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Top 1000000 Sites by Category Free Download

Seo Men — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:52:03 +0000

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

Google TOP 1000 Sites: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/

GoDaddy SmartSpace – you could win one of three $5,000 grand prizes

Seo Men — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:59:14 +0000

Create a blog or video testimonial to show how SmartSpace helps you make the most of the Web. If your message convinces our judges that you’ve found the best, most creative use for GoDaddy SmartSpace, you could win one of three $5,000 grand prizes or one of ten $1,000 runner-up awards – PLUS, all winners receive FREE SmartSpace for life! So how smart are you? Get smart, get cash…

Winning up to $5,000 in cash prizes and SmartSpace for life can be as easy as 1-2-3!

Build your SmartSpace site (if you don’t have SmartSpace, purchase below for as little as $4.49/mo).
Blog/video/podcast about how you use SmartSpace, post it online, and tell your friends.
Enter your “SmartSpace” story in the form below, be sure to include a link to your story.

Contest Rules! …but this contest ends April 15, 2009, so hurry!

Create your best SmartSpace – godaddy.com

GoDaddy.com is the world’s largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. As an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Go Daddy has more names under management than any other registrar, offers products at prices up to 70% less than the competition and supports them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.

Deconstructing Google: Chapter 4, After The Google Breakup

Seo Men — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:53:31 +0000

Previous chapters have covered how the growth of Google and fears of how it was reshaping the communication landscape led to the application of existing anti-trust laws along with new ones to force a Google breakup in 2010. This chapter looks at the immediate aftermath: the “Baby Googles” or “Googlets” that were formed in the name of greater competition and consumer choice.

The Google brand name remained with the company’s first product, search. Virtually all search-related products were kept part of Google, including enterprise search. Google continued to operate the Google search engine, which itself remains by far the most popular search engine in the United States and in most countries around the world.

What didn’t stay with Google? As covered more in chapter 3, the Search Engine Reform Act of 2009 (SERA) had a fundamental principle that companies with business models around being guides to the web – regardless of the technology or human effort involved to create those guides – were forbidden from also owning content that might be listed in those guides.

“If I buy a restaurant guide, I don’t expect the publisher of the guide to also own or make money off of some of the restaurants in the guide,”

said one US senator during debate over the act.

Away went products like Google Knol, as well as Google’s ability to offer an ad brokerage service like AdSense to publishers. Google could still sell ads – indeed, the AdWords program remains the chief source of revenue for Google. However, those ads are restricted to Google’s own search results pages or the search results pages of affiliate partners.

Critics pointed out that it wasn’t illegal under US law for these conflicts to occur in other areas. Movie studios were free to own magazines that might cover their movies, for example. Nor could anyone show solid evidence that Google had allowed the inherent conflicts to become real ones. But the argument of search deserving special regulatory protection won out.

Google was allowed some exceptions to the “no content” rule. Community maps were deemed “search-like,” so Google’s Wikipedia-like social mapping effort could continue. Google News, where pages of “content” are built in an automated fashion, were still deemed to be search-like because of their “discovery” nature and thus were allowed. Local reviews of merchants were also allowed. Hosting of video content through YouTube? That was not deemed a search activity, so YouTube was spun off.

As coming chapters will explain, the changes were not limited to Google. Microsoft and Yahoo both found the act required them to divest and divide up various business units. Ironically, one of the chief backers of the reform act – the newspaper publishing industry – got a rude awakening when they found it applied to them. Plans for a pan-newspaper portal to rival Google News came to a halt when it was deemed in a lawsuit that the portal would violate SERA because, as a search engine, it was listing newspapers that it also would have an interest in favoring.

Understanding that gray areas would come up, the reform act also established the Search Commerce Commission. Among its many duties is serving as an arbiter of whether a search engine has slipped too much into the content-hosting space.

Semantic Web and SEO

Seo Men — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:23:34 +0000

What is The Semantic Web?

The Semantic Web is a (currently theoretical) future state of the World Wide Web where information is machine-processable, rather than just machine-renderable for human viewing. Software will then be able to better find, organise and merge the data as it will have more “understanding” of the meaning of the data.

For example, if I go to a web page about a particular conference, my calendar software would be able to interpret the web page to extract the date, time and location of the conference. This may then allow it to show me available flights for the conference or transfer the data directly to my car’s GPS system. This is a simple example, but demonstrates the power The Semantic Web could provide.

