Showing posts with label SEO Knowledge Base. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO Knowledge Base. Show all posts

Friday, June 11, 2010

How Caffeine _ Google's Brand New Search Indexing Will Make It More Big

Google Adds Caffeine To Search‎ Index For A Faster Updates And Faster Searches



Here is one great news for all of us who have interest in Internet or who is working on the search engines. Specially the SEO's around the world will be gifted by "Caffeine"
Have your heard about this headline hitting the web recently - Google makes big leap in search index with "Caffeine"!!!
Google has launched it's new index, dubbed Caffeine. It promises faster updates, faster searches, and expandability to match the growth of the Web.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

List 2 Of Very Good High PR Forums- Make BackLinks

Free Forum List With PR 5 And More For Good Signature Backlinks To Your Site



Hello folks. I am back again with a new list of forums having PR more than 5. As we have been discussing earlier in the previous posts that forums are a great platforms for link building provided that you are involved in a topic of your interest and your website's theme and the forum discussion topics are same.
Try building your signature links here in these forums/ make comments-
1. http://www.militarytimes.com/forum
2. 2. http://www.davidco.com/forum
3. 3. http://blog.viddler.com
4. http://www.dvxuser.com
5. http://www2.ljworld.com
6. http://www.vps.net/forum
7. http://videomaker.com/community/forums
8. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum
9. http://www.smartertools.com/forums
10. http://acquia.com/
11. http://www.freerepublic.com/
12. http://www.prwatch.org/>>>>>>>> Make comments on any article of your choice with your links
13. http://forums.xkcd.com
14. http://www.podcastalley.com/forum
15. http://habsinsideout.com
16. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world>>>> Make comments on any article of your choice with your links
17. http://www.brazencareerist.com/
18. http://www.gamepro.com
19. http://www.physicsforums.com
20. http://www.sibeliusmusic.com
21. http://myidol.americanidol.com
22. http://www.connectioncafe.com/posts/ >>>>>> Make comments on any article of your choice with your links
23. http://www.chronoengine.com/forums
24. http://www.rockettheme.com/blog
25. http://e107.org
26. http://dlisted.com
27. http://richarddawkins.net/
28. http://www.theoildrum.com
29. https://www.moneysupermarket.com

Find the First List Here

Sunday, June 6, 2010

3 Tips To Promote Your Article And Drive More Traffic To Your Website

3 Tips To Promote Your Article And Drive More Traffic To Your Website


Here is a quick list of three basic tips for getting high traffic for your website. This can be achieved through well written articles and submitting them to good article ditectories like - Ezines and Goarticles etc.
1. Write a meaningful and brief description
It is very important that you write meaningful and to the point description of your article. Usually I have noticed many article having description from the body part of the articles itself. This is not a very good practice indeed. Take some time to make a good description with the whole idea of your article in not more than 250 - 300 words. And also do not use same description for all the articles that you write, as it will creat duplicacy and will likely be disapproved.
2. Choose Your Keywords
Keywords are very important to find any content on the web. So is your article. So its very important to have good keywords in your articles so that you can be found by readers on search engines. But also dont forget not to keyword stuff your content. Think about your keywords by yourself what user will search to find your article.
3. Submit to social bookmarking sites
Submit your site to social bookmarking sites such as Twitter, Digg, Reddit, Yahoo! Buzz, Stumble Upon etc. With few minutes of work you can not only promote your article easily but also drive good amount of traffic on your website.
By applying above 3 simple tips you will achieve great results for the website you are concerned.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Some Thing About Digg - Social Media

Digg A Very Powerful Social Media For Your Website/Blog/Video Or any other resource you Share on it


Digg is a very exciting place to discover and share contents from anywhere in the world and from anybody. Digg provides a very unique facility to vote the content you have added there. Any other member who will like your content or information can DIGG that and your content will be considered more valuable as the number of Diggs increases.
At Digg you can share any kind of media which Digg can tolerate according to its terms and conditions and its privacy policy which you have to follow. When you submit a media to share on Digg other people who have joined the community already on Digg can access to that. The most important feature about Digg is that it will bring your page/content/media on top of its page if your submission will recieve more diggs from your friends and from other members on Digg. You will also have the liberty to discuss contents already posted with members. So we can say Digg is a great place to feed your hunger for new things about any field. Digg gives equal chance to all the content shared on it.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

