The Google webmasters folks have put up a good video giving us information on the right way to get a brand new site indexed on Google. According to Google, here are the steps you have to go through to ensure a brand new site is getting indexed on Google. Submit to Google at www.google.com/addurl.html Acquire relevant links from other sites that are already established Submit an XML sitemap Use… Continue reading

Out of experience? Well, I don’t know, but looked like everyone is so interested in talking about getting successful on Twitter. Well, I followed many of them and, guess what? They enlightened me on the below points. With due courtesy to all of them….Please follow your followersOr guess what happens? Your followers would be responding to your tweet and they never hear back from you. Okay, you are a pro… Continue reading

It is old school SEO, which says a 6% keyword density has to be maintained in a well written SE optimized copy to make sure that the search engines pick up the keyword from the rest of the text. There has been no or very less changes to the keyword density algorithm that webmasters still follow the 6% keyword density rule. Here are some free seo tools that will help… Continue reading

Before reading this article, you might have to check this article here by Rand, where he is suggesting 10 questions to the search engines.

I had replied to it over here with two more questions from my side to Google and here is Matt’s reply to my questions.

Well, basically I was trying to ask Google about sitelinks. I wanted to know from Google as to whether they… 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

1. A spider with meta head (green) and body from Xponex.com

2. A robot with big round eyes and square head from Webpro.com

3. A robot with small head and huge body from Seomoz.org

4. A robot with head and body combined to a smaller form from Seomoz.org

5. A cute looking dumb robot with block head from Labnol

6. A happy go lucky robot… Continue reading

Sitelinks are more common these days. Popular blogs and websites have been awarded Google sitelinks recently. Google’s explanation is that this is a completely automated phenomena and there’s nothing one can do do help the sitelinks appear for his/her site on the Googel SERPs.
Daily SEO blog has a sitelink and there are some random links on it. See screenshot.

Now, what appears on the sitelinks is completely up… Continue reading

Google has announced officially that it has now tweaked it’s settings that if you have more content updates, the crawlers will absorb your data more frequently.
The quicker the content update, the quicker the crawling. This is with respect to the data from your verified blog in the Google Webmaster’s dashboard.I’m assuming that this might have some effect on the data collected by the Google search bot too. Anyways, the… Continue reading

The robots.txt file is used to control the crawlers activity on a website/blog. It will help you to keep some directories away from crawling while allowing some. For example if yu have two folders 1.Articles and 2.Javascripts – and if you wish to exclude Javascripts from crawling by robots, then you can command it on the robots.txt file.
A few basics about what the robots.txt file is –
- It… Continue reading

Today, let’s see more about sitemaps. Every webmaster must have a sitemap ready for his site and submit it to google in order to get all the pages listed on Google.Sitemaps are of two types, as you know the HTML sitemap you use to navigate a site and second the sitemap used to help crawlers crawl the pages more effectively.

Why are they necessary?

Sitemaps are not necessary.(Yep… Continue reading

You might have come across this topic on various other tech/seo blogs, but what prompted me to write this article is that – they all seem too techie to me, so i’m guessing it’s not reached all the bloggers yet. And this is my attempt to reach all the non-techie bloggers on what are Google supplemental results and how they are affecting an ordinary blogger..

By ordinary bloggers(no offense… Continue reading

Not getting traffic even after writing good content on your blog?

It may be because you have not optimized your blog for google. If you didn’t know, optimizing a blog is different from optimizing a normal website.The best part is that it’s easier.

Before reading further, please refer these articles.

Here are a couple of sure-shot search engine optimization tips that… Continue reading