It looks like that Google has pressed the dreaded red button of  Pagerank update today. The name Google Dance has often been used to describe the index update of the Google search engine.  The Google search engine pulls its results from thousands of servers which are used by Google for economical reasons. Naturally, an index update cannot […]

According to posts at WebmasterWorld blog, there seems to be a Google backlink update going on now at some selected Google data centers; 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99.  Unlike Yahoo, Google has a tendency of showing only a sample of backlinks when the link:url search command is used.
Although Google also updated its PageRank about a month ago, the Google backlink update […]

There is always great interest within the search engine marketing community whenever a search engine files for a patent. Search engine giant Google was granted a new patent last Tuesday, August 22, 2006 . The title is “System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results“. And here is a brief […]

Google’s Matt Cutts discussed some Google & SEO myths and facts via Google Video.  You can check Matt Cutt’s blog about Questions about Google
You can also check them directly by coing to Google Video.  You can navigate to all the videos from the menu at the right.
Transcripts of these videos will be posted on Google Success site soon for […]

The Google Sandbox effect is an alleged restriction placed on new websites. The result is that a new site does not receive good rankings for its most important keywords and keyword phrases for few months. Even with good content, many inbound links, a new website may still adversely affected by the Sandbox effect. The Google Sandbox acts as a […]

There are several SEO tips and tricks that help in optimizing a site but one of those, the importance of which is sometimes underestimated is sitemaps. Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your website - i.e. on one single page you describe the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, […]

In the search engine world, the Google Page Rank (PR) measure is closely watched by all those who want to get into top positions in Google’s search results. PR is one of the most important factors that Google uses to determine its ranking results.
The theory behind Google PR is quite simple. The more relevant back links a website […]

Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of information about how they rank your web site. Some of it you could come as a surprise for you
How many years did you register your domain name for?
If it was only one year then Google could hold that against you.
Why?
Because majority of the […]

Google has dropped BMW Germany from its search engine after realizing the top car manufacturer’s German website (bmw.de) was breaching its guidelines by artificially boosting its popularity ranking.
Investigations by Google found that BMW’s German website manipulated search engine results to ensure top ranking when users searched for the keyword “used car.”   Redirects using Javascript was the reason that […]

Google and other search engines extract a great deal of information about a web page by examining the terms and phrases that it contains. Using that data they can and, from a group of pages, about a site as a whole. Of course, they learn something from the frequency of certain terms and words, but that’s not […]

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