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

You would’ve seen those cool “flash boxes” on certain sites that slides away featured articles and images with custom text on it right ? I think they are pretty good to show off your content to the five second visitor who may not otherwise notice it. It’s in fact a good way to increase page views all the while giving your blog that cool modern look. If you’re wondering… Continue reading

Dinu, a fellow blogger from Cochin is pretty impressed with Amy Mahon’s  wordpress theme over here, and was wondering what’s that funky text doing at the post titles ? Watch closely and you’ll find that the post titles are replaced with cool text effects rather than the plain text. Right click on the title and you’ll find that it’s an image instead of text. Well, this can be accomplished by… 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

July is almost over and I’m kind of overwhelmed – with mixed emotions.
Blogging is eating me up, taking more of my time and more energy as never before. The good thing is that the income is also going up. This is what happened in July – a snapshot.
I’m hired for two more blogging projects.
One for seohosting.com, a hostgator initiative, where thy have hosting plans suitable for “seo… Continue reading

One of the things that gathers moss as we go along is the site design. And it’s even worse with blogs. Wordpress unfortunately has got lot of plugins and frills available for free, that we all keep on adding them until one day we find that it’s all biting back on the blog.

For instance, all the styling and the plugins we add, do you have any idea how… Continue reading

Wordpress SEO Ultimate Tips

This has come out to be an one-stop SEO guide for all you wordpress users out there. I’m not sure if I’ve covered all the topics but I’m sure that these are(in fact all) the basic, essential steps all you wordpress users out there should follow in order to make sure that you have your wordpress blog on steroids. I’ve kept in mind… Continue reading

What is a landing page?

When a visitor or a crawler first access your URL, the first page/file that is seen/served to the visitor/crawler is called the landing page. (No, we are not going to talk SEM here at all. In SEM landing page is one where the visitor is first “brought” to.)

Generally, the landing page is often an HTML or a static page in used websites… Continue reading

Let’s talk today about good and bad menus first. Good menus are those that are SEO friendly, bad ones are those that are not. Simple logic.
When dealing with clients, one thing that’s common to all, is about the use of fancy javascript navigation menus, that troubles me most. If you use one, please refrain from using it. If you are a blogger, there is very little chance that you… Continue reading

There are millions of options and you have only seconds to make a decision. Every internet surfer has a time bomb attached to his head while surfing.
You waste your time on a slow website, and you are missing valuable information on another website.
So nobody wants to wait for information, if you don’t provide it, there are other better sites that will provide the same or better information.
This… Continue reading

Haloscan is a commenting tool available to make your commenting requirements easy. This tool is particularly helpful for blogger/blogspot users since the commenting feature on blogger is not that very manageable. Haloscan offers editing and deleting option for comments while blogger doesn’t. I’ve been using haloscan commenting on my blog for quite some time. But steve(bloggingtips.com) suggested that i would get more comments had i installed the comments form on… Continue reading

I was thrilled to download and install the new Safari Browser for windows today.As proclaimed it is the fastest and the safest browser around. It is said to be 1.6 faster than firefox and 2 times faster than IE.True that may be, it handles javascript and image loading pretty quicker than FF or IE.Safari handles page elements pretty quicker making the user feel a faster browsing experience.Honestly, being a firefox… Continue reading

There’s a new widget in town – Line buzzzzzzzzzzz !!!Honestly, i think this is a cool one. Basically it’s a commenting tool, but with a difference. You can highlight any text on any blog and paste a comment near it. It stays there like a pin-up(when clicked) and others can reply to you as well.All you need to do is add a tiny javascript to the blogger code.Okay, now the… Continue reading

One more reason to prove why Search Engine Optimization, is a much studied discipline(thanks to bloggers) in India, and why there are many SEO educated webmasters – I find anyone who is approaching me for links, well informed about the need for back links, PR, Google SERPs etc. This is really fantastic! Well, Here are the Quick links of all the new bloggers who have linked to Daily Dose with… Continue reading