seo indexing

Google + Flash: Indexing Text, Embedding, and More – What We’ve Learned

Because we work with clients on optimizing largely- or all-Flash websites, we want to be sure that we fully understand what Google will and won’t index. So, we formed online experiments, with the goal of answering five burning questions about Google’s Flash indexing capabilities. In this article: What We Learned!

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Podcast Submittal Links

You built it – but did they come? Submit your podcast to these directories to increase your chances of finding an audience.

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Ask the Experts: How Can I Count the Number of Pages On My Site?

Looking for a tool to tell you the total number of pages on your site? So are we! Here’s our advice…

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Ask the Experts: Google Won’t Show My Homepage – Why?

If your “about us” page is outranking your homepage, you might be tempted to exclude it from search engines. Don’t! Do this instead…

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Ask the Experts: How Do I Manually Ping Google Blog Search?

Authoring tools do this automatically, but if you’re using a home-grown authoring tool (or none at all), you may need to manually ping the engines. Here’s how…

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How to Use the Robots Meta Tag

The Robots meta tag has been around for ages, but some new features introduced in 2006 and 2007 have made it a lot more useful than it used to be. Here’s the 4-1-1.

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Google, Yahoo, and MSN Ping URLs for Sitemaps

If you’ve got an XML sitemap for your website, you can alert the search engines to updates by typing a specially formatted URL into your browser. Here are the URLs for the Sitemap ping services for each of the three major search engines.

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Major Video Search Engines (and How To Get Into Them)

Not sure how to draw people to watch the videos on your website? Here’s our “right now” primer on video search!

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A Real SEO Case Study – Test Your SEO Smarts and Play Along.

Why would a respectable website have shockingly spammy Google snippets? In this case study, you’ll get a chance to test your SEO smarts as you solve this real-life SEO mystery.

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Ask the Experts: Why Aren’t All My Links Showing up in Google?

The Google “link:” command won’t show you all of the inbound links to your website. Here are some other approaches…

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