Importance of Sitemaps

Sitemap have also become a cornerstone of good Search Engine Optimization. Since they display your site hierarchy and architecture on one page, the Search Engine spiders which come to your website don’t need to work hard to find all the pages. This is most relevant with sites that haves thousands of pages – the sitemap helps the spider to rapidly crawl each and every page no matter how big the website is. In addition, the webmaster can stop stressing and wondering if all the pages are been crawled correctly by the Search Engine spider.

Sitemaps are important as they assist user navigation and enhance SEO. This means that users are able to understand the purpose and theme of the site, while finding required content. On the other hand, a sitemap makes it easier for search engines to find and rank a site’s content. Thus, the site is more likely to be indexed and ranked in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). This makes sitemaps very important for the optimisation of a site.

It is believed that backlinks are the most important aspect of a site’s optimisation. While they are helpful, on their own they are unable to optimise a site. Sitemaps are able to assist a site’s optimisation, as they lead to search engine indexing and ranking. If search engine “spiders” are unable to “crawl” through your site, it will not get indexed and ranked. Therefore, visitor traffic and online revenue will not improve. Thus, the overall success of a website will be compromised.

Sitemaps also help in classifying your site content, though search engines are by no means obliged to classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because you have told them so.

Effective Link Wheel Tips & Tricks

Avoid closing the linkwheel

Google may detect a completely closed link wheel as a link manipulation. An alternative I´m using every now and then is to close the link wheel using a link in the side bar of the Web 2.0 Spoke (You can utilize an RSS feed here too!). This is particularly significant if you primarily build a small link wheel (below 12 spokes).

Change Design

Always make sure to change and alter the design of your linkwheel spokes to get rid of footprints. Also remember o optimize your spokes for the search engines as good as possible.

Use All Websites

Use both, article directory websites and Web 2.0 sites to build your Linkwheel. So it is a good idea to use articles as Linkwheel spokes and article submissions to promote your Linkwheels even more.

Try to create as large as Link Wheel – Bigger is Better

Not only this will get more link juice to your money site, but it will make it more harder for Google to detect a closed Link Wheel, this will not only increase the effectiveness of your link wheel, it will also make it much harder for Google to detect your link wheel as what it is! It is also a good idea to randomize almost all factors of your Link Wheel, including the amount of Link Wheel spokes!

Update Link Wheel Regularly

Try to update your Link Wheel on a  regular basis! This will easily multiply the power of your link wheel after some time! updating your content once or twice a month should be enough!

Simply follow these things while creating Link Wheels and I’m sure you’ll definitely get positive results. Good Luck!

So most of the SEO workers and link builders are trying to achieve more and more links towards their website and here comes a LINK FARM into the picture. Link farm is a group of web pages containing a large list of links to different websites without groupings, categories to the website.

The idea behind link farming is to increase the number of sites that link to yours because search engines such as Google rank sites according to, among other things, the quality and quantity of sites that link to yours. Link farms are built for the sole purpose of artificially increasing the number of incoming links to a website to increase that site’s index ranking in the search engines. An illicit link farm is a form of search engine spam and is used to trick search engines into giving a website a higher ranking (because of the inbound link from the link farm) for a particular keyword than the website merits on its own. These types of sites are penalized by all of the search engines and carry no PageRank or weight. Adding a link to your website on a link farm can cause your site to be penalized by the search engines as well.

Thus, you must ensure a proper site which resembles a link farm but it is filled up with good page rank and at that time you should not get linked to it. Whenever you find your website ensure that it does not get linked to a bad neighborhood just like the treatment to your children. Either go for a quality directory submissions or check out these link building ideas which really work out!

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How to Implement 301 Redirect?

301 redirect is most common need of basic search engine optimization nowadays. The most efficient way of redirecting a web page is 301 redirect. It’s not much hard to implement 301 redirect. It’s the safest option to maintain your rankings on Search Engines if you moved/renames your website pages OR domain name. “301 Redirect” is interpreted as “Moved Permanently”.

As I said, 301 redirect is not a hard job to implement. You can do it easily but yes, it’s important to know on which technology your website is developed. There are several technology OR we can say programming languages available in the market like ASP, PHP, Coldfusion, HTML etc… So you should know that first.

Now, what to do after that? Nothing!!!! Really?? Yeahhh!

Lol. You must be surprised but I mean what I said.

Let me make it very simple for you. Below I’m giving a collection of all the 301 redirection setup codes for all the technologies/programming languages. So just pick the code from below based on your website technology and implement it on your website and you’re done.

PHP Redirect

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );


Redirect Old domain to New domain (htaccess redirect)

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain. The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.

In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite module enabled.

IIS Redirect

• In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
• Select the radio titled “a redirection to a URL”.
• Enter the redirection page
• Check “The exact url entered above” and the “A permanent redirection for this resource”
• Click on ‘Apply’

ColdFusion Redirect

<.cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
<.cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com">


ASP Redirect

<%@ Language=VBScript
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.new-url.com/"
%>


ASP .NET Redirect


private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com");
}


JSP (Java) Redirect

<%
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" );
response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );
%>


CGI PERL Redirect

$q = new CGI;
print $q->redirect("http://www.new-url.com/");


Ruby on Rails Redirect

def old_action
headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
redirect_to "http://www.new-url.com/"
end


What is Google Bowling?

