Posted on 05 September 2009 by Kittu
On Page Optimization includes all the SEO techniques that you can use on your own site without the help of other websites to rank well. These On Page SEO techniques apply to all the content of your web pages. There are a number of On Page elements that one can optimize for; but the most important of all is the page title.
The title of your web page is the first most visible element and appears in the <title> tag of the <head> section. Because of its prominence, the title of your web page is the most important on page elements to be optimized. A good SEO title should have the key phrases in appropriate proximity and density. A balance has to be maintained taking the above factors and the title length in consideration. A good page title is also short and catchy. Continue Reading
Posted on 19 August 2009 by Kittu
You require a robots.txt file only if you don’t want searchbots to crawl and therefore index certain pages. i.e you want to block particular pages of your website from coming in search results of search engines. If you want your entire site to be indexed, you don’t need robots.txt file in the first place.
Robots.txt is simply an ASCII text file placed at the root of your domain.
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Posted on 03 August 2009 by Kittu
Keyword Density is the the percentage of times a keyword or phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on the page. There are a lot of SEO tools available in the market which help in determining the keyword density.
Listed below are some free keyword density checker tools, one can compare the results of these tools to get accurate results; i.e Keyword Density has to be balanced. Less keyword density will not achieve the desired result and a extremely high keyword density might get your website flagged for “keyword spamming”.
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Posted on 11 July 2009 by Kittu
In the previous post, we learned what is Black Hat SEO, and why it is used by a lot of people. Let us see some of the most common ways in which Black Hat SEO is used by webmasters.
Keyword Stuffing & Stacking:
Both these terms are used interchangeably by people. We all have come across webpages where some terms have been used again & again, sometimes even invisible to users. Keyword stuffing & stacking is one of the oldest methods used to trick search engines & search engines are well aware of this and are always on a lookout for such websites. Though their will be times when such pages go unnoticed by the search engines. Continue Reading
Posted on 09 July 2009 by Kittu
SEO means improving the traffic to a website by natural or organic means. While Black Hat SEO – also called as Spamdexing uses incorrect means of displaying text to search engine spiders in order to rank well in the search engines. This techniques ends up degrading the user experience with search engines.
That is why, a lot of search engines are always on a lookout for websites implementing Black Hat SEO techniques. Isn’t it weird- We dont know how the search engines rank web page. For if we knew the webpage ranking technique, we could easily fool the search engine into ranking in top 10 atleast.
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