Archive for October, 2009

Google’s Major Pagerank Update

Saturday, October 31, 2009 18:19 9 Comments

Yesterday, i.e. on the 30th of October 2009 was the year’s 2nd major Pagerank update carried out by Google. This is a ‘phenomenon’ seen once every three to four months where many of the webpages across the web get an updated PR. Infact our(Techfrog.org’s) Pagerank has been updated to PR1 from the previous PR0. Since [...]

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SEO For Ask.com

Thursday, October 29, 2009 14:56 6 Comments

Ask’s share of the search market is just 4.3% so it is obvious that optimizing for Ask is not of crucial importance for most webmasters. In spite of the company’s more or less mediocre advertising ventures, Ask has some excellent as well as dynamic one-of-a-kind properties that is believed to slowly but surely dominate the [...]

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The Bing-Yahoo Deal

Sunday, October 25, 2009 13:15 2 Comments

After much talk and a fair deal of decision making, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft signed a deal with Yahoo’s Carol Bartz: A deal that will evolve Microsoft into the world’s 2nd largest search company and turn Yahoo into a media powered advertising broker. Yahoo is all set to hand over searching to Microsoft, who will [...]

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Google Search Codes

Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:38 6 Comments

Although many of us rely on Google for different information, it is a matter of concern whether we are receiving the exact data as expected or not. This is where Google Search codes come into play. Using good google search queries will provide you with precise and more desired search results. Most SEO Experts [...]

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Vote for Us at Tycoonblogger’s Rookie Blogger Of The Year Contest

Monday, October 19, 2009 13:52 No Comments

We enrolled ourself for Tycoonblogger’s Rookie Blogger Of the Year Contest and were selected alongwith 17 other great blogs. The contest began on Oct 14 2009 and Ends on Dec 1 2009. I’m thankful to Dan Keller for including us and giving us this opportunity. You can vote for us if you wish or any [...]

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Yahoo’s Trustrank and the Importance of Authority in SEO

Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:52 No Comments

Trustrank is a term introduced by Yahoo engineers which describes their algorithm that rates sites and pages on the grounds of relevancy and trust shown upon by other websites, similar to the Google Pagerank. The difference is, the Trustrank algorithm doesn’t solely count backlinks like how Pagerank does but it more or less puts weight [...]

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How does Googlebot see Page Content?

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 0:49 7 Comments

We all know Googlebot(Google’s spider/bot/crawler) sees things in a different way as compared to us. Though not very different, its important to know how your page is converted and viewed by a search engine spider. This enables us in the efficient placement of keywords on various parts of the page for better on-page Seo.

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