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Why “Follow, Index” and “Revisit-After” Robot Tags Are Useless
Sometimes we see on source code’s head section a lot of Meta tags like: * <META name="revisit-after" content="15 days"> * <META robots="follow,index"> Both are useless (or obsolete to say the least). * <META name="revisit-after" content="15 days"> Search engines don’t use this as a basis for them returning to your website. They’re more sophisticated than this tag, even if you update [...]
Continue reading Why “Follow, Index” and “Revisit-After” Robot Tags Are UselessStone Age Marketing
12. February 2009
A friend once asked whether submission to search engines is still a viable business, I said it should no longer be. But as he showed me a page about a Hong Kong web design company promoting a service called “Web Promotion” I come to realize that you can still make money by telling webmasters in [...]
Continue reading Stone Age MarketingCommon Pay Per Click Myths
13. January 2009
You will see immediate results Because paid search is almost always compared to its cousin organic search, the distinction cannot be ignored: paid search delivers immediate results much faster than organic search does. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work this way. You can’t get immediate results just because you have done keyword research, developing ad copies, making bids [...]
Continue reading Common Pay Per Click MythsWeird & Strange Google Search Results
18. October 2008
How many times do you use search engines every time you go online? And during such occurrences, how many times do you notice that search results you find look strange, funny, if not outright weird? Here are some of those you might have come across already. 1. search engine When you talk about search engine, what comes to [...]
Continue reading Weird & Strange Google Search ResultsDoes Google Toolbar Help Index Content?
22. July 2008
The answer to the question above is NO. Another myth was debunked as Matt Cutts as he explains that installing Google Toolbar doesn’t index pages by virtue of the presence of Google Toolbar. In an article quoted from Information Week: But thanks to Google (NSDQ: GOOG), there’s no need to guess the URL. It can be found using [...]
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