The title tag is one of the most important tags on a web page for on-page optimization. It is also the first thing that appears within the search results on which the site visitors click to go to the site. Simple SEO stuff like the title tag can make a great difference to […]

How to succeed in Digg?

Digg is a community news site where users contribute stories which are voted upon by others. The stories with most votes climb to the top of the list.
Though Digg is popular with a specific niche of tech geeks, it still rules the world of SEO and Viral Marketing. SEO companies charge thousands of […]

For those who are new to social media websites, these are sites that enable the readers to vote on popular news/stories, or allow users to bookmark and share interesting web pages and media such as photos, videos and journals. Some of the most popular social media sites are Digg, Reddit, Netscape, Del.icio.us, Furl, Shadows, […]

Keywords are the words average people will search for to find your website. Both on-site optimization as well as off-site optimization SEO efforts start with selecting and targeting the right keywords. It is my experience, however, that many website owners are very unrealistic about the keywords they would like to target.
For example, a […]

Recently one of my colleagues showed me that if one searches for the phrase ‘miserable failure’ in Google, the page that shows at the top in the search results is the biography page of George W. Bush at the White House website. If you check the content of the page, there is no phrase […]

PageRank and Google Ranking

You must have recently noticed change in values of Google PageRank and also the number of backlinks in Google. Though PageRank is continuously updated, the updated PageRank is made visible on the Google toolbar once every 3-4 months. Though ‘Google Success’ website was not updated for last 6 weeks, this site achieved a PageRank of […]

It is no secret that a website must get lots of quality incoming links for ranking high in search engines. These days however, search engines are getting smarter; they have realized how easy it is to arrange link exchanges, so reciprocal links just don’t count any more. Now the emphasis is on getting ’one way links’ (a link […]

Google uses two indexes for its search results. The normal index and the supplemental results index.  Unlike the main index, from which the top results of any query comes from, supplemental search results will only show up if there are very few or no results at all in the main index.
Google prevents questionable pages from being found […]

Blogs can bring in a lot of traffic to your website via the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN if they are updated regularly and of course are properly optimized for these search engines. WordPress based blogs are search engine friendly, however their SEO power doesn’t all come by default.  After making a few blogs […]

Building backlinks from other sites is important for improving a site’s Pagerank. However. many a times webmasters do not pay much attention to the internal linking. So the question is, are the internal links counted as backlinks by Google? And do the internal links contribute to the pagerank?
The answer is Yes. You may ask what is the proof? On Google toolbar you can see […]

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