What Is Blog Walking - How To Blog Walk

Blog Walking

Have you ever heard of the term Blog Walking. What is Blog Walking? How you can do it? These are soem questions associated with Blog Walking. Now the strange thing is that all of us do blog walk in one way or the other. Blog Walking is very important for your blog if done properly.
"Blog Walking" simply means to read others blog and after reading the blog post make a comment on the blog. Then put a link to your own blog after the comment. You can make a comment like -
Hi Blogger,(If the post is annonimous, otherwise you can address his/her name.)
I have just finished reading your blog post. I appreciate your way of introducing this subjct in a very way.
You can see some interesting post here also - http://your own blog.blogspot.com
You can get huge readers in this way from this comment if your blog is of the same taste as it was where you have made a comment. And it is more likely that people visit blogs and website of their own field/interest. As a SEO person will seldom read a blog written on "How To Cure Cancer".
This is a nice way of link exchange for your blog. Do Blog Walking and drive huge traffic to your blog.

How To Add HTML & JAVA Scripts In Your Blog Posts


"How To Add A HTML & JAVA Script In Your Blog Post"

- This might have came in your mind if you are used to blogging.
Adding a Html or Java Script in my blog post was a dream for me untill I found a way to do this efficiently. Now with this post I am able to show the HTML and JAVA Scripts in my blog.
Here the way you can also try in your bloggers blog to show these scripts. Using this code you will be able to show the codes in a box. Follow the steps described below and rest you will be done:
1. Click The Blog Layout.
2. Select Edit HTML.(Save your Blog Template in your PC Hard Drive just as a precautionary measure to not loose this beautiful template you have selected.)
3. Check The Expand Widget Template.
4. Press CTRL+F keys on the keyword and type "]]>" in the search box appearing after holding those keys.
5. Paste the following CSS code -

pre
{
background:#efefef;
border:1px solid #A6B0BF;
font-size:120%;
line-height:100%;
overflow:auto;
padding:10px;
color:#000000 }
pre:hover {
border:1px solid #efefef;
}
code {
font-size:120%;
text-align:left;
margin:0;padding:0;
color: #000000;}
.clear { clear:both;
overflow:hidden;
}
The above code will display your HTML & Java Scripts in a display code inside your blog post. You can change the length ,width ,size and color of the box , back ground image etc. by editing the CSS code. 


Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Why Concerned About Your Blog Not Doing Well? Just Relax!!


When you start a blog, you feel quite excited about it. You expect people coming to your blog and comment on your good work. But sometimes it does not happen with some blog. If your blog too falls in this category, you will feel concerned, quite obvious. 
Here is a quick list you must take care of about your blog:
1. Unique, original and informative contents.
2. Go for Submissions on blog directories and RSS directories.
3. You can also do Article submissions for your blog.
4. Participate in Blog commenting.
5. Socialbooking for each post.
6. Try making as many backlinks for your blog as you can with blogs and websites of your niche.
7. Ping your Blog to -
a. http://pingomatic.com/ping/
b. http://pingler.com
c. http://pingoat.net/

d. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
e. http://pingates.com/index.php
f. http://www.pingmyblog.com
8. Claim your blog On http://www.Technorati.com 
Claiming a blog process is described clearly in one of my posts earlier recently. See Post - http://seo-trends-tricks.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-is-technorati-how-to-includeclaim.html
9. Also check your site links in link exchange site it must be dofollow. See post - http://seo-trends-tricks.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-remove-nofollow-attribute-from.html


How Does A Article Exchange Program Works


In reference to my earlier article on Article Exchange Program, http://seo-trends-tricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/articles-exchange.html here are some more facts about this program. 
Article EXCHANGE is a very powerful technique/process, yet it is not used commonly due to ignorance or lack of awareness. But the fact is that this program is quite different in nature. It requires some extra effort from the webmaster. To be successful in this Article Exchange Program, one must have a good hand in HTML scriptingand the article must be of good quality i.e. well written on the given topic. The benefit you will get from this is exceptional.
When you write a article on a given topic or a website's business, the other webmaster or site owner will ask for that content from you and he will put the article on his website, and in return you will also put his content/article on your website. You must be wondering about the benefits of this exchange. Quite obvious everyone will wonder. So here is the answer - If a search engine crawler finds the article about your website, increases the value of your website in terms of popularity and other SEO inputs. If it found more of such pages, the value will increase more resulting in increasing the Page Rank of your site.  Google takes it as a self written content about your website onto some other website. Google feels that you have good content on your website and the other website owner finds that good and have praised your website. 
But for this it is also very important that you write original and unique contents. Google/Search Engine loves uniqueness in the content. This will also help you in getting a exchange partner, as every body likes good and original content. So write as many articles with unique content and allow webmaster with similar interest to exchange your article. This will help you getting attention of the Search Engine for sure.
Do this article exchange like you do link exchange with other webmaster. Do not go for any paid programs for this as it will be either a paid service or it will be asking some favour from you in return. So do not enter into more complexities, as this program itself will keep you quite busy. Happy Exchanging !!!!!!!


