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

Vineesha Malkani, through a post today at the official Adsense blog announced that some publishers have the privilege of enjoying AdSense and their Analytics accounts integrated, from today on. Now, that means more in depth reports and page by page analysis of your AdSense reports. For instance, what pages gave you more clicks on the square ad ? And what pages did well for the rectangle ad etc? I haven’t… 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

That’s an often repeated question, is it not ? Soon after the Google Page Rank updates, probably this is what most bloggers talk about. Why did my Google Page Rank drop? Well, the seo’s have their own algorithm to explain, but for the rest of us, there are the usual answers, which is far from satisfactory –Link value drain, Bad neighborhood and all that. But here is a better explanation… 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

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

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

Alright, this is for all those who are complaining of low traffic and bleak revenues from their websites and will do anything to get the top three ranks for their keywords. Read on… Well, somehow most of us have the “notion” that SEO is all about getting top ranks for the first three/five keywords for their websites. And we all know about – a) Keyword Research Tools b) Keyword Analysis… 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

One way to increase the page views and user participation on your wordpress blog is to introduce a discussion board. Of course, you should have a good reader base for the discussion board to function well. And there are theories that a discussion board will take the limelight from the blog and that it could harm your reader base. I think it might be a good idea to add a… Continue reading

I mean it. Really. Vanessa Fox (ex-googler) explains why there are two Page Ranks, and why the real page rank is not what you see on the toolbar, and why the toolbar PR is irrelevant at least when calculating your SERPs positions. The two pageranks are – 1 – The toolbar PR (what you and me are allowed to see) and 2 – The internal Google PR (which seems to… Continue reading

High traffic keywords are always an addiction. Write a good, optimized copy targeting the high traffic keywords and sit back enjoy the traffic coming in. But it’s also a fact that many of us don’t prefer to write content for the spiders, rather write for the users. I mean, how often can you write copies calculating the keyword density metrics (although they are irrelevant these days) ? It’s so boring… Continue reading

And it’s a guarantee. You have three months time (assumption), implement these and get ready to shed those green points. (Caution: This is for the adventurous at heart, and the steps suggested are “implement-able” at your own risk.) Copy paste content from other blogs and websites. Edit words like is, was and the, with suitable replacements and re publish the “refurbished” contents. Buy links from text link brokers. Not… Continue reading

Sitewide links, Deep links, Sponsored links, Carefully crafted anchor texts, Blogroll link lists – Well, they are not probably worth tying together, but I’m beginning to think that they have some similarity of sorts and are more junk than anything else these days, that Google might be discounting them no matter how valuable they might seem. And I have the reasons. With the September Page Rank toolbar stats update, we’ve… Continue reading