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SEO and the Truth about Professional Search Engine Optimization

Contrary to popular belief, the basic elements of SEO are straight forward and not difficult to learn. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of competition within most markets make it virtually impossible to get to that elusive number one search engine position without taking every factor of optimization into consideration...

Powerful New Meta Search Engine

Search AllinOne MetaSearch Web Search Service

There is a new kid on the block when it comes to meta search. Search AllinOne MetaSearch appears to be a very powerful new meta search with some interesting features, even if you're an seo or webmaster.

Google Web Accelerator Problems

Google's new Web Accelerator Program

Google's effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web pages under other users' logins and breaking Web applications.

In order to speed up the display of pages generally, Google Web Accelerator may store copies of web pages, including prefetched pages that you did not visit, in the Google Web Accelerator cache on your machine. This is separate from your browser's cache, which only identifies pages that you actually visited.

Google Tracks User Behavior

Google Patent Specification and Tracking Surfer Behavior

Google has recently filed a patent that details many points that Google uses to rank web pages. The title of the patent is Information retrieval based on historical data and it reveals details of algorithms that Google uses in addition to its main ranking algorithms.

Webfoot Creative published a six part series on these new Google Patent Specification and what it means to the ranking of your website. In this article series, we share our interpretation of what this means to your web site and what you have to do to optimize your web pages so as to achieve high rankings on Google.

Webfoot Creative and TrackBack

TrackBack supported by Typepad Blog Technology

This is just a short post to remind our visitors that by utilizing the Typepad Blog Publishing Service, the Webfoot Creative suit of Web Site Design and Marketing Blogs allow for pingback via TrackBack support.

Google Patent Specification Part 6

Click Through Rates and Your Google Ranking

It seems that Google might be tracking click-throughs and rewarding those sites with higher click through rates, similar to what they do with their AdWords program...

Welcome to part six in our series of posts about the new Google patent specification and what it may mean for the rankings of your website.

Google Patent Specification Part 5

Domain Name Influence on Google Rankings

The Google patent specification of March 31, 2005 revealed a lot of information about possible ways Google might use your domain name in the determination of you ranking...

Welcome to part five in our six part series about the new Google patent specification and what it may mean to the rankings of your website.

Google Patent Specifications Part 4

Link Building and Your Google Ranking

I read recently in an industry newsletter that "Google's aging delay (better know as the sandbox effect) has teeth, and they're taking a bite out of spam!"

Well as we all know, Google relies heavily on links in the determination of a websites ranking. In addition to the number of links and anchor texts, the most recent Google patent specification provides us with insight into ways in which Google may use historical information to help determine the value of links.

Welcome to part four in our series about the new Google Patent Specification and what it means for website rankings.

Google Patent Specifications Part 3

Spam and the Google Sandbox Effect

Google is taking serious new measures in an effort to crack down on search engine spam offenders.

Welcome to part three in our six part series about the new Google patent specifications and what it may mean to your website's rankings.

Google Patent Specification Part 2

Fighting Spam and Artificial Link Building

Google's US patent filing of March 31/05 provides seo's and webmasters valuable insight into Google's tightly guarded search intelligence, and demonstrates conclusively that Google's information retrieval is based on historical data.

The question now is what do these changes mean to you and your rankings...

Welcome to part two in our series about the new Google patent specification and what it means to the ranking of your website.