How many of us really give importance to the Meta tags description in our blogs?
How many of us bother to change the description in ever page of our blogs?
And how many of us really check how our meta tag description appear on Google?
Not many of us do. We either take the comfort of your default template settings or at the most go for a meta tag plugin… Continue reading

Yahoo has a different set of metrics and priorities when calculating your rank on the SERPs. Most of the times, they are similar to Google’s metrics like the number of incoming links, title page content etc. For obvious reasons, duplicate content has been a bottle neck both for Google and Yahoo (others as well). And both the search engines are in the process of rolling out new tools everyday to… Continue reading

I had to write about this. There are lot of fraud SEO’s around. No doubt. Many of them somehow downloads a pirated copy of some popular SEO book ( there are many around ) and becomes SEO’s overnight (That’s not my idea – I read it on the DP forums ). Now they go on to set up a one – page website with a Google, MSN and Yahoo logo… Continue reading

Photo courtesy JamesgraykingNo.This is not one of those cliche articles. And I’m not talking about getting subscribers by writing great content, or getting more links etc.. C’mon who doesn’t know those points? We are looking for something new. Right?
I’m talking about that one trick that will increase your subscriber list atleast by 10% over night. Guaranteed.
So you have an RSS feed set for your blog already right? How do you manage… Continue reading

Backlinks are very important for your ranks – everybody knows that.
How do you normally check your backlinks?
- Using Google? OK. So you type in link:www.yoursite.com for your incoming links – cool. But what you get is note really all your backlinks.
- You can search for backlinks on Google blog search and it will show all your backlinking blogs. They won’t be shown on the normal google search… Continue reading

Recently, i had moved from blogger to wordpress – to a new host.It was not a cakewalk and i came across many hurdles while doing so.Yet, I’ve managed to retain my traffic and Google juice.
In the light of my experience, here are a few tips for you to watch out for if you are planning a migration from blogger to wordpress without losing your valuable traffic and google juice… 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

Here are the best ever Wordpress themes that are SEO friendly.(Updated on Aug 2008)

No messy tweaks and work around SEO techniques. These themes have been tested(code validated) for stability – and SEO friendliness.

I can assure you that they are good for the search engines and the spiders will love them. Many of them are focused on content and simplicity and may not carry unnecessary frills like… Continue reading

Thinking of submitting your blog to Google? If you’d like a good reputation with Google, make sure you have the following things ready prior to submission.
There are two ways to submit to google. One – the boring way and two – the smart way.
Now, let’s check if your blog is all geared up before the Google spiders visits your blog.

Rich contentGoogle loves rich unique content.So when… Continue reading

Someone in the DP forums was making a statement the other day that –
You don’t need any SEO if you are on wordpress. It ranks you high on search engines by default.
It is partly true.Wordpress by default is a very Search Engine friendly blogging platform. But when you are in the default mode, that is if you are not installing any plugin, or if you are not tweaking… Continue reading

We have already seen how to tweak your wordpress title tags for search engine optimization.It was easy.What we did in Wordpress is converted the default option in wordpress where – The Blog Title would be in front followed by the post title to – Post Title – Followed by Blog title.Ex: – DailySEoblog – How to convert blogger title tag for SEOtoHow to convert blogger title tag for SEO -… Continue reading

This is the second part of Free SEO tools list. The first one was Free SEO tolls for keyword research.

Broken Link Checker – This tools scans your blog for broken links. Very effective tool.
Total Link Analyzer – This tool analyzes the blog for external and internal links.Very useful when you have to maintain the balance between external and internal links.Very handy tool.
Anchor text analyzer -… Continue reading

Ensuring that you have a SEO friendly layout is very important because, even if you have great content, and you use a fancy SEO unfriendly wordpress template, then your content may not be highlighted/indexed well on the search engines.
Let’s see what exactly are SEO friendly wordpress templates.As i had mentioned in an earlier post – a two column template is optimal for feeding food to the crawlers.
Three things… Continue reading

An email from Anna Milkovich almost made my heart skip a beat. It was a one line email and it asked – What is search engine optimization really?It was the most simple question one could ask me on SEO, but ironically nobody have asked me this question yet on email.I must appreciate Anna to have taken the pain in writing to me asking this question.In fact, what hit me was… Continue reading

If you are serious about Search Engine Optimization, you should be knowing this already. But for the blogging enthusiast readers, this might come in as a news – useful and handy.Finding your measureables in Search Engine Optimization is a hurdle. It’s difficult to find out what gave you the results.Many a times, people just go on adding links, exchanging them, commenting, link buying and so on randomly. And the time… Continue reading