All Posts Tagged With: "Search Engines"

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How To Remove Ads From Google Search Results

Although in some occasions advertisement in Google search results might be helpful, some users prefer not to have them. There are various ways to remove ads not only from Google search result pages, but also from other websites. However, there is a really easy way to remove ads just from Google pages.

15May2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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How Often Do You Check Your Personal Details On Google?

How often do you check to see what information is available about you on Google? I check all the time and before I ever use my real name on any web page, I now always stop to evaluate whether I’d want that information appearing on Google.
In the US, the rights of employers to use [...]

14May2007 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Added My First Plugin For A Long Time: Comment Relish

I’ve been using WordPress for about a year now, and over that time I must have tried out hundreds of plugins. I haven’t added one for a while, so it was nice finding a new one to try out.
Comment Relish is a new WordPress plugin that sends a nice email message to users when [...]

9May2007 | Everton | 12 comments | Continued
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Why Is Yahoo! Publisher Network Still In Beta?

Yahoo! Publisher Network Beta launched in August 2005. Yet, nearly two years later it is still in beta and still isn’t accepting non-US applicants.
I’m starting to wonder if Yahoo! Publisher Network will ever see the light of day, and if it does, if it will be able to take away significant market share from [...]

6May2007 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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List Of Search Engine Ranking Factors

In what must be one of the most useful posts of the year for any aspiring blogger, Carsten from Search Engine Journal has pulled together a simplified version of the monster Search Engine Ranking Factors document, which contained the opinions of 37 SEO experts. I’ve pasted the full table below.

28Apr2007 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Should Google Licence Its Search Engine Technology For Internal Search Engines?

It goes without saying that Google Search is an amazing product, but you really begin to appreciate how good a product it is when in many cases it is a better way to search within a given site than with the site’s own internal search engines.
For instance for the post I just made about Bill [...]

16Apr2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO

I tried to enter uncharted waters today as I’ve decided to create a robots.txt file, which I haven’t done before. Daniel explains best why this should be a sensible move:
The robots.txt file is used to instruct search engine robots about what pages on your website should be crawled and consequently indexed. Most websites have [...]

25Mar2007 | Everton | 42 comments | Continued
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How Accurate Are Page Rank Predictors?

How accurate are Page Rank predictors? Whenever you’ve used them in the past have their predictions proven to be correct? I’ve just used one for the first time and it said that:

Connected Internet Blog will go up from 5 to 7
Connected Internet Directory will go up from 0 to 6
Connected Internet Forum will [...]

22Mar2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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Quick Links 11-03-07

Something to read with the Sunday papers (does anyone still do this?):

New browser-free Web version of Trillian is coming (video below)
Vonage loses phone patent dispute
Timesearch: New search engine that lets you filter by year. Great for if you are working on a school project
Blogfux Introduces Uptime Tracker: Great if you don’t have a [...]

11Mar2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Will Search Engines Eventually Start Ignoring Post Tags?

I was just about to go to bed when I saw this story on 901am that I decided I’d better post about now as I’m so tired I’ll forget when I wake up.
The post exposes some sites that 901am discovered were adding tags to their posts that weren’t relevant to the actual posts, in this [...]

9Mar2007 | Everton | 12 comments | Continued
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