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How to decrease the crawl rate of Bing’s search engine bot

The MSN bot or BING bot crawls your website to index your website’s content and show the results under the Bing search engine. Bing supports the directives of the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) which can be listed in a site’s robots.txt file. The crawl … Continued

How to submit my site and optimize it for the search engines?

You can submit your site to Google by using the this link. Once submitted to Google, other search engines will index it too. Each web application has specific search engine optimizations. You can check our SEO tutorial below which will help … Continued

How to check the number of internal/external links on my website?

Keeping the number of internal links on your front page as low as possible is essential for the performance of your web site. On the other hand, the number of external links is important for your SEO ranking. You can … Continued

How to remove a website from Google

There are several options to prevent your web site from being indexed by Google. For best results it is highly recommended to use all of them. Otherwise your web site might still appear in search results. The first is using … Continued

What should I do considering search engine ranking if I need to change my primary domain name?

Changing the primary domain name for your website and preserving the search engine ranking can be a tricky task. First and foremost, you should keep both domain names up and running. The safest way to start is by parking the … Continued

If I switch hosts, will it affect my search engine ranking?

Switching hosting companies can affect your search engine ranking in several ways. First is the location of the new server to which you will move your website. Some search engines like Google check the IP that the website uses as one of … Continued

How can I have my site linked by other websites over the web?

The best way to gain more links to your web site is creating unique and helpful content that lots of people will be interested in. This will urge visitors to post links to your web site and naturally generate more … Continued

Which are the most important SEO HTML tags?

The most important SEO HTML tags are (in order of importance): Title Tag <head> <title>keyword</title> </head> Header Tags – H1,H2,H3 <h1>Most Important</h1> <h2>Second Most Important</h2> <h3>Third Most Important</h3> Bold,Strong <b>keyword</b> <strong>keyword</strong> Image <img src=”keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” /> Hyperlink <a href=”http://www.website.com/page.html” title=”keyword”>keyword</a> … Continued

My site is shown for different keywords than the ones I want. What to do?

There are special techniques in order to have your web site appear in the search engines for the appropriate keywords. For example, just using a large amount of keywords in the meta tags for the web site will not necessary … Continued

What is Black Hat SEO and does it affect my website ranking?

Black Hat SEO is the use of various tricks in order to increase your website ranking in search results. Such tricks may include spamming other websites with links, putting enormous amount of key words in the keyword tags, using invisible … Continued