An Opinion about Robot.Txt File October 29, 2009
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: code, directory, robots, search, search engine, search engines, site, url, web pages
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The chapter of Robot.Txt is not a new but recently, it came in light again when Matt Cutt talked about it on his blog. Robot.Txt file is known as to restrict the access to our site’s pages by search engine robots to crawl.
Use of Robot.Txt File:
Robot.Txt file disallow the pages to crawl by search engines that are restricted. Now, there are some questions – why we should restrict to crawl pages by search engine’s crawler, is it helpful to restrict pages etc.?
How to use Robot.Txt File:
This is the basic things about robot.txt file that how to use it. Many people still don’t know about the uses of it. It is used in dynamic and static both sites. It is always used in root directory.
Robot.Txt file is a txt file that contains some code of disallowing to index. You should need not to mention about allowing pages. You should write only disallowing pages in text file.
Importance of Robot.Txt File:
Robot.TXT is the best option to control over your own site’s pages. The pages that are not necessary for search engine, you can restrict them by robot.txt file.
For example:
Suppose, if you have a dynamic site. You are selling a product that offers 200 another products. You keep 20 products on a page. You make 10 pages to show the offers and products. You make a title for first page but the title goes to another 19 pages also. Now, there is a problem for search engine to rank your pages. Search engine understands different URL but there is same title on another 19 pages. Now, you can use robot.txt pages to disallow another 19 pages.
Another example:
Your site provides session IDs during the login; you can restrict session IDs also by the using robot.txt file.
How to Make Robot.TXT File:
Open a notepad and write these codes:
You can write many codes also to disallow your sites pages. You can validate your robot.txt after making it.
Some Basic Aspect of Search Engine Optimization August 30, 2009
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: code, html, off page, on page, optimization, search, search engine, search engine optimization, seo, sitemap, url, xml
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We already have discussed on various topics of Search Engine Optimization but still there are some more topics which are remained. In SEO, there are the biggest factors as On-page optimization and Off-page optimization. We already have discussed about those chapters. I need to explain some more basic chapters of SEO which is being ignored by many SEOs.
I have to deal Server Side Factors and some general topic of SEO. In Server side factors, the main topics are – 301 and headers status code.
Many times we face the problem. There is main problem with page redirection which is known as 301 URL directions also. There are big question on this topic. It should be redirect or remove? What is the purpose of redirection? Is redirection will work?
Yes, all these are right questions. From my point of view removal of URL and redirection of URL both have own importance. We should choose those URL to remove which have no visitors and nothing importance from search engine point of view. On the other hand, a page which has high PR or high visitors should be redirected. Redirection is not the last things. There is need of webmaster submission also. There is Google webmaster where all the redirection should be submitted to make known Google crawler about the redirection.
Another thing is Server status code. You should monitor your page server status code. What is it? It is 200 errors or 404 errors? In both situations you have to work on those.
Many times we face large page size also which make pages very slow to browse. So, proper page size should not be exceeded from 110 KB.
There are many browsers so; your page should be passed with each browser properly. All things should be appropriate in each browser.
Some other things are appropriate style sheet, appropriate templates and metadata should be checked, standard navigation, HTML and XML sitemaps and analytical code.
So, all these are basic things of SEO which should be passed properly through SEOs. These are helpful in crawling and ranking.
How to Get Higher Ranking in Organic Searches Your Site by Targeted Keywords June 19, 2009
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: keywords, search engine, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, title, Title Tag, web, web pages, web site
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Today, in search engine optimization industry, the question is very hot. How to get higher ranking in organic searches a site by targeted keywords? It is the basic question of this industry. We, as an SEO can’t guarantee of #1 position but we always try to reach on #1 if we are ethical.
Unethical practice can reach us on #1 but it can be temporarily not for permanent. We, as an SEO analysis, research and study of search engines algorithms and try to follow that. We know that no search engines give their algorithm but we try to know that like a doctor to see the ups and downs in this industry.
I have always said that to get higher ranking by targeted keywords is not a vast task but I say here this word in another way that it is not an easy task also. There is only one fact to get higher ranking – keywords research and placement of those keywords in right way on the web page.
If we work as an SEO on a web site then we should understand very clearly our work. Our work starts from URL research and navigation of URL properly. URL research and navigation of URL is the biggest work for a site.
If you understand difference between dynamic URL and static URL then you will get succeed soon. You have to put your dynamic URL within static pages.
If the work of URL is done by you then you should proceed with keywords research and placement of keywords within content, title and overall webpage in right way. This is the basic and final work as an SEO which will guarantee to get higher ranking of your web page in organic searches by targeted keywords.
