While everyone desires to get a top ranking on the major global search engines, doing so takes a lot of time, effort, and expense. However any business wants to reach its target market quickly thus regional search engines become very important tools for achieving this goal. The competition is significantly lower when you submit your [...]

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John on February 24th, 2010

Hypertext Markup Language or HTML has been the main language of the Internet since it began. It is easy to code in HTML and any designer can have a web page in a matter of minutes. However because it is so easy to code in this language, it is also easy to create pages in [...]

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John on February 9th, 2010

Ask was founded with the hopes of becoming a powerful natural language search engine. It all started in Berkely, California, USA. Originally, it was known as “Ask Jeeves” with a theme character known as Mr. Jeeves who was supposed to be a virtual gentleman-like personal assistant. He retrieved and delivered the answers to your questions [...]

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John on January 28th, 2010

Baidu is the name of the most popular regional search engine in China. It is a search engine specifically for Chinese websites. The process of search engine optimization (SEO) is somewhat similar to general search engines like Google in that content, links, and keywords are important but there are some additional considerations that must be [...]

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John on January 12th, 2010

Vertical search engines are also known as specialized search engines and they can oftentimes be very useful in quickly pinpointing the information you need without having to filter through general results pages. They also go by the name of topical search engines in that you search in the context of a main topic. Topics can [...]

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John on December 11th, 2009

Organic search engine optimization (SEO) is full of challenges and getting top-ranked is not easy. Understanding of these challenges allows you to plan your SEO strategy much better because you will get a realistic picture of what to expect. Getting through the challenges are well worth the effort once you realize your website is at [...]

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John on December 7th, 2009

Let’s say that you install a new website and have done some basic search engine optimization (SEO) on it. It is not uncommon for it to appear at the top of a search engine results page (SERP) rather quickly—especially if the keyword phrase targeted by the site’s content has little competition. However, you cannot breathe [...]

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John on November 28th, 2009

The paperback version of SEO Warrior is released. It should be in bookstores by the time you read this text or very shortly.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank many of you for providing me with the helpful tips for the RC (rough cuts) edition.  I also want to thank the publisher (O’Reilly [...]

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John on April 22nd, 2009

Organic SEO implies ethical SEO with natural website growth. But, make no mistake; there is nothing natural about organic SEO. It is the systematic approach tailored to attain better site SE rankings. These are the same goals of unethical SEO practices. The difference is that SEs look bad when unethical SEOs succeed. Without relevant results [...]

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John on November 13th, 2008

The first thing you need to remember about search engine optimization is that it is not an exact science—too many variables are involved. So you will see many different tips on how to do optimization from different experts. This article covers a few of the more common tips you’ll see when doing search engine optimization [...]

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