Source: free-seo-news.com

Is your web site still not listed on search engines although you submitted it weeks ago? There are several reasons why search engines might ignore your web pages.

1. Check if search engines can read your web page content

Search engines use very simply software programs to index your web pages. A web page that looks great to the human eye can be totally meaningless to search engines.

If you have a great looking web site that is meaningless to search engines, you won’t be able to achieve high search engine rankings with that web site - no matter how good and interesting your web site content is.

In general, search engines cannot see content that is presented in images (GIF, JPEG, PNG, etc.), Flash elements, JavaScript and other script languages or other multimedia file formats.

To find out how search engines see your web page, use a search engine spider simulator.

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Source: sev.prnewswire.com

Ask.com, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp introduced version 2.0 of Ask Sponsored Listings, offering powerful new features to search marketers and partners.

"Since the launch of Ask Sponsored Listings just over a year ago, we have been working with advertisers to create a better paid listings product. Consistently we heard that they wanted more control over ever expanding campaigns and keyword lists. They also wanted more Ask.com inventory, and above all, they wanted it all to be easy," said James Speer, vice president of products and marketing at Ask.com. "Everything we are introducing today is in direct response to the feedback we’ve heard. We expect advertisers will be very happy with the new platform."

New Version 2.0:

Version 2.0 of Ask Sponsored Listings offers a range of new and enhanced capabilities that simplify the management of marketing campaigns, while improving visibility into campaign performance. Improvements include:

1)Daily Budgeting: ASL now supports daily budgets, providing advertisers with more control over their spending patterns.

2) Variable Refill Amount: Self-serve advertisers can now specify the refill amount to control the frequency of credit card charges. In addition, the minimum monthly spend has been eliminated.

3) Hourly Billable Data: Billable data is posted hourly allowing advertisers to track ROI in near real time.

4) Bulk Upload Enhancements: All aspects of the campaign can now be set and controlled from desktop tools, including MS Excel. Uploads are processed in the background, and ads/keywords from many campaigns can be included in one file. This allows marketers to perform several tasks simultaneously.

5) Dashboard Reports: A simplified view allows marketers to track the performance of multiple campaigns from a single dashboard. Enhanced custom reporting tools expose more detailed data about campaigns including keyword cost reporting across campaigns and accounts.

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The Google company is best known its search engine at google.com. The corporation offers a number of other features, to be sure, but most of them are clearly branded - Google Video, Google Maps, etc. Yesterday it was discovered that the search engine SearchMash is also run by Google.

SearchMash’s search results are very similar to those offered by the Google search engine. The difference lies in the presentation and the features.SearchMash includes some useful and ‘out there’ features that might not be right for Google.com, but could make a really interesting search engine.

SearchMash also displays a "menu of options by each result, letting you click to get ‘Open in this windows’, ‘Open in new windows’, ‘Open cached copy’, ‘More from this site’, ‘More similar pages’." Weinberg considered this "another great idea that would work well on regular Google," noting that "the code already exists there as part of the ‘More’ tab above the search box." 

Google’s new Search Sandbox (not to be confused with the other Google Sandbox) for playing with search result toys includes the addition of Ajax URL menus, integrated A9 style image search, and the ability for users to reorder their results.

Here’s a rundown of the features with image captures provided by Google SearchMash:

Auto Cursor in Search Box : No need to click on the search box to begin typing.

URL Menu : Click on the URL of a web site in the SearchMash result and the user is served with Google options for viewing that URL in a new window, in its cache form, more results from that site, or more similar pages.

Image results are served at the right of web search results.

When you click on the number next to a search result you can reorder it via dragging with other results. Google (or SearchMash) says that “This is just for fun right now, but we have some ideas for how to use this.”

Google has yet to officially comment on SearchMash, but the privacy policy makes its role perfectly clear. "SearchMash is a website operated by Google Inc.," declares the very first sentence. Google may have been trying to keep that connection quiet so as not to affect any of its SearchMash experiments, but the cat is clearly out of the bag and running loose in the blogosphere.

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