Tuesday, May 25, 2010

What Is Technorati - How To Include/Claim Your Blog On Technoratti? What is Technorati Authority?

Technorati (http://technorati.com) is an Internet Search Engine that indexes and searches blogs. Technorati tracks blogs and other forms of Web media, including video blogs (vlogs), podcasts and amateur movies and videos in real-time. All this activity is monitored and indexed within minutes of posting on the web. Technorati was founded to help bloggers collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global content. As the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, Technorati indexes millions of new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content that you write and that needs people's attension.
What is Technorati Authority?
Technorati has a process called “Authority” and your “Authority” is generated based on back links to your web sites over a 6 month period of time. What this means is, if you just setup a blog, you will not have any author ity for a while, it is some thing that will have to build up, and some thing you will notice in a few months. Technorati Authority is envolved in measuring a site's position and standing and impact on the blogosphere. It is also respomsible for all sorts of major changes that takes place on Technorati related to its standings and calculations on blogosphere.
How Technorati Authority is calculated?
Technorati Authority is calculated depending on a site's linking behaviour, categorization etc. in a given period of time. After regular monitoring of a site's activity, the authority may rise or fall on Technorati.
What Does It Mean To “Claim” A Weblog on Technorati?
Claiming your blog on Technorati helps to increase the visibility of your blog. It provides huge exposure to your blog. The main benefits are:
1. Yyou can add a blog descrip tion
2. You can place your blog in 20 different categories  (by typing in tags).
Claiming Your Blog On Technorati - Steps:
1. Visit -> www.technorati.com to signup, or just login if you already have an account
2. Go to your profile link
3. Enter Your Profile Details you can also choose to upload your photo there.
4. On the profile page look for -"Start a blog claim" written.
5. Follow The Steps and fill each detail in the claiming process.
6. Done For Now.
7. you will be provided with a code in your email id associated with the Technorati account.
8. Put this code in any of your blog post, Text Widget in the blog or in the footer of the blog.
9. When you have finished this Technorati will look for the unique code in your blog and your claim will be finished.
This Blog has already been claimed on Technorati before this post. You can check it here:-http://technorati.com/blogs/seo-trends-tricks.blogspot.com/

What Is DMOZ?

Dmoz 
http://www.dmoz.com
Ever heard of DMOZ? If you are in the field of SEO and you are well known with some good sites and Tools of SEO, then DMOZ is unknown thing for you. 
Dmoz is the Internet’s one of the largest directory system (over 4 million web sites) and is maintained by human editors(This is why DMOZ is important and links in DMOZ are counted). A web site listing in Dmoz can also be an important part of having a web site rank well in Google, because Google uses Dmoz results in it’s own directory.

Advantages of Dmoz :
Better relevancy than non-human edited directories and search engines.
Do not rank, promote or optimize sites, simply a data provider.
Disadvantages
Abuse by editors (not often)
Can take a long time to have your site reviewed
Tips for submitting your site to Dmoz
Make sure your site has original content and isn’t a clone of
other sites.
Make sure your site is error free and the design layout is easy
to use.
Check for spelling and general mistakes on your site.
Submit your site to a relevant categories, otherwise your submission
will be delayed.
Submit your site only once
Becoming a Dmoz Editor
It’s easy to become an editor at Dmoz, all you have to is,
Find a category that you would like to maintain.
Click the Become an Editor link at the top of the category
page.
You will then have to find 2 or 3 sites to add to that category
and explain your reasons why you wish to edit in that category.
Facts about Dmoz
It is in partnership with AOL
Hosted and administered by Netscape Communication Corporation
Self-regulating community
Serves results for search engine Google
On 25th May 2010 Dmoz had,
4,529,282 sites
 85,446 editors
over 590,000 categories
The one very important thing in using DMOZ services is that it takes long to get a site listed into DMOZ. Usually any directory service takes a maximum of 6 months time for approving your listing. But in DMOZ this time may exceed more. But once a site is listed in DMOZ, it is a great achievement for the site. Please read the dmoz submission guidlines properly before submitting your listing. Check that whether your site is listavle or not. Also check whether it is already listed. And also choose a single best category for your site in dmoz from the strong list of 590,000 categories and sub-categories.
Try not to fall in trap of such people who claim to list your site in bloody two - three days. It is not possible to do this by any green SEO method. And I personally do not trust on black hat techniques for SEO. 

