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Once you have successfully completed the FireFactor Search Engine Submission Process, our submission to the 3000 search engines takes about 10 business days to finish. Afterward, a search engine...

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Article ID: 255 | Published On: Nov 15, 2004 | 2,269 views | Rated 3 stars by 308 people

We automatically submit your site to country-specific search engines and directories at no extra charge. Important note : Many country-specific directories will only accept sites written...

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Article ID: 265 | Published On: Nov 18, 2004 | 1,374 views | Rated 3 stars by 288 people

The term "search engine" is often used generically to describe both true search engines and directories. They are not the same. Search engines, such as AllTheWeb, Google, Excite or AltaVista,...

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Article ID: 274 | Published On: Nov 18, 2004 | 1,354 views | Rated 3 stars by 253 people

Whenever you use a search engine, you're asking the search engine to sort through the millions of Web sites it has indexed, and try to find those sites that are related to your search words. Once...

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Article ID: 275 | Published On: Nov 18, 2004 | 1,455 views | Rated 3 stars by 240 people

What Is Cloaking? Cloaking is the term given to the practice of delivering keyword-enriched content to spiders while showing different content to regular visitors. The rationale behind...

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Article ID: 323 | Published On: Jan 11, 2005 | 1,517 views | Rated 3 stars by 214 people

The Google PageRank Concept Google, the worlds most successful search engine, has been on the cutting edge of ranking websites since it's inception. When Google was invented, it was built on...

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Article ID: 385 | Published On: Sep 7, 2006 | 1,426 views | Rated 3 stars by 193 people

What Is A robots.txt File? Sometimes we need to let the search engine robots know that certain information should not be retrieved and stored by them. One of the most common methods for...

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Article ID: 302 | Published On: Dec 30, 2004 | 1,625 views | Rated 3 stars by 192 people

Avoiding the Competition "Better to be a big fish in a small pond than to be a small fish in a big pond." This proverb can be especially true in the Big Pond that is the Internet, and,...

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Article ID: 308 | Published On: Dec 30, 2004 | 1,416 views | Rated 3 stars by 190 people

This is how often a keyword appears in your title tag. Generally, the higher the number of times a keyword appears in a page element, higher it's ranked in search engines. Here is an...

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Article ID: 396 | Published On: Nov 22, 2006 | 1,390 views | Rated 3 stars by 185 people

Defining Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a relatively new term, and it's familiarity amongst website owners is becoming more and more established at an...

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Article ID: 304 | Published On: Dec 30, 2004 | 1,330 views | Rated 3 stars by 173 people

Google gives the pages in your site a ranking based on the popularity of your site. They have several criteria which they use to give your page a ranking. The majority of this is based on your...

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Article ID: 462 | Published On: Nov 27, 2006 | 1,409 views | Rated 3 stars by 92 people

Search Engines have programs called spiders, or crawlers. These spiders will come to the URL that you submit and follow all the links on that page, then all the links on those pages, and so on....

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Article ID: 267 | Published On: Nov 18, 2004 | 1,346 views | Rated 2 stars by 410 people

FireFactor submits your site to over 3000 of the most popular search engines and directories, considerably increasing the chances of someone entering your site. Manual submission to each...

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Article ID: 264 | Published On: Nov 18, 2004 | 1,233 views | Rated 2 stars by 368 people

Coupled with the " meta keywords " tag, the "meta description" tag is located at the top of your page within the [HEAD>[/HEAD> tag. While this tag now carries a reduced weight (significance)...

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Article ID: 311 | Published On: Dec 31, 2004 | 1,316 views | Rated 2 stars by 253 people

If your webhosting provider gives you access to see your Statistics, and you can view your HTTP Referrers, this can be very valueble information. You can do a search through these statistics...

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Article ID: 320 | Published On: Jan 11, 2005 | 2,178 views | Rated 2 stars by 253 people

There are many issues that you should consider when placing your keywords in your text. Some search engines index all of the words on your page and others may use only the beginning text on your...

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Article ID: 390 | Published On: Nov 22, 2006 | 1,086 views | Rated 2 stars by 240 people

Redirects are bits of code that you can put on your Website to redirect users from one page of your site to another, or direct them to a whole other URL. It is advised that you don’t use...

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Article ID: 391 | Published On: Nov 22, 2006 | 1,361 views | Rated 2 stars by 238 people

Optimizing Your Links Just as Inbound links are important, internal linking structure can have a large effect on how your pages will rank in search engines. For optimal performance we...

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Article ID: 318 | Published On: Jan 11, 2005 | 1,426 views | Rated 2 stars by 233 people

Site Themes Much like how books have specific topics, websites are sometimes classified as having specific themes. For example, www.coffeecup.com has the theme of Website Design Software. ...

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Article ID: 386 | Published On: Sep 7, 2006 | 1,473 views | Rated 2 stars by 223 people

There are a number of words that Search Engines will ignore when looking over your Website and when you perform a search. These are called StopWords. Here is a list of what are believed to be the...

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Article ID: 331 | Published On: Feb 15, 2005 | 1,389 views | Rated 2 stars by 218 people

Dynamic Sites Dynamic sites are defined as sites that retrieve data from a "database" and display it in the users browser. Generally, a single CGI ("Common Gateway Interface") page or script...

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Article ID: 382 | Published On: Sep 7, 2006 | 1,217 views | Rated 2 stars by 215 people

The Off-Site Criteria Theory As the competition online continues to grow, more emphasis has been put on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This emphasis on SEO has put stress on search...

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Article ID: 307 | Published On: Dec 30, 2004 | 1,962 views | Rated 2 stars by 211 people

What Is Word Proximity? Many search engines now employ "word proximity" search. This term relates to how search engines can facilitate the searching of queries consisting of phrases (2 or...

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Article ID: 309 | Published On: Dec 30, 2004 | 1,059 views | Rated 2 stars by 208 people

Keyword prominence measures how close the keyword appears of the beginning of the sentence. The closer to the beginning your targeted keyword appears, the higher the prominence will be, with a...

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Article ID: 394 | Published On: Nov 22, 2006 | 1,085 views | Rated 2 stars by 195 people

Identifying Alternate Keywords Firstly, what is a keyword? A keyword is any word or phrase that can be used to describe the topic of a given website. A keyword is a single word, and a keyphrase...

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Article ID: 381 | Published On: Sep 7, 2006 | 972 views | Rated 2 stars by 193 people

In this section we take a look at the keywords on your page and show you the index levels. The index levels are how many pages of your site is indexed based on that keyword.

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Article ID: 464 | Published On: Nov 27, 2006 | 966 views | Rated 2 stars by 73 people

In this section we take a look at the keywords on your page and show you the index levels. The index levels are how many pages of your site is indexed based on that keyword.

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Article ID: 463 | Published On: Nov 27, 2006 | 1,307 views | Rated 1 stars by 229 people