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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The importance of Meta tags for your web site can't be emphasized enough. A search engine doesn't read through your page to index you site - it usually uses keywords and short phrases.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What Is The TITLE Tag? Towards the top of WebPages, within the <head></head> tag, resides the infamous <title> tag. This tag is used to show the title of your webpage in the "title...
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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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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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What Are Dynamic URLs? Dynamic pages are usually found on Websites driven by database technology, such as MySQL. Dynamic pages differ from static pages in that they usually require a query...
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Flash™ movies are a popular way to make Websites more compelling. Unfortunately, if you use Flash™ movies, or if you design your entire Website using Flash™ technology, your odds of...
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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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Search Engines Search engines use "spiders" to "crawl" the internet, looking for pages to add to their index. Although submitting to search engines on a frequent basis is well advised, in...
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What Are Advanced Queries? Advanced queries enable you to perform special tasks on search engines. Google Queries? To check for all links to a given URL, use the query of form:...
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So, what exactly is duplicate content? It's actually a fairly self-explanatory term. Duplicate content is any content duplicated in one or more pages on your Website, or several instances of...
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There is no such thing as a perfectly optimized page or site. There are going to be instances where some techniques are not viable because of the site's construction or programming. Search...
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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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Accessibility is an important factor to search engines and your users. Generally, search engines will give your site credit for being accessible and compliant with standards for users with...
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Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help...
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The visibility section takes a look at how many pages of your website you have indexed in the search engines, the more visibility you have the better chances are that users will find your site....
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This area is based on the text of your page. The more text you have, the higher this number will be. You should try to have at least a few paragraphs of text on your page.
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H1 tags will put emphasis on your keywords and text with the search engines. This is the number of H1 tags we found on your page. You should include at least one H1 tag in your page that is keyword...
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This is the frequency or number of times that your keywords appear in the alt text of your images.
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In this section of your optimization report, we analyze your Webpage to see if you are using CSS elements. CSS elements can be advantageous to your site. This is because you can use CSS to move...
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This is the total frequency, or number of times, your keywords appear in your body copy on your Webpage.
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In this area, we analyze your webpage to see if you are using flash elements. Search engines cannot read flash objects on your page. So if you are using flash it is important that you also add some...
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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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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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