Posts filed under 'SEO'

DMOZ (Open Directory Project) is the largest human-edited directory of the web maintained by a global community of volunteer editors. However, corrupt DMOZ editors and ODP abuse brings disrepute to the directory’s quality and integrity. Here are some ways you can report abuse in the Open Directory Project and help protect the directory quality. (more…)

There is a big debate raging that Google will penalize sites buying and selling text links. However, Matt Cutts, the Google search quality engineer speaking at SES San Jose conference has clarified some ways you can make your paid links safe for search engines like Google and lists some text advertising services they are happy with… (more…)

A newbie blogger was having difficulty in locating Permalinks for blog posts which he wanted to quote as a source for his articles. Permalinks are the permanent links for the blog article. It is important that the permalink urls are easily accessible to the readers so that they can easily link to them. But a quick look reveals finding permalinks may not be so easy after all…. (more…)

Matt Cutts, the Google engineer gave some amazing tips at WordCamp 2007. I discussed some lessons learnt and new Wordpress updates, that were revealed at Wordpress camp. Now Matt Cutt has released the powerpoint presentation that he talked of at the conference and some new wordpress security tips were known. (more…)

Webmasters have an obsession to find how many urls of their site are sitting in the Google Supplementary index and try out ways to get these urls out of “Supplemental Results”. Google says that the distinction between the main and the supplemental index is narrowing and the Google’s supplemental index is deeper and fresher than before… so Google search has stop labeling these URLs as “Supplemental Results.” (more…)

Supplemental Results are URL’s of your site residing in Google’s supplemental index, a secondary database containing pages of less importance. If large number of your site pages are listed in the Google supplemental index, then your search engine traffic can be severly impacted. Recently the Google supplemental results query was broken, and search for new Google hacks began… (more…)

How do you remove a web page from the Google web search index after the content of the page has expired? Google has launched a new META tag called “unavailable_after” that webmasters can add to the particular webpage they want removed from the Google index after a specific date. (more…)