Category: SEO And SEM

  • How to survive in a Post-Google World

    The recent reshuffle of the Google results has severely affected one of my most active websites with traffic falling more than 80%. It was one of my biggest single earners in terms of money and loosing revenue from it is a big time bad news for me. After almost 3+ years of solid rankings and…

  • Measuring your SEO Success – Backlinks

    It is a known fact that backlinks are one of the major factors which Google consider while indexing our websites in their search results. The more you have the better. But it is also important to take care of the quality of backlinks that you get for your website as building backlinks the wrong way…

  • Google Caffeine Search Engine Factors – Myths

    This post is a response to this post I came across the other day tonight on Twitter about the Google Caffeine Search Engine Ranking factors which claimed to put tips to optimize your website to the new version of Google Search which is reportedly live on some datacenters. I question the source  of that article…

  • 5 SEO Friendly WordPress Themes

    I wonder why it never struck me to complie a list of SEO friendly wordpress themes on my blog as I am constantly searching for them myself! I usually have a select of 10-20 themes which I use on most of my niche websites mostly because I have heavily modified them myself or find them…

  • Bing and 301 Redirects – Moved Permanently Problems

    Recently I was helping my friends at CSharks, the Indian Game Developers about their sites indexing issues in Bing. Initially I thought it was a flash site based indexing issues which Google had sometime back. Then we found out that BingBot has recently visited the homepage of the site, but failed to see through the…

  • Directory Submissions – Day 5 of Easy Link Building

    Directory Submissions are what most SEO experts in the industry call – “Old School”. But personally, after all those chats of directory submissions going south with a Google ban on them, personally, I think it still works. I keep directory submission as a part of my weekly efforts on backlinks. It is pretty much the…

  • Web2.0 Backlinks: Day 4 of Easy Link Building

    A method I have been using lately is the Web 2.0 method of creating backlinks to your sites. I specifically use a the modified version of the LinkWheel method which is getting some rave results in my experiments with some keywords jumping up 3-4 positions within weeks of creating a wheel. A method of creating…

  • Press Release: Day 3 of Easy Link Building

    Personally, I think Press Releases for Backlinks have been manipulated to no end by smart webmasters and those looking to build a buzz around their product. If you can take some time off and craft a good press release, I am sure it can get listed in major news aggregators and even high end News…

  • Social Bookmarking: Day 2 of Easy Link Building

    Welcome to Day 2 of Easy Link Building! I am planning to cover 5 popular and insanely easy ways of building backlinks to your site in this 5 day post series. So kids, we are going to lesson 2, Day 2!All the lessons will be updated centrally on pilot post of easy link building here.…

  • List of Article Marketing Directories

    This is my resource list for Day 1 of easy link building. Here are my personal list of top 10 article directories I submit to. Do make sure that you submit different articles to each of these directories to maximize your link juices! Site: EzineArticles This is a very impressive site with massive numbers of…