Google’s poor link: query operator has taken a huge beating from the SEO community for the past few years. The query operator’s reputation has been dragged through the mud so much that most people now use Yahoo! for link research (which is equivalent to asking Monaco to handle your national intelligence initiatives).

(more…)

Tags: adding, age, CLOSED, crawling, dev, developing, engine, etc, Free, Google, IDE, indexing, Keyword, keywords, link analysis, list, Microsoft, optimization, option, page, ping, PROM, RAM, ranking, relevance, search, search engine optimization, Search Engines, search ranking, SEF, SEO, SEO, Sites, WordPress, XP, Yahoo

What?!! It’s true. Many of the biggest and most popular online retailers with fat SEO budgets are not showing up for their own names or valuable keywords in Google search results. Most don’t even know it. How can this be?

All the major search engines offer a .com search engine and a number of country-specific engines, like Google.ca, .co.uk, .com.au, .fr, .de and so on. These are local search engines, and often use geo-IP targeting to show the local search engine as the default when a searcher lives outside the United States.

(more…)

Tags: age, Apple, count, engine, etc, Google, Google, IDE, image, Internet News, Keyword, keywords, local search, option, page, pay-per-click, ping, Plugins, RAM, search, Search Engines, SEO, Sites, traffic, Video

Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips�:

1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.

(more…)

Tags: age, ark, blogger, CSS, Digg, engine, etc, Free, Google, humor, IDE, Keyword, keywords, list, money, Music, myblog, page, ping, RAM, search, Search Engines, Search Engines, SEF, SEO, SEO, Sites, social bookmarking, touch, traffic, visitors, WordPress, XP, Yahoo

Author’s Note: While most of this piece discusses configuration options for any operating system Apache supports, some of the content will be Unix/Linux (*nix) specific, which now includes Macintosh OS X and its underlying Unix kernel.

One of the many pieces of the Website puzzle is Web logs. Traffic analysis is central to most Websites, and the key to getting the most out of your traffic analysis revolves around how you configure your Web logs. Apache is one of the most — if not the most — powerful open source solutions for Website operations. You will find that Apache’s Web logging features are flexible for the single Website or for managing numerous domains requiring Web log analysis.

(more…)

Tags: adding, age, apache, Apache - Apache, code, configure, count, disk, error, etc, executable, IDE, image, Linux, list, Module, monitoring, Open Source, Operations, option, Plugins, proc, process, RAM, scripts, SEF, server, Sites, Software, stable, traffic, visitors, World Wide Web

In this article I show you my top twelve tips for creating effective Google AdWords Select ads [adwords.google.com/select/].

I’ve been testing the Google pay per click advertising system for a while, with much success. These tips will help you create ads that generate higher click through rates, and lower cost per click.

(more…)

Tags: age, amazon, count, download, etc, Free, Google, Google AdWords, IDE, Keyword, keywords, money, overture, page, ping, proc, process, search, SEF, SEO, traffic, visitors