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The landscape of search engines have went through some drastic changes over the years.  Not only with technology, but also with various partnerships between the many different search companies as well. You might be running your search engine queries on a particular search engine, although who is actually supplying the results? – it could be a different company altogether.

Below, is a list of the search engines that feed your precious keywords:

Google
Google is by far the world’s most popular search engine, it provides the primary search engine results to Google, AOL Search and also Netscape.  Google also supplies paid listings to Lycos, Ask, Netscape, AOL  Search, and HotBot.  It also supplies secondary results to HotBot and receives it’s directory data from DMOZ.

Yahoo
Yahoo provides the primary search results for Yahoo search, Alta Vista, and AllTheWeb, and receives paid listings from Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly known as Overture).

Lycos
Lycos receives the directory search results from DMOZ, primary results from Ask, and paid listings from Google Adwords.

Hotbot
Hotbot receives directory search results from DMOZ, primary search results from Ask, and paid/secondary results from Google Adwords.

Ask
Ask provides primary results to Ask, Hotbot, and Lycos.  It receives secondary search results from Teoma and the directory results from DMOZ, with paid listings from Google Adwords.

In relations to marketing, search engines can provide anything you want to know.  If someone is looking for something, they normally refer to the search engines.  When they type it in, the highest sites on the engines will show and is normally where the visitor will go. By keeping good position on the search engines, you’ll be near the first for visitors who are looking for a certain product.  You can make a lot of money with search engines as well, if you learn the background and know what you are doing.

9 Points To Improve Your SEO

Optimizing web pages for search engines does not mean creating special pages for search engines. Optimizing web pages for search engines is often the same as optimizing web pages for web surfers.

If you do it correctly, your website will be attractive to both web surfers and search engine spiders. The following list shows nine factors that can improve the usability of your website as well as your search engine rankings.

1. You should have fast loading web pages:  Usability: Web surfers don’t want to wait for web pages. Search engine optimization: Search engines can index your web pages more easily. 
2. Your web pages should be easy to read:  Usability: It’s easier for web surfers to read your web pages. Search engine optimization: Near-white text on a white background and tiny text is considered spam by most search engines.
3. The contents of your web pages should be clearly arranged:  Usability: Clear headings, paragraphs and bullet lists make your web pages easier to read. Search engine optimization: Clear headings, paragraphs and bullet lists make it easier for search engines to find the topic of your web pages.
4. Your web page images should use the IMG ALT attribute:  Usability: Web surfers with images turned off and visually impaired visitors will be able to see the content of your images.  Search engine optimization: Search engines cannot index the content of your images but they can index the content of the IMG ALT attribute.
5. You should use custom 404 not found error pages:  Usability: If your 404 not found page contains links to other pages of your website or a search form then people might remain on your website.  Search engine optimization: Proper 404 error pages make sure that search engines index the right pages of your website.
6. Your website should be easy to navigate:  Usability: Clear and concise navigation links that are easy to find help your website visitors to find content on your site.  Search engine optimization: Clear and concise navigation links that contain your keywords make it easy for search engines to index all of your web pages.
7. Important content is above the fold:  Usability: Web surfers with small computer screens can quickly see what your web page is about.  Search engine optimization: The sooner your important content appears in the HTML code of your web pages, the more likely it is that it will be indexed by search engines.
8. Your web page titles are explanatory:  Usability: If web surfers bookmark your web pages, a clear web page title will help them to find it again.  Search engine optimization: The web page title is one of the most important SEO elements. It should contain your keywords and it should look attractive so that web surfers click on it when they see your web page title in the search results.
9. The URLs of your web pages are meaningful and self-explanatory:  Usability: It’s much easier to remember a web page like www.example.com/support than a web page like www.example.com/123123-werwc.php?2342234Search engine optimization: If your URLs contain your keywords, this can have a positive effect on your search engine rankings. Dynamic URLs with many variables can lead to problems with search engine spiders.

There are many more factors that influence the position of your website in Google’s search results. If you want an in-depth analysis of elements of your web page, check your website with IBP’s Top 10 Optimizer.

Free Tools To Help Your SEO Efforts

If any of your websites are stuck in the search engines and you can’t bump them up to page one no matter what you do, here’s something that will work like dynamite:  Check out Free Web Tools website and click the ‘Free To Join’ button

There’s nothing like some serious SEO to juice your sites and experts Jeff Alderson and Charles Kirkland have created software for you to do just that. It’s even free.  

Keeping on top of the latest SEO trends is time-consuming. Things changes constantly and using software that stays on top of the latest trends saves you a ton of time and boosts your profits at the same time.  Now, you don’t just need traffic. You need affiliates to promote your product too. Affiliates will send highly targeted traffic to your site but only if you provide them with the tools they need to promote your product.  

When I check out an affiliate product and see that they provide no affiliate resources whatsoever I usually can’t be bothered to promote them. This is why Free Web Tools gives you software that automatically generates a resource page for affiliates and templates for all the promo materials they need. It even automatically embeds your affiliates’ code into the materials. Pretty slick. Writing comments on blogs is a great way to build backlinks and increase traffic to your site. But it’s so much work to manually find the right blogs. So you’ll also get software that does this work for you.  At a glance you’ll see the sites that are worthy of your time and get all the relevant data about those sites at a glance. Log into Free Web Tools  here, there is no cost to you whatsoever so you really owe it to yourself to go explore this site for yourself and see how it can help you grow your business.  

P. S. The software comes with giveaway rights so you can pass it on to your subscribers, if you’d like.

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