Some WordPress Plug-ins for Language Translation are Best Avoided
24 mar 2010
Some language translation plug-ins for WordPress blogs cache translated pages locally and they can harm your site’s ranking in Google search.
SEO
Find Out How Much Traffic a Website is Getting
18 mar 2010
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.
Google Ignores Affiliate Links
14 mar 2010
Google doesn’t equate affiliate links with “paid” text links but they don’t pass any Google juice to linked website either.
Matt said that sites can use affiliate links but Google doesn’t count them as endorsements and than indirectly means that affiliate links don’t flow juice.
How Google PageRank Affects Site Crawling
14 mar 2010
It makes sense to have links to your web pages no less than two levels deep from the home page else the Googlebot may not index them very frequently. Here’s why:
The number of pages that we [Google spiders] crawl is roughly proportional to your PageRank.
Link Building Tips from Matt Cutts
06 mar 2010
If you looking for “natural” or organic link building techniques, here are some suggestions from Matt Cutts.
Tags or Categories – What’s More Important for SEO?
17 feb 2010
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?
Which Sites Use Nofollow While Linking to you
06 feb 2010
Open Site Explorer is a free online tool that can help you figure out which important domains are linked to your site and sites that are using the rel=nofollow tag while linking to you.
Getting Your Website in Country-Specific Search Engines
01 feb 2010
Your main website has a .com or .org address but if you are looking to target different countries, it makes sense to have localized websites that serve audience of a particular geographic region (or language).
When Should You Not Use a Meta Description Tag
27 jan 2010
The Meta Description tag generally has a short summary of what the visitor might expect to see on the landing page. It is placed inside the <head> section of your HTML page but there can be situations where you’ll be better off not using the META DESC tag at all.
How Many Pages from your Site are in Google’s Index
26 jan 2010
If you want to know how may pages from your website have been indexed in Google, you’ll probably run a site: search operator. That won’t always work because the numbers returned by site: operator are just a hint and may have no relation to the actual figures.