Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant will soon be entering the Japanese search market. Although the dominant search engine in Japan is Yahoo, which also controls a large ISP service, Google is trying to gain leverage and this ambition from China will see an interesting struggle for second place in 2007. The Chinese president of [...]

The term ‘search engine submissions’ is as the name suggests about submitting to the search engines, in order to get your site indexed by the search engines and web directories, so that people can find your site. Search engine submission is also known as search engine registration. Search engine optimization on the other hand refers [...]

Here are the major search engines that you should submit to. Google Google is the most popular search engine, powering Google, AOL and Netscape search. Google searches over 4 billion Web pages, supports 82 languages and processes more than 200 million searches a day. Read Google’s own site submission and ranking tips in the Google [...]

How to get top rankings in major search engines in no time at all. Pay Per Click (PPC) search engines are also known as Bid For Location, Bid For Position, Cost Per Click (CPC), Pay For Performance, Pay Per Performance, Pay For Placement, Pay Per Placement, Pay For Position, Pay Per Position, Pay For Ranking, [...]

What are meta tags? Meta tags are hidden HTML tags used to describe various aspects about a Web page. The two most important meta tags are the meta description and meta keywords tags. Let’s take a closer look at each meta tag. Sample meta tags: Meta description tags The contents of meta description tags are [...]

Guide to link popularity and how it affects your search engine rankings. Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site’s relevancy in search engines. There are three types of links that will increase the link popularity of your site; [...]

Find out how keywords can have a huge influence on your search engine rankings. Keywords contained within a Web page are the most important element to achieving high search engine rankings. Keywords are by no means the only relevant factor in how search engines rank a Web page. Other factors also count. But the majority [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making Web pages more search engine friendly to promote them as the most relevant solutions for the search engines’ users. The improvements can mean the difference between achieving top rankings, which can result in thousands of monthly visitors, and being lost in oblivion. Why is search engine optimization important? A [...]

Most of the major search engines give the most relevance to keywords in the title tags within the Web page. As such, every page should have a title tag. In general, I have found that short keyword rich descriptions in title tags work best. Good title tag: Not so good title tag: Header tags Many [...]

How to submit your web site to the top web directories. Here are the top 3 web directories that you should submit to. Yahoo! Yahoo! is the leading web directory generating hundreds of millions of search related page views every day. Yahoo! offers 2 submission programs: Standard submission is for non-commercial web sites only. The [...]