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		<title>Why your site may not be fully indexed by Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think your site has been fully indexed by google? If yes, you need to think again. Remember that traditional methods of link exchange and link purchase will not suffice. You need to focus on people linking to your voluntarily. It is important to look at your website as an owner of a different [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you think your site has been fully indexed by google? If yes, you need to think again. Remember that traditional methods of link exchange and link purchase will not suffice. You need to focus on people linking to your voluntarily. It is important to look at your website as an owner of a different website and ask yourself, whether you really want to link to this website. </p>
<p>Look at carefully whether your article is stuffed with some poorly written content. It is sad but true that before the advent of the concept of SEO, people used to rely on the originality of the content a lot. However, today, this is not the case anymore. People have started adopting several methods to attract traffic to their website including purchasing link and other fancy methods that don’t hold any significance. The fact is that sticking to old methods of link exchange can leave your site not being indexed fully. </p>
<p>Google focuses on other websites finding it really important to link to your site. Here, the traditional methods of purchasing links or exchanging links will not work. Here, one requires to know exactly how to make people link to your website voluntarily.</p>
<p>Here are certain things that makes your website hard to crawl:</p>
<ol type="a">
<li>Use of cookies</li>
<li>Use of session IDs</li>
<li>Use of flash in excess</li>
</ol>
<p>You can easily make sure that your site is indexed properly. All you require to do is to follow the points mentioned below:</p>
<ol type="a">
<li>Use google sitemaps</li>
<li>Do not even think of free hosting</li>
<li>Use a lot of java</li>
<li>Use mouseovers</li>
<li>Over designing your website</li>
</ol>
<p>Remember that indexing the website is very necessary. Following all the above mentioned tips, you can index your website efficiently. You need to take care that your website has all the contents’ that’s required for the other website owners to link to it.</p>
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		<title>Ways to avoid or shorten your time in the Google Sandbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to get out of the sandbox as fast as possible? Don’t worry! This is really easy. However, first you need to understand what google sandbox actually is. The google sandbox is a type of filter and it exists? It first came into existence in March 2004. Here, your website can be indexed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want to get out of the sandbox as fast as possible? Don’t worry! This is really easy. However, first you need to understand what google sandbox actually is. </p>
<p>The google sandbox is a type of filter and it exists? It first came into existence in March 2004.</p>
<p>Here, your website can be indexed within just a few weeks after submission. However, this may not rank for any of the key terms for many terms for several months to come. This is a period of purgatory and known as ‘the sandbox’. The basic reason for delay is that google is trying it’s best to ensure that the website is not using any methods that may result in spamming. </p>
<p>However, there is a way out to minimize the time period to stay in the google sandbox.</p>
<p>Here are some ways out!</p>
<ol type="a">
<li><strong>Register your domain name for more than twelve months:</strong><br />
This is a super way. The reason is that spam websites are rarely registered for more than twelve months.</li>
<li><strong>Uploaded your website for live viewing:</strong><br />
Do this as soon as possible. This should be done even if it is not ready for prime time. You can tweak the content later on. The basic idea is to facilitate web spiders to crawl your website as soon as possible. The main benefit here is that once your content is changed to perfection, it will register in a positive manner to the search engines as consistently changing content like blog.</li>
<li>Maintain a practice of SEO linking campaigns.</li>
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		<title>Out of Exile – How to get un-banned from Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is very easy to get banned from Google. However, it is really a bad thing if you get banned. Your website will never appear on the Google’s search lists ever. Most people do not know what to do exactly if they get banned from Google. Do you know that once you get banned from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is very easy to get banned from Google. However, it is really a bad thing if you get banned. Your website will never appear on the Google’s search lists ever. Most people do not know what to do exactly if they get banned from Google. </p>
<p>Do you know that once you get banned from Google, your website misses a page rank? This means that the PR bar is gray. In case, you want to check out on this, just enter the following into google:<br />
‘www.yoursite.com’</p>
<p>Of course, you have to replace ‘yoursite.com’ with your URL. It is a good sign if none of the pages are indexed. You may also check on back links from the same address. </p>
<p><strong>Here are some tips:</strong></p>
<ol type="a">
<li><strong>Spam:</strong><br />
Your site may be repeating the same words again and again unintentionally. If this is so, remove these words immediately.</li>
<li><strong>Redirect:</strong><br />
In case, you own a lot of domain names and made them redirect to a specific domain name, this is a clear indication of bad SEO. Remember that 301 redirect is only legally allowed. This should be used to redirect an old website to a new website.</li>
<li><strong>Linking bad neighbors:</strong><br />
A bad neighbor is a website that uses black Hat SEO tactics. Here are some examples on this:</p>
<ol type="a">
<li>Adult websites</li>
<li>Gambling websites</li>
<li>Free-for-all link farms</li>
