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Google Index Status shows all the information Google knows about your site
Google recently introduced a new tool to its Webmaster’s console – the Google Index Status. This is a new menu item under the Health menu within Webmaster’s Tool. Clicking on the menu unfolds a goldmine of information regarding your website, that Google has. This is a tool that reveals all the page index status information [...]
5 Free SEO Tools to Check SEO Over Optimization
With the Google Penguin update, there’s a lot of commotion among webmasters. Many folks have reported quick spike in traffic while some, who have been safe all through the Panda updates earlier, reported lower traffic. As always, it’s a bit immature to make a judgment too early, as the update is only gradually rolling out. However, I think [...]
Do Interstitial Ads affect SEO? Is Google favoring the biggies?
We’ve all come across it. You click on a very reputed site’s link from Google results and while at the site, before the actual content the ad pops up (actually fills up) and you got to click some tiny “x” somewhere there [...]
Combine Google Analytics with SEO Data
Using Google Analytics to analyze your SEO performance is probably the most easy and significant way to evaluate your SEO efforts. With an overwhelming amount of data flowing through the backlink channels and pages, its tough but inevitable to measure every little detail of things like where most referrals come from, which backlink sent you [...]
Get rich snippets for Product listings on Google
Google’s snippets got updated recently mainly for product listings. For sites like Ebay where there are products listed, users were able to see certain product factors like rating (seen with stars) earlier. Now, the update will let users see more information on the product like cost, number of votes, recommendations etc. Also product rich [...]
What’s up with Google’s new update?
So, looks like Google is preparing itself for a brand new update to its search, one of the biggest over so far. Google Engineer Matt Cutts has already hinted that they are cracking down on low quality websites that re “over-optimized”. Combine that with the new search update and there is enough reason for us to get worried. First, as with [...]
Sudden drop in google ranks: why & how to get help
A sudden rank drop on Google and being clueless as to what happened – is probably the worst nightmare for a webmaster. Unfortunately, it looks like that these days, a lot of such cases are popping up. Why do sudden rank drops on Google happen and what can be done suddenly to fix the problem? While the problem itself looks huge and makes [...]
Google might penalize websites for Over Optimization
So, the new buzz in SEO town is that, Google might soon be launching (or probably already launched) an update that will soon crack down “over optimized” websites from the web index. (Source: Search Engine Land) What is “Over optimization”? Well, as obvious as it sounds, websites that are extremely SEO friendly. Unnaturally, SEO friendly, [...]