Importance of Code-to-Text for SEO Rankings Most search engines use a code to text ratio in their algorithms as one element in determining the relevance of a page. This ratio represents the percentage of text within a web page relative to the content as a whole. A higher ratio offers a greater opportunity for a [...]

Using the Calculator Many websites are taking advantage of Google Adsense advertising on their pages to generate either primary or addition income from the sites. Tracking the stats can be time-consuming and inexact with value experimentation being more of a hit-or-miss procedure. Developer Shed Network's Adsense Calculator is a free tool that is easily embedded [...]

Link Popularity Importance to Good SEO Goals Link popularity is an important factor in SEO optimization. The number and quality of inbound links is part of search engine algorithms that determine website ranking by evaluating the popularity and relevance of a site. A site with more inbound links will generally be ranked higher than one [...]

Significance of Google Dance Periodically, Google robots crawl the web to update and archive websites. It is a process that occurs about every 30 days, sometimes less frequently, with the archived websites presented in the next Google index update. This process is referred to by some as the “Google Dance”. Google has three primary www [...]

Spider Simulator Features The Spider Simulator from Developer Shed Network is a free simulator tool that you can embed on your website. It displays spidered content, links and link anchor text exactly as a search engine spider will see it when it crawls your site. Since what the spider sees is what will determine your [...]

About the Search Engine Spider Simulator Since what search engine spiders see when they crawl the web determines how well a site ranks, it's important to know what they're seeing when you want to optimize a website. They don't read pages the way humans do, and they are blind to many things on a page [...]

The Importance of Backlinks Quality backlinks, or inbound links, to your website are a very important factor in how your site is ranked by search engines. Search engines consider the number of backlinks and their relevance highly in their ranking algorithms. The quality of the backlink isn't just the relevance to the site generating the [...]

How to Use the CPC ROI Calculator Keeping track of  your return on investment (ROI) from cost per click (CPC) advertising can be time-consuming but important in order to keep costs from running away. It is also necessary in order to determine future bid prices to maintain needed profit margin.   The free ROI Calculator [...]

How Do Backlinks Help SEO? On of the most important factors of SEO optimization is the quantity and quality of backlinks, or links directed toward your site. They indicate the popularity, importance and relevance of your site so important to search engine ranking. They are also known as “inbound links”. A quality backlink to a [...]

Dictate What Spiders Crawl on Your Site You may not want search engine spiders to detect all of the files or directories on your website such as the /cgi-bin/ directory that contains your scripts, or your images directory. To hide them, you can place a robots.txt file on your website to disallow the spiders from [...]