Michael Rock's Articles http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com How Network Solutions Shopping Cart Helps Your Site and Your Rankings When I was first asked to help with search engine optimization on a client’s website (http://nphpowertools.com) that is through a 3rd party shopping cart I was hesitant and told them I would have to log in and see what it was like because I came across qu... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/how-network-solutions-shopping-cart-helps-your-site-and-your-rankings-1876771.html 30th November 2010 SEO in a Nutshell Research Current Web Site Keyword Research Analyze Current Web Site Linking Analyze Competition Link Building Create Web Site Set up Web Statistics Monitor and Upkeep Research Current Web Site Find out your current web ranking. F... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/seo-in-a-nutshell-111201.html 11th December 2006 Search Engine Placement Tutorial Search Engine Placement for Website Owners If you are a website owner then you already know the value that search engine placement can have on your website. This web page will explain the ins and outs for you in plain english. Many w... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/search-engine-placement-tutorial-100520.html 15th November 2006 Google Notebook, BigDaddy, and Your Rankings Google Notebook, BigDaddy, and Your Rankings Google finally released Google Notebook today. Google Notebook is a resource provided that allows you to take notes on web sites that you visit. You can mark your notes as private or share them wit... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/google-notebook-bigdaddy-and-your-rankings-53939.html 17th May 2006 Google Buys Rights to Algorithm Orion© and How to Design For It Google Buys Rights to Algorithm Orion© and How to Design For It A 26 year old student of the University of New South Wales located in Australia was working on developing a more accurate search engine algorithm for his PhD that caught the attention o... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/google-buys-rights-to-algorithm-orioncopy-and-how-to-design-for-it-43638.html 13th April 2006 Search Engine Information from the EXOMXPO Convention Search Engine Information from the ECOMXPO Convention I attended the ECOMXPO convention and found one seminar to be very helpful and informational and though I would share the knowledge with you. This seminar called, "Getting the Word O... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/search-engine-information-from-the-exomxpo-convention-42100.html 05th April 2006 Search Engine Placement using Google Image Search Search Engine Placement using Google Images In case you didn't know it, or didn't care Google has an image search located on the tab just to the right of its web search where you can search the internet for images based upon the text you type into the se... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/search-engine-placement-using-google-image-search-38547.html 25th March 2006 How to Analyze your Visitors to Improve your Web Site How to Analyze your Visitors to Improve your Web Site 8/18/05 By: Michael Rock This article is a detailed description on how to interpret your web hosting statistics software. Typically, the web hosting you have comes with its ... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/how-to-analyze-your-visitors-to-improve-your-web-site-5648.html 18th August 2005 Get Your Web Site Noticed! 6/9/2005 by: Michael Rock The three responses: #1: If I put a web site out there it will be one of millions! So it's useless for me to have a website! Usually when I get this response I reply that like everything else your web site has to be ... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/get-your-web-site-noticed-2218.html 12th June 2005 How to Control Search Engine Robots How to Control Search Engine Robots Wouldn't it be nice to be able to leave some code in your web site to tell the search engine spider crawlers to make your site number one? Unfortunately a robots.txt file or robots meta tag won't do that, but the... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/how-to-control-search-engine-robots-1786.html 17th May 2005 Are You Safe Ordering Online? Even this day and age people are very insecure about ordering anything online. Even though many people order and give their credit card information over the phone they still are hesitant upon ordering online. This article will show you what to look fo... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/are-you-safe-ordering-online-1510.html 06th April 2005 How and why to Build a Linking Strategy How and why to Build a Linking Strategy for your Web Site Why would you want a linking strategy for your site? The most important reason is to drive traffic to your site, which in turn would increase visitors that would either purchase from yo... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/how-and-why-to-build-a-linking-strategy-1410.html 07th March 2005 Are You Building Your Internet Presence ? There is no question that the Internet is the all time gold mineof wealth to anyone. Some of us are obtaining it and inabundance while others of us are just getting by. Why is that?That's a question I had to answer for myself after a few yearsof working v... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/are-you-building-your-internet-presence--654.html 05th January 2005 How I reached #1 in Yahoo! By accident, no all that reading and studying statistics finally paid off. I started out by reading articles from people with opposing views and trying to figure out who was wrong and who was right. To find the right person to listen to I didn't only loo... http://michaelrock.articlealley.com/how-i-reached-1-in-yahoo-653.html 05th January 2005