Firefox Search Status Toolbar Shows Compete Ranking

For those webmasters and SEO specialists who use Firefox browsers, Compete Ranking has been incorporated into the Search Status toolbar which is a really useful Firefox extension. 2007-05-15: ver 1.19 – Compete.com added! Compete ranking for the current domain now appears in a new bar alongside PageRank and Alexa Rank, with estimated visitors in the [...]

Search Engine Crawlability Factors

Before a website can rank well in the search engine result pages, it has to be indexed by the search engine spiders. A search engine spider (robot) will visit one of your pages and look for links on the page. It will follow the links on the page to other pages. All the web pages [...]

Traffic, Traction and Popularity through Search Engine Optimization

Many clients often argue that SEO is only one of the many methods in driving traffic to your website. Any methods such as pay-per-click advertising, email marketing, contextual advertising, or banner advertising can give your site a steady stream of traffic. The traffic will turn into financial profits or not, it depends on whether your [...]

No Follow Or Do Follow?

Link popularity is the fundamental concept of how major search engines rank sites in their SERP. This led to the abuse of this concept by the so-called link spammers in which blog comments are mostly targeted. To prevent the abuse, just over two years ago Google introduced the nofollow attribute. This is what Matt Cutts [...]

4 Reasons SEO Fails

Most SEO campaigns fail to achieve the objectives they were set out to achieve. Below are the four most common reasons for failure. By understanding the reasons webmasters can start their next SEO campaign with better planning. Reason #1: Failing to gather information about keyword popularity One of the mistakes many webmasters make is to [...]

False SEO Strategies

Many websites with big brand names were created many years ago, and at that time SEO had just begun. Search engine optimization techniques have been changing as search engines are updating their algorithms once every few months, these “big brand” sites look for advises from external SEO experts. I am sure it can be painful [...]

Search Engine Ranking vs Search Engine Traffic

Many SEO professionals should have some of the experiences below with their clients or potential clients: How can you help me to improve my website ranking? How can you help to increase my website traffic? How can I increase revenues for my business via my website? Occasionally a great SEO expert should re-think if their [...]

5 Influential Tags On Search Engine Rankings

In SEO, experts and webmasters would tell you content is the king. However, it always helps when you start off your first website by implementing HTML tags effectively. This seems to be very basic and isn’t any new SEO knowledge, but from time to time we often should be reminded. Below are the 5 tags [...]

Crawlability on Dynamic URLs

Most webmasters who understands the basic of search engine optimization will tell you to avoid using dynamically created pages. The reason is that search engines often have difficulty in indexing dynamically created pages. However, according to the recent update on Google Webmaster Central Blog: [Google now indexes] URLs that contain that parameter [&id=]. So if [...]

Search Engine Friendliness Check List

Have you ever wondered why your new website is not listed on any search engine result pages? Nowadays, not being listed on search engines is like being seen nowhere on the world wide web. These are the 5 search engine friendliness check points for your website. Webmasters who understand even the basic of SEO will [...]

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