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7 Ways to Improve Your Site’s Crawlability (And Why You Should)

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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...

How to increase traffic to blog for free?

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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...

Google Fred Update: Hybrid of Google Phantom and Penguin algorithms?

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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...

Site deindexed by Google: Possible reasons why your website is removed

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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...

The best way to deal with content scrapers

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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...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Blogging

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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...

How to find and fix thin Content that leads to Google Panda penalty?

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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...

Why you shouldn’t change WordPress theme often?

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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...

Google Penguin 4.0 update rolled out : Biggest SEO update (2016)

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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...

WordPress vs Wix vs Blogger (Blogspot) : Best tool to build website is…

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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...

Image SEO tips and tools to make photos search engine friendly

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Do you know? Images can bring tons of high-quality organic traffic to your blog or website. A website without pictures looks strange. Visitors may not find such sites attractive. If the blog post doesn’t have related pictures, visitors may not read the full content. Today, we’ve shared 7 useful tips for image optimization. If your site has many pictures, but if it doesn’t get...

Is BlogSpot or Blogger safe, better than WordPress?

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Blogspot and blogger are the two faces of the same coin. Blogger was known as Blogspot but when Google bought it, people started calling the site Blogger. Google hasn’t destroyed Blogspot. Sites that are hosted on it are identified by the following domain name: site_name.blogspot.com Is BlogSpot safe? As Google owns Blogger, it is a much safer website than a self-hosted WP blog. If you...

EMD SEO and Google : 3 Important things that you should know

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Google penalizes spammy EMD sites, but do you know that Exact match domain names can outrank an authority site for a specific keyword? If you don’t know this, you are probably a newbie or an immature SEO professional. Here are the three important things that you should know as a Sear Engine Optimization professional. EMD domains rank I can give 10 good examples that exact match domain names...

Backlinks or content : What’s more important?

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Two of the most commonly used terms by bloggers and webmasters are backlinks and content. A site must have both else it will not rank in first seven pages of world’s busiest and largest search engine, Google. Backlinks aka inbound links are the most important criteria Google considers for ranking content of a website in their pages. One can easily prove this. Search for a product...

How to get great blog post ideas for free in 2018?

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Being a professional blogger is not easy. You will have to think about new blog post every day. Sometimes, you will struggle to get new ideas. You will be frustrated, depressed and think of quitting as a blogger. Before you take any major decision, go through the below top five places from which you can get new topics for your blog. How to get new blog post ideas? Use RSS reader: Feedly and...

Why Blog Commenting is the Worst Link Building Strategy?

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Blog commenting is the worst strategy of link building. Many pro bloggers recommend their followers to drop a comment on high page rank or high domain authority blogs (with similar niche). I think, this is the worst tip ever. Have you seen the pro bloggers comment on other blogs which are more popular and have higher DA than their websites? The answer is no. Pro bloggers know that commenting on...

Blogging mistakes that fail you as a blogger

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Blogging is the best way to express thoughts, share knowledge and reviews. Starting a blog is easy, but making money through it is difficult. Many people abandon/delete their websites or fail to succeed online because of the below blogging mistakes: Not using self hosted blogging platform A self hosted platform is one which allows you to install a blog software of your choice on a shared, cloud...

Best Free Blog Hosting sites and their pros and cons

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Hosting a website is an easy task, but choosing a company which offers this service is difficult. There are two types of hosting platforms, free and premium. Newbie or wannabe pro bloggers would prefer signing up with a free blog hosting site. An experienced webmaster will avoid it. If you’re wondering what’s the reason for the same, then go through the below cons and pros of FBHS...

Guest Blogging is injurious to your Blog and Online Career

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There was a time when bloggers used the guest blogging technique to create backlinks. For those who are not aware, in Guest blogging, SEO agencies or companies pay website owners or writers to publish a guest blog post with one or two backlinks to another site. Companies use this technique to rank their sites high in search engines. They are constantly in search of high domain authority websites...

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