SEO Basic Tips

What is SEO?

SEO means search engine optimization. It is a process or technique by which search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Bidu etc) know your website. When visitors search with keywords then search engine will search his directory and show related sites according to SEO. There are many factor. Your site will show in the first page of the search engine only when you do true SEO. There are two kinds of SEO.

1.      On Page SEO

2.     Off Page SEO

Important factor of SEO:

  1. Domain name (It is and important factor for SEO. Use perfect keyword in the domain URL).
  2. Backlink (Try to create more backlink for your website into high PR related websites).
  3. Keyword (Use true keyword for your article).
  4. Visitors (This is what you want regular visitors. Smooth trends no ups and down).
  5. Loading Speed of Site (Try to decrease your site loading time).
  6. Hosting (Try to host your site in best hosting provider).
  7. Easy Navigation (Try to design simple navigation so that visitors can explore your site easily).
  8. Internal links (Try to use some anchor text with internal links)

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On Page SEO:

What is on page SEO?

If you want to do on page SEO you need to know about web design and html (Hyper Text Markup Language). The optimization which is done inside the website/page/post is known as On Page Search Engine Optimization.

Which area you need to do optimization for on page?

  1. Meta tag (Blog/Website Title, Keyword and Descriptions)
  2. H1-H6 (Follow the sequence using tag start from H1, H2, H3,–H6.  So title should be H1 and only one time use then use other tag in your content as you wish)
  3. Image Alt tag (Search engine can not read photos/pictures/images directly so put an alt tag about the image ).
  4. Parmalink for URL structure (Select permalink with post name for blog and try to keep it short as possible. Do not practice yourdomain.com/1254a?c as your permalink.)
  5. Name of Page/Post Title (Give a SEO friendly page or post name).
  6. Keyword Based / SEO friendly contents (Use keyword analysis tools use the match and popular keyword but has low competition. I use Google Adwords Tools to find my keyword).
  7. XML sitemap (Creat an XML sitemap and submit in different search engine like Google, Bing etc. You can use plugins for WP Google XML Sitemap plugin I used and working for me fine).
 Meta tag:
How to use meta tag in free blogging platform like blogspot dot com?

First log in to blogspot account. Now click template. Click Edit HTML Under <head> but before closing </head> (That means inside head section) paste the bellow code (two line). Do not forget to put your website keywords and description in the defined area.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”Keywords goes here”/>
<meta name=”description” content=” Description goes here“/>

Then click on Save Template.

How to use meta tag in Joomla?

First login to your Joomla account. Click on Global Configuration. Under metadata setting you will find Global Site Meta Description and Global Site Meta Keywords box. You can easily put the description and keyword in the defined box. At last click Save button at the upper right corner.

For WordPress you can use fantastic plugins I use Yoast WordPress SEO. It is easy to use no coding skill is required. You and install it manually or just go to WP admin and install it by searching Yoast WordPress SEO plugins.

Website Title:

In html formats give your page/post title seo friendly.

<head>
<title>website title here</title>
</head>
In CMS blogging platform you will get the website title box by default.

Name of the Page/Post Title:

In CMS blogging platform you will get the title box so no worried about it and it predefined as H1 tags.

Kyword based Search Engine Optimization friendly content:

First select your subject/heading/title of your post then use keyword research tools you may like Google Adwords to find your best possible keywords for your content. Use keyword inside the content carefully and tactically. So that Search Engine do not detect them as a spam. Never put click here anchor text with link.

If you can configured your site with the above said factor you are done.

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The Page is Missing Meta Language Information in Bing SEO Analyzer!

 

Verify Free WordPress Blog in Google Webmaster

Verify Free WordPress Blog in Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools is a free web service lead by Google. It helps webmaster and allows to check idexing and optimize visibility of their site and many other opportunities free of cost.

