You would have already knew these SEO tips but you would have ignored or missed out. If you know or not, do consider following and look very close to these, #1 Disavow file Check your site backlinks using your fav SEO tool and find out backlinks which you think is bad and add to the disavow file .    Reference https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main #2 Page Speed Improve your page speed for better user experience. This is one of the important ranking signal. Do an analysis & optimize your website with Page speed tool.     Reference https://pagespeed.web.dev/ #3 User Interaction Make sure you provide a good user experience by not completing your web page design. Make it simple and drive the user through an interaction in the form of simple CTA button to get the data. #4 Page layout Shift Every web page should have visual stability. Image or video with unknown dimensions or fonts that loads large then falls back to small or any wired widget ...

As we know it's been 2 weeks since the Google Penguin 4.0 real time algorithm (September 23rd 2016) stated to roll out to the core algorithm which has about more than 200 ranking signals. The complete roll out might take 2 weeks to 3 weeks as per Google's information and I believe there could be couple of tune-up in upcoming weeks to get the results even better. As well Google announced that they will no more be announcing Penguin update which is real time, obviously :) How is Google Penguin 4.0 different from previous updates? Algorithm now manages to devalue the spam instead of demoting the spam i.e. Google ignores the spam links and adjust ranking accordingly. This is the exact way the entire SEO industry, webmasters and business was looking for from very first Google penguin update which happened on April 24, 2012. Algorithms should be tuned for the better web results and the web results should not be tuned for the sake of algorithm! Now by using disavow tool ,...

Would say, you don't have to be panic! SEO recovery is doable. As per the industry experience and Google's confirmation, penguin update goes on regular basis and the major updates are announced and named in versions. Started on April 24, 2012 (Google Penguin 1.0), May 26, 2012 (Penguin 1.1), October 5, 2012 (Penguin 1.2), May 22, 2013 (Penguin 2.0), Oct. 4, 2013 (Penguin 2.1), and October 17, 2014 (Penguin 3.0). Penguin 4.0 is expected in couple of months. Don't wait for Penguin 4.0 to hit your website. First thing you need to know is about the information that to be collected before you start the work on Google's penguin lift and the proceedings in your website in order to stay back in the competitive search spot game! (1) A Search Console (Former Google webmaster tools) account need to be created. Reference google.com/webmasters (2) DA and PA check tool. Reference moz.com/researchtools/ose/ (3) Knowing how hard it has been hit your website. Reference rec...

There are couple of standard keyword research tools and out of that these 3 free LSI keyword research tools provides straight forward solution. What LSI is all about? LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing. These combination of keywords helps in indexing process and to better understand about the pages. Google and other search engines confirmed using more Latent Semantic Indexing keywords, the pages will boost in rank process. Let's see more on LSI keyword research tools. (1) LSI Graph - LSI Keyword Generator The tool lsigraph.com is a free LSI Keyword Generator tool that provides related keywords to the keyword that you us in search engines. These are related keywords that are semantically linked to the main keyword used in search. (2) Soovle LSI Tool Soovle.com generates LSI keywords not only for Google, the tool also provides LSI for Bing, Yahoo, Youtube, Wikipedia, Answers and Amazon.com. This tool creates a result set by looking through the main keywor...

Anybody looking for online business looks for Google traffic as it sends the majority of traffic to the website and followed by Bing/yahoo and referral sites like Facebook, twitter etc. Here are the 5 other search engines, your audience may be looking for information. Do not take charge only on Google. It is recommended for small & large business to focus on the below search engine too. https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html http://webmaster.yandex.ru/site/add.xml https://register.search.daum.net/index.daum?t__nil_footer=register http://search.seznam.cz/pridej-stranku Again these are based on your global business. You need to study where your audience exists and then target accordingly. Optimize your site for user’s experience and not for search engines alone. Build quality backlinks and not quantity backlinks. Write unique content and with all these factors stay at the forefront of your competitors .

