Lost and Regained Traffic from Google, Yahoo and MSN the Easy Way

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Above is a little picture I wanted to show you. For those among you who are used to looking at website traffic graphics you see that something strange has happened here... You see, the picture above is from one of my websites and shows clearly what the impact was of the following story. I made a mistake, a simple one but with large consequences as you can see. Because of this mistake traffic for this site almost went done to zero. But if it had gone down to zero it would have been … [Read more...]

Sunday 29 March 2009 By 12 Comments Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engines, SEO Tagged With:
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Is Ask is going for Web 2.0 Search and Getification

The search results page by Ask.com

Looking at the new Ask.com commercial, and comparing it to the other search engine you can see some interesting developments: First, is this the new way you as a searcher want to get results? You definitely get more and different results from one search as before you needed to run several searches. But then again looking at the other major search engines, they also provide you with more information than just text. It all depends on what you are looking for... So here are some results of … [Read more...]

Thursday 25 October 2007 By 1 Comment Filed Under: Search Engines Tagged With: , , , , ,
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How Search Engines Help finding Keywords

Google suggestions for Keyword Anastacia

You now how to find keywords for your website, right? You know about Google external ad tool, WordTracker, trillian and seobook. But there are more easily and very targeted keyword suggestions to be found. The Search Engines themselves will show you what they think are the most relevant keywords... It is like looking into their database and finding what they think is relevant for you visitors. You just have to now how and where to look. I did some research for a new page of a new site … [Read more...]

Wednesday 29 August 2007 By 4 Comments Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engine, Search Engines, SEO, SEO Optimization
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Sitemap.xml and autodiscovery by Google, Ask, Yahoo and Live via Robots.txt

Yes !! They finally got it !! In my post of November last year I asked that the search engines "Make it a standard crawl !! Instruct your robots to look for a file called sitemap.xml the way they look for robots.txt." Well, now they are going to do it.... in a even better way as well.. You can read about the announcement on The Ask Blog Sitemaps Autodiscovery they will tell you more on the Search Engine Strategies in New York. It is going to be simple addition to your robots.txt … [Read more...]

Thursday 12 April 2007 By 6 Comments Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engine, Search Engines, SEO, SEO Optimization
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You think you rank well in Google?

If your think you rank well in Google, think again.. Google's Geo-targeting and your Position Working on Search Engine Optimization, you have to think about the people who are searching for a specifiek term and how you can be found. But what if you are trying to reach an audience form an other country? Let say you want people from Europe to find your Camper Rental site in the US. Just when your SEO Company or Consultant has brought you to the top of http://www.google.com/ you find … [Read more...]

Sunday 4 March 2007 By Leave a Comment Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engines, SEO, SEO Optimization
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Alexa Traffic Ranking from Other Countries

Alexa changed there traffic ranking information. Now you are able to see what your traffic ranking is for other countries. And I was impressed... You can see from which country te majority of your visitors come from and what your pagerank is for those country's. So now you can try and figure out what the best options are to get more visitors form other country's :-) Yet another great resource to tap into if you are geo-targetting your site content...  … [Read more...]

Sunday 18 February 2007 By 1 Comment Filed Under: Optimization, Search Engines, SEO
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