Search Engine Optimization

Adding Thousands of Pages At Once to a Site - Does Google Counts it As a Spam?

Some large sites like news websites may feel the necessity to add several thousands webpages on the site all at once. Will Google count it as a spam? Well, Google will activate the manual web spam team to have a review of the website. But, in simple words, algorithms can take it as a spam so it is safer to add webpages in stages rather than adding them all at once. <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Have a look at this video from Matt Cutts.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aVrsWFM2glI" width="560"></iframe> </div>

Adding Thousands of Pages At Once to a Site - Does Google Counts it As a Spam?

Some large sites like news websites may feel the necessity to add several thousands webpages on the site all at once. Will Google count it a...

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Do Exact Match Anchor Text Internal Links Hurt a Website?

Many webmasters often look confused regarding the relationship between exact match anchor text internal links and the <a href="http://www.seosandwitch.com/2012/05/google-penguin-update.html" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;">Google Penguin update</a>. Penguin is said to penalize websites that are having too many exact match anchor text backlinks. But, does that count for internal links also? The video below would help you to answer this question well. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6ybpXU0ckKQ" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>  The Crux Same anchor text backlinks does not hurts a regular website like if you are using the links as per your required design template. If you make any sort of changes and move too far adding too many links in the footer, sidebar etc. then it may affect your site. Hence, it is always the best strategy to serve the user and make it easier for the user to navigate your site without thinking how the search engines might use it as a signal to rank your website. Your site is safe as long as its using acceptable site links in terms of quantity. Act naturally and you are safe!

Do Exact Match Anchor Text Internal Links Hurt a Website?

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Mistakes to Avoid When Using rel=canonical

