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Find out what pages Google has indexed

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

You can easily check what pages of your website Google has indexed by going to Google.com and typing in:
site:geekpedia.com inurl:geekpedia.com
Where geekpedia.com is your website’s URL, of course.
The number of results is the number of pages indexed. This is not very accurate, but it provides you with a basic idea of which pages of your website […]

How to prevent Google from following a link

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

So you have certain links on your website that you don’t want Google to follow. What is there to do? Simply set the “rel” attribute of the hyperlink tag to “nofollow”:
<a href=”http://www.geekpedia.com” rel=”nofollow”>Geekpedia</a>
This will prevent search engines from following the link to http://www.geekpedia.com from your page. The browsers will treat it just like any other […]

Does AdSense affect my PageRank

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

This question is asked frequently by webmasters. The answer is no.
Having Google AdSense ads on your website does not increase your Google PageRank nor does it lower it. The most it can do is index your pages if they were not already indexed, or index them more often. That’s normal, since if Google doesn’t know […]

Tool for estimating the number of visitors

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

I found this incredible tool that estimates the number of visitors an website has. It seems pretty accurate, judging from the tests I’ve done.
I tested with Geekpedia.com which currently gets ~85,000 visitors / month. MetricsMarket estimated 83,600 visitor sessions in the last 30 days. That’s very accurate.
The results shown above are collected from a […]

SES Chicago 2005

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

At Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2005 (December 5-8) it was confirmed that more than 3 parameters in an URL can prevent the crawl of the major search engines for that page.
So try to limit the parameters in the URL to 3 or less. Or better yet, use an URL rewriting technique (such as ISAPI rewrite […]