When, shopping for a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company/specialist you need to be aware of a few things. If someone offers you fast results they may be pulling your leg. If you aren't listed on search engines the average time to be index takes around 4 weeks. Someone offering submissions in less then that is coning you. Websites that are already listed and are just being updated will have a faster result. A guarantee isn't always reinsurance. Just because a site states they can get you in the #1 spot doesn't mean they can deliver....

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Most Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts agree that links back to your site have a great impact on your ranking in the major search engines. Think of it like an election; your site is a candidate and every link to your site is a vote. Of course, it was never quite that simple (high ranking, relevant sites have more voting power) but now it may have gotten even more complicated. The Dampening Link Filter More and more people are realising the importance of links back to your site (or "...

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Online search giant, Google, often tests the waters for newservices by rolling out a "beta" (first) version of an ideato gauge public reaction. By employing this strategy, it's easy to imagine a buildingfull of creative, "mad scientist" types cooking up thelatest and greatest online gizmos. There you'll find glimpses of the true "bleeding edge"technology Google thinks will shape the way we useinformation on the Internet in the very near future. ** Online Video Search ** This first attempt at providing searchable data about videois currently restricted to recent television shows....

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Link building is a waiting game. Many clients have asked me why they do not see changes in traffic or ranking before a month goes by. It takes time for the search engine robots to find those new links and index the pages they are linked to. The Process Of Indexing Links Why Do I Have To Wait So Long For Results? What's A Backlink? A backlink is a spiderable link (typically a text hyperlink) that points from another web page to your designated web page. The preferable type of backlink is one that is topical in nature....

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1 - cache This will return the Web Page that Google has in it's Memory cache:www. google. com ---- Returns Web Page cache:www. google. com Advanced Search --- Returns web Page with Advanced Search Highlighted 2 - link Lists web pages that have links to Target Web Page link:www. google. com Return Links to www. google. com 3 - related: Find Web Pages that are similar to the Target Page related:www. google. com 4 - info: This will show information Google has about the Web Page info::www....

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A Brief Introduction To Link Popularity As webmasters research various ways to get more traffic to their site one method that is gaining more and more publicity is Link Popularity. Link Popularity is the number of links that point to your website as measured by the search engines. In theory if your site has many sites linking to it then it is considered to be a valuable resource on the particular topic so the search engines will give it a higher ranking. The Problem As with many rules/laws eventually people found a way to manipulate it....

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Most internet marketers are aware of, and probably use, the Google Toolbar. After all, it has been the only indicator of Google's PageRank number that has been assigned to a given web page. Whether the number is accurate, important, or even updated any more is a matter of debate on the marketing forums. But the only feature that was really worthwhile for more casual surfers, other than being able to use the Google search box directly, was the popup window blocker feature, which oddly enough, is the least favorite feature of many an internet marketer....

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Before anyone can start optimizing a web site, you must understand how search engines work. Search engine optimization is the hardest thing to do for a webmaster because there are so many rules to it and you have to stay up to date with all the new search engine optimization techniques. Search engines send out what is know as a robot or some people call them spiders to index your web page. They find web pages by links, When a robot finds a link on a web page it will follow it to that page (you can join www....

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