“The life span of a Google query is usually less than half a second, yet involves quite a few steps that must be completed before you see the most relevant results.”

  You can submit your website URL to Yahoo! to crawl by visiting here: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/au/submit  (You must have an account to submit for free.)Note:  Please expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled. Note that in the effort to maximize the quality of search results that appear on Yahoo! and our other distribution [...]

Who Controls Website’s Positions on the Search Engines? Search Engines Do!

Search engine results are controlled solely by each individual search engine and complicated algorithm. These complicated algorithms evaluate pages on the web against keyword searches performed by users. It is impossible for ANY business to guarantee high rankings for any website or webpage…

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and [...]

This article is posted online at SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-pricing-costs-what-should-you-charge-how-much-should-you-pay I thought it was an interesting compilation of pricing models from both sides- clients and SEO firms. I wanted to explore the world of SEO pricing models from both sides of the issue, so let’s dive right in. First off, we’ll take a look at how SEO [...]

Google is a fully automated search engine, which employs robots known as ‘spiders’ to crawl the web on a monthly basis and find sites for inclusion in the Google index…

A search engine robot is called a “spider.” The reason being that when the robot/spider goes to a page, it follows all the links on that page. In the imagination this action resembles a many legged spider. The robot follows the links…

To see meta tags a visitor can while viewing most web pages, select “view” on their browser tool bar, then select “source,” where they will be able to look at all the HTML of that page unless it is protected or hidden by a frame…