rel=canonical link element helps a webmaster to solve the duplicate content issue and present the preferred version of the url to the search engines. This preferred version of url is indexed and displayed in the search results but a slight mistake in proper configuration of this link element can deindex some of the important pages of your website unknowingly. Google posted helpful tutorial regarding the mistakes you must avoid while using rel=canonical link element. <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Linking to the first page of a paginated series</h3> Suppose you have a paginated series of information then instead of linking to the first page of the content, use   rel=canonical from component pages to a single-page version of the article, or use rel=”prev” and rel=”next” pagination markup. This is shown in the images given below:- <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-2tShTyAmEjBKiuRKXo1ftx5VYzfMtRFvLhTIxzZb6aCJ15Coix1FvOSV3kW2Q5cq-1wQzu7ENGtjtYlM6oEiuspb7VobzryIuPQYFRoClW0ZK41fXDTc92jRDIhc-u0xTcV_0njDQEB/s1600/paginated-content-canonical-issue.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-2tShTyAmEjBKiuRKXo1ftx5VYzfMtRFvLhTIxzZb6aCJ15Coix1FvOSV3kW2Q5cq-1wQzu7ENGtjtYlM6oEiuspb7VobzryIuPQYFRoClW0ZK41fXDTc92jRDIhc-u0xTcV_0njDQEB/s400/paginated-content-canonical-issue.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFye82VZAd8KGhJz5HAB6Cr0BTCIydSFzB8g7PCLOS2x5Mcw9D88M5DlOoJXFr_oRHrzUMLQdcmrn3VPGt8HnrG9kSFqMCGns0fNimikoSl9Pks9FZf5nxr57Li8OlnaKLGtFWJ11b3CDe/s1600/paginated-content-canonical-issue-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFye82VZAd8KGhJz5HAB6Cr0BTCIydSFzB8g7PCLOS2x5Mcw9D88M5DlOoJXFr_oRHrzUMLQdcmrn3VPGt8HnrG9kSFqMCGns0fNimikoSl9Pks9FZf5nxr57Li8OlnaKLGtFWJ11b3CDe/s400/paginated-content-canonical-issue-1.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipymKD3tJWg-kv4qlwu2jndogO45WBdXd5ZPSdzJosE3Ow_Q-CsBCACRAmE8GSfC-JzTuhbWI9G0wlfuKTZ1KUUelqD7hu0xhdUgkotm38sRLL1RGuRYRbil7uOGYxvI2foq4KS7sqiILT/s1600/paginated-content-canonical-issue-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipymKD3tJWg-kv4qlwu2jndogO45WBdXd5ZPSdzJosE3Ow_Q-CsBCACRAmE8GSfC-JzTuhbWI9G0wlfuKTZ1KUUelqD7hu0xhdUgkotm38sRLL1RGuRYRbil7uOGYxvI2foq4KS7sqiILT/s400/paginated-content-canonical-issue-2.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"></div> <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Absolute Vs Relative Urls</h3> While specifying url in the link element, you may specify either an absolute url or a relative url but the mistake happens when absolute url is specified as incorrect relative url. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaaEHQsnJUDj2CNAXoPSj4Gm38QnzZtmK7lTvvQedsyBtV1gLE37OSvLBC9Vmiiq7gRCcnfVfjQDqaFI3hyphenhyphenDb4ZSehRldkWchcdSjUW3KFZwiEBSTerbIgagHrWdwAQ-MK_URRqyOJ9vm/s1600/absolute-url-relative-url-canonical-issue.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaaEHQsnJUDj2CNAXoPSj4Gm38QnzZtmK7lTvvQedsyBtV1gLE37OSvLBC9Vmiiq7gRCcnfVfjQDqaFI3hyphenhyphenDb4ZSehRldkWchcdSjUW3KFZwiEBSTerbIgagHrWdwAQ-MK_URRqyOJ9vm/s400/absolute-url-relative-url-canonical-issue.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div> In the example above, the url "example.com/cupcake.html" should have been specified as "http://www.example.com/cupcake.html" <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Multiple Declarations of rel=canonical</h3> Another mistake that the webmasters often make is by declaring rel=canonical multiple times in the same web page. This confuses the search engines and ultimately the search engines ignores the codes altogether. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQdPkggmZmdq0TuhbGJfO8rm2YBCAdJdelXq7_HBeg4DqqMqZKvSBQ32wSVzx0h0ejLzqE6o8liJOPzlZXGebyT6qJoLkErTQhm93NAtj8JEHgTOBCfXpvLez4ZgmOBZ1kbg13WPhas-i/s1600/multiple-canonical-issue.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQdPkggmZmdq0TuhbGJfO8rm2YBCAdJdelXq7_HBeg4DqqMqZKvSBQ32wSVzx0h0ejLzqE6o8liJOPzlZXGebyT6qJoLkErTQhm93NAtj8JEHgTOBCfXpvLez4ZgmOBZ1kbg13WPhas-i/s400/multiple-canonical-issue.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div> Hence, it is better to review the source code to make sure there is only a single declaration of rel=canonical link element. <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Main Category Pages Linking to Featured Pages</h3> If your site is divided into category and subcategory or featured pages then do not make the mistake of providing a rel=canonical element specifying the subcategory page from the main category page. Many webmasters make the mistake of using the link=canonical tag to link to the featured category pages from the main category page and unknowingly deindex the main category page from the search engine results. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxgOrXbEMeiB39nAa5V-uf7I2L-83Pf2ma6PXSPFvKz31yv9npEcTmDBEfR0dT_zhzik3ILykS_Y9D-HBEva9_YvOac9ol6n1GD33G5PrsPiofvdytXv5hk25GLdsMc8yfDf0Clmg1Vzd/s1600/category-to-landing-page-canonical.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxgOrXbEMeiB39nAa5V-uf7I2L-83Pf2ma6PXSPFvKz31yv9npEcTmDBEfR0dT_zhzik3ILykS_Y9D-HBEva9_YvOac9ol6n1GD33G5PrsPiofvdytXv5hk25GLdsMc8yfDf0Clmg1Vzd/s400/category-to-landing-page-canonical.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div> <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">rel=canonical element in the body instead of head</h3> Incorrect configuration of the rel=canonical element in the body of the web page instead of the head section may lead to the disregard of this element by the search engines. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglURfTkEsPFWVRA-5XY40BP-xy2ClvgOi9wSDj8d3SjqycEE3Mp7uofmaXow_FhV0oEqBYXUHl1QNXmDeWG-Es8vsG3tiQCo-ULjpC9Jd1zWDUBsM-W4XO93XVZvmVZLwlbN1lxSrvBQm0/s1600/link-rel-body.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglURfTkEsPFWVRA-5XY40BP-xy2ClvgOi9wSDj8d3SjqycEE3Mp7uofmaXow_FhV0oEqBYXUHl1QNXmDeWG-Es8vsG3tiQCo-ULjpC9Jd1zWDUBsM-W4XO93XVZvmVZLwlbN1lxSrvBQm0/s400/link-rel-body.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div>

Mistakes to Avoid When Using rel=canonical

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What to do When You Loose Google Rankings Because Your Site is Down?

