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Domain Age Vs Keywords in name

Since last couple of days, We are looking for a new SEO domain, Which fulfill all the major SEO criteria(At least most of them). I mean,Aged domain with good pagerank and reasonable amount of back links and keywords in domain name. I guess i am sounding too much greedy, Isn’t it?
But it was my terribly hard luck that i didn’t find any suitable match.I have never realized before that there are so many SEO experts on planet. Anyways, I wanna ask a question to all of you. If i need to compromise between domain age and keywords in name, With whom should i go. domain age or keyword? I understand both are an important factors(along with hundreds of other factors) in search engines search algorithm but which has the higher weightage?
I really appreciate your answers and suggestions friends !

Happy SEOing!
Upen,
Free SEO tools

July 28th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | Uncategorized | one comment

SEO domain

Hello friends,
I am looking for another SEO domain. Please let me know if you know anyone who wish to sell his/her domain.Domain should be at least 5 yr old and should have at least page rank of 2.
I really appreciate your support

Thanks,
Happy SEOing!
Upen,
Free SEO tools

July 27th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | Uncategorized | no comments

google backlinks checker is updated

Yesterday night, I fixed some errors in our google backlink checker . shhh, it was Saturday night and i was working :-(
poor me! Not really had some beer once i got it working :-P
Well, our google backlink checker gives you now number of back links as well as comprehensive list of links coming from different domain extensions . I suggest you to have a look and hit me with your questions and bug reporting.
Happy SEOing,
Upen
Free SEO tools

July 25th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | SEO tools | no comments

Top 10 SEO tips

Now a days, SEO has become one of the most pivotal marketing strategy for any firm.But unfortunately more than 80% crowd don’t get desire result because of lack of proper skill and time, As i personally believe SEO is the most time consuming marketing strategy amongst all but at the same time it delivers the most of audience (so do the clients) if it have been applied correctly.

In the amidst of hot and humid summer, I would like to share top 10 SEO tips.

1 – “Content is the king”: Having the great, catchy and relevant content is the most important and kickoff factor for SEO

2-“Backlinks are the queens”If content is the king , backlinks are surely the queen. Try to fetch backlinks as much as possible. Best ways to get backlinks are : social media , article submission, directories submission, blogging and forum posting , and again this is the most time consuming and rigorous process in SEO .

3-“Keyword phrases are prince and princess”Having the great and competitive keyword phrase is also an important factor in SEO but if you are a newbie i suggest you not to put your ego with keywords. First do analysis for your keyword phrases and check traffic and competitors for that keyword phrase.

4-“Domain name with your major keywords”Getting a domain name with keywords can easily make a big difference in terms of SEO .

5-“Spread keyword phrases”Spread your keyword phrases all over the page but also consider keyword density at the same time.

6-“Link back your page to search engines”Linking back to search engine would also help you alot, As search engines also love backlinks(They are also greedy).

7-“Write Unique Content”Having unique content is a major factor in getting indexed by search engines

8-“Keyword phrases in title tag” Having keyword phrases in title tag is important factor in getting indexed and being searchable .

9-“Keyword phrases in anchor text”Using keyword phrases in anchor text is also have high priority among other SEO activities

10-“Blogging”Having blog attached to your website will also help you further, as google loves blogs

Comments and suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Have a nice and colorful Summer !

Upen,

Free SEO tools

July 12th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | SEO | 3 comments

Google wonder Wheel

Google introduces a very easy to use and user friendly  tool to allow user to see relevant search result to given query in more semantically relevant and  graphically way. I personally believe Wonder wheel is very helpful and insightful for keyword research. It can be easily used as keyword research tool to get relevant and targeted keywords for search engine optimization.

How to use wonder wheel

Enter keyword and hit search button. On the sidebar of search result page, you will see Wonder Wheel

When you click on wonder wheel, a new wheel shaped circle of keywords, related to main keyword, will be appeared.

Clicking on the any of link, will gives you same circle of keywords, related to that keywords.

For more details , watch Adam’s Video.

