Hello All, I've just entered some new European SEO contest for ranking on top of Google for the keyword eurodipity . This is going to be really exciting because this is the first European tournament I've been competing in since last year's world seo championships.

Very soon I'll be able to give you some insides on what's going on with the competition but first I'll have to get my sites indexed and we'll see... read more..

During the last few months I've been noticing serious changes in search engine behaviors especially on my large websites having more than 100k pages. Some of them have been sitting on my HostGator account who's well know as being one of the largest shared hosting overseller offering unlimited domains hosting. When I moved those sites to new dedicated server that I've purchased for my own needs, I've noticed sudden surge of search engine bot activities. The site got crawled by tons of search engines and less than a week later there was more than 600k indexed pages in Google while previously there were around 40k to 60k pages.

My findings confirm that search engine crawlers count the number of domains per IP address and divide the approximate time spent on each one therefore if there are a lot of domains hosted on the same ip address your index time allocation is divided by the number of domains hosted. This immediately results in poor/slow indexing especially on large websites.

The best way to find how many other pages is to run a http://whois.domaintools.com/yourdomain.com and find out your particular name server domains usage. NOTE: This does not work for some hosting companies that use centralized DNS management. If you see more than 2k websites then most definitely that's not accurate and you must find some other way of detecting the domains usage on your shared server. This tool works fine when the name servers are independent for each hosting server. If you see that you account's name servers are something like ns1.hostserv3.com and ns2.hostserv3.com then its most definitely OK and the number should be accurate... read more..

Well, its this time of the year when we have to update our websites and plug in some new stuff so you don‘t get bored from seing the same thing over and over.

Today I finally updated the Content Management System with the latest version of SEO Website CMS and this post is actually more like a test rathen than some meaningful post. If I‘m correct this should work properly, but if I did some typo in the code it would be quite messy.

Please report any problems (if you find) to my email vjakimov [at] gmail [dot] com Thanks... read more..

As you may already know I‘m a big fan of the Domain Aftermarket and during the last few years I‘ve collected pretty good domain portfolio. Unfortunately not all domains are as good as they should be and this case is one of them.

Nearly six months ago I‘ve purchased the domain "usemortgages dot com" and I‘ve immediately developed DB Directory with some mortgage related stuff on it. A month later I‘ve noticed that all search engines are still trying to crawl non-existed/out-dated folders and they don‘t want to collect the new information. Google had very low crawling activity (within 1% of the total number content pages) and my site was not indexed on it (not showing any search results). I thought this was due to the large number of 404‘s (page not found) that was generated from the content switching, but this was not the case.

Eventually after more than 5 months of waiting I finally gave up and considered the domain as "blacklisted domain". This ment that I spent all that time for nothing.... read more..

As you might know, I‘m currently developing my own Blog Network of MFA (dollar-a-day) websites. For my current run, I‘m filling up my web hosting space at GoDaddy with Directories and WordPress Blogs. Yes this time I‘m using WordPress because my SEO Website CMS somehow doesn‘t work with the Godaddy accounts since they have some special permissions on htaccess and its rewrite rules. I‘ll try to fix it but currently I don‘t have the time to bother with this and I‘m using WordPress instead.

What I didn‘t know when I used GoDaddy‘s default wordpress installer was that when it installs it it sets up by default \"Search Engine Privacy\" settings. Those settings forbid Search Engines to index your website and therefore no matter how much efforts you have it won‘t get you indexed. Actually if you knew about this option, its so easy to switch the button and actually disable it and enable search engines to visit your website and actually get indexed, but in most of the cases people don‘t know about it or others (like me for example) don‘t look for it since we all know that the default settings for search engine privacy is disabled on new wordpress installations. That‘s the reason I really got pissed off because GoDaddy decided to change those for you and if you were not careful and did not have the knowledge how to work with search engines you might wonder why your website never got in the Search Engines and you don‘t get any visitors to your new website.... read more..