In this way, we have to cross some technical works also like – use of h1, h2…h6, use of fresh and unique content related to the web theme, use of alt attribute, use of anchor text etc.
Nowadays, in the SEO industry there is big problem of unique and fresh content. There is another big problem of optimized page and optimized content. If we solve these basic problems then surly we will get any web page in higher position in organic searches by targeted keywords.
Content Factors in Search Engine Optimization April 20, 2009
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: article, blog, content, keywords, optimization, search engine, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, title, web, web pages
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In the search engine optimization content has greater importance for a web page than other things. Content is known as king for the web page. But what should be criteria of best content? Search engines always find better and unique information on the web page to guide in right direction to users.
For the better content there should be some criteria – content should be theme related, content should be unique, content should be fresh, content should be informative and content should be correct by grammar.
Now, on the web page content should be in optimized way. For the content optimization SEOs should analysis the theme of web page and content with related keywords. Keywords should be placed in right way within content. Keywords density within content should not be more than 5-7%. Duplicate content are not allowed for better ranking so, it should be avoid.
For the better ranking it is better to place content in the main body after H1. Scrappy content prevent whole web page so, before placing content all factor should be in mind. There should be standard of web page content, article content and blog content. Web page content should be fully grammatically correct, fresh, unique, informative and theme related.
If a web page offers well established content on the web page then there is no need to put Meta description or keywords but title should be unique and related to that content. Content and title two things can guarantee for better ranking of a web page in any search engines.
Develop a Site from SEO point of view March 11, 2009
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: analytic, codes, design, develop, robots, search engines, seo, site, url, web, web pages, web site
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I have already mentioned designing aspect for a site in my previous post. There is another aspect that called development. There are some topics to develop your site from SEOs point of view to get better ranking in major search engines.
In the development aspect you have to check junk codes which have not importance on the web page. Junk codes make a web page larger and they are not useful from search engines point of view. Mostly junk codes take place on the web page from designer or developer ends. SEOs should check that unnecessary codes time to time. On the web pages there could be unnecessary spaces also. Those spaces can be harmful from ranking point of view. So, in during the development of a web site you need check very carefully junk codes and unnecessary spaces to remove them.
Another thing includes with URL structure. During the web page development you need to create web folder or web URL. You have to care that in the URL never includes _ (underscore) or – (double hyphens). From the search engines and users point of view in URL you need to include – (single hyphens).
If your site provides logged in option then you need to disallow session IDs to crawl boats. You can include robots.txt file to allow bots to crawl your sites without session IDs.
You need to check always your site on different browser and load timing. Load timing should be exceeded. If load time is high then your site’s bounce rate will be higher.
There should be installed tracking codes in every static page of your web sites. This is analytic codes to track your sites behaviour. The code will let you know how to improve your site, from what sources visitors are coming etc.
Most of the people add Meta refresh tag on the web page. It should not be added on the web page. Meta refresh tag always restrict to show the original content when a visitors request to the web site.
Search Engine Optimization Guide – SEO Basics December 1, 2008
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: search engine optimization, seo
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Before proceeding about search engine optimization I think we should know about search engines and optimization. I think nowadays, every one knows about search engines. It is a web page to search specific information on the Internet by keywords or search term.
Basically, Search engine optimization not include with optimization of search engines, it includes the optimization of web pages or web sites.
In the search engine optimization guide nothing is secret. I want to let you about the process of optimization. Optimization includes with websites for the higher ranking in search engines. It is the process of improving traffic for web pages by targeted keywords in organic searches by modifying that pages and proper optimization.
Normally, we start from theory of optimization but I want to proceed from practices. For example – if we have a web site then what we think to do over that? What should be the stricture of the web site? What should be navigation of the web site? Etc.
From my point of view, I start from market and keyword research on the topic of web site. 1st thing in the optimization include research that should be related to market, product age, geography and keywords in terms of competition. After the research of keywords and market we should proceed with web page optimization by those keywords which are chosen by us by research for the targeted people by the targeted keywords.
Title tag is most important part of web site optimization. It appears on title bar. Title tag should be created with the list of keywords which you want to target for search. It should be short but descriptive and meaningful because it comes in search engines when a user performs that keyword which has been targeted by you for your web page.
Another thing with the title tag is specification. What is on your web page, tell the user by the title. It means you should be specific with web page. You should consider about the content which is on your web page and according to that content you should create title. Don’t use so many auxiliary verbs in title tag. For example – is, are, on, in etc.
