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404 Error : How to Deal for Search Engine Optimization?

April 22, 2013

“Error 404 – Page not Found”, this is one of the most common web page types we see in our day-to-day internet surfing. Without any doubt, such pages offer bad user-experience, but how about Search engines? Are 404 pages bad for SEO? Do search engine penalizes website with too many 404 status code pages? In this article, I will look at 404 error pages from search engine and user experience perspective, and will recommend some ...

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Will a 301 Redirect Passes Page rank? Matt Cutts Video

February 26, 2013

One thing which in particular I like about Google Webmaster videos is, they clear our SEO doubts, but at the same time Matt Cutts like to keep the confusions on. You could totally understand that from the video below, and I will later on explain this with my example below: One of the most common technique which has been used from long time is passing the link juice by using a 301 redirect. Infact, when ...

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Ahrefs Added Generate Website SEO Reports Option

February 6, 2013

Ahrefs is one of those SEO tools, which are multi-purpose and could work as a complete SEO suite for you. I got to know about Ahrefs, when I was searching for backlink checker websites. In last few months, Ahrefs added many new features, and today they announced the launch of new feature “Generate site SEO report”. If you have used Screaming frog SEO tool, new ahrefs site SEO report feature is almost similar, but with ...

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How To Make a User Friendly Website/Blog

June 13, 2012

Blogging is not just about writing great stuff and optimizing it for SEO etc . Blogging has a much more “Community” feel to it and hence requires you, the blogger, to make sure that your community is happy with your blog. People, regular readers are the heart of any blog, without them it is like Christmas without Santa, and it’s a role of a Blogger, to convert one time traffic into regular readers. No doubt, ...

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5 Things Web Designers Must Not Forget Before Launching A New Site

August 17, 2011

Ever since I started designing templates for blogger, I often forget few important stuffs in the process. However, over the years, I’ve developed the habit of having a checklist so that I don’t miss out anything. Well, in this article, I’ll be sharing some 5 common mistakes that most of the web designers like me tend to forget when launching their blog/website. So, if you are web designer, then I suggest you to include the ...

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Google Simplified URL removals for Website Owners

May 18, 2011

Since Google panda update, I have removed 100+ posts from ShoutMeLoud which can be considered as low quality post. I used Google analytics to find the post which are not getting any hit after Google panda update. Earlier Google wants you to add noindex tag or URL should give 404 error before you put a request for URL removal. Now Google team has made a change for verified website owners and now you can simply ...

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How to Find 404 Error Pages Using Google Webmaster Tool

April 14, 2011

Some time back I shared an article on SEO optimization using Google webmaster tool and extending that tutorial, here I’m sharing how to find 404 pages on your blog using free Google tool call Google webmaster tool. ShoutMeLoud traffic is almost 20% impacted due to Google panda and in effort to recover from Google panda effect, I’m working to fix all broken links on my blog. There are many things which I will be doing ...

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