Monday, May 24, 2010

List 1 Of Very Good High PR Forums- Make BackLinks


Hello Friends, as promised to you that I will come with some very good Forum links next, Here I am. As I have already discussed that forum is a great way to increase your backlinks and traffic. Explore these Forums so as to find out which one falls in the category of your own website. Just register there and put your signature(Forum Signature) with the help of BB Code.
A BB Code is in the form - [url=http://www.yourdomain.com]Your Keywords[/url]
Note: The Links shared here are totally based on my Google mining. And anybody joining these forums must abide by the rules and regulation described in the Term&Conditions of the Forum. This blog has nothing to do with anybody creating any nonsense in any Forum.
So here is the List of Forums:
1.http://www.flaminglips.com/ Page Rank 6
2.http://www.robbiewilliams.com/ Page Rank 7
3.http://phpnuke.org/ Page Rank 8
4.http://www.mmo-champion.com/ Page Rank 6
5.http://eduforge.org Page Rank 6
6.http://nasco.coop/ Page Rank 6
7.http://forums.silverlight.net/ Page Rank 7
8.http://forums.seds.org/ Page Rank 6
9.http://processing.org/ Page Rank 8
10.http://mybookface.net/ Page Rank 7
11.http://www.tugzip.com/ Page Rank 7
12.http://www.ijoomla.com/ Page Rank 7
13.http://groups.adobe.com/ Page Rank 7
14.http://support.freeforums.org/ Page Rank 6
15.http://www.slideroll.com/ Page Rank 7
16.http://www.amcharts.com/ Page Rank 8
17.http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ Page Rank 7
18.http://librarycopyright.net/wordpress/ Page Rank 6
19.http://www.olark.com Page Rank 7   >>> http://www.olark.com/forum/index.php
20.http://www.macheist.com/ Page Rank 6
21.http://www.gothamcenter.org/ Page Rank 6
22.http://www.urusoft.net/ Page Rank 6
23.http://www.dabbledb.com/ Page Rank 7
24.http://www.hgo.se Page Rank 7  http://www.hgo.se/bibliotek/lansbiblioteket/forum/index.php
25.http://lightneasy.org/ Page Rank 6
26.http://www.netflixprize.com/ Page Rank 7
27.http://piwigo.org/ Page Rank 6
28.http://www.colorschemer.com/ Page Rank 6
29.http://www.vocaleyes.co.uk/ Page Rank 6      http://www.vocaleyes.co.uk/forums/index.php
30.http://www.glasgowstudent.net/ Page Rank 6
31.http://maidon.pcarrd.dost.gov.ph/joomla/ Page Rank 6
You will get The Next List very sooner. Keep waiting untill I find some more good Forums.



List 2 Updated

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Get Sticked To Organic SEO - A More Reliable And Long Lasting SEO Method

When I first heard of this term I thought it must be some new technique developed for better SEO. Then I Googled this asked from some people about this and when I found what is it exactly, I found that it is what we are generally doing daily to optimize the site. Organic SEO is getting found on the search engines without paying the search engines for the desired placement(On top of the first search result page), and keep getting found for a long-long time. 
Search Engines have brought a new way to bring your site on top. All you have to do is to pay the desired sum of money to Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. and you are on the top. But as all of us are aware that search engines are meant for showing a search result according to the relevancy of the content for the keyword/phrase searched. So why pay Search Engine to get onto top? Do you feel any need of this? Will you continue to pay heavy sum of money to search engine all your life time for the desired top position? Isn't it will be too costlier when you can get onto the top position just by getting the simple SEO process which lasts for long and it is even much cheaper in comparison to the paid result.
And the main thing amongst all is that if I know that the given result is due to paid service, it will be hard for me to trust that result and I will avoid getting services from that. It is just obvious that your content and services are not up-to mark that you can rank of your own and that the search engines get less notice of your website due to poor quality. As said  - "Natural things are always better and reliable" so does applies for SEO also. If you are appearing of your own naturally, it means there is a greater chance of finding the desired information there. 
Benefits Of Organic SEO Process:
1. The search results are long-lasting 
2. Organic SEO builds greater trust
3. It’s quite cheaper compared to paid listings
Organic SEO Can Be DONE By : 
1. Optimizing your content
2. Spreading your links
3. Including Meta tags and other tag attributes

