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The info.txt file was used with Alexa (Alexa.com) to help update/verify your website. Alexa.com has since changed how they update the websites, so the info.txt file is no longer needed. If you want to update/add your listing, all you have to do is Go to...

I’ve been wanting to have an updated small business website guide that would provide new small local businesses and non-profit organizations a helping start on how to enter the online world. From registering a domain, local/social options, hosting and design options....

When asking if Link building is dead, this tends to mainly relate to forms of link building so in that manner, certain forms of link building no longer become useful, as it tends to get overused, abused and pushed beyond Google’s ethical link building limits. So in...

Main Search Entities are shown in the first table (Google, Yahoo and MSN). As posted in our previous top search engines from 2002 - 2005, Google in 2002 had approximately 16% of search share, and going to Dec 2013, Google sites are showing to have over 67%. On July...

Looking back from 2002 to 2005, these are the top search engines in the U.S. along with their percentage of search engine traffic. Back in 2002 Google was NOT the major player that they are today. Back in March of 2002, Google had 16% of the top searches, with Yahoo...

Far too many times in the online printing industry, I have seen newly created online printing sites simply copy the content from other top companies (their direct competition), yes copy the exact contents word for word, and just use their own company name. You put so...

From time to time, you may want to disavow links from certain websites you manage or own. There may be sites that you do not want your website associated with, possible link penalties and so on. You may find links from websites that you are not able to manually remove...

When you have a WordPress site, you will notice that there are both Categories and Tags. We will assume that the Categories will be for your new articles/postings assigned to their proper category section. A typical website structure can consist of a Homepage,...

The unsolicited door to doors salesman the other day prompted this annoying spam related article. Unsolicited Door to Door Sales I know, this isn't web related spam, but non the less it's usually unwanted and you can't ignore it so easily as those spammy emails, and...

Are you a nonprofit organization? Good news, just in-case you were not aware, Google has a Google Grants program available (for sometime now), and this is a nonprofit edition of their AdWords, Google's advertising tool. The Bad news, there are only limited number of...

As the world of online social connecting continues to evolve, its surprising how dependent we are of it at times. Do you fiddle with your smart phone while watching TV, going to bed, or just when you wake up? I remember years and years ago (don't want to state how...

A common question people have is, when should I start to see results from my campaign? With Organic results in the search engines (the free listings in the search engines), results are not instantaneous. If you have a time sensitive promotion, then you should also...

This article touches on some common  web Design Mistakes that are sometimes encountered with a design. These suggestions are aimed for Improved Optimization. After I initially designed my website, I thought this would be a good time to touch on designing a search...

The Importance of Having Unique Content Previously, I talked about the problem with mirror sites and duplicate content. Today, I will touch on this a little further hopefully helping those that might take a page from someone else's site just so they can get some quick...

I am really surprised when reading through the forums on a daily basis, the number of people that think or end up using doorway pages for their websites and think that it is alright. Essentially, never try to trick the search engines and always go for quality! Doorway...

People invest lots of time and money promoting their domain name and it takes time to have a well established website. Its important that you make sure you own your domain name. If you did not actually register your domain name (had a friend or someone else register...

The nature of link building is constantly changing. A good portion of the work on a campaign is devoted to Link Building on a monthly basis as link building is one of the main factors of ranking in the search engines. Good quality authoritative links are needed to...

Below is a quick overview of Yahoo! and it's Search History, so you can see that they have in the past used Google. In May of 1998, Yahoo! Web Search is powered by Inktomi In June of 2000, Yahoo! Web Search powered by Google In March of 2003, Yahoo! Acquires Inktomi...

So you have your site template designed, its great looking and has a search engine friendly design. The two main questions you may have now are, one how much content will I need, and two, how many pages? First of all, your content will have to be relevant and contain...

What’s BING? (In short, BING is MSNs Search Engine.) That’s the question my fiancée (Now Wife) asked awhile ago when she was using my laptop when about to start a search query. I’ve just changed my homepage from Google to Bing on my laptop that I use mainly for...

Once I had my site designed, the next step was to find a reliable hosting company. This will take some research on your part as any hosting company will not do. There are many issues that will be covered below. The range for a hosting package can be anywhere from just...

With today's article, I am going to touch on something that we all need to have with marketing a website. And that is a little patience. It is best to have a good understanding of how the search engines work. The better you understand them, the better educated...

Some common questions you may be asking are, how many pages will I need on my website and how should I use these with my optimization campaign. Ok, far too often I will be checking out some of the local company websites and far too often I see a website that has the...

There are many reasons why you may need to switch hosting companies. This article will touch on the main areas to help you make the move easier and not affect your search engine rankings. This article touches on switching hosting companies on the same Platform. What...

When switching hosting companies and/or changing the actual platform that your site is hosted on, windows or UNIX for example. There are some things that you will need to take into consideration. If your site is in ASP, then it will only work on a IIS Server (Windows...