SEO Tip: How to Disable Google's Personalized Search Manually

Google Personalized Search is a feature of Google Search that records all of user searches on Google Search into the Google Web History when a user logged into a Google Account and performs a search on Google.

The search results are not only based on the relevancy of each web page to the search term, but Google Personalized Search also takes into account what websites the user previously visited through search results to determine which search results to determine for future searches, to provide a more personalized experience.

This may work for personal use but the results are not the same for others. For example, clients from another country wants to check the keyword rankings of their websites and they then compare the results with your own search results. Chances are the results are slightly different due to the Google Personalized Search algorithm.

In order to manually disable the Google Personalized Search algorithm, try adding the text "&pws=0" to the URL in the address bar and reload the page.  Check out the results.  What you see are the actual Google search results without the effect of Google's Personalized Search algorithm.

Another workaround for this issue is to use third party SEO tools.like the Scroogle Scraper or the Mike's Marketing Tools - Search Engine Rankings Report,  These SEO tools are simple and easy to use.  The results of these tools are not affected by the Google Personalized Search algorithm.

SEO Tip: Heads Up! Google PageRank Updated last Jan. 21, 2011

Heads Up Guys!  Google updated PageRank scores last Jan. 21, 2011.

I didn't notice this until I got an email newletter from an SEO-related website advising about the latest Google PageRank update.  One of my blogsite's PR increased from PR0 to PR2 while the rest stayed the same. Now I have three out of five active websites with good Google PageRank.

The Google PageRank scores of websites are still important for SEO. Other SEO experts may state otherwise but if you do experimentation, you will notice that a linked site's PR has an impact on how a website's PR is computed. The more back links you have from high PR sites, the more likely it will be for your website to achieve a good Google PageRank.

Building 10-15 quality back links daily will help your site achieved a higher rank whenever there is a scheduled Google PageRank update. Build links from as many websites as you can naturally.

Google frowns on automated link building.  Make your back link grow naturally by starting slow and increasing the amount of backlinks gradually per week. Sooner or later this will improve your website's Google PageRank.

SEO Tip: Quick Indexing Technique for Yahoo!

Have you noticed that Yahoo! takes a longer time than Google when indexing sites?

Just like Bing, Yahoo! has a slow crawl rate.  The workaround for this is to broadcast yourself to Yahoo! thru a Yahoo! mail account.

Here are the steps to perform this technique:

1. Login to your Yahoo! mail account.
2. Go to My Yahoo!.
3. Click on "+ Content"

4. Click on "Add RSS Feed"

5. Enter your site's RSS Feed then click the "Add" button.

6. Click on the "I'm Done" button.

Take note that this can be applied to sites with RSS feeds or blogsites only.  I've tried adding a SITEMAP.XML file but it did not work last time I checked.  Maybe sooner or later Yahoo! will add this feature.

Another technique that I use for blogsites is the Blog and Ping Technique which I had covered before.

That's it.  I hope my visual guide helped your sites get quicker indexing for the Yahoo! search engine.