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Magazine Article Keyword: SEO
Former Google engineers have launched a new search engine called Cuil.com ("cool").
Cuil.com claims to index more of the Web than any other search engine:
There are many ways to analyze a competitor's website. Here are three simple and free methods for getting some interesting data on another website:
Search engines see websites much differently than humans. As mentioned in my free hostel marketing ebook earch engine crawlers can't effectively see Flash content, JavaScript, or text that is embedded within images.
This article describes a way that you can increase bookings to your hostel by increasing the search engine rankings of the pages about your hostel on hostel booking engines' Web sites.
NOTE: This article was written in 2007 and may be out of date. For information about AdWords, please post questions in the Hostel Forum.
If you search Google, Yahoo and MSN for a query like "hostels in [your city]" does your hostel Web site come up on the first page?