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SEO site checker is a nifty little iPhone web app that scans your website and evaluates how well your website is optimised for search engines. It also gives you recommendations on what you can do to increase your website’s visibility.
There is also a web version of the app to use with normal [...]

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Ever since finding out about WolframAlpha.com, I’ve been playing with it and I must say it’s pretty amazing and addictive.
WolframAlpha(tm) is a new type of search engine – or what they call “computational knowledge engine”.
Rather than trying to explain what it is and what it does in words, lets have a [...]

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If file names or page urls of your website have changed during site redevelopment and you are worried about losing your existing search engine rankings, referrals, and bookmarked links, the most efficient solution is to create 301 Redirect to redirect old pages to the new ones. The code “301” means “moved permanently“. There [...]

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1. Firefox
I recommend Firefox as a primary browser for anyone, whether you are a Designer, Developer or Consultant. Not only does Firefox have fewer security vulnerabilities compared to Internet Explorer, it loads websites faster, and there are a lot of free Add-Ons that you can install to add extra functionalities to the browser.
2. Web [...]

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According to Yahoo!7 Hot Searches, 5 popular New Year resolutions for 2009 are:

Find a gym
Quit smoking
Find a boot camp
Get fit
Stress management

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Some of the most popular keywords from 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist include:
# facebook
# iphone
# youtube
# google maps
# wiki
# games
# google
# weather
# free movies
# lyrics
# map
# mp3
# videos
# jobs
# news
# how to (draw, kiss, write, cook, tie, hack, run, cite, paint, spell)
# what is (love, life, java, sap, rss, scientology, autism, lupus, 3g, art)
# diy [...]

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Several major crawlers support a Crawl-delay parameter, set to the number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the same server.
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Source: Wikipedia

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Find files of a specific type (eg: .pdf, .mp3, .zip)
web development guidelines filetype:pdf
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=web+development+guidelines+filetype%3Apdf
Find directory listings
intitle:”index of” templates
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=intitle%3A%22index+of%22+templates
Find pages with keywords in the url
allinurl:seo tips
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=allinurl:seo tips
Search for similiar terms
~cheap web design -cheap
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=~cheap web design -cheap
Search within a specific site
google site:eisabainyo.net
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=google+site%3Aeisabainyo.net
Websites that are linked to a website
link:http://eisabainyo.net
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Feisabainyo.net
Google as a world clock
time in Sydney
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=time+in+Sydney
Google as a dictionary
define:query
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=define:query
Google as [...]

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This has to be the most exciting news of the week in search engine world. Official google blog announced that Google has learned to crawl Flash content. If you are interested to find out how this is being done, FAQs on indexing flash content can be found at Google Webmaster Central blog.
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It looks like google takes into account the location of your web server/host when ranking its search results. As most people know, in google search you can specify if you would like to search for pages from a specific country.
Let’s see what impact the location of the web [...]

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