It is common  for the websites to go offline for some hours or some days together. But, during that period of time, all the hard work put behind achieving Google rankings fades away and your site loses its rankings on Google. So, what to do when you loose Google rankings because your site is down? The answer is get your site up and running as soon as possible, remove any errors that might be affecting your site and Google will put your site in the same position where it was. Have a look at this video from Matt Cutts, head of Google Webspam team explaining how to get your search rankings back after your site has been down. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jMxCOV99Umo" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>  Video Transcription :- "Make sure you put your website back up, make sure that its got reliable uptime and make sure that all the pages that were there before are still there. So, there is a tension at Google where when a page goes away may be there is a 404, we don't know whether it has really gone away, or whether that page will be back. Sometimes there is a server time out, servers are kind of slow, so on one hand you don't want to keep showing a page which be a bad user experience like it has really gone away, but, on the other hand, it's very common for the websites to go down for an hour, two hours, a day, may be two days and so you also get the benefit of the doubt so you can revisit those pages and see whether they have gone up. So, we do have varying time periods where we basically allow if a domain looks like it has gone away but it comes back online then we just say it was a transient error. So, the short and simple advice is, just go ahead and make sure that you put the website back to where it was and hopefully things should recover very quickly."

What to do When You Loose Google Rankings Because Your Site is Down?

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Google Introduces 3 New Methods for Easier Management of Site Verifications

Google recently introduced three new features for easier management of website verifications. These new features would help in easier management of verified sites. Feature 1 New Verification Details Link This feature would allow you to see the methods used to verify an owner for your site. A verification link would be displayed under "manage site owners" that will show the verification details of the user and a link where the verification details can be found faster. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioXPSDUFlQi18TaX7mqT414c1TOSY6bkkveB7rWYvCKCAyiPCQhTVUFXQM3GmOEV1xnkYakCt5Gbknwoh8CNN9AzTGVmwN9hmunmMOi0wAhQMegrRiKpqHmtqKoGVHdNnKV567UhKBlRY-/s1600/verification-details-dialog.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioXPSDUFlQi18TaX7mqT414c1TOSY6bkkveB7rWYvCKCAyiPCQhTVUFXQM3GmOEV1xnkYakCt5Gbknwoh8CNN9AzTGVmwN9hmunmMOi0wAhQMegrRiKpqHmtqKoGVHdNnKV567UhKBlRY-/s640/verification-details-dialog.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> Feature 2 Verification Needs to be Removed Before Unverifying an Owner If you want to unverify an owner then you need to remove the verification methods which were earlier used to verify the site. Feature 3 Shorter CNAME Verification String to Support Large Number of DNS Providers If you are verifying your site using CNAME verification then this method can now be easily implemented. Shorter CNAME can be used for those systems which limits the number of characters that can be used in DNS records.

Google Introduces 3 New Methods for Easier Management of Site Verifications

Google recently introduced three new features for easier management of website verifications. These new features would help in easier manage...

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Geotargeting Vanity Domains

Setting up a geographic target for a vanity domain like .me, .io, .it etc. is confusing and this is the reason Matt Cutts has refrained from passing on a potential solution to the problem. Nowadays domains are being used for many purposes rather than directly being used for specific purpose based on the generic domains. Here is a video by Google distinguished engineer, Matt Cutts which discusses the issue of setting geographic target in Google Webmasters Tools for vanity domains like ran.ge. <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QCozweHGTk0" width="560"></iframe>  </div>

Geotargeting Vanity Domains

Setting up a geographic target for a vanity domain like .me, .io, .it etc. is confusing and this is the reason Matt Cutts has refrained from...

