Archive for the 'Optimize And Monetize' Category
SEO Tips For Geo Targeting
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As an SEO, I often get requests to geo target a site for specific keywords. There are many many ways to let Google know that your site is specific to a particular area/region. The following are a few of my preferred options that I use when I go about geo targeting a website.
Google Webmaster tools [...]
Must Have Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Installing and setting up a WordPress blog is a peice of cake. Many web hosts offer a one click option to install a WordPress blog for your domain. One of the reasons WordPress has become the tool of choice as far as blogging is concerned is the availability of an extensive library of plugins to [...]
SEO For The Mobile World
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Mobile phones and internet applications for mobile phones are spreading like wild fire. We are at the beginning of the next cycle of internet phenomenons. There is no time like now to start preparing to climb on the next bandwagon. Soon we will have more and more sites looking to convert from their current clunky [...]
Optimizing Your Meta Description
Friday, August 8th, 2008
One of the most abused tags on a page is the meta description tag. Long long ago, actually a few years ago, you could get away with keyword stuffing your meta description and see a positive effect on the search engine result pages.
Over time Google and the rest got a little smarter and now the [...]
On Page SEO Best Practices
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Search Engine Optimization can be broadly classified into On Page Optimization tactics and Off Page Optimization. Let’s take a close look at the former today. While there are many techniques that are situation specific, there are quite a few generic rules of thumb that one must employ to rank high on the search engine result [...]
Busby SEO Challenge
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
August 21st Update
Less than 10 days left for the contest to finish. Not much of a change in my ranking. Still hovering between the 7th and 8th position on the search engine results. By the way I rank number 1 for the term “Busby SEO Challenge” on the Indian data center. Actually I have been [...]
Do You Care For Browser Compatibility?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Ensuring browser compatibility is something most of us strive to achieve. Yes, newbie designers often disregard the need for cross browser compatibility but this is getting to be lesser as more and more people start adopting alternate browsers such as firefox, opera and safari to name a few. A relatively new browser such as Flock [...]
What Is A Good Link and What Used To Be A Good Link?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
How do you go about link building? Every website owner at some point or the other must have wrestled with this problem. Do I use a link baiting service? Do I look at social media sites to improve my inward link count? Do I simply concentrate on content and let the world find me? How [...]
Work On Long Tail Keywords to Drive Organic Traffic
Monday, April 7th, 2008
When was the last time you analyzed your website hosting traffic stats in detail? I’m not talking about constantly looking at your stats to see if there are new visitors, I’m talking about a more in depth analysis. How much of your traffic is driven by Search Engines? When did you last analyze the keywords that were used to find [...]
Hide That Affiliate ID In Your Link
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
If you haven’t done it yet then you are in all probability leaving money on the table especially for your blog’s focus is predominantly on affiliate income. Having your affiliate id as part of your URL is a complete turn off for many readers. Read my previous posts about niche user behavior and also about how your blog or web site url should [...]