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Quick Audit of Title Tag of Your Website for SEO

Megri — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:20:46 +0000

Title tag is most important tag among all your website meta tags. It is a small line which is displayed in top of your browser window. Title tag is most important tag from search engines or SEO prospective as it tells what your page is about.

Search engines in there results also shows the title, on the basis of which search user click on the results. Here are few quick checks which you can apply to see weith your Title Tag is perfect or not

Check the number of character used is between 65 to 70, including spaces.
Check important keywords used in start of Title Tag.
Check Company name if part of it be used in last of Title tag.
Check you have not used the words e.g., and, if, but, then, etc
Check Title tag is descriptive of the content on the page.
Check it is not using duplicate keywords.
Check it is not just a stuffing of keywords without any meaning.
Check you have used the pipes | to separate important (keyword) phrases.

Finally make your Title tag for human not for search engine. It should be page related, content descriptive, short and not keyword stuffed

A title tag is THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE TAG in all Meta tags on the page. Do it yourself or take help of some meta tags optimization service company. You can also use the Meta Tag Analyzer to know more about this

How to get your website indexed by google in 24 hours – Do it yourself

Megri — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:24:32 +0000

When a webmaster or website owner launches a new website or page his first desire is to get it listed in Google database as early as possible. There are many Google indexing service available in market offered by SEO company which charge around 50 USD to get your site indexed. Well You can do it for FREE if you follow the following steps:-

Log in to Google account and sign up webmaster tool. Add your website and verify the site ownership with any one of method for verification given by Google.
Submit your website home page and few internal pages to Google manually at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url/ .
Check the robots.txt of your site to ensure that it does not stop Google crawler or bot or spider to come to you site. You can verify it at Robots.txt generator.
See the meta tags exits or you can add to your page and it allow INDEX,FOLLOW.
Submit or Share your website to Social media network like Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Google +.
Submit your Rss feed to Feedburner : Feedburner is owned by Google.
Now create few links from the news, blogs or information websites relating to your theme which are frequently updated there contents. Google bot visit these kind of sites every day.
Last but not least Ping your site to ping services.

We have been daily getting websites listed in Google index by following above steps. You can do it yourself for free. Good Luck

On Page SEO – Keyword repetition, Usability and Keywords per page

Aprajita Kohli — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:21:16 +0000

On Page is not the same as it was like 10 years ago, in past if you have observed and did On Page SEO in past, you will have seen that repeating the keywords in title, description, contents, alt tags and title tags produced great results for top 10 positions. But now a days optimizing page for On Page SEO is completely changed, we will try to find out how much keyword repetition is in acceptable before its consider as SPAM, importance of usability …..We will also try to find out if and when we need to target multiple pages for each keyword terms.

In On page SEO, following are the main factors, like Title, description, header and alt tags, topic/theme of the page, use of related keywords, Depth/Value of contents, user experience/behavior towards ( Usability, Design and Quality) and repetition of keywords. If you use your keywords in Title, Description and Page headers, think you have done most of the On Page SEO work as webmaster, but some of other factors are also important like page contents. Let us try to divide these factors

Title/Description/Header Tags = 20% to 25% on Page SEO
Value of Contents (Topic Theme/ Related Keywords) = 20% of On Page SEO
Usability (Design, Quality or Easy to use) = 20%
Use of Main Keyword (Repetition of Keywords) = 35%

Repetition of Keywords (35%) does not mean to use to same keywords again and again, you can use alternative keyword, key phrases etc. Anything more in terms of repetition can be considered as Spam.

How to know if you need separate page for your keywords:
So how to if you need separate page and contents for your keyword. You need to see if your keywords are only variation or they are unique, If unique keywords, you will have to create a separate pages otherwise for variation of keywords, same page produces higher rankings.

Let us try to understand by example: Keyword Variation: If these are like variation

Nokia Phones
Buy Nokia Phones
Cheap Nokia Phones
Nokia Mobiles

Having as given can be done with single page and will product great results

Unique Keywords: Now same thing but if you have separate brands, you can consider having separate pages like

Nokia Phones
Samsung Phones

Having these on separate pages will produce good results. Usability or User behavior:
In on page SEO, while ranking certain pages, Google also consider, if previous user who visited these pages, what was their reaction on these. Did they leave the page without spending time and again when they searched same terms; they left your page and visited another page. What’s click through rate of your page as compared to others ranking with you or near you, if your user Plus +1 (Liked) or they disliked your page. Google also comes to know via browser behavior or toolbar that how much time was spent on your webpage by visitors. There are many more factors which also consider by this algorithm while ranking results.

So we have found that not only Keyword, but site usability also plays important part in On Page SEO and ranking on your keywords. So next time when you will have On Page SEO, try to be in limits of keyword usages and consider other factors of On page SEO also.

Links to your site – updated in Google Webmaster Tools

Megri — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:29:28 +0000

Google have more clear view of Back Links in Webmaster tools, The new feature which is called “Links to your site” in Webmaster Tools is now updated to show you which domains link the most to your site (Although these links are not accurate) You will see, The domains linking most to your site, The pages on your site with the most links, Sampling of the anchor text external sites are using when they link to your site. Who links the most is easy to know and you can easily know if that good or bad for your web site based on links from any website, Clicking the “More >>” link under the “Who links the most” section will take you to a new view that shows a listing of all the domains that link to your site. Each domain in the list can be expanded to display a sample of pages from your site which are linked to by that domain. As per google “You can also see “Your most linked content” view from the overview page, Each page listed in the “All linked pages” view has an associated “More >>” link which displays all the domains linking to that specific page on your site.” Each domain listed leads to a report of all the pages from that domain linking to your specific page. This new feature will attract more webmasters and SEO’s towards google webmaster tools and they will have more data to know about possible downfall in ranking or penalty on website due to any link.

I got Google Wave Invitation

Megri — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:36:50 +0000

I got Google Wave Invitation, Google Wave is Communication and Collaboration Tool This is nice tool for for web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking with real-time focus. • Real-Time information • Live transmission of any type • Used as faster conversation • Wave is used as new way of creating dialogue among group of users • Google Wave contains gadgets and tools • It include tools for checking spelling and grammar • It has a great futures like translating between 40 different languages by using Rosy Extension. • It has drag and drop sharing of digital assets like photos, sound and video. • Playback facility • Easy embedding facility • Webcam Video Chat and Much More on Google Wave with 6rounds • Used as customer support tool for marketers • Polly the Pollster : Creates any poll you can imagine