Common questions about the web to help you learn how to make your own website, how to remodel your site, and how to improve your site.
Understanding the way the web works

Questions about the web for Everyone; answers about the web

Directory of popular questions about the web

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Rules about the way the web works

Who makes up the web rules?

Practically speaking it is an organization called W3c or The World Wide Web Consortium founded in 1994.

Rules about getting listed in search engines

Who makes up the search engine rules?
What are the rules for getting listed well in search engines?
(See our help for understanding search engine listings)

Each search engine has its own rules. The funny thing about it is that their rules are not public! Webmaster experience and discussion is used to figure out the rules and how they determine acceptance or rejection of listings and ranking. Its one of the few games where only the gamemaster knows the rules. They also change the rules from time to time. Google has its own rules, Yahoo/Overture, MSN and just about all others have their own rules.

Some internet rules and guidelines have absolute definitions, while others are more ambiguous, and as the web changes - and that can be on any day - so may the rules change!

 

Our knowledge is included here along with our opinions. Both have been acquired over the ten years we have been developing winning web sites and helping business owners understand the web vocabulary in plain talk. Yes, were were pioneers of the Internet when it was was just words!