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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Picking the right keywords for the websites is the success of search engine marketing.
When i started search engine optimization, i used to use overture keyword selector tool and check the search counts what other users have searched. Based on the search query count, i used to pick the combination of keywords, which has more search […]

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The robots META tag is similar to robots.txt, its placed in the head section of an HTML page.
In robots meta tag -

The “NAME” attribute is “ROBOTS”.
The “CONTENT” attribute are: “INDEX”, “NOINDEX”, “FOLLOW”, “NOFOLLOW”.

Do not index the content of a page, scan it for links to follow.
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, FOLLOW”>
Indexing content of a page […]

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Sitemap consists of lists of URLs of a site with metadata (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) about each URL, which helps informing search engines about site pages that are available for crawling, so that search engines can […]

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