Monday, May 17, 2010

List Of Best RSS Feed Directories


I am sure that you already know the importance of RSS (ReallySimple Syndication). In short it is perfect and easy way to increase visitors in free of cost as well as generate free backlinks. You just need to submit your RSS URL in various RSS feed directories, and people will use your contents in their website and gadgets.
Here is list of some RSS feed directories that i found and I am posting this list to you. 
www.feedest.com
www.rssfeeds.com
www.2rss.com
www.feedsfarm.com
www.feedraider.com
www.rssmicro.com
www.rss-feeds-submission.com
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
www.feeds4all.com
www.feedbomb.com
www.feedooyoo.com
www.feedfury.com
www.findrss.net
www.rssmotron.com
www.feedbase.com
www.millionrss.com
www.readablog.com
www.goldenfeed.com/AddFeed.aspx
www.feedsubmitter.com
www.unclefeed.com/rss/addfeed.html
www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
www.feedsee.com/submit.html
www.blogstreet.com
www.feed24.com
www.findory.com
www.weblogalot.com
www.feedboy.com
www.icerocket.com
www.rss-network.com
www.feed-directory.com
www.feeds2read.net

I will enlarge this list and will add to this list very soon. Hope you will like this list and you will find it useful posting your RSS Feeds in these directories to increase the traffic to your site and increase the business. 

List Of Best Free Classified Websites

Free classified websites are important for bringing traffic to your website as well as getting some backlinks in free of cost. You can post any ad and post a link of your website. Each user who will see your ad, also click on your website for more information. Here is a short list of free classified website. These Classified sites are a good thing to increase the Backlinks and and for website promotion. In my next Updsate sometimes later, I will update Classified list for some major countries like USA, UK, INDIA, CHINA, Australia etc. as all these classified sites do not allow ad posting for all country products. I will enlarge this list as soon as i will find some more good Classified sites. 

http://www.hifreeads.co.uk
http://www.muamat.com
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/classified_ads.shtml
http://www.sgfreeclassifiedads.com/
http://www.zuxxx.com
http://www.classifieds.co.uk
http://www.vivastreet.co.uk
http://www.ad-mart.co.uk
http://www.preloved.co.uk
http://www.inetgiant.co.uk
http://www.chooseyouritem.com
http://www.amcho.com
http://www.artshound.com/submit/classified
http://www.artsopolis.com
http://www.beatyourprice.com
http://www.becanada-lsn.com
http://www.bestfreeclassifieds.com
http://www.bizzcity.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.pl
http://www.buckeyeads.com
http://www.buyittime.com
http://www.cashscripts.com/cgi-bin/classifieds.cgi
http://www.classifieds.richardmcginnis.com
http://www.clickindia.com
http://atlanta.classifieds.aol.com/city/acworth/
http://www.clickit.com
http://www.clipcopy.com
http://www.contuperads.page.tl
http://affiliate-advertiser.slinkset.com
http://www.easy-earn.biz
http://www.eclassifiedsweb.com
http://www.eksakto.com
http://www.free-classified-ads.us
http://www.hifreeclassifieds.com
http://www.highlandclassifieds.com
http://www.adtoad.com
http://www.2ndhandexchange.co.uk/
http://www.stumblehere.com
http://www.hallolondon.co.uk
http://www.adoos.co.uk
http://www.ecolots.co.uk
http://www.adflyer.co.uk
http://www.norfolkbroads.com/freeads/
http://www.adlandpro.com/
http://www.anyads.co.uk/
http://www.jihoy.com/
http://www.bruneiclassified.com/
http://webclassifieds.us
http://freeadlists.com
http://olx.com
http://pennysaverusa.com
http://sell.com
http://classifiedads.com
http://domesticsale.com
http://usfreeads.com
http://adpost.com
http://www.esofthub.com
http://www.pedrosplaza.com
http://www.adsanddeals.com
http://www.pixel4less.com
http://www.salespider.com
http://www.webcosmo.com/
http://postithere.com/howtoadvertise.html
http://www.classifieds.ivarta.com/
http://www.cweb.net/
http://www.usedflutes.com/
http://www.freelocalclassifiedads.us/
http://www.glasgowtimes.com/
http://www.easymilano.it/
http://www.yello.in/
http://www.parts4mypc.com/
http://www.classads.com.pk/
http://www.affari.to
http://www.friday-ad.co.uk
http://www.work-for-rvers-and-campers.com
http://classifieds.norcalcars.com/
http://www.boatclassifieds.us
http://www.cycleclassifieds.us
http://www.canadiandesi.com
http://www.zeecircle.com
http://www.blackaffiliates.com
http://www.homeschoolads.com
http://germany.zeezo.com
http://www.worldcentralmarket.com
http://www.freeadvertisingboard.com
http://www.classactads.com
http://www.freeadvertisingexchange.com
http://classifieds.atomicbot.com
http://www.allinnone.com
http://www.dxpnet.com/
http://classifieds.bizhat.com/
http://desi-classified.com
http://free-advertising.1-milliondollarhomepage.com
http://thats-classified.com
http://1stopclassifieds.net
http://alamonet.com
http://cityad.ws
http://classifieds.abacin.com
http://classifieds.blackworld.com
http://everydaybusinessonline.com
http://freebizadsweb.com
http://interking.com
http://net-classifieds.org
http://oboads.com
http://theclassifiedpage.com
http://valuecom.com
http://veretekk.1-family.com
http://www.100ads.net
http://www.1arrow.com
http://www.5starads.com
http://www.ablewise.com
http://www.adadoo.com
http://www.adscarsforsale.com
http://www.adswriting.com
http://www.adupdate.com
http://www.adv-marketing.com
http://www.adzooks.co.uk
http://www.hot-web-ads.net/
http://freeclassifiedhub.com/
http://www.247webmarket.com/index.php
www.freeclassifiedlinks.com
www.thefreeadforum.com/classifieds
www.ablewise.com
www.jihoy.com
www.adoos.in
www.inetgiant.com
www.mcslist.com
www.highlandclassifieds.com
www.global-free-classified-ads.com
www.hotvsnot.com/Shopping/Classifieds/Free_Classifieds
www.muamat.com
www.beatyourprice.com
www.sygol.com
www.hyt.com/ads/place_ad.htm
www.usfreeads.com
www.locanto.cn
www.zuxxx.com
http://www.classifiedads.com
http://www.olx.com
http://www.classifiedsforfree.com

