Archive for the 'SEO' Category

Why And What To Look For In An Aged Domain?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Domain names!!! How much time do you spend on an average trying to find that perfect domain name. I don’t know about you but I’ve spent a lot of time (a really lot of time) trying to find the perfect domain name. Why does it take time? Because pretty much every name you can think of is already taken. I [...]

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 [...]

SEO Techniques Vary With Situations. What Is Your Approach To SEO?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

I’ve been obsessed with Search Engine Optimization for a while now. I’ve been consciously trying to train myself to think like a search engine for pretty much everything that I do related to websites and website hosting. The amount of reading one must do and ofcourse filtering out the bad from the utter rubbish to imbibing [...]

Bought An Expired Domain. I Wonder How Google Will React.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

It’s been an eventful day today. I had planned to spend some time tweaking the home page of Website Hosting but instead spent the entire afternoon in auction bidding for a domain that had recently expired. Finally did manage to get it, paid a tad more than I thought I would but what the hell. [...]

Common SEO Myths You Need To Be Aware Of

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I come across quite a few SEO myths especially while browsing through forums and blogs While I’m sure all of us understand the most common SEO myths regarding Meta Tags, Page Rank, Search Engine Submissions, I’ve listed 5 that I’ve seen being discussed quite often.
By the way all of the following myths are false.
Avoid [...]

SEO 101 - What Every Webmaster Should Know And Follow - Part 2

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Yesterday I talked about the various Onsite SEO techniques you can implement to optimize your website and help you in getting a better search engine ranking. Today’s post continues from where we left off yesterday and talks about the other bucket, “Offsite SEO techniques”. If you haven’t read part 1 yet then do read it first [...]

SEO 101 - What Every Webmaster Should Know And Follow

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization, something all of us have to do day in and day out to attain and maintain our SERP’s. Reading, learning and updating our SEO knowledge is a never ending task every webmaster must do to stay on top of the game.
This post aims to point out key factors in improving your SERP’s and serve as a guide to optimize your [...]

Do You Time Your Blog Comment Responses?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

First let me get a disclaimer off my chest. I have no proof of this. This is just me theorizing or rambling. With that out of the way let me say what I’m currently debating.
One of the goals of every new blog is to get Google to index its content every day (more than a day if you [...]

Duplicate Content On Your Blog. The Right Way to Handle It.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Let me start by explaining the problem. Google and it’s not so illustrious counterparts do not take duplicate content lightly. Content is perceived to be repetitive or duplicate in nature if more than 30% of it is similar to existing indexed content. If your website or blog happens to be the one that is hosting [...]