In my previous post, I laid out the importance of having quality backlinks to a website.  Submitting a website’s URL to Search Directories is the easiest and most popular way to get quality backlinks.

If you are a beginner, there is bound to be some confusion between “Search Engines” and “Search Directories”  initially.  One should know that the process of submitting to a search engine and a search directory is completely different. Continue Reading

Before Google came into the picture, submitting your website to search engines was pretty much the way to get listed in them & probably rank as well. When Google hit the scene, Search Engines were all about indexing as many web sites as possible. Google with its mindset of being different decided to add more strategies for websites to rank well. One of them was “Link Popularity” or “Backlinks”.

• Backlink – A link back to your website.
• Link Popularity – A web page with the most number of quality backlinks will enjoy link popularity & In turn high Page Rank.
• Page Rank – PR is Rank given by Google on a scale of 1- 10 to rate the popularity of a web page.

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Free SEO Quiz by  Softlogic.Inc

I am forever searching for new ways in which I can make my articles more informative and fun to learn from. Till date, I always picked up a topic and wrote about them; however, I came across a blog, who incorporated a small quiz In order to provide information to their visitors. Now, I had never come across a SEO Quiz and got really fascinated by this article by Mr. Rajeev Samuel.

The Quiz has been divided into 3 sections:

• A mix of all topics
• Link Building Quiz
• General SEO Quiz

Each section has 7 MCQ’s with answers provided at the end of it. Let us go through a question from each section. Continue Reading

A list of Free XML Sitemap Generator Tools to help you create the sitemap.xml file for your website.

• Code.Google: Features a large list of sitemap tools.

• XML- Sitemaps: Generates up to 500 pages & charges $19.99 for PHP script that creates sitemaps for larger websites. This tool is good for websites having less than 500 pages. Continue Reading

A Sitemap gives the searchbot a guide of the navigational structure of the website & a clear view of what content has changed since the last time. An XML sitemap helps Googlebot in distributing the Page Rank effectively to the web pages. One can place the XML sitemap in the public directory of the website where it is easily accessible to the searchbots.

Topics Covered:

• Creating XML Sitemap

• Create an XML Sitemap yourself

• Free Sitemap Generator Tools

• Submitting your Sitemaps

• Ping Search Engines

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