Looks like Goog folks are inspired with the new Wordpress design. Or is it something else? The old layout was pretty okay..I mean nothing drastically wrong to cut your usability there..still the folks at Goog plex have gone for a redesign of the Analytics dashboard. Interestingly, the new layout and style looks strikingly similar to the Wordpress dashboard preview we had last time. Check out the new looks compared. Somebody… Continue reading

It’s always good to brush up your basics, even if you know it all, check it just for fun, and sometimes you may discover something new, if not, it’s just that – a cross check. Today, the folks at Google have gathered up some information for us on what are technically – incoming links/inbound links – internal links and – outbound/external links. Very clear information put up there. Hey still… Continue reading

Some of you have been asking me if I use any “secret SEO tools” to gain that edge over others. Good question, but there aren’t any that are “secretive”. For those of you reading this blog for some time now, knows that I make it a point to reveal as much as possible, and keep no “secrets” to myself. On a different note, tools and wizards only help you… Continue reading

Cheers to all those wonderful black, blue, grey and everything in between hats out there. Here are the best posts this week from the best SEO blogs on the internet.Aaron just found that Google is actually recommending people to download a torrent of his SEO Book. Now, how cool is that? I know how you feel, Aaron.If you are a blogging consultant, or simply runs a blog yourself (which I… 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

Was talking to a webmaster friend yesterday and he asked me if the All in One SEO plugin is really doing any good. The reason was that he’ve been using the All in One plugin and could not really find out any significant results with it. I asked him what he did with him, to which he replied that he had installed it and is waiting for the results. Ahha…I… 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

Ann Smarty, wrote an interesting article the other day on SEJ, discussing the metrics to measure your SEO success rate. It’s indeed a very bold article…a question that even the so called “professional” SEOs try to dodge.Ann points out that there could be three types of metrics that you can track, to measure the success rate of your campaigns. Keyword Rankings, Search Traffic and Conversions.All the three metrics above are… Continue reading

DSB is going pretty consistently, with focused traffic and healthy growth, showing every signs of loyal readership. Revenue is increasing consistently, I wish I had more than 24 hours to pick up more projects, as of now I’m booked 18 hours a day.

Google analytics stats

Alexa ranks may not be the best way to represent your traffic, but that’s the only method I have been checking to… Continue reading

We know all the SEO metrics now, tags and densities and all that stuff. Now, if you were to measure the SEO friendliness of a website, what are the things that you will consider checking, and what are the things that you will ignore?

If you don’t want to go through all those jazz, and is of the type who likes things more quick and easy, here’s an SEO… Continue reading

There are of course a bunch of basic SEO elements that you should check your site for occasionally like the W3C validation, redirect errors, sitemap generation errors etc. These crop up unknowingly and are identified only when a problem occurs. Example – If you are using the All in One SEO plugin, in the settings there is an option to specify the xml file template. Now, if you had uploaded… Continue reading

Been speaking to a young blogger who asked me, “Isn’t all blogspot blogs owned by Google, so why don’t they promote it up the SERPs?”We’ll I’d be running out of job in that case, and I’m glad it’s not. But the answer is that Google wants an accurately indexed data that’s completely based on relevancy. It does want to show up the most relevant site/sites based on a keyword, be… Continue reading

What is a ‘Nofollow’ link attribute? Is it the same as ‘Nofollow’ meta tag?Many of us often get confused with this question. Most of whom I ask this question to believe that there is only one Nofollow tag. One that’s got to do with the links. I’m inclined to believe that there are two usages of the nofollow tag.One – The Meta Nofollow “tag” and..Two – The Nofollow link attribute..Technically… Continue reading

This should work for anyone who’s been blogging for some time and have a decent number of posts to his credit.
This tip goes out to all of those who have tried all the social media optimizations and link building campaigns, but none worked as you wanted them to.
Well, the following tip is a pretty simple one. It worked for me, and I see no reason why it shouldn’t… Continue reading

Here are some pictures and videos from the Kerala Blogcamp, if you missed it. Check out the food and the caricatures by Sajjiv.

Thanks to Keralafarmer, Financial Chronicle and Sarath D R… Continue reading