Search Engine Optimization - SEO

15 Free SEO Tools to check keyword density

2008-08-11T07:11:00.000-07:00

It is old school SEO, which says a 6% keyword density has to be maintained in a well written SE optimized copy to make sure that the search engines pick up the keyword from the rest of the text. There has been no or very less changes to the keyword density algorithm that webmasters still follow the 6% keyword density rule. Here are some free seo tools that will help you to determine the keyword density of any webpage of any text article you’ve written. Some of them are stable and advanced while some are just another tool to use in case the popular onces fail.

Keyword Density Cloud Analyzer - Finds out which are the keywords that are used most like in a tag cloud format. Gives the keyword count and the density in percentage.
Keyword Density Checker - Checks the meta tags and the text on page. Gives a list of keywords as well as keeyword phrases (keyword combinations) with the count and keyword density percentage.
Keyword Density and prominence tool - This Keyword density tool has more options whereby you can decide if the meta keywords are to be analyzed or not, and also if there’s a particular word you want to monitor. Also gives an idea about other SEO elements like ALT text and outgoing links text.
Keyword Density Comparison - This keyword density tools helps to analyze two URLs for their keyword density and does a comparison on them.
Keyword Density Tool - This guy does a keyword density check showing the number of times a keyword is repeated with the density in percentage.
Keyword Distribution Check - This tool helps you to find out the keyword density and distribution. Shows keyword cloud and count, but no percentage occurrence.
Keyword Density Link Analyzer - This tool is a bit different from others in that, it also has an option to check the ALT tags and links.
Keyword Density with SEO elements check - This tool helps you to check all the elements on a page like ALT, Title and headings with their importance and weightage.
Keyword Density Checker - This one has the extra option of emailing the results to an email id.
Density check with meta option - Checks keyword density with option of including or excluding meta content.
Keyword Density Checker with option of number of keywords - This tool does the keyword density check with the option of limiting the number of total keywords analyzed.
Keyword Density check with selected bots - Checks the keyword density of a document with additional option of selecting which search engine bot to crawl like Google and a few others.
Yet another KW density analyzer - Yet another one in case the others fail.
Keyword Repetition check - Checks the number of times a keyword is repeated.
Keyword Density Analysis tool - Does a fairly simple keyword density check.

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

2008-08-11T07:05:00.000-07:00

A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optmization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided. So, rather than charging $400 an hour to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many of the most common pieces of advice here on the blog (business part of Rand fights with open source Rand, but loses, as usual).

Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)
The right blog CMS makes a big difference. If you want to set yourself apart, I recommend creating a custom blog solution - one that can be completely customized to your users. In most cases, WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Typepad will suffice, but building from scratch allows you to be very creative with functionality and formatting. The best CMS is something that's easy for the writer(s) to use and brings together the features that allow the blog to flourish. Think about how you want comments, archiving, sub-pages, categorization, multiple feeds and user accounts to operate in order to narrow down your choices. OpenSourceCMS is a very good tool to help you select a software if you go that route.
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Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain
Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings - by keeping the blog on a separate domain, you shoot yourself in the foot. From worst to best, your options are - Hosted (on a solution like Blogspot or Wordpress), on a unique domain (at least you can 301 it in the future), on a subdomain (these can be treated as unique from the primary domain by the engines) and as a sub-section of the primary domain (in a subfolder or page - this is the best solution).
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Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind
First and foremost, you're writing a title tag for the people who will visit your site or have a subscription to your feed. Title tags that are short, snappy, on-topic and catchy are imperative. You also want to think about search engines when you title your posts, since the engines can help to drive traffic to your blog. A great way to do this is to write the post and the title first, then run a few searches at Overture, WordTracker & KeywordDiscovery to see if there is a phrasing or ordering that can better help you to target "searched for" terms.
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Participate at Related Forums & Blogs
Whatever industry or niche you're in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that's already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com's blog search in particular is of very good quality).
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Tag Your Content
Technorati is the first place that you should be tagging posts. I actually recommend having the tags right on your page, pointing to the Technorati searches that you're targeting. There are other good places to ping - del.icio.us and Flickr being the two most obvious (the only other one is Blogmarks, which is much smaller). Tagging content can also be valuable to help give you a "bump" towards getting traffic from big sites like Reddit, Digg & StumbleUpon (which requires that you download the toolbar, but trust me - it's worth it). You DO NOT want to submit every post to these sites, but that one out of twenty (see tactic #18) is worth your while.
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Launch Without Comments (and Add Them Later)
There's something sad about a blog with 0 comments on every post. It feels dead, empty and unpopular. Luckily, there's an easy solution - don't offer the ability to post comments on the blog and no one will know that you only get 20 uniques a day. Once you're upwards of 100 RSS subscribers and/or 750 unique visitors per day, you can open up the comments and see light activity. Comments are often how tech-savvy new visitors judge the popularity of a site (and thus, its worth), so play to your strengths and keep your obscurity private.
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Don't Jump on the Bandwagon
Some memes are worthy of being talked about by every blogger in the space, but most aren't. Just because there's huge news in your industry or niche DOES NOT mean you need to be covering it, or even mentioning it (though it can be valuable to link to it as an aside, just to integrate a shared experience into your unique content). Many of the best blogs online DO talk about the big trends - this is because they're already popular, established and are counted on to be a source of news for the community. If you're launching a new blog, you need to show people in your space that you can offer something unique, different and valuable - not just the same story from your point of view. This is less important in spaces where there are very few bloggers and little online coverage and much more in spaces that are overwhelmed with blogs (like search, or anything else tech-related).
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Link Intelligently
When you link out in your blog posts, use convention where applicable and creativity when warranted, but be aware of how the links you serve are part of the content you provide. Not every issue you discuss or site you mention needs a link, but there's a fine line between overlinking and underlinking. The best advice I can give is to think of the post from the standpoint of a relatively uninformed reader. If you mention Wikipedia, everyone is familar and no link is required. If you mention a specific page at Wikipedia, a link is necessary and important. Also, be aware that quoting other bloggers or online sources (or even discussing their ideas) without linking to them is considered bad etitquette and can earn you scorn that could cost you links from those sources in the future. It's almost always better to be over-generous with links than under-generous. And link condoms? Only use them when you're linking to something you find truly distasteful or have serious apprehension about.
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Invite Guest Bloggers
Asking a well known personality in your niche to contribute a short blog on their subject of expertise is a great way to grow the value and reach of your blog. You not only flatter the person by acknowedging their celebrity, you nearly guarantee yourself a link or at least an association with a brand that can earn you readers. Just be sure that you really are getting a quality post from someone that's as close to universally popular and admired as possible (unless you want to start playing the drama linkbait game, which I personally abhor). If you're already somewhat popular, it can often be valuable to look outside your space and bring in guest authors who have a very unique angle or subject matter to help spice up your focus. One note about guest bloggers - make sure they agree to have their work edited by you before it's posted. A disagreement on this subject after the fact can have negative ramifications.
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Eschew Advertising (Until You're Popular)
I hate AdSense on blogs. Usually, I ignore it, but I also cast a sharp eye towards the quality of the posts and professionalism of the content when I see AdSense. That's not to say that contextual advertising can't work well in some blogs, but it needs to be well integrated into the design and layout to help defer criticism. Don't get me wrong - it's unfair to judge a blog by its cover (or, in this case, its ads), but spend a lot of time surfing blogs and you'll have the same impression - low quality blogs run AdSense and many high quality ones don't. I always recommend that whether personal or professional, you wait until your blog has achieved a level of success before you start advertising. Ads, whether they're sponsorships, banners, contextual or other, tend to have a direct, negative impact on the number of readers who subscribe, add to favorites and link - you definitely don't want that limitation while you're still trying to get established.
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Go Beyond Text in Your Posts
Blogs that contain nothing but line after line of text are more difficult to read and less consistently interesting than those that offer images, interactive elements, the occassional multimedia content and some clever charts & graphs. Even if you're having a tough time with non-text content, think about how you can format the text using blockquotes, indentation, bulllet points, etc. to create a more visually appealing and digestable block of content.
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Cover Topics that Need Attention
In every niche, there are certain topics and questions that are frequently asked or pondered, but rarely have definitive answers. While this recommendation applies to nearly every content-based site, it's particularly easy to leverage with a blog. If everyone in the online Nascar forums is wondering about the components and cost of an average Nascar vehicle - give it to them. If the online stock trading industry is rife with questions about the best performing stocks after a terrorist threat, your path is clear. Spend the time and effort to research, document and deliver and you're virtually guaranteed link-worthy content that will attract new visitors and subscribers.
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Pay Attention to Your Analytics
Visitor tracking software can tell you which posts your audience likes best, which ones don't get viewed and how the search engines are delivering traffic. Use these clues to react and improve your strategies. Feedburner is great for RSS and I'm a personal fan of Indextools. Consider adding action tracking to your blog, so you can see what sources of traffic are bringing the best quality visitors (in terms of time spent on the site, # of page views, etc). I particularly like having the "register" link tagged for analytics so I can see what percentage of visitors from each source is interested enough to want to leave a comment or create an account.
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Use a Human Voice
Charisma is a valuable quality, both online and off. Through a blog, it's most often judged by the voice you present to your users. People like empathy, compassion, authority and honesty. Keep these in the forefront of your mind when writing and you'll be in a good position to succeed. It's also critical that you maintain a level of humility in your blogging and stick to your roots. When users start to feel that a blog is taking itself too seriously or losing the characteristics that made it unique, they start to seek new places for content. We've certainly made mistakes (even recently) that have cost us some fans - be cautious to control not only what you say, but how you say it. Lastly - if there's a hot button issue that has you posting emotionally, temper it by letting the post sit in draft mode for an hour or two, re-reading it and considering any revisions. With the advent of feeds, once you publish, there's no going back.
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Archive Effectively
The best archives are carefully organized into subjects and date ranges. For search traffic (particularly long tail terms), it can be best to offer the full content of every post in a category on the archive pages, but from a usability standpoint, just linking to each post is far better (possibly with a very short snippet). Balance these two issues and make the decision based on your goals. A last note on archiving - pagination in blogging can be harmful to search traffic, rather than beneficial (as you provide constantly changing, duplicate content pages). Pagination is great for users who scroll to the bottom and want to see more, though, so consider putting a "noindex" in the meta tag or in the robots.txt file to keep spiders where they belong - in the well-organized archive system.
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Implement Smart URLs
The best URL structure for blogs is, in my opinion, as short as possible while still containing enough information to make an educated guess about the content you'll find on the page. I don't like the 10 hyphen, lengthy blog titles that are the byproduct of many CMS plugins, but they are certainly better than any dynamic parameters in the URL. Yes - I know I'm not walking the talk here, and hopefully it's something we can fix in the near future. To those who say that one dynamic parameter in the URL doesn't hurt, I'd take issue - just re-writing a ?ID=450 to /450 has improved search traffic considerably on several blogs we've worked with.
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Reveal as Much as Possible
The blogosphere is in love with the idea of an open source world on the web. Sharing vast stores of what might ordinarily be considered private information is the rule, rather than the exception. If you can offer content that's usually private - trade secrets, pricing, contract issues, and even the occassional harmless rumor, your blog can benefit. Make a decision about what's off-limits and how far you can go and then push right up to that limit in order to see the best possible effects. Your community will reward you with links and traffic.
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Only One Post in Twenty Can Be Linkbait
Not every post is worthy of making it to the top of Digg, Del.icio.us/popular or even a mention at some other blogs in your space. Trying to over-market every post you write will result in pushback and ultimately lead to negative opinions about your efforts. The less popular your blog is, the harder it will be to build excitement around a post, but the process of linkbait has always been trial and error - build, test, refine and re-build. Keep creating great ideas and bolstering them with lots of solid, everyday content and you'll eventually be big enough to where one out of every 20-40 posts really does become linkbait.
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Make Effective Use of High Traffic Days
If you do have linkbait, whether by design or by accident, make sure to capitalize. When you hit the front page of Digg, Reddit, Boing Boing, or, on a smaller scale, attract a couple hundred visitors from a bigger blog or site in your space, you need to put your best foot forward. Make sure to follow up on a high traffic time period with 2-3 high quality posts that show off your skills as a writer, your depth of understanding and let visitors know that this is content they should be sticking around to see more of. Nothing kills the potential linkbait "bump" faster than a blog whose content doesn't update for 48 hours after they've received a huge influx of visitors.
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Create Expectations and Fulfill Them
When you're writing for your audience, your content focus, post timing and areas of interest will all become associated with your personal style. If you vary widely from that style, you risk alienating folks who've come to know you and rely on you for specific data. Thus, if you build a blog around the idea of being an analytical expert in your field, don't ignore the latest release of industry figures only to chat about an emotional issue - deliver what your readers expect of you and crunch the numbers. This applies equally well to post frequency - if your blog regularly churns out 2 posts a day, having two weeks with only 4 posts is going to have an adverse impact on traffic. That's not to say you can't take a vacation, but you need to schedule it wisely and be prepared to lose RSS subscribers and regulars. It's not fair, but it's the truth. We lose visitors every time I attend an SES conference and drop to one post every two days (note - guest bloggers and time-release posts can help here, too).
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Build a Brand
Possibly one of the most important aspects of all in blogging is brand-building. As Zefrank noted, to be a great brand, you need to be a brand that people want to associate themselves with and a brand that people feel they derive value from being a member. Exclusivity, insider jokes, emails with regulars, the occassional cat post and references to your previous experiences can be offputting for new readers, but they're solid gold for keeping your loyal base feeling good about their brand experience with you. Be careful to stick to your brand - once you have a definition that people like and are comfortable with, it's very hard to break that mold without severe repercussions. If you're building a new blog, or building a low-traffic one, I highly recommend writing down the goals of your brand and the attributes of its identity to help remind you as you write.

