Dead Link / Broken Link A dead link (also called a broken linking) is a link on the World Wide Web that points to a web page or server that is permanently unavailable. The most common result of a dead link page is shown by displaying the status code by the server a 404 error, which indicates that the web server responded, but the specific page could not be found. The browser may also return a DNS error indicating that a web server could not be found at that domain name. 1) Broken Link Checker Just put the address of your website or weblog home page URL in the input box and the spider will read the html code and check for the broken links. The Broken Link Checker splits the links in two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing link to different domains. Once started the bot will visit your website, and follows all the links checking their status. It gives a detailed report for all the bad links including the broken links, i.e., 404 links. 2) W3C Link Checker Thi...

Reciprocal Link , A link to your web page by another website site, and form your website to that linking website. When you create a link to another web page (Page B) from your own page (Page A) and the other website does the same, then a link from Page B to Page A is a reciprocal link.

Domain Age plays an important role, in SEO. A domain with longer existence scores over the new domain. How to calculate the age of your domain? I am listing here some of the great online tools for checking the age of your website. Web Conf's - Domain Age Tool - They say that the tool displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet. It also helps you find out the age of your competitor's domains, older domains may get a slight edge in Search Engine Rankings. It has an advantage that the age of multiple domains can be calculated simultneously. SEO Chat - Domain Age - They say that website’s age is one of the major factors used to rank it in the search engines, and that the older domains gets slight edge in search engine rankings. I felt that entering the image code for validation is a bit tedious job, and more over in order to see the different domains age, it becomes more difficult. SEO Logs - Domain Age Check - This is another tool with the limitation of entering o...

We have a blog, and we are posting the content there, but who knows or is aware of our blog? Where do our blog stand in a sea of information and/or entertainment. I want to share following points which should be considered to market your blog. Things to be kept in mind regarding the BLOG The theme of the blog should be clear enough to portray the image of the blog in the minds of the visitors. Do, regular posting. If you are posting daily, or weekly or twice a month; do that on a regular basis. Search engines love to crawl the new content, the more they find the new content on to your blog, the more frequently they are likely to visit your blog, and hence better indexing of your blog. If you are optimizing your blog, then please don't fill your blog with spam keywords. This may lead to elimination of your blog from the search engine results. Blog Marketing Who does not wants his/her blog to be on the top and yield excellent results. That's not that difficult also. I am about to...

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It's cool, it's trendy, it's user friendly, and is now with more search functionality with better indexing for your website. Yahoo recently modified the Site Explorer interface. Yahoo's Site Explorer provides the site owners with better visibility, site indexing, submitting feeds , deleting URL's or reporting spam. The new site explorer provides a better interface, and has also increased the number of rules for Dynamic URL Rewriting from 3 to 10, along with all the above functionalities. This is how the new interface is, If you are not done with Yahoo Search Explorer yet, then click here for the new Yahoo Site Explorer account.

The Search Engines undergo a lot and lot of major or minor updates. In this post I have depicted some of the updates or the new technology launched by the 3 majors,, i.e., Google, Yahoo and MSN. As there are a lot many changes going on and the updates which happened in the past also, this post is typically portraying the information about the current major changes the three search engines (Google, Yahoo & MSN) are undergoing, starting as early as July_08. Web Page Translator Microsoft has launched the Web Page Translator service. Get your web page translate including the chat, read more.. Google's Browser - Chrome Google launched it's own browser. The new browser is fast & shiny with pros and cons. The browser has a feature to show the previous opened pages in the browser itself when you open it the next time. It shows the history on the web page itself read more.. The All New Live Search MSN came up with the new interface for Live Search. The Live Search will show a ba...

Links Links Links ... This is all about links. We live in a world links. Without links there is no popularity of the website. As SEO's we know very well what is the importance of links and what it values for the website. A link from a website to the other website is counted as a vote, Google says it and so everyone follows it. So, we all want to make our website popular. I have listed some of the easy methods to obtain a backlink for our website. Here we go, Post Comments : Posting comments on the other blogs post, is one of the easiest way to obtain a backlink for your website. Search for the relevant articles based on the theme of your website, then go ahead and post a comment on it. In this way you get a backlink for your website; isn't it easy.. Participate in Forums : This is another excellent way of obtaining a back link. Start participating in the theme oriented forums, it works. Craigslist : The Craigslist is another easy way to obtain a linkback to your website. Yah...

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In order to have the search results numbered in Google and MSN (as Yahoo already shows the numbering in the search results), you need to install the firefox extension called as Greasemonkey . Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. Google Numbered Results Once done, then you need to install the script for numbering the results in Google. Click here to install the script. This script will automatically numbered the results in the Google Search Results. MSN Numbered Results Number your MSN results and make your search results more effective. Click here to install the script. Yahoo Numbered Results Yahoo automatically shows the numbering for the search results, for the keyword searches. Reference : Added Bytes Posted at - SEO Blog

Google launched a variety of gadgets for the bloggers. Google Gadgets have now been enabled for all layouts blogs. The Google's Gadget Directory, consists of thousands of cool gadgets, as per the theme of your blog. And if you are thinking that it's enough, then you are mistaken. Google has provided the feature to upload your own gadgets also. The access to Google Gadgets is from the Blogger dashboard under the Layout - Gadgets tab. Initially the tab was known as Layout - Page Elements. This is how it looks like.. The Google Gadgets can be automatically sized as per the sidebar of your blog. And that's not enough. You can add your own gadgets to the list of thousands gadgets already added. Then what are you waiting for, go and get it..

What is SEO for Firefox? SEO for Firefox is a great tool for the webmasters. It helps to analyze the various aspects of the websites, like - Links, Age, Directories etc. How to get SEO for Firefox? Click here to get SEO for firefox Silent Features The following are the silent features of the tool, SEO for Firefox. Indications - Once installed, the icon will appear on the status bar. In order to use it, just click it once, it will become highlighted, and can click it again to unselect it. PR - It's the Google Page Rank. Age - The age is determined, with the theory that when the first time a page was indexed, and it's taken from Archive.org Links - (Yahoo! linkdomain) shows the total number of links pointing at a domain .edu Link - (Yahoo! .edu linkdomain ) shows the total number of .edu links pointing at a domain .edu Page Link - (Yahoo! .edu link ) shows the total number of .edu links pointing at a specific page .gov Link - (Yahoo! .gov linkdomain ) shows the total numbe...

Optimization your webiste in Yahoo. I want to provide some basic tips for the optimization of website in Yahoo..

Widgets - wow that makes my blog looks good. I like widgets. What is a widget? Widgets are the visual objects, icons or graphical interface elements that can be manipulated by the computer user to perform a desired function online. The post consists of the list of Widgets website which I prefer,

The top most social networking website DEL.ICIO.US has moved to DELICIOUS This is what del.icio.us says about the new Delicious which is, faster, easier to learn, and more delightful to use and to look at. The Changes in the new site, Speed - As per the new infrastructure, Delicious is faster and ensures that Delicious is responsive and reliable. Search - Delicious says that they have completely overhauled their search engine to make it faster and more powerful. This implies that the searches are quick. The new search engine is also smarter, you can also search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Design - The new Delicious is more user interactive and believe me, I liked this update, in terms of design and user interaction. Just check it out, and/or create one if you dont have it uptill now.