A much talked about topic of discussion, with respect to blogging and SEO. So does blogging actually help SEO ? Well I would definitely say a strong and bold YES! Having been in this optimization industry for quite some time now , I have always found myself preaching people interested to make their blogs work for them and their organization, about many advantages that blogs are sure to bring, when seen from the SEO point of view. I have put some of my ideas that I have always found as reasons how blogs can be useful for search engine optimization: Refreshing and latest content: Blogs usually contain content relating to the present state and also stuff that is fresh and good to be read, apart from the stale information that has been repeated by every other site. This kindles an interest in the readers to come back to your blog and keep them updated of whatever you write. This helps in getting more traffic to your site, thereby helping in optimizing your site. Planned writing ...

Joomla one of the best open source for content management system and here are some tips and Joomla SEO extensions which can help you to rank your Joomla website better and change them to more search engine friendly website (1) Create Custom META and title tag - You can improve the SEO settings with this free SEO extension for Joomla 1.5.The SEO extension allows you to gain fully control over the META and title settings in the http header settings in Joomla 1.5 generated pages (2) Google Sitemap - This extension used to integrate Google XML sitemap for more advanced Google indexing (3) Simple SEO Plugin - This extension helps to receive instant feedback on what search engines really think your content is about. (4) Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs - This extension enables Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs for categories & businesses names. (5) SearchCloud and Lists - This module generates a Cloud or a List of popular search strings.Also we can set the number of item...

One of the best opensource I like is Wordpress and it can be used both as Blog and as well for CMS Wordpress by default has some search engine friendly setup but we need to edit some part of the code and add plugins to make it more search engine friendly and the plugins will help us to do the work easier and better. Below are the tips to create search engine friendly Wordpress blog (1) Initially you can add search engine friendly theme with less image and your choice of image can go for logo, banner and bullets. Try to reduce code size and bytes. (2) Install " All in SEO" Plugin ". Activate and edit in options according to your visitors focus (3) Most importantly do add alt attribute for logos and banner, i see most of the blogs miss to implement this technique or alt attribute are not unique. To solve this you can try " Custom Header " plugin and enter HTML codes for each posts and pages (4) Permalink a very important part that helps to create search e...

As we all know Drupal plays a big role in open source development and it is very important that Drupal site development should be search engine friendly. To make this we need to focus lots in on-page optimization for search engine readiness and the below list of tips will help you to develop search engine friendly site and spiders can crawl the site very easily without any limits (1) Rewrite CSS and reduce code size (2) Design layout using XHTMl and make it lighter better for SEO (3) Creating Clean URL's, optional using .htaccess (4) Enable Path module (5) Configure Meta tag Module (6) Remove content duplication by URL's with the help of robots.txt File (7) Enable XML sitemap (8) Add Custom breadcrumb Module (9) Enable related links (10) Global redirects Once the Drupal Search engine friendly setup is done following above tips you can start with keyword optimization and link promotion Hope you found post to be useful, you might also find below posts valuable ...

One the most important tag in on-page optimization is the title tag, its an HTML tag that can been seen in view source of a web page. Good title tag can bring in more traffic through keyword search listings and users clicks. Title tag is very much important in SEO because it speaks all about the web page to the search engine spiders and users and title tag should be unique through out the web page Title tag in Search engine listings: Title tag in browser: Title tag in Source: Title tag has lots of importance in search engine algorithms and below points can be followed for effective titles (1) Good title tag should be added with well-researched and optimized keywords (2) Title should describe page content (3) Title tag can have 3 to 4 keyword phrases (4) All page should have unique title, else the page will look duplicate in search engine eyes (5) Titles should be written for searchers and your visitors (6) Don't add HTML or java scripts to Titles (7) No Key...

As we all know advertising using pay per click has become one of the effective ways for targeting the most prospective customers to your business. Your website can have a contract with any one of the search engines and can bid on the keywords that best suits your website and business. When your target customer searches in these search engines using these keywords, the search engine pops up sponsored ads as its search results. Here are some useful tips to have your ad seen in the above competition: Identify your Niche 1. Get to know what your search engine surfers generally type when they look for a site related to yours. 2. Come with as many as keywords possible to describe your website and products. 3. With this list of keywords, with the help internet, try to identify more keywords that are widely used by the surfers. Free online tools also can be used to simplify this task for you. Choose Low Competitive Keywords 1. Pay per click advertising is quite competitive and can ...

As my regular readers know I have posted a section about "how to add website or blog in cuil" on search engine launch and I found some interesting information’s from my Google analytics account, just thought of sharing with my blog visitors, from the search keywords report i found many users are trying to get their website or blog indexed in Cuil, some trying to know techniques like how to list top in Cuil and so on. Most of the search keyword was to get listed to cuil search engine, see below screenshot One of the interesting facts about cuil is search results are displayed with images which has been added related to the pages displayed and do not always come from the related website. This may be the one, visitors gets interest to get listed Cuil Search Keywords: Cuil Search Location: