Basics About Google
When you sit down at your computer and do a Google search, you’re almost instantly presented with a list of results from all over the web. How does Google find web pages matching your query, and determine the order of search results?
In the simplest terms, you could think of searching the web as looking in [...]
Domain or subdomain? Sandbox question.
Recently I have received an e-mail with the follwing question:
Is the whole domain, or just a page gets sandboxed?
Due to my research in this field whole domain and subdomains are
Publishing Borrowed Content
Sometimes you need to put somebody’s content on your site. This may be some unchangeable documents, FAQs, excerpts from articles, pdf documents, etc. However, you risk to get penalized for duplicate content. I have got such problem and this how I guess it can be solved:
Indexing How-to.
Normally, a small site with proper structure, correct linking, clean code and a couple of good backlinks gets indexed in very short time and you start finding it in SERPs. But what about large sites and doorways?
Picture Optimization
I have noticed that pictures that have proper titles and links are giving about 15% of all target traffic that comes to one of my site. Did anybody tried to do the same? I mean get target traffic by optimizing pictures?
Dedicated or Shared IP?
There’s much controversy about usage of dedicated and shared IPs in SEO. During forum debates I have seen a lot of opinions concerning this question, so I’d like to give you some excerpts of discussion to think about:
- Google dislikes shared IPs; one should park domains on dedicated IPs.
- Google don’t care if you have [...]
Strange Indexed Pages Quantity
Recently I have noticed that quantity of my “indexed pages” in Google has overcome real quantity of pages on my site. The real quantity is
Google is Going to Make More Personal Search
Google is going to release a new Personalized Search soon. Google will not just save your search history, but also analyze it (search queries, sites visited) and modify your SERPs to fit your search behavior.
Google Earth – Free Download
Google earth is a service that combines really powerful things: satellite imagery of Earth, regional and world maps and Google search. Service is completely free: http://earth.google.com/