SEO
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 [...]
How to choose categories for your blog
This is just one of the many challenges people face when categorizing a blog – especially, if it’s a multi-topic blog. There are numerous articles out there that write blah in not less than 500 words, on choosing category names. I’m not gonna do that. Instead, I’ll give you a couple of pointers which will [...]
Take design in your hands with Enkelt WordPress theme
Probably it’s a little too late to be writing a review about this heavily customizable WordPress theme – Enkelt. However, it’s only after playing with it for the past month or so, did I realize the potential of this theme that is built on hooks. I’m sure you would have come across many premium WordPress [...]
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 [...]
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