These are some basic steps which I feel every search engine optimizer must follow to optimize a website from scratch. If these issues are resolved at the start then you will not face any optimization issues later on. Check for 404 pages/broken links on website Broken links are poison for any website. If you have … Read more
Some times Google does not display the right title of the web page in its search listings. It does not mean that Google has not indexed your website. If you look at the Google cache of your web page you will see that it has indexed the page with the correct title. This usually happens … Read more
Most directory and listing websites on the internet need to record how many times their listings have been viewed by visitors and how many have clicked on them. Not only that they need to discount the impressions and clicks of search engine crawlers and spam bots from the actual data so that their data is … Read more
My company’s SEO team lead came to me with an interesting problem and I thought I share it with everyone. It so happens that his team were doing SEO related work on an e-commerce website and they were seeing a lot of the website pages indexed in Google which had the text The page you’re … Read more
Most of the times you will find that even when the website is live and running and there are no bugs/issues on the website you will see that not many people are buying the product/service you are offering. You may find that people are visiting your website but due to some reason the number of … Read more
If you want to know when GoogleBot visited your website recently you can use any of the following ways to do so 1. Go through your web logs which Apache/IIS generate for your website. Scan for GoogleBot. A very crude way indeed. 2. If you have signed up for Google Sitemaps then you can login … Read more