Best of luck to all you bloggers out there. It's an increasingly crowded field to play in, but these strategies should help to give you an edge over the competition. As always, if you've got additions or disagreements, I'd love to hear them.

p.s. Note to self - starting long blog entries at 11:30pm is not conducive to a good night's sleep. At least Angela got kicked off Project Runway tonight.

AdSense Optimization

2008-06-29T11:46:00.000-07:00

How to Create a Successful E-Commerce Web Site

2008-06-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

Blogging and Google AdSense

2008-06-29T11:41:00.001-07:00

Too Many AdSense Failures! Why?

2008-06-29T11:37:00.000-07:00

Make money with AdSense

2008-06-29T11:33:00.001-07:00

How to Make Money With Google AdSense

2008-06-29T11:30:00.000-07:00

Free Search Engine Optimization Tools

2008-05-20T09:30:00.000-07:00

Keyword Suggestion Tool

SEO for Firefox

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool Discover what keywords you should be targeting.

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SEO for Firefox - See important competitive research and search engine marketing data directly inside Google and Yahoo search results.
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Rank Checker

Easily and automatically track your rankings (and rank changes) on Google.com, international versions of Google, Yahoo! Search, and the Microsoft Windows Live search engine. Free extension for the Firefox browser. Learn more >

Getting the Most Out of SEO Tools

The 6 tools you need to use to become a highly-profitable SEO expert:

Search Analytics Tools - establish your marketing goals and establish a baseline for where you are at right now.
Keyword Research Tools - discover the keywords your customers are searching for right now.
Competitive Research Tools - see what keywords your competitors are targeting.
PPC Tools - buy important keywords and track the results to understand how well they convert,which helps you focus you organic SEO strategy on the most profitable keywords. Save money using these free Yahoo! Search Marketing & Microsoft adCenter Coupons.
Link Analysis Tools - start building your link profile and track your progress compared to competing websites.
Search Engine Ranking Checkers - determine how effective your marketing is by watching your search engine rankings improve.

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SeoBook Google Gadgets

SeoBook Google Gadgets - Insert your favorite keyword research, competitive research, and link research tools directly in any web page for free. Learn more >

Browser Extensions & Toolbars - make SEO data available directly in search results or available at the click of a toolbar button
Google Gadgets - one of our featured tools, these allow you to make SEO tools conveniently available anywhere
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Μήνυση κατά της Google για εξαπάτηση

2008-05-04T07:17:00.000-07:00

Η δικηγορική εταιρεία Kabatech Brown Kellner, η οποία ειδικεύεται σε ζητήματα προστασίας καταναλωτών, κατάθεσε στο πολιτειακό δικαστήριο της Καλιφόρνιας, στο Σαν Χοσέ, μήνυση κατά της Google ισχυριζόμενη ότι η τελευταία εξαπατά τους πελάτες της και τους αναγκάζει να πληρώνουν για διαφημίσεις που ποτέ δε ζήτησαν.

Το AdWords είναι το κύριο διαφημιστικό πρόγραμμα της Google και ταυτόχρονα η βασική πηγή εσόδων της. Οι διαφημίσεις αυτού του προγράμματος εμφανίζονται στο Google.com καθώς και σε sites που συνεργάζονται με την Google. Ωστόσο, οι ίδιες διαφημίσεις μπορεί να εμφανιστούν και σε τρίτα sites, τα οποία χρησιμοποιούν το AdSense, επίσης προϊόν της Google. Η εταιρεία χρεώνει τους διαφημιζόμενους πελάτες της όταν κάποιος κάνει κλικ στις διαφημίσεις τους.

