Search Engine Optimization(SEO)

What is your keyword targeting strategy?

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:04:00 +0000

Let me ask you a few questions. What is your keyword targeting strategy? Do you go for the more general and competitive terms or for the more specific, longer and less competitive ones? Do you prefer shorter or longer articles? Are you targeting Google or Yahoo and MSN?

Before I lay down my general keyword strategy, let me explain what is the “keyword ladder” and then I will elaborate on why I believe in climbing it (a bottom-up approach).

Imagine a ladder where you put the most general and competitive keyphrases on the top rung and the least competitive keyphrases on the bottom rung.

As an example, let us consider the SEO industry. On the top rung we would have general queries like: “search engine optimization”, “search engine marketing”, “seo” etc. Somewhere below we will have less competitive and more specific keyphrases like: “google search engine optimization”, “yahoo search engine optimization”, “search engine optimization services” etc. Going down the ladder we might come down to queries of the type: “affordable seo specialist in New York”, “where can I learn seo for free” etc.

What are the general characteristics of the ladder? The top keyphrases are the most competitive, they have the highest traffic potential per keyphrase, they are fewer in numbers and they convert worst (there are too general).

Going down the ladder we come to keyphrases that are less competitive, easier to rank for, have lower search volume, but are higher in numbers and usually convert much better (because they are very specific).

The problem with very specific long queries is that it is hard to keyword research them. Depending on who you ask, about 20% to 50% of all daily queries are unique never-searched-before ones. Add to these the loads of queries from the bottom of the ladder that are searched for once in a while and we come to the fact that most of the queries from the bottom of the ladder don’t show in keyword research tools. That of course, can’t stop us from targeting them.

I try to target the bottom half of the ladder for at least these reasons:
1. It is easier to rank higher for less competitive keyphrases

2. The traffic you can get from thousands of lower profile keyphrases is more diverse and stable since you don’t put your eggs in too few baskets (keywords)

3. The bottom half of the ladder can provide more total traffic, since the number of low profile keyphrases is higher (it is like getting 100 visitors from one general keyphrase vs getting 10 visitors from each of 10 less competitive queries)

4. Searchers are starting to use longer and more descriptive queries, which bumps up the traffic potential of the bottom half of the keyword ladder

5. The bottom half of the ladder converts better (more revenue for you)

6. Targeting many low competitive keywords at the same time is not that difficult on Google. If you still haven’t noticed, Google has introduced ranking scores which push up the overall rankings of pages and sites that rank well for a variety of keyphrases. In other words, when you have a lot of content, you rank well for a variety of less competitive queries, which pushes up your rankings on the more competitive queries from the top half of the ladder, which in turn pushes the rankings of the even more competitive ones etc. Or to restate it in other words, with Google it is much easier to rank for the general high search volume queries (top half of the ladder), when you have already conquered the bottom half of the ladder. That is what I call ‘climbing’ the keyword ladder. All you have to do is have loads of content.

Let me get back to the last point above: you must climb the keyword ladder by starting from less competitive queries and gradually increasing your rankings for more and more competitive keywords.

Here’s a snippet from Google’s patent “Information Retrieval Based On Historical Data”:

“Thus, the quantity or rate that a document moves in rankings over a period of time might be used to influence future scores assigned to that document. In one implementation, for each set of search results, a document may be weighted according to its position in the top N search results.”

Every time you rank a page in the top N results, you may get a little general ranking boost (for other queries). The more times you can rank pages in the top N search results, the greater ranking boost you get. You can rank a great number of keyphrases in the top N when you have a lot of content and when these keyphrases are from the less competitive bottom-half of the ladder.

Google keeps statistics of which queries you rank for and which are selected by users within the SERPs. You can see the top stats, if you use Google Sitemaps.

The above “content is king” ranking factors are very different from how Yahoo and MSN operate. Let me give you a real world example.

You are writing an article that discusses how to optimize AdWords campaigns. You wrote a very comprehensive and long article that covers the ins and outs of AdWords. Now you are coming to the point where you need to optimize the article for search engine traffic. You do some keyword research and it turns out there are let’s say 20 good keyphrases to target. How do you target all of these?

Since Yahoo and MSN (and also Google not so long time ago) rely mostly on the anchor text of incoming links, link popularity and page titles, you need incoming links with the anchor text targeting these 20 keyphrases. You also need to place as many of these keywords in the page title. That seems like an impossible task.

Some webmasters may try to partition the content into multiple pages trying to target each of these 20 keyphrases. But how do you get links to all these parts of the article. There will always be someone to outrank that approach by targeting a single page with a specific keyword from these 20.

What most webmasters do at this time, is they just pick one or two of these 20 keywords to target. That is not bad but it is unnatural. It is like webmasters who offers generally the same AdWords content, share the traffic between them by everyone emphasizing a certain keyphrase.

Google is clearly trying to stop this traffic partitioning. Google will try to infer which is the best AdWords page and will try to send as much relevant traffic (including these 20 keywords) to the top few authorative pages.

How will Google do that? By boosting the rankings of the sites that have real content (having rankings for the bottom-half of the ladder). Not so long ago, I was into the “links are king” camp. Now I am at an equal distance between the “content is king” vs. “links are king” camps (maybe closer to the “content is king” camp, when I think long-term).

I don’t want to be misinterpreted here. Sites with almost no content can outrank sites with a lot of great content. Fact is, everything else being equal, a site with no content (haven’t conquered the bottom half of the keyword ladder) will need more and higher quality links to outrank a site with great content. To reframe it another way: having a lot of content decreases the amount and quality of links you need.

Naturally, you should be able to get higher quality links long term with a great content site. Your competitors will need to buy many links in order to compensate for their low-quality websites. And sites with no content will have a hard time overpowering your bottom-of-the-ladder traffic. They can only steal your general keyphrases traffic.

Let me take out my crystal ball and see into the future of search engines…Hmm, I see Yahoo and MSN copying Google… I see Yahoo and MSN becoming more Google-like…

Got the point? Sooner or later, Yahoo and MSN will find a way to give ranking boosts to genuine sites with loads of content and little over-optimization. We will start to see Google doing this better and better. In a way, it supports the notion of “the rich becoming richer” – or having the SERPs dominated by a handful of the most authorative websites.

