Archive for the 'Search Engine Optimization (SEO)' Category

Does your domain name prevent your website from getting high rankings?

The top level domain of your website can have an influence on your website rankings. Last week, many websites with a special top level domain were delisted from Google’s search results.
No more visitors from Google. What has happened?
Last week, many webmasters observed that all of their websites with an .info domain name disappeared from [...]

How to get Google Sitelinks for your website

Many webmasters wonder how they can make Google display additional Sitelinks for their websites. What exactly are Sitelinks, how can you get them and are they worth the effort?What are Google Sitelinks?
Google Sitelinks are a collection of links that appears below the result of a website. These additional links link to main pages of the [...]

Do Banner Ads Count as Backlinks?

Banner ads are bright, flashy, and in-your-face. They demand that people sit up and take notice of your website or product. But are they really the best source of advertising?
With other ads—text ads, for example, or static image ads—there are not one, but two benefits. First, of course, people who actually click through the ads [...]

New technologies detect black-hat SEO methods

Search engine optimization methods are divided in two categories: black hat SEO and white hat SEO. Both methods can help you to get high rankings on search engines.
However, one method is likely to get your website banned on search engines and recent developments indicate that websites that use that method will be in trouble soon.
What [...]

Google’s new position 6 penalty

A discussion in an online webmaster forum indicates that Google might have invented a new ranking penalty for websites that rank well for popular search terms.
What has happened?
During the last few weeks, some webmasters noticed that some of their long term position 1 or position 2 rankings in Google suddenly ranked at position 6.
The problem [...]

Best Keywords for Your Blog

Anyone can target keywords, but there is a lot more to it than that. If you write a blog on laptops, do you want people visiting who are seeking information on parenting? Probably not. Sure, it’s a page view. But it isn’t a quality page view, and it could result in a bad bounce rate [...]

How Google creates the description of your website for the result page

Having high rankings on search engines is a great thing. However, it’s also important that your web pages are displayed with an attractive description in the search results. If the description is not appealing to web surfers then they might not click the link.
How do Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live create the descriptions and snippets that [...]