How to Audit Website? An Ultimate SEO Audit Guide

If you are doing SEO for website, the first thing is to examine website thoroughly for technical issues. The technical issues should be crawling issues, indexing problems, duplicate pages, broken links etc. Website audit helps to identify what is going wrong and what need to be fixed. Let’s Get Started Webmaster Tools and Analytics When you start...

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Step by Step of Launching a New Website: Starter Guide

Before you go live with a new website, you need to spend time in planning and perform tests at each level to minimize problems and to avoid SEO disaster. The following is the complete website launch guide that I have categorized into TWO: 1. Before the Launch: 2. After the Launch: Steps are Taken Before the Launch 1. Benchmark Your Current Site Stats Before...

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Duplicate Content is not Really Treated as Spam: Google’s Matt Cutts

Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today about duplicate content and the effects of it within Google’s SERP. In the video, the question was asked, "Can having duplicate content on your website affect ranking in Google’s search results?" Matt answered that somewhere 25% to 30% of the content on the internet is duplicate. When...

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SEO Changes Should Be Predicted for 2014

SEOs, well 2013 the year is going to be end with so more algorithm updates. Google has gifted a new algorithm called Hummingbird this year. Now what about upcoming year 2014! Here I have predicted some points that might be changed in 2014. 1. Rise of Authorship: I thing authorship is going to become more essential as Google works hard to differentiate...

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What Should Avoid While Doing Guest Blogging?: Google’s Matt Cutts

Recently posted webmaster help video, Google’s Matt Cutts talking about guest blog posts "What should I be aware of if I'm considering guest blogging?" Matt Advices: 1. Guest Blogging should not be only the part of your link building strategy 2. Do not send thousands of mass emails offering to guest blog 3. Do not use the same article twice 4. Do...

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Avoid Content Stitching: Google’s Matt Cutts

In a new webmaster video, Google’s Matt Cutts suggested that “content stitching” is a bad idea. Avoid copying fragments of articles from multiple sources to create an article that looks more like a compilation of resources instead of an innovative piece, coz this practice is not add value and that is probably going to be higher risk area. Original...

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Beginner Guide: Best SEO Strategy for Newbie SEOs

If you have a new website chances are that you're trying to get traffic for it and if you're trying to get traffic, you've probably already heard about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). If you're new to it then SEO can seem extremely complicated and trying to research how to do it yourself can leave you lost in a bunch of technical jargon that makes...

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The Biggest Myths of SEO Ever Told

SEO has changed a lot; the new algorithms, guidelines, and tools are introduced so quickly. This regularly changing search landscape is rife with gossips and misconceptions – and here I have pointed out the most common myths and assumptions about how SEO works, and debunk them for you so you are not wasting your precious time that simply don’t matter...

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OK Google: The New Hotword Voice Search Extension to The Desktop

Google launched the Google Voice Search “OK Google” a hotword extension for chrome. It is available in now beta that you can download directly from the Chrome web store. It is absolutely hands-free, provided you are already on Google.Com: Just say “OK Google” and then ask your query. This extension sends your question to Google only when it hears the...

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Important SEO Task Must Have to Be Completed for Newly Website

There is a number of tasks should be performed to optimize website; here I have covered 7 most important tasks that must be completed for newly website. 1. Register into Webmaster Tools Verify your website with webmaster tools of popular search engines like Google, Bing etc. The Webmaster tools provides you with detailed reports about your web...

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The 100 Links Per Page Webmaster Guideline Dropped by Google: Matt Cutts

In a recently released webmaster video, Google’s Matt Cutts talks about the number of links on a page. Google has dropped that that 100-links-per-page webmaster guideline. The question was asked: How many links should we have on a page? Is there a limit? The simple answer is: There is not a hard rule. Keep it to a reasonable number. No longer a limit...

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When to Use Google Disavow Tool?

In a recently published webmaster video, Matt Cutts Google’s head of search spam team indicate few points of when to use disavow tool. Here the points are mentioned below: 1.  When you get a manual action. 2.  Webmasters won't remove the bad links to your site or want to charge you to remove them. 3.  When you are worried about...