<li>Sites with many categories to link to.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
<p>It is not easy to undo bad neighbors links. However, you can easily try to check all your back links and try to remove any bad link that hurts you. </p>
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		<title>Are you suffering from the ‘Google centric’ fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The literal meaning of the term ‘Google centric’ means looking at the world in terms of google and focusing everything around googling. Here, people tend to believe that anything that doesn’t exist on the google does not hold any substance. Google has great importance in one’s life. There is a lot one can actually learn [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The literal meaning of the term ‘Google centric’ means looking at the world in terms of google and focusing everything around googling. Here, people tend to believe that anything that doesn’t exist on the google does not hold any substance.</p>
<p>Google has great importance in one’s life. There is a lot one can actually learn from this search engine. However, it is not good to relate everything to google. This will create a lot of problem in the future.</p>
<p>Here is why one should not completely focus on google alone:</p>
<ul> <strong>Other search engines also contribute to traffic:</strong><br />
It is not google alone that bring in traffic. There are several other search engines that contribute to the same. Hence, there is no need to brood over the fact that you couldn’t make it to the search engine rankings. Feel good that you are indexed there at least.<br />
<strong>Rare cases:</strong><br />
It is very important for you to be visible in various other search engines. This will help you for days when google does not work. This may be a matter of few hours but will certainly help you create a good repo with your clients.<br />
<strong>Target users:</strong><br />
There are some specific types of users that use different search engines. For instance, most women prefer suffering the ‘Ask’ search engines.</ul>
<p>Being google centric will never ever solve your problems. It will just waste your precious time and efforts. Trust other websites and you will get good results.</p>
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		<title>Basics of Google Adwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adwords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The wonder that is Google Google has indeed become one of the popular things that you can find on the World Wide Web right now. In fact, when it comes to quality search engines, you can definitely say that Google dominates just about everything that is in the market right now. Recent studies even show [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>The wonder that is Google</h3>
<p>Google has indeed become one of the popular things that you can find on the World Wide Web right now. In fact, when it comes to quality search engines, you can definitely say that Google dominates just about everything that is in the market right now. Recent studies even show that Google is the culprit behind over 70% of all clicks ever made to browse web pages brought about by all functional search engines on the web. Yes, Google is that massive. And if you want to reign supreme in the arena of Internet marketing, then it becomes a must to create affiliations with Google, more specifically, with Google Adwords.</p>
<h3>What exactly is Google Adwords?</h3>
<p>This is actually one of the most promising ventures you can ever try when you are in the field of online marketing. Google Adwords actually operates in a PPC or Pay-Per-Click basis, with the primary aim of advertising websites that have placed the highest bids for particular search words or phrases.</p>
<p>If you are not too familiar how this works, try searching for a particular keyword or key phrase on Google. At the right portion of the website, there is actually a section that contains Sponsored Links. These are actually your Adwords advertisements already. These are the websites that have made the highest bids for every word or phrase searched. These ads belong to the companies that have made the highest bids.</p>
<h3>The Bidding Process</h3>
<p>With Google Adwords, the bidding process is just like any other bidding process. There are two factors at play here: the amount of the bid, of course, and the click-thru-rate. The bidding amount would totally depend on the bidder himself. Bids can start at the low rate of a nickel per click. They can also end as high as fifty dollars a click. The click-thru-rate, on the other hand, refers to the rate at which people click on a given website. For the most part, the first 3 sites shown on the Adwords portion are actually the most popular. These are also the highest bidders.</p>
<h3>Joining Adwords</h3>
<p>The first thing is to create your account. This is easy since Google provides simple instructions to follow. The second thing is to consider the strategies you want to employ during account creation. This pertains to keyword selection and word combinations. These have to be considered right from the start, to maximize the potential of earning much profit. The third thing to consider is the target market. By considering your target markets, you can employ the appropriate strategies to tap these more effectively.</p>
<h3>Ad Content</h3>
<p>Of course, Google will want to know what you intend to place on your ad. You should consider this thoroughly because much success depends on this aspect right here. make sure your advertisement has a catchy title line and body. Your ad should be striking enough to catch the attention of your potential customers.</p>
<h3>Establishing Relevant Links</h3>
<p>Getting customers to click on your ad is just the tip of the iceberg. Your link featured on Adwords does not necessarily lead to a website’s homepage. It could be a different webpage that contains relevant information, to draw more customers in. For instance, the webpage here could be the Products portion of a certain website. Just make sure the selected page here contains a lot of information that customers would find significant.</p>
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