nice SEO FAQ - The five questions posted most recently:

How to block all robots from a certain folder

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:15:00 GMT

It may happen that you have certain sub directories that you don't want to be listed in the search engines. All major search engines that follow the REP , i.e. Yahoo, MSN and Google, and the promise not to index folders and files that are specifically mentioned on your robots.txt file. Here is an example to excluse subfolders /private/ /photos-saved/ and /images-fullsize/ from the search index,

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /photos-saved/
Disallow: /images-fullsize/

By using User-agent: * it referes to the fact that all search engines should obey this request.��

A Blank Robots.txt File

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:09:00 GMT

If you want to allow robots/spiders to index all of the content it finds on your webpage (i.e. all linked content or ocntent listed on your sitemap) then you can use the following in your robots.txt file .

�User-agent: *

�Disallow:

It is prefered for Google that you have either a blank robots.txt file, or you have the content above. If the request for the robots.txt file on your domain returns an error or a redirect status, your domain is at risk of being removed from the index. Take our advice and at least use the ��  above.

Cloaking : what is cloaking

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:03:00 GMT

One question that comes up again and again, is what is cloaking. And how is it related to the SEO field. As you can guess cloaking is about hiding something, and in this case it is about hiding (or possibly showing something different) to the search engines. It is possible to have a different webpages displayed depending on the type of visitor, if you know your visitor is from Germany, it might be better to show them the German version of your website as opposed to the French version. Finding out information about the user could be done on a USER-AGENT basis or IP basis for example.�

In the previous example, different versions of a webpage were displayed depend on a users presented information (i.e. an IP address), but it does not only related to visitors. Cloaking can be done for search engines , so that search engines spiders will like your content even more. And this is considered cloaking. You can probably understand why search engines depend on seeing what a normal user sees. If you decide to show google a certain page, with higher keyword density (which might make it unreadable) and with other optimised factors, which when seen by a real human being would be unusable, this tactic you are doing is considered cloaking. Search engines like google, yahoo and MSN all take a poor view at cloakers.

Cloaking is considered blackhat SEO, and is a very dangerous tactic to use. If caught you risk getting your website banned from the search engines.�

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Sandbox How do I get out of the sandbox faster

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:06:00 GMT

To establish your website quick and to get it started with rankings in the SERPS, you should aim to get some quality back links. These links could be from such sources as DMOZ.org, Yahoo Business Listing, Business.com. Having high quality trusted links, even if it is only 1 or 2 will get you listed a lot quicker than having 50 poor links from low quality websites. This idea comes from the idea of TrustRank, where not all links are equal. Other places to get links could be from Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com��

UV - What does UV stand for ?

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:11:00 GMT

Question

�What does UV acronoym stand for ?

Answer�

UV stands for Unique Visitor. This can be a metric that you can judge your websites popularity. Every time a visitor comes to your website it would be counted as an unique visitor. If someone used your computer after you and also visited the website, there is possibility that this would not be counted by your statistics program. As with all statistics there is the possibility that they are not 100% accurate.