Google possibly spiders website pages separately on different dates, instead of spidering a website as a whole block all on the same date. Web designers for months now have been using Google Webmaster Tools to check the dates that Google last spidered their website. From this date it is usually presumed that their website as a whole had been updated in the Google index for all to see. We've recently noticed this isn't always the case as pages seem to be spidered and indexed on different dates as I'll illustrate below. A few days back I checked what pages were...
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While using Google search to check website rankings, many webmasters find their pages are listed as being ‘Supplemental Result’. Supplemental listings is not good news for webmasters as it usually means that specific webpage won’t be seen in the normal Google index unless there aren’t many other quality sites for them to list. Supplemental pages are ones that Google considers to be low quality. Reasons for this vary and are listed below: (1) Not enough text (content) on the page. (2) Pages that you don’t link to yourself within your own website, will be listed as supplemental. In other words...
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"What is Supplemental Result in Google search?"
How Googlebot crawls the Internet Here is an excellent video from Matt Cutts (head of Googles webspam team). In this video he uses colored candy to help describe how the Google spider crawls the web to find new website pages. Matt also goes on to illustrate how they find pages that are already listed and have been updated since the last spider. Note: Red candy is a 404 page Purple candy is a 200 (OK) page Green candy is a 304 status code (page has not changed)...
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SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool Enter a keyword search into the tool found at: http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/ and you will be given a list of related word suggestions based on current trends in Google, Yahoo and MSN. For example, if I put in 'website tools' it tells me that on Google the top search terms for similar keywords are: website building tool, website traffic tool etc. It also tells me how much traffic I could expect to receive if I were to be listed on the first page of Google search. Numerous other features include: (1) A link to Google Adwords telling...
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In the video shown below Matt Cutts, SEO from Google.com answers some FAQ's concerning website architecture and what is considered suitable for Google databases. Here is a quick run down on what Matt has to say for those not lucky enough to have broadband to easily view the video. Is it ok to merge acquired domains with 301s? It is ok to merge acquired domains with 301s as long as the content of the new website is related to the content of the last site that owned the domain. For example, it's ok to purchase an already existing domain that...
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Google Legends - Myth or Fact? If you’ve been around any SEO message forums lately you would have come across a couple of Google terms including sandbox and + or -30 penalties and wondered what exactly they are referring to. Google Sandbox Google sandbox is a term used by many webmasters to help explain why new domains take longer to be listed on Google than on other search engines like Yahoo or MSN. Some argue that it seems as if Google places them into a sandbox to go and play on their own until they have proven themselves worthy of...
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Google Supplementary Index Website pages that are found in Google supplemental index are there because they are seen as second rate and are crawled less frequently. There is now an easy way to see what webpages are in supplementary index. You simply need to do a Google search for: site:www.yourwebsite.com *** -view Note: there is a space directly before and after *** Aaron Wall's SEO Book suggests that studying the number of supplementary pages your website has, can help clue you in on the health of your site. If none of your pages are supplemental then likely you have good...
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"How to find what pages are in Google supplementary index"
Free SEO search engine optimization tips It wasn't so long ago that search engine optimization meant placing meta tags on your webpage then submitting your site to directories such as Yahoo or MSN. Over the next few weeks your website would have been checked over manually by a human and added to the appropriate directory. Then along came search engines such as Google who relied on programming algorithms to list websites for specific keywords that suit the content of the site. At first the algorithms were based on meta keywords, title and description tags. Over the years webmasters learnt how...
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How to convert currency using Google search Here is a handy tip for anyone that needs to convert between currencies. It's now easy as pie to use Google search to convert American USD dollars to any other currency. All you need to do is search something similar to: one dollar in AUD In Google search terms, this means what is one American dollar in Australian dollars, which returns something similar to the desktop picture shown below: You can also use this term 5 american dollars in Australian money, which will result in: With the examples above, I have noticed you...
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