the Yellow Pages
Television program guides
directories like DMOZ, the Yahoo! Directory, LII, or specialty directories
encyclopedia type sites like Wikipedia
large general structured databases like Google Base
shopping search like Froogle
local search like Google Local
news search like Yahoo! News
blog search like Technorati
tag search like Del.icio.us
video search like YouTube
photo search like Flickr
meme trackers like Techmeme
social communities like Digg
social networks like […]

Step-by-Step: How to Get BILLIONS of Pages Indexed by Google

As most SEOs know, MSN loves the subdomains. You can make hundreds of keyworded subdomains and MSN will think quite highly of the pages. Same goes for blogspot and other blogs– they do very well on MSN and sometimes on Yahoo. Now Google and the new […]

Introduction
Websites today are more complex than ever, containing a lot of dynamic content making the experience for the user more enjoyable. Dynamic content is achieved through the use of web applications which can deliver different output to a user depending on their settings and needs. Dynamic websites suffer from a threat that static websites don’t, […]

XSS Cross Site Scripting: Dynamic websites suffer from a threat that static websites don’t, called “Cross Site Scripting” (or XSS). Attackers canl inject JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML, or Flash into a vulnerable web sites and force a webpage to link to a location.

Q: What is a canonical url? Do you have to use such a weird word, anyway?
A: Sorry that it’s a strange word; that’s what we call it around Google. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would […]

o Directory submissions.
These sites offer lists of niche directories to submit your link to:
http://www.directoryarchives.com
http://www.isedb.com
o News feeds.
PR Web and others offer free and paid services to give you a chance to secure links in news articles about your company.
http://www.urlwire.com/
http://www.prweb.com/
o Become an authority site and get sites to link for you for free. […]

A new patent application from Microsoft describes some ways to identify some of the spam pages that show up in search engine results. The research that led to the application started off by looking at something else completely, but a chance discovery turned up some interesting results.
The initial research began with something Microsoft calls Pageturner. […]

Browsing forums you will find this question asked many times by newbies. Most old timers and some people that just like to repeat the answer they where told will tell you 20 or so a month, after letting your site simmer for 6 months.
So at what point do you blow off all the bullshit that […]

Importance of varying your link text
Some webmasters learn how powerful link anchor text is and quickly rush off to build thousands of links using the exact same link text. This can raise a flag in search engines because the link pattern will appear unnatural. This is because naturally occurring link patterns include phrases such as […]

The Hilltop algorithm was proposed by two researchers working under the auspices of the University of Toronto. One of those researchers is now at Google and Google also acquired the patent early in 2003. The algorithm overcomes problems with broad search terms which return large sets of documents that have to be ranked. It is […]