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Help customers find you on Google SERPs
In: SEO News
16 Apr 2009
Google Local Results
In a blog, Google talks about expanded local search results:
We like to make search as easy as we can, so we’ve just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don’t type in a location. When you search on Google, we will guess where you are and show results near you. How do we guess your location? In most cases, we match your IP address to a broad geographical location. You can also specify your likely location using the “Change location” link on the top right corner, above the map. We try to make our guesses as good as they can be so that whether you’re shopping for [groceries], [sporting goods] or [flowers], or looking for your [bank], your [gym], or the [post office], you can just say what you want, and we’ll try to find it right where you are. You can also search for specific stores or street addresses near you, like [cornelia st cafe] in New York, for example.
Google Local Search Results
This is Expanded Local Results now available to all users worldwide.
Google Local Business Center
Use the Google Local Business Center to create your free listing. When potential customers search for local information, they’ll find your business: your address, your sites, hours of operation, even photos of your storefront or products. Whether you run a single office or dozens of jewelry shops, manage all your listings from a single account.
Using E-commerce templates can make your life more easy
In: SEO News
8 Apr 2009These templates are used in almost every online store you can find. They are used to set up your store front and arrange your merchandise in an attractive manner. Many of these templates can be found at EBAY or others are found online. There are many different ways to present your products and align them in your store. So there are also many unique ways to arrange the front of your store in an online shop. You just have to find what looks the best to you and what you feel comfortable using.
Ecommerce Template
E-commerce templates comes with all kinds of tables, colors, and ways to present your merchandise to the public. They have so many different variations that can be used for pictures and other information. Some of these include the free flash template, dynamic flash template, 3 color template, osCommerce template, SWISH Animated template, logo template, and many others. These all can give you an idea as to how to set up your business or store front.
The full site template comes with a main page and three to four additional pages. Dynamic flash template can show you how to edit your text or pictures on your website. 3 color template has a main page and several other pages. It gives you the same standard layout, but incorporates different color patterns within the layout of the page. OsCommerce gives you a database to keep track of all your merchandise and products. The SWISH products are quite easy to work with and are just a form of FLASH graphics. The Logo template allows you to place your already made logo on the front page of your store. This may gather more traffic depending on what the logo is.
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- Tags: eBay, osCommerce, Portfolio, Templates, Web Hosting
How many links a page might reasonably have?
In: SEO News
27 Mar 2009Google’s recommendation to “Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number.”
Web Links Per Page
Matt Cutts Said:
If a page started to have more than that many links, there was a chance that the page would be so long that Google would truncate the page and wouldn’t index the entire page. These days, Google will index more than 100K of a page, but there’s still a good reason to recommend keeping to under a hundred links or so: the user experience. If you’re showing well over 100 links per page, you could be overwhelming your users and giving them a bad experience. A page might look good to you until you put on your “user hat” and see what it looks like to a new visitor. But in some cases, it might make sense to have more than a hundred links. Does Google automatically consider a page spam if your page has over 100 links? No, not at all. The “100 links” recommendation is in the “Design and content” guidelines section, and it’s the Quality guidelines that contain the things that we consider web spam (stuff like hidden text, doorway pages, installing malware, etc.). Can pages with over 100 links be spammy? Sure, especially if those links are hidden or keyword-stuffed. But pages with lots of links are not automatically considered spammy by Google.
visualizes the number of links on the homepages of popular websites
Link’s chart by Nick Bilton: http://www.nickbilton.com/98/
Source: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-many-links-per-page/
Anna Rawson Joins Go Daddy Girls
In: SEO News
27 Mar 2009Anna Rawson swung a golf club for the first time at the age of 13. Since then, the Australian-born athlete and model has graduated from Australian Amateur Champion to bona fide LPGA pro. As a scholarship athlete at the University of Southern California, Anna Rawson won All-Pac-10 honorable mentions three years in a row. She also played on USC’s National Championship team in 2003, turning pro in the summer of 2004.
Go Daddy Girl Anna Rawson
In 2005, she entered the Ladies European Tour School in Spain, where she qualified in 3rd place and earned her 2006 tour card. Anna finished in the top 10 a total of five times on the European Tour, with eight top-20 finishes and a lowest round score of 67. In 2007, she finished Q-school in the top 20 and qualified for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
“I am very excited to be a part of this elite and diverse group of athletes,”
Anna remarked at the time.
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- Tags: Go Daddy, Portfolio
Top 1000000 Sites by Category Free Download
In: SEO News
25 Mar 2009
Alexa Top 1000000 Sites
Alexa categorized top 1000000 sites by categories and apart from this they are providing the list of daily top 1M sites for free download!
