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

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

Out of experience? Well, I don’t know, but looked like everyone is so interested in talking about getting successful on Twitter. Well, I followed many of them and, guess what? They enlightened me on the below points. With due courtesy to all of them….Please follow your followersOr guess what happens? Your followers would be responding to your tweet and they never hear back from you. Okay, you are a pro… Continue reading

A better written title is half the job done.Titles would be the most important SEO factor I’d chose if you’d ask me to select one important factor that directly affects your SE ranks and at the same time takes care of your readers “likeability”.While it’s a fact that the same title cannot (mostly it does) satisfy both your readers and the robots alike, let’s attempt to get as close as… Continue reading

Somebody had to do it and Rajesh from Tech Bliss Online is the man to do it. Even though All in One SEO was the most downloaded plugin, I wasn’t quite impressed by it’s functions. Sure it took care of the basic functions, but it wasn’t versatile. There were so many other functions and features a real SEO plugin had to take care of, AllinOne SEO ignored many of them… Continue reading

Before reading this article, you might have to check this article here by Rand, where he is suggesting 10 questions to the search engines.

I had replied to it over here with two more questions from my side to Google and here is Matt’s reply to my questions.

Well, basically I was trying to ask Google about sitelinks. I wanted to know from Google as to whether they… Continue reading

Social Media is the buzz. And it’s the carrot to many. A power user is a member with influential powers and has the potential of making any given article popular on the social medias.

Becoming a power user on all the social medias is sure big deal, despite everyone using the social media only a few make it to the top or grabs the powers of a power… Continue reading

1. A spider with meta head (green) and body from Xponex.com

2. A robot with big round eyes and square head from Webpro.com

3. A robot with small head and huge body from Seomoz.org

4. A robot with head and body combined to a smaller form from Seomoz.org

5. A cute looking dumb robot with block head from Labnol

6. A happy go lucky robot… Continue reading

At the Mumbai Barcamp, while talking to the audience there was a gentleman with a genuine doubt.

“Ok, so you tell me that Google will penalize you if you sell links. But how the hell would Google find it out when I’m not talking about it?”

Interesting perspective huh? So many of us are scared about the Google ban and have not sold links at all (or have… Continue reading

Vishal has a doubt on linking strategies.
Google does not show any backlinks for his site – www.b2cjewels.com. He has submitted articles in forums and directories, he has also ensured good interlinking of pages.
So he’s wondering why the links are not showing up.
The second question is – while interlinking pages, is it better to link with the complete URL (www.example.com/url.htm) or just the pages – ..url.htm?
Well, Vishal… Continue reading

When robots (like the Googlebot) crawl your site, they begin by requesting http://example.com/robots.txt and checking it for special instructions. Use this plugin to create and edit your robots.txt file from within Wordpress (using Options -> Robots.txt). We have already seen how to control robots crawling your website using optimised robots.txt useage and..Avoiding duplicate content using robots.txt already. Whenever a user (or a robot, more likely) appends “robots.txt” to your blog… Continue reading

If you don’t know nothing about robots.txt and controlling robots through Meta tags -and don’t want to take the pain of editing the txt file in your root folder and disallowing each search engine crawler manually – worry not! There is an easy way to get this done in Wordpress.
Goto Dashboard> Options> Privacy settings.
You will find two options here.
1 – I would like my blog to be… Continue reading

The robots.txt file is used to control the crawlers activity on a website/blog. It will help you to keep some directories away from crawling while allowing some. For example if yu have two folders 1.Articles and 2.Javascripts – and if you wish to exclude Javascripts from crawling by robots, then you can command it on the robots.txt file.
A few basics about what the robots.txt file is –
- It… Continue reading

This is basic SEO stuff, but thought i’ll mention it here, cos i see “SEO”s on certain forums claim doing it the wrong way.Getting indexed in Google is one of the basic steps to your SEO jeourney.But why Google? Why not Yahoo and MSN?- Yahoo doesn’t award page ranks.- Yahoo is not Google.Okay silly reasons there, but i know you’ll agree with me that getting your blog/site optimised with Google… Continue reading