16 Tips to Make Google Friendly WebPage

Many publishers complain that Google does not index their pages fast or my pages do not rank high in Google or my new pages are not getting index at all. Here is the solution of all these problems. In this post, I am going to tell you 16 quick tips that will help to boost the rankings of your webpage in search engines.

• Keep the title of webpage not too long and not too short.


• The title of the webpage should be clean and reflect the contents of webpage.


• Your targeted keywords should appear in the title of your webpage.


• Keep your URL short, not too long


• Like title, keep your targeted keywords in URL.


• Give a proper META keywords and description tags to your webpage.


• Always keep META description relevant to the title and contents of your webpage.


• Avoid excessive use of keywords, also called keyword Stuffing in either title, URL or main text of your webpage. Refer the post.


• Make sure you did not copy existing contents in your webpage. It may led to Google penalization. Always provide unique contents in your webpage.


• Do a proper link building in your webpage. Link only with relevant WebPages or websites of yours or others.


• Do not put too many URL's in your webpage. Normally search engine leave the page which contains too many links.


• Keep away from any blackhat SEO technique in your webpage.


• Optimize images used in your webpage to let your webpage load faster.


• Add proper "alt" and "title" information to each and every image used in your webpage.
For Ex.- <img src="sample-img.jpg" alt = "My Sample Image" title= "Sample Image">


• Keep less number of objects ( flash animations, video clips, music clips) in your webpage.
  


• Double check your webpage for any broken link before publishing it.

There are many other factors also involved to rank high on Google. The basic purpose of this post was to tell you the way you can build a Google friendly or you can say search engine friendly Webpage. These tips are applicable to all major search engines such as Yahoo, Live search and Ask.com search. Make sure you follow all these tips before writing your next post.

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Google Adsense - Share Your Ad Space

Google Adsense team today gave good news to publishers. It is now official that publishers can share their ad space. Now on a single webpage or website, multiple publishers can have their ads. Google team has finally clarified this doubt among publishers and now publishers can go for this kind of Ad sharing model.

Google Adsense team also shared some important points to notice when you are going to implement such ad sharing model in your website or webpage. These are-

• The maximum number of products on a single webpage will remain the same. Refer this.


• Displaying yours ads on other website which is not yours, requires permission from the site owner.


• Earnings will not be divided between accounts. Generated revenue will be credited to the associated account of ad unit from where the click was generated


• Shared website should not violate Google's TOS and it must comply with Google's program policies


• It's better to review a website where you are going to put your ads, otherwise it may led to any policy violation for your adsense account.


• Always check the Google's Allowed Sites feature before putting your ads on any website.

Finally Google's confirmation to Adsense revenue sharing model will help publishers to implement this kind of model on their website without any concern that Google may ban their adsense account.

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Twitter, Twitterfeed - Free Traffic for Your Blog

Most of us will be aware of Twitter, a popular social networking website where you can send updates about you to all your friends. These updates are called tweets in Twitter language. Tweet is a short text message of few characters.

Twitter becomes very popular in very short time. Twitter has Alexa rank 575 in United States and it's in the list of high traffic websites. Below is a snapshot of Twitter reach from Alexa.


As you can see from above image, Twitter is one of highest traffic website on the internet. How can you take advantage of such a high traffic of Twitter?

In this post, i will explain how can you use Twitter to promote your blog or website in order to get tons of free referral traffic. In order to effectively use Twitter for your blog promotion, now we will talk about Twitterfeed.

Twitterfeed is an independent service and it is not affiliated with Twitter. If you are a valid Twitter user, you can use Twitterfeed service to send the RSS feed of your blog or website to Twitter as tweets. Twitterfeed provide you a place to manage all your blogs feed. You can also set the frequency of checking your blog for latest updates.


Each time you will post in your blog. The reference to that latest entry will be available to all your followers in Twitter as your latest update on Twitter. You can post up to 5 new updates each time.
You can also prefix each tweet with a word, which is max 20 characters in length. You can shorten your links through TinyURL, Tweetburner or SnipURL.

All you have to do is add more and more followers and your updates will be available to these followers at the earliest. Many popular websites are providing their latest updates through Twitter to all its users and Twitterfeed is the way to achieve this.

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Google Knol Top on Search - Left Wikipedia Behind

Google Knol opened to public just 3 days back and everyone knows that it's a Google answer to Wikipedia. Wikipedia ranks very high for thousands of keywords. I read somewhere in a blog that while searching "knol" in Google, Wikipedia comes on top but the question is that how long it will happen. Today I searched "knol" in Google and found this-



Finally Google Knol left Wikipedia behind for keyword "Knol". Let’s wait and see how long Google keep himself fair with thousands of Wikipedia's high ranking keywords.

