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My wordpress blog is not being cached in Google search engine. Please suggest!

mikematousch — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:12:56 GMT

My wordpress blog is not being cached in Google search engine.

Blog name is ladiesgolfclubsforsale.com. This is basically a wordpress blog. I did all the possible things like directory submissions, article posting, blog submissions, social bookmarking etc. but still I am stuck for caching the website.

So please suggest me what should I do now?

Google deindexing vbulletin forums?

samj — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:37:16 GMT

Is your forum being deindexed or most pages put in the supplemental index? My traffic has been tanking in the last 6 months from 20k visitors per month to 160/day this last month. I have over 90k pages in the supplemental pile and 7k through site:mysite.com search. I also have Vbseo, submit sitemaps and have a lot of backlinks. Forum is old. Read somewhere that forums are being hit.

GREAT video - Matt Cutts Presentation at Word Camp 2009

Joeychgo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:13:53 GMT

This video is of a presentation by Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, at WordCamp 2009 (Blogging Seminar)

It is about 45 minutes long and I STRONGLY recommend you watch it and take notes. Matt gives alot of fantastic advice regarding Search Engine Optimization.

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Google's Caffeine: A jolt to search rankings?

Joeychgo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:10:03 GMT

One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google's search technology in three years is under way, as the company reworks its computing muscle.

On Monday evening, Google quietly began soliciting feedback for "Caffeine," a new system for Web searches that is being tested completely separately from the live search results currently found through Google.com.

Google makes almost constant changes to its search algorithms and infrastructure, but it hasn't made an update of this magnitude since 2006, said Matt Cutts, a principal engineer at Google who is considered one of the driving forces behind its approach to search.

Think of Caffeine as a redeployment of the computing network that Google uses to connect searchers and results. "We want to make a system that is more robust, that can do more--and do more faster," Cutts said.

Google said it is not changing the user interface as part of the Caffeine update, nor does the update affect the ranking of ads on the search engine. So the average user trying to find a new digital camera or directions to the restaurant likely won't be surprised by how the results are presented.

But they might notice that things have gotten a little faster: speed is a side benefit of the decision to focus on improving how documents are indexed with the new update, Cutts said.

Those responsible for search engine optimization at their companies or clients, however, are just starting to get busy. The changes to Google's indexing methods will likely have an impact on the way Web sites are presented on the extremely important first page of search results, hence the need for testing and feedback.

For example, search blogs such as SearchEngineWatch.com noted that Wikipedia results seem to have been pushed a little further down the page in the sandboxed search system.

That's not necessarily indicative of how the results would be presented, once Caffeine goes live, but it is evidence that the update will require those dependent on Google to drive traffic to their sites to study the changes. For now, Google is not sharing many details regarding how it reworked its back-end architecture and indexing process with Caffeine.

Cutts said the changes that are coming along with Caffeine have been in the works for months, implying that the launch of Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo's subsequent decision to finally pull the plug on its own search efforts had little to do with the planning for Caffeine. But it does illustrate that while search is a constantly evolving product, serious infrastructure updates are needed to keep the trains running on time. This was perhaps what Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had in mind as she reviewed what it would cost to just maintain Yahoo's current search commitment, let alone a renewed effort to gain share: Yahoo expects to save a ton in capital expenditures as a result of the outsourcing deal.

Google designs much of its own infrastructure, developing its own servers and piling them together in modular shipping containers. It's not clear whether any changes are being made to the basic Google server itself, but Cutts observed on his own blog that "Caffeine is a radical revamp (more like a complete rewrite) of large parts of our system," which may entail more than just updating the search index.

The Caffeine preview can be found here, and feedback is encouraged

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10307613-2.html

Google Pagerank Being Updated

Joeychgo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:02:58 GMT

It appears that Google is updating pageranks today.

I ahve seen changes on a few sites, and its being roported on a few SEO Forums as well.

Google Set To Change Ranking Algorithm

Joeychgo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:31:02 GMT

Blackhat SEO spammers force Google�s hand

Google is set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google�s search results, according to an inside source.

