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Beginner’s SEO Corner - I want to SEE! (Search Engine Eyes) March 25, 2006

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The search engines index your website by using their bots which are also called crawlers or spiders. And these bots do nothing but visits the URLs and check your links and visits those links too. The keywords on the pages are indexed and recording all keywords it can find* and including it in the indexed information.

When someone visits a website, the browser used to visit the website is sent to the website’s server which is known as the User Agent. There are several ways to know the User Agent either by using plain Javascript or using your favorite server-side …

Beginner’s SEO Corner - Cleaning up the code February 7, 2006

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What do search engines read? Do they see the exact same thing as we see websites?Search engines see text, and they do not see images. Bear this in mind for two main things.

  • If your images is an image of text, that text may be important content to be indexed.
  • Too much code just puts in too much ‘garbage’ in it. Too much unnecessary code that searchs engines do not actually care about, or worse, they might index a bunch of garbage that is not needed.

    • Now coming up with a tutorial on how to do things would take me all day. Let …

    Trafik, anyone? January 26, 2006

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    Face it. Filipinos may be good conversationalists but when it comes to spelling, we are mentally challenged. With a native tongue that’s evolved from tagalog to taglish, combined with the emergence of sms language (we won’t be called the “number one texting country” for nothing, would we?), our vocabulary has turned into a mesh of mispelled words.

    I know, I know. Filipinos are not really ashamed of this little known detail, in fact, we’re most likely to dismiss it with a laugh. But hey, now we can laugh about it and turn it to our advantage at the same time.

    Aaron Wall calls spelling errors an advanced SEO technique. Apparently, he’s not ashamed …

    Sandbox Detection Tips January 11, 2006

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    Randfish offers some sandbox detection tips anchored on SERP comparison of the 4 major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask). Basically, if the other 3 are in tune and Google’s not, you’re boxed.

    SEO For All Seasons January 9, 2006

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    If you’ve covered industries that are in demand for all 12 months, consider diversifying your site portfolio to address seasonal demand spikes. Graywolf gives a few topic niches if you want to address the US market. Think ‘Halloween costumes’ (November), ’swimsuits’ (summer months) and ‘wedding rings’ (June).

    If you’re going after the US-based Filipino market, you should consider positioning sites that can corner the demand for goods for the following dates:

  • Valentines Day - huge demand spike for flowers, chocolates, sappy heart shaped gifts, etc.; if you missed your anniversary (or monthsary for the hopeless romantics) this is your chance …

    Flash SEO January 4, 2006

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    If you can avoid Flash, avoid it. If you can’t, then Aaron Wall has a few tips for search engine optimizers working on SEO for Flash-based sites.

    A few tips for using flash (if you must use it):

    • Create descriptive useful page titles and meta descriptions.
    • Embed the flash into HTML pages and use regular text links on the page if possible.
    • If it does not screw up the design too bad add HTML text to the page.
    • Create textual representations of what is in the flash using noembed tags.
    • Instead of including everything in one flash file it may make sense to break …

      URL Canonicalization

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      If you think the 6 URLs below are one and the same, think again.

      • www.example.com
      • www.example.com/
      • example.com
      • example.com/
      • www.example.com/index.html
      • example.com/home.asp

      Want to be Mr. SEO? January 3, 2006

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      Andy Hagans has 5 tips for SEO gurus-to-be:

    • Suck up to the right people.
    • Get a niche.
    • Get published.
    • Get a blog, and make link bait.
    • Make friends with your rivals.

      • So if you want to be the next Mr. SEO Universe, move your ass.