The little search engine that could, DuckDuckGo, says it's usage is up 600% since the NSA was hit with privacy concerns some two years ago. “We’re doing about three billion searches a year,” CEO Gabe Weinberg told CNBC, “so we’re already pretty mainstream.” Mainstream? Well, that depends. How...
If you are a webmaster or site owner you know among the most important avenues to success on the internet for any website is its ability to acquire and maintain good backlinks. Sure there’s SEO and content, but if there’s no “votes” back to your...
Search Engine cloaking is when you display one version of a webpage to the search engine spiders and another to the actual visitors. ADHEREL The reason sites do this can be numerous, unfortunately many do it for nefarious purposes, and the search engines don’t like it. On...
If you are a seasoned webmaster you no doubt know the power and importance of proper search engine optimization (SEO). But SEO is not that easy a skill to conquer, and a confusing one at that. Much like getting opinions from doctors, query five different...
One the most important and often overlooked ingredients in creating a successful website is link building; that is getting other websites to link back to yours. Conventional link building techniques have focused on asking for links, trading links and purchasing links off other websites. But let’s...
If you read through some of the webmaster forums, you’ll find this scenario happening over and over again: A new webmaster creates a site that within a week or so gets indexed by Google with strong rankings for many of its top keywords, only to...