If you want your website indexed and ranked in Google, you should:
Create a Sitemap and submit to Google
Get quality back-links to your pages
Worship Google :-)
Contact Google
A robots.txt file helps search engine crawlers to:
Access your site faster
Check if your pages have any html errors
Exclude/allow your website's pages for indexing
Decide the authority of your pages for ranking purposes
Which one of these factors is the most important for ranking in Google?
Anchor text links from good quality sites
Page text with a lot of keywords
Optimized URLs
Meta Keywords tag with important keywords
What is website canonicalization?
The fine art of caliberating cannons on your website before aiming at the competition.
Search engines choose a single page from multiple identical pages having different URLs; this process is called canonicalization.
Search engines can index multiple pages and keep all of them in the index, which affects indexing; this is called canonicalization
This word does not exist and has just been cooked up to create this question. :-)
What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimism
Search Engine Oblivion
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Opportunity
What are the best links to your website for ranking in Google?
Contextual links from other websites related to your website's topic
Reciprocal links from websites on varied topics
A single link from Dmoz does the trick
Only internal links that you create by inter-linking pages on your website.
What is Toolbar PageRank?
The value in the little green bar in the Google toolbar, which displays the page's importance as assessed by Google. This value is always used for ranking purposes.
It is actually the proprietary PigeonRank, which thousands of pigeons gather from pages as they flash by on allocated computers, to serve Google the PageRank for every page. Google is rather touchy about these pigeons as they have helped it gather billions of dollars in advertising revenue.
The value in the little green bar in the Google toolbar, which displays the page's importance as assessed by Google in the last Google Toolbar PageRank update. This value is not always used for ranking purposes as "Ranking PageRank" (is that a term?) is updated faster than Toolbar PageRank.
A term coined by SEOs, which really means nothing. Matt knows better :-)
Why were hats chosen instead of collars to segment the different schools of thought in SEO?
Hats have better visibility and show up higher on the horizon :-)
It's easier to change hats than collars :-)
Collars were already taken by job segments :-)
I will answer this in Sphinn comments!