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Changes that People Want to See in Google Webmaster Tools in Future?

Recently Google has rolled out better visibility on website security issues in webmaster tools, including drastically enhanced resources for hacked site help and also looking to up to date with more features. Here Some Imaginations that What Would People Want To See From Webmaster Tools In Future? Make it easier to claim authorship or do authorship...

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Commercial Ad of Google Nexus 5: I Do

The Nexus 5 has just become available for purchase, KitKat is out of the bag and we can’t wait to have our hands all over Google’s new phone! We have to stop for a bit and take a breath after all this excitement, and what better way to do it than watching Google’s first commercial for the Nexus 5? The commercial is simple, It begins with a woman asking...

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SEO is Still Alive, Long Live SEO

Few days ago, one of the Forbes contributor Jayson DeMers published that SEO is dead, by saying that Google could not be manipulated longer. Yesterday, another Forbes contributor Kelly Clay released an article post titled SEO is not Dead, Long Live SEO. She says that the world of SEO is even simpler and more lucrative that it has ever been. She highlights...

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SEO Tips: Better No Meta Description than a Duplicate Meta Description said Matt Cutts

In a recently published webmaster video, Google's Matt Cutts emphasizes the importance of a well written Meta Description. Matt Said it is better to NOT have a Meta Description on a page than to give it a duplicate description shared by another page(s) on your site. Matt also suggested Google Webmaster tools to check out any potential issues with...

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Link Building: Is Blog Commenting Bad for SEO?

Any link building technique that designed to manipulate website ranking comes with a threat that they will consider as a part of link scheme and a violation of Google’s webmaster Guidelines. If you are an SEO that you know that violating the guidelines can cause very bad issues. Here the question comes for SEO professionals, what to do. The logical...

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SEO Guide: How to Stay on the Right Side of Google's Hummingbird

Hummingbird was formed to cater for ‘long tail’ search queries; the existence of which is set to escalate over the coming years. The changes to the way that Google is used has come about as a direct result of users becoming more and more comfortable using search engines, alongside the emergence of voice activated technology – particularly the imminent...

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Simple SEO Tip For Small Businesses: Local Citations

If you’re running a small business, especially a small business with a local focus like dentistry, self storage, legal, or accounting services, and have looked into running a search engine optimization (SEO) campaign, chances are you’ve run into the term “citations” or “web citations.” Nobody wants to look like a fool, and upon hearing the term...

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Revelation about Social Signals & Google’s Hummingbird

Google previously had major technical limitations with regard to the use of social signals as a ranking factor. With Hummingbird, Google now has the infrastructure to better process social signals (among other things). This might explain why the study I recently shared showed that Google+ share links did not impact ranking – but it may also hint that...

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How the Google Zoo Has Forever Changed SEO Copywriting

Google's Zoo: Hummingbird, Panda & Penguine As far back as I can remember (circa 1999), search engine copywriters have been told to use keywords as often as possible.  According to most, proper optimization of a page involved things like writing for keyword density ratios, including keyphrases in every file name, every page name and every...

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How to Create Your Brand's Online Presence?

Image Credit: michaelhartzell.com Once you decide you want to work for yourself, you will need to determine your both your brand, and how you will market your brand online. Below you will find steps to get you started. Determine Your Strengths Create a diagram of skills you possess. Use a diagramming web tool to help generate a chart.  ...

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How to Track the Success and Failure of Your SEO Campaign?

Image Credit: startrankingnow.com As you make changes to your organic SEO strategy via keywords or on-site updates, it can be challenging to know whether you efforts are actually generating positive results. Because organic SEO can take weeks and months to show tangible movement in your search engine rankings, it is essential to know how to...

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Search and Social Will Not Be Separate Marketing Endeavors in 2014

Image Credit: techi.com If you do a search on Google for “search marketing” and compare it to a search for “social marketing”, you’ll see that there are pretty much no similarities. The two disciplines have been separated for a long time and companies usually focus on one or the other (though it seems like everyone offers a little of both)....

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