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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Tips To Easily Index Your Site Pages By Google


  • Submit sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool - If you have a brand new site and you wish it to appear in search result faster, I suggest you add your site to Google webmaster tool and submit your sitemap. Sitemap is a list of pages on your site only visible to search engine bot so that it can easily crawl your site and index it faster.
  • Use Fetch as Google on Webmaster Tool - Fetch as Google is another useful feature that you can use on Google Webmater Tool. It is created to help website owners to determine issues of crawling your site and at the same time it can also let you submit url of your newly updated content pages on your site that you wish to be index immediately. To learn more about Fetch as Google and how you can use this feature on GWT you may check it here at :  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/158587?hl=en
  • Check your site Robots.txt  - Make sure to check robots.txt and see if there are particular pages on your site that your robots.txt is trying to block. There is no way Google or other search engine can crawl or index your site if it's being block by your robots.txt.
  • Improve Site Speed - Google likes fast loading sites. Website which load slowly affect google bot to crawl your site that's why it is critically suggested to improve your site speed to improve crawl rate thus it can help indexing on your site much faster.
  • Gain Quality backlinks - Create quality and useful content that people will surely love. If that happens, people will naturally share and link to your site. Quality and relevant link from other site is another big factor not just for your website to get index easily but also helps to improve your rank on search engine.
  • Add Fresh Content - Google love fresh and unique content . Try to keep your site regularly updated with quality content that is useful to users. Google bot will repeatedly visit and index your website if you frequently update it with unique and valuable content thus giving you a high chance of getting index in just a short period of time.
  • Social Sharing - Seriously! I really recommend sharing your content to social networking sites. Don't forget to share your site to facebook, twitter especially Google Plus. Social signals is rumored  have a big impact on improving search ranking so it can definitely help you in indexing your site.

Friday, May 23, 2014

SEO Free Tools That You Should Use


  • Google Analytics - This free tool is a must for every seo, online marketers and even to simple webmaster as it can provide you detailed statistics of your site traffic. It's an awesome tool to study your traffic behavior so you can have an insight to how you can improve it more.

google analytics
www.google.com/analytics/


Here's a few sample list of data that you can get from Google Analytics :

      1. Monitor Traffic Sources ( organic search, direct visit, social visit, referral site traffic and more )
      2. Track Conversion and Sales
      3. Learn Geo-Traffic Location ( what country and city your visitors came from ) 
      4. Visitor Engagement (  how long visitors stays on your site, track returning visitors and new visitors )
      5. Device use to visit your site
      6. Top organic keywords that people search from google
      7. Top pages on your site
Google analytics is a very important tool to study your website traffic performance and for you to create adjustments in area that you need to improve on your seo and online marketing campaign.

  • Google Webmaster Tool - Probably one of the most important tool that you should use not only because you're an seo but also advisable for every webmaster who wants to have a Google friendly site. It's the best seo tool to collect data and get deeper insights on how google sees your site. Definitely a big help on your on page and off page optimization strategy as it can provide you data like links pointing to your site, index status, internal links, crawl error, top search queries, top pages, html improvement and other helpful feature that will surely help you make a healthy and user friendly website in the eye of google. Using this GA will be a big help to increase your chance to improve your ranking on serps.
google webmaster tool
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
  • OpensiteExplorer.org - Definitely one of my favorite seo tool next to google anaytics and GWT. Also known as a search engine for links. Owned by Moz, opensiteexplorer.org is an awesome online backlink analysis tool to study your competitors link profile.
opensite explorer
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Here you can check your site domain authority, page authority which is a very popular metrics among seo's to measure link popularity of a website. Here you can also get interesting data like total inbound link count, linking domains, top pages and more. It's totally free but if you want a much more deeper insights on your site and your competitors, you may upgrade it to paid version.