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Google supplemental index

August 21st 2009

The supplemental index is a secondary index for lower ranking pages and doesn’t contribute anything to your sites visibility on Google. Pages found in the supplemental index tend to be crawled less often and will never be assigned PageRank. As a result, these pages tend to appear lower in organic search results. There are many [...]

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Google search tips

August 21st 2009

A bunch of useful google tips to improve your searches and allow you to do a lot more than just basic searching with google. Reference : The google story by David A.Vise (1) Google can be your phone book – Type a buisness name, city and state to get a number or type the number [...]

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Designing a robots.txt file

August 9th 2009

Search engines collate an image of the internet by searching it, using a special program called a spider. This spider, sometimes called bot, retrieves a map of the internet and all its web pages and files. This map is then used as data to compile results for queries we type into the search engines like [...]

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High google ranking

July 20th 2009

The German company Sistrix analyzed the web page elements of top ranked pages in Google to find out which elements lead to high Google rankings. They analyzed 10,000 random keywords, and for every keyword, they analyzed the top 100 Google search results. Sistrix analyzed the influence of the following web page elements: web page title, [...]

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