One of the most frequently asked questions from website owners is, “Why can’t my site be found on Google?” They know it’s important to appear in search engine results but they just don’t know why it doesn’t happen to them.

They may well be in awe of the ‘black arts’ of search engine optimization or puzzled by the complexity of it all. If they’re unlucky they will have paid out money to some snake oil salesman guaranteeing to get them to the top in 48 hours - and been sorely disappointed with the lack of traffic that results.

Most search engine optimizers are highly ethical, professional people but they do tend to keep their cards close to their chest.

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We already know that ALT tags should be used for relevant images (I say relevant because you can skip putting ALT tags for images placed in your page for purely aesthetic and/or organisational purposes such as borders). However, what many neglect to do is to take advantage of Google’s enhanced image search. Read the rest of this entry �

Webmasters knows; “stronger keywords means more traffic”. If you optimize your page according to one of this keywords, you can easily get more visitors to your page. Here is the list of most searched 500 keywords on favorite search engines. Read the rest of this entry �

Increase search engine traffic to your WordPress blog with one night’s work!
Imagine having the search engine traffic to your blog increased by tens of percentages, or perhaps even doubling it, by just a few hours work. With putting just a bit of SEO effort into your WordPress you can increase your search engine traffic, just by getting the basics right. I’ll walk you through them one by one. Read the rest of this entry �

A video posted to YouTube in April offers a primer on how to use Google to pilfer music and video files in less time than it takes to download them from a peer-to-peer service.

“I’ll be teaching you how to use Google as your own peer-to-peer network,” said Jimmy Ruska at the beginning of the clip. Ruska is the 21-year-old who posted the video, according to a report in The Financial Times.

The how-to video focuses on what is known as an “index of” search and shows users how to direct Google’s search engine to locate files from unprotected computer systems, many of which are found on college campuses. University students around the country often store music on their schools’ computer networks.

Ruska’s formula also worked at Yahoo and other search engines, according to the FT. Record labels have always maintained that downloading unauthorized music files violates copyright law.

How effective is Ruska’s technique? The FT quoted a Google engineer who said that “nothing guarantees that such a search will find music files.”

But during the 9-minute long video, posted to YouTube on April 16, Ruska teaches viewers to focus their search using keywords, which will weed out spam and other unwanted results.

Ruska claims on the video that his technique can help people find MP3 and MP4 files “so they are compatible with the iPod” and even small video clips.

Les Echos, a sister publication to the FT, first reported this story.

Last week GrandCentral was Google’s latest new toy, this week it’s Postini. The Internet giant announced its $625 million acquisition Monday morning, which is of course still subject to closing agreements and is scheduled to conclude in the third quarter of 2007.

Unlike with GrandCentral’s acquisition, we won’t have to speculate about how Google will be integrating the company’s technology with its own. Postini’s claim to fame is on-demand communications security, which they already provide to 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. According to the press release, this security will be worked into Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs & Spreadsheets, and the Personal Start Page.

“The response to Google Apps has been tremendous, with more than 1,000 small businesses signing up for the service every day. At the same time, large businesses have been reluctant to move to hosted applications due to issues of security and corporate compliance,”  said Google Enterprise’s vice president and general manager Dave Girouard, in a statement. “By adding Postini products to Google’s technology, businesses no longer have to choose — employees get the intuitive products they want, and the company achieves the security and assurance it needs.”

Google this, Google that, Google something else. But there’s a lot more to the web than Google, and in fact Google only shows you a tiny bit of what’s going on. You’ve heard of the “deep web” or “dark web” - the part not normally indexed by Google, and maybe even not by Yahoo, MSN, or Ask. Well, here’s a little list presenting a few “rabbit holes” into that vast, uncharted territory!

Dogpile - In the first place, you can check the Big Four (Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask) search engines all at once with Dogpile. Since other search engines use the indexes from one of these four, chances are if you cannot find it here and you are sure it exists, it is “dark” to the web.

Clusty - Clusty is a more comprehensive search, finding those deep, dark crevasses that other search engines pass over. I’d nominate Clusty for “the dark-web Google” Of course, the more inclusive you make a search engine, the more spam sites it will pick up, so you might have to wade through a lot of garbage.

USA Library of Congress - Good for finding research materials for scholarly interests.

Nelson Search - If you’re looking for a journalistic piece, you can’t beat the self-proclaimed search engine for journalists. If there was a news story on it, it’s here.

Intute - Well, if the bots don’t do a good enough job of weeding out the spam sites, how about giving the humans a go? Intute is the only search engine which uses only web pages quality-checked by human researchers - guaranteeing that you’ll never get a spam hit!

