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Will Your Site Rank Higher If It's Faster?

There's been mumblings in the search engine community that Google is getting ready to release a caffeine update to its search engine algorithms that will provide a rankings benefit for sites that have faster loading pages. Is it true? Probably. Here's why.... read more »

Moving your Website to a new Domain Name?

If you've ever had to move your website to a new domain name, you know the task can be daunting. Depending on how complex your website is - it will have to be re-created with painstaking detail on the new hosting account. And that's only the first part of the job...

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Where to Find Keywords?

There are a number of places you can get started to find out what popular keyphrases people are searching for in your industry, that you'll be able to use to optimize search campaigns for your website. The easiest place to begin is the free Google Keyword Popularity Tool provided by Google. You'll be able to tailor your results based on location (country) and language... read more »

Can Google Access Pages That Require a Login?

Google Analytics, yes; the Googlebot that indexes your pages so users can find them when they search Google? 

No, or at least, not yet. Still, there is a way to get search engine credit for your pages while still requiring users to enter a password to access your premium content... read more »

The ADS names Google Word of Decade

The ADS selected Google (the verb, not the noun), as word of the decade. Google was up against a number of other influential words of the decade, not the least of which is blog... read more »

Is it possible to make the background of an Adsense ad transparent?

Yes, it's possible, but we don't recommend it as it may prove to be a violation of your Google Adsense user agreement (or TOS = Terms of Service). Instead, we'll point out several benefits to using solid colors as your Adsense background... read more »

Is the DMOZ "Open Directory" still important for search?

Is the famous "Open Directory," whose links are known to be harvested by major search engines such as Google, still as important in the world of search as it once was? Or are less people using directories, and more people searching for content directly? We take a look at the evolution of DMOZ and where it stands today... read more »

Why use google's webmaster tools

Using Google's webmaster tools has its advantages. For one, when signed in you'll be able to see the top search queries and top clicked queries for your pages in Google's index... read more »