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SEO Basics: Creating a Google Friendly Website

26 nov 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips for small businesses and new web masters. These simple but effective SEO tips will help make your website search engine optimized especially for Google, the grand-daddy of the Internet.

Find the Date When a Web Page was First Published on the Internet

04 may 2009

Learn how to find the published date of any web page or web site on the Internet with a simple Google Hack. Includes a video screencast as well.

Why XML Sitemaps are Important for Web Sites

14 apr 2009

Vanessa Fox shares why sitemaps (or XML files that list all the pages on a site) are important for a search-friendly site. Many government sites have poor information architecture. Ideally each page of the site should have at least one link to it.

SEO for Titles: Write Singular and Plural Form of the Same Word

01 apr 2009

Here’s a suggestion on how to get both singular and plural forms of your keywords into the title of your web page without making it look like keyword stuffing.

Googlebot Can Execute JavaScript on Web Pages

23 mar 2009

Googlebot, the web spider that crawls web pages for inclusion in Google’s search index, can sometimes run JavaScript code as well in addition to fetching text content from a web page.

Search Suggestions in Yahoo! Images – Brilliant

20 mar 2009

When I searched for images of domino’s pizza on Yahoo Images, the suggestions included McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Burger King, KFC and Subway – all fast food chains.

Enhance Google Search Results with Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, etc.

26 feb 2009

WebMynd makes Google search better by embedding search results from other sources such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon and Flickr. It even works with Yahoo and Live Search.

French Town Changing Name to Improve Ranks in Google

25 feb 2009

Eu, a small town in North France, ranks rather poorly in search engines as the word EU may refer to the more popular European Union or or even the Chemical symbol for Europium.

Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines in 0.2 seconds

19 feb 2009

Google is normally quite secretive about their search infrastructure but, in a break from tradition, they have revealed that a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000 machines.

Prevent Duplicate URLs on Google

13 feb 2009

Although it makes sense to enforce unique URLs for you web pages as Google imposes a penalty on suspected duplicate content, it’s not always possible to do so. Google has now introduced a way to specify the unique URL (canonical URL) of any web page by using a meta link tag.

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