Managing a website or a blog is not so easy, as it may seem from the surface. There are a lot of background work which every webmaster has to worry about, in order to provide a good user experience and make sure the search bots can “find” and chew the content of the site. One [...]
This is a very common question which worries a lot of bloggers and webmasters. Some webmasters are clueless on how to treat junk links from spam sites and whether spam links to 404 pages would have any effect on the rankings of existing pages. The short answer is a No, Spam links to 404 pages [...]
Online plagiarism or duplicate content is a curse for every blogger or webmaster, who works hard and produces original content on his own. Spam sites use a lot of different methods to plagiarize content from legitimate sources and as the owner of your content, it is your responsibility to knock away the imposters and make [...]
The appearance and layout of an Adsense ad is one of the several factors that greatly influences its performance. Link color, text color, font size, font type and background color of an Adsense unit must work together or that specific ad unit wont perform according to your expectations. Contextually relevant content is important but placement [...]
Do you want to move your WordPress image upload directory to a new address? Do you want to host images in a subdomain and want to update all the old posts with new URL’s? Here is a step by step guide which will help you migrate your WordPress Image upload directory to any folder within your domain.
Duplicate content is nothing but shadow copies of the same written piece accessible through multiple URL’s. In general, duplicate content issues can be divided into two broad groups: The webmaster himself copies content from different sources and uses the duplicate content on his website. This is called content scraping or online plagiarism, which is completely [...]
A few hours back I opened this site and was shocked to see that there were no posts at all. All the blog posts I have written over these years have vanished, they were not present in the homepage and neither they were accessible from the tag, category, author and other archive pages. At first [...]
A new study from Chitika reveals that pages that are ranked lower, have more click through rates for advertismens such as Google Adsense, CPC ads. Sites that are ranked higher gets low CTR while sites that are ranked lower get more CTR.
You might know that Google has recently launched an authorship markup tag which attempts to recognize original authors writing a piece of content. By using authorship markup on your blog, you can tell Google that you are the original author who has written this content. This helps cut the clutter from spammers, auto posters and [...]
Ever wondered how your website or blog looks in an iPhone or Apple iPad? Do you want to find how your website looks in a smartphone or whether the mobile friendly theme of your site renders properly on tablet computers or not? Consumer electronics is growing rapidly among web users and these devices now constitute [...]
There are dozens of websites which you use on a daily basis. You have email accounts, social profiles, blogs, RSS reader, YouTube and so many different websites to use but the biggest problem with all these websites is that you have to remember a different username and password for each of them. Sure, there are [...]
Here is a list of different types of HTTP status codes and the meaning of server headers. Know the meaning and purpose of HTTP status codes and check the http server headers of all internal pages of your site. HTTP status codes can impact search engine optimization of your site in some cases so it is important on the part of any webmaster to know a thing or two about HTTP status codes.
Google is testing bigger and larger sitelinks on Google search and now shows a meta description for each sitelink. Font size has been doubled, bolded and the sitelinks section now occupies the entire above the fold area.
Google has a lot of different ways to discover content on the web. Googlebot (Google’s web spider) crawls billions of websites on a regular basis to crawl and chew textual content, images, videos and other document formats (e.g PDF, DOC) embedded in websites. This process can be extremely fast for popular sites who post a [...]
The loading time of a website is one of the critical factors which determines how useful and usable a website is. Web users are pretty savvy these days, they want their answers as fast as possible and in fewer clicks. If your website takes ages to load on the clients browser, its common sense that [...]