Out of the many SEO tools, Google Webmaster Tools is one of the most useful. It doesn’t have all the perks of commercial SEO suites and it is not a tool for any SEO need but it comes from Google itself and it offers lots of vital SEO insights. All these are good reasons to…
Search engine optimization is nowadays more important than ever and it is necessary for every webmaster to understand the true meaning of SEO as well as the potential it creates for every business. What is SEO? Search engine optimization or SEO, in short, is a set of rules that can be followed by website (or…
The quickest, least technical way to describe a 301 redirect is a permanent redirect from one URL to another. A 301 redirect differs from a 302 redirect in that a 302 redirect is used as a temporary redirect. Why 301 Are Redirects Important? To a search engine, “http://example.com” and “http://www.example.com” are not the same thing.…
All redirects carry risk. While it’s super awesome that Google is no longer “penalizing” 301 redirects through loss of Page rank, keep in mind that Page rank is only one signal out of hundreds that Google uses to rank pages. Ideally, if you 301 redirect a page to an exact copy of that page, and…
Before we delve into the tips, let us begin with what it means to have SEO friendly content. Simply put, it is producing content that is written with attention given to how search engines might view your content. Sadly though, there are a lot of marketers as well as bloggers who put too much emphasis…
ROR (Resources of a Resource) is a rapidly growing independent XML format for describing any object of your content in a generic fashion, so any search engine can better understand that content. ROR promotes the concept of structured feeds (which is related to the concept of structured blogging) enabling search engines to complement text search…
Your Robots.txt file is what tells the search engines which pages to access and index on your website on which pages not to. For example, if you specify in your Robots.txt file that you don’t want the search engines to be able to access your thank you page, that page won’t be able to show…
The robots.txt file is a simple text file (no HTML) that is placed in your website’s root directory in order to tell the search engines which pages to index and which to skip. Many webmasters utilize this file to help the search engines index the content of their websites. If webmasters can tell the search…
A robots.txt file is created by webmasters to tell robots, mostly search engine robots, what to and what not to crawl and index on a website. For example if a webmaster wanted to block their whole website from all robots or crawlers then it is as simple as adding the following 2 lines to a…
Images play an important role in web publishing, and Word Press makes it easy to add images to your content in several different ways. What you probably didn’t know is that taking a few extra minutes to fill in the “Attachment Details” for your images can improve their communicative value, create better user experiences for your…
