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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Google recently wrote in one of its official blogs that it is possible for spammers to take advantage of your website without ever setting a virtual foot in your server. Spammers can do this by abusing open redirects.

What are open redirects?

Many websites use links that redirect their website visitors to another page. Some redirects are left open to any arbitrary destination. These redirects can be abused by spammers to trick web surfers and search engines into following links that seem to be pointing to your website although they redirect to a spammy website.

That means that people who think that they visit your website will be redirected to highly questionable web pages that might contain adult content, viruses, malware or phishing attempts.

Which redirects on your website could be abused?

Spammers are very inventive. According to Google, they have managed to use the redirect spam on a wide range of websites, including the websites of large well-known companies and the websites of small local government agencies.

For example, the following redirection types can be abused:

1. Scripts that redirect users to a file on the server can be abused by spammers. The links on your website could look like this:

http://www.example.com/download.php?url=http://www…
http:///www.example.com/get/pdf/?http://www…

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Search engine optimization is not difficult if you understand the basic concepts. If you know what to do, your website will get the best possible rankings on Google and other important search engines.

Light bulbThe following list will help you to better understand SEO or to explain SEO to your clients:

Four things you should know about link building

1. Google doesn’t like paid links

Google considers links to your site as editorial votes for its quality. A paid link is not editorial. Google’s anti-spam team has asked webmasters to report paid links. If your competitors report your paid links, Google might penalize your website.

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