Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In this article series, we're taking a look a the 15 most common Google spam filters and we'll tell you how you can get around them.
Usually Google is the search engine known for its innovative new products. Lately, I've noticed some interesting developments from Yahoo! which have started to peak my interest. Yahoo! has had a slow start to 2007 with their latest statement of revenue falling short of financial predictions. However, I expect to see much from Yahoo! in the near future because they don't want to relinquish anymore of their strength in the online space (especially to Google and MSN).
The products that have recently been released and have caught my attention are Yahoo's Suggestion Board and Yahoo! Pipes. The Yahoo! suggestion board is similar to a voting based system that Digg and Reddit have already been using for quite some time, whereas Yahoo! Pipes is a new concept where information from various resources can be outputted to a single location.
Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.
If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google rankings. In the next few articles, we'll take a look at the 15 most common Google spam filters and we'll tell you how you can get around them.
Google relies heavily on inbound links to determine the position of a web page in the search results. To make spamming as difficult as possible, Google also have a variety of link filters to make sure that only the right links are considered.
In this article I will introduce Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) to those not familiar with the term, and the basic notion of what it is and why it matters. As Google, Yahoo and MSN increase the use of this evaluation method in their quest for more relevant and higher quality results, LSI or related applications will become active components of this process.
The first thing you should know about SEO is that Consistency is the 'key word'. Because of that, in this article I will cover the immediate areas that relate to solid Search Engine Ranking for a particular number of key phrases. This will apply to any type of website, or any industry you are targeting.
Google bombs have become a problem for Google. The official Google webmaster blog recently had a statement about Google bombs and how Google deals with them. How does this new algorithm affect your Google rankings?
Google's Matt Cutts is the premier source for all things related to Google and search engine optimization. He works for the quality group of Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues.
Matt Cutts has just revealed Google's latest ranking plans for 2007 in his blog.
Many webmasters reported that Google's spider started to index their external CSS files. What are CSS files, why does Google index them and how can this affect your rankings on Google and other search engines?