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Part 2 SEO QA - SEO Newbie's Questions Answered

In continuation with the previous post, here are some more common questions I see in my Google Analytics log. The post help to get direct answers for the question. (1) How many words can I use in H1 tags? H1 tags are for page headings. There are no fixed numbers. Have H1 tag meaning full for page body content that helps users and search engines to understand better. Normally 4 to 5 words are seen around as maximum and they were meaningful. (2) Can I use the same article content in different articles site? No you should not. Have one article per site. Do not duplicate. Make sure that the articles site is not a scrapper site. (3) Does Google prioritize search results? Yes Google lists search results based on website popularity and the factors includes links to your site, search engine friendly structure, quality content and many other factors. Follow Google guidelines to increase your online presence. (4) How to get listed higher in Google? Your site should meet Google g...

How to setup Google Feedburner for Blogger and Wordpress

Integrating Google Feedburner with blog feeds. Easy way to setup Google Feedburner to your Blogs and Websites. Make your blog posts popular. Help your readers to subscribe your blog posts updates easily through Feedburner's headline animator . Try now. Don't miss it! The blog post has a write-up to setup your blog feeds to the place you desire. Step 1: Sign-up Login to Google feedburner using your Gmail account. Figure 1.0 Step 2: Getting your blog Feeds Get your blog feeds from the following URL Blogger - www.yourdomain.com/atom.xml Wordpress - www.yourdomain.com/?feed=rss Step 3: Adding Blog Activity Feed Assume you have selected one of your blog feed. In the Feedburner dashboard you will have an option to paste the blog feed link in an text box as below (Refer Figure 3.1). Figure 3.1 If you have a podcast in your blog then click on check box “I am a podcaster” and click next button. If you don't have a podcast in your blog then leave...

Keywords 101 - Types of Keywords and Search Operators

This blog post is about Keywords 101 and it includes information on how keywords works with search, types of keywords and effective easy to search keywords using Google operator. Keywords are of many types that vary to the individual human behavior. Keywords are not created they are formed. What are Keywords? Keywords are words that are used to search information in Search Engines that refers to a specific topic. Keywords can vary like Singular Keywords, Plural keywords, Strong & Weak keywords, Global & Local keywords, Misspelled keywords, Seasonal keywords and Long tail keywords. How Keywords work? When you search for information using a Keyword[1], the Search Engine looks for all the indexed pages in the database contacting the specific word or words (Called as keywords). If you try for a Keyword 'SEO and SMO' then the search engine will look for the pages that contain the words 'SEO and SMO'. Despite you will see topics that relates to only SEO and...

What Google Hates?

As we know Google is trying to bring best search results with wide range of algorithms and the most popular panda update does a lot to meet user’s experience. In some cases, even now we see n number of scrapper sites and search manipulation sites in web search. Google is still fighting to get all these sites dumped. What Google hates? 1. Serving different results for search engines and users. 2. Content copied from different sites. 3. Buying paid links to manipulate site ranking. 4. Keyword stuffing in content and HTML tags. 5. Hiding keywords using style sheet. 6. Too many JavaScript pop-ups in a page. 7. Slow loading sites. 8. Low server response sites. 9. Duplicate URLs and sites that don’t use canonical URL tags. 10. Dynamic sites that doesn’t use parameter handling. 11. Pages that have high bounce rate. 12. Tags that doesn’t meet body content. 13. Low average time spent on each page. 14. Non-search engine friendly URLs 15. Images that are not optimized which res...

How to Improve Content writing using SEO to Rank in First Page?

A Guide to write quality Content to reach your Readers by having SEO standards and factors in mind. This blog post is about improving your content writing to rank in first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing by following set of SEO standards and factors. This post can help you reach your content to all your readers who search for similar information. Always write content for Readers first, not for bot's alone. Have the keywords in your content as reader friendly then search engine friendly. Read this post so that you "Don't give a chance for your readers to miss your Content". This post helps you to know how to improve content writing by formatting the content with HTML & SEO standards that can be easily understood by search engine bots about the importance of the content subject along with researched keywords. If you do not format properly, even quality content will not reach your readers. Make Google[1], Yahoo[2] and Bing[3] search engines, easily crawl able. Ha...