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

Every blog has links al over the page, We have links in the content, we have links on the sidebar, we have navigation links, footer links…all that. So does Google see all these links the same way with equal weightage or differently ? That’s the question. Well, technically its easy for us to get it wrong. Normally webmasters and SEOs see links based on PageRank and traffic on a site… Continue reading

The saga of “Natural links and Google” continues. The latest episode being this one from Matt, where he says that links must indeed be “natural” and not merely appear natural.

The entire SEO industry would completely agree to what Matt said. Links should be natural, and not “artificial”, but the problem is that not many people do understand Google’s version of “natural links”.

In my humble opinion any… Continue reading

Am turning the table around this time. Now that the Google toolbar PageRank updates are happening, we’ve seen that many of DSB readers have seen fluctuations in their PR. Comments here tell us that many have got their PageRank jumps too. So, I’d like to hear it from you. What do you think gave you a better PR this time ?   OR (If you had a PR downgrade) What… Continue reading

Back to some old school stuff today. Social Bookmarking is a nice way to get some “additional” Google juice (and traffic), particularly when you have a lot of backlinks and need that little bit of extra numbers.

Here are 60 social bookmarking sites that have dofollow links and do pass some Google juice one way or the other to the listed sites. Let me warn you that these… Continue reading

This is the third in the Link Building Tips series. First two articles here – Tip 1 – Rank lists , Tip 2 – Interviews.   Okay, today let’s take a look at yet another link building strategy that is guaranteed to work, provided you do it right. Remember, there is no BS here as you might often see elsewhere with “do this,you might get this” kind of general lame… Continue reading

Article marketing is undoubtedly one of the most best tools out there in SEO that really works. I mean, we are talking results here. What’s SEO without results? If you ask me that one factor that really helps to make that push way up on the SERPs, then it’s backlinks with proper anchor texts. That’s a deadly combination isn’t it ? Imagine you getting backlinks from thousands of blogs from… Continue reading

Was talking to a fellow blogger last day and this topic came up.
Bloggers and SEO – Does it really help ?
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“Being a blogger, what are the things that I can do as a quick SEO tweak ? I don’t want to go digging the code and calculating the density and all that..that’s kinda.. for you geeks”
That’s a nice question I guess. I mean…yea we all know… Continue reading

I bet you wouldn’t disagree with me if I said that meta tags (keywords and descriptions) are one SEO factor that got popular for spamming. Haven’t you seen that page with half part of the code filled with meta keywords? Damn! That was bad.

Now, even though Google does not give much importance (as it used to earlier) to meta info, it’s a good idea to keep it as… Continue reading

Just got hired by Webbizideas.com, and I’ll be contributing more articles over there on Search Engine Optimization. More of “how to” articles and tutorials which DSB readers would enjoy reading. Feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed here.

Webbizideas is based out of Minneapolis, and has a wide range of professional services to deliver ranging from web design to internet marketing including SEO.

Web biz ideas have a video channel on… Continue reading

Link building has always been associated with link exchanges, link request emails, link buying etc. Not any more. They’re all old-school stuff people try and waste their time on. Now since the social media revolution, there’s a whole new array of sites available that allows SEOs and webmasters to get some link juice from them for free. Now, these features will be taken for a ride, if given out freely… Continue reading

It makes sense for someone to look for the ROI when he’s investing money on an SEO project right?
When dealing with clients who have a limited budget, one question that they are keen on is –

“What ROI would I get investing all this money in SEO?”

And I think that’s an interesting question because, in any other project, there is a ROI calculator, especially SEM. When… Continue reading

This is no exaggeration. A true story I’d like to share with you, probably you’ll have something to take back home.

I had launched a new website this April 12, related to the IPL chennai super kings. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a cricket team in the Indian Premier League and I support them. I had started this website just because I had to… Continue reading

Here are the twenty four kickass plugins that are used on DailySEOblog. Some are active and some are not. Marked against each is the reason why it’s cool and what it won’t do.

Akismet
The must have spam catcher. It’s already present in your default wordpress installation, if you haven’t activated it, please do it before those spams accumulate.
All in one SEO pack
(Inactive)This is an… Continue reading

A good increase in the number of subscribers and total traffic. There has been a steady increase in the number of unique visitors and page views as well. More pages at the blog is now viewed, which is really exciting. I think the large footer placed with all the SEO tutorial links has really worked, people are really finding it useful.

However, this December I had been involved with… Continue reading