You can check how many page are indexed from major search engines:
Yahoo: Hotel-Board.com
MSN Search: Hotel-Board.com
Google: Hotel-Board.com
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Using Google Notebook
You can use Google Notebook for taking notes for the web pages in the search results as follows: Madrid Hotels . This was you can check your previous opinions for a web site.
How to See the Owner of a Website
Sometimes we need to learn the person or company behind a website. We may be about to make a purchase or just wondering what's going on. Then the first thing is to check for "About Us", "Company Profile" kind of pages. Afterwards the next, and a more important, part comes: WHOIS
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WHOIS, is a domain name ownership querying system. Here is an example: We are about book a hotel room from Hotel-Board.com and wondering who these guys are. We make the following search: http://whois.domaintools.com/hotel-board.com .
It shows us plenty of information about the web site.
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WHOIS, is a domain name ownership querying system. Here is an example: We are about book a hotel room from Hotel-Board.com and wondering who these guys are. We make the following search: http://whois.domaintools.com/hotel-board.com .
It shows us plenty of information about the web site.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Using Alexa for Checking a Website's Reputation
You can use Alexa to check a web site's overview, thumbnail, traffic detail and related links. This is very useful if you want to learn if a web site or company is really important. Here is a sample query in Alexa: discount hotels
Search for Beginners
I will tell you how to make a good search. Google will be my test bed.
Rule #1: Be specific
Our purpose is to find cheap accommodation in madrid. Open Google, type "hotel" and click Search. It gives too many results. We narrow our search term by "hotel madrid" which is still too much. "hotel madrid cheap" brings a better result set and we can start checking the result web sites.
Rule #2: Find what to search
You may not be using the right search phrase for getting what you need. Make test searches using related words. The higher number of results will give you a hint of the best phrase to use. For example you can use "madrid hotels", "hotels in madrid", "madrid accommodation" for determining the best keywords.
Rule #3: Filter what you don't want
Among all the results you may want to filter some words, phrases. The negation "-" operator is handy. A "madrid hotels -hostels" search will filter out hostels from the results.
Rule #1: Be specific
Our purpose is to find cheap accommodation in madrid. Open Google, type "hotel" and click Search. It gives too many results. We narrow our search term by "hotel madrid" which is still too much. "hotel madrid cheap" brings a better result set and we can start checking the result web sites.
Rule #2: Find what to search
You may not be using the right search phrase for getting what you need. Make test searches using related words. The higher number of results will give you a hint of the best phrase to use. For example you can use "madrid hotels", "hotels in madrid", "madrid accommodation" for determining the best keywords.
Rule #3: Filter what you don't want
Among all the results you may want to filter some words, phrases. The negation "-" operator is handy. A "madrid hotels -hostels" search will filter out hostels from the results.
Search Engine Stories
Hello everybody, this site will contain my personal experiences with search engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and so on.
Searching on the net has become the focus of most of us. You are talking to your friend and suddenly something or someone does not come out of your mouth. You know what it is; but you can not give the name. A few searches in favorite search engine gives you the name. Here is an example: you forget the name of Humphrey Bogart but you remember the name of his famous movie Casablanca. You just search for "casablanca" and grab the first result page. It is IMDB and it lists the casting with Bogart on the top. Bingo! The search engine replaces your memory in this case, which sounds dangerous to me. Anyway this is what happens everyday for most of us and leaving the task of searching information to Google and etc. is becoming reality.
Searching on the net has become the focus of most of us. You are talking to your friend and suddenly something or someone does not come out of your mouth. You know what it is; but you can not give the name. A few searches in favorite search engine gives you the name. Here is an example: you forget the name of Humphrey Bogart but you remember the name of his famous movie Casablanca. You just search for "casablanca" and grab the first result page. It is IMDB and it lists the casting with Bogart on the top. Bingo! The search engine replaces your memory in this case, which sounds dangerous to me. Anyway this is what happens everyday for most of us and leaving the task of searching information to Google and etc. is becoming reality.
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