Backlinks – undoubtedly the most important factor in SEO. How do you track and analyze them? Several ways. You could either manually search for them on Google with the link:yoursite.com query and record all the data. But when it comes to popular websites with lot of backlinks, checking backlinks manually just isn’t an option. Free backlinks checker tools? One of my favorite backlink checker tool is Majestic SEO. It’s a… 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

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

What is the most mundane job on earth ? Being an SEO I tell you. Just kidding. But seriously, being an SEO involves a lot of homework. And sometimes it can get tedious when you’re dealing with a lot of data. When it comes to fighting competition, finding out what others are good at is a very good start. When you have the facts in place (SEO metrics) its easy… Continue reading

Just logged off from the Google Webmasters Tricks and Treats event and it was fun and tiring ! The session started off with presentations from Googlers on various topics such as “Myths in SEO” and ended with a vibrant question answer session on the Google Moderator tool. The panel was awesome with Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik in the lead, and some 400 plus SEO’s and Webmasters in the chat… Continue reading

Why you ask ? Well….as a thanks may be. I know trackbacks does the same job but we need something more flexible and “configurable” I thought. This is a wordpress plugin that lists down all the blogs that are linking to the current posts in a neat list below the post. It basically uses the Google backlinks feature on Blog Search. I like this plugin for the following features. It… Continue reading

Back to basics now. Article submission might be one of those oldest methods webmasters still rely on for link building methods – unfortunately. But are they really working? Do they give you backlinks, and if at all they do, how much of that time and energy you spent actually get converted to “authority”? That would raise more questions than answers.Well, just to make sure all of us on the same… Continue reading

Link building is a tough task I’ve to admit. No, it’s not difficult to do, but doing it the “right way” demands more time and energy or else, you end up being a nobody at it.

Personally, I go for natural link building developing content that’s “linkable”. Use it in combination with the social media and things can get very interesting ! Now, the problem arises when not all… Continue reading

Okay, let me not even dare to explain what “better indexing” means generally. From an SEO perspective, better indexing to me is getting all the important pages from your site getting indexed with the right importance and “weight” with the search engines. So, if I have ten pages on my website, I’d say success is to have all those ten pages with equal importance and page rank that searching for… Continue reading

Gone are the days when SEO Tools was al about page rank checks and keword density checks. Today we have seo tools to analyze backlinks, wikipedia links, digg submissions, delicious bookmarks, neighborhood ip checks and all that external seo metrics.
Here’s a list of twelve such free tools that you can use to analyze the stats of your site.

SEO Digger [ Keyword Research, Rank Checker ] -… Continue reading