Entries Tagged ‘SEO’

There are a number of free sites and SEO tools to check the backlinks or inbound links to your blog or website. I had recommended a few such link popularity check tools in an earlier post. However, most of the link popularity check tools will show only the total backlink count along with some sample URLs which may not be sufficient to understand your backlinks and act.

Today we take a look at two methods of getting all your backlinks in a single page. Click Here to Continue Reading

Your Wordpress blog has a great feature called Update Services that basically alert a number of blog directories, content aggregators and social media sites whenever your update your blog. This is an extremely useful stuff as your new posts will be reaching millions of web users worldwide much faster than the search engine (search engines spiders will take some more time to crawl & index) route.

By default, Wordpress provides the update service provided by Ping-O-Matic which is a very reliable service. The option to alert the Ping-O-Matic service, is available via Settings->Writing->Update Services section in your Wordpress admin panel and this entry will by default have Click Here to Continue Reading

Having completed your pillar posts and other initial setup, time has now arrived to do some search engine optimization (SEO) for your site and its contents. We are not yet talking about doing the SEO using paid external services but more of how to seo yourself stuff and tips to optimize your blog to make it more search engine friendly.

Phase 6: Make the content SEO friendly
In the last post, I mentioned that Wordpress is an amazingly powerful platform when it comes to creating search engine friendly content, in the context of tags, post slugs, categories etc (In fact the term WordPress SEO is redundant) There are a lot more that Wordpress can do which we will talk about soon. At the same time, there are a number of things that you could do manually to make sure that your blog’s technical structure (theme code mainly) is optimized as well. Click Here to Continue Reading

I had posted a short review on the Comment Kahuna (CK) blog commenting software a couple of months back. The Fast Blog Finder (FBF) from G-Lock Software is a similar product which helps you to search blogs of your interest and comment there in from a simple window interface.

Why comment on blogs?

Improving the Google page rank (PR) is one of the primary goals of anybody who has a blog or website so that his/her website appears on top of the Google search results. The case is much the same with other search engines as well but Google PR is the yardstick for most people and businesses. Google assigns ranks (0 to 10 - higher the rank, the better) to web pages mainly based on the number of pages linking or referring to the page being ranked. In the case of blog comments, most of them accepts a URI to your own blog while commenting which gives a valid backlink per comment. Basically this is the hidden agenda behind commenting though on your regularly visited blogs it’s a more genuine story. Click Here to Continue Reading