For a publisher and webmaster, both Google Knol and Wikipedia is good in terms of referral traffic. The advantage with Google Knol is that you will be able to make some money out of a Knol by adding Google Adsense on it.

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Google PageRank Q3 2008 Update (July 24 Onwards)

Google PageRank, the very hot subject of discussion among every webmasters. We all know that Google updates the PageRank values in Google Toolbar every 3-4 months.
Last PageRank update was occurred in April end 2008 and now Google again started updating the PageRank value. Q3, 2008 Google PageRank update started from July 24 and it will continue for a week.

At this time, you can see the difference in PageRank value in all Google datacenters because PageRank is updating in all datacenters and when all datacenters will start showing the updated values. Google Toolbar also will show the updated value of PageRank. Below snapshot is taken from mypagerank.net (multiple datacenters check) and it is showing the different PageRank values across many datacenters for one of my blog.


All I can see is that one of my blog is moving towards PR3, previously it was PR2. Datacenters are showing updated values for my blog Daily Technology Tips also and it's PR4. Previously it was PR N/A because it's a very new blog.


It's now confirmed that Google PageRank Q3, 2008 update has been started from 24 July and webmasters around the world will notice change in PR values in coming dates 25 July, 26 July, 27 July, .......

Note: Google Toolbar is now showing updated PageRank on 26 July, 2008. It's Q3 PageRank update from Google. I just checked my blog and found it updated on Google Toolbar.


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How to Check if Your Website is Penalized by Google

In this competitive world of Internet, sometimes you become the victim of Google penalization. Reason could be created by you or by someone else. There is always a question asked by all webmasters that how to check whether your website is being penalized by Google or not?

Here are few points to let you verify that your website is a victim of Google penalization or not.

Keyword Rankings:

You were top on result for some of your keywords and you see a major and sudden drop in all those keywords. This indicates that your website is probably being penalized by Google because your Google SERP is very down.

Number of Page Index:

Large numbers of pages from your website were there in Google before when check using site: operator and now when you use site: operator, you are seeing very few pages. Most of your pages are no more in Google index. This major de-index also indicate that your website is in trouble.

Page Weight Loss:

If you see that your pages are there in Google when you use site: operator. Next thing to check is the weight of these pages. Even if these pages are there in Google index. They are not appearing in search results or appearing very last in results when you give complete post title plus your blog or website name.

For ex. Secret of Google + GoogleTips, where "Secret of Google" is the keyword you are searching for and "GoogleTips" is the name of your blog or website.

Google Cache:

Google Cache is another way to find if your website is being penalized by Google or not. Normally Google put every website on internet to its cache and this cache updates depend on many factor related to a website. Normally for popular websites like CNN, Washington Post, TechCrunch, you will find the date of last cache is current date or just one day back.

If you check your website with cache: operator in Google and find the date of last cached is too old, it means Google is not showing interest in your website anymore. Most likely it's a penalization.

Complete De-index:

This is the simplest way to check for Google penalization. When your site is completely de-indexed by Google and it's no more in Google either with info: operator or with site: operator.

Number of Backlinks:

Few days back, when you checked your website, Google was showing thousands of backlinks of your website and now link: operator is showing a huge drop in number of backlinks. If this is the case, then it's the possibility of Google penalization.

Index Time:

Index time is another factor by which you can check for penalization. Before penalization, new posts from your website were getting indexed in hours and now they are taking a week to get indexed. This is a clear sign of Google penalization or Google is getting in trouble indexing your website.

Google PageRank:

Google PageRank is a value attached to your website. You may see a drop in your PageRank value if Google has penalized you for any reason. Before few days, if your PageRank value was say 4 and now it’s become 2. It’s very obvious that Google has penalized your website.

Wait for Google Mail:

Google always send mail when it finds something harmful in your website. Google will de-index all those pages which are having problem and will inform you to fix the problem. Once you fix the problem, you can easily come back in Google search index.

Important words used in this article-

link: operator - If used with your website, provide you the number of backlinks to your website.

info: operator - If used with your website, provide you the information of your website in Google.

site: operator - If used with your website, provide you the number of pages indexed in Google search from your website.

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Tips to Make Your Blog or Website Popular

Many webmaster ask this question to SEO experts that how to make my website or blog popular quickly. For them I would say that there is no shortcut of success. All you need is to be fair in whatever you do and have patience. You will see the positive results. In this post, i will explain few points, if followed can lead your website to big success.

