5 Practices That Get Your Site Booted From Search Engines
April 25, 2009 at 12:41 pm | Posted in blogging, search engines | Leave a CommentSome companies that specialize in search-engine optimization lure unwitting small-business owners into using deceptive techniques to attract viewers to their sites, which can get the sites banned from search engines.
Social-media strategist Janet Meiners Thaeler suggests avoiding these five practices: Keyword stuffing; overused boldface and excessive links; hidden links; complicated link schemes; and multiple domains with the same content.
Source: Small Biz Trends
How To Use Nofollow?
February 16, 2009 at 10:31 pm | Posted in blogging | Leave a CommentTags: blogging, nofollow, PageRank, social networks
To protect your PageRank, you can put nofollow attribute on external links. The solution is very simple with ready to use plugins Antisocial and Nofollow Reciprocity.
First, one puts ‘nofollow’ on above buttons, second puts ‘nofollow’ on all external links pointing to ‘bad’ sites. If you are using some other blogging application, try to find similar nofollow plugins.
If you are into social networking, you can make it easy for others to link to your site using social bookmark buttons but it is devastating to your PageRank when you use social bookmarking buttons without ‘nofollow’ tags.
To keep your search engine result rankings by preserving your PageRank, you should download Social Bookmark Buttons with Nofollow.
Update Your Blog Content Frequently
October 9, 2008 at 10:28 am | Posted in blogging | Leave a CommentTags: blogging, content, google
Google loves refreshed content, that is why blogs usually rank well in serps. The reason for this is that the content is clean, unique and upated. A blog also provides clean content because the content is automatically filtered from the code(css). In fact, blogging is so effective it should be considered a necessary part of SEO.
Your website design should also be fresh and updated as Google checks time stamps. By adding a snippet (box of code to your website’s home page) content from your last few blog posts can automatically be shown. Therefore, no need for you to keep your website’s home page design up to date by manually updating or making website design changes. Any time you add a post to your blog – your website’s content is updated!
1. Build a customer base
A blog can also help you collect email addresses and develop a social network. Anyone visiting your blog is most likely reviewing information or interested in the services you are providing. Contact them back!
2. Develop a social network
Adding bookmarking features and interactive plugins for your blog – these website design plugins can be easy to obtain. Offering visitors the ability to add you to their social network can take of like wild fire, and can result in an exponential increase in rankings and traffic.
3. Stays optimized
No manual website design needed when a blog stays optimized. Code language is filtered out from the content you add to your blog. Therefore, your content always stays clean.
With a little bit of free research, you can find out what people are searching for to find your information or services. Once you have found this information out, add these key phrases to your blog content as much as possible (but not too often, considered spam).
Blogs also offer tags – kind of like assigning keywords to your blog. This additionally helps keep your blog or website design’s content refreshed with relevant – targeted – traffic!
Using these tips, your blog/website can cross promote and benefit from increased rankings and traffic! Now go update your web site design and add a blog and blog snippet.
Use Your Title Tags Efficiently #2
October 7, 2008 at 9:25 am | Posted in SEO, blogging | Leave a CommentTags: blogging, lkeywords, search engines, SEO, title tag
Important keywords in the title tag
Title tag optimization requires that the most important keyword be placed in the title tag. Search engines are geared to look for keywords in the title tag that is why it is very critical that they are here. Title tag is also the part that web-surfers browse in the search results to see if the thing that they are looking for is somehow in that page. It is also a good idea not to put irrelevant words to your title tags so as not to dilute them in the search results, whereas, it is more advisable to include some more of your keywords instead.
Length of the title tag
Optimized title tags never exceed this length because some search engines will chop off the phrases over their limit. User-friendly
Though title tag optimization requires your title tags to be search engine friendly, but your main target are the web-surfers. Title tags must be made as very simple and as easily understood as you can.
Stop words/ dead weight words
Dead weight words (i.e. Home page, web, web page) are ignored by the search engine spiders, and though the stop words are also ignored (i.e. the, is, of, that, is, etc), you still need some of them for your title tags to be easily understood Keyword Proximity
Search engines ranks webpage who have their keywords that is very close to each other and has almost no stop words between them. Near the beginning
Title tag optimization encourages that your keywords be near the beginning of the title, as the search engine do their search pattern in a linear order (top to bottom, left to right). Word Order
Most of the time people input their keywords in the proper order so it is a good idea to follow the proper word order (i.e. Mitsubishi Lancer is better than Lancer Mitsubishi) Repetition of Keywords
Do not repeat keywords. Not only does it look ridiculous there is not a single top ranking web page that have them.
