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Optimise your Search
Defining A Search Strategy
Which Service?
Fine Tuning your Keywords
Should I Use a Search Engine or Directory?
Useful Resources
Searching for FTP Resources
How to Download FTP Files
Resources for Anonymous FTP Sites

Other Areas to Search
News Groups - Intro
Wide Area Info System
How to Use Gopher for a Search
Searching Options
Finding Tickets
Making use of a Cluster Search
Finding Exchange Rates

Boolean Operators
Chapter Overview
Boolean Searching - Tuition 1
Boolean Searching - Tuition 2
Grouping Operators Overview
Using Grouping Operators
Stop Words
A Natural Language Search
Concept Searching Explained

Phase Operators & Proximity Searching
Chapter Overview
Phrase and Proximity Operators in Action
Combining Phrase and Proximity
Proximity Searches in Lycos and AltaVista
Required & Excluded Terms
Using Wild Cards for Search
Using Word Stemming - Tuition 1
Using Word Stemming - Tuition 2

Required & Excluded Terms
Using - and + Symbols - Tuition 1
Using - and + Symbols - Tuition 2
Field Searching - Overview
Field Searching in Motion
Restrictions on Results Explained

Advanced Searching & Algorithms
Chapter Overview
Advanced Search
Advanced Searching Techniques
Search Engine Syntax - Tuition 1
Search Engine Syntax - Tuition 2
The Method Search Engines Rank Pages - Tuition 1
The Method Search Engines Rank Pages - Tuition 2
Is Ranking A Success?

Problem Solving
Dealing Problems and errors - Tuition 1
Dealing Problems and errors - Tuition 2
Using cached for Missing Pages
Finding missing pages
Report Broken Links

Customizing your Browser
Chapter Overview
Book marking Searches
Working with the Browsers built in Search
Key Sites Library Overview
How to Organise and add Key Sites

Useful Resources
Using Copernic
Searching Newsgroups - Tuition 1
Searching Newsgroups - Tuition 2
Advanced Newsgroup Searches
Searching Serve Lists - Tuition 1
Searching Serve Lists - Tuition 2
International Language Searching
Resources for International Search Engines
Specialized Information Sites
Education
Searching for People and Your Ancestry

AltaVista
The Settings
How to Filter AltaVista's results
AltaVista's Tools and Search Facilities
AltaVista's Search Assistant and International Sites

Google
How to Set Google's Preferences
Google Search
Google Search - Advanced
Web and Technical Resources for the Search Engines
Using the Search Engine Resource Sites

Fast Search
Chapter Overview
Customising Fast Search Settings
A Simple Fast Search
Advanced Fast Search
Introduction to Highway 61 - Tuition 1
Introduction to Highway 61 - Tuition 2

Optimising your own Site
Chapter Overview
How to Choose your Keywords
Resources for Ranking your site
Word tracker Overview
Analyse your Keywords with Word Tracker
Working with the Internet Keyword Finder
Working with the Gotos Keyword Inventory
Working with the Bruce Clays Optimisation Tools

Meta Tags
Chapter Overview
How to Write Meta Keyword Tags
How to Write Meta Description Tags
How to Optimise your Meta Tags
How many Keywords in your Page?
How to use your Keywords in Tables
Adding Keywords in the Alt and Link Text
Inserting Keywords to your Title Tag
Keywords in other Tags Explained
Inserting Keywords in the Text
Chapter Round-up

Keyword Density
Chapter Overview
Keyword Frequency Counter
Density and Customised Analysis

Submitting your Site
Chapter Overview (where to submit)
Submitting to AltaVista, Inkotomi and smaller engines
Submitting to Directories Overview
Submitting to Dmoz (Open Directory)
Automated Submission Tools Explained
Working with the Top Dog Submission Tool

Ranking
Chapter Overview - Links popularity
Beware of FFA pages
Your Popularity
Using a Frameset - Tips
Hidden Text Links Explained
Checking to see if you are Listed
Paying for Listings
Buying a Number 1 Listing
Pay per Click Listings Demystified

Advanced Optimisation
Spamming the Search Engines
Doorway Pages Explained
Working with a Page Generator
Cloaking and IP Delivery Explained

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