Find Who is Linking to your Website with Google Analytics
Find out which other websites are linking to your web pages with the help of Google Analytics. These are also known as incoming links or backlinks.
SEO
SEO, short of Search Engine Optimization, is a process that can help improve the ranking of your website in the organic search results of Google and other search engines. Higher ranking means more visitors.
SEO Tips from Google
Google offers simple but effective SEO Tips to help improve your website’s ranking in web and image search results.
SEO Tip for Blogs – Don’t Waste the PageRank
You can pass more Google PageRank to your blog posts if you decrease the number of links on your blog’s homepage and archive pages.
Display your Profile Picture in Google Search Results
Google can now display the author’s name and profile picture in search results next to blog posts / news stories that they may have written. The photo links to their Google Profile page.
SEO Tip – Prevent Search Engines from Indexing your XML Sitemaps
You may prevent search engines from indexing your XML sitemaps with the help of x-robots-tag set to noindex.
How to Beat Content Scrapers with Fat Pings
Content scraping bots take your original content and republish it. Learn how you can beat them with Fat Pings or Pubsubhubbub.
Matt Cutts’ Advice for Recovering from Google Panda
If your website is hit by Google Panda Updates, Matt Cutts of Google offers advice that may help recover your site from the Panda effect.
Google Indexes JavaScript based Facebook Comments
Google now crawls and indexes Facebook comments on websites and blogs even if the comments are dynamic and rendered in JavaScript within the IFRAME tag.
How to Hide your Google Search Queries from other Websites
Google will no longer share your search queries or keywords with other sites as long as you were logged into your Google Account while performing the search.
Clean your WordPress Permalinks for Better SEO
When you have extra parameters in WordPress URLs, Google may sometimes confuse them as separate pages. Fortunately, it is easy remove parameters either with some simple JavaScript or with the help of .htaccess mod_rewrite.
Google Adds ‘Authority’ of Authors in Search Results
Google has started including information about the author’s Google+ circle count in search results.
Google will tell if your Website has been Manually Penalized
If your website position in Google has suddenly dropped from the first page to, say, the fifth page, your site could have been manually penalized for spam.
An SEO Guide for Bing
The Bing Webmaster team has written a detailed guide on what you should do to get your site ranked in Bing.
Link to the Original Articles in your RSS Feeds
It is not uncommon to find websites that republish RSS feeds of other blogs without permission. Why they do this is anyone’s guess but as a content owner, this is something to worry about especially when you publish full feeds.
SEO Tips for Google Images
If you want your photographs, illustrations and screenshots to rank well in Google Images, here are some simple but useful SEO tips that may help you do better in Google for your images.
Being Number One in Google Search Makes a Big Difference
Wondering what’s the average CTR on Google? A report says that 37% of Google users will click on the first link listed in Google search page while a mere 12.5% will check sites that rank at number in Google.
Get Visitors Stay a Little Longer on your Website
Do you have a website or a blog? Learn some simple yet effective tips that will help you keep visitors stay on your site a little longer.
Advanced SEO Presentation – Webit Expo
In this presentation, experienced SEO Rand Fishkin shares some unique techniques and ideas that you may incorporate in your SEO strategy.
Does Google Read Exif Data from Images ?
EXIF Metadata may contain plenty of useful information about images like when that photograph was taken, which lens was used, what was the camera make as so on.
Do Not Use Nofollow with your Internal Links
Matt Cutts has unequivocally advised that web publishers drop rel=nofollow when linking to any of their internal pages.
Create a Video Sitemap for your WordPress Site
Create a Video Sitemap (XML) and add it to Google Webmaster tools to improve the performance of your site in video search results.
Google Search Quality Team Answers your SEO Questions
If are looking for SEO tips to improve your Google search ranking, or need answers to common SEO issues, this interview with the Google search quality team should help.
Some WordPress Plug-ins for Language Translation are Best Avoided
Some language translation plug-ins for WordPress blogs cache translated pages locally and they can harm your site’s ranking in Google search.
Find Out How Much Traffic a Website is Getting
Learn about free tools that help you find out how much traffic (or hits) a site is getting on the web. They are good for competitive market research or for spying on your competitor’s site.
Tags or Categories – What’s More Important for SEO?
You can add infinite number of tags and categories to your blog but the big question is do tags or categories really help in improving SEO?