Κατά τη διαδικασία εγγραφής στο πρόγραμμα, οι διαφημιζόμενοι δηλώνουν στην Google το μέγιστο ποσό που είναι διατεθειμένοι να πληρώσουν ανά κλικ. Στο σημείο αυτό, οι χρήστες έρχονται αντιμέτωποι με δύο γειτονικά πλαίσια, στο πρώτο από τα οποία καταχωρούν το μέγιστο ποσό που δέχονται να πληρώσουν ανά κλικ για διαφημίσεις που θα εμφανιστούν στο Google.com. Το δεύτερο πλαίσιο φέρει το χαρακτηρισμό "optional" [προαιρετικό]. Σε αυτό, οι χρήστες μπορούν να εισαγάγουν το ποσό που είναι πρόθυμοι να καταβάλουν ανά κλικ για διαφημίσεις που εμφανίζονται σε τρίτα sites. Ωστόσο, η μη συμπλήρωση του πλαισίου αυτού δε σημαίνει αυτόματα ότι οι διαφημίσεις τους δε θα δημοσιευτούν σε τρίτα sites. Αντίθετα, η Google τις τοποθετεί και σε άλλες σελίδες, εκτός του Google.com, και χρεώνει τους διαφημιζόμενους με βάση την τιμή που οι ίδιοι εισήγαγαν στο πρώτο πλαίσιο. Η μήνυση στηρίζεται στο γεγονός ότι οι πελάτες δεν ενημερώνονται για τις δύο αυτές ενέργειες [την τοποθέτηση των διαφημίσεών τους σε τρίτα sites και τη χρέωση για τα κλικ που προέρχονται από αυτά τα sites].

Είναι ευρέως αποδεκτό ότι διαφημίσεις σε τρίτα sites είναι πολύ λιγότερο αποτελεσματικές από εκείνες που εμφανίζονται στο Google.com. Η Google, βέβαια, κερδίζει και από αυτές.

Πηγή: PR NewsWire

Search engine optimization

2008-05-04T00:30:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.

As a marketing strategy for increasing a site's relevance, SEO considers how search algorithms work and what people search for. SEO efforts may involve a site's coding, presentation, and structure, as well as fixing problems that could prevent search engine indexing programs from fully spidering a site. Other, more noticeable efforts may include adding unique content to a site, ensuring that content is easily indexed by search engine robots, and making the site more appealing to users. Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or spamdexing, use methods such as link farms and keyword stuffing that tend to harm search engine user experience. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques and may remove them from their indices.

The initialism "SEO" can also refer to "search engine optimizers" or "Search Engine Optimizician", terms adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, URLs, and shopping carts that are easy to optimize.

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[edit] History

Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all a webmaster needed to do was submit a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a spider to "crawl" that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed.^[1] The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the search engine's own server, where a second program, known as an indexer, extracts various information about the page, such as the words it contains and where these are located, as well as any weight for specific words and all links the page contains, which are then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.

Site owners started to recognize the value of having their sites highly ranked and visible in search engine results. According to industry analyst Danny Sullivan, the earliest known use of the phrase "search engine optimization" was a spam message posted on Usenet on July 26, 1997.^[2]

Early versions of search algorithms relied on webmaster-provided information such as the keyword meta tag, or index files in engines like ALIWEB. Meta-tags provided a guide to each page's content. But using meta data to index pages was found to be less than reliable because the webmaster's account of keywords in the meta tag were not truly relevant to the site's actual keywords. Inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data in meta tags caused pages to rank for irrelevant searches.^[3] Web content providers also manipulated a number of attributes within the HTML source of a page in an attempt to rank well in search engines.^[4]

By relying so much on factors exclusively within a webmaster's control, early search engines suffered from abuse and ranking manipulation. To provide better results to their users, search engines had to adapt to ensure their results pages showed the most relevant search results, rather than unrelated pages stuffed with numerous keywords by unscrupulous webmasters. Since the success and popularity of a search engine is determined by its ability to produce the most relevant results to any given search allowing those results to be false would turn users to find other search sources. Search engines responded by developing more complex ranking algorithms, taking into account additional factors that were more difficult for webmasters to manipulate.

Graduate students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed "backrub", a search engine that relied on a mathematical algorithm to rate the prominence of web pages. The number calculated by the algorithm, PageRank, is a function of the quantity and strength of inbound links.^[5] PageRank estimates the likelihood that a given page will be reached by a web user who randomly surfs the web, and follows links from one page to another. In effect, this means that some links are stronger than others, as a higher PageRank page is more likely to be reached by the random surfer.

Page and Brin founded Google in 1998. Google attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design.^[6] Off-page factors such as PageRank and hyperlink analysis were considered, as well as on-page factors, to enable Google to avoid the kind of manipulation seen in search engines that only considered on-page factors for their rankings. Although PageRank was more difficult to game, webmasters had already developed link building tools and schemes to influence the Inktomi search engine, and these methods proved similarly applicable to gaining PageRank. Many sites focused on exchanging, buying, and selling links, often on a massive scale. Some of these schemes, or link farms, involved the creation of thousands of sites for the sole purpose of link spamming.^[7]

To reduce the impact of link schemes, as of 2007, search engines consider a wide range of undisclosed factors for their ranking algorithms. Google says it ranks sites using more than 200 different signals.^[8] The three leading search engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Live Search, do not disclose the algorithms they use to rank pages. Notable SEOs, such as Rand Fishkin, Barry Schwartz, Aaron Wall and Jill Whalen, have studied different approaches to search engine optimization, and have published their opinions in online forums and blogs.^[9]^[10] SEO practitioners may also study patents held by various search engines to gain insight into the algorithms.^[11]

[edit] Webmasters and search engines

By 1997 search engines recognized that some webmasters were making efforts to rank well in their search engines, and even manipulating the page rankings in search results. Early search engines, such as Infoseek, adjusted their algorithms to prevent webmasters from manipulating rankings by stuffing pages with excessive or irrelevant keywords.^[12]

Due to the high marketing value of targeted search results, there is potential for an adversarial relationship between search engines and SEOs. In 2005, an annual conference, AIRWeb, Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web,^[13] was created to discuss and minimize the damaging effects of aggressive web content providers.

SEO companies that employ overly aggressive techniques can get their client websites banned from the search results. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal profiled a company, Traffic Power, which allegedly used high-risk techniques and failed to disclose those risks to its clients.^[14] Wired magazine reported that the same company sued blogger Aaron Wall for writing about the ban.^[15] Google's Matt Cutts later confirmed that Google did in fact ban Traffic Power and some of its clients.^[16]

Some search engines have also reached out to the SEO industry, and are frequent sponsors and guests at SEO conferences, chats, and seminars. In fact, with the advent of paid inclusion, some search engines now have a vested interest in the health of the optimization community. Major search engines provide information and guidelines to help with site optimization.^[17]^[18]^[19] Google has a Sitemaps program^[20] to help webmasters learn if Google is having any problems indexing their website and also provides data on Google traffic to the website. Yahoo! Site Explorer provides a way for webmasters to submit URLs, determine how many pages are in the Yahoo! index and view link information.^[21]

[edit] Getting indexed

The leading search engines, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, use crawlers to find pages for their algorithmic search results. Pages that are linked from other search engine indexed pages do not need to be submitted because they are found automatically. Some search engines, notably Yahoo!, operate a paid submission service that guarantee crawling for either a set fee or cost per click.^[22] Such programs usually guarantee inclusion in the database, but do not guarantee specific ranking within the search results.^[23] Yahoo's paid inclusion program has drawn criticism from advertisers and competitors.^[24] Two major directories, the Yahoo Directory and the Open Directory Project both require manual submission and human editorial review.^[25] Google offers Google Webmaster Tools, for which an XML Sitemap feed can be created and submitted for free to ensure that all pages are found, especially pages that aren't discoverable by automatically following links.^[26]

Search engine crawlers may look at a number of different factors when crawling a site. Not every page is indexed by the search engines. Distance of pages from the root directory of a site may also be a factor in whether or not pages get crawled.^[27]

[edit] Preventing indexing

Main article: Robots Exclusion Standard

To avoid undesirable content in the search indexes, webmasters can instruct spiders not to crawl certain files or directories through the standard robots.txt file in the root directory of the domain. Additionally, a page can be explicitly excluded from a search engine's database by using a meta tag specific to robots. When a search engine visits a site, the robots.txt located in the root directory is the first file crawled. The robots.txt file is then parsed, and will instruct the robot as to which pages are not to be crawled. As a search engine crawler may keep a cached copy of this file, it may on occasion crawl pages a webmaster does not wish crawled. Pages typically prevented from being crawled include login specific pages such as shopping carts and user-specific content such as search results from internal searches. In March 2007, Google warned webmasters that they should prevent indexing of internal search results because those pages are considered search spam.^[28]

[edit] White hat versus black hat

SEO techniques are classified by some into two broad categories: techniques that search engines recommend as part of good design and those techniques that search engines do not approve of and attempt to minimize the effect of, referred to as spamdexing. Some industry commentators classify these methods, and the practitioners who employ them, as either white hat SEO, or black hat SEO.^[29] White hats tend to produce results that last a long time, whereas black hats anticipate that their sites may eventually be banned either temporarily or permanently once the search engines discover what they are doing.^[30]

An SEO technique is considered white hat if it conforms to the search engines' guidelines and involves no deception. As the search engine guidelines^[31]^[17]^[18]^[19] are not written as a series of rules or commandments, this is an important distinction to note. White hat SEO is not just about following guidelines, but is about ensuring that the content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a user will see.

White hat advice is generally summed up as creating content for users, not for search engines, and then making that content easily accessible to the spiders, rather than attempting to trick the algorithm from its intended purpose. White hat SEO is in many ways similar to web development that promotes accessibility,^[32] although the two are not identical.

