Google not Ranking Top for “Search Engine” in Google
Sep 27 2009
Posted by George as Google, Search Engine
Another interesting thing that I noticed in Google today was Google is not even being ranked on top for the keyword “search engine” and “search engines”. This is one of the interesting things, taking into the fact that Google is the king among search engines and it is not even having top ranking for that keyword in its own search engine. It is high time that Google take this into account and at least place it on the top results for the above search terms. I am not sure why this is happening and the sites which show on the top for those keywords are Dogpile, Altavista, Ask etc.
Link Exchange and Things to Take Care
Sep 24 2009
Posted by George as Google, Online Marketing, Search Engine, Search Engine Optimization, link exchange, reciprocal linking, search engine marketing, seo
Reciprocal linking is practiced by a vast number of SEO / webmasters around the globe for a long time. This helped to get better ranking and backlinks for the websites in the initial stages, but as time progress reciprocal linking was started being used in the most unethical way and gradually search engine (especially Google) started cutting down on many sites which offered reciprocal linking services in an aggressive way. Many of the link exchange sites got penalized by Google in a really bad way. As per my experience, since then the link exchange stuff does not seem to work and many webmasters stopped wasting their valuable time on link exchange. But that doesn’t mean that reciprocal links have lost all its value. + READ MORE