AltaVista - What better way to search the dark web than use a dark search engine? AltaVista died in popularity when Google came out, but it’s still kicking, and it returns hits similar to Clusty.

Wayback Machine - Maybe the page you’re looking for no longer exists? that’s OK, the Wayback Machine should have an index of it. The only snag here is, you have to give it an exact URL. Once you have that URL, you can find the entire history for the domain - sometimes through several owners!

Bloglines - A search engine just for finding blogs. Anything that’s a blog is here, and these days the web is mostly blogs anyway!

Note that the whole thing behind the dark web is that it is mostly made of sites that are one of (a) spam sites rejected for quality (b) personal home pages, bulletin board archives, and other stuff not generally of interest to the public (c) academia, which lives in its own world (d) government, which lives in its own world (e) criminal and underground sites that aren’t in too great a hurry to be found!

It is not hard to be barking up the wrong tree when it comes to getting search engine traffic because there is so much out of date information being circulated.

Not only is there out of date or invalid SEO advice getting around, there is also information which if acted upon, can result in your pages being banned.

The SEO tips below should assist the reader in forming a basic understanding of how to create human friendly web pages which are easily understood by the most popular search engines.

Know this. There are thousands of search engines but only two of them will bring you most of the traffic. They are google and yahoo. Another search engine that brings me a little traffic is msn but I do not focus too much on tactics for that engine.

Focus your attention on the engines that will bring you the most visitors first and work your way down.

Basic SEO

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.

6. Do not link to link-farms or other search engine unfriendly neighborhoods. A good rule of thumb is if your pages do not contain any words that reflect the content of the site you are linking to, do not link to it.

7. Do not use doorway pages. Doorway pages are designed for robots only, not humans. Search engines like to index human friendly pages which contain content which is relevant to the search.

8. Title tags for text links. Insert the title tag within the HTML of your text link to add weight to the link and the page where the link resides. This is like the alt tag for images.

My site contains navigation menus on the left and right of the page. The menu consists of links not images. The links are keywords. When you hover over the link with your mouse, the title of the link appears. View the source of this page to see how to add this tag to your links.

9. Describe your images with the use of the alt tag. This will help search engines that index images to find your pages and will also help readers who use text only web browsers.

10. Submit to the search engines yourself. Do not use a submission service or submission software. Doing so could get your site penalized or even banned.

Here is the submission page for google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Submit only once. There is no need to submit every two weeks. There is no need to submit more that one page. Robots follow links. If your site has a nice link trail, your entire site will get indexed.

I don’t meet anyone who doesn’t want to be rich. This is the human psychology. First, we need eat, wear. Then we need home to stay. Then it comes to the pleasure part. We [need] a car to travel, a motorbike, a yatch… We want anything we see with our eyes. But do we know what makes us rich enough to buy all this stuff ?

There are millions of ways maybe. I will tell you only one of the ways which will take you to the richness. It is Google Adsense!

A few bucks or million dollars. It is your choice !

Actually many of us are using adsense or used adsense in a time of our lifes. It is one of the most winning tool on the net. But while some people are earning millions of dollars a year, others earns only a few bucks. This is exactly what i want to tell you.

Step by step earning the millions

Step 1 : Make a research of most paying adsense keywords. - While some keywords like game, forum, etc are giving $0.01 PPC, the others like forex, credit card etc are giving you $5.00 PPC. First of all, you mut find a good keyword to focus on. You can search for “higist bidding keywords” to find out best keywords which suits you.

Step 2 : Create a website. - You can easily create a blog page or you can build your website with your own design.

Step 3 : Optimize your website for search engines. - You shouldn’t blink that someone else will read this post or think in the same way as you. So you will have many opponents. You must hole this crowd and show yourself to the visitors to make traffic to your site. On the net, the best traffic source is search engines. And people clicks the links on the first 2 result pages of search engines. If your website is not in at least 5th result page of a search engine, forget that search engine. Click here to download a list of keywords, clicks/day and average CPC$. See my 10 SEO Tips page to optimize your pages.

Step 4 : Adsense ads. - Create an adsense account at www.google.com/adsense and put your advertisement links to most suitable, most visible places of your web page.

Step 5 : Keep your content fresh. - You must keep the content of your site fresh. You must update it daily. Think like that : if you would have a full-time job, you would work 8 hours a day. This is your own business. Spend as much as time to make your business number one. Work hard. You will get the result. I know people who earns $80.000 per month. Be one of them and send me e-mail

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For any questions, please write comments to this post, don’t send me e-mail. Thanks.

