24 posts tagged “seo”

Why would Google accept / approve / sponsor Tor for the Google Summer of Code 2008 ?

Tor is an organisation that "helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy" ie by attempting to subvert all Web Analytics tools including Google Analytics and apparently Tor also breaks Google Search itself ! Surely Googles primary product ?

The .ME top level domain (TLD) sunrise has started http://www.domain.me/index.php?page=1

The Government of Montenegro recognized the potential worldwide appeal that .ME could have and decided it should be operated as a generic name space to gain the maximum benefit for Montenegro. The Government issued a public RFP in November 2007. The goal of the RFP was to find a Registration Agent that could operate an international registry, provide world class backend registry services, and provide the marketing and promotional muscle needed to make .ME a worldwide success. Ultimately, we believe they made an excellent choice!

Calendar (http://www.domain.me/index.php?page=15#1)

• May 6 17:00 UTC - May 20 17:00 UTC: General Sunrise
• May 20 17:00 UTC - June 6 15:00 UTC: Quiet Period
• June 6 15:00 UTC - June 26 17:00 UTC: Land Rush

• June 26 17:00 UTC - July 17 15:00 UTC: Quiet Period

• July 17 15:00 UTC: Open Registration

netcraft have a great key/word domain name search tool that lists domains that starts with, contains, ends with or has a subdomain of your chosen key/word

Domainmonster.com has been confirmed by the DotAsia registry as their largest registrar outside of the USA. This positions Domainmonster.com as the 2nd largest registrar worldwide for the new .asia domain name, since regular registry operation began on the 26th March 2008.

"We’ve seen a phenomenal uptake for the new .asia domain name from both existing and new customers" said Matt Mansell, Managing Director, Mesh Digital Limited. Commenting further he said, "We achieved superb success during the initial hours of registry launch and continue to do so.

Brand identities such as Oxfam.asia, Cadburys.asia and Kylie.asia are among the tens of thousands of domain names registered at Domainmonster.com to date."

Many are predicting it will rival the world popular.com domain !

The SEO company instantPOSITION have a number of free-to-use tools you can use to check SEO of your site including:

SEO Tester
The mini SEO Tester will check your server response, title tag, meta description tag and keywords.
Gives you a score and summary of the optimization level of your page.

Links Checker
Verify your links and the anchor text used for any page.

Most of my sites get pretty low scores !

Maybe I should follow their suggestions ? or try some other tools from

http://tools.seobook.com/ such as http://www.websitegrader.com/

Site Map
In general, there are two types of sitemaps:

1. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users find the information they need.
2. The second type are XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give search engines more information about your site.

Site Map Index
If you have a lot of pages and only some change frequently then a sitemapindex file is useful

You can list the URLs that change frequently in a small number of Sitemaps and then use the lastmod tag in your Sitemap index file to identify those Sitemap files. Search engines can then incrementally crawl only the changed Sitemaps.

See http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.php#faq_submitting_changes

According to Google Analytics there were over 1000 visitors to my VIZZ.INFO site last month !

1.      Firefox 648     51.35%
2.      Internet Explorer       518     41.05%
3.      Safari  38      3.01%
4.      Opera   28      2.22%
5.      Mozilla 21      1.66%
6.      Konqueror       5       0.40%
7.      Camino  2       0.16%
8.      (not set)       1       0.08%
9.      Netscape        1       0.08%

but why is hardly anyone clicking on the Google AdSense ads ?

ALL TIME

fsse     1,181     7     0.59%     $0.80     $0.94
fsse     1,099     6     0.55%     $0.84     $0.93
osde     4,304     9     0.21%     $1.00     $4.29
osde     4,340     9     0.21%     $0.99     $4.29
vizz     3,962     44     1.11%     $0.99     $3.92
vizz     5,474     2     0.04%     $0.06     $0.32
voippix     3,157     14     0.44%     $2.47     $7.79

TOTAL    11,343     116     1.02%     $1.58     $17.88

I just can't seem to break the 2% CTR or $20 barriers !

https://adwords.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7725&topic=1163

In response to advertiser feedback, Google AdWords offers a powerful tool for handling multiple AdWords accounts: My Client Centre (MCC).

MCC allows support for large advertisers with multiple AdWords accounts and third-party agencies, such as search engine marketers (SEMs), search engine optimisers (SEOs), and automated bid managers (ABMs), who manage and optimise multiple AdWords accounts.

http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/

If you're an AdWords advertiser, Google Advertising Professional, or just interested in learning more about AdWords, you can use our free training to sharpen your AdWords knowledge.

There are multimedia and text lessons to match your preferred learning style.

While lessons are organized to build upon previous ones, you can skip between topics and take them in any way you like. After each lesson, test your knowledge by taking a quiz.

http://networkcreators.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=492224%3ATopic%3A42751

Here's a tip for those of you who want to filter out Google Ads from your network, either because they show competitors or undesirable sites:

1. Go to your Google Adsense account and login;
2. Click on Adsense Setup (second tab);
3. Click on Competitive Ad Filter (last option);
4. Add the domains of as many ads you want to block.

In a few hours, you will no longer see them pop up.