There still is a lot of discussion going on wether the Google Sandbox exists or not. Some say it exists, some say it doesn’t. Just pretend it does exist, how is it possible that some SEO’s don’t get hit by the sandbox filter?

Optimizing Keywords for Search Engines

All SEO experts believe in the importance of optimizing keywords for search engines. Search engines need to know enough about your keywords so that they can help your pages visibility. If you’re optimizing keywords for every page of your site, search engines help those pages be found as well.

How’s Optimizing Keywords Done?

Before any other things, you need to select your keywords carefully and smartly. Keywords aren’t the words or phrases that you invent. You have to discover what searchers are typing to find what they want. Then, you choose the closest to the content you want to write and write with those keywords in your mind.

Installed StarOffice using Google Updater

I installed StarOffice using Google updater and I would say it is very good. If you are looking for a serious alternative to MS Office, StarOffice is for you.

StarOffice is not free [unlike OpenOffice, on which it is based]. It costs about $70, way much less than MS Office. However, it combines many proprietary features like a better spell checker and so is better than OpenOffice. I read somewhere that Sun takes a snapshot of OpenOffice source code once in a while and then adds some features to it to make StarOffice.

Why one should target MSN Live rather than Google

Webmasters often think of achieving high positions for keywords in Google. Google may be the de facto web search standard, but targeting MSN Live can be much more beneficial.

I will explain why. Google takes longer times to index the pages of the site. Its algorithm gives more importance to the age of the site and backlinks, rather than the actual content. For, if you create a page with more keywords and solid content, it still takes sometime for the page to appear in the search engine ranking positions.

Search engine spammers abound!

I remember a time when a highly professional spammer managed to get 4 billion spam pages indexed into Google’s index. Other search engines like Yahoo! and MSN indexed many millions of pages but to a much lesser extent when compared with Google. MSN (now Live!) [No pun intended!] was the least affected of all the three. That site was www.t1ps2see (dot) com.

These spam results started appearing on the top pages for many keywords and one can only imagine how many hits that site might have generated. Billions while it lasted. It was then that people started taking notice of what was happening. And within 14 days or so that site was completely deindexed…banned to be more precise.