Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

5 things you can do with the footer to leverage on SEO

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 [...]

Remove other sites from the Google search results

Google has a new option for webmasters – that enables us to remove a particular information on a website from it’s search results. Vanessa Fox today released the Webpage removal toolthat will enable users to delete off indexed pages from your site on Google‘s index and also information/pages on other sites. The latter part is interesting – removing [...]

How to generate traffic from Yahoo Answers?

Yahoo Answers is an interesting place to get quality traffic from. Have you been using the service yet? Well, it’s a nice service they’re running out there and is the only service (apart from flickr) that I regularly use from Yahoo. On Yahoo Answers, people ask all sorts of crazy questions. Yep, really crazy ones. I’ve [...]

9 Must-do WordPress SEO Tips that you might have missed

I’m not going to talk about the much repeated permalink editing or heading changes here. Instead, I’m going to share with you some SEO tips for WordPress that you might not have bothered to check, the fine details that is. Keep in mind that some of them are the result of recent updates from Google. Let’s go. [...]

Malicious WordPress plugin steals your admin password, and you didn’t even know ?

Now, how would you react knowing that the plugin that you had used for ages emailed your admin login credentials to the plugin developer and you didn’t even know ? Scary – isn’t it ? Well, that’s just what happened to this blogger Sven. Sven reports in his post that while experimenting with a few plugins [...]

4 SEO Factors Search Engines might talk about more in 2010

You love being an SEO right ? I mean, the learning experience never ends with SEO, new things roll out each day and its fun. You think you’ve learn it all and there comes something new. lol Anyways, the guys at Google are looking forward to 2010 as an year of new things. Or that’s [...]

Basic SEO image optimization tips

Basic tips which i know but to get maximum results for image search which must be maintained to get best results. Save your images in seperate directory not in root directory.  For ex: http://example.com/gallery/image-name.jpg. Don’t forget to write robots.txt to say search engiens about “gallery” directory. i.e.,add following code in your robots.txt. Allow: /gallery/ Place [...]

Learn more about robots.txt

I got a video about how Google handles the robots.txt file. You can watch it if you want: Above video answers some questions such as: 1) I blocked URL it in robots.txt, but my URL showing up in google search engine? Why? Whats the reason? 2) How to block URL from google? I hope the [...]