Get Crawled by the Google Spider! SEO is geared towards appearing on the SERPs. If Google isn’t indexing you, they may not be aware you are there, and you could have a major problem. Some of the reasons for not being indexed are covered below, but if you are in doubt of whether you are [...]
Getting Indexed by the Google Spiders
April 1st, 2010On Being ‘Open’
December 23rd, 2009We hear a lot of talk about ‘open’. what does it mean, and what are the implications for all of us? According to Jonathon Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Google, being open can mean difference things to different people, so he defined it for Googlers and those who use Google and all [...]
Ways to Speed up Your Page Load Time
December 6th, 2009How fast your pages load can impact you in Google. Not only can they impact your Quality Score for AdWords, but rumor has it that soon the entire ranking algorithm will take page-loading time into account. So how do you speed up your load time? Use a site analyzer. These let you check for general [...]
Bidding on Google AdWords
August 25th, 2009Google has a complex set of rules governing cost of Adwords ads and where you appear in the results. They also have a new tool, designed to make bidding more scientific and less of a gamble. Many advertisers have gone into penny-pinching mode during this recession. AdWords is still a good option for your site, [...]
Google Base – Soon to be Great
June 21st, 2009With Google updating and expanding features for Google Base, you want to be aware how it works. Here’s some snippets from an earlier post, way back in September of last year: At first glance, Google Base looks like a addendum to Google for the purpose of basically flea-marketing your unwanted goods, but no – you can post PDF files, [...]
SEO Step By Step Guide– 104. PHP and SEO
May 21st, 2009In the last post we saw how AJAX can impede our SEO results. In this post let us consider how PHP pages can hinder our SEO efforts. When compared to HTML pages, PHP poses special challenges to the SEO professionals. However this is not to say that PHP pages cannot be optimized effectively. We an [...]
SEO Step By Step Guide– 100. Do domain extensions have any special role to play?
May 16th, 2009This is one of the crucial questions among the SEO professionals and the responses are more speculative than definitive. This is one of the areas that is not been subjected to enough research. For those who are wondering what we are referring here, all of us would have come across various types of domain names [...]
Sent to the Sandbox
March 11th, 2009Is the Google Sandbox still around? What exactly is it, and what does it mean for new webmasters? Google Sandbox was a term used by many to describe the period of time a site used to languish between launch and a solid appearance on Google, accompanied by PageRank and all the benefits thereof. Some sites [...]
Sorry, Google Doesn’t Remove Web Pages Just Because They are Mean!
March 5th, 2009Matt Cutts wrote an interesting blog post the other day. It caught my eye because of some of the recent controversy over the permanence of stuff on the web (Facebook, plus a site I am involved with that is a knowledge sharing site). Matt stated he gets a lot of queries about bad pages people [...]
SEO Step By Step Guide– 33. Different Ways of Getting Back Links
February 9th, 2009There are number of ways of getting back links for your website these days and number of link building strategies continue to increase with the increasing importance of back links. Some of the link building methods include: Directory submission Article submission Social book marking – Content oriented sites Blogs Forums Social networking sites Press releases [...]













