Considerations when redesigning a website

One of the things I see web designers forget about when redesigning a web site if the fact that the existing pages are already indexed in the search engine. So here is what you need to remember. First of all, a search engine indexes the path and file name of the page. So if you have a page called contact.html and you change the page to contactus.html and remove the previous page the search engine will visit a page that no longer exists and will delist it from the engine. Don't fight yourself on this, keep as many page names as you can, this will ensure you keep the search engines coming back to pages that exist. Another consideration is that Google's PageRank system is linked to the page via the page name, so your new page will start at a pagerank of 0 instead of the previous page's rank.

Freeware/Software - Google� AdWords� Editing Tool (GoogEdit)

Freeware/Software - Google� AdWords� Editing Tool (GoogEdit)

Excellent tool for managing your adwords ads.

Google Introduces Book Searches

Google Introduces Book Searches

Website Statistics Online. SiteSpotting.

Website Statistics Online. SiteSpotting.

SiteSpotting has featured several articles from Internet Marketing Advisor:

Another Expanded Whois Service

Another Expanded Whois Service

Finally an good Whois service.

Yahoo Upgrades Email to Compete with Google's Gmail

Yahoo is uping its email limit to 100 megs to compete with Gmail.

Yahoo Upgrades Email to Compete with Google's Gmail

Search engines try to find their sound | CNET News.com

This is an insteresting article about searching audio files over the web.

Search engines try to find their sound | CNET News.com: "CampaignSearch.com "

Search Engine User Attitudes Study

This is an excellent study to the user attitudes of search engines and also contains profile info such as college grads, race, sex and other demographics.

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Search Engine User Attitudes

GO TOAST has a new name - Atlas OnePoint

Popular bid management tool changes name.

GO TOAST has a new name - Atlas OnePoint

MoreVisibility: The Leaders in Search Engine Positioning and Marketing

I highly recommend this company, they have excellent customer service and deliver a great product. I have used their trusted feed program for over a year and the results have been excellent.
MoreVisibility: The Leaders in Search Engine Positioning and Marketing

Google Confirms Automated Page Removal Bug

Google confirmed the bug that was reported yesterday that resulted in the removal of less than 10 pages including Microsoft and Adobe. The error was in Googles Page Removal tool. Below is the link to the Search Day Article.

Google Confirms Automated Page Removal Bug

Instant Position Search Engine Marketing Forums

This is a great new forum started by InstantPosition, there are some excellent SEO professionals to answer your questions or comments.

Instant Position Search Engine Marketing Forums

Blogger Strips PageRank

Looks like in an attempt to be fair Blogger is stripping any pagerank out of links posted in the blogs. Here is a link to the article on Blogger.

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SEO Benefits of Creating a Blog

Many people are intrigued with the thought of starting a blog. One of the benefits of blogging is that you are creating pages of content that search engines can spider through and index. If your blog is large you could be creating many pages of content that that could potentially get you some great positions in search engines. Blogging isn’t really new but we haven’t even begun to see some of the benefits of the technology.

The Ideal Internet Business

Here is my first bit of advice, for a product to be successful on the web it must be something peolple want or need, priced competetively, and advertised effectively. Ideally non tangible products are a goldmine due to the lack of having to ship the product and store inventory.