Blogging

While keyword research, link-building, content optimization, and other on-page strategies can improve your domain’s search ranking, search engine optimization (SEO) starts with getting your pages indexed and to do that you need to ensure they’re crawler-friendly. Crawler bots, like human users, appreciate sites which have clear, structured, readable data. However, since crawlers can only spend a limited amount of time and resources per site, domains with incoherent site maps, broken links, or 404 errors might not get indexed at all, effectively invisibilizing it for all potential users. ...

Starting a new blog is easy but making it popular is difficult. People find blogging as one of the easiest ways to make money online. Well, making money through a blog is not a piece of cake. Only websites getting decent traffic generate revenue for their owners. A successful blogger is one who earns enough money only to feed his family and pay internet and web hosting bills. Frankly speaking, the website’s fate depends on the traffic. If a site is getting traffic, it will make money for the owner. If it hardly gets visitors, it is of no use to the owner. ...

Google has rolled out a new algorithm update on 7th of March. The head of web spam team, Garry Illyes has named the new algorithm as Fred. The Google Fred update has killed the rankings of many websites overnight. It has brought people who were earning good amount of money online to their knees. Since 8th of March, many webmasters have reported that their sites have lost 80 to 90% traffic and some folks have reported a significant increase in organic traffic after March 8. ...

Site deindexed from Google is the worst nightmare for any blogger or business owner. When Google removes your site from its index, your AdSense earnings are down by 70 to 90%. If traffic from social networks to your site is high, you can recover the earnings by becoming an affiliate marketer. If your site doesn’t get good traffic from Facebook, Twitter or any other social site, your website will be of no use. ...

As we’ve mentioned in one of our blog posts, duplicate content is not good for the site’s health. When Google refreshes the Panda Algorithm, the search traffic of sites with duplicate content are affected the most. Webmasters with experience of creating search engine friendly sites by following the Google Webmaster Guidelines take care of content issues caused by the content management system. But they can’t identify scrapped content unless their site’s search engine traffic is impacted by a Google Algorithm Update. ...

You may have recently learned that blogging is one of the best ways to earn money online. Hence, you might be planning to quit your regular job and pursue a career in blogging or you have just completed your education and want to become a full-time blogger. Blogging is no doubt a great career option. If you become a successful blogger, you’ll make more money than a manager, team leader, chartered accountants, doctors, etc. ...

If your website is not performing well in the search engines, it is either hit by Google Penguin algorithm or has loads of thin content. If you have built backlinks manually or used a software to do so, it is likely that your website is affected by the real-time Penguin update. Go through the following articles to learn why Penguin algorithm has struck your website. Google Penguin 4.0 Update Rolled Out : Biggest Seo Update Best Google Penalty Checker Tool For Sites Whose Traffic Is Down Why Blog Commenting Is The Worst Link Building Strategy? Guest Blogging Is Injurious To Your Blog And Online Career If your website has plenty of thin pages, the Google Panda or Phantom algorithm may have killed the traffic of your website. ...

Guys, you may have seen the “Leverage browser caching” warning when you test your website’s speed with the Google page speed insights tool. After finding this message, you head over to Google and search methods to increase cache expiry time. After reading a tutorial on increasing expiry time for static content i.e. JavaSript, CSS files, you go ahead and modify the htaccess or Nginx configuration file. Do you know that if you set an abnormal expiration value to the static files (say 30 days or more), you may be committing a big mistake! ...

Google has indexed over a billion web pages. It is the largest search engine in the world. Millions of sites depend on traffic from Google to earn revenue. Hence, when engineers working at Google roll out a new update, the SEO experts are excited and equally worried hoping that their or client sites don’t’ lose traffic. A few days back, the head of webspam at Google revealed that the much awaited Penguin 4.0 algorithm update is now in action. The Algoroo graph indicated massive fluctuations in search engine results starting from September 1. It seems like Google began testing the Penguin 4.0 update from 1st September onward. ...

Wix has become a popular website builder ever since it switched to HTML5 from flash. WordPress is the king of all content management systems. Blogspot has been there for a long time. It is still trusted and used by 1000s of bloggers. So, which is the best content management for building a new site or blog? Go through below points to get the answer. Wix Review: Winx supports various languages apart from English. It lets you log in with facebook or google account. If you log in, the site will ask you to select the category of the website you want to create. Wix lets users build the following types of websites: ...