This week, Google Engineer Matt Cutts gives us tips on what could be the best screen resolution for a website to be in. Not exactly an SEO or Google related topic this one, but Matt Cutts think that the best way to go about it is to dig your previous user data on Google Analytics, and find out what’s the popular resolution among your users. It could differ for each… Continue reading

It wouldn’t come as a surprise that a major chunk of the blogging community prefers shared hosting to dedicated hosting, mainly because shared hosting is cost effective, cheap and easy to hop on to, while dedicated hosting comes with it a thread of problems. In fact, shared hosting works for anyone who’s started blogging and works fine until he reaches the traffic avalanche period. Shared hosting packages are easier to… Continue reading

Ask anyone what’s the one reason why they hate SEOs, and you’ll most probably get something like “because they lie on the face” for a reply. And I quite agree with it.

The reason is that not all SEO’s are brave enough to admit what they can’t achieve and not all clients are aware that SEOs aren’t Gods. Since we agree on that, let’s move ahead to the fun… Continue reading

There’s no stopping Google docs. Google has recently announced that it will be rolling out a new change where users can upload any file type to Google docs up to 250 MB. That is huge. So now you don’t need to email it to yourself, but just upload and play with it !

The new feature may takes a few weeks before you can use it completely… Continue reading

One of the most popular problems among webmasters is not being able to get indexed by Google despite search engine submissions and long waiting. Google takes time to index some new sites and this can be frustrating. But most of the times, the reasons for Google not indexing your site is from your side, although not many people realize it, and hence to frequent complaint. So if you have a… Continue reading

This post will come by as a clarification to many of us. The .com and regional domain debate has been existing for so long in the industry now. And it all originates from the fact that some websites need to target a regional audience. For example a website that focuses the UK market – would be wondering ways to reach the UK SERPS more than the US SERPs, through SEO… Continue reading

Mobile detection is not difficult to implement on WordPress, just grab any of these plugins and plug it in. Or you can try these mobile version creation tutorials. You get a mobile theme right away. Many of them are awesome too. In fact, I’ve tried more than one and quite honestly, they are really good. The only problem you encounter if at all, would be compatibility issues with other plugins… Continue reading

Sometimes, we try hard to welcome Google, and try best to make it index the pages from a website, but sometimes we don’t want them to crawl the pages too. What do we do in those cases ? Can we control Google the way we want ? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes not. Let’s see how we can make Google stay out of crawling selected portions/parts of a website, effectively that… Continue reading

The Canonical tag was definitely one of the best thing Google introduced to webmasters lately. But there was one limitation. You could only use it to control duplicate page issues within a website. That is if you have two pages, A and B, where B is a duplicate of A, then you could add a rel=canonical tag to the Page B, so search engines know that the original page is… Continue reading

Most of us already know that header tags H1, H2, H3….H6 are an important SEO element in on-page optimization. But how important ? Can we add more than one H1 header tag on a page ? How often should H1 tags be repeated ? Where on a page should it occur ? More questions than answers, right ? Let’s try and answer a few. How important are headers compared to… Continue reading

So what’s new in SEO world ? Faster Performance, Weight Loss and Shorter Page Load Times, as we had mentioned earlier. Google recently introduced a new tool to their Webmasters stable that will basically check how fast your pages are loading, and give you insights on the same. So what does that imply ?

Page Load Times have become more important than ever. People like fast loading pages, and… Continue reading

Once you’ve either achieved your desired results or are closer to it, its quite natural for us to give away and celebrate. Which is okay with less competitive sites but when it comes to heavy competition, there is little room for rest. SEO House Keeping is an inevitable process that comes at various levels of SEO implementation, and works best if done regularly. So, what are the top 5 SEo… Continue reading

You love being an SEO right ? I mean, the learning experience never ends with SEO, new things roll out each day and its fun. You think you’ve learn it all and there comes something new. lol Anyways, the guys at Google are looking forward to 2010 as an year of new things. Or that’s what I learn from their communication channels. A lot of stuff is still in labs… Continue reading

Building backlinks to your site isn’t easy, but not impossible. Lets discuss some quick and easy ways to source links to your site, without having to go through the tedious and boring link exchange/request process (which in my opinion is a wasteful exercise). When looking for building backlinks to your site, I always suggest to make it a practice to put on your “users hat”. Being the webmaster will blind… Continue reading

Submitting to search engines, technically means applying for an inclusion to the search index of a search engine. Some SEOs treat this as a service, offering different methods for new websites to get listed on the search engines, but in my opinion this is a very basic necessity every webmaster must go through.

Submitting websites to search engines is an obsolete concept in my opinion, rather get them to… Continue reading