What are the SEO strategies, if at all, followed by popular blogs ? Do they give importance to SEO ? If they do, are there anything to learn from it ? Is it different from the regular basic SEO ? Let’s find out if we have answers for the questions above. Do popular blogs have to follow SEO in the first place ? One argument I’ve repeatedly come across is… Continue reading

An SEO health check is typically offered by SEO companies as the first step in their SEO long run processes. Basically it means that the site will be scanned, checked and analyzed for basis SEO and other health check issues, that will help the SEO to get an understanding about how to frame an SEO strategy around the website, and how to progress forward. A good SEO health check will… Continue reading

One of the most popular tools used by SEO’s in Keyword Rsearch is undoubtedly the Google AdWords tool. There are many other tools available, like WordTracker, Yahoo’s KW research tool etc, but Google’s is most reliable as SEO’s consider Google’s data more accurate. Oh! Wait, if you don’t know what Keyword Research is, its the process of finding out the most popular and searched phrases on the search engines so… Continue reading

So, Google Caffeine update is now complete. It had started few months (years) ago, and had been silently updating since then. And not to mention all the speculations on what it is and how it affects the search engine results. Google have never given us full details on what it is, and how it worked, and even now when the whole thing is live, all we get is a simple… Continue reading

When Nick Roach designs a theme, you can trust blindly on its quality and he’s been proving it time and again with his new designs.

The latest to hit the stable is the “My Product” theme, which is the best WordPress theme I’ve seen yet, that fits a product showcase or a company portfolio. That is if you have an online product to sell and is looking for the… Continue reading

Okay, back to some basics today. These days, landing pages are being used very frequently, even though they have evolved from the cheesy designs and glaring oddities. These days landing pages come with sexy designs and the best compelling copies, that can convince you in seconds. We’ve seen many good examples of modern, sleek looking landing pages, which are eye candies but when it comes to search engine optimization, I’ve… Continue reading

Remember these posts we did some time ago ? 1. 4 SEO Factors Search Engines might talk about more in 2010 and 2. Speed up your pages like right now ! Looks like, we were right ! Google has now officially announced that it considers page speed as a possible ranking factor. Matt Cutts says it might not be significant enough a factor to drastically change the SERPs results, but… Continue reading

Google just released a new addition to its Sitemaps protocol today. Addition of images in sitemaps. Now you can add images from your site, that you want Google to crawl, to your sitemaps. And we have a new syntax for it.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″
xmlns:image=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1″>
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
</url>
</urlset>

Two interesting things here.

1 – This is in a way admitting that… Continue reading

Round up of what happened in the Googlesphere this week – in no particular order.

1. GMail starts reporting suspicious account activity with your email
GMail introduced a new “message” feature that will show an alert message on your GMail account if it suspects any suspicious activity within your GMail account. Suspicious activity includes anything from logins from completely new IP ranges or multiple logins. Google’s way of keeping… Continue reading

Getting links to a website is probably the toughest yet the most rewarding thing to happen to a website. One that every webmaster hopes, tries and wishes for every time. But how easy is it to get links to a website ? How can you do it the right way ? Why do people always talk about numbers, is that all about it, or is there something beyond ? More… Continue reading

Lately, there have been an increased number of usage of hashtags on Tweets. I do not have any number/statistics to support this, but we’ve all seen it, haven’t we ? Tweets with lot of hashtags, sometimes even inappropriate and irrelevant placed just to add more re-tweet value by bots. As more and more bots/apps use content syndication from hashtags, the more hashtags you use, the more the probablity for your… Continue reading

How about someone give you $100,000 to travel around the world, for free and all you got to do is record yourself on a home video and tell them, why you’d like to be the one ? Sounds too good to be true right ? Well it is for real and its happening on social media. LG – The leading electronics company has come out with a new social media… Continue reading

This post is in light of my experience with moving from dailyseoblog.com to dailybloggr.com, so whatever I’m talking about here is pure experience, practicality and substance, no blah blah (like you’ll find elsewhere).

As you might have already known, DailySEOblog.com is no more, and the site changed its name to dailybloggr.com, with a complete revamp. DailySEOblog used to enjoy a traffic of roughly 50,000 visits & 73,000 page views… Continue reading

This came to me as a shocker, and just like you, I dismissed it saying “yet another claim” initially. But curious, I took another look into the matter and it looks like that there might be some “substance” in the claims. Let’s check some details.

Google has repeatedly claimed that they don’t interfere with anything manually on the SERPs. They insist that everything is “as generated by… Continue reading

Keyword research is one of the primary things in SEO, and as all of us know, there are a set of keyword research tools that we all have been using for years. I personally feel that the keyword research area is the most important one in terms of laying your foundations for SEO, and unfortunately, this is also one ares where we don’t have much options.

So what does… Continue reading