Now let my lay out my keyword targeting strategy

Write Long Pages

When you write longer pages, you use more unique and repeated words per page. The repeated words increase the rankings of the queries they participate in. The unique words open the possibility of ranking for more keyphrases. Any way you look at it, the more words on a page, the more keyword phrases you target. It is that simple.

When your pages are longer, you are basically going for more keywords from the bottom of the ladder. You get these and Google boosts your rankings for the more competitive ones.

Longer pages will always outperform shorter ones.

Write naturally

Don’t overrepeat one or two phrases. Write naturally. Good content is written naturally. While search engines cannot understand the quality of content by way of interpreting its meaning, they can detect and devalue unnatural overrepeated and stuffed content. When you write naturally, you usually use synonyms, related words and that ups the number of potential phrases you target.

But wouldn’t that dilute your keyword density? Forget the nonsense of keyword density. Keyword density has never-ever been used by Google or any other decent search engine (because it does not improve relevancy). That is one of the SEO myths trotted by the SEO “experts”.

Optimize your page titles

When you do keyword research, remember, that you cannot research the bottom of the keyword ladder. You research the top of the ladder – the competitive high-traffic, most common search terms. Place the most general ones in the title of your home page and the titles of the major sections. Your content can target one or two general keyphrases in the page titles.

Research and use the common keyword subphrases Have you noticed that if you make a long list of queries related to your pages, you start to see common subphrases.

Let’s say you sell a weight loss ebook. You can target keyphrases like: weight loss book, weight loss ebook, weight loss program… but you can also target keyphrases like: diet book, diet ebook, diet program …

Here we see that a lot of keyphrases that are common to queries relevant to your page include subphrases like “weight loss”, “diet”, “diets”, “dieting”, “calories” etc.

It makes sense to think that most of the queries from the keyword ladder (top + bottom parts) will include the above subphrases as parts of the queries. These common subphrases are usually some of the more general queries (top of the keyword ladder).

When you have identified the common subphrases you need to do 4 things to greatly increase your chances of ranking for a lot of queries.

1. Use all these common subphrases generously in your long articles. Don’t focus on one subphrase. Use all of them + their stemmed variants. These are the ones that should be repeated more often. All the other text (non-common subphrases) should be written naturally. To use as many of them, you need to write longer articles.

2. When using the common subphrases within content, write them as parts of the longer queries. If you focus on “weight loss”, use it as “weight loss book”, next time as “weight loss program” or “weight loss failure” etc.

3. Place a few of these subphrases in the page title

4. If you have control over the anchor text of the incoming links (as with home pages), try to inject as many subphrases as possible. Anchor text is still very important. Let’s say that the subphrase “weight loss” is a subphrase in 8000 potential queries you may target on your page. You need to inject it into as many incoming links and then all the other words on the page will combine nicely with “weight loss” to form longer queries and increase your rankings for a great variety of phrases. If you submit to directories, rotate the anchor text subphrases. In our case rotate among “weight loss”, “diet”, “calories” etc.

There are obviously a lot of other factors to consider. Pages are going up and down the ladder constantly. Have you noticed that after each update your traffic and rankings increase or decrease across most of your pages? In a way, all ranking factors together either made you climb the ladder (rank for more queries) or made you go down the ladder (rank for less queries).

That is why I believe the most powerful factors for ranking on Google are domain based – they act upon all pages on the domain. One of these domain based factors is the “how many queries do you rank for in the top N results”. Google’s patent on “Information Retrieval Based On Historical Data” clearly states that a “document” may mean a page, a site, a part of a site (a subfolder).

Domain Selection

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:17:00 +0000

There is alot of debate regarding SEO and the use of keywords / domain extensions. Everyone agrees that having your keyword in the domain is good but there are alot of theories regarding .net, .com, numbers, dashes, length etc. We definitely have an opinion here that is not based on theory but on measurable results. Over the past five years we have developed a domain selection order of importance. This is crucial when forming an SEO Monopoly. Here it is,
#1 = keyword dot com
#2 = keyword dot net
#3 = keyword with additional word dot com (the additional word should be genaric like news, blog, info etc)
#4 = keyword dot org
#5 = keyword with dashes dot com
#6 = keyword with number dot com (the number should be one digit in front of domain, exp 4domain.com
There is no question that in Google the keyword without dashes dot com gives you a large amount of leverage. However, it is rare that the keyword dot com is available. So, if # 1 is taken then we go to # 2 and so on so forth.

White Hat versus Black Hat seo

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:28:00 +0000

SEO techniques are classified by some into two broad categories: techniques that search engines recommend as part of good design, and those techniques that search engines do not approve of and attempt to minimize the effect of, referred to as spamdexing. Some industry commentators classify these methods, and the practitioners who employ them, as either white hat SEO, or black hat SEO. White hats tend to produce results that last a long time, whereas black hats anticipate that their sites will eventually be banned once the search engines discover what they are doing.

An SEO tactic, technique or method is considered white hat if it conforms to the search engines' guidelines and involves no deception. As the search engine guidelines are not written as a series of rules or commandments, this is an important distinction to note. White hat SEO is not just about following guidelines, but is about ensuring that the content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a user will see.

White hat advice is generally summed up as creating content for users, not for search engines, and then making that content easily accessible to the spiders, rather than attempting to game the algorithm. White hat SEO is in many ways similar to web development that promotes accessibility, although the two are not identical.

White Hat SEO is merely effective marketing, making efforts to deliver quality content to an audience that has requested the quality content. Traditional marketing means have allowed this through transparency and exposure. A search engine's algorithm takes this into account, such as Google's PageRank.

Black hat SEO attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by the search engines, or involve deception. One black hat technique uses text that is hidden, either as text colored similar to the background, in an invisible div, or positioned off screen. Another method gives a different page depending on whether the page is being requested by a human visitor or a search engine, a technique known as cloaking.

Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review. One infamous example was the February 2006 Google removal of both BMW Germany and Ricoh Germany for use of deceptive practices. Both companies, however, quickly apologized, fixed the offending pages, and were restored to Google's list.