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Google Reminds of Taking Action Against Sites that Sell PageRank

Matt Cutts recently <a class="seoquake-nofollow" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2013/02/a-reminder-about-selling-links.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">posted a reminder on Google Webmasters blog</a> against websites that are adopting to practice of selling links that pass PageRank. Matt issued  strict warning to the webmasters who engage in the practice of buying and selling links that their site might lose rankings, lose trust and in extreme cases deindexation of sites may also happen. <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">How to Remain Safe?</h3> You are the webmaster of your site, it is your responsibility to follow the guidelines of Google and never indulge in spammy activities of buying and selling links. Selling links might give you temporary profits but in the long run its going to adversely affect your website. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G-nX2i-y2Es" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>  <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> </h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Have you received a message of unnatural links in your webmasters account?</h3> If you have recently received a message of unnatural links pointing to other websites with the sole intention of passing PageRank then be cautious and take instant action. Make sure to make all the links to "no follow" and sent a reconsideration request to Google that you have taken sufficient action against the links and have added the rel no follow attribute to the unnatural OBL's to stop the passing of PageRank. Make sure to follow the Google's Webmaster guidelines.

Google Reminds of Taking Action Against Sites that Sell PageRank

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PageRank Dissipation is Roughly the same between 301 Redirects and Normal Links

Google has made its stand clear on PageRank dissipation between 301 redirects and normal links. Matt Cutts in a video said that PageRank dissipation is roughly the same between 301 redirects and normal links and as such no percentage of PageRank gets lots by using 301 redirects.The video given below is rather confusing but the essence is - you may use any of the linking techniques without focusing on how much PageRank would be lost? Here is what Matt says:- The amount of PageRank that dissipates through a 301 is currently identical to the amount of PageRank that dissipates through the link. It means use whatever is best for your purposes because you cannot serve any more PageRank if you use a normal link and likewise it does not hurt if you use a 301. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Filv4pP-1nw" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>

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How to Set a Geographic Target for your Website

Is your business located on a specific location in order to target the customers of a particular area? If the answer is yes and its not required for your business to target customers globally then setting up a geographic target for your website would be the best option available for you. <h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;">What is Geotargeting?</h2> Geotargeting simply means, targeting your website on a specific location. This can be any country of the world where your business might be located. Geotargeting helps Google to present more accurate and more specific results from the same location itself where the user has set up a preference. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUw2M-qEVvK_xc6ZnAVuFX36AgYkYCw-H6wbBrIgVuNBhUmrS2x1DH9eW9itQgWc_4L6Svg9ji0oeB-Iwss4VfyHUDDMrEDEO0w6FntiTMPOSLZk8znZ3ZlsNmCms1tpPdqogujMiIFte/s1600/geotargeting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #015782; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUw2M-qEVvK_xc6ZnAVuFX36AgYkYCw-H6wbBrIgVuNBhUmrS2x1DH9eW9itQgWc_4L6Svg9ji0oeB-Iwss4VfyHUDDMrEDEO0w6FntiTMPOSLZk8znZ3ZlsNmCms1tpPdqogujMiIFte/s1600/geotargeting.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Geotargeting (Image credit:- <a href="http://www.socialbrite.org/" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">socialbrite</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0.6em 0px 0.5em; position: relative;">How to Set up a Geographic Target for your Website?</h2> Setting up a geographic target is easy and hardly takes time. Follow the steps given below in order to localize     your business for a particular region:- 1- Log in to your <a class="seoquake-nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/webmasters" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">webmasters tools</a>. 2- Click on the site where you want to apply the settings. 3- Under the configuration tab, click on settings. 4- Tick the check box "Target users in" under Geographic target and choose your preferred destination. Wasn't that easy? But make sure you to read the guidelines mentioned below before you make any such changes. <h3 style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;">Read these Guidelines before Setting up a Geographic Target</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">1- You must use this feature when you are sure that targeting customers in a specified location won't hurt your business. For example, if your restaurant is located in Ukraine, then people currently in Ukraine might be more interested in visiting the restaurant than people in Brazil.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">2- If your site already has a country coded TLD (Top Level Domain) like .ca, .au, .jp, ..kr etc. then you don't need to use this feature.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">3- This setting would only target the users after they have limited the scope of the search to a specific country. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">4- Do not apply geographic target on the basis of the content of the site. You must apply these settings on the basis of your business restrictions.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Lastly, have a look at this video to have a better understanding of geotargeting in Google.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r9r3PayqaZM" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </div>