After the title tag making you should proceed with description. Description of a website also most important part because it is placed in the searches by search engines with the title. The targeted keywords should appear in the Meta tag description. In my point of view, description is most benefited if the site has less content on the web page. Basically, it is important for e-commerce sites. Description improves the density of content also.
Keywords also could be included in the web page and it shows the web page search term. In my point of view, it has less important, so you can leave it.
After this we come to the web page structure. Web page structure should be like a book. All the navigation should be in hierarchy way where user could reach very easily. Here we can discuss about URL structure and page structure. At 1st we look into URL structure.
URL structure can be dynamic or static but some people rewrite dynamic URL to make that static. URL rewriting take some risk if that get any problem, will be treat as another page by search engines. Nowadays, Google read every URL but from the user point of view URL has also major role in traffic deriving. For example:
If you have a page of Sony Ericsson K790i and URL is: mysite.com/12345/=?158 then it will be considered as dynamic page and user will not attract like this page: mysite.com/mobile-phones/sony-ericsson-k790i. I think the example is enough to learn about URL structure.
Now, we should come on page structure. In my point of view page structure is page navigation. Page navigation tells users to know about your site content and pages. It should be in text with hyper link. It should be in proper navigation. If possible use breadcrumb navigation.
Now, go to the content. Content of your site should be unique and fresh. It means your site pages should offer something new for the users which is not on the web.
You must add heading in your site to navigate search engines hierarchy of site. H1 should be in top and should use at once. H2, H3…H6 should be use in proper way like a dictionary or book.
Image should also optimize. If you use an image in your site, it will attract the visitors but along with as an SEO you should care about alt tag of image that will tell the search engines about the image as well as users also in condition of unable to browse that.
In the SEO field we always discuss about Dofollow and Nofollow. Dofollow links allow the search engines follow and index. Dofollow links get the reputation and value of your PR while nofollow links don’t included by search engines and they don’t get your site reputation. Nofollow links always behave as a negative link. For example: If you are writing about a Spam link or site then you can use nofollow for that.
In the search engine optimization robots.txt file has also its major importance. It allows or disallows files to index or noindex by search engines. Basically, it is use for disallow the pages by search engines if your site give different pages for users with same content or product.
Many people think it is very hard subject in search engine optimization and they talk its in two ways – static and dynamic. Yes, it is true but I don’t think it is so hard subject. If you have a dynamic site and you want to block the pages then you simply can disallow that pages or folders which come after your index page. Like this, static page also can be disallowed by robots.txt file.
Lastly, we make an XML and HTML site map for the search engines and users. HTML sitemap tells the users to access easily all the pages of your site by sitemap. XML sitemap creation and submission in webmaster tools tell the Google about your all pages of site to cache them which are unable to reach to crawler. Major search engines Yahoo, Google and MSN offer webmaster tools to submit your sitemap.
It is the basic optimization process. In this process we can include to find out site errors also which is mostly known as 404 errors. If your site has multiple URL with same content you can redirect them also by 301.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Definitions October 30, 2008
Posted by kishosingh in seo.Tags: keywords, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, sites
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SEO called as search engine optimization also. Basically, the theory comes with the age of web sites and search engines. When we say, it is search engine optimization it doesn’t mean that we optimize the search engines; it means we optimize a website for the search engines. If we go some deep then we can say we optimize the site on the guidelines of the search engines.
So, at first for the SEO definitions we have to know about search engines. Before the search engines there are existence of web sites, very clearly but the web sites known as URL not by the keywords. After the discover of search engines the web site popularity increased as keywords and then here SEO theory came in light.
The main differences after the search engines and before the search engines are “Key words” and “URL”. We can define in one line that before the search engines “URL” was in light and websites were very few. After the search engines “Key words” are in light and web sites density have very high that is why search engines optimization in needed. SEO is all about Keywords popularity and nothing but.
As an SEO if a person works on site, he surely think about keywords and keywords popularity. So, I can say Search engine optimization is the practice of web sites optimization on the basis of targeted keywords.
Now, we have to know about keywords. Keywords is a term to search the results in search engines. Search engines index all the sites by their keywords and give the results on the basis of key words.
So, here the theory produce that how a site can comes in #1 among millions of sites by the same key words. It is the basic theory of SEO.
Being a SEO we can guarantee that how a site can comes on #1 and what is the process of getting the positions.
I think this is the basic aspect of SEO and definitions of search engine optimization which deals the keywords popularity in search engines and among the people whether it includes in sites URL or sites Title.
SEO is the practice of organic searches and organic results.
