Search engines are going to have to split out into a few different topics. As I was writing this part of this posting I realized…
Search engines are going to have to split out into a few different topics. As I was writing this part of this posting I realized…
Links from other sites
If you have access to your web server logs the referrer information can be extremely useful in determining what sites link to yours. Many of the referrers will be search engines which we’ll discuss next time, but there will also be links from other sites.
For this part of our discussion, we’re going to look at 4 different types of links; directories, paid links, reciprocal links, and natural links; plus a few miscellaneous types at the end.
I’m going to work backwards through the methods listed above. Search engines, while the most common way for “good” traffic to come to your site, are one of the most difficult methods to do well. So, it’s going to get left until the end.
Direct Access
If you watch your web server statistics you will notice that direct access is not a common method for people to come to your site. But the traffic that comes from direct access will often be very good, that is very likely to be looking for your services. Often they saw your web address somewhere and are typing it in.
This is going to be a serial article that I wrote for a forum.
Introduction
You can have the single greatest website in the world, but if nobody finds it your site doesn’t do any good. The question is, how do people find your site.
It’s been about a month since I uploaded my first Sitemap to Google Sitemaps. This seems like a good time to look back and see if it has made any changes and if those changes are good.
A few years back Google had Dilbert on their logo. Just in case you missed it, here it is again.
Well this took about 3 minutes for me to stick here and on my other blog. It’s a short PHP script that loops through your…
No one outside of the Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engine programmers know exactly how a search engine decides which page is more valid for a particular search. Reading sites like Webmaster World you can find theories and experiments, but very little hard proof. With that, please keep in mind that this is one of those theories, and may make no difference on your search engine placement.
ICANN released Wednesday that it was approved a new top level domain specific to web sites with adult content. The new TLD is .xxx.
Trying to use the XMLHttpRequest object in a non-Mozilla browser? Tired of trying to make it compatible with IE? Look here for a JavaScript object…