Over the past weekend, there has been a new Google Pagerank update that lasted over a period of 4 days. Many websites (including ours) experienced a drop in their homepage's pagerank and were left wondering why.

It seems like Google has been lowering lots of websites' pagrank in their last few PR updates which includes many of the authority sites too. However, now the question is: Does a drop in pagerank affects your website's rankings in search engine results?

If you are serious on building a business with a model that is focused on the World Wide Web, i will suggest the use of a dedicated IP address for your domain, however this has got nothing to do with achieving higher rankings in the search results. Why?

Before i move into the advantages of having dedicated IP address for an online business, let's understand the model of Shared IP and Dedicated IP.

Link building which many webmasters believed to be the core of Search Engine Optimization, is done via various techniques such as blog commenting, articles submission, directory submission, press releases, etc.

"Never build links too quickly" Statements such as this, has been popular on the Net over the years, with the main concern that it might trigger Google's suspicions and get your site flagged as a link spamming website.

There are a number of URL Shortening services out in the market, however many of them are just a duplication of another by using the same idea over and over again.

Have an existing idea? How about taking it into a new level by value-adding the idea? This is exactly what Cligs has done with their URL Shortening Service which is enhanced by built-in analytics reports and some other value-added features which we will be looking at in this post.

Nearly 7 months ago, ezBusinessNeeds.com launched its dofollow search engine which is the first few in the industry using Google CSE technology and our database of dofollow blogs. Results have been amazing as we received both positive and negative feedbacks from our users whom have used the tool over 33789 times.

Today i will start sharing Part One - Onpage Optimization Tags which i believed to be one of the most important factors (not in order of importance) affecting SERPs rankings of websites and by following these updated SEO guidelines, your website will at least stand a much better chance in over ranking its competitors.

Based on my experiences, i will be including important points to take note for each individual SEO factors which many websites have failed to ensure. If you're READY, let's READ ON.

Paid directories, soon becoming part of Search Engine Optimization's history, were once regarded as one of the best link building strategies back in the golden days where manipulation of search results were easily done.

As the search engines' algorithm gets complex and smarter, more considerations are now being factored into ranking web pages and delivering the most relevant results to the end-users. In order to be inline with their ultimate goal, search engines such as Google began their mission against websites that believed to have violated their holy guidelines.

Quarkbase is a new powerful web tool which has the ability to find lots of information about a website. It offers an organized and detailed overview, complete with summary, WHOIS information, social popularity, traffic information and PLUS latest blog posts and blogging information about the site.

It has been 4 days since the launch of Google Chrome and after reading so many different reviews on this new browser, i have decided to try it out personally and give a brief review of the application. (Googlebot, i am reviewing Google Chrome and promoting this application, so please reward me!!!)