Webmasters and The Future Of Search Technology: Using Alternative Search Engines

The major search engines that are discussed today are Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, there is more to search engine technology than the most popular search engines than many webmasters realize. Today there is a new breed of search engines making their presence known. There are many experts that are beginning to look seriously at open source search engines as the future of search technology.

The open source search technology movement has been growing for several years. In 2006, several search engines begin using the open source code with modest success. Currently there are only a few search engines which are using the “Nutch” algorithm such as MozDex which is rapidly gaining popularity and working through a variety of technical problems. Read the rest of this entry »

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Should Webmasters Be Concerned With Credibility?

Webmasters spend a great deal of time focus on factors to make their web sites search engine friendly, profitable, attractive and inviting to their visitors. Sometimes during this process the visitor becomes impersonalized and webmasters lose sight of the importance of building trust with their audience. The fact is that no matter how carefully you designed a web site, without the “personal touch” your visitors may not respond to your offer as well as they could.

That “personal touch” comes from many different factors and if you want to make money with your website you must put emphasis on the features that will help you provide your visitors with a clear picture of who you are, where you are and why they should trust you. Credibility plays a major role in converting visitors to buyers. Read the rest of this entry »

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What’s Next For Webmasters? – How Block Link Analysis Will Affect Your Website

Webmasters have to keep track of the various ways that the search engine companies recommend for optimizing web sites. All of the efforts that the webmaster employs to research and analyze the right key words, use unique page titles, provides keyword rich content that is informational and engaging for visitors are done specifically to give the search engine robots the information they require in the format they prefer.

The data that is collected is used in measurement systems to calculate popularity, page rank and web sites placements in the search engine index. The PageRank system used by Google and the Hyperlinked Induced Topic Search are two of the most popular algorithms that are currently in place which both have shortcomings. Read the rest of this entry »

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How to Use Sitemap Protocol For Search Engine Submissions

Much to the delight of webmasters everywhere, in 2006 the major search engines along with Microsoft came to an agreement regarding supporting the site map protocol. As a webmaster tool the site map protocol assists in reducing the time it takes to submit your web pages to the search engines.

There are some webmasters who have been using site maps for quite awhile however the site map protocol expands the benefits of using it further. The site map is an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about their web site and or web pages. This makes the process of updating or adding new pages to your web site and having them listed in the search engines a lot easier. Read the rest of this entry »

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How To Avoid Common Webmaster Traps

Although many webmasters construct their websites carefully, search engine technology has evolved to the point where are some “innocent” ways that you can get in trouble with the search engines if you are unaware. Here are a few of the most common webmaster traps:

DUPLICATE CONTENT

There are many webmasters who operate more than one web site and in some cases use the same content on more than one site in an effort to save time. Although search engines prefer web sites that have a high volume of web pages, the expectation is for each of those web pages to have unique content. When the search engine robot finds that web sites are offering content or Meta tags that is very similar to another web site, they consider it to be duplicate content. Read the rest of this entry »

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