The rel = nofollow (which means do not follow) is added to a link (HTML tag) to indicate the search engines that this link should not be taken into account; in order not to increase the ranking in search engines, website pointed to the link. Wikipedia is an example of a site that uses the nofollow attribute to all outgoing links. Here is a brief summary of nofollow attribute: … [Read more...]
Can we guarantee top positions in Google?
One visitor of this website has sent an email to us via contact us form. The story is sad. She is not a rich woman. She is a divorced, jobless woman from a small city. In order to get her bread and butter, she used her handicraft skill to sell small toys for kids. She was lucky that her business got a position to run the family well. Someone advised her to create ebay account and sell more. It was … [Read more...]
Why my site is not indexed by Google?
Google search engine uses spiders to crawl the web and search for websites to include in its index. Most sites listed in its search results were found and added automatically when their robots crawl the web. To determine if your pages are indexed in Google or not, type the command site: www . your_site . com in Google. No need to worry if the launch of your website is very recent. Check the steps … [Read more...]
Unique visitors or pageviews : which is more important?
"I got 20,000 page views today" ; People often express the success of their website in this way; but the fact, why do not speak of unique visitor? You probably think that is the number of visits to highlight, or maybe there is more merit to count unique visitors. Not that easy. Why the term unique visitors is used to measure the audience of a website? Defining an unique visitor The … [Read more...]
How to foster the emergence of SiteLinks in SERPS?
Sitelinks (maximum of 8, links to own site) are displayed for all types of sites. There are no privileged sites, except those that are well optimized for search engine Google. How to get your Sitelinks, or rather how to promote their appearance in Google search results (SERPs)? There is guaranteed way to get sitelinks. To begin, we must apply the basics of SEO: Make … [Read more...]
Is tag cloud useful, does it give SEO boost, where to place tag cloud?
How to define a tag cloud? First what is a tag? It is a keyword or phrase assigned to a piece of information (such as a photo, a blog, an image, a video extract). The tag has a descriptive function but also a function of classifying information. In Flickr , for example, tags can help users find a set of images stored in a theme. The tag cloud organizes and classifies … [Read more...]
Firefox extensions: 7 SEO and Web extensions for Firefox
Today, we are writing about a bunch of Firefox extensions for SEO and web performance. You may know some of them. We hope these notes will be helpful. Most of these extensions are tools for monitoring and analytical SEO. LinkChecker 0.6.6 : To check the validity of each link from a Web page. After analyzing a Web page, links appear in color according to their status: valid link, link … [Read more...]
Myths and Realities of the Google search engine
Here is a summary of the assertions about Google PageRank, duplicate content,Google Analytics,Adwords or Adsense to influence the ranking in search results. These some information may be able to better help you understand how Google search engines. Recently Google has released a new update of PageRank and some Web professionals (webmasters, SEOs, etc..) Faced more questions about the "regression" … [Read more...]
Free SEO Tool to analyze the strucure of your website: Website Grader
Determine the level of your website with SEO tool It is possible to know approximately the level of home page of your website with the free SEO tool Website Grader. The analysis of your site naturally takes account of several technical factors: Meta tags ( title tag , meta tag description), headings tags (H1, H2, H3, etc..) image enhancement, number of pages indexed in Google , age and the … [Read more...]
What is Black Hat SEO?
Originally the term Black Hat meant the wicked old western movies where the character wearing a black hat did bad things, unlike the heroes who wore a white hat. The term is often used figuratively, especially when referring to the attacker who breaks into networks or computers, or creates viruses, trojans and worms. In recent years, the terms Black Hat and White Hat have been applied to the … [Read more...]
Meta description tag : important tool to attract visitors
The meta description tag provides a brief summary (as text) of the textual content of the web page. It is represented in the form of small text documents (also called "snippets") that appear in search results (Google, Yahoo, Bing Search) when the user makes a search. Its sole function is to present the content of your web page. It is supposed to tempt the visitor to visit the website. It may not … [Read more...]