Unique Contents:

The first and very important step to make your website a big hit is that you should provide unique contents. Never copy the contents from popular website in a hope that you will make your website popular very soon. There are advantages of providing unique contents. All big poplar websites will link back to you if your content is unique and have some importance for their users. More and more popular websites will start linking back to you. Your authority will increase. You will receive more backlinks and hence more Google PageRank value as well as more referral traffic.

Hold Your Visitors:

This is another art you should know. You can get traffic from many sources but if your website is not able to hold this traffic, your website is not able to turn this traffic to re- visitors, your website popularity will never increase. A website is popular because of re-visitors. If users feel that your website is worth visiting again, it's your win and sign of the popularity of your website.

Here are some points on how can you hold your visitors-

• Unique content will hold visitors.


• Website navigation should be easy. User should easily get what they are looking for.


• Never try to make your users fool by providing misleading information.


• Never distract your visitor from your website contents.


• Some kind of regular visitor participation like poll, survey, contest etc.


• Keep away your website from Spamming

Provide New Contents:

Update your contents frequently. Search engines like new contents. Fresh and unique contents will keep your SERP up and high SERP will turn into high traffic and hence more chances of your website to be popular. For a single service or product provider websites, they can focus more on quality of their services. Always try to keep your website search engine friendly in order to achieve high SERP.

Active participation in Related Niche:

Active participation in related niche websites, blogs to pull traffic as well as to put our website in front of users of other websites is required. More exposure your website will get, more likely users will come back to your website. The form of participation could be blog commenting, forum posting and article submission etc.

Social Bookmarking and Social Networking:

Social Networking and Social Bookmarking can bring good amount of traffic to your website and can give exposure to your website. Your next job is to convert this traffic to your regular visitors.

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How to Get Your Website Indexed Fast in Google

Although there is no guarantee that applying any of tips mentioned here or anywhere else in web will let your website indexed in Google fast, but most of the time these tips works as expected.
Google and other search engines such as Yahoo Search, Live Search and Ask.com have their own norms to put any website in its index and sometimes it took so much time for a new website or blog to get indexed.

So here is the question, how can you get your website indexed very fast? Read the complete post to know the answer.

Sitemap Submission:


Google provides a service called Google Webmaster for webmasters, where you can track your website progress and many services are provided by Google in order to effectively manage your website or blog. With Google Webmaster, you can submit your blog and website sitemap to Google to get it indexed very fast. To know what is sitemap read this post.

Add URL to Google:


Google provides a service to let you send request to Google to include your blog or website URL in search engine index. You need to submit only the top level page of your website. There is no need to submit individual pages. You can add your URL to Google here.

Digg Submission:


Digg is a very popular web destination to discover and share contents. You can submit your new blog or website to digg. Digg is a high rank website among Google and other search engines.

Comments on Popular Websites and Forum Signatures:

There are many websites, blogs and forums on internet which are very popular among search engines and the pages from these websites get indexed very fast by Google and other search engines. TechCrunch, Digital Points, readwriteweb, Boing Boing and lifehacker are few of them. You can leave your comments on these blogs along with your website or blog URL and put your signature with your website URL in these forums. When Google will index these pages, it will also index your website.

Social Networking and Social Bookmarking:

Social networking and Social bookmarking will let your new website and blog get indexed fast by Google and other search engines. These sites are fast crawled by search engines and can boost the chances of your website to get indexed fast.

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How to Avoid Blog or Website Penalization from Google

Every other day, I listen from webmasters that they are facing Google's penalty. Google has penalized their blog or website and now they have no idea what to do. What force Google to give penalty to your website? Here are few points you should really care if you want to avoid penalization from Google or any other search engine.

Duplicate Contents:

Duplicate content is the very first thing you should always avoid while working on your website. Keep your sharp eyes on duplicate contents in your website or across your websites. Always provide unique contents to the visitors of your website.

Link Exchange:

Link exchange is another activity, that can led your website towards Google penalization. Always stay away from excessive reciprocal Link exchange. In the eyes of Google, excessive reciprocal Link exchange is process to manipulate Google SERP.

Link buying and selling:

Link buying and selling activity can very quickly put your website in Google supplement results. Google always give advice to webmasters not to engage their self into any kind of link buying and selling activity. Link buying and selling activity can drastically reduce your Google PageRank as well as led to long term penalization in Google.

Link Farm:

Link Farm is a black hat SEO technique used to manipulate the results of search engines. You can always avoid website penalization from Google by keeping yourself away from Link farm.

Keyword stuffing:

Keyword stuffing is again a SEO technique to manipulate the search engine results by putting tons of keywords in meta tags or in contents. Google always give less importance to such websites which follow this technique. Keyword stuffing can lead your website towards penalization from Google.

