There is no doubt, Search Engine optimization (SEO) has been equivalent to optimizing website for Google search. But, we should not be ignorant about the 9% search engine market share (Data as per Wikipedia, of late 2010) by Bing, Yahoo! and all other search engines. Google: 91.0% Bing: 3.0% Yahoo: 4.0% Others: 2.0% Can we really ignore this potential? In our opinion, one should not … [Read more...]
Factors determining long term success of a blog
Creating a blog is easy! But what about the long term success of those blogs? What we need to do for long term success of our blogs? When we started this weblog, we read (and read now too) lot of topics from TheSiteWizard : a website that has stood with time (from the year 2000). Another mentionable blog is Lorelle on Wordpress. These blogs or sites stood with the time; we will define them … [Read more...]
Advertising on website: factors to be considered
Using advertising on a website or blog has some things to think about. Here is a brief guideline on how and what to look while using the advertising. This a matter of fact that bloggers and webmasters need to earn money through advertising and maybe a nice extra income can come out of it. Legal issues with using advertising When you are using advertising on your blog or website, … [Read more...]
Server location and Google indexing
Server location and SEO is a repeatedly discussed topic in SEO forums : whether it has any importance on Google indexing or not. Just like many things about Google's ranking algorithm and SEO factors, it is not very clear. Still, we will try to discuss the topic to come to a conclusion. The information we gathered about server location from different SEO forums are: Searching with … [Read more...]
Google Trends and Correlate : tools to measure the value of Keyword
What is Google Trends? Google Trends is a free service provided by Google Inc., it is based on Google Search. Google Trends shows how often a particular keyword or keyphrase has been used to search to the total search-volume across various regions of the world. Though, Google Insight seems to be very useful, the graphical representation of the trend of a Keyword or Keyphrase can be … [Read more...]
Humor: are you addicted with SEO?
Success in search engine optimization (SEO) can be addictive. And if the plans are going along your thought, then you might forget to smoke or drink coffee. I was thinking and laughing myself about some points, it will be nice to share with our regular visitors. These are definite signs and symptoms of SEO addiction: After waking up from bed, you switch on your PC to check the … [Read more...]
Best Mail Icon
Very realistic 3D mail icon. Beautifully done by stinky9. This set was for Smashing magazine; and was named The WebDeveloper. Preview and download best mail icon Download-Best Mail Icon … [Read more...]
Get free solid dofollow backlink from Xing
Backlink is always nice! And when backlink is free and it is dofollow, its like icing on the cake. What is Xing? It is a professional networking system. It allows to add as many as links you wish in your profile. I frankly need not to know more than it. How to get backlinks from Xing? Sign up to Xing by clicking here and do those formalities like clicking email to … [Read more...]
Choosing correct domain name: with or without the hyphen?
Previously we wrote about the importance of having dot com domain over other top level domains (TLDs) like .net. Choosing the correct domain name is important for SEO. Just for an example: We used the Keywords to search in Google, which has highlighted domain name, title and meta description in the above screenshot: The name and link that is appearing on the top of … [Read more...]
Link exchange : essential checklist for the success
Link exchange : two words, probably billions are exchanged for this set of key phrase everyday on the Internet. In fact, it is very exciting topic from SEO point of view. However, the topic is often difficult and stressful. From our own experience, we can say that over 98% of link exchange requests through emails, comments etc better to be thrown directly to the trash can. Why? This why this … [Read more...]
Changing your plans of blogging according to the need
You created a blog primary for writing software reviews. This was your plan in 2009. Your plan went well and at around mid 2010, your blog had an average visitors of 10,000 per day with average pageviews of 2.05 translating the daily pageviews to 20,000 (roughly). You made $ 1000 (arbitrary) per month out of it. It was quite successful in the terms of return of investments. Suddenly, after the … [Read more...]