During development of the web, there was a list of webservers edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot from 1992 remains. As more webservers went online the central list could not keep up. On the NCSA site new servers were announced under the title “What’s New!”
The very first tool used for searching on the Internet was Archie. The name stands for “archive” without the “v.” It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a computer science student at McGill University in Montreal. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie did not index the contents of these sites since the amount of data was so limited it could be readily searched manually. (more…)
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Search engines are not humans but engines. Search engines are text-driven, cool design, images, sound or video means quite nothing to them. This engines crawl the Web, looking for text to get an idea what a site is about. Search engines perform several crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving and finaly deliver stored results when somebody ask for it. (more…)
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If your site is not listed in Google SERP (a list showing searching result), your site is quite unusable. Nobody except you do not know it exists. Google will sunner or later find your site, but if your site is not constructed as “Google Friendly” it can be ignored. (more…)
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic“) search results. (more…)
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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is popular word of Web marketing. SEO does help in the promotion of web site but requires some technical knowledge – at least knowledge about HTML. SEO deals with text mostly and can be defined as the activity of optimizing Web pages or whole sites in order to make them more search engine-friendly, resulting in higher positions in search results. (more…)
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Maybe you use every day Google, Yahoo, Lycos or MSN search. But there is a trilion of them… If sou like to find more of them you can use this links to find them, not just all but a lot of them… (more…)
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301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It’s not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. See how to do it. (more…)
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Apache Module mod_alias is very useful for mapping different parts of the host filesystem in the document tree and for URL redirection. (more…)
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Here you have more tips: Enabling server-side includes, Modifying the Environment, Adding new MIME types, Restricting documents, etc (more…)
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If no page asked by visitor web server returns 404 eror and displays some ugly message “404 Not Found”. But it can be changed. See how to make “Custom Error Document” and force server to display it. (more…)
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