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Archive for February, 2007

Where to Ping your RSS feeds for more traffic?

Posted by Ravi on February 21st, 2007 filed in Business Blogs, RSS

Major search engines crawl the web to find updates which is extremely inefficient and too slow, especially in the blogsphere. Pingomatic.com or ipings.com is designed for tracking blogs simply by accepting a title, blog post url, then there is an option called a ping, that lets the blog search engines and services to [...]

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Keyword phrase based Indexing and retrieval

Posted by Ravi on February 18th, 2007 filed in Google, SEO, Search Engines, cloaking, keywords, research, search technology, spam

Google has some way of isolating certain keyword phrases that they deem typical of spam sites.
But the number of keyword phrases that can cause the penalty depends on other factors like
1. Indexing
2. Weighting
3. Ranking
4. Duplicate content
5. Spam detection and weighting (yes – not all spam is bad?)
6. Back Links/Link Profiles
7. Personalized Search – [...]

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Yahoo launches suggestion boards

Posted by Ravi on February 15th, 2007 filed in research, search engine wars, search technology, yahoo

Yahoo has come up with yet another new feature of suggestion boards to get feedback from the users and webmasters
Yahoo’s suggestion boards look similar to digg and
Spam-friendly, indeed and I can’t really see why this should be any different to the dozens of websites that are around already using similar concepts. It’s yahoo, though, and [...]

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Google’s “note this” feature in the search results

Posted by Ravi on February 13th, 2007 filed in Ask, Google, Search Engines, news, research, search engine wars, search technology

Google like Ask.com is giving a new option of note this option which enables the users, webmasters to note some important points about the sites they visit in the Google’s search engine ranking pages.
All the notes will be saved as snippets along with description, title, url in the Google Notebook.
The interesting feature is that all [...]

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How to assess free and paid directories.

Posted by Ravi on February 10th, 2007 filed in Ask, Google, SEO, research, web directories, yahoo

Some of the quality signals that are unlikely to be found in free directories as per the Industrial strength and survival, are listed below.
1. If the directory is a clone of other directories, forget it.
2. Is the directory a niche authority? – answer can be found by checking the quality of backlinks from the same [...]

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