Google Quality Guidelines:

This is the best way to avoid any kind of penalization from Google. You should always follow the Google's quality guidelines for webmasters. These quality guidelines from Google are-

• Keep your website clean by avoiding hidden text or hidden links.


• Always check for cloaking or sneaky redirects and remove them immediately.


• Never try to send automated queries to Google.


• Never load pages with irrelevant keywords.


• Always avoid pages with malicious behavior (phishing or installing viruses, Trojans, or other programs that can harm the visitors).


• Avoid website with little or no original content.

If you follow all the points mentioned in this post, you can always avoid penalization from Google or any other search engine.

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5 More Ways to Get Referral Traffic to Your Website or Blog

In my last post, i shared 10 ways to get referral traffic to your blog or website. In this post, i will explore few more ways to get referral traffic.

Wikipedia:

Wikipedia has a great potential to bring good traffic to your blog or website. Wikipedia is one of the favorite websites for search engines and its normally rank high in search engines and it has a large user base. You can leave your links in Wikipedia, if they are related to the topic.

Wikipedia is moderated so don't just leave any random link there. If your link is related to Wikipedia topic and helpful to others, it will be included. Once you have your link in Wikipedia. You can notice huge and never lasting referral traffic on your website from Wikipedia.

Craigslist:

Craigslist is a heavy traffic website which provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events. You can post your ads with the link to your website. Craigslist is very popular website and can bring good amount of visitors to your website everyday.

Video sharing:

Video sharing is also an effective way to get referral traffic. You can read my post Tips To Increase Your Website Traffic And PageRank to learn more about how video sharing can bring traffic to your blog or website.

PDF distribution:

PDF files are widely used in internet to provide useful information such as press releases, tutorials, articles, guides etc. You can distribute the PDF of your articles with your links within PDF file. It's a very effective way to get referral traffic. Every time that PDF file will be read, reader may visit your website by clicking links provided in PDF file.

Software distribution:

You can create some small utility or an application and can submit this to various free download websites along with the description and link back to your website. People will download it and will flow towards your website from these download websites.

There are many other ways to get referral traffic and I will continuously update this article to put more good ways. You can subscribe to the RSS of Daily Technology Tips website to get latest technology tips.

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10 Ways to Get Referral Traffic to Your Website or Blog

Referral traffic is the traffic that drives towards your blog or website from other blogs and websites. Referral traffic for a blog or website is as important as search engine traffic. In this post, i will explain ten simple ways to get referral traffic to your blog.

Yahoo Answer:

Participate in Yahoo Answer. Yahoo Answer is a large community where people ask and respond to other's questions. It's a good platform to share your blog post by answering the related questions and putting your blog post link.

Linkedin Answer:

Linkedin Answer is the same as Yahoo Answer. Linkedin is a large community for professionals and it has millions of user's across the world. Very recently, it crossed 1 million mark in India.

Digg :

Digg is a very popular social bookmarking sites which has millions of users. Digging your blog post will bring huge traffic to your blog or website.
Note: Digging self post if not a good practice.

StubmbleUpon:

StumbleUpon is a very popular website where you can rank a perticular website based on your interest and preference. Do a StumbleUpon on your blog post and it will return you huge traffic.

MyBlogLog:

MyBlogLog is a Yahoo community service that let you register and share your blog and websites, create new community. You can add your blog or website RSS feed. When your blog will update, latest postes will be visible to the people in your MyBlogLog community.

Zimbio Wikizines:

Zimbio is a very popular service for publishing the articles. Zimbio has different wikizines. You can register your blog and then publish your blog post to related wikizine and if no related wikizine is available, you can create your own wikizine and then publish your post in it.

Technorati:

Technorati is a very big platform to showcase your blog. Technorati gives ranking to your blog or website based on the authority. More authorities you have, more your blog will be popular and rank high. Once you are registered with Technorati, you can ping it when you update your blog. You can get good traffic from here.

Blog Comments:

Blog commenting is still the most effective way to get referral traffic to your blog or website. You can leave your comments to other related blogs and people will flow to your blog if the comment is interesting and related.
Note: Do not SPAM, put related comments that makes sense

Forum Signatures and Posting:

You can register in a related forum and can create your signature. Signature will contain the link to your blog. More you will post, more you will receive backlinks and more chances to get good traffic to your blog as well as good Google PageRank if signature links are not no-follow.

Article Submission:

Submit your article to artcile directories like ezinearticles or other article directories. Article submission will bring will bring good traffic to your blog or website.

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