Google Pagerank: What is it exactly?... If you have done any research on SEO, there is a good chance you know about Google PR. You know it shows up on your Google toolbar, and that is has some weight in determining your search engine rankings. But, what really is it, how does it work, and what should you do about it? What it is? Google Pagerank is yet another way the fine folks at Google try to determine the importance of your webpage and it’s place in the search engine rankings. By assigning a proprietary ranking to your web page (From PR0 to PR10), it is easier to see what the value of your page is (in the eyes...

WordPress SEO Plugin... Optimizes your wordpress website for better Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Some of the features this plugin has to offer: Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines Generates META tags automatically Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs For Wordpress 2.7 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install. You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want. You can fine-tune everything Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior...

TalkingSEO.com Releases It’s First... We have constructed an E-Book discussing the basics of Search Engine Optimization. We touch on some of the following topics: o Getting indexed is a top priority. o Is your site SEO-friendly? o Keywords are your friends. o Using tags are important. o In terms of content, it is quality over quantity. And much more. Please let us know if you want to see anything added in our future E-books. Thank you!

Meta Tags: Significance and Use... One of the better ways to get your site listed in search engine result pages is using Meta tags. Meta tags are specific formatted texts used while designing a webpage. They are generally used for writing the keywords, gist of the page and other metadata. The data of data is called the Metadata and the data within the keyword of words is usually the Meta tag. Significance of Meta Tags Meta Tags are used to provide information of WebPages to search engines crawlers and spiders. When a visitor searches for a website, the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) display the title of your...

Search Engine Results Page (SERP): What ... When you search for anything via any search engine, it gives you back a page full of relevant links and descriptions. This page is called the Search Engine Result Page or SERP. All SERP pages have one thing in common. The most relevant links are generally on the top and gradually as you move downwards the relevancy moves away from your search. Does SERP Contain Only Relevant Results? Relevant results with titles, Meta descriptions and snippets are the main focus for a SERP. But, there are many other things that fill up the SERP. i)    Sponsored listings are seen in almost...

Keyword Density... The Internet is a mine of information. You can filter out the information you want by entering a relevant key word or phrase in an internet search engine like Google, MSN or Yahoo. The search engine returns information pertinent to you after measuring the keyword’s density in billions web pages. Keyword Density Wondering what ‘key word density’ is? It is a tool that optimizes search engine results. It measures the number of times a keyword or phrase occurs on a web page in comparison to total number of words on that page. It is always expressed in percentage terms. Formula Key...

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)... Search Engine Marketing Search engine Marketing or SEM is Internet Marketing that helps improve your rankings on the Search Engine Result Pages (SERP’s). The maximum part of traffic when delivered by search engines gives the highest traffic count for your website. The better the page rank you have in the SERP’s, the better visitors find your site via search engines. Background of SEM It was about mid 90s when search engines were developed to make searches for websites worldwide. Pay per Click programs came into view since Open Text and Goto.com started offering such services...

Choosing The Right Keywords... What is the basic explanation behind the usage of keywords for web content? The most important factor is to get fast results in the SERP’s (Search Engine Result Pages). The right keywords for your website is the most efficient way to get the best rankings through the SERP’s. Anchored texts as keywords are of very high importance for search engines like Google. Choosing the Right Keywords for Your Website You need to identify the obvious keywords for your website. Phrases are better than single words. You should identify a primary keyword that most visitors are likely to...

Talking SEO Forum... We figured it would be a good idea to start a new forum for people to discuss SEO topics and get advice current web projects. Visit the forum at http://forums.talkingseo.com or click here. Please let us know if you have any ideas to improve the forum. Thank you Talking SEO Forums, SEO Forums

Verifying Googlebot... People are asking major search engines to provide a way to identify their bots to know if it is authentic. This will stop spammers from re-naming their bots to “Googlebot” or “Yahoobot” to confuse webmasters and making it easier to know which ones to block. Most webmasters ask: “Why not give us a list of IP’s to help identify the bots?”. Read Googles response below. “Telling webmasters to use DNS to verify on a case-by-case basis seems like the best way to go. I think the recommended technique would be to do a reverse DNS lookup,...