Barriers to Successful Search Engine Crawling

February 21, 2009 · Filed Under SEO · Comment 

Unless the search engine bots successfully crawl or spider the web page, it won’t be indexed and shown in search results.. Here are some of the technical elements that webmasters commonly use that can block the web pages from search engine crawlers.

Robots.txt File

This file is placed in the root directory of a website. Here we can block unwanted pages and folders from search engine spiders. Even the popular site may be ignored by major search engines if the content of robots.txt file are incorrect. The basic syntax for robots.txt file is
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Tips for Efficient Directory Submission

February 21, 2009 · Filed Under Link Building · 6 Comments 

Directory Submission – The most commonly known off-page SEO Link Building strategy that strikes through all Web masters / Link Builders mind when promoting their website. But is it worth doing? Yes, it is, purely based on how effectively and efficiently being done. Here comes some of the tips for doing it effectively. Let us see them in detail.

Do’s:

1. Find out if the directory is indexed by the topmost search engines. If it has not been cached by search engines for a long period of time, there is definitely no point in submitting your links on it.

2. Established, popular directories can bring in traffic and also the kind of back links that’ll actually foster your site’s optimization process.

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Effective Keyword Usage for Better Rankings

February 20, 2009 · Filed Under SEO · 4 Comments 

One of the major aspects to achieve high rankings in SERP is by writing keyword rich content in the website.Some factors to be considered for better positioning in search engines are,

Keyword density:
Keyword density is the percentage of total number of keywords to the total number of words in the webpage. Achieving optimum keyword density will help us improve the rankings in SERPs. But stuffing more keywords results in keyword spamming and may get penalized by search engines .Optimum keyword density of about 2%-5% is preferred generally. They need to be adequately chosen and placed in right position in the webpage.
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Unethical Onpage Optimization Techniques – Be Aware!

February 20, 2009 · Filed Under SEO · 6 Comments 

As we are more concerned about the best good practices to be followed in SEO, we should also be aware of all the spam techniques that are followed in the industry to get rid of those activities.

Spam Techniques are used to rank higher in the search engines results page in an unethical manner. This may be against search engine rules.

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SearchCamp Vs SearchMasters 2009

February 16, 2009 · Filed Under Google, Others · 3 Comments 

With more than 300 participants registered for the Searchcamp 2009, a two day event aimed to bring together the best minds to talk about internet marketing and the organizers trying hard to rope in international experts including Avinash Kaushik, Matt Cutts etc now there seems to be a sudden twist in the event. This is because of the Google SearchMasters Conference 2009 being organized on the same day.
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