What is Google’s interpretation of a fresh page or content ? We know that to Google, fresh or new content is what it sees first. If there are two websites that has the same content, Google perceives original content as the first one it saw or spidered. This is one of the reasons why scraped content doesn’t always win on the SERPs. It could also be a reason why “unknown”… Continue reading

This one is from experience. Sometimes, when I come across that blog I never saw, I tend to dig up it’s metrics. You know when you are on a successful blog right? Within just a few seconds of your visit, you can identify if this is an MFA, a passion blog or a high value traffic one. And believe me digging into the metrics can really help and appearances can… Continue reading

Google have been suggesting time and again that providing a sitemap with the proper information is probably the best method to ensure that all the pages in your site are indexed on Google. There are many ways to create a sitemap too. Here is a collection of al the sitemap generators we could find on the internet. Gsite Crawler Gsite Crawler Features Capture URLs for your site using a normal… Continue reading

  From the buzz around, we can sense that Wordpress 2.7 is going to be one of the best upgrades ever. Bigger with all new interface and packed with all new features. Many bloggers are even holding back the current upgrade waiting for the 2.7 upgrade. That means, this is going to be very interesting. Let’s see what the wordpress community has to offer in Wordpress 2.7 What’s new in… Continue reading

Please keep the number of 404 errors and broken links on your site to the minimum, or none if possible, says Google. The basic idea is to help the robots index content more efficiently from websites and help index relevant information. Both you and me would have number of 404 errors on your blogs and websites, now in order to align yourself more towards the league of good guys who… Continue reading

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

Google breaks one more age old concept – of rewriting dynamic URLs to “Search Engine Friendly” static URLs.

We’ve been taught that dynamic URLs are bad and passes less information to Google than static URLs which search engines love. Last day, Google gave us official, documented information that this is not the case anymore.

According to Google, the crawlers have become more clever now that it can handle pretty much all the… 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

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

But, honestly, it’s fair to have one(or a few). Because there are lot of changes happening, and algorithm updates that it’s not possible for everyone to stay updated and tuned on SEO. Many of us bloggers have certain SEO misconceptions just because we haven’t updated ourselves, aligning to Google.

Here are some SEO misconceptions that I found common with more than one person while engaging in conversations with… 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

It’s quite possible that some of your pages may not appear on SERPs at all while others do. The reason is simply because out of all the pages on your site, Google considers some to be important and some of them not. So if they are not appearing on Google SERPs that means that you’ve to do something about these pages that they appear on the SERPs. But how to?Why… Continue reading