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A webmaster will be interested to know these factors
Nothing is more valuable than the statistics you’ve collected with an analytics tool installed on your web-site to find out the answers for the above questions; however, particularly in the beginning of a new project it’s nice to have some good idea of what kind of configuration your visitors will probably use.
From Recent studies, these are the statistics that show the average profile of a visitor.
The 10 most used word phrases in search engines on the web are:
1. Two word phrases 28.38 percent
2. Three word phrases 27.15 percent
3. Four word phrases 16.42 percent
4. One word phrase 13.48 percent
5. Five word phrases 8.03 percent
6. Six word phrases 3.67 percent
7. Seven word phrases 1.63 percent
8. Eight word phrases 0.73 percent
9. Nine word phrases 0.34 percent
10. Ten word phrases 0.16 percent
Sproose is the new search engine that I think is going to make big. The reason Sproose is in my blog is IT IMPRESSED ME with its results. I have searched this very narrowly with some of the queries and was highly satisfied with the number of relevant results per the query I gave MORE THAN Google, Yahoo and MSN. I wonder how different is this algorithm to Google or other major search engines and Secondly how big is their index.
Coming to Sproose design, it is made similar to Google but with lot of IMAGES. Loading time is slow with this design when you query something. The results page is similar to Digg with the voting system leftside of the results and there is the new option called REMOVE URL which gives complete freedom to the users to rank the websites. When you sign up into the search engine(ya you have signup option as well), you can vote a url only one time (ONLY ONE TIME!!)
So the highest number of votes rank a website unlike the other search engines like Google which devised a rank strategy on basis of backlinks.
And how does Sproose handle SPAM? Say for a particular query spammy website comes on top of the results due to a script that creates a lot of accounts and vote the site automatically. This is where REMOVE URL from the search engines helps out. For the first time People can control the search results in more ways than the Mathematical algorithm does. So for a lot of webmasters out there, this is a sign of relief from the usual complexities that other search engines present everyday. But few points that come into my mind now.
1. More activity for the webmaster on the website than before.
2. Sproose algorithm and index. I have seen a website that still is not indexed with the fresh titles and content etc. So the crawling and indexing rate come to the question here.
3. Sproose gives an advantage to the users, webmasters of saving the search results and this can be publicily visible or private that users can share among friends or email them.
4. Any more Ideas, HIT ME HARD!!!!!
5. Before I can say it is THE GOOGLE KILLER, I am myself curious about the third point
Well, I am very happy that there is the new search engine that can compete with the BIG PLAYERS.
This is what what Nofollow tagged link should be. It should be a way for Webmasters to tell the search engines that they have not judged the paid link by the user clicks and can therefore not assure for it’s information and value. It should not be a way for Webmasters to tell the search engines that the importance to the link was received. (ie, “I linked to you but nofollowed ”).
If you have verified the link and you are putting it on your site, do not put a nofollow on it. It is a bad form.
Now, on to what Google is doing to Verify links. Because Google has so much market penetration with Analytics, web history and the Google Toolbar, they can look at a link and verify it’s integrity (to some extent) by how many users actually click the link. If a link is relevant, it will have a higher clickthrough rate than one that is not. If a link is hidden or obscured, it will have a lower or almost non existent click through rate. In this manner, Google is using user behavior to verify the links.
And when you(GOOGLE) think about it, this really makes more sense. If a link is tagged “nofollow” but people keep clicking it and continue to surf when they get to the destination site, then who will you trust? The webmaster who put up a nofollow? Or the millions of users who click the link and seemed, at least algorithmically, to enjoy the content?
The answer is pretty obvious.
Google Guidelines are not the ethics of Search Engine Optimization. SEO ethics define how you interact with other webmasters and websites. Search Engine Optimization is the manipulation of search engine rankings systems.
Google has the “webmaster mindshare” by virtue of its market position - in our neck of the woods Google has about 80-90% of search traffic so to ignore this would be silly. The lack of comments by Googleguys on heavily moderated forums, etc seem to reflect a much tighter corporate rein over comments made - always vague and perhaps a bit of mis-information.
SEO ethics define the relationship between the webmaster, website and the topic based online resources where the Webmaster will promote the website. This has nothing to do with Search Engines. Search Engines do not define what is an authority from a million websites. It is the webmasters(of blogs, web directories, relevant websites, social networking sites etc) and the Online users who give the site the status of an AUTHORITY and the Search Engine only crawls, stores the information in its database and gives the results as per the query.
Google is not the only resource to find the Information.
Today’s webmaster so intellectually lazy they actually believe that the best information is going to come from a heavily moderated Google Groups forum. Today’s webmaster confuses helpful information with what is essentially Kool-Aid that is being posted on Matt Cutts blog.
Do you actually believe the dialogue on a Google Group or a Matt Cutts blog is moderated for anything other than to make webmasters conform to Google’s corporate will? On WebmasterWorld, and other forums like Webmasterworld and many others, we are free to discuss every aspect of search marketing. On Matt Cutts blog and the official Google forums you are not. Google controls the dialogue and the outcomes of the discussions. Google and Matt Cutts are not concerned with helping you rank better. They are concerned about the integrity of their algorithm, and making webmasters unpaid partners in protecting Google’s algorithm through snitch networks and data mining enterprises like Webmaster Central.
Todays webmaster is so compliant, complacent, and utterly sheep-like they are willingly surrendering highly personal data to Google without understanding how it ultimately benefits Google far more than it benefits them. The toolbar was pretty invasive, but webmaster central is a shameless data grab. Old ladies resist when someone snatches their purse. Todays webmaster lacks the will to resist and the intellect to understand what Google is doing to them. Do you understand the irony of a search for “Webmaster Central” leading to several web pages that benefits Google instead of websites that benefit webmasters?
Google endeavours to control the discussion of Google by limiting it to their own network of blogs and discussion forums. How else to explain the absence of AdSense advisor, GoogleGuy, Adam Lasnik, and AdWords Advisor? ASA didn’t even bother to announce the last AdSense weekend update. GoogleGuy is absent on Webmaster Forums except to defend Google at TW or promoting their snitch programs.
When was the last time GoogleGuy or the other representatives did something on the webmaster forums to help or answer questions? Where have they gone? I will tell you where they are. They are hijacking our dialogue and moderating it on the official Matt Cutts blog and their other Kool-Aid forums. I believe it’s a conscious effort to control what you think and gain webmaster mindshare for the benefit of Google.
Am I the only one who feels it’s extraordinary how Google is becoming the arbiter of web ethics, coding practices, and the webmaster dialogue? Do webmasters really want an Internet that is defined and dicated according to what is good for Google?
Last year I spent most of my time learning about better usability. Now I spend time trying to figure out why some of my pages go missing in Google. Google charges for advertising and is a for profit company.
The discussion on Official Google forums and Official Google Blogs is understandably going to be limited to what is good for Google. No surprise there, right? As fun and entertaining as Matt’s blog is, you aren’t going to walk away a better SEO from reading it. You will walk away with a better understanding of what Google wants you to do to make Google’s life easier. It is evident that for many people that is enough, but that isn’t SEO, nor is it SEM- it’s doing things in a way that is convenient for Google.
You(Google) expect everyone on the web to give you accurate link data by flagging paid advertising with nofollow or some other google approved method, but you don’t give us the same courtesy in return. Seems rather one sided don’t you think?
The reality is that Google is n’t stopping SEO spammers, it’s encouraging honest webmasters to become spammers and Hackers.
This is why I don’t use Google Analytics. They already know 80% of everything about me… I got to keep something to the imagination… =)