How To Overcome Google Penalty?
September 20, 2008 at 9:08 pm | Posted in SEO, blogging | Leave a CommentTags: backlink devaluation, backlinks, blogging, google penalty, reciprocal links, SEO, website ranking
Some webmasters may have been penalized by Google but are not aware of it and do not know how to recover from the penalty. Use the checklist to identify likely causes for a sudden reduction in Google ranking or an major drop in SERPS position for your main keywords.
How do we check for Google penalties?
If your website or blogs experience a sudden reduction in ranking for its main keyword terms it can be caused solely by a Google algorithm change or search results (SERP) update, not a Google penalty.
With any algorithm change or Google SERP update, there are always winners and losers. Google often applies backlink devaluation to links from spam sources which it believes are used to artificially raise the ranking of sites. This is necessary to combat link spam.
Reciprocal links from blogs, link farms and low quality web directory links are usually the culprit for devaluation of website rankings. In addition, backlinks from unrelated theme sites are also experiencing Google devaluation – so if your site heavily relies on these links, then it too may experience a sudden drop in Google rankings.
Check in SEO Forums
If you suspect a Google penalty, you can check in SEO Forum posts as any algorithm changes are usually updated in forums or chat rooms once the effects are felt.
If your web site suffers sudden and dramatic fall in ranking and no Google algorithm changes have been made, then a Google penalty may be the cause, especially if you have been embarking on activities which might have contravened Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
The most severe Google penalties lead to total website de-indexing and where the SEO misdemeanour is serious, a site ban may be imposed by Google, accompanied by a Page Rank reduction to 0 and a greyed out Google Toolbar Page Rank indication.
Whatever the cause, recovering from a Google penalty is a challenge so it is best to keep away from errant practices.
Bank On Good Design And Content To Succeed
July 30, 2008 at 7:03 am | Posted in SEO, blogging | Leave a CommentTags: alt tag, blogging, content, design, google bots, images, keywords, links, SEO
To score well in SEO, there are some guidelines which must be followed closely. I have slowly implemented these tips and found them to be useful.
1. Clear hierarchy and text links.
Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
2. Site Map
Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
3. Content is king
Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
4. Analyse Keywords
Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
5. Images No Good For Google Bots
Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images.
6. Use alt tags
Make sure that your elements and alt attributes are descriptive and accurate.
7. Check for broken links and correct HTML.
8. Keep parameters short for dynamic pages
If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
9. Limit links on webpage
Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).
With all these tips, I am sure you can be a successful blogger.
Welcome to Aedig
July 25, 2008 at 11:24 pm | Posted in blogging | Leave a CommentTags: blogging, SEO
Welcome to my blog. This blog depicts my struggles with SEO. I try to create a blog which can rank high in search engines.
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When To Use NoFollow Attribute?
September 15, 2008 at 10:21 pm | Posted in blogging | Leave a CommentTags: blog comment, blogging, nofollow attribute, nofollow links, spam
The rel=”nofollow” attribute is an easy way for a website to tell search engines that the website can’t or doesn’t want to vouch for a link. The best-known use for nofollow is blog comment spam, but the mechanism is completely general. Nofollow is recommended anywhere that links can’t be vouched for.
If your logs analysis program shows referrers as hyperlinks, nofollow should be used on those links. If you have a wiki that anyone on the web can edit, I’d recommend nofollow on those links until you can find a way to trust those links. In general, if you have an application that allows others to add links, web spammers will eventually find your pages and start annoying you.
In an ideal world, nofollow would only be for untrusted links. Let’s take the example of a forum that wants to avoid linking to spam, but the same advice applies to wikis or any other web software.
If an off-domain link is made by an anonymous or unauthenticated user, I’d use nofollow on that link. Once a user has done a certain number of posts/edits, or has been around for long enough to build up trust, then those nofollows could be removed and the links could be trusted.
Anytime you have a user that you’d trust, there’s no need to use nofollow links.