Now more people are using online sources to find information on products, services and ideas. A perfectly optimized press release can bring top results for your new heading. (1) Proofread what you have written. Print it and proofread again. Invest more time. (2) Identify strong headline and summary with most related & preferred keywords. Grab readers and search engines attention. (3) Have a professional content writer and provide her/him a draft of your content. Make sure the writer understands the requirement. Read the content two to three times. (4) Write for your audience. Apart from stating your products and businesses launches do mention about the experience your type of audience will feel. (5) Have your press release with info-graphics, links and videos. (6) Use anchor text and hyperlinks to point to your site and products/services page. (7) Give examples of solutions you have provided with your products & services. (8) Don't feel shy or afraid of m...

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...

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...

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...

Students & Beginners Guide on Basic Search Engine Optimization 101. This Blog post on Search Engine Optimization( SEO ) 101 for students & beginners teaches the basics about Search Engines and web page optimization. Search Engine Optimization in short is called SEO and is also known by different terms like web promotion, organic promotion and free search listing. "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 101: Students Guide - Basics" helps to learn What Search Engine is, What SEO is, Why we do SEO, How SEO works, Finding the website page index, Adding a website page to Google, Yahoo and Bing in a simple way. Favorite or Bookmark this post as the author will be adding more information on Basic SEO and you may use this post as a reference guide whenever you like to implement SEO. What is a Search Engine? Search Engine is a tool that helps to retrieve information for a user when a query is typed into the search text box and by clicking search button submit. A large a...

Google panda update has made tremendous change in search engine results. The main goal of Google panda update is to get rid of content farm and scrapper sites. Google is still fighting on the panda factors. Go through the checklist and fix the factors and become a panda free site. Factor 1. Do you have a low search performance page? Status - Yes / No Remark - You need to work on the quality of the page or you may delete the page. One non-quality page should not disturb other n number of quality pages. Factor 2. Does your site loads slow? Status - Yes / No Remark - The site load time should not be high. You need to optimize your images and code to reflect site load speed. Factor 3 . Do you have well researched keywords that related your web page content? Status - Yes / No Remark - Without enough quality content, do not optimize your page titles for search keywords. The site page will be repeatedly listed for the user’s keywords only when the page is useful for the s...

Google provides many free tools to help SEO’s and webmasters to market website online and as well to measure the ongoing traffic. Here is a list of tools that are not common and making use of these tools will improve your online presence and as well help to measure your online traffic. (1) URL tagging tool - This Google Analytics URL builder tool will help you to fill in the form information like Campaign Source, Campaign Medium, Campaign Term, Campaign Content and Campaign Name and click the Generate URL button for the tagging URL. The tagging URL will look like http://www.jagseo.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=example Tool URL - http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578 (2) Rich Snippet tool - This Rich Snippets Testing Tool will help to check your structured data markup and it shows how Google display your URL in search results. The Rich Snippets will look like below, Tool URL - http://www.google.com/web...

SEO tips changes and also gets updated day by day. Here is a list of SEO tips that can work for 2012. (1) Create a mobile site and build it search engine friendly OR make your existing site mobile friendly.. (2) Include G+ in all your webpages. (3) Have complete profile information on Google plus / Google profiles and link it from your webpage. (4) Get G+ for your webpage from reputed persons. (5) Get natural links from readers by writing quality content. (6) Add Facebook like and share buttons to your webpage and promote through social networks. (7) Include rich snippet to your web pages and indicate through rich snippet form for validation. (8) Write quality content for users and not for search engines. (9) Do not get links from paid directories without "nofollow" links. Go for paid directories only for traffic and not for ranking. (10) Include your business information in Google places. This is the best place for getting local search traffic. (11)...

To be simple website's Search engine ranking works based on quality content and backlinks . The ultimate point we need to think about is to write fresh and informative content for users and not to write rephrasing content for Google and other major search engines. Your readers will love to give a link to your web page content only when it is found unique. This natural backlink has more weight age than your artificial backlinks such as directories submission , web page posting and so. Content that attracts readers are given more importance by Google and other search engines. Readers who link to your webpage would be high and with right anchor text your web page will be boosted link anything. Artificial backlinks needs more time and effort and to find the right sites for submission is not so easy. As per Google guidelines, paid links submission without “nofollow” attribute will be a big cause for penalty . Even if you pay for links with “nofollow” attribute, the link juice flow does...

