Top 6 reasons for getting banned by Google

We see many posts on the web with headings like “top 10 ways to get indexed by Google”, “top 5 ways to rank higher in Google SERP’s” etc.
But now more important than those things we’ll se what are the “top 6 reason’s for your site to get a degraded page rank and eventually leading to [...]

Google sitemap guidelines

Ever since Google introduced sitemaps,it  set  very strict guidelines in the making of a sitemap.
For your sitemap (which ever format it be) to receive no error, always make sure that :

It contains only URL’s of all pages(URL’s for individual images should not be submitted) or list of other sitemaps.
Even if individual image URL’s are submitted [...]

Never put your keywords in a hidden text

In one of my previous posts I described how few bloggers manipulate the keywords in title and permalink.That,to an extent is ok.But putting you keywords in hidden text can degrade your ranking in Google’s index.You should be able to present your article to both your readers and the searchbots in the same way.But since you [...]

What does nofollow attribute really mean to search engines?

Ok lets be clear in one thing.By using ‘nofollow’ attributes to certain links we tell the Search engines not to follow that link.
Right?
But does Search engines really follow your instructions?
Lets see what the four major search engines do hovering on a link:
 
nofollow

nofollow
Google
Yahoo
MSN/live
Ask.com

 
 
 
 
 

Follows the link?
Yes
Yes
God knows
Yes

Follows the ‘linked to’ page?
No
Yes
No
Yes

In SERP’s for anchor text?
Yes,but only for [...]

Where should you place your keywords for better indexing?

Placing your keywords comes as a vital instrument when optimizing your post or site to a search engine. But where should we actually put them?
If we go by the very prime rule, the keyword placement in your site URL turns out to be the most important followed by youR blog title, post permalinks (if you [...]

Do blogs and sites really need sitemaps?

Yes,thats the question to be asked.I would say yes but not mandatorily.If you have good interlinking among your posts then sitemaps are not required.
The thing about sitemaps is that when you use them you ensure that none of your posts are missed by the search bots.But if you have your posts interlinked and if anyone [...]

Submit sitemaps for blogger,wordpress for better indexing

For a better SEO, in the last post is explained how to use the image ALT tags.
One such technique is to submit a sitemap of your website or a blog.Basically a sitemap represents the architechture of your site.It is simply a webpage that lists the pages of a site in a hierarchical fashion.
The google version [...]

Use image ALT and TITLE tags for better SEO

In the last post we’ve seen how to put the ads just below your post title.But why would you want that? Just because the chances of getting a click would be higher,isn’t it?
But for that to happen you need a good traffic.Its of no use making all these changes to your blog without any traffic.When [...]

xml-sitemap error, make sure the file exists and is writable

If you got the above message when trying to implement the XML sitemap then you have the solution here.
I’m not touching the plugin installation part here as it is very well described by the plugin owner arne brachhold.
‘Make sure the file exists and is writable’.If we go by the sentence we cleary understand that some [...]

Blogger Vs blog.co.in,which is better?

Like any other starter, i used blogger in my early days of blogging.It was a nice,neatly built,easy to use interface with thousands of free templates.
But the problem was that,it was too easy to use.These days when i see a blogspot.com extension to any site i just avoid it.It gives me a cheap kind of feeling [...]

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