Additionally, many professionals in the SEO industry refer to "gray hat" tactics that may skirt the lines of black and white hat tactics. Numerous references to gray hat techniques have been published, and these usually constitute practices that are not strictly disapproved by search engines, but may go against the spirit of the regulations that search engines have laid out.

5 Tools to See a Website Like a Search Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:40:00 +0000

SEO tools have come a long way, and it is easier than ever to view a website the same way a search engine does. Below are five tools that make this task quick and effective.

Google Cached Version

SEOs have long used the cached version of their website to glean how Google is viewing it. To view the cached version of any page simply type “cache:www.yourdomain.com/” into the Google search box. Once the cached version of your webpage loads, click on “Text-only version”. This will enable you to quickly identify if any of your text or links are not being crawled in addition to any hidden text.

SEO-Browser.com

While checking Google’s text-only cached version of a page can be very helpful, it is difficult to do this for an entire website. This is because clicking on a link to another page in the cached version will bring you to the live version, thus making it difficult to quickly examine the entire site. For this reason I often go to seo-browser.com. It is essentially the same as viewing the text cached version, but it allows you to obtain a better understanding of how the pages interact with each other. Simply type your URL into the search box on the homepage and click “Simple”.

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools has two great features that help you see how the Googlebot views your website. For a quick reference you can use the Site Preview Tool. This will show you the same thing as clicking on the magnifying glass next to your website in the SERPS. However, it is easier to use since it compares your actual page and previewed page side by side and doesn’t highlight snippets of text from your site.

For a more in depth report perform a “Fetch as a Googlebot” within Webmaster Tools. This is similar to viewing your source code, but it is going one step further by showing you how Google views your source code.

Web Developer Toolbar

The Web Developer Toolbar is a well known extension for Firefox and contains three essential features for enabling you to see a website the way search engines do. These features include:

1. Turning off cookies (search engine crawlers don’t carry them)
2. Turning off JavaScript (search engines struggle to read it)
3. Turning off Meta redirects (search engines don’t blindly follow them)

By simply disabling cookies and Javascript while browsing a website you will gain a better understanding of what the search engines are seeing while still maintaining the overall look and feel of the site as you browse.

Likewise, it is also helpful to turn off Meta redirects in your browser, since it is likely that the search engines will crawl a page with a Meta redirect before moving on, whereas some Meta redirects will send a visitor away so quickly they might not even realize an additional page exists.

User Agent Switcher

A user agent switcher or spoofer allows you to change the user agent string, which identifies what browser you are using to the website you visit. In other words, even if you are browsing the web in the latest version of Firefox, you can change the user agent to appear as if you are using IE6. My favorite is a Firefox extension from Chris Pederick, who created the Web Developer Toolbar mentioned above.

The best part about this extension is the ability to set the user agent string to any one of the major search engine bots. This will allow you to quickly determine if a website is cloaking by presenting the search engines with different content than users.

Website Optimization Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:42:00 +0000

Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.
Be sure you have a unique, keyword focused Title tag on every page of your site. And, if you MUST have the name of your company in it, put it at the end. Unless you are a major brand name that is a household name, your business name will probably get few searches.
Don’t design your web site without considering SEO. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. Doing a retrofit on your shiny new Flash-based site after it is built won’t cut it. Spiders can crawl text, not Flash or images.
Check the link to your home page throughout your site. Is index.html appended to your domain name? If so, you’re splitting your links. Outside links go to http://www.domain.com

and internal links go to http://www.domain.com/index.html

.
Search engines want natural language content. Don’t try to stuff your text with keywords. It won’t work. Search engines look at how many times a term is in your content and if it is abnormally high, will count this against you rather than for you.
Links from .edu domains are given nice weight by the search engines. Run a search for possible non-profit .edu sites that are looking for sponsors.
Cater to influential bloggers and authority sites who might link to you, your images, videos, podcasts, etc. or ask to reprint your content.
You’re better off letting your site pages be found naturally by the crawler. Good global navigation and linking will serve you much better than relying only on an XML Sitemap.
To get the best chance for your videos to be found by the crawlers, create a video sitemap and list it in your Google Webmaster Central account.
If you have pages on your site that are very similar (you are concerned about duplicate content issues) and you want to be sure the correct one is included in the search engines, place the URL of your preferred page in your sitemaps.
Some of your most valuable links might not appear in web sites at all but be in the form of e-mail communications such as newletters and zines.
SEO is not a one-shot process. The search landscape changes daily, so expect to work on your optimization daily.
Pay attention to the context surrounding your images. Images can rank based on text that surrounds them on the page. Pay attention to keyword text, headings, etc.
Search engines like unique content that is also quality content. There can be a difference between unique content and quality content. Make sure your content is both.
Get the owner or CEO blogging. It’s priceless! CEO influence on a blog is incredible as this is the VOICE of the company. Response from the owner to reader comments will cause your credibility to skyrocket!
Use absolute links. Not only will it make your on-site link navigation less prone to problems (like links to and from https pages), but if someone scrapes your content, you’ll get backlink juice out of it.
Videos that show up in Google blended search results don’t just come from YouTube. Be sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites like Metacafe, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to name a few.
When considering a link purchase or exchange, check the cache date of the page where your link will be located in Google. Search for “cache:URL” where you substitute “URL” for the actual page. The newer the cache date the better. If the page isn’t there or the cache date is more than an month old, the page isn’t worth much.
Links (especially deep links) from a high PageRank site are golden. High PR indicates high trust, so the back links will carry more weight.
There are two ways to NOT see Google’s Personalized Search results:
Use captions with your images. As with newspaper photos, place keyword rich captions with your images.
If you absolutely MUST have your main page as a splash page that is all Flash or one big image, place text and navigation links below the fold.
Be aware that by using services that block domain ownership information when you register a domain, Google might see you as a potential spammer.
When link building, think quality, not quantity. One single, good, authoritative link can do a lot more for you than a dozen poor quality links, which can actually hurt you.
Check for canonicalization issues - www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other to it. In other words, if http://www.domain.com

