Archive for May, 2007
Do no-follow links count for search engine rankings?
Posted on May 29, 2007 - Filed Under Search Engine Optimization Tools | Leave a Comment
Actually, the rel=nofollow attribute should prevent search engines from following special links. Some webmasters might have found out that nofollow links will help your search engine rankings though.
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New study: which web page elements lead to high Google rankings?
Posted on May 22, 2007 - Filed Under Search Engine Optimization Tools | Leave a Comment
The German company Sistrix analyzed the web page elements of top ranked pages in Google to find out which elements lead to high Google rankings. They analyzed 10,000 random keywords, and for every keyword, they analyzed the top 100 Google search results.
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Are search engine spammers exploiting your web pages?
Posted on May 15, 2007 - Filed Under Search Engine Optimization Tools | Leave a Comment
A recent thread in a webmaster forum indicated that some search engine spammers might exploit the new XML sitemaps files. Has your sitemaps file been abused by spammers? Can using a sitemaps file harm your rankings?
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Two new Google ranking patents
Posted on May 8, 2007 - Filed Under Search Engine Optimization Tools | Leave a Comment
Google filed two new ranking patents in April: Document Scoring Based on Traffic Associated with a Document and Document Scoring Based on Query Analysis. What do these new patents reveal about Google’s ranking algorithm? How can they help you?
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The influence of semantic indexing on your search engine rankings
Posted on May 1, 2007 - Filed Under Search Engine Optimization Tools | Leave a Comment
Semantic indexing is getting more and more important to search engines. What exactly is semantic indexing and how does it influence your search engine rankings?
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