Another SEO Sources

The last November 2006, Network Solutions Senior Vice President Stephanie Leffler paid a visit to MSNBC's "Consultants Corner", where she talked about how companies can ensure that their Web sites come out at the top of the search engines.

Here’s the video you see about the interview:

Written purposely for Busby SEO Challenge. A SEO competition held by Busby Web Solutions which will end by the end of this month.

When we talk about search engine optimization we have to deal with off page and on page factors. Here are we going to discuss about off page factors. Off page factors is become a very important thing because they directly related to our site ranking. Especially for the case Busby SEO Challenge which compete our site ranking under the keyword Busby SEO Challenge. But we must take carefully this off page factors; they can make or even break our site ranking.

Before we discussing deeper, what is ”link popularity”? In a very simple way we can describe link popularity as a number and quality of the incoming links that point to our site. By linking to our site, the site which giving the links consider that out site is important, and this is one vote for our site in search engine terms.

There are many search engine in the Internet, but now i want to discuss the top 3 search engine in cebhonk version. There are Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Three of them have their own algorithm on how they crawl sites and then index them. I'm not trying to discuss about their algorithm, but I really confused with what they took from our site. For my Busby SEO Challenge site, I take a look at cpanel's built-in statistics, awstat, to know which search engine's crawler have visit my site. Whalla, I found very interesting result:

Like you can see above, MSNBot is the most active bot visiting my site, much more active than another two, then I think that MSN will have my page indexed better or at least very often updating its cache of my site. Unfortunately NOT!!

With today's high Internet connection rates, many webmaster no longer think that they should bother about their website page size and load time. But, this parameter remains essential for SEO. Let say, if the page is not finished its load in less than 30 seconds, many potential visitor will leaving our page. This cases is also applies to search engine, if your page size is big enough and make search engine crawler have to wait long enough to read all your page completely, then this crawler will leaving your page with less information about your page, and they will not coming back very often. Some articles i have read in the internet says we must keep our page size lower than 150K, but some others says 100K. It seems there is no standard how big is our page size is allowed to have a good SEO score.

How to know how big is our page size? By searching on Google, let's take example our greatest Busby SEO Challenge, you can get some informations regarding to your page size which indexed by Google.

What is exactly Web 2.0 stand for? If there is web 2.0, then where is the first version? That was a common question pop up from our head, trying to figured out what is the definition of web 2.0.

Let's take a look at wiki, which says Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web.