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Using a sponsored theme? Wrong decision my friend
Blogging Are you using a sponsored theme? Here’s some news that may be unpleasant for you. Recently at the WordCamp 2007, Matt Cutts announced - Don’t use sponsored theme – can lose all your trust in different search engines. You can see this statement in the 25th slide, of his powerpoint presentation file, he released on the day. Now, that’s not very soothing to the ears, especially for designers. Designers used to ...
Continue readingUse multiple keyword optimization and break into the SERPs
Search Engine Optimisation Search Engine optimization is all about keywords. Selecting a good niche keyword, means that you are half done in your efforts to drive traffic to your site. Earlier, when SEO was “discovered”, we were all told by the gurus that keywords are the main components one should focus efforts on. So we went around, picking niche keywords, selecting the most popular ones on search engines, and tweaked our site copies to ...
Continue reading10 things that you shouldn’t assume about your blog
Blogging Many a times, you stumble upon that one appealing blog – while you are surfing through the “virtual blog junk” so to say! The copy seems to be very appealing ,the content – unique and brilliant! “How come i didn’t ever hear about such a guy?” – you think. And then you look at the “stats” – Feedburner stats – less than 60 Comments – Gloriously 0 on majority of the posts ...
Continue readingHow to make inactive readers to comment?
Blogging All of us would agree that the total number of comments on a blog is made up of less than 20-30% of the total number of visitors on the entire blog. Even the blog which receives the most number of comments(Problogger ,SEOMoz or any other blog), is able to convert only it’s 25% of total traffic into active comenters. The total unique hits to total number of comments from unique ips is the proof for this. Comments are one of the most surest ...
Continue readingIf you’re reading this on an RSS reader-you’re a loser !
Blogging All of us provide feeds and all of us subscribe – We are networked. But if you are reading all those blogs from the reader, you are isolated(like an island) and you are a loser. I’m trying to discuss the topic – The benefits of reading blogs outside the reader. I have 76 feeds in my reader,and i know this isn’t any great number – JohnTP reads almost 100 everyday. Darren(actually his kid) has admitted that he reads ...
Continue readingSome common SEO myths cleared
Search Engine Optimisation Some say it is a volatile field, some say it’s vast and ever evolving, some say it’s damn boring! With all these differences in opinion, there are some common myths that i found in the groups. Unanimous they were but interesting. Let’s check! - SEO’s get it done overnight. Many think that SEO is a set of rules if done over night – will get you traffic overnight. No. SEO is an experiment with some predictable results ...
Continue reading10 sure ways to boost up traffic on blogger platform
Blogger Blogger is from the Google stable, still blogspot users or their blogs does not have any preference in Google SERPS over other blogs or platforms. Yes, it has some cool pre-built inventories but considering that you have great content and information, only great Search Engine optimization can bring it up the SERPS(or if you have been doing it unknowingly.) So today let’s look at 10 sure shot ways to boost your traffic on blogger/blogspot ...
Continue readingThe perils of broken links
Search Engine Optimisation When was the last time you saw a broken link? Probably in that MFA site where RSS feeds related to a particular topic is simply pulled in from search engines. Or that scrappy looking -Web 2.0 site on Free icons! Bad examples there, but my point is to prove that you relate a broken link to a badly drafted site very easily.You are right. A broken link is a bad example of SEO. First off , let’s see what a broken link is. Usually, people link ...
Continue reading10 things you can do to your blog on a weekend
Blogging Every weekend,(this may sound bizzare), i pay an evening visit to my office, just to make sure that my weekend tasks are all completed and i have no left overs.This may be on the way to the club or after my weekend shopping spree. Well, i know it sounds bizarre, and some of you may already be thinking what a jerk I am. Well, i must admit that i am some kind of a jerk to do that, but i find it very helpful.One thing is that every Friday evening, ...
Continue readingDecrease your page load time – Save traffic
Search Engine Optimisation How much time does your blog take to load itself on the browser? Many of you may reply – just a few seconds. My next question would be – How many seconds? Based on your answer, please feel free to place you in one of the below categories. Category 1- Below 15 seconds Category 2- Below 10 seconds Category 3- Below 4 seconds Category 4- Below 2 seconds If you belong to Category 3 or 4, you are safe otherwise, you may have to look at ...
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