SEO Expert Blog

Google launched a new version of their free web statistics and tracking service Google Analytics last Tuesday. The first thing you notice is the completely revised dashbord that displays statistics on visits, pageviews, traffic sources and other data for the past month instead of the past 7 days.

Today the Google Webmaster Central announced that you can now get a more complete picture about how your site is linked from other sites.

Go to Statistics - Page anaysis and you'll see a list with up to 100 phrases used as anchor text in links to your site.

Vincent Flanders who runs the popular web site Web Pages that suck talks about the three most important aspects of SEO. Have content on your site, don't trick Google and read Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

Using the robots meta tag as an example official Google blogger Vanessa Fox explains how Google handles Meta tags. We learn that Googlebot is not case sensitive and follows the most restrictive instructions in case of conflicts.

Yahoo! Slurp now also recognizes wildcard characters in the robots.txt file enabling webmasters to restrict what gets indexed in a more sophisticated manner.

You can use * to match a sequence of characters and $ as an anchor to indicate the end of a URL string. You can find examples in the Yahoo! Search blog.