Verify Free WordPress Blog in Google Webmaster question is how? You will be able to do it if you follow my step by step tutorial. This tutorial is for newbie.

verify free wordpress blog

You can easily create/register/make your own free WordPress blog in a minute and start blogging. It is important when you start blogging verify ownership of your blog in Google Webmaster. You do not have full permission to upload files in your root directory. So the alternet method will not work for you. You cannot edit the header.php file also. Therefore you cannot apply the <meta> option to verify ownership of your blog with those two method I told.

How to Verify Free WordPress Blog in Google Webmaster:

First log in to  Google WebmasterAdd your newly created free WordPress site to your webmaster dashboard. Now scroll to your newly added website. It will show not verified (You don’t have access to this site. Verify this site or ask a site owner to add you as a user. – Verify this site) . Click Verify this site now. See the picture bellow.

verify wordpress free blog

The next window you will able to find meta code like this

<meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”Cuhb0eUwdeQNYU3hT6sTT2sMfRFTRUeCz-w1_aSPGDA” />

Now just copy this meta code and go to your website dashboard. On your left sidebar click Tools . Find Website Verification Services (?) . 

Now paste that code Google Webmaster Tools inside box see picture bellow.

wordpress free blog verification meta code

After that click Save Changes button at the bottom. Now back to your Google webmaster and click Verify button. Wow! you will see the congratulation message. Click Continue. It will redirect you to your newly verified dashboard. See the picture bellow.

wordpress free blog verification success

Happy verify free WordPress blog in Google Webmaster.

Verify Free Blog, Google Blogspot in Google Webmaster

Verify Free Blog

Hi guys, This tutorial will help newbie who has free www.blogspot.com blog. Who loves blogging. So it is important to verify your blog in various webmaster tools. For example Google Webmaster, Bing Webmaster etc. I will discuss now how you can easily add a site to Google Webmaster and verify free blog ( your Google blog, WordPress Blog or your own domain/website)?

First adding your blog/website:

a.  Go to-   Google Webmasters Tools

b.  Login with your Gmail or blogger.com id.

c.  From the right up corner click on  Add a site button.

d.  Insert your Blog, WordPress Blog or your own Website URL (You can type manually).

e.   Click Continue button.

verify free blog

verify free blog

 Second Verify your Blog/Website:

Free Google Blog:

a.  Click Verify this site button (see picture).

b.  Click Alternate methods (tab).

c.  Select HTML tag (radio button).

d.  Now copy the <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”7EeOSY-d4aobOnE_9RO3Gju1uGI1gweD8A3KgswaQg8″ /> code it will looks like but may be different.

e.  Go to www.blogspot.com and login with your details (which you added and want to verify). Click verify this site at the right site of your domain listed.

verify

f.  Now go to your blog ( For example my blog is http://cartoonbag.blogspot.com/ ).

g.  Click template.

h.  Then click Edit template .

verify free blog

google blog verify

j.  You can see the picture just bellow 4-5 line you can find the starting <head> place the cursor after it and from your keyboard hit enter and paste the meta code you copied from the Google webmaster.

k.  Click Save template.

m.  Back to your Google webmaster and click verify.

n.  Now you will see congratulation message click continue. That’s all Enjoy. (See the picture bellow).

success

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The page is meta language missing in bing webmaster tools.

 

The Page is Missing Meta Language Information in Bing SEO Analyzer!

The Page Missing Meta Language Information

 Missing Meta Language Information

Missing Meta Language Information : If you want to know about meta language in details please visit wiki The Page is Missing Meta Language Information. I recently register new site Jackets Womens . And I found in bing SEO analyzer it show the error “The Page is Missing Meta Language Information”. I research in the web and found many solution. But I finally figure my site for English Language by adding the following code to the header.php before closing </head> and it is working fine.

<meta http-equiv=”content-language” content=”en-gb”>

There are other solution add in starting <html> attribute like <html lang=”en”> I did not applied it. You may try this. If work for you please do not hesitate to drop a comment with the solution.

If want to know about Language Codes visit this site.