Google Inc. recently announced their offering to run the search engines of small web sites starting from $100 per year. This service is targeted at the million of Web sites that either wish to have search engine capability on their site or are not satisfied with the quality of their current search results.
The price [...]

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Keywords are the words average people will search for to find your website. Both on-site optimization as well as off-site optimization SEO efforts start with selecting and targeting the right keywords. It is my experience, however, that many website owners are very unrealistic about the keywords they would like to target.
For example, a [...]

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It is no secret that a website must get lots of quality incoming links for ranking high in search engines. These days however, search engines are getting smarter; they have realized how easy it is to arrange link exchanges, so reciprocal links just don’t count any more. Now the emphasis is on getting ’one way links’ (a link [...]

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Mike McDonald of WebProNews recently interviewed Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon in Las Vegas. In this interview Matt offered insight on the future of SEO/SEM and Google’s move toward becoming a comprehensive social media portal.

Matt Cutts also talked about the new trends in Search Engine Marketing in recent years, stressing the shift from traditional marketing approaches to a more social and [...]

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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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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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I started this blog in February of 2006 and for the first few months my traffic was really low. It was because I was not blogging seriously.  I knew that the site was in the Google sandbox and so I was waiting for it to get out of the sandbox. I started little serious blogging only from mid-July after [...]

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Recent Search Engine share as published by comScore puts Google at 43.7% followed by Yahoo at 28.8% and MSN at 12.8%. And in some countries like Japan, Google is still at # 10 position, the top position being enjoyed by Yahoo.  Though most SEOs or website owners concentrate primarily on optimizing their sites for Google, we can not [...]

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The new Firefox 2 now incorporates ‘Google Suggest‘ which you can find in the search block at the top right of the browser. This new feature can have quite an important effect on the way you should optimize your website for search engines.
The Google Suggest tool was launched way back in December 2004; however it was [...]

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Big search engines such as Yahoo! and Live Search had several announcements in the past few months about how people can build their own custom search engines. Google has finally joined the party yesterday with their own offering Google Co-op - a customised search engine service which allows users to create a search engine containing only specific [...]

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