Black hat SEO attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by the search engines, or involve deception. One black hat technique uses text that is hidden, either as text colored similar to the background, in an invisible div, or positioned off screen. Another method gives a different page depending on whether the page is being requested by a human visitor or a search engine, a technique known as cloaking.

Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review.

One infamous example was the February 2006 Google removal of both BMW Germany and Ricoh Germany for use of deceptive practices.^[33] Both companies, however, quickly apologized, fixed the offending pages, and were restored to Google's list.^[34]

[edit] As a marketing strategy

Eye tracking studies have shown that searchers scan a search results page from top to bottom and left to right (for left to right languages), looking for a relevant result. Placement at or near the top of the rankings therefore increases the number of searchers who will visit a site.^[35] However, more search engine referrals does not guarantee more sales. SEO is not necessarily an appropriate strategy for every website, and other Internet marketing strategies can be much more effective, depending on the site operator's goals.^[36]A successful Internet marketing campaign may drive organic traffic to web pages, but it also may involve the use of paid advertising on search engines and other pages, building high quality web pages to engage and persuade, addressing technical issues that may keep search engines from crawling and indexing those sites, setting up analytics programs to enable site owners to measure their successes, and improving a site's conversion rate.^[37]

SEO may generate a return on investment. However, search engines are not paid for organic search traffic, their algorithms change, and there are no guarantees of continued referrals. Due to this lack of guarantees and certainty, a business that relies heavily on search engine traffic can suffer major losses if the search engines stop sending visitors.^[38] It is considered wise business practice for website operators to liberate themselves from dependence on search engine traffic.^[39] A top ranked SEO blog Seomoz.org^[40] has reported, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines." Instead, their main sources of traffic are links from other websites.^[41]

[edit] International markets

A Baidu search results page

The search engines' market shares vary from market to market, as does competition. In 2003, Danny Sullivan stated that Google represented about 75% of all searches.^[42] In markets outside the United States, Google's share is often larger, and Google remains the dominant search engine worldwide as of 2007.^[43] As of 2006, Google held about 40% of the market in the United States, but Google had an 85-90% market share in Germany.^[44] While there were hundreds of SEO firms in the US at that time, there were only about five in Germany.^[44]

In Russia the situation is reversed. Local search engine Yandex controls 50% of the paid advertising revenue, while Google has less than 9%.^[45] In China, Baidu continues to lead in market share, although Google has been gaining share as of 2007.^[46]

Successful search optimization for international markets may require professional translation of web pages, registration of a domain name with a top level domain in the target market, and web hosting that provides a local IP address. Otherwise, the fundamental elements of search optimization are essentially the same, regardless of language.^[44]

[edit] Legal precedents

In 2002, SearchKing filed suit in an Oklahoma court against the search engine Google. SearchKing's claim was that Google's tactics to prevent spamdexing constituted an unfair business practice. In May 2003, the court pronounced a summary judgment in Google's favor.^[47]

In March 2006, KinderStart.com, LLC filed a First Amendment complaint against Google and also attempted to include potential members of the class of plaintiffs in a class action.^[48] The plaintiff's web site was removed from Google's index prior to the lawsuit and the amount of traffic to the site plummeted. On March 16, 2007 the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose Division) dismissed KinderStart's complaint without leave to amend, and partially granted Google's motion for Rule 11 sanctions against KinderStart's attorney, requiring him to pay part of Google's legal expenses.^[49]^[50]

[edit] See also

Evaluating internet sources

[edit] Major search engines

[edit] SEO organizations

Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization

[edit] Notable SEOs

Category:Search engine optimization consultants

[edit] References

^ Brian Pinkerton. Finding What People Want: Experiences with the WebCrawler (PDF). The Second International WWW Conference Chicago, USA, October 17–20, 1994. Retrieved on 2007-05-07.
^ Danny Sullivan (June 14, 2004). Who Invented the Term "Search Engine Optimization"?. Search Engine Watch. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ Cory Doctorow (August 26, 2001). Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia. e-LearningGuru. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
^ Pringle, G., Allison, L., and Dowe, D. (April 1998). What is a tall poppy among web pages?. Proc. 7th Int. World Wide Web Conference. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
^ Brin, Sergey and Page, Larry (1998). The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
^ Thompson, Bill (December 19, 2003). Is Google good for you?. BBC News. Retrieved on 2007-05-16.
^ Zoltan Gyongyi and Hector Garcia-Molina (2005). Link Spam Alliances (PDF). Proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference, Trondheim, Norway. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
^ Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. New York Times (June 3, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-06.
^ Danny Sullivan (September 29, 2005). Rundown On Search Ranking Factors. Search Engine Watch. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
^ Search Engine Ranking Factors V2. SEOmoz.org (April 2, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ Christine Churchill (November 23, 2005). Understanding Search Engine Patents. Search Engine Watch. Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
^ Laurie J. Flynn (November 11, 1996). Desperately Seeking Surfers. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ AIRWeb. Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, annual conference. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ David Kesmodel (September 9, 2005). 'Optimize' Rankings At Your Own Risk. Startup Journal (Wall Street Journal). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Adam L. Penenberg (September 8, 2005). Legal Showdown in Search Fracas. Wired Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Matt Cutts (February 2, 2006). Confirming a penalty. mattcutts.com/blog. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ ^a ^b Google's Guidelines on Site Design. google.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
^ ^a ^b Site Owner Help: MSN Search Web Crawler and Site Indexing. msn.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
^ ^a ^b Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines. help.yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
^ Google Webmaster Tools. google.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Yahoo! Site Explorer. yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Submitting To Search Crawlers: Google, Yahoo, Ask & Microsoft's Live Search. Search Engine Watch (2007-03-12). Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
^ Search Submit. searchmarketing.yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Questionable Results at Revamped Yahoo. Washington Post (2004-03-11). Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
^ Submitting To Directories: Yahoo & The Open Directory. Search Engine Watch (2007-03-12). Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
^ What is a Sitemap file and why should I have one?. google.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
^ Cho, J., Garcia-Molina, H. (1998). Efficient crawling through URL ordering. Proceedings of the seventh conference on World Wide Web, Brisbane, Australia. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Newspapers Amok! New York Times Spamming Google? LA Times Hijacking Cars.com?. Search Engine Land (May 8, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Andrew Goodman. Search Engine Showdown: Black hats vs. White hats at SES. SearchEngineWatch. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Jill Whalen (November 16, 2004). Black Hat/White Hat Search Engine Optimization. searchengineguide.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ What's an SEO? Does Google recommend working with companies that offer to make my site Google-friendly?. google.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
^ Andy Hagans (November 08, 2005). High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization. A List Apart. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Matt Cutts (February 4, 2006). Ramping up on international webspam. mattcutts.com/blog. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Matt Cutts (February 7, 2006). Recent reinclusions. mattcutts.com/blog. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ A New F-Word for Google Search Results. Search Engine Watch (March 8, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-05-16.
^ What SEO Isn't. blog.v7n.com (June 24, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-05-16.
^ Melissa Burdon (March 13, 2007). The Battle Between Search Engine Optimization and Conversion: Who Wins?. Grok.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Andy Greenberg (April 30, 2007). Condemned To Google Hell. Forbes. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Jakob Nielsen (January 9, 2006). Search Engines as Leeches on the Web. useit.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ SEOmoz: Best SEO Blog of 2006. searchenginejournal.com (January 3, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
^ A survey of 25 blogs in the search space comparing external metrics to visitor tracking data. seomoz.org. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
^ "The search engine that could", USA Today, 2003-08-26. Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
^ Stats Show Google Dominates the International Search Landscape. Search Engine Watch (2007-02-22). Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mike Grehan (April 3, 2006). Search Engine Optimizing for Europe. Click. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ Pfanner, Eric. "New to Russia, Google Struggles to Find Its Footing", New York Times, December 18, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
^ Google Gaining, But Baidu Still Dominates In China. Search Engine Land (March 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
^ Stefanie Olsen (May 30, 2003). Judge dismisses suit against Google. CNET. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
^ KinderStart.com, LLC, et al v. Google, Inc., C 06-2057 RS (PDF). glawinfo.com (March 17, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Order Graning Motion to Dismiss, KinderStart.com LLC v. Google, Inc. (PDF). claranet.scu.edu (March 16, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
^ Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion for Sanctions, KinderStart.com LLC v. Google, Inc. (PDF). claranet.scu.edu (March 16, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-09.

[edit] External links

[hide] v • d • e Search engine optimization

Exclusion standards	Robots exclusion standard • Meta tags • nofollow

Related marketing topics	Internet marketing • Affiliate marketing • Email marketing • Display advertising • Web analytics

Search marketing related topics	Search engine marketing • Social media optimization • Online Identity Management • Paid inclusion • Pay per click (PPC) • Google bomb

Search engine spam	Spamdexing • Web scraping • Scraper site • Link farm • Free For All link page

Linking	Off-page optimization • Link popularity • Link exchange • Reciprocal link • Multiway linking • Link exchange network • Backlink

Other	Landing page • IP delivery • Landing page optimization • Human search engine • Stop words • Poison words

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

RSS - Blog Directories

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Below is a list of the submission urls for RSS and blog directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to. This list is a work in progress and will change often. Send feedback, edits to: blog at toprankresults dot com

You might also be interested in the TopRank RSS Button Maker or the Social Bookmark Creator for “socializing” your blog. Find tips on marketing your blog here.

