Understanding Flamebaiting

Flamebaiting refers to posting messages in public forums, mailing lists and blogs provoking anger and emotional responses. In SEO this can be employed for people to respond and in the process, the one who initiates it gets some attention through comments, responses and links to the original message. The third one is what’s most important SEO can get from this exercise.

People love news right? But typically people are even more drawn to stories that reveal private lives or just merely life at the backstage where spotlights can’t reach.

The obvious reason for doing so is that for the one who posts it, call him/her a troll, be more popular. As they say any kind of publicity you make is a good publicity. This popularity generation campaign happens at the expense of others:

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Google Sitemaps FAQ Now Available

One of the things we can do to fast track recognition from search engines is to submit a file called sitemaps.xml. While the approach of finding a sitemap generator or submission to the Google Webmaster Tools is fairly easy, there are questions that are easy to raise: what should I do next? when should I expect my site to be crawled and indexed?

Based on the Google Webmaster Help group at Google Groups, an FAQ has been generated.

Have a look and hopefully our questions about Google Sitemaps will be answered.

Partial Google Algorithm Revealed: SEO Advice from Google Webmaster Tools

Google has added a new feature in its ever-expanding Google Webmaster Tools service. Search Engine Roundtable has a considerably comprehensive coverage about it. Content analysis summary page features three major sections of our websites that may need tweaks to facilitate better access by search engine robots, say Googlebot.

* Title tag issues
* Meta description issues
* Non-indexable content issues

This feature is in addition to the crawl analysis tools which tells webmasters which pages have timed out, (accidentally) restricted by robots.txt file, not followed (based on meta robots specifications), timed out and unreachable.

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Live Search Webmaster Center Launched

Microsoft formally opens Live Search Webmaster Tools for business. Along with this, open also is the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog.

The Live Search Webmaster Team, have created this blog to help keep you informed on progress as we develop tools to assist you as webmasters. We will also be sharing from time to time on how to keep your site performing well.

We want this blog to be a place for two way communication between Live Search and the webmaster community because we understand that SEOs and webmasters need this kind of information and the tools we are building to keep their sites performing well.

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New Google Webmaster Features

Google’s Webmaster Central was launched back in August 2006, with a goal of creating a place for everyone to learn more about Google’s crawling and indexing of websites, and to offer tools for submitting sitemaps and other content. Given all of requests and recommendations, we’ve also been busy working behind the scenes to roll out exciting new features for Webmaster Tools, like internal/external links data and the Message Center, over the past year.

And so today, we’re unveiling a new look on the Webmaster Central landing page at http://www.google.com/webmasters. You’ll still find all of the tools and resources you’ve come to love like our Webmaster Blog and discussion group — but now, in addition to these, we’ve added a few more you might enjoy and find useful. We hope that the new layout will make it easier to discover some additional resources that will help you learn even more about how to improve traffic to your site, submit content to Google, and enhance your site’s functionality.

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