Over the past few months, cybercriminals have been using blackhat SEO techniques to manipulate search rankings. When it first began, they were marginally successful at following Google Trends to find buzzy search queries and elevating a newly created targeted webpage.

But after a short period of time, these same gangs appear to have become disturbingly effective. Last week, when researching a news story, I found the top five results all led to fake scareware pages.

Obviously if Google fails to do something about this manipulation, users will lose trust and the good ole days of Google will be over fast. A Googler speaking on condition of anonymity told WebProNews a ranking change is pending that tackles spam of this kind. Once the change goes live, users shouldn�t see it nearly as often.

A report from security company PandaLabs identified over a million links targeting malicious webpages ranking for auto part searches. Google noted that many of the phrases mentioned in the report were rare. A phrase like [1989 Nissan Pickup Truck Engine Check Light Troubleshooting], for example, only appears on attack sites set up by spammers, which explains why Google brought back so many attack sites in response to it and similar queries.

Google's response seems also an admission of how difficult it is to provide fresh, timely search results while simultaneously combating spammers. Part of the appeal of Twitter to many people is the platform�s ability to provide real-time information; the live Web works remarkably well there so far because Twitter�s set up isn�t very conducive to spam (yet). At least Twitter has to some extent control over accounts.

Google, on the other hand, cannot control for content appearing on the Web at large, and historically its famous algorithm performed better than any other at weeding out spammy webpages and malicious results. Unfortunately, that was a version of the Web that was more static. The live Web presents entirely new challenges manifesting as the first major weakness the search engine has faced.

The company naturally didn�t have a comment on the recently pondered link velocity ranking factor. Search engine optimization experts have identified the speed at which organic links appear as a possible important influence.

Link velocity therefore aids in explaining how blackhatters were able to manipulate search results by dropping enormous amounts of link spam into comment and discussion areas of social sites. The freshness or buzzy nature of a query also aided in this pursuit, and cybercriminals merely have to follow Google Trends and Google News to know which keywords and phrases to target.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/20...king-algorithm

Google Tools - a new understanding

Peggy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:54:58 GMT

I decided to spend some time in my google tools account today, to try and get a better understanding about how it works, how I can use it, and how it can help me. I'm still confused, but the light is coming on - somewhere. :p

For instance, in the Index stats. This tool helps you understand how your site is indexed. You can search by site - this tells you what pages on your site are indexed and how; links - these are pages that are linked to your site's front page; info - the information that google has about your site; and related - sites or pages that are similar to yours.

I found this all very interesting, but especially the site search. The reason I found this interesting is that I've been asking around about how important this new tagging system of vB's is. Well, I found my answer. Pretty danged important, imo. Why? It showed me that my favorite keywords were way underused in my forum! No wonder my sites been slipping back in they search engines for my keywords. Sure new content is added daily, almost hourly, but so little of that content is tagged with my keywords - let me say that differently - so little of the new content even contains my keywords - BAH! :mad:

I feel like I'm in a whole new ballgame.

PS - if this post makes little sense to anyone but me, that's ok. :giggle:

vBSEO Spider?

Peggy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:49:24 GMT

I wasn't aware that vBSEO had a spider? Showed up on my site for the first time, today.

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Walhello Appie spider

Peggy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:22:53 GMT

Today marked the first visit from this little critter - Walhello Appie Spider.
Never having seen it before, I googled it and came across this -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhello

Quote:

Walhello is a spider based search engine developed in the Netherlands for the whole Internet. The Walhello spider is called "appie". This spider automatically downloads and indexes web pages and follows links found on the downloaded web pages. The Walhello search engine debuted in the summer of 2000 with a small index. Since then the index has grown to 2.3 billion indexed web pages. This is still significantly less than Google or Yahoo. Like most spider based search engines the ranking of search results is based on mathematical algorithms. Walhello is also doing research on the use of knowledgetechnology to improve the relevancy of search results. As an advanced search option proximity search functionality is provided, which allows users to define the proximity in which all search items must be found on a web site. Another functionality is the option to search for web pages written in a certain language.