2Rss	http://www.2rss.com/index.php
All-Blogs.net fee or reciprocal	http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php
Answers	http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp
Aviva fee	http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php
Blawg	http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
Blogarama	http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
Blogbib fee or reciprocal	http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php
Blogbunch	http://www.blogbunch.com/suggest/
BlogCatalog	http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
Blogcode	http://www.blogcode.com/signup.php
Blogdigger	http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
Blogflux	http://www.blogflux.com/add.php
Bloggernity	http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
Bloghop	http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
Bloghub	http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
Blogintro	http://blogintro.com/?page_id=925
BlogPulse	http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
Blog-search	http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html
Blogz	http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
BoingBoing	http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
BOTW Blog Directory fee	http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx
Bulletize fee or reciprocal	http://www.bulletize.com/add.php?sid=0
Chordata	http://chordata.info/suggest.php
ContentsMatter	http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
Crayon	http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
Diarist	http://www.diarist.net/
EastonWeb	http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
Feeds4all	http://www.feeds4all.com/AddRSS.aspx
Feedage	http://www.feedage.com/submit.php
Feedboy	http://www.feedboy.com/
FeedsFarm	http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
FindingBlog	http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=
FyberSearch	http://www.fybersearch.com/add-url.php
Globeofblogs	http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php
Gobignetwork	https://www.gobignetwork.com/blog/AddBlog.aspx
iBlog Business Directory	http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html
Icerocket	http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
LSBlogs	http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php
NewsGator	http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx
Plazoo	http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
Portal.eatonweb fee	http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
Postami fee	http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
Pressradar	http://www.pressradar.com/suggest
Rateitall	http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.aspx?WL=0&TopicID=20004
ReadAblog	http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
Redtram	http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/
Search4Rss	http://www.search4rss.com
Small Business Blog Directory	http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory/add.html
SmallBusiness.com	http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs
Strategic Board	http://strategicboard.com/?s=h:addblog
Syndic8	http://www.syndic8.com/suggest_start.php
Tailrank	http://www.tailrank.com/import
Technorati	http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
Topix	http://www.topix.net/member/register
TruthLaidBear	http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
Wilsdomain reciprocal	http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit
Wingee	http://www.wingee.com/
Yahoo.com	http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission

http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/

Submit Blogs and Blog RSS Feeds

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Submit RSS Feeds

the following sites allowing you to submit RSS feeds:

Consider RSS Submit to automate submissions!

RSS Feeds

RSS Network - submit RSS feeds & select category

RSS Locator - submit RSS feeds

Syndic8 - submit RSS feeds

DayPop - post your RSS feed or blog

Feedster - submit your RSS feed

Rocket News - post your RSS feed

Technorati - submit your RSS feed to be pinged

Userland - submit rss feeds

Postami - submit rss feeds

Finance Investing Feeds - Only submit finance or investment related feeds.

Security Protection Feeds - Submit only security or protection related feeds RSS feeds select appropriate category.

Realty Feeds - Submit only home related RSS feeds. Be sure to select the appropriate category.

Medical Feeds - Submit feeds related to medical care or health.

Religious Podcasts - Submit only podcasts that relate to religion, sermon or spiritual beliefs.

Sports Feeds - Submit sports related RSS feeds and podcasts.

Political Feeds - Submit political feeds and podcasts.

Government Feeds - Submit feeds ONLY from government agencies. Feeds from both Local and federal governments are accepted.

Educational Feeds - Submit feeds and podcasts related to education.

2RSS - submit rss and assign category (on bottom)

NewsMob - submit rss news feeds

RocketInfo - submit your rss content and feed

Edu RSS - harvests only feeds dealing with educational technology and related issues. All feeds are reviewed before being added to the list.

Sourceforge.net- submit News using XML

Complete RSS - enter the url(s) of the feeds you wish to add to the directory.

Feeds.com.br - add rss feeds

MoreOver - Moreover connects to thousands of online sources handpicked for excellence and trustworthiness. In order to maintain the quality of the directory all submission are evaluated prior to inclusion.

GeneCast - RSS news feed submissions

Memigo - submit a news link to memigo

PubSub - PubSub reads more than 2 million syndicated feeds, matches messages to subscriptions and delivers messages to subscribers in real time.

BulkFeeds - submit an rss feed

Ping-O-Matic - rss feed submissions (pings site)

Yenra - submit RSS news feed

easyRSS - gives you a direct access to the content you are interested in.

NewsXS - submit rss feeds

FeedFarm - all submitted feeds are reviewed

FastBuzz - submit feeds

RSSFeeds - submit rss feeds

Search4RSS - submit RSS feeds

DeskFeeds - rss feed and blog submissions

Terrar - rss feed submissions

The Feed Spot - submit feeds

StepNewz - submit rss news feeds

RSS Verzeichnis - German feed submissions

4Guys from Rolla - submit feeds

DevASP - add feed listing

FuzzySoftware - submit XML listings

ASP Index - submit RSS feeds

SourceForge - submit news feeds

Feed Directory - submit RSS feeds in the feed directory.

FeedBeagle - submit feeds (scroll down)

FeedPlex - submit feeds

Feeds4All - submit RSS feeds

NewsFeedFinder - submit RSS feeds

Plazoo - submit RSS feeds

Newzfire - submit RSS feeds

Feed24 - RSS feed submissions

Shas3 - Submit RSS feeds select appropriate category

RSS Feeds Directory - Submit RSS feeds select appropriate category

FeedCat - Submit RSS feeds select appropriate category

FeedMiner - Submit RSS feeds select appropriate category

RSS Clipping - add RSS urls

Read A Feed - add RSS urls

Loomia - add RSS feeds

Feeds2Read - add your RSS feeds

Feedzie - add your RSS feeds

RSS Portal - add your RSS feeds

RSS Feed 4U - add your RSS feeds

StepNewz - suggest RSS feeds

Thomas Korte - automated feed submissions

JordoMedia - suggest RSS feeds

RSS Mad - add an RSS feed (on bottom right side)

FeedBomb - Navigate category and suggest a feed.

nFeeds - Submit RSS feeds only.

Auto Feeds - Submit automotive feeds only.

News Goblin - Submit automotive feeds only.

Wordum - Submit automotive feeds only

FeedSee - Submit feeds using keyword searches.

Ez2News - Submit RSS feeds

Submit Feeds - RSS submission feeds

Feedooyoo - Submit RSS feeds

Science Port - Add RSS feeds

FeedAge - Submit RSS feeds

GoldenFeed - Submit RSS feeds

RSSMicro - Submit RSS feeds

FeedDirectory - Submit RSS feeds

Octora RSS Feeds - Submit RSS feeds

FeedFury - Submit RSS feeds

National Lib for Health - Submit Medical feeds

RSSMotron - Submit RSS feeds

FindRSS - Submit RSS feeds

FeedBase - Submit RSS feeds

RSSMotron - Submit RSS feeds

MoreNews.be - Submit RSS feeds

Day Time News - Submit RSS feeds

FeedGod - suggest a feed (on the right)

RSSBuffet - submit an RSS feed

SolarWarp- submit an RSS feed

Feedest - submit a feed

RSSMicro - submit a feed

Videocast Feeds

Videocasting Station - Submit RSS feeds

Regional Feeds

RSS Feeds.be - Beligian RSS feeds. (no obvious way to submit feeds)

RSS Nachrichten.de - German RSS feed directory.

RSS feeds Israel - Israeli RSS feeds

Spanish Feeds - Spanish RSS feeds

Japanese Feeds - Japanese RSS feeds

Submission Tools

FeedPark - submit RSS feeds automated submission helper

FeedShot - fee based feed submission

SubmitEmNow - addon for feed submissions

Feed Validator

RSS Feed Validator - validate your feed to ensure your code is correct

Podcast Submissions

Submit PODCASTS

Submit Blogs and Blog RSS Feeds

Blog Digger - submit your rss feed for your blog

ReadABlog - submit your blog

Blogarama - submit your blog

BlogStreet - blog submissions

Globe of Blogs - submit your rss feed for you blog

Kmax Blog Links - blog submission

BlogDex - submit your blog

Blog Universe - blog submission

BlogSearchEngine - submit rss feeds for web logs

BlogHop - submit feeds for blogs

BlogWise - rss feed submission for blogs

EatonWeb - submit feed for online blogs

PopDex - feed sumbission for web blogs

Blizg - submit rss feeds for web logs

Blo.gs - blog submissions

BlogCensus - submit your rss feed for your blog

BlogTree - blog submission

BlogStreet - rss feed submission for blog

BritBlog - blog submission

BlogLines - submit your blog to the directory

Bloogz - submit your blog

Australian Blog Directory - submit your blog

BoingBoing - submit blogs for review

RootBlog - enter the URL of a RSS feed you want to added to the database.

