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Six steps you can take to help search engines find and index your content You’re trying to get your website noticed and search engines are an excellent channel for visibility. In this article, we’ll look at some basic things you can do to make sure your content is being indexed by search engines. The more of the items you can implement below, the more noticeable your site will be to the search engines.  1. Check your “Robots.TXT” file One little line of code in a simple txt file can be very costly if it’s blocking your site from search engines. A robots.txt file allows you to tell search engines to crawl or not crawl certain directories or files in your site. For example, this simple line of code disallows all crawlers (a.k.a. robots): User-agent: * Disallow: / To find your robots.txt file simply type in your domain followed by /robots.txt. For example, here is the robots.txt file for the W3C: www.w3.org/robots.txt . For more details on what can be in this file and how search engines treat it visit robotstxt.org . 2. Make sure your content is indexable Although search engines have come a long way over the years in terms of indexing all kinds of content on the web, there are still some types of content that may not be fully indexed or not indexed at all.

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Getting There With Search

What’s it like to work for a world class SEO ? What secrets could you glean on website promotion? This article presents a few tricks, tips and myths ab.

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Web Promotion – SEO Strategy

This article examines the reasons behind WordPress’ power as an SEO platform, and also points to a few drawbacks.

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Is WordPress Good for SEO?

The popularity of social networking sites on the Internet offers not only opportunities for friends to meet again online or get in touch with your old classmates and office mates but a new opportunity in the field of search engine optimization strategy. This article illustrates several ways an SEO practitioner can use social networking to increase rankings build trust and authority within a selected niche…. Cloud Servers in Demand - GoGrid Start Small and Grow with Your Business. $0.10/hour

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Social Networking SEO Tips and Techniques

As bloggers, we put a lot of effort into telling our readers how to do things. We believe that if we can just give them enough informative content that they’ll subscribe to our blog and never leave. We try to become the best teacher we possibly can, instilling wisdom down into short, usable posts that our readers can put into action right away. But what if that’s not what they really want? What if they don’t want a teacher to tell them what to do? What if all they’re looking for is a warm and understanding person who understands what they’re going through and is willing to love them, no matter what? Someone like (you guessed it) Mr. Rogers. Do you care how they feel? Being a kid can be tough. Everyone is always telling you to be quiet. No one wants to listen to what you think. Your parents make you go to bed, just when all of the fun is starting. But not Mr.

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The Mr. Rogers Guide to Blogging from the Heart

According to this article Search Atheism On The Rise , only 51% of people trust information provided by search engines and that number is down from 62% in 2006. That’s interesting and to add to that, it goes to show, once again, don’t optimize for rankings, but do so for your users. Humans are getting smarter, children are adapting to internet/computer usage quicker and faster than we ever did when were were that age (30s here) and with that comes the understanding that what Google or other search engines bring up as search results may not be the authority on the subject or is always worth debating. Even though your website is #7 or on page two, remember there is still a good chance that you’re site is doing pretty good in the search results. Being #1 on Google or other search engines is surely one thing but getting hit for long tail searches or deep search results is another.

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The Future Of Search: Will #1 Always Be #1?

WordPress is one of the best and most popular open source CMS blogging platforms. The down side of its popularity is that it is frequently exploited by hackers wanting to take over and deface your website. In fact in one of the WordPress sites I work with prevented 716 hacking attacks between July 8 2 9 and November 23 2 9. One important way to prevent hack attacks is to keep your WordPress up to date. This article will show you how…. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Simplify Administration and Deployment of Messaging - Free Download.

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Updating WordPress Tips and Techniques

All The Hot News of Twitter & Facebook! Home · Uncategorized. Written on February 20, 2010 at 7:11 am by motivator · Michelle Obama insists home is ‘ news -free zone’ (New Kerala). Filed under Uncategorized no comments. Washington, Feb 20 : US First lady Michelle Obama has said she tries to stay away from news on television at home, as she wants to formulate her own opinions based on her experiences. Read this article: Michelle Obama insists home is ‘ news -free zone’ (New …

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TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld talked to sharing-widget producer Gigya recently to find out what site people tended to share content on the most. Gigya’s widget power social sharing from sites such as ABC.com, Reuters and Answers.com (and 5000 more). When people shared content, where did they tend to post it? Facebook was the #1 choice for 44% of content sharing . (Sub-lesson of this article: lying with statistics. Can you guess what share the other three got from the chart?) Gigya also looked at sign-in data for these sites—for example, whether users signed in via Gmail/Google, Yahoo or Facebook Connect to interact with or share content. For some types of sites, they were nearly equal—but not others. News sites saw 31% Facebook sign ins, 30% Google/Gmail sign ins and 25% Yahoo sign ins (Twitter saw 11% and AOL 3%). But for entertainment sites, Facebook was the far more popular choice at 52%, with Google (17%), Yahoo (12%) and Twitter (11%) trailing far behind. (MySpace, 7%, and AOL, 1%, fared even worse.) Facebook chat is also popular—more than half (56%) of all live chat events Gigya monitors were hosted on Facebook. Twitter was second with 28%, and Yahoo (9%) and MySpace (7%) eked in there. So what were the overall share numbers for Facebook’s competitors in overall sharing? Twitter had 29%, Yahoo 18% and MySpace 9%. If you really study the tilted 3D graph, you can approximate it pretty well—but it looks a little more proportional even at a glance in the 2D graph, doesn’t it? Upon seeing the data from Gigya, another sharing widget company volunteered its data. AddThis, used in 600,000 (smaller than Gigya’s, for the most part, since AddThis’s clients include Blogger users), shared the top ten services their users choose to share with. While Facebook was still tops, their lead wasn’t quite as decisive as in Gigya’s data. Facebook: 33% Email: 13% Print:9% Twitter: 9% Favorites: 8% Google: 6% MySpace: 6% Digg: 3% Live: 3% Delicious: 3% What do you think? Is Facebook the way you prefer to share things online?

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Facebook Corners 44% of Social Sharing

Thanks to Simon Baptist for pointing me to a piece in the Financial Times, which discusses the debt predicaments of European yellow pages publishers and how that will affect their businesses. I’ll sidestep that vexing issue, which forced then RHD and Idearc into Chapter 11 (both are now out). Here are some interesting bits from the article that caught my eye: Truvo is forecasting a 29% drop in print revenues year on year in 2009, partially offset by a 12% increase in online sales. Yell: “Around 20% of our overall revenues come from online advertising and in the UK it is 30%” Pages Jaunes (France): around 45% of total revenues are derived from online advertisement sales The Truvo decline is more aggressive than in the US but print YP publishers have suffered double-digit print declines during the recession. The question is where will that revenue go: to publishers in diversified product bundles or to third parties competing with them to offer online ads? See my related post: SMB Market Getting ‘Noisier’ by the Day

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The FT on Debt and YP Publishers