http://www.adsglobe.com

List of Search Engines

I am posting a list of search engines, where you can submit your website to increase ranking and traffic on the web. Search Engine submissions allows you to index your site more easily and prominently in search engines. This compiles of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Altavista and many other prominent search engines. 
www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.yahoo.com
www.alltheweb.com
www.altavista.com
www.dejanews.com
www.excite.com
www.hotbot.com
www.infoseek.com
www.lycos.com
www.planetsearch.com
www.northernlight.com
ragingsearch.altavista.com
www.supersnooper.com
www.topclick.com
www.voila.com
www.webcrawler.com
www.whatuseek.com
www.askjeeves.com
www.c4.com
www.dogpile.com
www.debriefing.com
www.gohip.com
www.ignifuge.com
www.idexer.com
www.infozoid.com

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Search Engine Optimizer's (SEO's) Job Complete Interview Questions - Guide

Search Engine Optimizer's interview is a very practical interview. The work of a SEO professional is something that talks for him even after someone has left working on the particular job. Take your interview seriously and keep in mind all the small things that you have done during your past job. You can be even asked like - "Name any ten directory submission sites."
Read some very important interview questions and do prepare well for the interview next time you are going for a job change. One thing is very clear about an interview is that the more you are clear in your thoughts the more likely you are going to impress the interviewer.
I am listing 35 most asked interview questions in a SEO Job interview.
1. Describe your general SEO experience.
2. On which projects you are currently working on if so name them.
3. Do you own and update any blogs of your own? 
4. Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
5. What is the future of SEO Industry.
6. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read or keep track of?
7. What SEO tools do you regularly use and what is your opinion on them are they worth using?
8. Name SEO areas you are strong in and name those you are week in?
9. How good you are in writing and do you have any online written content published. 
10. What are link buying, link bait, and other specific backlink strategies?What is the best way to build backlinks? How effective is link building.
11. Name some big names in SEO Industry.
12. What is page segmentation?
13. What’s the difference bewtween PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?
14. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI - Indexing)?
15. Describe Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval?
16. Given a chance to work on a project implementing only one technique what will you choose and why?
17. How much time will you take to rank this site www.example.com?(Never answer this question without any review and taking a look of its nature of presence on the web. Nature of presence means is the business of the site localized or globalized. Take a look at the site's overall built, navigation, quality etc.)
18. Can you write HTML code by hand?
19. Explain the PageRank algorithm?
20. What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
21. Explain what META tags matter in Google these days.
22. Explain various steps that you will take to optimize a website?
23. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
24. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
25. Why might you want to use nofollow on an internal link?
26. How many target keywords should a site have?
27. What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?
28. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?
29. How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?
30. Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?
31. Do you manage Google Webmaster Tool.
32. Which Tool you use for Keyword research.
33. Did you work on PPC? 
34. Have you done any Video Submissions and Video Promotions? Are they helpful?
35. Which is you best project till date that you have worked on?
I hope these questions are well enough for you to answer and checkout yourself when will you be heading for an interview for a sure shot selection in your next interview. Your comments and feedback are invited to encourage me in doing more posts like this to help SEO Professionals. 


