Knowledge Base

301 Permanent Redirect What, Why & How?

According to a W3.org resource page, a 301 redirect means, "The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs." Meaning the site has moved and ...

Mystery with Robots file

Misunderstandings about blocking Google/Yahoo/Bing/other search bots with robots.txt. Do not accidentally Block Link Juice with Robots.txt

How to do 301 redirects in Apache htaccess, IIS, PHP, ASP and ColdFusion

Establish proper search-friendly 301 redirects to manage duplicate content issues and changes to your site's information architecture (URL structure) with the specific instructions for your server software below

How to Optimize an Ecommerce Website

There is a considerable difference in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for E-Commerce sites as opposed to optimizing for traditional static websites.

Google PageRank sculpting Less Effective Now?

Googles revealed that the advanced SEO practice of PageRank sculpting will be far less effective as its changed the rules on nofollow.

Photo & Video Contests on Social Networking Sites

Photo Contests & Video Contests on Social Networking Sites are really beneficial.. They create a positive consumer association with your brand by offering tangible rewards for their participation.

Google Hits Back With Project Caffeine

Unveils The Preview Version Of Its Search Engine Infrastructure Upgrade After Microsoft recently launched their new search engine, Bing and evinced keen interest to power Yahoo organic search results, the search engine giant Google, in an apprant bid

Digg Deprives Spammers Of Link Juice, Goes Nofollow

In a move to keep spammers at bay, popular social bookmarking site Digg has added a "rel=nofollow" tag to all links on the site that it does not consider trustworthy.

How to add 301 Redirect in WordPress?

To add 301 redirect in WordPress, we can make following changes to .htaccess file, 301 Redirection code to be implemented in .htaccess file

Google Launches Real-Time Search

The Much Awaited Google real-time search is now live, real time updates from as tweeter, Yahoo Answers, news articles and Web pages now stream in on the actual result pages for your query, You have the option to Pause ...

Google Announces Support for Cross Domain Canonicalization

Support for Cross Domain Canonicalization is welcomed by all SEO Professionals across the world, This would be of immense benefit to 1. Shared Windows Hosting websites, where there is no support for 301 redirects 2. ...

Google Launches feature to show website speed

Google has just released Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and gives suggestions for making it faster.

Google launches new bot for crawling News Googlebot-News

Google has announced a new user agent for robots.txt called Googlebot-News that gives publishers even more control over their content.

Google Launches Region Tags to help non Country specific domains

Country-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website, for example, ".fr" for France or ".co.jp" for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .info and .org, ...

Help Google index your mobile site

It seems the world is going mobile, with many people using mobile phones on a daily basis, and a large user base searching on Google’s mobile search page. However, as a webmaster, running a mobile site and tapping into the ...

Google threatens to pull out of China

The world's biggest internet search engine says it may well pull out of the fast growing market after a series of cyber attacks targeting human rights activists.

SEO Poisoning: The Trend Of Abusing Search Results Intensifies

After contaminating the search results on popular search engines such as Google and Bing, SEO poisoning is set to pose a threat to small and medium enterprises as well.

Google adjusts Policy for display URLs

How Followers Help Your Tweet Rank In Google?

Your Twitter followers can attach incredible value to your Tweet and allow that 140 character microblog post to appear prominently in Google real-time search results.