Webmaster Forum / General / Search Engines / September 2004

Is it keyword spamming if you have a non-profit fansite for Jane Doe
and you list things not because you want better Yahoo ranking but
because you want people searching for different Jane Doe things that
are on your site to be able to find your site (and you're afraid that

I've been looking at the results from Blinkx and most of my sites perform
pretty poorly, does anybody have an idea of the type of algorithmn they are
using??  Or how to optimise for Blinkx?

Are there any search-engines that sort search results by size of
websites, newsgroups, blogs, etc?
Choosing to sort results by smallest-sizes first may provide content
that best "zeros in" on search objectives.

MSN's backdoor into the free submission is now gone :(
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I have a dilemma. Got new job and first thing that I got is questions about
search engine optimization.  I am trying research as much as I can, but
still would like to get some smart opinion.
We are chain hotel company with 6 locations.  There is an idea to register

I have talked to a few SEO people and some say they can get you in the top
10 and even 5 in organic search results in google. This is for competive
search times as well.  I don't understand how they can do this without using
sponsored listigns etc.

I think I know but....
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Okay, so if you take a look at one of the pages of a site I work with
in any Gecko based browser, something funny happens, so it must be
some code...
I don't do the backend stuff, but I think that we're finally ready to

googlebot is visiting only my home page, but i found today that the
following spider:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
is visiting many other pages. But it shouldn't be google.

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hand indexed directory) we are giving away advertising!  No catches,
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Hi, I wanted to make a "news feed search" like for agriculture, and
then have the results put into RSS so I could view it from something
like kinja.com.  Putting it into "My Yahoo" was no problem but I am
getting the impression they don't make getting it as a regular rss/xml

does the 301 code work properly with google?
I put it in the old pages 25 days ago and still the old pages
are indexed.
Will it be better to put instead a link of the new page and

We use OS X 10.3.5 and the latest Safari, IE, Mozilla, etc. I've found
sites that claim to allow Mac users access to PageRank but they want
me to register and pay, not that I'm against this as a last resort. I
also searched Google Groups and didn't find a lot--so I'm assuming you

Can anyone give me a rough handle on the industry standard for the
conversion of unique visitors to bookings.  I am in the hotel online
reservation industry and I have heard the figures of around 1% conversion
from unique visitors to confirmed bookings.

I am wondering if someone can explain why the term io in in my keywords list
as being searched and found my site 8 times in September, there are alos
other terms such as co., hilton, mother, jcc & hyatt and many more which all
apear to be keywords used on a search engine to find my ...