Weblog Directory - submit blog to directory

BlogoSphere EcoSystems - add your weblog

Blogz - add your blog

BlogWatcher - submit the url of your web log

BlogMatcher - submit your blog url

BlogPulse - automated trend discovery system for blogs

BlogCatalog - The Ultimate Blog Directory - Search For Blogs

Blogdir - spanish blog community

Blogs R Us - add feed

Blogs By City - add your blog!

FeedMap - submit a blog!

BlogSearch - submit blogs

PubSub - blog feed submission.

BlogSweet - blog feed submission.

BlogFlux - blog feed submission.

Blogtastic - blog feed submission.

Blog Introduction - submit blogs.

Finding Blog - blog submissions

Bulletize - blog submissions

BlogTopSites - blog submissions

Blog Fuse- blog submissions

Blogion- blog submissions

AddUrlBlog- add blogs

Blogbib- add blogs

BOTW Blog- add blogs

Blog Directory Submit- add blogs

BlogTopSites- add blogs (they will provide required code that must be inserted in your website, in order for blogtopsites to rank your blog)

iBlogBusiness - add business blogs only

BlogSiteZone - manually add blogs to directory.

BlogTopList - adds blogs to directories.

BlogBurst - adds blogs to directories.

Podcast Submissions

Podcasting Station - submit podcasts

Podcast Submission Directory - submit podcasts

http://www.rss-specifications.com/

Submit Your Blog

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Submit Your Blog to these Sites:

RSS Network - submit RSS feeds & select cataegory

Blog Digger - submit your rss feed for your blog

Blogarama - submit your blog

BlogStreet - blog submissions

Globe of Blogs - submit your rss feed for you blog

Kmax Blog Links - blog submission

BlogDex - submit your blog

Blog Universe - blog submission

BlogSearchEngine - submit rss feeds for web logs

BlogHop - submit feeds for blogs

BlogWise - rss feed submission for blogs

EatonWeb - submit feed for online blogs

PopDex - feed sumbission for web blogs

Blizg - submit rss feeds for web logs

Blo.gs - blog submissions

BlogCensus - submit your rss feed for your blog

BlogTree - blog submission

BlogStreet - rss feed submission for blog

BritBlog - blog submission

BlogLines - submit your blog to the directory

Bloogz - submit your blog

Australian Blog Directory - submit your blog

BoingBoing - submit blogs for review

RootBlog - enter the URL of a RSS feed you want to added to the database.

Weblog Directory - submit blog to directory

BlogoSphere EcoSystems - add your weblog

Blogz - add your blog

BlogWatcher - submit the url of your web log

BlogMatcher - submit your blog url

BlogPulse - automated trend discovery system for blogs

BlogCatalog - The Ultimate Blog Directory - Search For Blogs

Blogdex - add a weblog

Blogdir - spanish blog community

Australian Weblogs - Australian Weblogs seeks to highlight Australian owned or based weblog, everything-nothing and journal style web sites.

AllAfrica Blogs - open listing of Africa-related weblogs

Canadian Blog Directory - BlogsCanada is maintained by a couple of Elves who evaluate blogs for inclusion in the directory. All submissions are subject to the Elves' evaluation.

Corzblog - blog submissions

BlogSearchEngine - submit your blog

DeskFeeds - rss feed and blog submissions

Blog Dump - submit your online web log to the dump!

WebLog Directory - submit your blog

Weblog Madness - blog sumission sites

Findory - blog submissions

Ploogle - submit blog

Submit Your Blog to these Sites:

Directory of RSS Feed Submission Sites

I Submitted my URL and I'm STILL not getting Hits!

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Submitting your site to the search engines is only the first move in your SEO campaign. The more traffic that flows to your site through search engines and backlinks, the higher your page rank will be. Now it's time to create some backlinks! The more, the better! Just make sure they are relevant and spam-free.

Here are some ideas:

Social Bookmarking like Digg, Delicious, Redditt, or StumbleUpon. Increase your network, add your favorite sites, and visit other sites and you'll gain a little traffic and some backlinks!
MySpace or Facebook. Create a page that will attract attention, entertain the viewer, and clearly state where you want them to visit.
Visit Forums and partake in the discussions...really participate! Add some value to the conversations and offer your opinion. Try to help some other people, and they'll in return help you!
Create a Hub here on HubPages! Just make it a good one! Be sure to not submit too many links to your own page or it will be flagged!
Use email marketing. Create an email signature that will include a link to your page. Update your friends whenever you have something new to share with them and encourage them to visit!
Article Marketing. Readers love to read articles. Write about what you are an expert about! There's a link at the bottom of most online articles, and this is your chance to promote your site and create a powerful backlink.

Search Engine Optimisation

2008-04-27T08:17:00.000-07:00

SEO: Search engine optimization tips

2008-04-25T06:34:00.000-07:00

Συμβουλές Βελτιστοποιήσης για τις μηχανές αναζήτησης

http://www.ip.gr/el/seo/search_engines_optimization_tips.php

Greek Search Engines Ελληνικές Μηχανές Αναζήτησης

2008-04-25T06:32:00.000-07:00

Ένα μέσο διαφήμισης του site σας μέσω του διαδικτύου, είναι οι μηχανές αναζήτησης (Search Engines ). Παρακάτω βλέπετε τις πιο γνωστές και με την μεγαλύτερη επισκεψιμότητα ελληνικές μηχανές αναζήτησης.

Κάντε κλικ στην μηχανή αναζήτησης που σας ενδιαφέρει και καταχωρήστε τα στοιχεία που σας ζητούνται.

Ονομασία	URL
IP Directory	Καταχώρηση
In.gr	Καταχώρηση
Anazitisis	Καταχώρηση
Forthnet	Καταχώρηση
Pathfinder	Καταχώρηση
Robby	Καταχώρηση
APN	Καταχώρηση
Hellas on bussines	Καταχώρηση
Phantis	Καταχώρηση
Findlink	Καταχώρηση
Gogreece	Καταχώρηση

http://www.ip.gr/el/webmaster/searchgr.php

Search Engines Ξένες Μηχανές Αναζήτησης

2008-04-25T06:26:00.001-07:00

Υπάρχουν προγράμματα που υπόσχονται καταχώρηση σε χιλιάδες μηχανές αναζήτησης. Η χρήση αυτών των προγραμμάτων δεν αυξάνει σημαντικά την θέαση των σελίδων σας για τους εξής λόγους:

To 99% των επισκέψεων που δέχεται ένα site λόγω της παρουσίας του στις βάσεις δεδομένων των μηχανών αναζήτησης, προέρχεται από τις 7 μεγαλύτερες μηχανές αναζήτησης.

Tα προγράμματα αυτά καταχωρούν το site σας κυρίως σε Free for all links, δηλαδή σε μικρά προσωπικά directories, τα οποία στοχεύουν σε μεγάλο ποσοστό στο να αποσπάσουν το email σας για να το χρησιμοποιήσουν για αποστολή ανώνυμων διαφημιστικών μηνυμάτων (spam).

Για να πετύχετε καλύτερα αποτελέσματα κατά την καταχώρηση του site σας στις μηχανές αναζήτησης ακολουθήστε τους παρακάτω κανόνες:

Κάντε σωστή χρήση των meta tags και της meta description. Πολλές μηχανές αναζήτησης δίνουν ιδιαίτερο βάρος σ' αυτά.

Καταχωρήστε μόνο την κεντρική σας σελίδα και σε καμία περίπτωση, μην καταχωρείτε περισσότερες απο μία σελίδες ανα 24 ώρες. Η καταχώρηση πολλών ή όλων των σελίδων του site σας μπορεί να φέρει καλύτερο αποτέλεσμα σε κάποιες μηχανές αναζήτησης, μπορεί όμως να σας αποκλείσει εντελώς απο κάποιες άλλες για spamming.

Kαταχωρήστε το site ξανά ανα τακτά χρονικά διαστήματα π.χ. μια φορά το μήνα.

Αποφύγετε την χρήση frames. Τα frames μπορεί να προσφέρουν κατά τον σχεδιασμό των σελίδων σας λειτουργικότητα και όμορφο αισθητικά αποτέλεσμα, λόγω της ιδιομορφίας όμως των σελίδων με frames, οι περισσότερες από τις μεγάλες μηχανές αναζήτησης δεν υποστηρίζουν την καταχώρηση τους.

Κάντε κλικ στην μηχανή αναζήτησης που σας ενδιαφέρει και καταχωρήστε τα στοιχεία που σας ζητούνται.

Ονομασία	URL
google	Καταχώρηση
yahoo	Καταχώρηση
altavista	Καταχώρηση
lycos	Καταχώρηση
msn	Καταχώρηση
yellow pages	Καταχώρηση
bizeurope	Καταχώρηση

http://www.ip.gr/el/webmaster/searchfor.php

http://www.fora.gr/submit/

2008-04-16T06:50:00.000-07:00

Δεν υπάρχει πιο γρήγορος και πιο αξιόπιστος τρόπος να καταχωρήσετε το site σας στις κυριότερες ελληνικές και ξένες μηχανές αναζήτησης (search engines), από το να χρησιμοποιείτε ως οδηγό αυτό το site! FORa Submit < www.fora.gr/submit >

Το site αυτό το ανανεώνουμε:

¤ κάθε φορά που οι μηχανές αναζήτησης αλλάζουν την λειτουργία καταχώρησης

¤ κάθε φορά που βρίσκουμε νέους χρήσιμους τρόπους για καταχωρήσεις.

