This is the continuation to the 20 Tips to SEO series. We’ve already covered Google Penalty, Image Optimization and Link Building Tips. Today, let’s talk about optimizing the Robots.txt file for websites and blogs. 1. Include your sitemap file URL in Robots.txt 2. If you have lot of images on the site, add an image sitemap and if you have videos on the site, consider adding a video sitemap along… 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

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