Hi Everyone,
Once again I sincerely apologize
that this edition is late, my publishing schedule is not
like this normally. Most of you know that my mother was
in intensive care due to complications from surgery during
the last edition.
Mom has since passed on and
is resting comfortably, now my family and I are ‘picking
up the pieces’ so to speak.
Mom was magnificent, a true
lover of people and a kind hearted soul that would give
you the shirt off her back. She was devoted to her husband
(my Dad of course) of 52 years and the sweetest person
you could ever hope to meet.
I don’t want to get into
too much detail about her for obvious reasons, suffice
it to say we’ll miss her dearly and we’ll truly NEVER
be the same again.
As I think about what’s next
and remembering having watched my Mom’s last breath, I
am reminded that life is short and, if you want to do
something, just do it….don’t wait.
I realize that some people
never start their online business in part because they
think they can’t understand the “ins” and “outs” of the
technical side of web publishing.
So, in order to help the
newbie and to “nix” this obstacle, I have 3 new multi-media
products that I plan on developing when I get back home
that will assist the newcomer to technology navigate what
it means to web publish.
Tackling the technology of
web publishing should be easy, and the more people who
can learn how to web publish, the better. Easy-to-learn
education will lead to more people venturing into an online
business, and that’s all good!
All the best to you and yours,
sorry for the short intro and succinct issue, much more
coming later including a site re-design that will be under
development when I return home late next week.
My apologies for any inconvenience
for the delay due to the circumstances my family are dealing
with.
Thanks very much for your
understanding.
The article will be the extent
of this issue, no plugs of any products, and, as usual,
no paid advertising.
Again, thanks for being here.
Karl Augustine
"The
Regular Guy"
Issue: March 30,
2004
“Do Frames
Affect Ranking?” by Jon Ricerca
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“Do
Frames Affect Ranking?” by Jon Ricerca
http://www.SearchEngineGeek.com
Almost all SEO's agree that
using frames will have devasting results on your search
engine rankings.
Is it true? We decided to
answer this extremely simple question for the two leading
search engines using a simple statistical analysis. The
methodology: I gathered the results of the queries that
were naturally performed last month by myself and three
associates using the two leading search engines and analyzed
them. I had to visit each page and check the HTML source
code to see if frames were in use. I counted the number
of pages found
that utilized frames for the first 8 rankings.
The results for each of the
two leading search engines were kept separate so that
we could discover any differences between the two leading
search engines for this factor.
The resulting graphs show
the number of pages utilizing frames for each ranking.
The Y-axis shows the number
of pages found utilizing frames, while the X-axis shows
rankings 1 through 8.
Here are the graphs for each
of the two leading search engines:
The result is very conclusive
and very surprising.
Frames had no effect on ranking
with both of the leading search engines! The SEO gurus
are wrong again!
Notes: There
was no exercise to attempt to isolate different keywords.
I merely took a random sampling of the queries performed
by myself and three associates during the month.
Conclusion:
Pages which utilize frames rank no higher nor lower than
pages that do not utilize frames on both of the leading
search engines. This is merely a correlation study, so
it cannot be determined from this study whether the leading
search engines purposefully entertain this factor or not.
The actual factors used may
be far distant from the factor we studied, but the end
result is that these search engines do, in fact, rank
pages with frames the same as pages without frames in
the study.
Jon Ricerca is one of the
leading researchers and authors of the Search Engine Ranking
Factor (SERF) reports at SearchEngineGeek.com.
For access to the other SERF
reports, please visit:
http://www.SearchEngineGeek.com
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