Syndicating Your RSS for Faster Indexing

We've been talking about RSS feeds and what it can do for your website. We know that incorporating RSS feeds into your site results in more frequent visits from search engine spiders and thus leads to faster indexing. Have you realized however that by syndicating your RSS feeds successfully you can achieve the same results? How so? If you have subscribers when a search engine spider crawls your subscriber's site (assuming that your subscriber incorporated YOUR feed into his own website) the feeds will of course contain a link back to your website. Once the ... 0 Comments

Google Social Search

Google Social Search launched October last year and since then has been a useful tool for me, both personally and professionally as part of the social media strategy of some clients. Nowadays, with much attention going to social media marketing it is important for SEO companies to offer related services. Google Social Search is one of the ways you can help in your client's audience analysis and targeting. With social search you can get information on the existing network (customers) of your client. You will be able to find out what really interests these people with their public content (from ... 0 Comments

Caffeine: The New Google Search

When Google unveiled its newer (better?) search engine everyone in the SEO world, or more accurately in the IT world, got all excited. Maybe it’s the caffeine in Google Caffeine or maybe its just simply because it was something from the big G. So what exactly is Google caffeine? Google caffeine is Google’s biggest and baddest change in search algorithm. The key to this change is that it is an actual change in the formula and not just minor tweaks. Parts of the entire search infrastructure was, according to Google, completely rewritten. The results? A search engine that will "push the ... 0 Comments

Sitelinks for All

Good news to everyone who doesn’t rank first in Google’s SERPs, which means good news for almost everyone. Google has announced that they have decided to expand their use of sitelinks so that website’s with multiple pages will not show a one-line sitelink even if they are not first in SERPs. For those who do not realize what sitelinks are they’re simply those links that appear at the bottom of the first result. Sitelinks are desirable because it allows users to see with just a glance at the search results the other relevant ... 0 Comments

SEO and 100 Links Per Page

It is no longer necessary to keep the links in your page to less than a hundred – at least if you’re looking purely at the SEO perspective. In his post, ‘How Many Links Per Page?’, Matt Cutts explained why the links need no longer be strictly fewer than 100 in a page. In there he said that originally Google was only able to index 100Kb per page so that having more than 100 links can lead to parts of the page not being indexed, however, these days Google can index more than that. Furthermore there is no ... 0 Comments

Using Google Alerts to Fight Hackers

Many times web owners find that their website has been hacked a little too late. The reason for this is usually simple – no one really has that much time to spend checking and their rechecking their site very frequently to guard against signs of hacking. This is especially true if you’ve had your site for sometime and haven’t experienced much trouble and so get complacent. Thanks to Google Alerts we have one of the most convenient ways of knowing if a hacker has got to your site. All you have to do is use Google to monitor queries for ... 0 Comments

Link Bait Technique: Stir Up Controversy

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,138,508091,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}()I wrote something on link baiting in the previous post. Now who would not want to get some other sites to link to his or her blog, right? Well, one way by which you can do that is to stir up some controversy. Get right into the heat of things and get people to notice you! You know the saying that nice people always finish last? It is something like ... 0 Comments

Which Keywords – Long OR Short?

In the previous post, I had a short introduction on short tail and long tail keywords. I differentiated the two kinds. Now the big question is this: which kind is better to use for your blog? I have to be honest with you – there is no clear cut answer to this question. It would be so easy to just pick one and justify my choice. However, the fact of the matter is that both kinds of keywords have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s look ... 0 Comments

Long Tail Or Short Tail Keywords?

The more seasoned “SEO enthusiasts” out there would know what I am talking about. You see, there is more to keywords than you might actually think. In fact, the world of keywords can be divided into two main parts – long tail keywords and short tail keywords. More often than not, we are initially exposed to short tail keywords. That’s where it all began after all. However, there has been a strong movement promoting the use of long tail keywords over short tail keywords. ... 0 Comments

Keywords In Your Post Title

As promised, here is another post on how you can best use keywords to boost your SEO efforts for your blog. Let me ask you, how do you come up with post titles? Do you like coming up with a cryptic and catchy title? Or do you think about other things? Uniquely interesting titles are good. When they are outrageous and cryptic, they do tend to get more clicks as human readers would wonder what the post might be about. However, if you focus solely on this consideration, your post might not even make it to ... 0 Comments