The value of a listing on the first search result page is well know. Getting listed as the first result is even more important if you want to get as many website visitors as possible. Bing has just published a blog post that shows that more than 50% of users click on the first search result: "On average, over 50% of users click on the first result on the page. From there we see a significant drop, with less than 1% of people clicking on the 8th link on the page. The figure below shows the Read the full article...

In an online video, Google's Matt Cutts answered the question of another Googler, John Mueller. If your website has an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages, should you add these pages at once or in stages? Matt Cutts' answer: it depends Matt Cutts said that Google can handle both methods. If a website releases hundreds of thousands websites overnight, however, it is very likely that the website will be reviewed manually by Google's spam team. He recommends that websites Read the full article...

A new search engine tries to challenge Google. It doesn't rely on backlinks and it actually delivers good results. Could this be a real alternative to Google? How can you make sure that your website will be found in this search engine? What's the name of the new search engine? The name of the new search engine is Samuru.com. It was developed by Stremor, the company of Brandon Wirtz. Brandon Wirtz previously tested many different ways to game Google for fun and profit. As he worked Read the full article...

We have added 13 new regions to the Top 10 Optimizer and the ranking monitor in SEOprofiler. SEOprofiler now supports 78 different regions and languages. The international SEO software tool SEOprofiler helps you to get your website to the top of the search results in many countries all over the world. If you haven't done it yet, get your SEOprofiler account now. You can get full access to all SEOprofiler tools for just $1 (this offer is available once per customer): Try all SEOprofiler Read the full article...

Co-citation and co-occurrence are important factors that influence the position of your web pages inGoogle's search results. The environment in which the links to your website can be found have a big impact on the value of the links. 1. Co-occurrence: the words on the linking pages influence your rankings Even if the link to your website does not include your targeted keyword, your web page can get a ranking boost for that keyword. The link just has to come from a page that is related Read the full article...

Thank you very much for your positive feedback on the new web-based client SEO reports. If you haven't seen this new feature yet: the new web-based client reports enable you to offer your clients SEO reports in your own company design. The reports have no reference to SEOprofiler and your client's won't find out that you use SEOprofiler to create the reports. Export your project information You can send your clients to a generic URL that has no reference to SEOprofiler to view the reports. Read the full article...

Comscore research has just released the March 2013 U.S. search engine rankings. Desktop-only search was just under 20.4 billion searches during March 2013. That's 11% more than in February and a new record: "20.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March (up 11 percent), with Google Sites ranking first with 13.7 billion (up 11 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.4 billion searches (up 13 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion (up 14 percent), Ask Network Read the full article...

We have just released a great new feature: starting today, you can offer your clients web-based SEO reports in your company design. The reports have no reference to SEOprofiler and you can customize them with your own colors and your own logo: Make your clients happy If you offer SEO services to clients, the new web-based reports are a great addition that will make your life as an SEO easier. You can offer your clients in-depth ranking reports, link management reports and website audit Read the full article...

Andre Weyher, a former member of Google's web spam team, has given an interview in which he reveals several things that can be useful if you want to improve your search engine optimization campaign. 1. Relevance is the new PageRank We've said it before in our newsletter: do not focus on the PageRank of a web page. The PageRank that is displayed in Google's toolbar is not the PageRank that Google actually uses in the algorithm. In addition, Google now uses other factors to determine Read the full article...

In a video on YouTube, Google's Matt Cutts explains what will happen if a website that gets penalized for selling links contains a link to your site: Matt Cutts says that the Google toolbar PageRank of website that sell links will be downgraded by up to 50%. In addition, the penalized website won't be able to pass PageRank to other sites. That means that websites that are linked by the penalized website will no longer benefit from those links. This does not mean that buying links is safe. Read the full article...

Has your website been penalized by Google? No need to panic. Take control of your website success and get your rankings back by following the tips below. Most people go through the following five phases when their website has been penalized by Google: Denial: "Google hasn't penalized my website. This is just a temporary error in Google's algorithm. My website rankings will be back next week." Anger: "It's not fair. Google has no right to downrank my website. They are a monopolist. If I Read the full article...

In an online discussion, Google's John Mueller said that it's better to have simple robots.txt files: "What is it that you're trying to achieve with the robots.txt file in your case? First off, one thing that is likely wrong with your robots.txt file is that crawlers obey the most specific user-agent line, not all of them. So for Googlebot, that would be only the section for Googlebot, not the section for *. The * section is very explicit in your case, so you'd probably want to duplicate Read the full article...