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MSN Search has officially come out of the beta version and is now available in search.msn.com main domain, So what type of seo works well for MSN search this has been a question that has been circulating a lot in forums, blogs, messageboards etc,
We at Search Engine Genie has been doing testing in new MSN from the day it was launched as beta, MSN search Algorithm has not changed much from the beta launch, MSN search engine seems to be more loving to good number of links with relevant anchor text, Also they favor onpage factors too, There seem to be a balance needed for MSN when it comes to backlinks and onpage factors, Meta tags never matter for new msn search engine, they are just negligible factor,
Keyword in domain is also a negligible factor,
Important factors or the visible contents and good number of backlinks from many sites with proper anchor text,
MSN has still not sorted out with the duplicate pages, There are a lot of duplicate pages in MSN, so there is no dupe content penalty like google, Also MSN search crawles sites really deep so it is important to make sure the site has themed contents and all the pages have words which are in close proximity,
More to come in SEO blog tips on the new MSN, Keep visiting our site,
SEO Blog Team
There used to be overwhelming obsession about google technology PAGERANK, Pagerank is google’s way of measuring a page’s value based on Links, Pagerank of a page can be viewed on the google toolbar or using online pagerank checker,
Measuring links based on pagerank was an important way of google judging the value of a page, Now pagerank is no more a priority, google uses various other ways in judging the value of a link, Especially google likes links originating within an authority site, Any good relevant page on Microsoft.com and Google.com domain will rank, So there are lots of new factors involved in measuring the quality of links than pagerank alone, So we recommend anyone not to worry about your Pagerank any more, Keep building links regardless of the pagerank of the linking page,
Now toolbar pagerank updates happen only once in 3 months, So google itself is not worried about pagerank much, So we recommend not to focus on pagerank of the site and never watch pagerank updates eagerly to see what your new pagerank is,
SEO Blog Team,
Google's local search is a great improvement from google, It is an excellent product to find a particular information in a local area,
Before this google's local link was not there on their homepage, it was there on a subpage which was connected to the google.com homepage, Now the local search link is directly on the homepage,
This is what google says about their local search link on their homepage,
There's been such great demand for Local search results that we've added a Local link on the Google homepage so you can find nearby businesses around the U.S. and Canada even faster than before. Try it out and tell us how it's working for you. We suggest keeping an eye on Local, too - you'll soon see even more features. Whether you're at home or traveling, you're now one click closer to whetting your appetite.
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Webmasterworld.com guys are reporting a possible algorithm update in google, But we havent noticed anything like that if you are interested in whining like the newbies in this thread Please pay a visit and share your feelings,
Update Allegra - Google Update thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/27801-1-10.htm
Also some people are reporting google backlink update in this datacenter,
216.239.39.104
Title tags are the most important tag when it comes to onpage search engine optimization, Search engines uses title tags as the title for their search engine results,
Also during Query time in search engines, They have a split of a second to crawl through billions of documents to find an exact match, So search engine engineers mostly design their query time algorithm to fetch matches from quality sites title tags first, if the match is not found they move into content and then title and content of lower level pages,
So if you run a good quality site with lots of backlinks and if the search engines consider your site to be an authority it is important every page of your site has an effective good title tag,
When it comes to google they virtually show only the first 64 characters of a title in their SERPs ( search engine result pages ) , But our experients show they read more than 120 characters, we added some bizarre words after the first 64 characters and google did find those words matching for the query, So google reads long titles to,
We recommend writing titles of around 12 words or 100 to 130 characters, Some search engines like yahoo, MSN etc tend to show even long title in their search engine results so long title never hurts,
Some SEO experts predict that long titles dilute the effect of a title tag, But there is no evidence to this theory, it is fact that the first 3 to 6 words are the most important words in the title tag, but that doesnt mean words after the first 6 words or ignored or they dilute the power of the words occuring first,
Our basic recommendation
1. write titles which are related to the page,
2. write titles that are unique, dont just copy and paste the same title on all the pages, this is especially important when you have different pages targeting different information, title tags are the gateway to that page and if the title tag is not written properly for a targeted page you will loose google targeted traffic for that page,
3. Commas and spaces in title tag are same, But spaces look better than commas so use spaces between phrases,
4. Dont just load all the keywords on the title just target 2 to 4 phrases per page and add upto 2 phrases with good keyword combination in the title,
5. when you are targeted a particularly competitive keyword, use both singular version and the plural version of that keyword,
6. make sure the title tag syntax is proper, Title tag should be placed in the head section of an html page, Also make sure you close the title tag,
If the above guide lines is followed effective title tags will be got and they will be a powerful onpage optimization effort for your site,
Comeback for tomorrow's tip on search engine optimization from the SEO Blog Team,
As everyone is aware of there exist some sort of filter in google's algorithm which prevents new sites from ranking even if the site is well optimized and has numorous number of backlinks, So what causes this google lag,
We at Search Engine Genie conducted Numerous tests on why this lag exists for new sites and some new pages, We cannot conclude what causes this effect,
