When I started writing this blog two years back, I had no idea how a search engine works. I had no idea what is pagerank, what the heck is link building and why people always crave for links, anchor text and rankings. I just wrote the articles one after another. Overtime, I learned a thing [...]
As a blogger or the webmaster of a website, one should be very serious regarding fixing broken links on his/her website. A lot of broken links, bad redirects and non existent 404 pages on your website does not reflect a good signal to the Googlebot and it can sometimes harm your site’s reputation on the eyes of a search engine.
If you write a blog and use a lot of images in blog posts, you might have noticed thatsometimes the images appear non aligned, when you view your site’s RSS feed in Google Reader, FeedDemon, Bloglines and other desktop or web based feed readers. For example: The thumbnail image which appears to be right aligned [...]
Bing has recently added some more features to their webmaster tools service which now shows detailed traffic data for websites, search queries, an approximate number of impressions on search result pages and an expected click through rate for key phrases and keywords.
What should be the ideal separator when you are targeting multiple words and keyword phrases for the search engines. Should you use a dash (-), a comma (,), a pipe (|) or an underscore ( _ ) ?
If you manage a website and have recently changed your domain’s hosting provider, this tutorial will help you set up Google Apps email preferences for your domain, add MX records from the control panel (cpanel) of the new hosting company.
Let’s us suppose you run a website that get’s a few hundred hits every day. One of your recent blog post went viral on Digg or Techmeme, consequently inviting thousands of visitors over a short period of time. The rush in traffic causes heavy bandwidth usage and if your website is hosted on a low bandwidth quota – you might want to perform a free load test and check whether your website is ready for such accidental traffics.
Imagine this – you are working from a public computer and need to login to your WordPress blog for urgent reasons. You don’t trust the public computer on the internet parlor because there are chances that the system administrator has installed a keylogger program for tracking keystrokes, user names and passwods. You may use the [...]
Whatever algorithm or methods are put forward, nobody can ever stop spam. Not in comments, not in email, not in social sites and neither in search engines.
The number of spammy websites are increasing every other day and it will continue to increase in the future too. They plagiarize your content, steal your images, post duplicate content from other sites, forums, newsgroups and so on.
Google Translate is certainly the best online translation tools and provides fairly accurate translation of your blog’s articles. Visitors and readers from non English speaking countries can use the translation widget and read your site’s articles in their own language.
Whenever you publish a post or page in a WordPress blog, a short URL of the post is created in the form of http://www.domain.com/?p=2314, where 2314 is the unique ID of the blog post or page. This short link feature is handy, when you want to share your post on social networking websites e.g Facebook, [...]
There is no end to this long run debate among bloggers. Which is more influential – Social Media or Search ? Which medium of traffic converts the most and whether social media links have any significant influence on search ranks and search traffic ? After blogging around for two years, I have arrived to the [...]
The Google developers have added a new filter in search results, showing live notifications for websites that may have been compromised or hacked. As announced in the Google webmaster central blog, the hacked site notifications in Google search results will help users avoid sites that may have been hacked by spammers or altered by third [...]
The Shared User Wordpress plugin checks whether the email addresses of your blog authors appears in the Gawker’s hacked list. If a match is found, you are shown an option to reset their passwords. If no match is found, nothing is returned which means none of the email addresses of your blog authors are present in that deadly list.
There are different ways to backup your WordPress blog. The most common way to backup your WordPress blog is to download all the files using an FTP client like Filezilla. Then go to the phpmyadmin panel of your hosting account and export the SQL database associated with the blog. Then there are these online backup [...]