Google’s Pagerank is designed to allocate authority or weight to individual web pages. Pagerank is updated about 4 times a year and the formula is secret.
The higher your web page’s pagerank the more authorative your website is being seen by the Google Search Engine. A website’s pagerank can be from 0 to 10 based on […]

You’ve just written a brilliant blog post and now all you have to do is wait for the post to be indexed by search engines. Below you’ll find a few methods that you can use to check and see if your blog post has been indexed by Google:
Go to http://blogsearch.google.com/. In the search box, type […]

Have you noticed a significant decrease in the amount of your website’s traffic? Have you seen that there are much less website surfers coming from the Google Search Engine?
This may be a temporary thing as search engine rankings fluctuate on a daily basis. If the problem continues, you may have been hit with a search engine […]

Keywords help search engines index your website’s page so that web surfers can find what it is they are looking for. Keywords are a brief description of what your page about. A keyword can also contain a phrase. For example some of my website’s keywords would be “memphis web design” or “professional web design”. When […]

If you’ve created a new page and want to tell if the page has been indexed by Google, go to http://www.google.com. In the search box, type in site: followed by the page url.
For example, if I wanted to see if my free web templates page had been indeed by Google, I’d type in
site:http://www.hooverwebdesign.com/free_templates.html
If I type […]

This is a short article that covers rewriting articles  to create unique content that you have created manually or using article rewriting software to rewrite your articles automatically for you.
Submitting articles to article submission websites is a great way to promote your website. Examples of article submission websites are http://www.findarticles.com/, http://www.ezinearticles.com/, and http://www.articlesbase.com/. Everyone that […]

I’ve noticed some odd fonts being displayed in my Adsense Ads lately. Here’s an example:

This font looks like Comic Sans MS. It doesn’t really look good on my website but for a personal website it might be ok.
I wonder if this means we will have the option to choose the fonts that are displayed in […]

If you’ve submitted your website through Google’s Webmaster Tools you’ll see an option under the Tools Menu for “Set Crawl Rate”. The Crawl Rate determines how often Google’s robots (the Googlebot) will visit your website to spider your web pages and add them into it’s search engine index. The options are Slow, Normal and Fast. […]

If you’ve visited any webmaster forums in the last few days you’ll hear the webmasters talking about the Google Page Rank update. This update takes place about 4 times a year. Google’s Pagerank formula is secret and is designed to allocate authority or weight to individual web pages. The higher your web page’s pagerank the […]

Google bans websites that try to cheat to get better rankings or to deceive it’s users by using SEO blackhat techniques.
To tell if your website has been banned go to Google.com and type in your website name,
i.e. site:www.hooverwebdesign.com (substitute hooverwebdesign.com with your domain name)
If you see ZERO search results, it means you are not listed […]