Search Engine Optimization is the hottest subject running on internet. To achieve good results in Search Engine Marketing and to increase targeted visitors you have to optimize your Web Pages / Blogs as Search Engine Friendly. This is called Search Engine Optimization. A website designer have to work hours to make a site visible to those who search for a certain key word. The painful efforts that someone may put to make his site search engine friendly may be substituted by black SEO strategies. As there is Stan to test God there are Bad Strategies that are used to sabotage the efforts put by hard working SEOs. There are many Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies still being used by webmasters that were discarded a long time ago. In many cases, these Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies are ineffective and considered Spam which often has negative effect for rankings. We will talk some of such tactics that is employed by webmasters in our next few Blogs.

1. Doorway Pages

Doorway Pages are defined as “multiple Web Pages / Blogs that are devoid of useful content but heavily optimized for search engine rankings. Each page is optimized for a variation of a keyword phrase or for completely different keyword targets. The essence of this concept was to fool the search engines into thinking that these pages were highly relevant and provide top rankings for them under their targeted phrase.

2. Invisible Text

Invisible text is implemented in a variety of ways in an effort to increase the frequency of keywords in the body text of a web page. Some of the implementation methods are: making text the same color as the background of the web page, hiding text behind layers, placing text at the very bottom of over-sized pages, etc.

3. Content Misrepresentation

Misleading search engines into believing your WebPage / Blog is about topic ‘Apple’ when it is in fact about ‘Babies’. This tactic was used primarily for the promotion of adult, gambling, and other extremely competitive search markets.

Unfortunately this tactic is still in use; you are likely to find one or two every time you search! The fact is that this tactic is the simplest for a search engine to identify and the result will be swift and complete; banishment from the search engine index indefinitely. The worst offense in the realm of the search engines is to try to fool them.

4. Redirects

Redirects are also used to mislead search engines by making them believe that the page they have indexed is about ‘Apple’. When a surfer visits the page, however, they are redirected to an entirely different site about ‘Babies’.

5. Heading Tag Duplication

Definition: Heading Tags, by definition, were created to highlight page headings in order of importance. Thus the Heading Tags that are available: H1, H2, H3, etc. This duplication technique involves implementing more than one H1 tag into a WebPage / Blog in order to enhance a particular keyword or phrase.

This tactic is still very prevalent and likely still works on some search engines; however, none of the major search engines will respond well to this technique as it has been identified as a common manipulation.

6. Alt Tag Stuffing

Alt Tag stuffing is the act of adding unnecessary or repetitive keywords into the Alt Tag (or alternative tag – shown by words that appear when you hover over an image with you mouse pointer). The Alt Tag is meant to be a textual description of the image it is attached to. There is nothing wrong with tailoring the Alt tag to meet your keyword goals IF the tag is still understandable and if the change still appropriately describes the image. The offense occurs when an Alt tag has obvious keyword repetition/filler which a search engine can key in on as Spam.

7. Comment Tag Stuffing

Comment Tags are used to include useful design comments in the background source code (html) when creating a WebPage / Blog. These are suppose to be used only for adding technical instructions or reminders; however, in times past these tags were used to artificially increase the keyword count for targeted phrases.

8. Over Reliance on Meta Tags

Meta Tags is a broad term for descriptive tags that appear in the of most Web Pages / Blogs and are used to provide search engines with a concept of the page topic. The most common tags are the description and keyword tags.

At one time, extinct search engines such as Info seek relied a great deal on Meta Tags and many took advantage of this factor to manipulate rankings with relative ease. In today’s far more advanced climate the search engines place cautious weight on Meta Tags and when considering rankings Metas play only a fractional role. Some webmasters still consider Meta Tags the ‘end-all and be-all’ of ranking producers

and forget to optimize the rest of their WebPage / Blog for the search engines. With this line of thinking they miss that the search engines place far more importance on the body text (or visible text) of the WebPage / Blog. This is a critical error that will ultimately lead to low or insignificant rankings. Note: An extremely common example of Meta Tag over-reliance are web sites that have been designed totally graphically and are devoid (or nearly so) of html text that a search engine can read. A WebPage / Blog

9. Duplicate Content

This tactic is blatant Spam that is very common today. Essentially the webmaster will create a web site and then create duplicates of each page and optimize them differently in order to obtain varying placements. By doing this you are saturating the search engine databases with content that is essentially eating valuable bandwidth and hard drive space.

10. Automatic Submission and Page Creation

Automatic Submission is the use of automated software to submit a website to the search engines automatically and often repeatedly. - Automatic Page Creation is using software to create pages ‘on the fly’ using predefined content (body text, keywords, images etc) to create “optimized” WebPage / Blogs to target specific keyword rankings on the search engines. Please don’t go for such tactics.