MarketPosition.com Archives for May, 2005
May 15, 2005
Google Updates Toolbar PageRank for Many Pages
Courtesy of SearchEngineNews.com | May 2005
Around the 22nd of April, Google implemented a long overdue large-scale update of the toolbar PageRank for many sites. You might want to check your PageRank to see if you were affected. Google's backlinks feature (the number of incoming links to your site Google shows when you do a link:www.yoursite.com command) was also updated.
May 15, 2005
SEO Compass: Site Map and 404 Error Pages
By Kent Lewis, President of Anvil Media Inc.
These days, it's much easier to get lost in search engines, than to be found. As the Web grows and evolves, many sites are redesigned, leaving orphaned or "dead pages" in their wake. While site visitors appreciate improved content and features a new site can offer, they get frustrated by clicking through to blank white 404 error pages on the old site. Building a custom 404 error page is an elegant solution to this problem.
May 15, 2005
Google Reveals Ranking Components in Patent Application!
...by sketching their ideal search engine, Google dropped a truckload of clues about how their engine actually ranks sites!
May 15, 2005
Google Limits Link Popularity Searches?
Some Google searchers have been noticing a new limitation when checking link popularity using the "link:" command. If you perform too many of these searches within a certain period of time, a page is returned claiming that your computer has spyware installed on it and requires a code to be entered on the page before the search results will be returned.
May 15, 2005
Using MSN's RSS Search Results
MSN Search has made syndicated RSS search results available for any search term you enter. This can be a valuable tool to monitor your keyword positions as well as your competition on MSN.
