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Matt Cutts on Twitter – SEO insights
I was having ambiguous views on Twitter and SEO; and how Twitter links and profiles affect a blog that it’s connected to. There are quite a few pointers on Twitter, explained by Matt Cutts – the guru of SEO. He answers the following interesting questions: 1. Links from relevant and important sites have always been [...]
Two must watch videos to improve your blog’s SEO
Every now and then, Matt Cutts answers questions from webmasters, bloggers, and website owners and gives them tips on what may affect a blog’s/website’s SEO, and what doesn’t. The following two videos are aimed at clearing up the myths about the two often used features – tag clouds and Twitter stream (or lifestream). 1. Do [...]
Cool image sitemap plugin for your WordPress blog
It’s a good practice to use XML sitemaps to notify important search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing about the recent changes in your blog. It not only improves the speed at which the site-pages are indexed, but also improves the relevancy and ranking of the pages in Google, and other search engines. Text is [...]
How Google works – step by step (infographic)
Came across a cool infographic that gives a flow-chart type infographic on how Google actually works. You can see the tight integration of search results with the advertisement keywords (Adwords). This is one of the best both ways, ‘coz we get to see relevant ads, and Google gets to see $20 billion (US) per year [...]
SEO friendly permalinks – for WordPress first timers
So, you’ve just set up your WordPress blog on a hosted domain? Well, I believe the next step is to get your blog indexed by those numerous search engines out there. I’m not gonna talk about submitting your blog URL to search engines, and directories that would increase the chances of including your blog faster [...]
Creating a 301 redirect for WordPress blog
There are zillions of how-to articles on creating 301 redirects. However, this brief article will focus on creating a redirect for non-WWW queries of your domain name to WWW, by editing the .htaccess on a WordPress blog. You may ask, why should I do this? Because, all search engines treat www.yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com as two [...]
Google’s search page tries Bing’s fashion statement
A couple of days ago, there was news about the inclusion of a new fancy feature on the plain old Google’s search page. Well, couldn’t call it a feature – just a splash of color to your search home page (no, not on the results page). Look to the bottom left corner of the Google [...]
Collecta – Real-time search engine
There are hundreds of search engines out there, and still only the word ‘Googled‘ can enter the dictionaries. After writing about newer and innovative search engines like Cuil, Numeo and Yahoo Glue, I stumbled upon this newest real-time search engine called Collecta. The search options on the left hand side of the screen defines where [...]
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