linkdomain:yahoo.com
site: use to find all documents within a particular domain and all it’s subdomains.
Example: site:yahoo.com
linkdomain: - site: (combination) Shows all pages with links to that url, not counting the internal links.
Example:
-> linkdomain:www.ozzu.com -site:www.ozzu.com ~ 202,000 results,
-> linkdomain:www.ozzu.com ~ 265,000 results
inurl: use to find a specific keyword [...]

SERP Gets Hosed

A new site I am working on recently got hosed by google in its serp (search engine rank page). It took me a while to figure it out but I think it was due to one of two issues. Either affiliate links or links to web directories. I am leaning towards the [...]

Help Web Spiders find Your Sitemap

This is key, you are dumb not to do it. When a spider finally hits your site, it asks for the robots.txt file as we all know. This is where we can tell it to not look at certain pages, etc. Well we can also tell it the location of our sitemap [...]

Search Engine Submissions

Key Website Submission URLs
MSN submit site: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSUT
Sitemap submission to ask.com: type in the url with your website added like:http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

Yahoo submit site or sitemap: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Submit sitemaps to google via: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?hl=en

Good Article on Search Engine Submission of Sitemaps

This site talks about submitting to google, yahoo, msn/live and ask. It has some backdoors outlined as well. http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Submit-Your-Site-Map-to-Google,-Yahoo!-and-MSN&id=660037

Apache mod_rewrite - Pretty URLS - Database Sie

As a part of my new SEO Addiction, I am working on a database site in php. I do not want the pages to show up like http://www.somewebsite.org/index.php?parameter=7. I want them to show up like http://www.somewebsite.org/meaning_full_name.html. This makes them look static and is better for search engine ranking.
It took me forever to [...]

Google Adsense Showing Irrelevant Ads

I was working on some templates tonight and while testing and messing with keywords, I discovered that AdSense is meta tags to determine ad content. Initially for a site I had the ads were totally unrelated but with time they got better. Well, it turns out this was due to more and better [...]

Best Keyword Suggestion Tool

SEO Addiction - You (and I) want to build a site that has lots of traffic so we can make money off of ads in one way or another or sell our stuff or? One way to do this is to get a high search engine ranking (serp) for a set of keywords related [...]

Search Engine Ranking Page Checker (SERP Checker) - SEO

Now that I am a full blown SEO addict. I perpetually check my search engine ranking page or SERP. The definition of serp is the ranking in a search engine that your site receives for a particular keyword. I have tried about 50 different ones and the best I have found so [...]

SEO - First Attempts at Keyword Sniping and Search Engine Ranking Page (SERP) - Part 1

I am breaking in and trying keyword sniping to see if I can make some money
with affiliate marketing and/or adsense. I have some ideas on this now
and I have a friend running a business that is local in nature but he wants
to grab some Internet traffic. Here is the initial strategy I gave [...]