You probably know Google’s informal company motto “Don’t be evil”. Google is a very successful company that knows a lot about its advertisers and users. In addition, Google has a market share that would allow them do certain things.

What could Google do if they were evil? Note that the following is only hypothetical:

Google could favor its own products and websites

Google could prefer websites from its own services in the search results: websites that run Google ads, websites that use Google’s payment service, Blogger sites, Google Base, etc.

All websites that pay Google in some way could be SEO friendly and preferred in the search results while others are downranked.

Google could punish websites at discretion

If Google doesn’t like your website or if someone tells Google that you’re a bad boy then Google can ban your website from the search results without any reason given.

You can find a lot of articles on the web that discuss the problem that Google removed web sites from the index. The main problem with these removals is that Google usually doesn’t explain why a web site has been removed so that webmasters often are complete and utterly at Google’s mercy.

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Audience reach is the percentage of US home and work Internet users estimated to have searched on each site at least once during the month through a web browser or some other “online” means.

Many people use Yahoo to find web sites on the Internet. A good position on Yahoo can bring you a considerable number of visitors. If your web site doesn’t have good rankings and SEO friendly on Yahoo, you’re missing a lot of potential customers.

How do I get my web site into Yahoo?

Although Yahoo offers a paid inclusion program, it’s not necessary to use that program to get into Yahoo. Yahoo finds most web sites through links on other web sites.

If many other web sites link to your site, Yahoo’s spider will find your site. In addition, Yahoo also offers a free site submission feature. When Yahoo’s spider visits your web pages, you should make sure that your web pages are optimized for Yahoo’s ranking algorithm.

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Many people think that Google searches the Internet when you perform a search on Google. That’s not the case.
Google does not search the Internet when you search

Google robotGoogle uses a so-called robot to surf the Internet. This robot is a simple software program that parses all web pages that it finds on the Internet and then stores the information it finds in Google’s database. When you search on Google, you’re actually searching the database that has been collected by that robot.

If you want to get high rankings on Google, you must make sure that Google’s robot finds the right information on your website and that the robot writes the right information about your website in Google’s database.

1. Feed the robot: optimize more than one web page

It’s not enough to optimize your home page. You must optimize each page of your website individually. Optimize different pages of your website for different but related keywords so that Google’s robot sees that your website is relevant to the topic. The more pages you optimize the more SEO friendly for your website.

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Most webmasters face this problem sooner or later. The rankings of your website on Google have dropped and you don’t know why this happened.

There are many reasons about rankings on Google can drop:

Reason 1: Your server rejects Google’s spider

Have you installed a new robots.txt file lately? Does your robots.txt file allow Google to index your website? Have you changed your htaccess file? Have you recently installed a spam bot blocker?

Are you 100% sure that the spam bot blocker lets Google through to your website? Google uses different IP addresses for its different spiders and some spam blockers might accidentally block one of the spiders. This might also look like cloaking to Google.

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