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Search Queries in Webmasters Tools

If you are still confused regarding the terms commonly used in relation to search queries in Google Webmasters Tools then the video shared below will definitely help you out. <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">What you will learn?</div> Concept of Crawling and Indexing Impression and Clickthrough Rate Conversions Query Search Query Filters Sorting by CTR Average Query Position and much more. This video tutorial is helpful for newbie search engine optimizers and webmasters who wish to learn and understand the concepts related to Google Webmasters Tools. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-wWB1PS8H7Q" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>

Search Queries in Webmasters Tools

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How to Find Out the Total No. of Pages Blocked by Robots.txt?

<a class="seoquake-nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Webmasters Tool </a>allows you to capture each and every minute details of your website.If you want to find out the total number of pages in your website that are being blocked by robots.txt. Follow the steps given below:- 1- Login to Webmasters Tools. 2- Move to Health Tab. 3- Move to Index Status. 4- Click on Advanced. 5- View the number of pages blocked by robots.txt. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJmFIAyh2_4iQ8LcFH7Yv5_aGgZZYmURhK6N_BmRa2Vk41EhRvm69kLbhVCbddB0H-1kRMnI5UjI9YCesQgNRtYGoYuLP-vKthloDUBBF0rYJSR4kasUAgqFZeIA3Qa_K1-VcSAzWYURk/s1600/robots.txt-deindexed-pages.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJmFIAyh2_4iQ8LcFH7Yv5_aGgZZYmURhK6N_BmRa2Vk41EhRvm69kLbhVCbddB0H-1kRMnI5UjI9YCesQgNRtYGoYuLP-vKthloDUBBF0rYJSR4kasUAgqFZeIA3Qa_K1-VcSAzWYURk/s640/robots.txt-deindexed-pages.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div>

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Google Updates Analytics- Replaces Visits with Sessions and Adds Graphs

Google Analytics has updated for the better and today I noticed a few changes being made on the analytics interface. Visits have been replaced by sessions (which technically means the same thing) and unique visitor metric has been replaced with users (which also means the same). Here is a screenshot that displays the new metrics namely sessions and users. What are Sessions and Visits? Sessions and visits are synonymous. When any visitor visits the site, a session gets created and this session remains active for 30 minutes or less if the site is closed by the visitor. Hence, visitors create sessions and 1 visit is equal to 1 session minimum. What are Unique Visitors and Users? It may happen that a single user can create multiple sessions over a period of time like for the past 30 months. In that case, the user metric displays the number of unique visitors who have created unique sessions. Hence, I hope the confusion is clear. Google has gone a little technical from being layman. <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntNLe_EAfF0k20ZaJqJVu1HvAZ54zduKGi5I79tZ4Z7nUd9mdtMKWj-BdVpQ2e17kdPYme8EhZngPF2tVNejsfPU1rC6HPhvR_K5TgWUB4ZFUIHe7Eow3_ZWGXhUwMpTLYGluE2bSR1ue/s1600/google-analytics-sessions-users.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntNLe_EAfF0k20ZaJqJVu1HvAZ54zduKGi5I79tZ4Z7nUd9mdtMKWj-BdVpQ2e17kdPYme8EhZngPF2tVNejsfPU1rC6HPhvR_K5TgWUB4ZFUIHe7Eow3_ZWGXhUwMpTLYGluE2bSR1ue/s1600/google-analytics-sessions-users.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div> Graphs Under the Acquisition Overview Google has also added some useful graphs under the Acquisition overview. These are Top Channels, Sessions and Conversions.  <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilO1QedN7I_DtgWJFBN4527F8SPrcPdXjceyZCsRcZE8c31uUk2R3GWb5ivi5ND6uPHnd1KXLsMUYSNQcdHgq0tDQ7KFjuGxZaae4vNEBnRoYynIaNIZsL-FNAdzqaJgzrVoLNbJ6KNvyP/s1600/top-channels-conversions-sessions.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #015782; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilO1QedN7I_DtgWJFBN4527F8SPrcPdXjceyZCsRcZE8c31uUk2R3GWb5ivi5ND6uPHnd1KXLsMUYSNQcdHgq0tDQ7KFjuGxZaae4vNEBnRoYynIaNIZsL-FNAdzqaJgzrVoLNbJ6KNvyP/s1600/top-channels-conversions-sessions.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div>