The are many different technologies which have been proposed to describe this “meaning” to computers including: Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), Web Ontology Language (OWL (sic)), XML and many more. The discussion of these is beyond the scope of this article.

How could The Semantic Web effect search?

The Semantic Web will allow search engines to be much more intelligent and give answers to more general queries. For example, rather then searching for “Florida Holidays”, I may be able to search for “Sunny holiday destinations that are fun for kids in America”. Most humans would be able to give Florida as a possible answer to this query. However, for a computer to come to the same conclusion it must “understand” information much better than it currently can. A search engine needs to know that Florida is a sunny place, that is it good for kids and that it is in America. Thus, significant amounts of AI technology will also need to be developed.

How will this change SEO?

It is hard to say how The Semantic Web will change SEO, as the technology has not really developed into a useable state yet. However, if webmasters are required to label the meanings of the items on their web pages then their may be large amounts of spam annotations.

No matter how The Semantic Web changes the WWW, it likely that the fundamentals of SEO will still remain relevant for a long time. They may even become more important, because as search engines understand more about your content and the links to your content they will be better equip to judge the quality of those links.

Michael Hawthornthwaite works at Acid Computer Services

Top 10 Search Providers, June 2007

Seo Men — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:07:36 +0000

Nielsen//NetRatings reports July 2007 data for the Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. In addition, Nielsen//NetRatings reveals the Top Advertisers by Company for July 2007.

Table 1. Top 10 Parent Companies, Combined Home & Work (U.S.)

Top 10 Parent Companies

Example: The data indicates that 44.7 million home and work Internet users visited at least one of the New York Times Company-owned sites or launched an New York Times Company-owned application during the month, and each person spent, on average, a total of 15 minutes and 43 seconds at one or more of their sites or applications.

Table 2. Top 10 Brands, Combined Home & Work (U.S.)

Top 10 Brands

A parent company is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs owned by a single entity. A brand is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs that has a consistent collection of branded content.

How to rank on Yahoo!

Seo Men — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:07:03 +0000

Recently I have been concentrating on Yahoo and the elements on a page that they look at when ranking, I looked close at their own guidelines and noticed a few very important key points. Think of this document as a break down of their guide lines. As the following text points out, Yahoo are focusing heavily on page criteria.

Quoted from Yahoo: Users are more likely to click a link if the title matches their search. Choose terms for the title that match the concept of your document.

Sound advice to make the title tag descriptive of the pages contents as this is what people will see in the search results and click on.

Quoted from Yahoo: Use a “description” meta-tag and write your description accurately and carefully. After the title, the description is the most important draw for users. Make sure the document title and description attract the interest of the user but also fit the content on your site.

This is the clearest indication that Yahoo read and give weight to the meta description tag, make sure that the tag is a desriptive sentence with all of the pages keywords present. I would aim at no more than 3 lines.

Quoted from Yahoo: Use a “keyword” meta-tag to list key words for the document. Use a distinct list of keywords that relate to the specific page on your site instead of using one broad set of keywords for every page.

Clearly Yahoo hold weight to the Meta keyword tag, what once was deemed to be a spammy aspect of ranking tactics is now an ok method of getting your sites message across – by no means stuff it full of keywords and repeat them to the extreme, just make sure that the pages keywords are mentioned twice or so in the tag.

Quoted from Yahoo: Keep relevant text and links in HTML. Placing them in graphics or image maps means search engines can’t always search for the text, and the crawler can’t follow links to your site’s other pages. An HTML site map, with a link from your welcome page, can help make sure all your pages are crawled.

Basic sound seo advice, keep links and text plain HTML that way the spiders can read and follow the links.

Quoted from Yahoo: Use ALT text for graphics. It’s good page design to accommodate text browsers or visually impaired visitors, and it helps improve the text content of your page for search purposes.

From this it is clear that Yahoo, read and asign weight to the alt text. Make sure that the text describes the image, but be sure to include a keyword to increase your keyword density.

Quoted from Yahoo: Correspond with webmasters and other content providers and build rich linkages between related pages. Note: “Link farms” create links between unrelated pages for no reason except to increase page link counts. Using link farms violates Yahoo!’s Site Guidelines and will not improve your page ranking.