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Google changing ranking rules

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Google is changing their algorithm again.  Their rules of ranking have to change because so called “black hat spammers” are skewing search results.
Maybe you’ve noticed that a search takes you to another phony search portal page, or maybe a scareware page (a site that convinces users their computer is infected with a virus, then offering [...]

Google Page Ranking

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Ever heard of Google sculpting?  Search engines have been getting slammed with internet comment spam.  What happens is people post their web site links onto blogs and forums, thereby increasing in-bound links to their site.  This benefits them because one of the factors that determine page rank by Google is the number of links into [...]

How can I tell if Google has ranked my site?

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Type  “site:www.yourdomain.com” into the Google search box to find out which pages Google has crawled on your web site.