is your preference, then http://domain.com

should redirect to it.
If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good, logical reason for that site to link to you, you don’t want the link.
If you absolutely MUST use Java script drop down menus, image maps or image links, be sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.
Frames, Flash and AJAX all share a common problem - you can’t link to a single page. It’s either all or nothing. Don’t use Frames at all and use Flash and AJAX sparingly for best SEO results.
Your URL file extension doesn’t matter. You can use .html, .htm, .asp, .php, etc. and it won’t make a difference as far as your SEO is concerned.
When optimizing your blog posts, optimize your post title tag independently from your blog title.
Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your target is “blue widgets” then link to “blue widgets” instead of a “Click here” link.
videos that show up in Google blended search results don’t just come from YouTube. Be sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites like Metacafe, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to name a few.
Not only should your links use keyword anchor text, but the text around the links should also be related to your keywords. In other words, surround the link with descriptive text.
You get NOTHING from paid links except a few clicks unless the links are embedded in body text and NOT obvious sponsored links.
Optimize the text in your RSS feed just like you should with your posts and web pages. Use descriptive, keyword rich text in your title and description.
Understand social marketing. It IS part of SEO. The more you understand about sites like Digg, Yelp, del.icio.us

, Facebook, etc., the better you will be able to compete in search.
See if your hosting company offers “Sticky” forwarding when moving to a new domain. This allows temporary forwarding to the new domain from the old, retaining the new URL in the address bar so that users can gradually get used to the new URL.
Add viral components to your web site or blog - reviews, sharing functions, ratings, visitor comments, etc.
Surround video content on your pages with keyword rich text. The search engines look at surrounding content to define the usefulness of the video for the query.
SEO is useless if you have a weak or non-existent call to action. Make sure your call to action is clear and present.
Give link love, Get link love. Don’t be stingy with linking out. That will encourage others to link to you.
The bottom line in SEO is Text, Links, Popularity and Reputation.
Make sure your site is easy to use. This can influence your link building ability and popularity and, thus, your ranking.
Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.
Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.
If your site content doesn’t change often, your site needs a blog because search spiders like fresh text. Blog at least three time a week with good, fresh content to feed those little crawlers.
Focus on search phrases, not single keywords, and put your location in your text (“our Palm Springs store” not “our store”) to help you get found in local searches.
Got a new web site you want spidered? Submitting through Google’s regular submission form can take weeks. The quickest way to get your site spidered is by getting a link to it through another quality site.
Give each page a focus on a single keyword phrase. Don’t try to optimize the page for several keywords at once.
Use the words “image” or “picture” in your photo ALT descriptions and captions. A lot of searches are for a keyword plus one of those words.
Broaden your range of services to include video, podcasts, news, social content and so forth. SEO is not about 10 blue links anymore.
Enable “Enhanced image search” in your Google Webmaster Central account. Images are a big part of the new blended search results, so allowing Google to find your photos will help your SEO efforts.
Check your server headers। Search for “check server header” to find free online tools for this। You want to be sure your URLs report a “200 OK” status or “301 Moved Permanently ” for redirects। If the status shows anything else, check to be sure your URLs are set up properly and used consistently throughout your site.

