Archive for the 'Search Engines' Category

Comparing The Search Engine Ranking Factors

I read on a popular blog consultant’s website that he was on page 1 of three search engines for the phrase “blog consultant.” He asked his readers which one they’d have guess was the incongruent one if he hadn’t told them. It was a good question, but there are reasons to believe that it could […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

How To Secure Your Web Pages

Do you have a problem keeping your secure pages secure? There’s a good explanation for it if you do.
Of course, you know how to tell the difference between a secure and a non-secure web page, right? Look in your web browser. If the URL you are looking at begins with http://, then it not secure. […]

Friday, January 18th, 2008

ClikitySplit Offers Twist On Local Search

Never mind that few of us can define Web 2.0. ClikitySplit founder Jim Clouse is calling his new local search website a “Web 3.0″ tool. Whatever that means, ClikitySplit does have some potential.
Clouse also describes his new creation as a (source) “visual, rich multimedia, dynamic, marketing and search engine.” Sounds cool, doesn’t it?
Actually, it is, […]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Wikia Search Off To A Slow Start

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has been planning his newest project for a long time. He plans to take on Google through an open source search engine called Wikia. The problem is it isn’t getting rave reviews”

Wikia Not Ready Yet
Wikia Search A Complete Letdown
Wikia Search Launches In Alpha

The negative reviews are understandable. All Wikia is […]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Google Webmaster Central Team Is Growing

In November, the Google Webmaster Central Help Groups Team introduced its Dublin expansion office. It was fabulous news and it still is. Out of that office are working 12 bloggers blogging in 12 different languages. Well, it was 12. Now it’s 15.
The Dublin office of Google Webmaster Central is growing by adding three new languages […]

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Using the Search Engines to Promote Your Site

In cyberspace, the best way to get people to take notice of your website is to have search engines crawl and to the job for you. The question here is how? Well you may want to check out some of the home page of these sites as they usually have these “Add URL” or “Add […]

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Search Engines And The Internet

It can almost be said that search engines rule the Internet. If your web site is not listed and ranking reasonably highly in the search engines, then no one can find it and you will have no natural search traffic. People complain about the vagaries of the search engines, and sometimes it seems that they […]

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Search Engines and SEO

The World Wide Web wasn’t very old before the first search engines started offering their services. They listed web pages, ranked according to predetermined criteria, for popularity. The ranking of the pages was an ever fluid process, reflecting the ever changing nature of the pages themselves.
Wikipedia describes search engines like this:
“A search engine is an […]

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Search Engines - More Than Just A Way Of Categorising The Internet

The search engines rule the Internet. If you need to find a web site or a service, or if you are seeking a product you wish to buy, you are likely to start off at one of the search engines. Searches are conducted by entering a keyword, a word that describes best what you wish […]

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Search Engines, the Light of the Internet

We all use search engines. In the very, very early days there were no search engines. But it quickly became obvious that the fast growing medium that was the World Wide Web needed a means of organising the many pages that were pouring out onto cyberspace, and so search engines were born.
In those early days, […]

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007