Keyword research is the fundamental building block for a successful Internet Marketing campaign. Google Wonder Wheel is yet another free feature from Google. It Internet Marketers build up a  keyword list that would usually be difficult to think of from the top of your head. Once your primary keyword is entered, this Visual search feature [...]

The other day I was listening to the video of Matt Cutts for the Google I/O 2010 series where he was giving some serious advice to the website owners who had submitted their websites for review.
I found the video informative and worth mentioning.  He discussed all the ingredients you may need to make a website [...]

Today I am going to share with you some effective SEO Link Quality tips. Earlier in the year, Google shared us its official Link Quality stance with their 'SEO Report Card'. This time in a recent blog post, Google has shared its viewpoints on the quality of links to your site. Though Google's main focal [...]

If you own a small or medium-sized business, Local Geo-Targeted Search Engine Optimization is a great way to drive quality traffic to your site. After all, quality traffic is a big factor in the success rate for your online business, so it is crucial to have a proper Geo-Targeted SEO plan in place.
What is Geo-Targeted [...]

After lots of speculations and anticipation Google a few months back officially rolled out its new index called ‘Caffeine’. It has created mixed response within the SEO community as well as Internet Marketing elites. Earlier there was lots of talk and discussion about the implications and anticipations on the new indexing system that can have widespread impact [...]

A couple of weeks ago I met one of my friends, who was eager to share with me updates about his web site that he built and how quickly he got his website ranked well in the SERPS.
What he didn’t know was the remaining part of his responsibility. The major one – maintaining his ranking.
Once [...]

Have you ever clicked on a link of a web page only to receive a message that the page doesn't exist?  Well this is a 404 error or 'page not found'.  The tricky thing is that sometimes search engines aren't aware of a 404 and think its a real page.  We call this a soft [...]

Have you ever noticed a bunch of links below a particular website when you searched for a particular term? They give you a lot of information about what the website is and perhaps the best links on the site that are relevant to your search. 
The question is – how do you get them?
Google Sitelinks acquired [...]

Amid far flung cries of privacy concerns against it, search engine Google has stepped up measures to make its service more secure and private. Just a week ago, Google rolled out the SSL encrypted version of its web search engine, thereby offering users a much more secure search experience. It is accessible by typing "https" [...]

I hear it all the time, “I want to rank for _____.”  My initial response is that this is great because it means that you are thinking about ways to extend your reach or product offering. In our example, Timmy wants to rank for gloves, but unfortunately Timmy doesn’t stand a chance of ranking well [...]

The enigmatic Google algorithms are now officially looking at a new ingredient – ‘site speed’. Google officially announced on Friday that they’ve embedded ‘site speed’ as a new component in their search ranking algorithms. In December, with another blog post  Google hinted that such a change is getting set to launch.  Now it is official!
Google Makes [...]

Google Webmaster Central is considered a key organizer for your website to help analyze how Google is viewing your website.  It also allows the person managing this profile to help steer Google in the right direction on many other items. Apart from just submitting your website to Google webmaster, you can actually find missing links, [...]

A Google Blog post by Google’s Software Engineer Steven Baker titled ‘Helping Computers Understand Language’ announces the new way of handling synonyms by Google for the search words queried. The post details with solid examples on how the search shows up similar words in SERPs on a user query. The post says that
“Our synonyms system [...]

Considering Google’s popularity and huge search market share most webmasters focus their web sites optimization for Google search only. There is no prescribed standard for search engine optimization where one can find the precise do’s and don’ts in optimizing websites. Now Google has given us access to its own SEO Report Card which analyzes [...]

Google finally has debuted real-time search in SERPs last week.  This has been brought on by the exploding popularity of real-time search trends from sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Jaiku,  Friendfeed and Identi.ca.  The news brings a mixed response from the SEO community in exposing the  ‘ins and outs’ of  this new feature. Most search engine [...]