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Google Webmaster Tools Helps Improve Link Popularity By Reporting Broken Links to Your Site

This is the latest news from Google Webmaster Tools, and is great news for all webmasters. Now, you can check which sites point to non-existent pages on your site directly from Google Webmaster Tools. When somebody tries to access a non-existent link on your site, they may get a 404-error page on your site. Most of the time, the reason behind this is a site linking to one of your articles made a mistake in the URL. As your popularity increases, the number of incoming links increase. Also, do increase sites that give you broken links. Webmasters make errors in the URLs every now and then. In order to fix this, you may just log into Google Webmaster Tools now. Go to Diagnostics->Web Crawl. Here you will see errors on the link structure. It shows URLs that are ‘Not found’. Just click it and you will see this: See the marked regions. It means 4 external pages link to non-existent URL on my site. Just click it and you can see which sites link. Just go ahead, contact the webmaster...

Google Webmaster Central Bespoke Exactly What I Expected of Outbound Links From Your Blog Posts

If you didn’t know, there is the link week going on in Google Webmaster Central blog, in which they discuss various aspects of link building , link selection , internal links, etc. Today, I found something corroborating to my findings: That external links to valuable related resources is good in terms of SEO and site rankings. Thoughtful outbound links can help your credibility. * Show that you've done your research and have expertise in the subject manner * Make visitors want to come back for more analysis on future topics * Build relationships with other domain experts (e.g. sending visitors can get you on the radar of other successful bloggers and begin a business relationship) So said this post . This is what I expected to see for a long time. Here are the points: 1. Search engine values the importance of your blog posts. 2. Search engine rates the importance according to the content’s usefulness 3. Relevant links add to content’s usefulness pretty well. So, ...

DMoz.org, the Open Directory Project Submission Guidelines

Webmasters and bloggers know well about DMoz.org or Directory Mozilla or more popularly known as the Open Directory Project, the premier web directory. And it is completely free as well. Getting listed within DMoz means a lot for a website, as it is a list of sites which are the absolute best in the Internet. Getting a listing in this user-moderated directory is extremely difficult. Also, it means a holy grail in Search Engine Optimization. Google and other search engines value DMoz very high. Here are some guidelines to get quickly accepted by DMoz. Imporatnce of the Open Directory directly from Google SEO specialist, Mr Matt Cutts, broadcast by the Google Channel. 1. Don’t Treat the Open Directory as Other Directories This is the first tip and most important. Many submissions are rejected because the person submitting the site regards DMoz as any other directory and submits without proper care. Understand that DMoz is the largest and most important of all directories (paid or...

Backlink Analysis Part II: Robots Meta Tag

In the first part of this guide, we saw how we can get good quality backlinks by checking the robots.txt file of a website . There is another important attribute to check too in web pages before you exchange or purchase links, Robots Meta Tag . Robots Meta tag is a tag similar to the Meta description and Meta keyword tags. Search bots look for this tag, once they have checked the Robots.txt file. Using Robots Meta tag, you can specify various things including, should your page be indexed, should the links on a particular page be followed, etc. An example of a Robots Meta tag is thus: <meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow”/> This Meta tag, as its content indicates, tells the bots to index the page and follow all links on it. Meta tags are placed in the head section of the page in between <head> and </head> tags. You can have one of the following contents on this tag. Here are the explanation of some of them. Index: Tells the bot to index the current p...

Backlink Analysis Part I: Robots.txt Can Invalidate Your Backlinks

You work hard, contact so many professional A list bloggers out there, and suggest your post for incoming link. If they provide you with a backlink, you will be happy. A high PageRank, unpaid link, given with the free will of the giver , from the most relevant page/category is going to be a million dollar vote to your page. It can itself get your page to skyrocket from SERP 400 to SERP 3. Yesterday, I had a discussion in the Digital Point Forums about backlinks and their validity. It seems that most people are not knowledgeable about backlink validity analysis. People know only about DoFollow and NoFollow , and nothing above that. Here, we will see the importance of ‘robots.txt’ file in the backlink analysis. Robots.txt is a simple link invalidation secret several professional bloggers won’t share with you. What Is Robots.txt When a search crawler accesses a website for searching and indexing, the first thing it looks for is the Robots.txt file. If it doesn’t find one, it go...

How to Build Insane Traffic to Your Blogs?

Introduction Useful Resources Search Engine Submission Service for High Traffic Blog Traffic Explosion Secret Get Extreme Targeted Traffic Social Bookmarking and Blog Commenting Software Atomic Blogging: Mega-traffic Secrets Get Into Google Number 1 for Any Keyword Within 24 Hours Recently, I searched for ways the pro bloggers use to build traffic to their sites. When you look at the most popular blogs, you will see they thrived merely through high quality content on their first few months . When they have some good readership and a truckload of high quality content, they will start to get organic links to their sites from newbie bloggers who dream to be like them in a few days. In fact, what most people don't realize is that many of the high end bloggers don't share with you their extreme traffic tips . They know more than what they want you to know, such as "build high quality links", "submit to directories", "write quality post", ...

11 Nasty Link Building Tricks!

After the last article on the best techniques for link building , my wild thought process took me far deeper into the jungle. Here, I have some nasty techniques you may want to use to get real nice backlinks into your websites. 1. Free Traffic Banner Giveaway Trick applies when you have a popular blog, which is high PR as well as high traffic. In that case, just advertise on your site that you are giving some free promotion to fellow bloggers out there. Tell them that you will place their banner on your site for a week in exchange for a permanent link on their site. The traffic is your offering . Place a nicely designed great banner from the other blogger on a prominent position on your site, and promote it for a few days, may be a week. This trick may get the blogger some feed subscribers or permanent visitors, if his blog is really useful. In exchange for this service, there is nothing wrong in asking a backlink; who knows that backlink won't be a PR5 two years later! 2...

What Is DoFollow? Guide: How to Make Blogspot Blogs Dofollow?

Dear friends, this is a blog notification post. I have decided to make my blog, DoFollow. You will find the comment policy updated on the sidebar about this (please look at the left sidebar). [Edit: The blog is no longer DoFollow due to loads of spam comments it attracted ] Backlinks are very important for your websites. They are like votes cast by one respectable website to another, and they will greatly increase the site’s traffic. When one gets many backlinks, one’s site’s ranking in search engine results will skyrocket. Search engines use programs called search bots or web crawlers to access and index web pages. That’s how you see websites in the search results of Google and Yahoo!. If your site ranks high for any search terms related to the products you promote, you can get several potential customers (a very daunting task indeed). Now, in order for you to get business, you must rank high in search engines , and the most important thing that will help you in this is link build...