By Hostway

Microsoft completed its rollout of Bing on June 3, 2009, replacing MSN. Billed as a “decision” engine, the new search engine has distinct features intended to make search engine results pages more useful and require less clicking. For example, when a user hovers his/her cursor over a search result, a summary of the page appears, thus providing more information without requiring a click. (more…)

By Jeffrey Smith

Today’s topic is based on the importance of refreshing your on page content from time to time to toggle “the fresh content factor” to get a boost in the SERPs (search engine result pages) using SEO. (more…)

Search engines respond to billions of keyword searches. With a little planning, you can capture a piece of the Web site traffic generated by the top Internet search engines. (more…)

Increasing search engine rank is such a hot topic today that an entire industry of search engine optimizers has sprung up to help people increase their Web site’s rank with the most popular search engines. (more…)

Web page optimization is a multi-part strategy you can use to increase your Web site’s search engine ranking as much as possible. Based on the theory that people tend to click on links within the first few pages of search engine results, increasing your search engine rank can also increase your Web site traffic and possibly increase your sales. Click the links below to learn some simple ways you can help your Web site rank higher with the top search engines. (more…)

The main things all major search engines look for when evaluating your Web site are content and links from external Web sites. Thus, you can increase your search engine ranking by developing keyword-rich content that is of value to your visitors and other Web sites. Techniques that fail to offer better content for your visitors or try to “trick the system” can get your Web site banned from the big search engines. (more…)

Your Web site linking strategy has two goals: 1. To drive traffic to your Web site and 2. To increase your rank with the major search engines. (more…)

Once you understand PageRank, you may be wondering how your Web site's PageRank affects your site. Your PageRank is a single piece of the Google algorithm that determines your ranking on the search engine results page. It affects your Web site in a few ways: (more…)

You can use vertical search engines to boost your Web site traffic and product sales. A vertical, or “specialized,” search engine finds Web sites that deal with a specific topic. Instead of sending crawlers out to the Web, they send crawlers out to a specialized database to return search results. (more…)

The Open Directory is edited by a large network of volunteers located all over the world. These editors weed out the bad Web sites and links and create a directory of valuable Web sites arranged by topic. (more…)