κλικ εδώ για να διεκπεραιώσουμε, Εμείς για Σας, την καταχώρηση του site σας

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΕΣ
ΟΙ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΕΣ ΚΑΤΑΧΩΡΗΣΕΙΣ -------------------------------- addlink.gr 1. κλικ εδώ 2. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 3. κλικ στο "Αποστολή" -------------------------------- in.gr 1. κλικ εδώ 2. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 3. κλικ στο "Αποστολή" -------------------------------- Pathfinder (μόνο για .gr) 1. κλικ εδώ 2. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 3. κλικ στο "Check Add Url" -------------------------------- Phantis* 1. κλικ εδώ 2. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 3. κλικ στο "Send" -------------------------------- Evresi 1. κλικ εδώ 2. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 3. κλικ στο "ADD URL" -------------------------------- anazitisis(otenet) < νέο 1. κλικ εδώ 2. συμπληρώστε το URL 3. κλικ στο "Προσθήκη" --------------------------------	ΟΙ ΑΡΓΕΣ ΚΑΤΑΧΩΡΗΣΕΙΣ -------------------------------- Robby 1. κλικ εδώ 2. κλικ στην κατηγορία σας 3. κλικ στο "καταχώρηση" 4. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 5. κλικ στο "Βήμα 2 >>" 6. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 7. κλικ στο "Τέλος Καταχώρησης" ------------------------------- iBoom 1. κλικ εδώ 2. κλικ στην κατηγορία που ανήκει το site σας στις "Κατηγορίες Αναζήτησης" 3. κλικ στην υποκατηγορία που ανήκει το site σας 4. κλικ στο "Νέα Καταχώρηση!" 5. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 6. κλικ στο "Submit your site" --------------------------------- FindLink 1. κλικ εδώ 2. κλικ στην κατηγορία που ανήκει το site σας 3. κλικ στην υποκατηγορία που ανήκει το site σας 4. κλικ στην πράσινη σφαίρα που γράφει Add URL 5. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα 6. κλικ στο "submit"

ΞΕΝΕΣ

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32 Search Engines
1. κλικ εδώ
2. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα
3. κλικ στο "Submit"
4. αφού εμφανιστεί η σελίδα με τα πολλά "submit" πρέπει να τα πατήσετε ένα-ένα και να ακολουθείτε τις οδηγίες που θα σας δοθούν για να ολοκληρώσετε τις καταχωρήσεις σας. Είναι στα αγγλικά αλλά είναι πολύ εύκολο για να καταλάβετε το τί σας ζητάει.
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Yahoo
1. κλικ εδώ
2. κλικ στην κατηγορία σας
3. κλικ στο "Suggest a Site"
4. κλικ στο "Procced to Step One"
5. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα
6. κλικ στο "Procced to Step Two"
7. κλικ στο "Procced to Step Three"
8. συμπληρώστε τη φόρμα
9. κλικ στο "Procced to Step Four"
10. κλικ στο "Submit"
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100 επίσης καλές (ξένες)
1. κλικ εδώ
2. η σελίδα που θα εισέλθετε, δίνει πληροφορίες για το πώς θα καταχωρηθείτε, αλλά στα αγγλικά

http://www.fora.gr/submit/

Add url - Submit Url - Search Engines

2008-04-16T06:43:00.000-07:00

It is very important for you to submit individually to the sites below. I realize that some of the sites charge for inclusion, but the majority do not, so work through the list and get the job done. Most important is the submission to Google, USFREEADS, Yahoo! and MSN.COM. Many of these other smaller sites will be tomorrow's leaders, so don't neglect all the other engines listed on the page. Be sure that your website is constructed well, with good meta tags, keyword density and relevant content. It's well worth all the effort! Here is a bit of advice on adding urls; Don't continually add the same url over and over to the same search engine. Do not submit different versions of the same url, and always use free ads on classified sites to advertise your url. Use creative and unique content in the ads, and never spam! I recommend that you go through this entire list and add urls.

	Google		SOOTLE.COM
	Yahoo!		USFreeAds
	MSN.COM		Best of the Web BOTW
	SubmitOne		OPN.COM
	FREE AD BLOG		Walhello.Com
	Qango.Com		TOPSITES.COM
	WhatUSeek.com		Azoos.com
	LinksTraffic		AdvertiseReport .com
	Tower Search		DinoSearch
	HotLaunch		SearchRamp
	Search Monster		BusinessSeek .Biz
	Infoseek		Scratchback (link at top)
	Searchit.Com		Search The Web
	Search Secrets SEO		ExactSeek
	NetSearch		Search King
	Shoula.com		WebMarket
	The-Search -Site		SearchWarp
	Splat Search		MixCat.Com
	WebSquash		BestYellow
	EXCITE		Beamed.Com
	Un?Asked		Scrub The Web
	HomerWeb Search		SightQuest
	Anoox Search		SearchAve.Com
	Evisum.Com		SunStream.com
	TYGO SEARCH		YoySearch.Com
	IllumiRate		ADLANDPRO .com

http://bblmedia.com/addurl.html

http://www.feedsfarm.com/

2008-04-13T06:27:00.000-07:00

Please note that all XML feeds submitted to feedsfarm.com MUST be news related. Blogs and website feeds not news related will be deemed unsuitable and not added to our list of sites to monitor, but may be used in development and tests for future services.

http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html

Hit Counters and Statistics

2008-04-13T06:12:00.001-07:00

Do you ever wonder how many people visit your blog, or where they come from? Well there are services you can install that can tell you all about the traffic on your site. They range from simple hit counters that just display a total number of visitors, to more advanced statistics services that can give you information about referrers, browsers, visiting times, and more.

There are a number of sites that offer free services to help you track visits to your blog. You can do a Google search to find them, or you can start by checking out some of these links:

BlogWizard Blogging client

2008-04-13T06:11:00.000-07:00

BlogWizard allows you to create, edit, and publish your blog entries to the server where your weBlog is located. BlogWizard works with all major weBlog services that support the Blogger xml-rpc engine.

No need to learn difficult html tags. BlogWizard has an easy-to-use WysiWyg interface in which you can manipulate the text anyway you want. Make it bold, bigger, smaller, insert images, and hyperlinks. The interface is intuitive and user friendly. The interface isn't cluttered with useless buttons or fancy tricks, just everything you need.

We didn't leave out the advanced user. You can edit the entry via the built-in text editor as well. Needless to say, Blogwizard supports proxy servers so you can work with Blogwizard anywhere, anytime.

Blogging should be simple and now it is! We could go on and on, even show you screenshots, but there's no substitute for trying it yourself and let you be the judge.

You can buy BlogWizard for $22.95 via our purchase page.

To see a Flash demo of Blogwizard in action click here. Or download a trial version here.

What is BlogThis! ?

2008-04-13T06:10:00.000-07:00

BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!

There are two ways to use BlogThis!: if you use Windows and Internet Explorer, you can use BlogThis! from the SendTo feature of the Google Toolbar. If you're on another browser, just drag the link below to your browser's Link bar. Then, whenever the mood strikes, click BlogThis! to post to your blog:

BlogThis! <-- drag this link to your browser's Links bar

This is what BlogThis! looks like:

MozBlog

2008-04-13T06:07:00.001-07:00

MozBlog is a tool to enable people to blog with mozilla while they surfing. A more comprehensive history of blog here. Conventional way to do it is though blogger website or a bookmarklet. Current features includes:

Same window for browsing/blogging

Look/edit/delete through your previous post

Spell check if you installed the spellchecker [enabled in latest build :) ]

Other functionality such as uploading images

Source mode edit

Automatically Save draft posts

Post to local directory

http://mozblog.mozdev.org/index.html

Testing BlogJet

2008-04-13T06:03:00.001-07:00

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Optimize Website Image, Alt, and Title Optimize Website Image, Alt, and Title Tags and AttributesTags and Attributes

2008-04-09T03:23:00.000-07:00

Online Videos by Veoh.com

Search Engine Optimization Tutorial - Google Site Command

2008-04-09T02:50:00.002-07:00

Search Engine Optimization Secrets

2008-04-09T02:50:00.001-07:00

Top 20 SEO Tools

2008-04-09T02:48:00.001-07:00

SEO Software SEO Free Lessons How to do SEO

2008-04-09T02:47:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Submission & Optimization

2008-04-06T09:50:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Submission (+ SEO tool)

If you want a deep and fast web site submission across the web, this is the service you need. We will perform a monthly submission of your web site to hundreds of search engines for a whole year. This service comes with a powerful SEO keyword suggestion tool.

Free Search Engine Submission

You have a great web site, but no one knows it even exists? You have come to the right place. This service lets you do a web site submission to the top 14 search engines and directory for free.

