Posts on search engine optimization (SEO) from the Search Engine Panel blog in Toronto, Canada. Information on Toronto search engine optimization (SEO). Keyword research, link building, website development, and programming code optimization.
Posted: October 3rd, 2008
Toolbar PageRanks usually get updated about four times a year, or once every three months. Google surprised most SEOs this month with an early export of PageRanks - the last PR update was in July 2008. With all the rumours floating around about PageRank, be sure that you understand exactly what PR is and isn’t, [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2008
Every week I log into my Webmaster Tools account to look out for potential crawling or indexing issues with my sites. Usually, I will also check to see if the newer pages are getting indexed, as well as quickly look over whether any new links have been found. None of these sites are designed for [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008
Getting your domain banned and complete website deindexed is by far the worse penalty that a search engine can impose on your website. Such an occurrence instantly drops search traffic to zero, and drags down leads and revenues along with it. A banned website effectively does not exist in the eyes of search engines, [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2008
Many people have heard of PageRank, which seeks to numerically value the importance of a webpage based on the quantity and quality of inbound links to, and outbound links from, a webpage. Microsoft researchers and developers have created a better (according to some) method of evaluating a page’s importance, dubbed “BrowseRank.” Rather than ranking based [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2008
Google Webmaster Tools is a wonderful little resource with tools and information for webmasters regarding crawling and indexing of their websites. One nice feature about Webmaster Tools is its message center, that acts as a mini inbox with messages about websites that you have verified with Google. Verification can be accomplished through uploading a specifically [...]
