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How to Set Up Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin

November 16, 2012

When ever we talk about Best SEO plugins for WordPress, All in one SEO and WordPress SEO by yoast comes out as a prominent name. Now, many of you who are using All in one SEO plugin, you should know about much advance version of the plugin, which is available in WordPress repo with the name “WordPress SEO by yoast“. This plugin has integrated many known features of other plugins by Joost de Valk, for example ...

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11 Costly Mistakes That May Reduce Your Blog Traffic

November 7, 2012

Being a Blogger is fun and the most interesting part is making mistakes and learning from it. When I started blogging, I made many mistakes which reduced my Blog traffic and hampered my Blog brand, thought I never let those mistakes stopped me as it’s part of life. When ever you start with something new and without much guidance, you end up making mistakes and over the time you learn from it and fix it. We ...

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Understand & Fix Google Webmaster Tool Site Crawl Errors

August 30, 2012

Google Webmaster tool (GWT) is the best free SEO tool you can get for your blog. For any level of Blogger, GWT will let you take care of your complete site health and helps you to implement various optimization technique for your Blog. We have covered few of these in the past, and if you are starting late here are some of the articles you can refer to: What are Google sitelinks and how to ...

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Useful Tips to Increase Google Crawl Rate

July 29, 2012

Site crawling is an important aspect of SEO and if bots can’t crawl your site effectively, you will notice many important pages are not indexed in Google or other search. A site with proper navigation helps in deep crawling and indexing of your site. Specially, for a news site it’s important that Search engine bots should be indexing your site within minutes of publishing and that will happen when bots can crawl site ASAP you ...

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BlogSpot Advanced SEO Preference: Robots.txt, Redirection, Meta Tag

March 23, 2012

Today, seems to be a happy Blogger day for BlogSpot user as BlogSpot added some of the advanced SEO options for Blogger blogs. We will dive into all the new feature in details after a break but let me start with some of the out of the topic talk. When ever we pitch about BlogSpot Vs. WordPress, we always give WordPress an edge in terms of SEO. By adding new SEO features in BlogSpot, Google ...

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How to Fix ReplytoCom Links Issue in WordPress [Updated]

September 27, 2011

Update: So finally after lots of hit and trial, I reduced my replytocom links from 25K to mere 300. Which will eventually go away after some time. I will keep updating the article, based on my experience. If you have any questions or suggestions, drop us a message on Facebook. I was trying to figure out what all lead to 20% traffic drop of ShoutMeLoud after Google panda global launch and was trying to recover ...

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Robots.txt file on BlogSpot Blogs: Google SEO Mistake with BlogSpot Search Pages

July 30, 2011

Well, it’s quite interesting to know that there’s a different story behind the robots.txt file for blogs run on blogger. Basically, a robots.txt file is placed on the root directory to block the search engines from crawling specific directories or pages on your blog. By this way, webmasters take control to let the spiders know what directories are accessible and what needs to be indexed. The most common question asked by BlogSpot bloggers is: How ...

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How to Noindex WordPress Categories and Tags

June 25, 2011

When I posted about How to recover from Google panda, I mentioned that let your quality pages indexed by Google and keep others as noindex but dofollow. This goes for your tags, categories, author and monthly archive pages. There are two solid reasons to Noindex WordPress Categories and Tags Avoid post duplication issue Only quality pages will become part of search. Second reason is very important after Google panda algo went live, as Google mentioned that ...

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