List of Article Directories

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:01:00 +0000

No	Website
1	www.articleated.com
2	www.article-buzz.com
3	www.articleclick.com
4	www.articledashboard.com
5	www.everyonesarticles.com
6	www.reprint-content.com
7	www.rightarticle.com
8	www.a1-articledirectory.com
9	www.mainarticles.com
10	www.allentrepreneurinfo.com
11	www.myarticlezine.com
12	www.articles-abundant.com
13	www.article-voip.com
14	www.christiannotepad.com
15	www.interesting-articles.com
16	www.marketingarticlebank.com
17	www.share.onlypunjab.com
18	www.thatsmyniche.com
19	www.ezinearticles.com
20	www.greatarticlesformoms.com
21	www.articlevally.com
22	www.articlesonblogging.com
23	www.articlecrash.com
24	www.ezarticles.info
25	www.particlearticles.com
26	www.purearticle.com
27	www.articlewarehouse.net
28	www.thecontentcorner.com
29	www.articleretreat.com
30	www.articlesbasecamp.com
31	www.explorearticle.com
32	www.freearticlemaster.com
33	www.haveinfo.net
34	www.articletrunk.com
35	www.articlecell.com
36	www.articledirectorylive.com
37	www.articlecharge.com
38	www.articlescrub.com
39	www.articlesltd.com
40	www.articlemirror.com
41	www.articlesfeed.com
42	www.articleszoom.com
43	www.dk-article.com
44	www.articlesanctuary.com
45	www.articleswww.com
46	www.bestinfobay.com
47	www.easycontentpro.com
48	www.ezarticles.net
49	www.ezine-articles-planet.com
50	www.addondashboard.com
51	www.articleblender.com
52	www.articlecafe.net
53	www.articlecamp.com
54	www.articlecontentheaven.info
55	www.articleinfo.org
56	www.bestarticlesnow.com
57	www.bestnichearticles.com
58	www.envispire.com
59	www.orbitaloc.com
60	www.postondashboard.com
61	www.rightbiz.com
62	www.articlear.com
63	www.contentfueled.com
64	www.freeliveknowledge.com
65	www.articleshome.org
66	www.blisspublisher.com
67	www.portator.com
68	www.articlemainia.com
69	www.articlepyramid.com
70	www.articles.com.mx
71	www.articlesboard.com
72	www.article-space.com
73	www.dummiesguideto.com
74	www.free-article-depot.com
75	www.indoarticles.com
76	www.itempad.com
77	www.go-see.info
78	www.myarticlepub.com
79	www.notepad.in
80	www.search4articles.com
81	www.seositemanager.com
82	www.thearticlelibrary.com
83	www.articlesaboutchina.com
84	www.webpenpushers.com
85	www.writedot.com
86	www.yourarticle.info
87	www.za77.org
88	www.marketfinding.com
89	www.higradesearch.com
90	www.fetcharticles.com
91	www.acmearticles.com
92	www.articles-book.com
93	www.SearchWarp.com
94	www.SelfGrowth.com
95	www.Buzzle.com
96	www.ArticleCity.com
97	www.IdeaMarketers.com
98	www.ArticleAlley.com
99	www.Web-Source.net
100	www.SelfSEO.com
101	www.Amazines.com
102	www.ArticleTrader.com
103	www.SearchGuild.com
104	www.WebWorldIndex.com
105	www.ArticleSphere.com
106	www.BusinessKnowHow.com
107	www.PromotionWorld.com
108	www.ArticlesFactory.com
109	www.ExcellentGuide.com/article
110	www.ContentDesk.com
111	www.ArticleCube.com
112	www.AfroArticles.com
113	www.ArticleBiz.com
114	www.itmanagersjournal.com
115	www.webpronews.com
116	www.webknowhow.net
117	www.thewhir.com
118	www.marketingsource.com
119	www.isnare.com
120	www.goarticles.com
121	www.threadwatch.org
122	www.qarchive.org
123	www.webmasterbrain.com
124	www.devpointer.net
125	www.allmerchants.com
126	www.bharatbhasha.com
127	www.marketing-seek.com
128	www.workoninternet.com
129	www.articleblast.com
130	www.articledepot.co.uk
131	www.articlesphere.com
132	www.articleworld.net
133	www.free-articles-zone.com
134	www.expertarticles.com
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136	www.amazines.com
137	www.articleson.com
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139	www.articlemarketer.com
140	www.seoarticles4u.com
141	www.workathomearticles.net
142	www.morganarticlearchive.com
143	www.article-content-king.com
144	www.articlesbeyondbetter.com
145	www.click-partners.com
146	www.contentdesk.com
147	www.articlegeek.com
148	www.a1articles.com
149	www.valuablecontent.com
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153	www.articlebin.com
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155	ww.101Articles.com
156	www.1ArticleWorld.com
157	www.1st-in-Articles.com
158	www.365Articles.com
159	www.A1Articles.com
160	www.AardvarkArticles.net
161	www.AccessibleInsights.com
162	www.ActiveArticles.com
163	www.Add-Articles.com
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250	www.BigArticleDirectory.com
251	www.BigArticles.com
252	www.Biz-eWomen.com
253	www.Biz-Whiz.com
254	www.BlogWidow.com
255	www.BocOnline.com
256	www.Bpubs.com
257	www.BusinessArticleDepot.com
258	www.BusinessClique.com
259	www.BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
260	www.BusinessNation.com
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262	www.Certificate.net
263	www.Changingearth.org
264	www.Chinamaze.com
265	www.ClearViewPublications.com
266	www.ConnectionTeam.com
267	www.Constant-Content.com
268	www.Content-Articles.com
269	www.Content-Corral.com
270	www.Content-Edge.com
271	www.CreateOnlineBusiness.com
272	www.CyberIndian.com
273	www.Digital-Women.com
274	www.Dime-Co.com
275	www.DogNewsCenter.com
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277	www.EBusiness-Articles.com
278	www.E-Calc.net
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280	www.EhealthArticle.com
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285	www.Financial-Authors.com
286	www.FindMoreArticles.com
287	www.FreeArticleHQ.com
288	www.FreeArticles4Us.com
289	www.Free-Articles-Zone.com
290	www.FreeForAllArticles.com
291	www.FreeSticky.com
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293	www.GoArticles.com
294	www.GreatArticles.co.uk
295	www.HamaZines.com
296	www.HerCommunity.com
297	www.HighProfileArticles.com
298	www.Home-Business-Directory.com
299	www.HotArticles.net
300	www.HowItWorks.net
301	www.HowToAdvice.com
302	www.HowToWinTheMoneyGame.com
303	www.HTTPArticles.com
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305	www.IBizResources.com
306	www.ImpactArticles.com
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308	www.InternetHomeBusinessArticles.com
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312	www.KnowHow-Now.com
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339	www.PowerHomeBiz.com
340	www.PressArticle.com
341	www.ProContentSite.com
342	www.PromoteNewz.com
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344	www.Real-Estate-Article-Directory.com
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347	www.ReprintedArticles.com
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349	www.SaveArticles.com
350	www.Site-Reference.com
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352	www.SmallBusinessOutpost.com
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355	www.SuperPublisher.com
356	www.SuperZines.com
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361	www.Top7Business.com
362	www.TopicPlanet.com
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365	www.UniTerra.com
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495	Ezineline.com
496	Ezineplug.com
497	Ezinetrendz.com
498	E-zinez.com
499	Fabaroo.com
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100 RSS Feeds Submission Site List

