Which links do Google display with link query?

Posted on November 28, 2009

I have seen many of my colleagues and friends checking backlinks in Google, and not getting satisfactory results. When you type a link query or link command in Google search box, it returns only a few links while Yahoo returns majority of them. Why is it so? Do Google recognize only few of them? No. [...]

What Google say about Keywords Meta Tag?

Posted on October 9, 2009

In 1998, when Google came into existence, other search engines like Infoseek and Altavista were indexing sites using the keywords meta tag. But, keyword meta tag, being a webmaster controlled parameter, can be easily manipulated to stuff it up with irrelevant and undesirable keywords.
While not giving any advantage to keyword stuffing, Google came up with [...]

What is the future of SEO in the world of ever-evolving search engines?

Posted on June 25, 2009

Aaron Wall raised a question ‘Will SEO be dead within next two years?’
Most of the SEOs are of the opinion “NO, SEO will continue till search engines continue to rank sites. Though the techniques used may change.”
I would say that SEO might be dead. As the search engines especially Google are changing the way they [...]

How to check backlinks of a website?

Posted on May 25, 2009

After a long wedding vacation, I finally got settled in Mumbai with my hubby. Now I am trying to catch up with the SEO things. Checking backlinks of a website is a very common thing for an online marketer, but the problem arises when we are presented with different results using different techniques.
Missing links in [...]

Would you like to see your site’s favicon in Google search results?

Posted on January 28, 2009

Hey, I just came across an exciting update going on in Google SERPs. A favicon along with search results! Crap, I don’t believe it. Till now, we were able to see favicon at two places only:

In browser tab.
In browser bookmarks/favorites.

Now it’s expected that Google search results too will display it.

Google PageRank update 2008-09

Posted on December 31, 2008

Today, on 31st December, Google has started PageRank update. PageRank is a measure of quality and quantity of links of a page. It identifies the authority of a website. There are around 200 factors which are considered to measure it. These factors include incoming and outgoing links, web page content, W3C validation, CSS validation, traffic [...]