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Comments(0) I was looking through the general FAQ at Google today and noticed some subtle differences. I decided to figure out just what has changed and list it in my professional search engine optimization blog.
The part that I want webmasters to pay most attention to is what is said about expired domains or domains that change hands. I didn’t know it before, but Google is a registrar and can see the WHOIS database of every domain name, whether it is privately listed or not. This makes it very easy for Google to be able to tell what has happened with a website.
Google showed these new differences in their FAQ:
There are several ways to do it:
1) Submit your site directly to them
2) Submit a Google Sitemap
3) Get incoming links to your homepage. These will be followed by Google’s crawlers and will lead them to your site.
Google updates its SERPS every day. The changes may be subtle or they may be large but they do occur daily.
Big algorithm changes occur once a year or so but technically are no different then the daily updates other than the fact that large changes may occur to some pages’ rankings.
Google Dances, as they were once known, no longer exist and have not existed for at least a couple of years now.
Type the following into Google search bar:
site:yourdomain.com (Use your real domain)
If your site is over six months old and nothing appears you may be banned.
If your site is less then six months old and nothing appears then you may be banned or Google may not be aware of you yet. If you haven’t submitted a Google SiteMap you should do so right away. Also get some incoming links to point to your website.
If your site does come up, even if it is only one page, then you are not banned.
As with anything Google it’s all part of an algorithm that no one but Google knows. The one common factor is that this typically occurs only for the top ranked site and is usually a major brand/popular site. You can read more about it in Matt Cutt’s blog.
No. Google, as a registrar, can tell if a website has expired and changed hands. They reset the information for that domain automatically as a result.
1) Use the keyword in the ALT attribute
2) Name the image with the keyword
3) Put the image in a directory containing the keyword
4) Put the image on a page about the keyword
5) Link to a page using that image with the keyword in the URL
You can add a meta tag to your pages that will prevent Google from using the DMOZ description for your site. The tag is used like this:
Code:
According to Matt Cutts the bold tag is supposedly slightly better although by such a slight margin is really doesn’t make a difference.
No. Google Sitemaps are just there to assist Google in discovering your pages. It does not help you improve your rankings in Google’s SERPs.
Here are more resources on what has changed: