Axandra news archive: 1 January 2008

Welcome to the New Year issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter.

In this issue, you'll get an overview over all important articles in 2007. You'll find useful articles about Google, linking, spamming, indexing and more.

We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year 2008! May all your wishes for the new year come true.

We'll continue with our regular article series next week.

Table of contents:

• Happy New Year 2008!
• A categorized overview of all important articles in 2007
• Recommended resources
• Previous articles

We wish you health... So you may enjoy each day in comfort. We wish you the love of friends and family... And peace within your heart. We wish you wisdom to choose priorities... For those things that really matter in life. We wish you generousity so you may share... All good things that come to you. We wish you happiness and joy... And blessings for the New Year. We wish you the best of everything... That you so well deserve.

Here is the solution to the Christmas SEO crossword puzzle of last week.

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We published many articles in 2007 that will help you to get more out of your website. The articles below help you to increase the rankings on your website on Google and other major search engines.

Google:

• How Google creates the description of your website for the result page
• How to overcome Google's filter for new websites
• The perfect inbound link for high search engine rankings
• How Google might filter annoying pages
• Insider information about Google's ranking algorithm
• Google ranking tips from a Google employee
• New study: which web page elements lead to high Google rankings?
• Two new Google ranking patents
• How to deal with Google's latest ranking algorithm changes
• What Google could do if they were evil
• All about Google's new PPA advertising product
• Does Google read your CSS files?
• Official Google statement: How to deal with duplicate content problems

Linking:

• Reciprocal links are alive and kicking
• The effect of unnatural linking patterns on your search engine rankings
• One-way links, reciprocal links, three-way-links. What's best?
• Do no-follow links count for search engine rankings?

Indexing:

• Google, Yahoo, the X-Robots directive and your website rankings
• New robots.txt commands: make sure that Google can index your site
• Troubleshooting: how search engines can misunderstand your web pages
• How long does it take until a new site ranks in Google, Yahoo and MSN?
• Top 3 tips to get indexed on Google within 48 hours

Spamming:

• Google warns against cloaking: we can detect it
• Are you unintentionally spamming search engines?
• How to fake PageRank and how to find websites with faked PR
• Google's Matt Cutts: do not stuff your keywords
• How your competitors can sabotage your website rankings
• A new SEO trick for high Google rankings
• Are search engine spammers exploiting your web pages?
• What Google thinks about hidden and paid links
• 15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them, 2, 3, 4, 5
• The end of Google bombs?

Miscellaneous:

• Are you paying too much for your AdWords ads? Change it now!
• Top 6 reasons why your search engine rankings have dropped
• The most important factor for successful SEO (hint: it's not inbound links)
• 4 tips to increase your sales by creating a trustworthy website
• Search engine market shares in Europe
• The importance of page 1 listings and how to get them
• What is better: PPC or SEO?
• The risk of over-optimization
• How to clear bad press from search engine results
• The influence of semantic indexing on your search engine rankings
• Search engine submission with the new Sitemap protocol
• How to use the new NOYDIR tag on your web pages
• The top 5 factors for successful web sites in 2007

Even more articles can be found in our online archive.

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• Axandra's Christmas crossword puzzle
• How Google creates the description of your website
• Google, Yahoo, the X-Robots directive and your website rankings
• Google warns against cloaking: we can detect it
• New robots.txt commands: make sure that Google can index your site
• Are you paying too much for your AdWords ads? Change it now!
• Troubleshooting: how search engines can misunderstand your web pages
• Top 6 reasons why your search engine rankings have dropped
• Reciprocal links are alive and kicking
• How long does it take until a new site ranks in Google, Yahoo and MSN?
• View all past issues...