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

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

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

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

So you know that footer text is a good real estate option in SEO. And you’ve been placing your sitemeter button and credit texts there. Some of you are clever I know, you have that “natural” looking two lines to text there with links to totally un related websites! Guess what, I have some better alternatives for ya.Place the “unreached” yet important categories at the footerAll your categories are likely… 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

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

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

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