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:54:00 +0000

1	http://www.bloglines.com	9
2	http://www.moreover.com	8
3	http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp	8
4	http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/	8
5	http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx	8
6	http://www.syndic8.com/	8
7	http://www.technorati.com/	8
8	http://rss.msn.com/	8
9	http://www.whoi.edu/mywhoi/help.go	8
10	http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/anmelden.php	7
11	http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html	7
12	http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp	7
13	http://www.blogflux.com/add.php	7
14	http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html	7
15	http://boingboing.net/suggest.html	7
16	http://www.romow.com/submit.php	7
17	http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog	7
18	http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php	7
19	http://www.topix.net/member/register	7
20	http://www.rocketnews.com/	7
21	http://www.rss-specifications.com/	7
22	http://www.2rss.com/	7
23	http://www.rss-faq.com/	7
24	http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/02/a_yahoo_for_rss.php	7
25	http://www.newsmob.com/	6
26	http://www.rssbus.com	6
27	http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php	6
28	http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php	6
29	http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink	6
30	http://www.blog-directory.org/	6
31	http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/	6
32	http://www.bloggapedia.com/	6
33	http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi	6
34	http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm	6
35	http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi	6
36	http://www.blogs-collection.com	6
37	http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx	6
38	http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html	6
39	http://www.diarist.net/	6
40	http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=	6
41	http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php	6
42	http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html	6
43	http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php	6
44	http://www.pressradar.com/suggest	6
45	http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs	6
46	http://www.tailrank.com/import	6
47	http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php	6
48	http://www.genecast.com/	6
49	http://rssfeedreader.com/	6
50	http://www.anse.de/	6
51	http://www.jordomedia.com/	6
52	http://www.millionrss.com/	6
53	http://www.plazoo.com/	6
54	http://www.search4rss.com/	6
55	http://www.weblogalot.com/	6
56	http://www.chordata.info/	6
57	http://www.listible.com/list/top-rss-feed-submission-sites	6
58	http://www.chefsblogs.com/directory/Submitting_Blogs/RSS_Feeds/	6
59	http://www.submitrssfeed.com/	6
60	http://www.newsisfree.com	5
61	http://www.feedminer.com/addfeed.aspx	5
62	http://www.memigo.com/feed	5
63	http://www.rssmad.com/	5
64	http://www.rss-portal.com/	5
65	http://www.devasp.com/search/AddRSS.asp	5
66	http://www.nfeeds.com/submit.php	5
67	http://www.feeds.com.br	5
68	http://www.5starblogs.com/	5
69	http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php	5
70	http://www.blogcode.com/signup.php	5
71	http://www.blogdir.co.uk/	5
72	http://www.bloggernow.com	5
73	http://blogintro.com/submit/	5
74	http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html	5
75	http://www.blogscholar.com/	5
76	http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php	5
77	http://www.gobignetwork.com/entrepreneur-blogs/	5
78	http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.aspx?WL=0&TopicID=20004	5
79	http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/	5
80	http://scienceport.org/index.php	5
81	http://www.thevital.net/	5
82	http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit	5
83	http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/	5
84	http://www.rsshugger.com/	5
85	http://reader.rocketinfo.com/	5
86	http://www.feedsfarm.com/	5
87	http://www.postami.com/	5
88	http://www.feedage.com/	5
89	http://www.rssdirectorysubmission.com/	5
90	http://www.feed24.com/	5
91	http://www.feedcat.net/	5
92	http://www.feednuts.com/	5
93	http://www.feeds2read.net/	5
94	http://www.feeds4all.nl/	5
95	http://www.rssfeeds.com/	5
96	http://www.rssmicro.com/	5
97	http://www.purerss.com/	5
98	http://www.rss-software.com/rss-blogs.htm	5
99	http://www.fulldisclosure.org/Mesothelioma/asbestos_lawyer	5
100	http://www.nevon.net/nevon/rss/index.html	5

15 top tips for improving your ranking if it has dropped after the Google Panda Update

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Look for low-quality sites that are linking to your site and ask them politely to take down their links. Try to avoid further negative association!
Focus your attention on getting back-links from very high-quality and reputable sites in your niche and register with directories with well-chosen keywords.
Don’t do all your link building actives in one hit, the velocity of links gains can be important, too many, too quickly can appear to Google as a link spike.
Create lots of useful, entertaining, well written content. If you haven’t got a blog you should start working on that straight away. Blogs are one of the best ways to keep your site fresh and continually updated with new content, but remember don’t keyword stuff or link stuff your posts.
Avoid unnatural overuse of a word on a page.
Improve the look of your pages add images and videos
Spell check everything.
If you have been scraping or otherwise copying other site’s content STOP. Replace it with quality original content or remove then and add 301s from them to relevant pages with your with your robots.txt file.
Remove any unnecessary advertising.
Avoid duplicate content both on site and off site.
Try and reduce the bounce rate of your pages, you can do this by linking to highly relevant internal content form your pages from your posts. check Google Analytics regularly and work on pages with the highest bounce rate.
Consider blocking badly performing pages from the search engines using your robots.txt file.
One of the biggest changes in Panda is that the user experience just got more important. Human quality raters have been around for a while but many expert SEO people believe that these quality reports are having more effect on ranking. Ask yourself does my site look professional, would customers trust my site, is my content written for humans or machines?
Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others are where much of your audience are living on a daily basis. Continue to build relationships on social networks and give your customers what they want and need.
Clean up your on-site content, remove spammy links and keywords, make them look natural
Be patient it may take up to three months for any improvement to show in the results.

Google Panda Update – What to do if your pages have dropped | SEO Training UK - Search Engine Optimi

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000

The latest Panda Update has affected 12% of search results some sites have seen a 50% drop in visitor numbers, Ouch. We have just seen the effects of the Google Panda 2.2 Update here in the UK. If you have been hit here are some tips on what you can do about it. As you will already be aware SEO is not an exact science and the goal posts are changing all the time. Also it will probably take about three months for you to notice any difference as this is the average time period between most of the major updates.

According to Matt Cutts himself:

“This update is designed to reduce rankings for low quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.”

The following tips are a guide to creating a great site designed to be viewer-friendly and SEO-friendly.

Reasons Why Open Source Ecommerce Shopping Carts Should Be Selected By Small businesses

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:57:00 +0000

The open source e-commerce shopping cart solutions are best suited for small companies. They are economical and flexible by nature.

The web development professionals who are assigned with task of e commerce site development know how important shopping cart solutions are. Choosing the ideal shopping cart solutions can be a challenging task for the web developers. The selection of the right kind of the cart system depends on a number of aspects like client needs, budget, customer load and feasibility and so on. Generally the web development professionals choose from either hosted shopping cart systems or those provided by third party companies.

It is quite undeniable that the small sized businesses have benefitted a lot from the advent and growth of online shopping. This trend which has taken the world by storm has aided the small businesses in expanding their customer base fast and earning skyrocketing revenues. The web has given them a platform to compete with large companies and enjoy unprecedented benefits. The small companies need shopping cart solutions in their sites that fit their need. Among the various available cart systems they should pick the open source shopping cart solutions.

* The first and most important reason a small scale company should pick an open source based shopping cart development system is the budget factor. The advantage of the open source shopping cart systems is that they have the modules in place. The web developers just need to tweak the modules to suit the need of specific client sites. It is easier for both the client and the site developer. This in turn brings down the website development cost significantly. The small businesses can invest the saved money in other areas including promotion.
* Similar to any open source app, the open source shopping cart solutions get the support of the app developers. The open source app community is robust and they offer support to the web developers using the open source cart systems. The updates and extensions also come as added boons which can be used to tweak the capability of the cart systems.
* The majority of open source shopping cart systems can be easily integrated into an existing e commerce website. This saves the designers from making heavy modification to the site layout and structure.

