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Google has a vast list of do's and don'ts for webmasters. These rules and guidelines also apply to Bloggers. Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site, which is the best way to ensure you'll be included in Google's results. Here are some of my favorite ones. 1. Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as Javascript, cookies, session ID's, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site. 2. Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links. 3. Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100). 4. Make a site with a clear hie...

Flickr recently changed the permanent URL's of their images. The previous Flickr photo URLs were like photos21.flickr.com/338.. but the new URLs are of the form static.flickr.com/21/338.. The image names continue to remain the same but the subdomains photo nn .flickr.com have been replaced by static.flickr.com/ nn - the subdomain server identifier is now a directory on static.flickr.com website. The old Flickr image URLs continue to work as Flickr automatically redirects them to the new version of the URL. If you still don't see your Flickr photos on your websites, try clearing your browser cache and reloading the page. It will work. I would still recomment that Flickr users grab the new URLs and update their blogs to prevent the extra burden of redirection.

Google allows you to clear and remove pages from Google web search cache . Google updates its entire index automatically on a regular basis. If Googlebot encounters a "Not Found" 404 error page, it doesn't crawl it further and deletes the outdated link from the next crawl. Even if you delete a page from your website, it continues to remain in Google's memory (read, cache) and Google audience can still discover your page and read the contents stored in Google's cache. Only the next time Google crawls your site will it remove the "dead" page from the cache. If you do not wish to remain at the mercy of Googlebot and want to remove the deleted page from Google's cache urgenly, use the automatic URL removal system from Google itself. Google will accept your removal request only if the page returns a true 404 error via the http headers. Please ensure that you return a true 404 error even if you choose to display a more user-friendly body of the HTML page...

We have seen some tremendous competition in the destkop search market with the entry of companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, x1, Copernic, blinkx. The heat is still and the latest entrant is a Russian Company called DVYGUN, who have just released Smart Search Beta, a free desktop search tool that provides instant full text search over your documents, media, emails, contacts and web pages you've viewed. The company claims that even if your search index has grown up to 1,000,000 documents, the search would be constantly near sub-second. Smart Search support instant on-the-fly indexing for emails, indexes new and updated files instantly, after they are saved to disk (only Windows NT/2000/XP).with speed up to 5GB/hour. Smart Search analyzes found documents to calculate their relevance. Most relevant documents, so more correlated with your search query, are showed first. Furthermore, every found document is showed with contextual citation, with highlighted search keywords, so you c...