SEO / SEM blog

Google, after announcing to be able to index FLASH files now gives advices of how to use FLASH on the Official Google Webmaster Central blog. Here is what they suggest:

Try to use Flash only where it is needed. Many rich media sites such as Google’s YouTube use Flash for rich media but rely on HTML […]

Delicious, a highly popular social bookmarking service changed the design and domain name from del.icio.us to delicious.com to avoid user misspelled errors.
We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and […]

Delicious, a social bookmarking service is using cloaking methods on their website.
Shocked?
Delicious is using a <meta name”robots” content”noarchive,noindex,nofollow”> attributes on every web page of their website. That theoretically should exclude their website from being indexed by Google and other search engines. Also their Robots.txt file is showing
User-agent:
Disallow: /
But if you check on Google for “site:del.icio.us” […]

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is dealing with natural (organic, algorithmic) results in various search engines. Its main goal is to achieve high rankings in search engine result pages (SERP’s) for targeted keyword or key phrases. High positions will bring traffic to the site and possibly turn visitors into customers.
SEO is long process, you can not […]

Since Adobe informed that they cooperated with the biggest search engine companies to improve Flash indexation and Google officially confirmed they can index Flash content there is a lot of discussion whether Flash is good or still bad for websites.
There are some that will say Flash is evil. But there are some that will say […]

There are many speculations in SEO industry whether domain age plays an important role in Google ranking algorithm. Some say it’s very important for Google while others say it plays very little to no role for Google to have an old domain.
At this point please distinguish the difference between the domain age and website age, […]

Here is an amazing list of 100 webmaster videos on YouTube about SEO, link building, blogging, usability, advertising, affiliate and more…
http://www.insidecrm.com/features/100-webmaster-videos-061208/
Hope it helps.
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Google Keyword Tool is now equipped with search volume data. Thanks to this feature you’ll be able to…
…see the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network. These approximate numbers are intended to provide better insight into keywords’ monthly and average search volumes than previously provided […]

Adobe have announced that they team up with search engine industry leaders to improve the quality of search results of Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s).
Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search […]

I guarantee that your website for desired keyword will appear on 1st place in Google search engine.
And now seriously, how many times did you heard that before? How many companies “guarantee” you will get first place in any search engine?
I’m sure it’s tempting offer. But ask yourself this question: can any company order Google to […]