SEO-Friendly URLs

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:57:00 +0000

Without proper SEO Services, a website stands numerous chances of not getting indexed by search spiders, which in turn, puts a question mark on its ranking in the SERPs and of course, the conversion rate. The situation can be easily resolved by implementing some sort of "cosmetic" operations on a site, and an integral part of these operations is URL Rewriting. Although, it is considered a bit time-intensive, it is very quite effective in the long run by others, is URL rewriting.

Secondary Search Engines

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:56:00 +0000

Secondary search engines target at smaller, more specific audiences. They are basically the topical and regional search engines that can provide a user tremendously narrow and focused search results when looking for specific information. However, the volume of traffic they generate is much lesser than the primary search engines do.

Some of the most popular secondary search engines are Lycos, LookSmart, Miva, Ask.com, and Espotting. Although the current list of secondary search engines is fairly small, it is expected to grow and extend with time.

Like primary or major search engines, these search engines also vary in the way they rank search results. The focus remains more or less on keywords and reciprocal links, whereas a few others rely on some other specifications such as meta tags or some proprietary criteria. However, experts suggest that although the amount of traffic generated is not as much as primary search engines do, but their results may gain valuable traffic that should not be overlooked.

Reporting Search Engine Spam

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:55:00 +0000

The process used to legitimately eliminate perverse or unfair competition from the search is termed as â€œsearch engine spam reporting. The presence of such website or content on the search engine, devalue its significance in terms of being an effective resource. If a competitor is making frequent use of various black hat SEO techniques or spam tactics to gain top positions on the search engines, it is in your best interest and indeed, the best interest of users also, who are getting directed to websites through search engine results, to report the site.
Normally, all black hat SEO services that artificially inflate the apparent relevancy of inferior web sites can be reported as spam.

SandBox Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:47:00 +0000

According to industry experts, sandbox is an algorithmic effect, where Google condenses the page rank of new domains on temporary basis by placing them into what is termed as "sandbox". The step is believed to be taken to stand against the tricky techniques of search engine optimizers attempting to influence Google's page ranking through the massive creation of inbound links to a new web site from other web sites that they possess. Google's sandbox is a filter that came into existence back in March of 2004.

Page Rank

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:00 +0000

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, given by Google King of search engine in the form of numerical weighting ranging from 1 to 10. The PageRank is assigned on the basis of each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, so as to measure its qualified importance contained in the set. Generally, it is described as a Google’s tool, used to weigh up every webpage on the grounds of the number and quality of backlinks.
In simple words, Google performs “elections” where each web page gives votes for web pages with hyperlinks to those pages. Some pages having high integrity are capable of having more than one vote and thus, are given more weight, depending on the search engine result page rankings)and hence help in improving the targets’ PageRank.

Micro Websites

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:43:00 +0000

Micro websites are compact and informative websites used by organizations apart from their major websites. It usually contains around 5 to 6 primary pages including home page, product or services page, service portfolio and a contact page with an enquiry or feedback form. These websites are the great help when it comes to analyze the initial online presence of your business or services and its possible outcome. In initial phase of your business promotion, micro websites can be the best associate that helps you to market your product in the global market place and later assists you to convey the wide product scenario among the buyers.

Mirror sites

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:38:00 +0000

As it name signifies, mirror sites are a nearly identical or duplicate website of the original one. In common terms, it is basically a little modified or tweaked replica of the original website. However, although the technique is highly purposeful when it comes to accessibility, it is marked under black Hat SEO Tactics and is not supported by the search engines. It is quite easy to create mirror, especially with the use of software that do the automated mirroring of entire sites

Meta Tags

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Meta tags are small packets of data about the web pages rendered for the web crawlers. These tags are written in HTML and specify the source code to offer content and site information to search engine spiders. The Meta elements are normally used to state page description, keywords, author of the document, previous customized and other metadata. These tags help you manage the way some search engines may index your site, with the use of keywords and descriptions you offer. So, spiders rely heavily on the information provided by the site owner in the Meta Tags.
Typically, these snippets of informational code presented between your tags that are not counted in your generated HTML document.

LongTail SEO

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:31:00 +0000

Long tail SEO is an intelligent technique of bringing together lower-volume and higher-converting keywords for a major impact. The technique is specifically devised to gain relevant traffic from long search queries that are more focused and less frequently searched by searchers than other primary search terms.
As for instance, the term “television” receives millions of Internet searches every month. Hence, the keyword not only covers a wide range of searchers but also infuse the biggest podium of competitors. Therefore, if you have a website that sells televisions, then raking high for “new LCD television sets” can ensure you more narrow but relevant traffic. This because in “new LCD television sets” would not bring you visitors looking for television repair services or etc.

Link Farms

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:29:00 +0000

A link farm is a website page or collection of websites having an extensively large list of hyperlinks to different websites with no specific relationship in terms of groupings, categories, or any connection to the site domain name. Although most link farms are a creation of automated programs and services, a few can also be built by hands. It is a kind of spamming the index of a search engine, which is often termed as spamdexing or spamexing.

The Intent of link Farms
Link farms are created to falsely increase the count of incoming links to a website so that the site's index ranking gets a rise in the search engines. An illegal link farm is a kind of search engine spam. It is purposely used for tricking search engines into placing a website among the top position sin the search results, with the backing of inbound link coming from link farm for a specific keyword than the website merits on its own. Such websites usually get penalized by active search engines that are always on check of banning such websites using illicit means of building links and having no real significance. Also, such websites display no PageRank. Adding a link to your website on a link farm may result in getting your website penalized by the search engines.

Keyword Stuffing

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:26:00 +0000

Keyword stuffing is a Black hat SEO technique used to add unnecessarily a good number of instances of the targeted keyword phrase to a web page to showcase higher level of relevancy to the search engines and gain top most positions in the search result for those particular keywords. Although, such purposeful integration of several specific phrases in the content of the web page may result in tempo temporary rank benefits but in the long run, it may lead to a series of problems.