Questions which were unsolved in this test
1. Does it affect only new sites or even existing sites??/
2. Does it pertain only to links or it is caused by onpage factors,
3. Does it relate only to certain type of links like forum links/blog links/guest book links/site wide links etc???
4. Does it affect all sites or only certain type of sites??/
5. What type of algorithm triggers this type of filter??/
6. Will ever sites come out of the sandbox algorithm??/
All the above questions were unanswered when it comes to this google lag on new sites,
But we do have some tips which worked for some phrases for certain sites, Though our tests didnt bring any site out of the sandbox algorithm on the whole it did make those sites rank for some low competitive phrases which has been a small source of traffic for our client sites,
Atleast those tactics helped bring some smile in our client's face,
Tips,
1. Avoid getting links from guestbook, spam sites etc,
2. Avoid site wide links from unrelated sites,
3. Dont have duplicate contents on your site, Means dont have contents that are copied and manipulated from other sites, have unique contents,
4. Get links for your inner pages, Dont get all links directly to your homepage, Links to your inner pages matters, It you have pages talking about particular widge say green widgets get links to those pages with anchor text as “green widgets” don’t just all anchor text to your homepage,
5. Get as much natural links as possible, write articles, testimonials, press releases, reviews etc and gain natural back links,
6. Target lots of related phrases for your site, Targeting some phrases wont bring traffic if your site is caught in the sandbox algorithm, adding numerous number of phrases will give lots of keyword combos and with bring good targeted traffic,
Hope the above SEO tips help your site from getting traffic from google even if the site is caught in the sandbox algorithm,
Google has introduced a new referral program which pays out 20$ per referral, Criteria for earning 20$ google says this on their site,
How you get paid
One of your visitors clicks on the graphic or link and is taken to a Google sign-up page.
That person signs up for an AdWords account or applies to become an AdSense publisher.
Advertisers qualify as completed referrals after they spend $20 with AdWords. Publishers qualify after they earn $75 in AdSense revenue.
Every month, Google calculates the number of completed referrals you have directed to Google.
Once you accrue $100 (five completed referrals) or more, you will receive a check. Google only issues checks once a month (for details, see the FAQ).
More information here: https://www.google.com/referral/
Google has updated its image search, Google has previously agreed that they update their image search only once in 2 years, Now it seems google images has been updated,
Anyone willing to check whether their images are included into google images check it out,
https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en
Today's SEO tip,
When Preparing contents for your website make sure the copy reads properly, Search engines are moving towards semantic analysis of a document, they see the distribution of keywords, theming of the sentence, formation of the sentence etc, make sure all pages created for your site reads properly,
Dont stop creating contents for your site, Keep adding some new content everyday to your site, Write some articles, add some small titbits of information here and there, Add a blog to your site, Add a forum where people can participate and add their own contents, Add a review section if you have a product website,
Contents are an important part of search engine optimization, All search engines like content rich sites, Good contents also attract lot of backlinks which is an other great benefit, Good unique contents are a great food for the visiting crawlers give them what they want( good unique contents and lot of backlinks to your pages),
SEO Blog Team,
Before starting with any search engine optimization work Do a complete research of your industry, Analyze your competitor sites, check how their site is built upon content wise as well as link wise, Check using commands like link: and linkdomain: to find out all backlinks to your competitor sites,
For yahoo,
link:http://www.anysite.com will show links to that particular page, so suppose your competitor has some articles which has good backlinks, check the backlinks of that page using that command, for example link:http://www.competitorsite.com/article-123.html
this way you can understand how your competitor site ranks, Good popular inner pages are also a power to your main page, a good popular article page with good backlinks is very good in transfering link popularity to your homepage,
linkdomain:www.anysite.com will help determine most of the backlinks that whole domain possesses, this includes links to inner pages of that domain,
Competitive Analysis is a vital part of search engine optimization, If this part is done properly most of the furthur SEO work will be over, Put all that you research on your competitors in a file and do that for your site, you will see good ranking improvements,
Wait for tomorrow's time
SEO Blog Team,
First off we wish to thank all readers who have paid visit to this blog frequently, We are very happy on the traffic our blog gets, To make our blog more interactive we would like to introduce a new section the TIP OF THE DAY, this search engine optimization tip of the day will give out a new tip on SEO for site owners/SEOs/Webmasters and everyone who likes to know something new about search engines and their algorithms,
Some tip may be common but some may be very new and interesting, We wish everyone who visits this blog will be benefited by our SEO tips
thanks Search Engine Genie Team,
Google which used to index only 101 kb of html of a web page seem to have dropped that limit now, they now index more than that size,
Some pages on our site are more than 101 kb and they are fully cached,
For example this page size is more than 200 kb and when the cache of google is checked it shows the whole page being cached https://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm,
66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:jHNYpRA2zIoJ:www.searchenginegenie.com/google-pagerankexplained.htm+google+pagerank+genie+explained&hl=en
Finally we can have big pages, Also some good information pages will be cached to its fully length, So what is the new google limit, Anyone aware of it,
MSN search which has been in beta testing for a while is live now in the main MSN homepage, www.msn.com
Bill gates has released a letter on this, it states,
Greetings,
I would like to introduce you to the new MSN Search service and MSN.com home page.
Based on your feedback, we have designed the new MSN.com home page to be faster, simpler, and more organized. We've also made MSN Search more precise and powerful, so you can quickly find the information you’re looking for.
Our mission at Microsoft is to use the power of software to solve our customers' toughest problems. Searching the Internet today is a challenge, and it is estimated that nearly half of customers' complex questions go unanswered. That's why we're proud of our new MSN Search service, a simple and powerful tool that helps you find the answers you want from sources as diverse as Web pages, images, news headlines, music downloads, and even files on your PC.
Input from millions of our customers - including me - was crucial to our efforts to make MSN Search the best it can be. If you have not already tried it, I encourage you to visit www.msn.com and type in your question. We'd love to hear what you think, and I promise that we will continue to improve MSN based on your feedback.
Sincerely,
Bill Gates
Source: specials.msn.com/letter/billgates.html
Google Inc has been included in the Icann credited domain registration list,
google is listed number 895
Check this page for more information,
www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids
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