So here is a new world in SEO industry. It’s Google Bowling. I’m sure my most of the reader are hearing this name the very first time because this is the very new name and I also came across this name few days back. I’ve read some articles regarding Google Bowling so now for those of you that do not aware of what Google blowing is, let me explain this to you.

Google Bowling is basically a process by where you try to get competitors websites dropped from Google, by getting hundreds or thousands of spammy links pointing to the site. The idea is to make Google think that the site owners are trying to spam their site to the top of the search engines.

Now I have heard of companies that are apparently specialists in this field, charging a fortune to carry out this type of reverse SEO, to get sites dropped from Google. But I personally believe Google bowling is a myth. Google does drop sites in and out of its index from time to time, but I don’t think that you can affect a sites ranking by getting links to it from spammy sites.

This is the way I see it. A site owner has no control over who links to their site. If you get natural links from spammy sites how can you be penalized for it? If your site links to spammy sites, you can get penalized for that, as you do have control over who your site links to. Google likes links from quality authority sites related to your sites content. Getting links from these sites will see your site listed higher in Google, getting links from spammy sites will not in my opinion get your site dropped, it will just not get your site listed any higher. Google will basically ignore the non relevant spammy links.

So if anyone approaches you and tells you they can get your competitors site dropped from Google by using this so called Google Bowling technique, then take it with a pinch of salt. Apart from the fact that it is highly unethical, its also highly unsuccessful in my opinion.

Top Link Building Strategies

To rank your website well in Search Engine Rankings, Link building is the most important task. Link building is about getting quality backlinks towards your website. Getting quality and justified backlinks is not an easy task. You have concentrate hard on link building right from the day ‘one’, to make your website a successful portal.

Below are the very important top 5 strategies of how to build powerful backlinks:

• Reciprocal Link Building: Concentrate hard on reciprocal link building too. Find good websites and request link exchange from those websites. Make sure those websites are quality, justified to your own site. Always ask Url link, title of the link, and description of the link.

• Submit articles to Article Directories: It will be a very good idea if you write articles for your own site. Write quality, informative, and interesting articles. Add fresh contents. Fresh contents are very much liked by search engines.

• Submit Press releases: Submission of press release is a very good idea. There are many free press release sites where you can actually submit your site and make others about you website specifically. This will prove beneficial to build link exchanges.

• Build your own network with the help of Social Networking sites: Build your network with Social media and networking sites. Communicate and build relationships to drive in more traffic to your sites. With that, you will be able to get some good links of existing websites.

• Participate in link Programs: It is always advisable to participate in link programs. There are some good link programs in which you help others to get them link and other help you.

Common Google Adwords Mistakes

A fantastic way to drive targeted and relavant traffic to the website are Google Adwords. If you manage them correctly, they can have huge conversion rates so you will

have more leads and sales from your website.

So on the Google AdWords pay per click (PPC) search engine which is highly competitive nowadays, it’s more important to ensure that your PPC campaigns are optimized to

their upmost potential.

So you should avoid following mistakes wile doing Google Adwords PPC:

• Picking Wrong Keywords
• Too May Keywords in a same Ad Group
• Lack of keywords in your Ad
• Using Broad Match only
• Not Tracking the Conversions
• Having non-dedicated and non-converting Landing Pages
• Leaving all networks active for your campaigns
• Ignoring the competition

Hope this help you guys to make your Google Adword PPC campaign worth!

How To Do Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is relatively very easy to do than other SEO techniques but challenging job over here is to choose the best websites for bookmarking. After choosing the best websites, you need to take care of the way you do bookmarking of your websites.

Social bookmarking allows you to specifically target what you want to see. Instead of going into a search engine, typing something in, and then searching for that needle in a haystack, you can quickly narrow down the items to what you are looking for.

So here are some greatest tips to do Social Bookmarking in a proper way:

• Create Facebook Fan page for your website and make that page active by posting something interesting regularly.
• Be a part of twitter and try to get more and more followers by posting some interesting contents over there. Also, try to post your questions and take part in some conversations by following same niche users.
• Pick up the Right Category while posting. This is the most important factor in Social Bookmarking.
• Join some top Social Bookmarking websites like Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious. Reddit and try to expand your network over there by making many friends.
• Most of the Social Bookmarking websites are allowing tagging nowadays. So just make sure that you make use of this tagging feature at Maximum.
• Do the maximum use of RSS. You can creare RSS feed of your account from all Social Bookmarking websites and you can publish these RSS on RSS directories.

Again, there are dozen of ways to generate traffic to your website but the thing that can give you Rapid results is Social Bookmarking. So Be Social and Keep Bookmarking!

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Review

So finally a long awaited IE9 BETA out there. People are waiting for a first look of IE as Microsoft promised a significant update. But a big question is whether they have delivered OR not?? I must say their first impression changed this time…

After reviewing the whole new IE9 beta we can say the first impression of IE9 is looking good. The key improvements are simpler interface and speed but again the lack of Windows XP support is worrying.

IE9 Beta is impressive but the Microsoft IE team have much work to do before final release to beat the competitors. We can say Microsoft can back in the browser game!

You can view detailed review over here: IE9 Beta Review