Search Engine Optimization

This is for all the webmasters, IT and everyone out there who just begin to read & learn about SEO. This is a list of SEO definitions that will definitely help you along the way!

Algorithms: Wikipedia define algorithms as ” Algorithms are essential to the way computers process information, because a computer program is essentially an algorithm that tells the computer what specific steps to perform (in what specific order) in order to carry out a specified task”. In short, it is the mathematical formula that the search engine uses to rank a web site for certain keywords.

Bot/ Bots: See Crawlers (same) Read More »

Matt Cutts has written a blog post with a poll to get more information from all webmasters on the next feature for Google Webmaster Central, a excellent resource for webmasters.

In the past Google has made the following improvements:

Site owners can now see their own backlinks.
Verify an IP address is really Googlebot.
Google’s URL removal tool has been ported into the webmaster console, and it allows site owners to see and revoke their self-removals.
Show how many people are subscribed to my website’s feeds in Google Reader: DONE, but not in the console. Google Reader now reports these numbers when fetching feeds. Feedburner will give you even more stats now for free.
Communicate with webmasters in an authenticated way: DONE. Just last week, Google added a webmaster message center to provide authenticated communication with site owners. The Webmaster Central team has done of ton of other stuff in the last few months as well. Read More »