It didn’t suprise me when the first video ads by Google started to show. Burst! Media and other companies also announced video ads, and Google coudn’t miss this chance. Currently the video ads can be rarely seen, but Google will probably starting displaying them to all publishers using AdSense, soon.

The title is not entirely correct. What I’m showing you here is how to return a 301 (Permanently moved) response to the browser and the search engines, when they access your website via http://websitename.com instead of http://www.websitename.com or www.websitename.com.
The major advantage for this is that you will transfer the Google PageRank from the http:// URL […]

Submitting your website using automatic submission applications is generally a bad idea. One of the reasons is that some search engines detect this type of submission, and will penalize you for that.
Thus, you will be better off if you submit manually and fill in the fields yourself.
For the major search engines such as Google and […]

Google’s PageRank is in the process of updating right now, and sometimes you may see the new PageRank for your websites, but don’t be suprised if you get a PageRank of 0. It’s a normal behaviour that occurs every Google dance. In approximately one week, it should settle to the final PageRank.
The Google dance happens […]

Before indexing pages, the spiders read the content of the robots.txt file. There you can instruct the robots to ignore and not index certain files and directories. If they don’t find a robots.txt file, they usually proceed with indexing the website.
However, if you don’t have a robots.txt file, the server will keep returning 404 errors […]