Now copying web page content has become more common and there has been hard time for Google and other major search engine to find the original content. On many circumstances copy content lists top and original content lists at bottom. To find the copied sites, you can do an advance search on your original text using the double quotes operator ("your text") in Google search box or you can use the below tools, (1) Find duplicate content and check if your content is original www.copyscape.com (2) Find your copyright image that are used in other sites http://www.tineye.com/ (3) Plagiarism checking system www.plagiarismdetect.com (4) Check articles with text and URL http://www.articlechecker.com/ (5) Duplicate content checker with 2 URL's http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php (6) Find duplicate content with copy & paste original text http://www.dustball.com /cs/plagiarism.checker/ (7) Track copy content by pasting or typing your original text http://www...

As we know Google panda update strikes and still striking the best SEO practices. Even if your site follows all search engine friendly structure guidelines the main goal should also include user’s experience. For this the key metrics are bounce rate and browse rate. Your Bounce rate should not be 100% and your Browse rate should be 100%. What is bounce rate? In Google Analytics, bounce rate in percentage shows the visitors activity on who left the page in one single visit. The possibilities are, 1. The entrance page is not relevant 2. The content is not clear 3. The design looks very bad 4. If there are no proper navigation links 5. If no relevant links to the subject 6. If the page loads too slow What is browse rate? Browse rate refers to the visits page depth and time spent on each page. If your site looks good and the content is informative then your page should be one of the favorites for the visitor. By now you would have got an idea on Boun...

Google lists sites based on the search algorithm. Some of the main factors are site authority, site search engine friendly structure , related unique tiles & tags, quality content and backlinks . If you search for your keywords and compare with your online competitors , your listing would be different based on many factors. Here many do think "how competitors site ranks well even if their Google Page Rank is low than my website". You need to understand two points, first point is that the Page Rank you see through Google tool bar or any 3rd party online tool is of old data. These are tracked for Google’s internal references and they are no more related to SERP’s. And point 2, site SERP’s varies based on content and quality backlinks with right anchor text related to the site subject and also sometimes there would be difference based on keyword page you focus. Keywords in home page ranks well then keywords in inner page. So compare all these SEO factors with your ...

We all know that Google Webmaster Tools provides query information, impressions, clicks, click through rate, and search phrases average position. And Google Analytics data is all about happenings after a visitor chooses to visit your site. All these days we need to extract the data individually and need to create a report. Now we have a way to integrate these two great tools. If you are interested, you may sign up and integrate. Once you integrate Google Analytics & Google Webmaster tools, in Google Analytics you will see a navigation link "Search Engine Optimization" under "Traffic Sources". Explore SEO reports. Enjoy!

Inner page optimization is as important as home page optimization. Here are the points that can help you for to rank site inner pages in search engines, Inner pages rank better if you have unique quality content with keywords around. Do not stuff keywords in content. Make sure you write for users and then for search engines. This works best for conversion. Have unique meaningful page title, Meta tags & body titles with H tags. Improve your internal linking strategy by having breadcrumb, anchor text & sitemap. Also get quality backlinks through natural links, directory links & social sites links.

A robots.txt file for a website helps to inform search engine bots whether to allow or disallow a file or a directory for search index Typical robots.txt file will look like, User-agent: * Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /scripts/ User-agent: * - Means this section applies to all robots Disallow: - Means that the robot should not visit any pages in the mentioned folder. If you have a single or multiple XML sitemap then do not miss the opportunity to add to the robots.txt file. Below is an example of how multiple xml sitemap can be added to robots.txt User-agent: * Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap1.xml Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap2.xml Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap3.xml Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /scripts/ Related Post: Everything about Meta Robots and robots.txt