There is a lot of speculation and rumors floating about regarding the recent release of Google Spreadsheet, however, I highly doubt that Google is strictly going after the entire desktop office suite market. Personally, it looks to me like we are seeing the reincarnation of the Netscape and IE battles of yore. Undoubtedly, Google is following the old Microsoft competitive business model by releasing alternatives to Microsoft's core product improvements on the web for free. Didn't Microsoft write those rules in the early 90s?
Google is using a new crawler software program for their AdWords advertising system that automatically spiders and analyzes the content of advertising landing pages. The name of the new crawler is AdsBot-Google. If you see such an entry in your web logs then your web site been visited by the new bot.
The update of the Google index is often referred to as the Google dance. For several days when Google is updating their index to include new pages and update their algorithms, search results almost seem to take on a life of their own. High positioned sites have been known to drop into near obscurity while the lesser-judged sites suddenly find themselves careering towards dizzy heights in the rankings. While this phenomenon is usually relatively short lived, lasting only two or three days, many webmasters take it to be a sign of things to come during the next major update.
If you're outsourcing your search engine marketing and optimization needs, let's ensure you get the most out of the experience. We're going to examine some of the potential bottlenecks that can occur between you and your internet marketing team. So come with me, it will be painles and to the point. Ok?
On Tuesday night, I was wondering aimlessly through the streets of Old Montreal, staring in hapless confusion at my Pocket PC. Prior to the trip, I thought I had passed into the elite of the technologically advanced road warrior. With Pocket Maps loaded, my hotel location pinpointed and a plethora of enticing little dots to explore, I set out on the cobblestone streets, secure in the knowledge that the entire streetscape of Montreal was magically captured in my trusty iPAQ.
Some may disagree with me on the importance of Exactseek. After all, Google, Yahoo, and MSN are the top three sites (not in that order), and then we jump to Exactseek, which is ranked in the top 2000.
However, in the search engine game, Exactseek is a major player with some pretty cool tools and some great stuff to help you market your business online. Whether you choose the free or paid version, you'll get great results, and it's easy to submit your site.
Exactseek is also an excellent way to help you get into the top three because of their spiders. This site gets spidered, and it also gets a lot of traffic. These are two of the reasons for its high rankings.
Althoug MSN is lagging behind both Yahoo and Google when it comes to the ways you can get your site indexed, it is still one of the top three search engines, and it should not be ignored.
MSN offers you two different ways to get your site indexed, and you should submit to both. However, before you do that, make sure that you have optimized your website first.
Unlike Google, which allows you to use sitemaps as a way to get your site indexed and spidered, Yahoo uses several different approaches to indexing content.
It can take a little while to get indexed, but if you are persistent, you'll see your site indexed on Yahoo in no time.
First, you need to understand the different ways that Yahoo indexes content because there are both free and paid versions.
Getting your site listed in Google is easier than ever now since Google offers sitemaps.
By using a sitemap, you can make it very easy to get all of your pages indexed by Google. This can help you raise your rankings in Google, as well as help searchers find you.
The beauty of sitemaps is that once you've set up your sitemap, you can basically forget about it until you make updates to your site. Then you will need to add the new entries to your sitemap. Google will take care of the rest.
However, if you're a non-techie, or the idea of setting up scripts, or learning new software doesn't appeal to you, there are other ways to get the job done without stressing yourself.