Search Engine Optimization

“Looking for top visibility in the search engines? There are many options available to you.”

http://www.addme.com/

Search engine optimization (SEO)

2008-04-06T09:46:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

Web Directories

2008-04-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

The most important web directories are:

Yahoo

Dmoz

About

InCrawler

Gimpsy

GoGuides

Jayde

Zeal

WowDirectory

Web Page Analyzer

2008-04-06T09:42:00.001-07:00

Try a free web site speed test (page size, composition, and download time).

websiteoptimization.com

SEO Dictionary

2008-04-06T09:33:00.001-07:00

Everything about SEO terms and words at:

submitexpress.com

Google Suggest

2008-04-06T09:30:00.001-07:00

Use Google Suggest search in order to see in how many results exist each word.

Google Suggest

Google Gadgets

2008-04-06T09:28:00.000-07:00

Enhance your webpage with free Google Gadgets. Improve your site with gadgets that tell your visitors the weather in your city, countdown to your grand opening, or even local gas prices, just to name a few.

General sections are news, tools, contact, entertainment, games, financial, sports, daily, technology and some specific gadgets are:

Youtube Popular Videos
Wikipedia
Snowy Puzzle Islands from Alawar.com
Date & Time
Dictionary
ShowMeTheMoney: Νέες προτάσεις
viva beta 0.01
Mediguide Quick Search
Webcams Nederland
A Joke A Day
The Apprentice
Live365 Broadcast Stats
Google News

And much more at:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/foryourpage/#utm_campaign=gg4yp-us-webc&utm_source=EM&utm_medium=link

;-)

Google Trends

2008-04-06T09:27:00.000-07:00

This powerful tool helps you to see the trend of your preferred keywords around the world.

http://www.google.com/trends

Free Internet Marketing and SEO Tools

2008-04-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

1. Header Checker Tool *New
This tool will check any web page's header tags.

2. Search Combination Tool
This tool will generate all possible combinations of two separate lists of search phrases.

3. Keyword Density Analysis Tool
Enter in a page URL and this tool will tell you the keyword density of all the phrases on the page.

4. Spider Viewer
Enter in a page URL and see pages as search engines might see them.

http://www.webuildpages.com/tools/

Keyword Density

2008-04-06T09:20:00.000-07:00

See the strongest keywords of your site at:

http://www.webuildpages.com/

Search Engine Optimization Tools

2008-04-06T09:19:00.000-07:00

These tools offer help and guidance in the ever-changing world of search engine optimisation.

Keyword Research Tool
Search Engine Position Checker
Link Popularity Checker
Keyword Analysis Tool
Search Engine Spider Simulator
Meta Tag Generator
Web Page Analyser
Top PPC Bids Checker
mod_rewrite RewriteRule Generator
Link Appeal
Class C Checker

Use them at:

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-optimisation-tools.shtml

Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool

2008-04-06T09:13:00.001-07:00

Analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages. Specifically use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.

http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html

Build your Site Map online

2008-04-06T09:12:00.001-07:00

Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML), go to your Google Webmaster account and add your sitemap URL.

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/index.php

Is your URL listed in Search Engines?

2008-04-06T09:11:00.001-07:00

Check if your url is listed in three of the most popular search engines Altavista, HotBot and MSN:

http://www.addpro.com/check_url.htm

Keyword Popularity Checker

2008-04-06T09:09:00.000-07:00

The Keyword Popularity Checker provides statistics on how often your keywords and phrases are searched in major search engines.

http://www.freewebsubmission.com/keyword-popularity.html

Domain LookUp

2008-04-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

Enter your domain to check whois data and Title Relevancy, Description Relevancy, SEO Score, and Links:

http://whois.domaintools.com/

Who is copying your site!

2008-04-06T09:04:00.001-07:00

Use this powerful tool in order to find which sites had copy paste your content. On the other hand, you may find directories that link to your site:

http://www.copyscape.com/

Your Real Rank

2008-04-06T09:03:00.000-07:00

See the real rank of a website in decimals:

http://www.realranker.com/

DNS Report

2008-04-06T09:02:00.000-07:00

See if there are problems with your DNS hosting:

http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/dnsreport.php

Free Webmaster Tools

2008-04-06T08:57:00.000-07:00

Free Submission to 40+ Search Engines AND many more free tools!

http://www.submitexpress.com/

The Internet's free search engine submission service!

2008-04-06T08:55:00.000-07:00

With the explosion of sites on the web, how can you make sure customers find you? FastSubmit! makes getting listed quick and easy! In just minutes, you can get submitted to over 100+ of the Internet's biggest search engines and directories.

Research shows that 85% of web traffic comes from search engines. Submit your website today and start getting traffic!

Free Search Engine Submission

Who do a search engine sees your website?

2008-04-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

See your website like a Search Engine sees it.

Just use the perfect

http://www.seo-browser.com/

Traffic Rankings

2008-04-06T08:48:00.000-07:00

Use alexa.com in order to browse the most popular sites on the web or get traffic details about your web site:

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500

Search Engine Directory

2008-04-06T08:47:00.000-07:00

Here is a Search Engine Directory where you can visit each search engine and use it:

1. Yahoo! Search

2. Google

3. MSN

4. Open Directory

5. ExactSeek

6. ScrubTheWeb

7. SearchSight

8. EntireWeb

9. GigaBlast

10. Exalead

11. Link Centre

12. MavicaNet

13. World Site Index

14. Info Listings

15. FWD

16. What U Seek

17. IllumiRate

18. 01WebDirectory

19. BusinessSeek

20. Accoona

21. Domaining

22. AMRAY

23. Wikidweb

24. Zeezo

25. AnooX

26. Arakne Links

27. Pedsters Planet

28. WebbieWorld

29. Amfibi

30. Info Tiger

31. Submission4U

32. Anaximander

33. DareDirectory

34. Cipinet

35. TowerSearch

36. TopSites

37. NetInsert

38. ABD

39. Web Directory

40. Klottra

41. FreshTV

42. AnyApex

43. Cache Directory

44. Purple Directory

45. Dramba

46. IRKA

47. CherryDir

48. JDGO

49. Rio Directory

50. CyberWebSearch

How robots work

2008-04-06T08:45:00.001-07:00

Things are simple.

Each search engine has it is own script - algorithm. It is said that Google uses an algorithm with over 100 criteria in order to put the sites in first place.

For example:
We search at Google "food". Results are over 1,00,000,000. The first site (foodnetwork.com right now) is too nice for these Google criteria. The second site (latimes.com) is the same but 1 criteria is bad.

We do not know which criteria of foodnetwork.com brings it in front of latimes.com. It may be the visitors, the direct clicks, nobody knows!

The point:
We have to watch our criteria in order to complete them according to the previous and next sites positioned.

Amray.com

2008-04-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

Submit Your Site to 40 Search Engines & Directories for FREE!

http://www.amray.com/submit_list.html

123promotion Web Directory Submissions Manager

2008-04-06T08:42:00.000-07:00

Submit your websites at 300 various web directories:

http://www.123promotion.co.uk/directorymanager/

FreeWebSubmission.com

2008-04-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

Submit your website at 50 free Internet Search Engines and Directories:

http://freewebsubmission.com/

34 Search Engines at Once

2008-04-06T08:40:00.000-07:00

Submit your web site to 34 search engines at once.

http://www.onlinearts.net/tools/submit/index.php

Submit your URL to 127 main search engines & directories for free.

2008-04-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

Submit your URL to 127 main search engines & directories for free.

Free Site Submission

2008-04-06T08:32:00.000-07:00

FREE Keyword Density Analyzer!

2008-04-06T08:31:00.001-07:00

Keyword Density Analyzer!

Your Url:
Min. word length:

Search Engine Optimization Services!
Search Engine Submission - Top10 Ranking - Get Traffic
Add Keyword Analyzer Tool to your site!

FREE Meta Tag Analyzer!

2008-04-06T08:27:00.001-07:00

FREE Meta Tag Analyzer!

Your Url:

Search Engine Optimization Services!
Search Engine Submission - Top10 Ranking - Get Traffic
Add Free Meta Tags tools to your site!

FREE Search Engine Ranker!

2008-04-06T08:25:00.000-07:00

FREE Site Submission!

2008-04-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Optimization - SEO

15 Free SEO Tools to check keyword density

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

AdSense Optimization

How to Create a Successful E-Commerce Web Site

Blogging and Google AdSense

Too Many AdSense Failures! Why?

Make money with AdSense

How to Make Money With Google AdSense

Free Search Engine Optimization Tools

Keyword Suggestion Tool

SEO for Firefox

Rank Checker

Getting the Most Out of SEO Tools

More Useful SEO Tools

SeoBook Google Gadgets

Stay in the Know

Free SEO Tutorials

Μήνυση κατά της Google για εξαπάτηση

Search engine optimization

Contents

[edit] History

[edit] Webmasters and search engines

[edit] Getting indexed

[edit] Preventing indexing

[edit] White hat versus black hat

[edit] As a marketing strategy

[edit] International markets

[edit] Legal precedents

[edit] See also

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