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If you are using Javascript for your navigation system (e.g. menus), you need to use a text alternative on your pages for SEO and to ensure accessibility. URLs in Javascript are essentially invisible to many search enginecrawlers. As they cannot see them, they cannot follow your pages and crawl deeper into your site. Google is currently working on this issue, but the problem hasn’t been solved yet. In the meantime, a common workaround is to include text-based links the website’s footer. Read more… »

So you submitted your homepage for your mambo or joomla or drupal or postnuke or … or.. or… CMS site, but your inside pages are not showing up in the search engines. What gives?! Read more… »

From the horses mouth:

"Google Grants
provides eligible organizations with in-kind keyword advertising using Google AdWords so you can connect directly with your target audience. Through simple, short text ads that run on Google.com, thousands (or even millions) of people can learn about your organization online as they are searching for related information. When someone enters keywords (short phrases specifying a particular search query) into Google.com, ads targeted to those keywords appear alongside the search results. "

Schweet.

I felt bad because I was being Ameri-centric in my search engine info post. It's the jingoist in me.

Here is a list of search engines used in other countries. It is definitely not a complete list. I nicked the info from the Keyword Discovery Site. Read more… »

Remember all of those cool search engines companies of the 90's (Altavista, Infoseek, Lycos, Excite, etc. etc. etc.). Well it would seem that much of the old search engine universe (in the U.S. at least) has been assimilated by the Yahoo or Google Borgs. Yup, resistance was futile. Luckily this makes submission easier for you. If you get listed on Yahoo and Google, you are pretty much covered for the most of the rest.
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