Google Analytics – What is it?

by Mark Cijo August 15, 2009 Web Analytics

Importance of Web Analytics is increasing day by day as more websites of the same niche compete for a similar or unique goal. Webmasters now have access to lot of quantitative data that can help them find answers for all “What” on their website. What pages are visited, what products people buy, what browser they [...]

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Change of Address Feature in Google Webmaster Central

by Mark Cijo June 25, 2009 Google

This entry was written for SEO Herald Blog . If you were using the Google webmaster tools for your website, you might have noticed a change in the outlook of the webmaster tools. The old interface was an option before few weeks and now Google have migrated all webmaster accounts to its new interface. The [...]

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How to manage Duplicate content issues?

by Mark Cijo June 25, 2009 Google

This entry was written for SEO Herald Blog . In most of the cases Duplicate content is accidental and it is not malicious. And that is not what Google and other major search engine consider as an offense. It is not the violation of webmaster Guidelines. Then what is this Duplicate content?. There are two [...]

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SEO for Bing – the new version of Windows Live Search

by Mark Cijo June 17, 2009 SEO

Bing’s new user interface design simply adds new opportunities to searchers to find what the information they want more quickly and easily, and that benefits webmasters who have taken the time to work on the quality of their content and website design.

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SEO Your Dynamic Pages

by Mark Cijo May 18, 2009 SEO

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few

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Google webmaster tools redesigned

by Mark Cijo May 13, 2009 Google

This entry was written for SEO Herald Blog . Google redesigned the Webmaster tools from the groumd up. It is now logically organized suite of features, cleaner and much user friendly faster interface. Google says that the new layout is the outcome of their interaction with webmasters, they case studies and analytics. The navigation is [...]

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Twitter to start indexing links and its content

by Mark Cijo May 12, 2009 Internet

This entry was written for SEO Herald Blog . According to CNET, Twitter’s new VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram says that Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon crawl links included in tweets, and index content from those pages. This is gona change the future of all search engines. [...]

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Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.

by Mark Cijo May 1, 2009 Google

Above mentioned Google webmaster guidelines 6/9 says about the importance of having a title and image alt tags for your WebPages. Titles are powerful places on your website that can help you tagged in search engine indices for a particular keyword. Title here refers to the title of a web page. It is a short [...]

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Webmaster Guideline 2 Explained – Importance of a Sitemap

by Mark Cijo April 20, 2009 Google

The second webmaster guideline says” Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.”  What is a site map? It is the most effective [...]

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Webmaster Guidelines Explained – Selection of Keywords for your website

by Mark Cijo April 18, 2009 Google

Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it Google webmaster guidelines are the foundation of your SEO friendly blog. It is highly recommended to follow Google webmaster guidelines, and I bet you will see organic search traffic coming your way. [...]

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