The Walhello search engine is running on a cluster of Linux servers and is programmed in C.

The Walhello search engine provides an advertising solutions which is slightly different from the keyword based pay for positioning advertising used by many search engines. Walhello has created a small second index. This second index only contains paid listings, but is based on the same ranking technology used for the big index. Paid listings are shown if they match the search query.

It appears to be a fairly small search engine, altho on their website, they boast about being in the top 10 largest search engines on the web. :confused: I'm not sure I believe that.

Anyone else seen this one before?

Great PageRank checker...

Peggy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:31:56 GMT

but this gives you alot more info than just Page Rank.

http://123seotalk.com/pagerank-checker/

End of the duplicate content debate?

Dave A — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:06:08 GMT

The new canonical link element could finally mean the end of the duplicate content debate. And has killed a major reason to consider mod_rewrite for your URLs as well.

The problem of multiple URLs presenting the same content, and the effect this might have on how search engines might index and rank your site content has been the cause of hot debate for years. And vBulletin is a monster for this, particularly the number of URLs that can call up the same thread page.

Up until now I've tried to manage this with a line in my robots.txt and only using showthread.php?t=x URLs in my sitemap. Now that line in robots.txt can go, but I think I'll keep up with the sitemap strategy, particularly after reading this from Matt Cutts here:

Quote:

And a little-known fact, not everybody realizes this, is that whenever you submit your URLs in what we call a Sitemap, which is another standard that’s supported by many major search engines, and it’s a very simple file, it can be as simple as a list of URLs, we take that list of URLs that you submit, and we say to ourselves, oh, if we see a URL in that list, and then we see another version of it that’s not in the list, we will prefer URLs in the list that you gave us. So we sort of use it to break ties whenever you submit URLs from a Sitemap.

Score!!! I'd always hoped it would work out that way and my results seemed to be proving it - but pretty chuffed to have the final evidence that I "guessed" right.

I digress. Let's get to why the duplicate content problem is over for vBulletin URLs.

Matt Cutts discusses the canonical link element here. Applying this to the vBulletin situation, here is what I've done to solve the worst culprit:

In the SHOWTHREAD template find $headinclude and below that add this line:

HTML Code:

"canonical" href="http://www.example.com/forum/showthread.php?t=$threadid&page=$pagenumber" />

Just modify the example.com/forum bit to suit your prefered URL structure. Now no matter what URL is used to arrive at the page, the major search engines will know it is the same page, what the canonical link should be and that you're not trying to pull the wool over their eyes.

The only question left is whether all those different URLs will pass pagerank.

Given that search engines

are aware that the problem is to some extent unavoidable,
really want to present the best results, and
have brought out a tool to help us help them deal with the problem

I'm willing to place a small wager it will pass pagerank to your designated URL as effectively as a 301 redirect.

Hopefully this little line will become part of standard issue vBulletin soon.

Can anyone list me search engines your able to submit your site and sitemaps to?

C138 Kaysone — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:28:48 GMT

I know google, msn and yahoo are the main 3 but what are the other ones im able to list my site on by submitting my sitemap and submit my site?

anyone have any idea on what sites there are?

Help www or http or both?

sam123 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:53:24 GMT

Hi,

does anyone know if there's a difference
linking to my site as www or http:// or http://www, well you get the picture.
I'm guessing I should stick to one format, but which is better?

Thanks
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how to check PR of all pages of a website on a single window

arti.sharma40 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:51:55 GMT

guys

i want to check PR of all of my webpages on a single window instead of going pages one by one. Please tell me is there any tool using that i can view PR of all pages in a website on a single window

i need a PR tree

regards

Google SEO vs Yahoo SEO

arti.sharma40 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:50:55 GMT

some people says that they are working for 'google SEO' 1st then they will work for 'yahoo SEO'. actualy what does it means??

what is the main difference between 'google SEO' and 'yahoo SEO' optimizing process??