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/webma...

The power of Social Media is reaching heights. Social media along with SEO can make difference in your online business traffic. Here are the Social Media tips that can work for the year 2012 to reach your audience. (1) Research using social media monitoring tools to find what your customers speak about you. (2) Write interesting facts that makes your content read. (3) Spend on social media marketing only after you research on your customers. (4) Share industry expert’s write-ups with your network. (5) Post information’s on social media. (6) Know people who go with your theme and follow on Twitter . (7) Have provisions for people to contact you for feedback. (8) Engage your Facebook fans . (9) Have your profile information updated. (10) Select a good username for social media accounts (Mine is jagadeeshmp). (11) Expand your social media network by sharing quality content. (12) Create a Google profile and sign up in Google plus. Add circles and interact with interesting links. (13) Do ...

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...