Monday, April 26, 2010

How HTML 5 Will Affect SEO Process?




HTML is vry important and integral part of SEO. As doing On-page SEO is dependent on the ease of the HTML and how better you know it. Though HTML is not very difficult to learn for SEO needs. As a SEO Professional involved in On-Page SEO , you will be interested in those changes made in HTML 5, which will affect your work. As this is still very new so here are some of them:
1. Improved page segmentation. Search engines are getting smarter and they are applying page segmentation into their consideration. Basically, page segmentation means that a page is divided into several separate parts (i.e. main content, menus, headers, footers, links sections, etc.) and these parts are treated as separate entries. In present HTML, there is no way for a Web master to tell search engines how to segment a page but this is bound to change in HTML 5.
2. A new  "article" tag. The new tag is the best addition for a SEO in their profession. This tag allows you to mark separate entries in an online distribution, such as a blog or a magazine. When articles are marked with the tag, this will make the HTML code cleaner because it will reduce the need to use
tags. Also, probably search engines will put more weight on the text inside the tag as compared to the contents on the other parts of the page.
3.There is a new  "section" tag. The new tag can be used to identify separate sections on a page, chapter, book. The advantage is that each section can have its separate HTML heading. As with the tag, it can be presumed that search engines will pay more attention to the contents of separate sections. For example, if the words of a searched keywords are found in one section of the page, it means higher relevance of that section for that keyword searched.
4. A new "header"tag is included. The new tag (which is different from the head element) is a boon for the SEO experts because it is very useful. The tag is very similar to the tag but the difference is that it can contain a lot of stuff, such as H1, H2, H3 elements, whole paragraphs of text, hard-coded links (and this is really important and beneficial for a SEO), and any other kind of information you feel relevant to include.
5. A new "footer"tag. The tag might not be as useful as the one, but still it allows to include important information there and it can be used for SEO purposes as well. The and tags can be used many times on one page – i.e. you can have a separate header/footer for each section and this gives really a lot of flexibility and convenience.
6. A new "nav" tag. Navigation is one of the important factors for SEO and everything that eases navigation is always good for everyone. The new
tag can be used to identify a collection of links to other pages.
But still HTML 5 is still to come in the common use. When more pages will be made in HTML 5, search engines will pay more attention to HTML 5. Only then it will be possible to know how exactly search engines will treat HTML 5 pages. Also, it will take some time for browsers to adjust to HTML 5.
Keep waiting for HTML 5 SEO's!!!!!!!




Friday, April 23, 2010

Google Places, Google Maps, Google Business Centre


"Google Places" is a Google Service. Now the name of the previously and well known Google Local Business Center is changed to Google Places. Google launched Google places last September as a way "to help people make more informed decisions about where to go" but now Google Places will take over the Local Business Center.
You can add your business here. Millions of people look for real world places on Google. Google places allows business people to locate their business on the Google.  It allows you to list your business be it Hotel, Restaurants, Tools, Vehicles etc. 
You might want to promote a sale, a special event or anything else that you want customers to know right now, and this feature lets you communicate that directly to your customers. You can also provide extra incentive by adding coupons, including ones specially formatted for mobile phones.
There is a dashboard feature. With the dashboard, you can see how your use of any of these new features affects interest in your business and make more informed decisions about how to be found on Google and interact with your customers.
One out of five searches on Google are related to location, and we want to make sure that your businesses will be found and you will be benefited more out of it. For more info visit- http://google.com/support/places/?hl=en

"Google Maps" is a Google service which allows you powerful, user-friendly mapping tool and local business information -- including business locations, contact information, and direction to reach the location mentioned in the map. You can zoom the map, see its satellite view, street view and more things here. For more info Visit - http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7060

Monday, April 19, 2010

Get A FeedBurner Account for Your Blog Today



If you dont have a FeedBurner Account for your blog this is the guide that will guide you to install or set up one for you. 
Step By Step Method To Get FeedBurner : 
Since FeedBurner is owned by Google, you need to have a Google email account. Sign up for a free, This is simple and fast.
Go to FeedBurner and sign in with your new Google email account.
After you've signed in, you will see "Burn a Feed right this instant", just type in your blog URL, and click NEXT
It will take you to another page where you can see your Feed Title, and your Feed Address. If everything is correct and you 're happy, then click NEXT
Now you are on another page, read over it carefully! Don't worry; it is a short summary telling you that your Feed is now live! Click Next
You're now on yet another page, read over it! I usually leave this page alone and just click NEXT
Now you are in your Feed account homepage, click on PUBLICIZE tab
On your left side bar, click on Email Subscription, and click on ACTIVATE
On this page you will find the codes for your blog, copy these codes, and go to your blog layout.
Choose where you want to place this widget on your blog, click on Add Element, click on HTML/Javascript, and paste the codes onto its element. Make sure to save your work!
To offer subscription via readers, go to your FeedBurner, click on PUBLICIZE, click on Chicklet Chooser on the left side bar, and it will take you to another page.
You can either pick what readers you would want to offer to your viewers, or just use FeedBurner standard icon, and scroll down to the bottom to get your codes.
Copy and paste these codes to your blog in the same manner as you've done with the email subscription.
Your blog is now ready for subscribers! Once you have FeedBurner feed, you can also earn Google adsense for your feed. 
Many services such as Technorati, NetWorkedBlog, or Amazon Kindle Publishing will ask for this feed, and you can provide them with your blog feed from FeedBurner. 
If you have more than one blog, repeat these same steps for each blog! 


Explaining Twitter And The Tweets

Many of my friends often wonder the use and importance of Twitter. They say - "What is this Twitter all about?"That is the reply I get most often when I talk about Twitter to friends and family.  And when I explain them the way how Twitter operates, they ask, "Why would anyone use Twitter for blogging and other purpose when you dont have a separate inbox etc and everything here is public?"
Twitter is a Mini Blog
Twitter is a mini update usually containing 140 characters. It is a popular features of social networks where you can update your status.
It is a kind of mini blogging, for people who want to blog but don't want to blog on platforms like blogger etc. A personal blog can keep people informed on what is going on in your life and in and around you, but not everyone has the time to spend an hour crafting a beautiful post about them or what they think. Sometimes, you just want to say "I am not feeling well today" or "I want to see Sachin Tendulkar winning for Mumbai Indians In IPL3."
So what is Twitter? It's a great place for keeping people informed on what you are up to without the need to spend a lot of time creating an entire post on any topic you want to speak your mind on.
Twitter is Social Messaging: - While Twitter was started as a mini-blogging service, it is grown into much more than simply a tool to type in quick personal status updates. So when asked "What is Twitter?", I often describe it as a "cross product of blogging and instant messaging" to describe it roughly in plain and simple language.
At Twitter - social messaging you can follow people and have followers, and even you can have Twitter on your cell phone and interact with people whenever you like. Twitter has become the perfect social messaging tool. Whether you are out on the town and want to connect with a group of people , or keeping people informed of developments at the event or task you are out for, Twitter is a great tool for quickly communicating a message to a group of people.
Twitter is also emerging as a media to comment on world activities i.e. you can speak your mind on persons, politics, event etc.
Twitter is News Reporting : - Turn on CNN, BBC or any other news-reporting service and you'll be able to see whats going on in the world around and you can also see your favourite media person's comments and opinion on that particular event.
With utilities like Twitterfeed, it is easy to get an RSS feed converted into Twitter updates. This makes it easy to use Twitter as a form of social media marketing. This is also a strong SEO Tool nowadays. There are tools which can post any webcontent on Twitter in the form of short hybrid URLs. A example of this URL is - http://bit.ly/abEqWJ. You cannont predict from this URL what is inside this URL.
After discussing so many things we are now in a situation to say exactly what Twitter is. It is many different things to many different people. It can be used by a family or group or friends to keep in touch, or a company to coordinate business, or the media to keep people informed or a writer to build up a fan base. Twitter is micro/mini-blogging. It is social messaging medium, a business tool, a news reporting service and a marketing utility in SEO.
I hope my friends will read this post to whom Twitter was not clear as to what it is actually. So start twittering about your own status to your friends and group you are associated with and you want them to be in touch with you.