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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 […]

Why Google shows less backlinks than MSN or Yahoo

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

A common question among website developers is: how come when I use link:www.geekpedia.com (for example) in Google to find out the websites who link back to me, I get less results than I get when searching for backlinks using MSN Search, or Yahoo Search?
Well, the main reason is that when you search for backlinks using […]