Google: How Fast Is Our Hummingbird

15 years have past since Google Search first appeared on the stage. Back in 1998 the searching process was far from perfection:  the huge machine called computer is on, the user type in keywords into the search system and the system manages to find several websites with the required information. Now it sounds funny, but at that time it was a miracle! The whole process and the devices have...

Choosing A Perfect Name For Your Blog

Choosing a perfect name for your blog can be one of the most hardest and important thing. You want a name that portrays whatever your blog is about in a clear and concise manner. You can choose two types of names for your blog, relevant or something outside the box. Below are things to consider when choosing a blog name: Related To Your Niche:  Make sure your blog's name is related to your...

Improve Your Google PageRank

Earlier this week, I posted about Google PageRank at this link. Now, I'll tell you several ways to improve your site's Google PageRank. Your website's PageRank depends upon quality backlinks you get for your website and total count of your website pages. 1.Write Quality Content: Everybody likes to share some good content. Create content that users want and will share with others, which will get...

What Is Google PageRank And Why Should I Use It?

What Is Google PageRank? Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by Google Search. Your website's PageRank depends upon quality backlinks you get for your website and total count of your website pages. The Google Toolbar's PageRank feature displays a visited page's PageRank as a whole number between 0 and 10. The most popular websites have a PageRank of 10....

Optimize Blog Title For Search Results

Your traffic from search depends on your content and post titles. I guess now it's time to give a bit attention to your blog/post title for a better SEO. Sorry for bad editing, i recently formatted my pc, and right now i don't have Photoshop. Let's focus on topic.... It would be better if Title Starts with your Post Title and ends with your Blog Title.I do believe that it will definitely improve...

Display Your Profile Picture In Google Search Results

I wanted to post this article from a long time but never got a chance. So it's cool that you see my image with my site's name in search results which is a really good way to promote yourself with your blog but lots of guys don't have any idea how to do this. It's pretty simple just follow these simple steps below. First of all you should be using your Google + profile instead of your Blogger profile....

Setting Up robots.txt On Blogger

Months ago Blogger introduced custom robots.txt feature. This feature improve your blog's SEO but newbies really afraid to use this feature because it says : Warning! Use with caution. Incorrect use of these features can result in your blog being ignored by search engines. .GFUQPS5BJKB { background-color: #ffeeb6; border: 1px solid #cdd4ef; padding: 10px 15px; margin: 10px 0; width: 90%; text-align:...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Promote Your Website In The Right Ways

About increasing backlinks with an intention to increase the value of the site : While most of the links to your site will be gained gradually, as people discover your content through search or other ways and link to it, Google understands that you'd like to let others know about the hard work you've put into your content. Effectively promoting your new content will lead...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Guide Mobile Users Accurately

Running desktop and mobile versions of your site : One of the most common problems for webmasters who run both mobile and desktop versions of a site is that the mobile version of the site appears for users on a desktop computer, or that the desktop version of the site appears when someone accesses it on a mobile device. In dealing with this scenario, here are two viable options: Redirect...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Notify Google Of Mobile Sites

Configure mobile sites so that they can be indexed accurately : It seems the world is going mobile, with many people using mobile phones on a daily basis, and a large user base searching on Google’s mobile search page. However, as a webmaster, running a mobile site and tapping into the mobile search audience isn't easy. Mobile sites not only use a different format from normal desktop sites,...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Be Aware Of rel="nofollow" For Links

Combat comment spam with "nofollow" :  <a href="http://www.shadyseo.com" rel="nofollow">Comment spammer</a> If you or your site's users link to a site that you don't trust and/or you don't want to pass your site's reputation, use nofollow. Setting the value of the "rel" attribute of a link to "nofollow" will tell Google that certain links on your site shouldn't be followed...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Make Effective Use Of robots.txt

Restrict crawling where it's not needed with robots.txt : User-agent: * Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /search All compliant search engine bots (denoted by the wildcard * symbol) shouldn't access and crawl the content under /images/ or any URL whose path begins with / search. A "robots.txt" file tells search engines whether they can access and therefore crawl parts of your site . This file,...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Use Heading Tags Appropriately

Use heading tags to emphasize important text: </head> <body> <h1>Brandon's Baseball Cards</h1> <h2>News - Treasure Trove of Baseball Cards Found in Old Barn</h2> <p>A man who recently purchased a farm house was pleasantly surprised ... dollars worth of vintage baseball cards in the barn. The cards were ... in news papers and were thought...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Optimize Your Use Of Images

Image-related information can be provided for by using the "alt" attribute : Images may seem like a straightforward component of your site, but you can optimize your use of them. All images can have a distinct filename and "alt" attribute, both of which you should take advantage of. The "alt" attribute allows you to specify alternative text for the image if it cannot be displayed for some...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Write Better Anchor Text

Suitable anchor text makes it easy to convey the contents linked :  Anchor text is the clickable text that users will see as a result of a link, and is placed within the anchor tag <a href="..."></a>. <a href="http://www.brandonsbaseballcards.com/articles/ten-rarest-baseballcards.htm">Top Ten Rarest Baseball Cards</a> This text tells users and Google something...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Offer Quality Content And Services

Interesting sites will increase their recognition on their own : Creating compelling and useful content will likely influence your website more than any of the other factors discussed here . A blogger finds a piece of your content, likes it, and then references it in a blog post. Users know good content when they see it and will likely want to direct other users to it. This could be through...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Make Your Site Easier To Navigate

Navigation is very important for search engines : The navigation of a website is important in helping visitors quickly find the content they want. It can also help search engines understand what content the webmaster thinks is important. Although Google's search results are provided at a page level, Google also likes to have a sense of what role a page plays in the bigger picture of the site. Plan...

Google SEO Starter Guide : Improve The Structure Of Your URLs

Simple-to-understand URLs will convey content information easily : Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by search engines. Also, it can create easier, "friendlier" URLs for those that want to link to your content. Visitors may be intimidated...