Intro into Web Analytics
September 8, 2008 – 6:34 amAn introduction into web analytics and an insight into why you need web analytics.
Using the w3c validation tool to fine tune your code
August 19, 2008 – 3:49 amThis post explains what is the w3c validation tool for and how to use it. It also highlights on the importance of validation your HTML code.
Difference between Bounce rate and Exit rate
May 2, 2008 – 12:15 amEven though both the terms bounce rate and exit rate look to mean same, they are different web analytics terms. Bounce rate : is the percentage of visitors leaving the site from the landing page. Exit rate: Exit rate of a page is the percentage of visitors leaving the site from the particular page. Now.. [...]
Broken links in a site – Are they good?
June 11, 2007 – 10:54 amHow do you personally feel when you end up on a page which says ‘Page Not Found’ in a site you were browsing? Do you like that? There is no reason for you to like that – I’m sure.. So will you purposely keep any link in your site which can end up in ‘Page [...]
SEO For WordPress – Making your blog SEO Friendly
March 25, 2007 – 2:37 amComparing a website, optimized for SEO and a default installation of WordPress, one can conclude that it lacks friendliness in SEO, except the fact that it uses feeds, proper navigation and linking, pinging search engines etc. Some of the things I observed are, – You can’t have a separate title other than the post title, [...]
Basic On Page Optimization for beginners
March 5, 2007 – 1:40 pmI assume that you have gone through the initial parts of my SEO Tutorial . Lets get into the topic on how to do OnPage Optimization. Search Engine Optimization consists of basically two stages – On Page Optimization and Off Page. OnPage optimization refers to the SEO activities we perform on a page in our [...]
Using WordPress as a CMS
February 26, 2007 – 2:45 pmWhen you hear the name wordpress, what comes in your mind is a blog as it has become widely used blogging software. But it is much advanced software than a simple blogging tool where you can have a blog post live within a flash. WordPress has support for pages as well as posts. Pages, well [...]
Using affiliate system for SEO advantages
February 8, 2007 – 6:18 amIn an affiliate tracking system, there will be usually a referring URL containing the unique id of the referrer to credit the commission. If affiliates use there referring URL’s as links from their site, it will be counted as a back link pointing to the site’s URL having the affiliates unique id. Now think of [...]
Creating robots instruction document – Robots.txt
September 24, 2006 – 9:52 pmIn earlier post I have mentioned that using a robot directive file – robots.txt you can control whether a document can be crawled by a search engine or not. Generally if there is no robots.txt file in the root of your website or it has no instructions written in it, it is interpreted by the [...]
How to treat search engine crawlers in your site
August 21, 2006 – 6:46 amWhat a search engine needs is it has to fetch out information regarding your site. For the same reason, the crawlers keep visiting your site. Now how to keep your site crawler friendly? The crawler comes one of your page first, picks up the content from it, it can take out information such as your [...]