Webmaster Forum Webmaster discussion on numerous topics including Website design, programming, scripting, hosting, server administration, search engines, and operating systems http://www.ozzu.com/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:12:01 -0800 batu544 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30:31 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/link-exchange-link-trade-t101103.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/link-exchange-link-trade-t101103.html Link Exchange & Link Trade What is the basic difference between these 2 things ? Which will help to increasing the ranking of my website in google ?? Link exchange or link trading.. ??


I am little bit confused on using any free script for this thing .. Could anyone please help me on this ??



Thanks in advance
batu544]]><br /><br />Topic Replies: 0 joebert Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:06:27 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/adsense-featured-stars-t101075.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/adsense-featured-stars-t101075.html Adsense "Featured Ad" Stars
Google wrote:
We are currently running a limited test in which a small number of users are seeing ads that are marked based on signals related to quality and relevance. This experiment is part of our ongoing efforts to help users find what theyre looking for, and were closely monitoring feedback.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021185.html


featured-ad.jpg]]><br /><br />Topic Replies: 0 Michael william Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:54:59 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/other-search-engines/alexa-ranking-factor-t101064.html http://www.ozzu.com/other-search-engines/alexa-ranking-factor-t101064.html Alexa ranking factor <br /><br />Topic Replies: 0 Michael william Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:19:49 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/update-page-rank-t101045.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/update-page-rank-t101045.html Update Page Rank <br /><br />Topic Replies: 1 joebert Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:39:20 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/site-speed-ranking-factor-2010-prepared-t101043.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/site-speed-ranking-factor-2010-prepared-t101043.html Site Speed to be Ranking Factor in 2010, Be Prepared

QUOTE:

"Historically, we havent had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast," says Cutts. "It should be a good experience, and so its sort of fair to say that if youre a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users dont want that as much."

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/ ... or-in-2010


Its nice to know, but a virtually worthless piece of information if you have no idea how to improve, or even test a sites speed. So Ive included various links to resources for diagnosing and correcting slow site problems. :D

YSlow


Yahoo!s Firefox extension.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

QUOTE:

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the pages performance, summarizes the pages components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it and JSLint.


Google Page speed


http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/

QUOTE:

Page Speed performs several tests on a sites web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.


ApacheBench


Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

QUOTE:

ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving.


Google Webmaster Tools


https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

Lets not forget Googles Webmaster Tools. If you look at Diagnostics -> Crawl Stats you can get a really good idea of how long on average Google actually spends downloading a page from your site.

webmaster-tools.gif]]><br /><br />Topic Replies: 3 BobSqueeze Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:21:01 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/100-google-hot-trends-t101028.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/100-google-hot-trends-t101028.html 100 Google's hot trends? <br /><br />Topic Replies: 0 joebert Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:22 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/webmaster-tools-keyword-significance-t101015.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/webmaster-tools-keyword-significance-t101015.html Webmaster Tools Keyword "Significance" Heres an interesting screenshot, I would never have guessed the plural version of the word was being considered more significant.

plurals.jpg]]><br /><br />Topic Replies: 3 synapse01 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:52:35 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/how-blog-commenting-helps-increase-ranking-t100967.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/how-blog-commenting-helps-increase-ranking-t100967.html How blog commenting helps to increase SE ranking
I have read in a article that blog commenting helps a lot to increase SE ranking but i am confuse. Can anyone tell me how it works.]]><br /><br />Topic Replies: 3 synapse01 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/how-nofollow-links-are-helpful-increase-ranking-t100966.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/how-nofollow-links-are-helpful-increase-ranking-t100966.html How nofollow links are helpful increase SE ranking <br /><br />Topic Replies: 3 lucat Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:40:15 -0800 http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/google-indexing-t100957.html http://www.ozzu.com/google-forum/google-indexing-t100957.html Google indexing
I think this is down to my URL set-up - does anybody know? and also, if it is, as i have heard before, better to have words rather than a dynamic URL, then how can i get around this and improve the sites indexing/or change the URL themselves?

Any help appreciated

Examples - (wont let me place links)

site 1

co uk/ - indexed no.4 for Italian football
co uk/article.aspx?id=753 - an article that probably wont get seen in google

site 2

co uk/ - indexed 7 for Premier league football
co uk/default.aspx?Tab=2&Page=6&Article=682 - prob wont turn up in results]]><br /><br />Topic Replies: 0