Google will take a site that’s ranking well and seemingly just give it a wack to see what happens. I think that this is built into their algorithms to try and throw off Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts of people trying to get their sites indexed unnaturally. Why would they do this? Actually it makes perfect sense!
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Google Page Rank.
What is Google Page Rank? Is it still used? How can I check it?
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Search Engine Optimization: Myths and Facts
Why should you care about Search Engine Optimization? Because organic traffic from search engines is free. Organic traffic refers to traffic that results from real searches on a search engine as opposed to pay per click ads or other paid placement on that search engine’s pages. Getting your site is in the top results for a popular search term can send loads of free traffic to your web site, that’s why you should care.
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Robots.txt Files: Fence off Sections of Your Web Site from Search Engines.
A robots.txt file is a small text file that you place in the root directory of your web site. You can list directories that robots (search engine spiders) should not visit. You can get specific if you’d like and specify different things for different robots (search engines) by targeting specific user-agents, but generally that’s not necessary.
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Links: Put Down Some SEO Roots
Is link building still a valid SEO strategy? Will it hurt or help your Search Engine Rankings? What works today and what should you forget about?
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