Wednesday, February 28, 2007

SEO Interview Questions

SEO Interview Questions

Exactly where to put your keywords in your text for heightened rankings.

How to tell what inbound links to your sight help or hurt your rankings.

Find out the optimal keyword density % for heightened rankings on Yahoo! and Google.

Find out what the minimum amount of text that's needed on a web page for strong rankings.

Whether or not you should optimize for misspelled keywords.

The one thing to always remember when submitting any web page to any search engine!

How often to re-submit your URL's to Google and Yahoo!

How to "feed" the SE spiders so they see your pages and list you higher.

What intervals Google crawls and what to do about it.

If it is really true that SE's display different results for the same searches.

How to avoid getting dropped from Google when "googlebot" visits!

When to update your site map for ensured listings.

If you should modify your robots.tx file

How the comment tag can affect ranking.

Whether or not jscript, web forms, Flash, Active X controls, etc. affect ranking of your web pages.

Whether or not frames can affect your page's ranking.

What the best tactic is to make certain the SE can see your pages.

The ideal length of a URL for heightened rankings.

Whether or not your inbound links all count the same for Page Rank and rank in general.

How to properly use the 'disallow' command.

When to edit your robots.txt file.

Where to keep your robots.tx file for best security.

Why someone would make a link the SE's can't follow and what to look for to not get taken advantage of from other webmasters.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Official Google Reader Blog: Something looks... different.

Official Google Reader Blog: Something looks... different.

http://seotoolguide.blogspot.com/

Google Updates List

*Pls Post your suggestions and comments

2007
Daily ranking.
-30 penalty noticed, -350 penalty noticed, -950 penalty noticed

2006
Nov.
Unnatural links are anathema to Google SEO - minus 30 SERP positions penalty

Aug.
Everflux is the rule of the day - many small updates.
Sandbox (aging delay) alive and well
July 27th update
Big Daddy

2005 -
Novem. 5 - Jagger 3 Update
Nov.10 all done - settling out.

October 26 - Jagger 2 Update
More SERPs churning - OLD is highly valued.

October 17 - Jagger 1 Update
Recent Links, Recent Sites = SERP Turmoil
Google has declared war on phony (low-grade) links
Devaluation of reciprocal from unrelated-subject pages
Devaluation of links from "link houses"
Devaluation of purchased links
Big allinanchor changes
Large companies thrust to the top of the SERPs
Sandbox update
Lowering of sandbox threshold - re-sandboxing
Too fast link accumulation - links acquired too quickly
Deeper sandbox (longer - over 6 months)
Some suggest that one's site really had to be online before January 2004,
in order to avoid all ramifications of the sandbox.



Brief Google Algorithm Update List -
2006 - July - July 27 update, plus quality landing page update
2006 - Feb. - Big Daddy update

2005 - Sept. - the "False" Update (Sep.22 - Big update, many changes)
2005 - May - Bourbon Update
2005 - Febr.- Allegra Update - Feb.17, 2005, Some sites released from the sandbox, but many remain.

2004 - Feb.- Brandy Update
2004 - Jan.- Austin Update

2003 - Nov.- Florida Update
2003 - June - Esmeralda Update
2003 - May - Dominic Update
2003 - Apr. - Cassandra Update
2003 - Mar. - Boston Update