Updated post here - Hyphen or Underscore in URLs: Which One to Use for Inner Pages in Your Website? When it comes to search engine optimization, we all are aware that what to choose, as keywords and what not to choose. There is a common belief that if you have to name the internal pages of your website, then you should take keywords for the same (business specific), by considering the following things, Check the theme of the page and select the keyword reflecting the webpage, The keyword selected should be the popular keyword and By creating the category(ies) in the form of top navigation, left or right navigation along with the footer links, as important business related keywords. The point to be noted here is, that keywords should be inserted but the important thing to be taken into consideration is that it should not make the webpage spammy. What to choose, "a Hyphen or an Underscore" while naming the internal webpages for the site? This is the very basic and important q

Google on Tuesday the 13th of January 2009, launched the sitemap generator tool. The Google's sitemap generator tool can work on both Linux/Apache and Microsoft IIS Windows-based servers. This is a much smarter tool to generate the sitemap for your website. Didn't tried it uptill now, then go ahead and do it. Download the Google Sitemap Generator Tool For more details click here . Some Useful Links Related Posts Google's Search Engine Starter Guide Promote your site by organic methods, i.e., White Hat SEO Techniques Don't get your site penalized for using Black Hat SEO Techniques Cool advantages of SEO for your website and business Suggested Reading Google's SEO Starter Guide SEO Tutorial - SEO Administrator Most Read SEO Articles Google - Customize your Search Results Internet's Best Website Directory List Internet's Best RSS Directories Internet's Best Blog Directories How to promote your business using the Web 2.0 Techniques? Numbered Search Results H

Everybody now knows about the Google Webmasters Tools and those who don't it's the way you can let Google know about your website in a much better way, so that Google Bot can index those pages also which were otherwise difficult to. Anyways I am going to talk in this post about the Google Webmasters Tools and it's features. Before starting anything you need to have your Google Account and in case you don't then please create one for yourself. The Google Webmasters Tools Dashboard - This is the first page once you login to your webmasters account. It consists of the following, A Box - box at the top left which says add your website here Sites - where it displays the number of websites added to your webmaster account, which further shows the Sitemap and the Verification tab. There is an option also to download the entire data from the webmaster tools. A Message Center - which displays the messages for the site straight from Google. Talk to Google - where you can repo

Google always shows the most relevant results for the search query by it's users, and this time it's typically based on the more informative pages based on the search term regarding the queries. The Concept behind Site Links Google is displaying important pages from your site in the form of Site Links. Site Links are the way to display the information based on the search query by the user, for the other pages in the website which Google thinks can provide or be beneficial to it's users. The process of displaying the Site Links in the search results is completely automatic and Google creates the site links for your website, based on the information which a user wants by showing the most relevant pages from the website. Just have a look by searching the domain/business of your website, and check the search results for the same. If your site links are not displayed then that simply means, the Site links for your website is not yet generated by Google. The Google's way of d

The sitemap is the most important way to inform the search engines about your website. And what a better way you can get if you can just inform the search engines that these are the important pages in my website. Create a Sitemap for your blog in Blogger Creating a sitemap for the blogs created in Blogger.Com is pretty easy. For the users of Blogger, you have an automatic sitemapa created for your blog. All you need is to know about it. You can have an access to the sitemap of your blog by viewing the following url; SEO Blog Sitemap Submitting the Sitemap Now after knowing the sitemap for your blog, all you need to do is to submit the sitemap in your Google Webmaster accounts. Once done you can start getting updates for your blog. That's easy huh! Some Useful Links Related Posts Google's Search Engine Starter Guide Promote your site by organic methods, i.e., White Hat SEO Techniques Don't get your site penalized for using Black Hat SEO Techniques Cool advantages of SEO for

Google is doing the major search results updates in it's searches provided to the users. Recently Google launched the Google Search Wiki, wherein the user can add, remove and see all the notes for a specific search results, or write their own comments. Like wise there are a many updates going on in the search results that will be displayed to the users. To name some of them, Google's Search Wiki First comes the search wiki itself, as when you are deleting the search result, the result will be deleted with a sound and with animation. But you need to have signed in to your google account to do all that for the search wiki. Google's Alternate View for Search Results Google will now provide an alternate view for the search results. That will be based on the following four criterios, A List View A Info View A Timeline View A Map View List View - A list view is the normal view of the of the search results. Information View - The Information view will provide another 5 segregate

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