From the monthly archives:
Keeping track of billions of web pages isn’t easy, yet today’s search engines continue to strive to serve up the most relevant search results no matter what you’re looking for. Have you ever wondered how they do it? If you want your website to be well-positioned in the search engines, it’s important to understand the [...]
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10. DON’T use remote search engine submission programsRemote submission programs are no longer the traffic generators they once were. These days, they mostly submit to free-for-all link pages. Most major search engines block (do not accept) submissions from these programs. Submitting your website to the search engines manually will reap the best results. Make sure [...]
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IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman & CEO Barry Diller announced last week that Ask Jeeves Inc.’s always dapper Butler will soon disappear and the name Ask Jeeves will likely be changed to Ask or Ask.com.
Jeeves the Butler was originally created by British humorist P.G. Wodehouse (widely regarded as one of the greatest humorist of the 20th Century). [...]
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Tip #10: Use Advanced Search OptionsMost major search engines support many advanced search options which can be extremely helpful in targeting the information you’re looking for.
Here are some examples:
Specific website searchEnables you to control what websites or domain names (i.e. www.cnn.com) are included or excluded from a search
Language searchUseful when you want to search for [...]
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Google has started a pilot program to begin alerting some owners of sites that they consider to be outside their quality guidelines. They are currently sending automated emails to webmasters and site owners of sites that they have flagged for removal due to a few search engine spam tactics (specifically JavaScript redirects and hidden text [...]
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If the information on your web page is sensitive or proprietary in nature, you should password protect it. Search engines can not index password protected pages.
Another way to prevent search engines from indexing a web page, is to instruct the robots not to.
You can do this by creating a robot.txt file. Robots that comply with [...]
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