Does this mean its not in Google’s Index?  I’d say not necessarily.  A little digging around and I found a leading .edu site which not only ranks top for a unique phrase but also doesn’t show up in Google’s cache.  My conclusion? Google is being even more anti-SEO and doesn’t want to show SEOs anything [...]

302 redirects are temporary redirects made via the HTACCESS.
Google treats 302 redirects differently depending if they are on-domain or off-domain. An often quoted example of an on-domain redirect is athletics.mlb.com which uses a 302 redirect to http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=oak. If you search for “oakland a’s” in Google you will see that athletics.mlb.com is displayed in the results because links [...]

A couple of techniques all SEOs should be aware of:
   1. Yahoo Site Explorer: Basic search. Type in “linkdomain:http://www.domain.com -site:domain.com” to get a list of the sites that link to your competitors, while excluding their internal links.
The most definitive list of your competitors’ inbound links on the internet. 
   2. Yahoo Site Explorer: URL search. Type [...]