We generally index website search results in search engines with intention to get more back links from Search Engine results page (SERP).
So we should use robots.txt to disallow website search results pages crawling that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines. Its one of the quality guidelines Google mentions in webmaster […]

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In my earlier post i had posted about robots.txt and robots meta tag.
Following are the Search engine optiomization(SEO) checklist  related to robots.txt -
1. robots.txt http status code
Search bot (eg: googlebot) before crawling the website it will always requests robots.txt and understands the definition robots.txt and crawls the website locations which is allowed. […]

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You had a plan for a business, you need a website, now the website is done. What next?
How do you inform search engines that your website existed and inform them to index your website?
When i started working on Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) for 3 ecommerce sites in 2006, this was the first […]

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I always thought following links are same -
http://ganeshhs.com/search-engine-optimization-seo/noindex-nofollow
http://www.ganeshhs.com/search-engine-optimization-seo/noindex-nofollow
Above links leads to the same page, but it differs with www.
But search engine treats both links are different, i have seen in few cases where we link many a times we ignore www. and in some cases we do include www. in the links.
So what are the […]

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HTML tag tells robots not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow, keeping this metatag for pages which we don’t want to index, nor to follow the links on the webpage is helpful.
In some cases, we come across situations where we keep links to external sites. […]

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My blog site ganeshhs.com has now Google Page Rank of 2/10.

When i started first project with zend framework may 2007, there were very few articles/tutorials and my first point of getting info was using search engine, then i realised it would be a great idea if my articles list in search engine and my first […]

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Google suggest helps us to know the search count of each keyword/search query. How do we choose the most searched keyword while optimizing our site for search engine optimization.
Lets say, i want my blog site to be listed on top for keywords zend framework. First thing what i did was, i used google suggest by […]

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I always wanted to check the links indexed in google, yahoo, and other search engines. Generally i used to enter the search query in google and then search in other search engines for same search query.
Well, here is a firefox add on Customize Google which makes above mentioned search process easier, when we search […]

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When i started blogging, i didn’t know what to write about. Since i had very much interest on zend framework, i started posting articles on zend framework.
While i started blogging, i was targeting my blog site to list on top for few keywords ‘zend framework bangalore‘, ‘zend framework india‘ although intially few other competitor sites […]

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I always ended up in search engine when i wanted quick results I randomly entered the search keywords and when i didn’t get relevant result of what i am looking for, i used to reiterate the search action with different search terms.
Google Suggest is a interesting feature that analyzes the user input search keywords and […]

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