Facts of the week: How to get out of Google’s sandbox

If your web site has good rankings on Yahoo, MSN and other search engines but not on Google, it’s likely that your web site has been put into Google’s sandbox.

The top 4 search engines now support Sitemaps auto submission

In November 2006, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to support the Sitemap protocol. The Sitemap protocol is a standard that can help you to submit all of your web pages to search engines.

Domain Look-up
Retrieve a number of information about a domain including age of domain, speed, Dmoz listings, Current PageRank, Predicted PageRank, Alexa Ranking, Backlinks, Listings on Google/MSN/Yahoo and Website’s competition.

Search Engine Optimization 101 A Straightforward Introduction to SEO

If you’ve read anything about or studied Search Engine Optimization, you’ve come across the term “backlink” at least once. For those of you new to SEO, you may be wondering what a backlink is, and why they are important. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO. In this article, we will explain to you what a backlink is, why they are important, and what you can do to help gain them while avoiding getting into trouble with the Search Engines.

Keyword Suggestion Tool
This tool will display up to 10 popular keywords matching your initial keyword.

How to use this tool
1. Enter a keyword you would like to find similar keywords for.
2. Click the “Go!” button

More column inches have been written about how to please the search engines and persuade them to bestow favour on your website than almost any other internet-related topic. But as far as I know no-one has previously tried to understand their gender: do they behave more like a man, or more like a woman? Understand their gender can surely help us to gain a better insight into how to appeal to them.
MSN is very clear: MSN is a man. Everything about MSN is straightforward: do the right thing and you will be recognized. Follow the advice of the experts and you will surely rank highly on MSN as long as your competitors are less diligent in this respect than you. Good content, relevant titles, keyword-related metatags, loads of quality inbound links, varied keyword anchor-text, a good smattering of deep links and a #1 ranking will be your reward. I have gained #1 positions on MSN for moderately competitive keywords within a week of trying. What you see is what you get with MSN: he is a man.

You’ve labored, sweated and poured lotsa love into designing and building your website. And phewee…ain’t it just the prettiest thing for sore eyes! But just as in real life–so does it go for the online world–beauty will only get you so far. So you’ve got to put that site to work! And how do you do that? Get it out there…put it right in the bulls eye of the search engines! That’s the way you’re going to get traffic to your site. And just in case you don’t know, traffic (specifically targeted traffic) is the life blood of any internet business.