May 8th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | Google | one comment

Google virtual keyboard

Google has just officially announced the integrated a virtual keyboard to non English search. Currently this virtual keyboard is available only for 35 languages including Russian,Alabamian, Croatian, Greek, Arabic and 30 other languages.
Full list of supported languages is available here

when searcher search in any of these 35 languages, a small keyboard icon appears right to the search box.
User can either click on the virtual keys or press the corresponding keys on computer keyboards

For more information visit

Happy SEOing,
Upen
Free SEO tools and resources

April 30th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | Google | 3 comments

URL canonicalization and SEO

In SEO, Generally people put all their effort in building back links, gaining higher relevancy and other SEO factors and overlook URL canonicalization, which may cause negative effect on website ranking.URL canonicalization, can be defined as process to have standard consist URL. For example , Have a look at following URLs

http://www.example.com
http://example.com
http://www.example.com/index.html

People think these are same URL. They may result show same content but for search engines they are different , Search engines treat them as different pages and show up the page with maximum number of inbound and outbound links, that gonna further leak out your effort in building back links.
In order to overcome this , One need to instruct search engines about which URL should be picked and concentrate on that URL in link building . There are several ways to do, best one in 301 redirect, that can be easily done using .htaccess file in PHP based sever, Unfortunately IIS server don’t support .htaccess (but you can redirect from service manager)
Lets discuss 301 redirect with .htaccess
non www to www redirect
In order to redirect http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com, Put following code in .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

www to non www redirect
In order to redirect http://www.example.com to http://example.com, Put following code in .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

http://www.example.com to http://www.example.com/index.html redirect
Put following code in .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %(THE_REQUEST) ^[A-Z] {3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule (.*) index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Other prominent way to redirect is using refresh metatag (introduced by Netscape) , this specify to new page after some set time. Time 0 indicates permanently redirection. For example

But sometimes , using meta refresh can causes detrimental effect as well, as sometime search engine may consider it as a spam because this technique very often used by spammer to trick search engines.
You can also redirect using java script.I personally believe .htaccess redirect is most efficient way, Actually it depends upon one’s need so weigh all the pros and cons and choose the way suitable to your requirement.
Happy SEOing,
Upen

http://www.freesearchengineoptimizationtools.com

April 28th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | SEO | one comment

SEO Web Analyzer

Hello everyone,
Hope you all are having nice weekend. I am here to share our new Web Analyzer. With our web analyzer, You can analyze for both on site and off site factors and get out corresponding rating based on various seo factors. In our web analyzer, we have focused on google, as it acquires more than 70% share in search engine market.
Our web analyzer, checks for backlinks, pagerank, number of pages indexed on google, link popularity and search inclusion on google along with meta tags , links and keyword density.
We suggest you to have a look at our web analyzer. Your comment and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Happy SEOing,
Upen

April 11th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | SEO tools | 11 comments

Social Media – Hotspot for link spamming

Social media has become the hottest place for link spamming. People tries to send as much duplicate links as they can to gain higher link popularity . In fact it’s one of the biggest reason behind MySpace’s demise. Recently, twitter implemented URL shortener to fight against spamming, which checks all the link send through direct message and then shorten using twt.tl root link.

Does this effort really gonna control link spamming on twitter? I personally believe it’s more about controlling the outside content instead of controlling the spamming. Anyways, twitter claimed that they have reduced the link spamming to 1% (which was more then 11% in april 2009). Good for them!
A new kind of link spamming was recently discovered on facebook, people use to send some deceptive post along with their link on wall and spammers spoof the user profile during attack and lure them to link to some phishing sites. spammers use some methods (probably the banking trojan or keyboard stoke logger) to access the user account first time. Being a SEO expert i doubt it gonna help anyone in getting high rank. Yeah, it will increase link popularity for sure but what about bounce rate? as spammers don’t bother to reply on their post and google also consider bounce rate in their search algorithm.

Well, I understand it’s really hard to eliminate spamming,in fact Google says “spamming is almost impossible to eliminate” although Google has started banning your site if you do the same.
Happy SEOing,
Upendra

April 1st, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | SEO | 3 comments

Google keyword position checker

Hello friends,
We have updated our google keyword position checker. Now is checks on following google extensions
www.google.com
www.google.ca
www.google.co.in
www.google.de
www.google.fr
www.google.cn
www.google.co.uk
www.google.com.mx
www.google.co.jp
www.google.com.br
www.google.ru
www.google.es

We advise you to have a look at keyword checker
feedbacks will be greatly appreciated

Happy SEOing

March 30th, 2010 Posted by icebreaker | Uncategorized | 2 comments