Questions & Answers
Welcome to our Questions and Answer section.
| Q: | | What is a Spider? |
| A: | | A Spider is a program that allows the search engine to search and read content on the Internet, and then put that content into it's database so that people will find it when doing a search. |
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I have been hearing a lot about META tags lately. What are they? |
| A: | | Meta tags are special HTML coding that is added to the heading section of an HTML document, and search engines use these meta tags to determine what sites are all about. |
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Why has my website dissappeard from search engines? |
| A: | |
Your website might
have been unavailable at the time that the search engines
spidered, changes might have been made to your website
that wiped out some of the optimizing, or there might
be some kind of bug in the search engine spider that skipped
your website for some or other reason. Your website might
not comply to the particular search engine's requirements. |
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My website has never been visible in the search engines. |
| A: | |
Your website might
not have been registered yet, or it might be in the process
of registration which could cause a slight delay as search
engines investigate your site to see if it is suitable
for indexing. Some search engines takes up to three months
to index a website
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| Q: | |
Why is there a whole bunch of words
in the window title bar of the website? |
| A: | |
The window title bar
of the website is actually the html title of the website.
These titles are optimized in order for better search
engine rankings. |
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Why do I need links on my website? |
| A: | |
Links are needed
on a website to increase the popularity of your website
on search engines. The more links you have to your site,
the more popular your site becomes. The more popular your
site is, the higher your rankings will be on search engines.
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| Q: | |
Can I link to anybody? |
| A: | |
Only certain links
are advisable since search engines are very picky on the
kind of links they consider when taking your link popularity
into account. Links within the same industry as you and
with a high popularity factor can be used. |
Q: | |
What is a robot? |
| A: | |
A search engine robot
is the same as a search engine spider. |
Q: | |
Why is my site not ranked high enough in Google? |
| A: | |
There are several
reasons for sites not ranking high in Google. One could
be that the website is made in flash. The other could
be that there is not enough text on the site. A third
reason could be that you don't have enough high ranking
website linking back to your websit within the same category
as your business. |
Q: | |
I don't want a link exchange because I don't want to
be linked to competitors. |
| A: | |
We make sure that
we link to relevant sites that will not be in competition
with your website. Should you specialise in South Africa,
we will link to sites with the same business in America.
Or should you specialise in Pretoria, we will link you
to sites that have a good ranking in Cape Town for example.
The aspect to take into consideration is that the more
links you have, even if they are slightly competitive
in the long run drives more traffic to your site than
you would have had without those links.
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| Q: | |
If I have a dynamic website will
a search engine spider still pick it up? |
| A: | |
Search Engines are
able to read php, ASP and XML pages and therefore they
are able to read dynamically generated content.
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| Q: | |
Are the keywords case sensitive? |
| A: | |
Keywords are sensitive in some search engines, where in others it is not. It depends on the Search Engine. Google is not case sensitive. |
Feel free to post your search engine related questions here, and keep comming back to see if your answer has been posted!
Please note though that only search engine related questions should be posted here, and that we will answer only search engine related questions that has to do with search engine optimization. Any questions relating to where items can be found, what the latest fashion trends are, tax information, what causes objects to move etc. will not be answered. We provide a search engine optimization service, not a local directory service. For finding websites, services and products, please visit http://www.google.co.za and do a search for what you want, for example "latest kurt darren cd".
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