Webmaster Forum / General / Search Engines / June 2005

I was over looking at alt.investors not that there is anything of real
importance on investing there a load of adverts for investing to crap. I
wanted to see other venues with the sale of the house monies etc. Anyway,
this caught my eye.

If Ihave   if (parent.frames.length)
 top.location.href= document.location;
in a .js file attached to a page it messes up the google ads and keeps
trying to reload it. Its crashing my ie and is pretty odd in opera

Im aware that a search engine is capable of doing more than just retrieving
web pages after someone types in keywords.
You can find powerpoint presentations on widgets by entering - ppt: widgets,
pdf files on widgets by entering - pdf: widgets, and word documents on

alpacas
Result #4 - "404 Access denied, or file does not exist"
Yep, that's the title and the content.  A friggin error' page.
Pretty tough to compete with that.  Maybe I'll just 404 my entire site.

http://www.google.com/psearch/
Personalized Search is an improvement to Google search that orders
your search results based on what's most relevant to you. The Search
History feature of Personalized Search lets you view and manage your

You can find an example via my homepage and clicking on "all
products" (there are over 20,000 so it does take a little while to
load).
These have only been online for about one week now and, it'd seem

This one is mine ;)
There are at least three opinions on the sandbox:
1. It doesn't exist ('my site was never sandboxed')
2. Every site goes to sandbox.

Does everyone know what are the criteria for Google if a page is "very similar" ?
Volker

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Hi,
Do someone know of any free OPEN SEO Toolz to use ?
Page Rank, Link popularity , any other usefull tools to put on my
server ?

I have a guitar lessons site with lots of content. I have been trying to
figure out what to do to increase my ranking, but I am at a loss. The main
key phrase I am interested in are guitar lessons and guitar. I have paid
attention to keywords, I have confirmed that my site is ...

Is there a single engine or directory that can tell you if "you've made it
to the big time?" Is Yahoo number one? I find that my ranking varies widely
from engine to engine for the same search term. Which one's should I shoot
for?

Hi
Hope this is the right newsgroup to ask this question and apologies in advance
for the length of question.
About 5 years ago I designed a website for my business. I was very naive at the

I am trying to make sure my site is linked from as many high ranking sites
as possible.
For instance, my site is linked at
http://www.cyberfret.com/links/Instruction-Guitar.php

I have several sites which rank very well in google.com but can't be
found in google.co.uk, even under the unique site name. I have several
other sites which rank very well in both. In the later case, they are
all 'co.uk' domains, so it appears that google.co.uk is 'ignoring' my