Know the Demographics of Your Site Visitors
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006Check out your site’s visitors’ demographics, which include their age and gender through Microsoft’s demographics prediction tool.
Here are the results for SEO Dance:
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Sitemaps 9.0 Gets Support from 3 Major Search Engines
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
I’m starting to fall in love with the keyphrase coveted trifecta not because it’s the major goal of many SEO webmasters but because it’s simply fun to say. If you have been patiently following this SEO blog, (a big thanks to you and some hugs, too.) I’ve already mentioned something about coveted trifecta in a post regarding off-page SEO beating on-page SEO.
However, I will not be discussing further about this SEO goal of reaching the top of the three major search engine’s SERPS.
But this still has something to do with the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo and MSN AND their synergy in supporting the use of sitemaps.
According to a press release from Google, Google, Yahoo and MSN will be joining forces in supporting Sitemaps 9.0.
“Sitemaps 9.0 is a free and easy way for webmasters to notify search engines about their websites and be indexed more comprehensively and efficiently, resulting in better representation in search indices.”
This is the first joint effort to improve the crawling process of the 3 major search engines. But, a webmaster should be reminded that using Sitemaps 9.0 protocol is not the best way to get into the top of the search results. It is only one
method of facilitating the way of informing the search engines when a site gets updated.
Crawl, er, read the full press release about the unity of the 3 major SEs in using sitemaps.
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How to Get Rid of Your Competitor from MSN Live
Saturday, November 11th, 2006
If you’re one of the few who still value traffic from MSN Live, this would interest you - one from Boogybonbon.com claims to know a hack to attack your competitors and get them deindexed from MSN Live.
But before you read this SEO tip, I’m hypnotizing you and you won’t remember a thing when you wake up.
Here’s how you can hack your way towards MSN’s top SERPs:
a. Check the competitors site to see if a non-valid URL returns a 200 status code with any header checker tool.
MSN Algo Update, Anyone?
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Google’s pagerank update yesterday, was a bluff. I think it’s better called a pagerank dance. The two sites with pageranks that went down yesterday regained their previous PRs during the evening. Whew!
Found a heads up post about an MSN algorithm update yesterday, November 3. The SEO report stated observations about the recent alteration of MSN algorithm priorities:
- More love for title tags.
- More love for optimized domains
Here is just a statement from Ross Dunn which I’m starting to not believe:
MSN is still following the basic principles of good SEO
If that is the case, why so little SERPs and why the love for Blogger?
via StepForth
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