Forum: Search Engine News and Discussions

What's the deal with PHP URLs please? I've been reading loads of stuff saying that Google et al say they advise you not to use dynamic URLs etc but then again this forum uses the default ones doesn't it? And I found this place through Google, it must have ranked well for me to get here too. I...

Just curious....When you are listed 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. on the first page for a particular keyword or phrase in a search, does anyone know if there is an approx. percentage of click throughs for the various positions. How important is being #1 compared to 2nd or 3rd etc?

Ok today I suddenly see these IP addresses 82.99.30.* going everywhere on my forums. Does any one know which bot this is? vbulletin doesnt seem to resolve it at all.

Hey everyone, not been around for what seems like ages as I have been run off my feet. Hope all are well and your sites are going great guns. Question for anyone who knows..... If I have a few pages outside of my forum but within my site, is there something I can put in robots.txt for google...

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...

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...

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

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??

but this gives you alot more info than just Page Rank. http://123seotalk.com/pagerank-checker/

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.

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 ---------------------------------------------

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...

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...

A Google PR update just occurred. This one was HARSH. Many prominant sites lost a significant amount of PR. Even vBFAQ went from a PR 6 to a PR 3. Most of my other sites saw a decrease in PR. Some high profile sites such as these below lost alot of PR. SE Roundtable went from a PR 7 to a...

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...

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 It appears to be a fairly small search engine, altho on their website, they boast about being in the top 10...

Does closing forums to unregistered members effect the robots in the same way, or can Google Bot and others still search the posts and threads? :confused:

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?

I have created around 30 backlinks for my site.. Each of them have same 4 words title but the description was different. With these 4 words as keyword , the site started coming in Top 10 on google and then after few days it is completely removed from google.. What should I do now???

Just installed the forum a few days ago...google spiders are already hitting, but not in places where they should be crawling, they keep hitting calender..first they view it, I have 3 spiders right now that are trying to create an event..what the heck...? I even have the robots.txt - what are they...

Hi everyone, I have been using the search engines for a long time now like goggle, yahoo and all sorts of other ones and they do have good results. What are the places rather than this that have a collection of good sites and are used by you all??

I am in little confusion about using Meta tags because as I know meta tags are devalued and not valuable for search engines as earlier and do not help to get higher ranking on search engines or Page rank so still we should use meta tags or now we should leave it. Does it all right to add meta...

I recently removed my homepage that was written in Flash. Since then, I have noticed that all my sites show as "Not Verified" in Google Webmaster tools. The error for all sites: We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header. ...

I am looking for a good easy to use site map creator. I have used some free ones on the internet that haven't indexed all my pages and I cant use the Google/SEO site map creator I found on vbulletion.org because my host (yahoo) doesn't allow .htaccess files for some reason. After some searching I...

Q1: Where does everyone house their sitemap? In the root URL or in the Foum Root? Q2: I submitted my data to MS Live Webmaster tools some time ago and have not had them crawl my site since June. All data is verifed and should be good to go.

Health care information matters by Adam Bosworth, Vice President, Google At Google, we often get questions about what we're doing in the area of health. I have been interested in the issues of health care and health information for a while. It is now one of my main focuses here, and I've...

our optimized single key word has gone in the SERPS completely. All other phrases are there and ranking well in all the engines. What went wrong? how can we show for the one keyword that we used to rank no 5 then progressively down until we disappeared! Thanks in advance

Anyone got any details on this searchme.com engine? Ya'll might like this search. :) Search query

Ok, this has me a little confused to say the least. If I go to my webmaster tools for 'Links', it shows X amount of sites that have linked to my site for various pages including my main page. Yet, if I go to 'Statistics' and then index stats, and also when I am on my site and go to where it has the...

When and how often does a PR update take place on google?

I have been a voracious SEO reader since I put up my new site in April and have learned a lot observing this forum. My site is mostly graphical, but I re-designed following all the advice that makes sense to me. I last submitted the home page to Google over 6 weeks ago. According to my server...

Wanted to ask a few questions before registering for adsense. how can I contact adsense support via email? 1. Is Kontera allowed with google adsense 2. I would need to change the adsearch code a bit so that it fits my side bar is that allowed. Thanks

For 4 days now, a Google spider has been sitting on my new site. :witsend: I wouldn't mind if it was DOING something. However, it has been either viewing the calendar (which is disallowed in the robots.txt file), OR trying to create an event. WTF?? How the hell do you break the cycle??? ...

There is another thread about how many there are...I posted in there, but I plan on taking this way off topic, so, erm... NEW THREAD! My site has not been touched by a SLURP in nearly 24 hours. I looked on a few other forums, and they too show no signs of the normal yahoo bot invasion. Even here...

OK, this is embarrassing I must admit but I haven't gotten the foggiest idea what I have to do or who's wife I have to sleep with to get ranked well in Yahoo and MSN. I believe I write decent articles and even though I seem to trip over myself often, they are received rather well with google.com. ...

I have a few questions regarding the search type. Right now we use the default settings for search (MySQL Fulltext Search). This has the drawback, that we can’t search for terms smaller the 4 letters. We want to search also after 3 or maybe 2 letters. Reason is, we can not change the MySQL...

how good is seoks.com information for search engine optimziation methods ? . i look forward to your responses

Hi All, I wanted to ask your opinions about this Googles penalty for having build too many inbound links in a short period of time webmasterworld.com/google/3084915.htm I need to do link building for a client and plan to simply build 10-20 links in a span of 3-6 months. Is that okay? I...

You know...the more I read about the Google rules...Google likes this and dislikes that and so forth, the more confused I get. Help this green girl out. Here the deal, my site is a year and a half old. I have traded links with lots of sites in my niche and I've submitted to lots directories...