Archive for the 'SEO' Category
Google Suggest Is Now The Default Search Option
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Google has started to roll out it’s suggest feature as the default search box behavior. I noticed this yesterday while doing a search on the generic Google.com Interestingly this feature is only set to suggest keywords and key phrases only on the home page. Once a result is displayed then it is the normal keyword [...]
SEO Checklist For Your Website Redesign
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
All right, you’ve decided to redesign your website and you’ve found the perfect designer or design company to do so. Excellent, a site redesign is sometimes a necessary step as your business grows but what you should be careful of is to not lose the goodwill that you have built up with the search engines.
The [...]
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 [...]
SEO Myths Busted In The Busby SEO Challenge
Monday, August 18th, 2008
One of the biggest benefits of participating in the Busby SEO Challenge is the opportunity to learn and try out some of your theories. A unique aspect of a SEO Contest is the fact that you are competing with a large number of SEO consultants, in this case about 500 odd participants to rank a [...]
Is It The End of SEO?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
I’ve been reading many reports of late that talk about the SEO bubble and that we are looking at a lean period when many corporations will soon move SEO in house leading to a burst in the SEO bubble.
Somehow I don’t think this is going to happen any day soon. Yes, there is an explosion [...]
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 [...]
Busby SEO Challenge On Social Media
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
One of the favorite tactics of all the Busby SEO Challenge participants is to use Social Media sites to build back links to their contest page. Social Media has increasingly become a potent tool to manage and better your ranking on search engines.
Being the first out of the blocks always has an advantage. Social Media [...]
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 [...]