- Arts (249,303)
- Business (234,154)
- Computers (112,978)
- Games (55,839)
- Health (58,988)
- Home (27,969)
- Kids and Teens (45,519)
- News (8,779)
- Recreation (104,787)
- Reference (56,600)
- Regional (1,089,276)
- Science (106,615)
- Shopping (94,568)
- Society (236,244)
- Sports (99,549)
- World (1,736,085)
Free download link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip
More details: http://www.alexa.com/browse
Search Engine Communications
In: SEO News
23 Mar 2009
Search Engine Communications
Search Engine Relationship Chart:
- Primary Search Results
- Secondary Search Results
- Directory Search Results
- Paid Results
- Nielsen Search Engine Ratings
More details http://www.search-this.com/search-engine-decoder/
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- Tags: Blogging, Go Daddy, Web Hosting, Wordpress, YouTube
Vanessa Rousso is New GoDaddy Girl
In: SEO News
17 Mar 2009
Vanessa Rousso Go Daddy Girl
French-American beauty Vanessa Rousso. Birth Date - February 5, 1983. Birth Place - White Plains, NY.
Vanessa Rousso
Residence - Las Vegas, NV. Vanessa, who holds dual citizenship in France and the U.S., speaks English, French and Spanish. While she will graduate from the University of Miami law school in 2009, she has no plans to sit for the bar. Vanessa now lives in Las Vegas with her fiancé, Chad Brown
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- Tags: Facebook, Go Daddy, Portfolio, Web Hosting
5 SEO Myths
In: SEO News
15 Mar 2009Similar to people and culture, Search Engine Optimization do have myths as well .I was looking through an SEO forum once when I came across a post that asks if web sites need to be updated frequently to optimize traffic. My first thought was, of course because the World Wide Web is constantly changing, web sites have to the updated to keep the content fresh as search engines like fresh and frequently updated content.
Myth # 1. Submitting your URL to search engines is a must.
This is an old school SEO rule. It may have worked years ago, but today it’s no longer necessary to submit sites to search engines. If you start external link building then your web site will be automatically indexed by search engines sooner or later. However it is necessary to submit your URL to at least Google, Yahoo and MSN. By submitting your URL to Google and Yahoo you can take advantage of their tools such as Google Webmaster Tool, Yahoo Site Explorer etc.
Myth # 2. The more times the keyword is repeated, the higher the web site will rank.
Now, this is something you need to look into. Search engine uses different algorithms that have different factors for ranking sites. The best keyword density would be 3-15%. Any higher than that and the search engine will penalize your site. This measure was adopted by various search engines to stop spammer spamming the keywords.
Myth # 3. Put hidden links in your pages to rank higher.
Stuffing hidden links in pages will only get your site penalized or worst banned. Some search engines will label your site as spam and keep it off its pages for good. The links in your web site shall be in same colour as background colour of pages. This is considered as spamming, specially by Google.
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- Tags: Ask, DoubleClick, Link Popularity, SEO
Best osCommerce Templates
In: SEO News
14 Mar 2009Managing your on line commerce and on line store is all a part of osCommerce. This program helps in keeping all things in your business straight. It is a relatively simple program that can help you account for all your business ventures. Whether it is keeping up with stock or income versus what you have left, osCommerce will be on hand to help keep it all in a row. You will never wonder where your merchandise is or when it was sold. osCommerce will keep all your important details straight for you and keep all your records filed properly and completely.
osCommerce Template 20030
The whole osCommerce system has many functions in the day to day operation of an on line business. Many of these include database backup, secure transactions for customers, automatically installs on the Web, Uses different forms of currency and can convert, can handle up to one image per product, handles shipping arrangements, and calculates tax rates and different zones for each product you may have. As you can see osCommerce is a handy tool to have to keep all your business transactions current and up to date.
The osCommerce themes follow the templates which are available on line or through the distribution company of osCommerce. STS, BTS, and another one called SMARTY are available as of right now. These templates include color coding and using specific tables to withdraw information that you need specific to each person in your business or each product.
osCommerce Template 13119
The osCommerce system was started in Germany in 2000 by Harald Ponce de Leon. The current program MILESTONE 2.2 is very usable and customer oriented. MILESTONE 3.0 is in the works and will be a rewrite of the current program. The programmers want to include some changes in the layouts of the templates and using a password and user name system to gain access to the program.
PubCon.com is accepting proposals for a new design template
In: SEO News
12 Mar 2009PubCon is accepting proposals for a new HTML/CSS design template.
Template requirements:
- 2 or 3 column liquid layout preferred.
- 55kb max html template size.
- 12kb max css size.
- 150kb max size with images. - Near to same template as possible in mobile version.
- Must be visible and usable in All leading browsers + previous two versions as well. (ie6-7 - Opera 9+, Firefox 3+, Safari)
- Mobile Version must work with: Opera Mini, Blackberry, iPhone Safari, Pocket IE.
- Proposal may not include:
- Flash,
- Javascript/Ajax,
- Animation,
- Frames.
Target Launch Date - June 1 2009. Send proposals with cover letter and pricing to brett at webmasterworld.com
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- Tags: Google, Security, SEO methods, Spam, Web Design