Recently one of my colleagues showed me that if one searches for the phrase ‘miserable failure’ in Google, the page that shows at the top in the search results is the biography page of George W. Bush at the White House website. If you check the content of the page, there is no phrase […]

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Google uses two indexes for its search results. The normal index and the supplemental results index.  Unlike the main index, from which the top results of any query comes from, supplemental search results will only show up if there are very few or no results at all in the main index.
Google prevents questionable pages from being found […]

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Blogs can bring in a lot of traffic to your website via the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN if they are updated regularly and of course are properly optimized for these search engines. WordPress based blogs are search engine friendly, however their SEO power doesn’t all come by default.  After making a few blogs […]

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Building backlinks from other sites is important for improving a site’s Pagerank. However. many a times webmasters do not pay much attention to the internal linking. So the question is, are the internal links counted as backlinks by Google? And do the internal links contribute to the pagerank?
The answer is Yes. You may ask what is the proof? On Google toolbar you can see […]

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Quality inbound links are extremely important for ranking high in search engines like Google and Yahoo. Link popularity acts as a catalyst to the on-page optimization efforts.  Building good quality backlinks is a time consuming exercise. That is why SEO companies charge a heavy fee to carry out link building tasks for you.
Many website owners […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Google PR update is over. The next PR update is expected to be around last week of September. Even though some people claim that PR has not much influence on getting lots of traffic for your website, it is still important to have a high pagerank. So it is time to build high quality inbound links […]

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Have you checked the new companion to Google Analytics site? The Google Analytics website highlights many ways to ensure that you have a optimized, assessed, and targeted website. Google itself wants you to help you in stepping up your game. Did Google get into the SEO consulting business? Not really, but what they have done is […]

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