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How Does Google Analytics Collects Data from Mobile Apps?

Google Analytics follows a different process for collecting data from mobile apps. This is because apps are built on a different platform and as such the technology used to collect data is different. For websites, GA uses JavaScript for tracking visitor data but for mobile apps, GA uses SDK or Software Development Kit. There are different SDK's for different operating systems including Android and IOS. How SDK's Work to Collect Data? SDK's collects the following data from any mobile app: Screen Views Operating System Count of Sessions The above data gets packaged as hits and send into a Google Analytics account. When any user navigates through the app, the GA SDK stores the hits locally and sends them to GA account in a batch process called dispatching. What is Dispatching and Why its Important? Dispatching is the process carried by SDK to send HIT data in small batches into the GA account. Data is stored locally before it is dispatched in small batches into the GA account.  Dispatching is necessary because: 1- Mobile devices tend to lose network connectivity and when that happens, the SDK can't send any hits to the analytics account.  2- Sending data to Google Analytics in real time reduces the battery life of the device. For this reason, the SDK's automatically dispatch the hits every 30 minutes for Android device and every 2 minutes for IOS. How Does SDK Identifies Unique User? When an App launches for the first time, the SDK generates a unique identifying code for the device. Each unique identifier is equivalent to a unique visit in GA. When the app gets updated to a new version, the UID remains the same, however if the app gets uninstalled and then reinstalled then a new UID is generated. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aX-feq6m8Ws" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>  Hope, this tutorial helped you in understanding the process through which GA collects data from mobile apps.

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6 Critical Web Metrics That Every SEO Must Understand and Analyze

The proper use of web analytics is important to determine the status of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) that directly impacts the Return on Investment (ROI). 1- Visits and Visitors Visits and visitors often confuses the webmasters. Technically, visits is the count of the number of sessions and visitors is the count of the number of unique browser visits. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kpeL6WGlvEI" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="420"></iframe>  2- Time on Page and Time on Site Time on page is a measure of the total time that a user spends on the particular page and Time on site is the measure of the total time that any user spends on the entire site. Time on Page is calculated by using the below formula: Tp= P2-P1 where: Tp= Time on Page P2= Time Stamp value of 2nd page P1= Time Stamp value of 1st page Similarly, Time on Site is calculated by the following formula: Ts= Tp1+ Tp2+Tp3+Tpn where: Ts= Time on site Tp1= Time Spend on Page 1 (calculated using the above formula) Tp2= Time Spend on Page 2 Tp3= Time Spend on Page 4 <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uot4RylYwuU" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="420"></iframe>  3- Bounce Rate The percentage of exits that happens from the landing page is known as the bounce rate. It is one of the most important metrics to analyse because it directly determines how relevant your web pages are w.r.t. to the users query. A high bounce rate is a direct indication that a site is not performing well with the audience. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CpKKRctI7og" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>  4- Exit Rate The percentage of exits that happens from a particular landing page is known as the exit rate of that page. If the high conversion value pages have a high exit rate then its time to revamp your conversion optimization strategy. 5- Conversion Rate The outcomes divided by the number of unique visitors determines the rate of conversion. The direct indication of a positive or a negative ROI is determined by the overall conversion rate of the site. A high conversion rate provides a higher ROI as opposed to a lower conversion rate. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8XiAYw5jUag" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="560"></iframe>  6- Degree of User Engagement The behavior flow is a great way to determine the degree and level of user engagement. It lets you get an idea about the top landing pages and the 1st and 2nd interactions which the visitors are making on your site. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QdSIMT0PMdo" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" width="420"></iframe>

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