Category Archives: SEO

SEO knowledge gives the edge that allows a cat to fight with tigers.

Here are some of the popular articles to get acquainted:

Newbie guide to WordPress SEO
A Successful SEO Case Study
How to pick a great domain name for SEO [video tutorial]
Achieve better rankings with clever usage of Tags
Let Google handle your 404s

Yahoo and Bing Webmaster Tools

Nov 15th, 2009

If you are a webmaster you probably heard of Google Webmaster Tools, a centralized solution for managing your sites in Google's index.Did you know that both Yahoo and Bing have their own versions called Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central. With about 30% of search queries going to these two it's a large portion of search market that you should not neglect. Besides you will gain new information about your sites from the perspective of these two giants.

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Traffic is not valuable by itself says World’s most powerful Newsmaker

Nov 9th, 2009

In a recent interview Rupert Murdoch, the owner of most of western-world's influential media, gave some interesting insights in how his media empire considers totally de-indexing their sites from Google in order to make more paid subscribers. What caught my attention was his statement that there is not enough advertisement in the whole world to make all websites profitable, and that a subscription based model is much better source of revenue in the long run.

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Tip for improving bounce rate: Ad-free homepage

Oct 19th, 2009

Here is a tip for improving the bounce rate on all kind of sites, but I think one that online newspapers can use the most. If you would like to improve bounce rate, have higher number of page-views, improved visitor engagement and thus increased advertising revenue the single most effective thing you can do is actually very easy to achieve. Remove advertisements from your home page. Think about it. Does a visitor coming to your home page want to see ads or what your site has to offer?

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phperrlog – Monitor and consolidate php and apache error logs on the server

Sep 23rd, 2009

One of the prerequisites of a successful site is making sure everything is running as it should. When you have a lot of sites to take care of, tracking the problems can be really time consuming. Especially I was lacking reporting on PHP errors produced by various sites. So I wrote this bash script which purpose is to once a day send you an email with all errors happening on all your sites on the server.

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Search Engine Optimization INDIA, does it work?

Aug 19th, 2009

Almost every day without an exception I get an email or gtalk chat requests with someone representing an SEO company in India. While I am glad this big country has started to master the art of search engine optimization and offering it for outsourcing, the conversation usually goes in the same way every time. So if you are an SEO company from India here are few tips before you approach me next time.At least have a website.