Search Engine SPAM – Basic principles and quality guidelines

August 9th, 2007
  • Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”
  • Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”
  • Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
  • Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Goldâ„¢ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Search Engine SPAM – Design and content guidelines

August 8th, 2007
  • Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
  • Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
  • Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
  • Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
  • Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images.
  • Make sure that your TITLE tags and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
  • Check for broken links and correct HTML.
  • If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
  • Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Search Engine SPAM – Specific quality guidelines

August 7th, 2007

If you determine that your site doesn’t meet these guidelines, you can modify your site so that it does and then submit your site for reconsideration.

Google is going after paid links with Webmaster Tools

August 5th, 2007

When i signed in to Google webmaster tools i saw something which got me thinking that google has finally started utilizing Google webmaster tools to get some helping hand from the webmaster community to deter link selling and link buying.

So my suggestion to my clients and friends in the seo industry, stop buying and selling links…

This is what they are saying on their page

“We work hard to return the most relevant results for every search we conduct. To that end, we encourage site managers to make their content straightforward and easily understood by users and search engines alike. Unfortunately, not all websites have users’ best interests at heart. Some site owners attempt to “buy PageRankâ„¢” in the form of paid links to their sites. Buying links to improve PageRank violates our quality guidelines.

Google uses a number of methods to detect paid links, including algorithmic techniques. We also welcome information from our users. If you know of a site that buys or sells links, please tell us by filling out the fields below. We’ll investigate your submissions, and we’ll use your data to improve our algorithmic detection of paid links.”

Read more Report paid links

Almost Half of Search Queries Are Repeats

August 2nd, 2007

According to a new study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Washington and Yahoo.

Forty percent of all search queries are repeat queries from users trying to find information they have found before, according to this study.

If the time gay is too little between their searches, then they are looking for other results, but if they are trying to search using the same queries after a few days, then they are mostly looking for the same websites they had found a few days before.

Although you cannot generalize anything, but studies do answer some questions.

You can get the full Story from WebProNews

Welcome Note

October 28th, 2006

I am very pleased on the launch of my new blog, www.spitum.net. I am thankful to all my frineds and family who have supported me in all shapes and forms.

I will try my best to make this blog a success and to retain my readers.