Tuesday, July 22, 2008

What is google sandbox?

The Google Sandbox effect is an alleged restriction placed on new websites. The result is that a new site does not receive good rankings for its most important keywords and keyword phrases for few months. Even with good content, many inbound links, a new website may still adversely affected by the Sandbox effect. The Google Sandbox acts as a probation for new sites, probably to discourage spam sites from rising quickly, getting banned, and repeating the process.Thus the Google Sandbox is very similar to a new website being placed on probation whose rank is kept lower than expected in searches, prior to being given full value for its inbound links and content.

What is RSS Feed ?

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people. It is used by computer programs that organize those headlines and notices for easy reading.

What are Meta Search Engines?

A metasearch engine is sometimes called a metacrawler or megasearch. They enable the user to search the web with the help of an all in one interface. Using the combined power of multiple webcrawler indexes, metasearch rankings are based on the Internet search engine ranking of other providers.

Monday, July 21, 2008

What is Robot Text ?

The robots.txt file is the first file search engine "spiders" look for when indexing a website. The robots.txt file tells search engine spiders (robots) which files and directories they are NOT allowed to index. This helps to prevent incomplete site indexing as well as prevent exposing the files and directories that you don't want listed. You may disallow, for example, "Google Images" from indexing certain directories and pages on your site, but not block "Google" itself from indexing those same files.

What is Spider ?

A spider is a program which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. A web crawler is one type of bot. Web crawlers not only keep a copy of all the visited pages for later processing - for example by a search engine but also index these pages to make the search narrower.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

What is Keyword Research?

Researching a keyword to find its related keywords. Keyword Research is also done to get the most popular and highest producing keywords.

What is Dead Link?

A dead link is a link on the world wide web that points to a webpage or server that is permanently unavailable. Dead links are commonplace on the Internet, but they are considered to be unprofessional.