MSN Search has started to act upon a new robots meta tag that tells the MSN search bot not to use the description in your DMOZ directory listings as the description in your search results. This new meta tag will be welcomed by webmasters who prefer to have control over the descriptions in their search listings.

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Here's a relatively unknown but very important feature that Google offers with their AdSense program. It's called "Section Targeting", and it can increase your AdSense revenue if properly implemented. It's all about helping Google to send you more relevant AdSense ads to display on your pages.

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One factor that helps to determine the search engine ranking of a website is the quality of the sites that it links to. It's important not to link to websites that are themselves blacklisted in some way. There's a great free tool available that can help you determine if any of the websites that your site links to have been banned by Google (a strong indication that the site has a very bad reputation).

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Here's a great tip from Jim Boykin, Internet marketing specialist. Must have information for anyone doing link building... How do you find the pages on someone's website that would be best to ask for a link to your site on? There are really two different types of pages you should look for.

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Google has recently added new features to its Sitemaps service. In addition to a revamped interface, there's a new verification method, a new summary page that provides a quick snapshot about the state of your site in the Google index, and a notification of violation of Google's webmasterguidelines with a request for reinclusion (not yet available for all sites).

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