Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn52feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s54.POSTED!not-for-mail From: will.spencer@internet-search-engines-faq.com (Will Spencer) Organization: Internet Search Engines FAQ Subject: alt.internet.search-engines FAQ Revision 2004/03/17 - Part 1/1 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines,alt.answers,news.answers Followup-To: alt.internet.search-engines Reply-To: will.spencer@internet-search-engines-faq.com (FAQ Comments address) Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and Archive-Name: alt-internet-search-engines/faq Version: 2004/03/17 Posting-Frequency: Monthly Last-Modified: 2004/03/17 URL: http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 52 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.9.189.132 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s54 1079552440 24.9.189.132 (Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:40:40 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:40:40 GMT Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:40:40 GMT Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.internet.search-engines:47175 alt.answers:71993 news.answers:267948 Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines,alt.answers,news.answers Followup-To: alt.internet.search-engines From: will.spencer@internet-search-engines-faq.com (Will Spencer) Reply-To: will.spencer@internet-search-engines-faq.com (FAQ Comments address) Subject: alt.internet.search-engines FAQ Revision 2004/03/17 - Part 1/1 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) about Internet Search Engines. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the alt.internet.search-engines newsgroup. Archive-Name: alt-internet-search-engines/faq Version: 2004/03/17 Posting-Frequency: Monthly Last-Modified: 2004/03/17 URL: http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/ Welcome to the alt.internet.search-engines alt.internet.search-engines FAQ: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Internet Search Engines. The alt.internet.search-engines FAQ is on the World Wide Web at http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/ The contents of the alt.internet.search-engines FAQ include: . What is alt.internet.search-engines? . What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization? . What are search engines policies towards search engine optimization? . What search engines and directories should I submit to? . What is PR (Page Rank)? . What are the meta tags and do they matter? . How long can my URL's be? . How can I tell if my HTML is correct? . What are the current Google datacenters? . What is a Google dance? . How do I see if Google is dancing? . How do I search better with Google? . How do I find the PR (Page Rank) for my site? . How can I find broken links on my web site? . How can I track my ranking in Google or other search engines? . How do I choose the best keywords for my site? . What are good web site statistics reporting tools? . What is robots.txt? . What other forums are there to discuss search engine optimization? . Who are Sam and Dave? . Can I hire you to optimize my site? . Can you recommend a good search engine marketing specialist?