Doorway pages

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:24:00 +0000

Doorway pages are web pages written in simple HTML pages by customizing a few particular keywords or phrases, to gain attraction from specific search engines and their spiders. The core objective of the doorway pages is to trick the search engines into rendering the site top rankings, only for a limited period of time. Doorway Pages are specifically intended for search engine spiders whereas for human visitors, it is more or less a redirect page that leads to the â€œreal" website. Doorway pages are often termed as "entrance" or "bridge" pages.

Google's Take on Doorway Pages

According to Google's specific recommendation, doorway pages are created purposely for search engines or other "cookie cutter" approaches like affiliate programs with almost no original content and therefore, should be completely avoided by the websites.

Crawler

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:22:00 +0000

A web crawler (Search Engine Spider) is an automated and orderly managed program that browses the internet and creates a copy of all the websites it frequently visits. Search engines make use of these to index the downloaded pages and accelerate the entire search process. A crawler has ability to index million pages per day but due to use of different algorithms they produce different search results.

How crawler works
During the process of crawling, a Crawler not only visits the landing pages and primary pages of the website but also all relevant links posted on the websites. Content and keywords on a website are also the vital components that attract the crawler. Every search engine has a scheduler mechanism to intimate crawler the frequency of the crawling and the list of the documents to be crawled next.

The crawler explores and indexes web pages of your website so that whenever a user searches a webpage with a relevant key phrase, your website turns up in the search query. The process of crawling includes bringing together a very comprehensive list of the keywords from the database. After indexing the website, a number of algorithms are used by the search engines to evaluate the visibility of your website in the search engine.

Black Hat SEO Tactics

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:20:00 +0000

Regularly webmasters try to "trick" the search engines into ranking sites and pages through illegitimate means. A number of tactics such as hidden text, interlinking, redirecting, doorway pages, keyword spamming and etc, are meant to only trick a search engine into the game of gaining rankings. However, the websites using black-hat SEO tactics are most likely to jump down from these places as fast as they rise.

Given below are some of the most frequently used black-hat tactics. Most SEO's and webmasters modify these tactics in hopes that the new technique will work. Honestly they may, but only for a short while.
Black-Hat SEO Tactics:

Keyword Stuffing
Highly abused form of search engine spam, keyword stuffing is one of the most frequently exploited black Hat SEO services. Heavy amount of related keyword usage in content seems irrelevant to the search engine. Obviously, since this sort of content has no value to it, it is generally placed at the bottom of the web page in very small font size.

Hidden Text
Hidden text is the text that is present on the website only for the spiders to read and not the human visitors. These are the texts that are written in the same color as the background or something very close to it. The technique is best described as blatant spam tactic and websites using it are usually quickly reported to search engine as spam by the competitors and genuine searchers so that they can get it blacklisted.

Interlinking
As incoming links have become a major aspect of search engine ranking, many webmasters have found an easy and lucrative way to build multiple websites and link them together to strengthen the overall link popularity. Performing this trick is obviously much easier than doing the linking accurately. Moreover, as it becomes difficult to detect such interlinking websites, the genuinely linked websites suffer, where they find it difficult to get placed due to the abundance of interlinking websites.

Redirects
The concept of redirects is complimentary to that of doorway pages. Since doorway pages contain low or no substantial content, redirects are at times, applied to directly direct a visitor to the original page having genuine content such as the homepage of the site. However, if search engines detect these redirects, or if they are reported as spam, then the site can get penalized. Usually, a genuine competitor or an unhappy searcher may get such websites spammed

Cloaking
Cloaking is a technique of presenting dissimilar information to the search engines than a human visitor would see. Although many techniques are today running in the market on the name of cloaking practices, very few are actually detectably by the search engines. Hence, in order to get the cloaking practices out of the market, a lot depends on the reporting search engine spam.

Duplicate Sites
With the popularity of affiliate programs, webmasters find it outright to create a copy of the site they need to promote. With slight tweaking, these duplicate websites are put online, intending that it would outrank the site it was promoting and get their sales. However, since search engine demand unique content from each website, creating duplicate websites is completely banned. Moreover, search engines have introduced their own methods to identify and remove duplicate sites from their index. Also, sites that simply modify to escape automatic detection through the help of hidden text or the, have the chances of getting reported to the search engines and be banned that way..

Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are basically normal web pages added to a website with the sole purpose of targeting a specific keyword phrase or phrases. Normally, these pages provide very little or no information to a visitor and have clear intentions of promoting a specific phrase, hoping that a visitor would land and get directed to the homepage of the website. This is one of the most popular black hat search engine optimization technique and most search engines have special tools to detect such pages. Also, a report of this practice can get your website removed from the search engines results along with pages ranking good with genuine SEO practices and unique content.

Reporting Your Competitors
It is entirely legitimate to report spam the competitors using black hat SEO tactics to gain top most positions in the search engines results. If a competitor using unfair tactics to rank higher than you then ensure to report them.

If you can spot websites that according to you are practicing illegitimate tactics to rank higher than you on the search engines then drop a visit to our Reporting Search Engine Spam page for gaining proper information about reporting a website spam. However, ensure that your website is not employing any such dubious practices.

Cloaking

noreply@blogger.com (Dhiraj Bandurkar) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:14:00 +0000

Cloaking is a smart yet risky technique used to present different content to the search engines than a human visitor would see. It is a Black hat SEO technique employed to present dissimilar content for search engine and human visitors. A totally deceptive search engine optimization technique, it actually cheats search engines in order to rank well for desired keywords.

The Penalties for Cloaking
Cloaking is strictly outlawed in most search engine policies. Detection of any cloaking activity may result in banned website.

Google take on Cloaking
In order to main the high standard of accuracy and quality of the search results, Google may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors found to be engaged in cloaking activities to change their search rankings.
For cases where search engine is not able to automatically detect a website using cloaking practice and the competitors of the same can send a spam SEO report to the major search engines. On these request research would be done and if found true, action to ban the Cloaking would be taken.
However, irrespective of these strict threats and warning, experts suggest that a good number of methods are known today, under the heading the cloaking, out of which, many still remain undetectable by the search engine.