If-Modified-Since HTTP Header – How to Use with PHP

Google in its webmaster technical guidelines has suggested webmasters to make sure the web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. If-Modified-Since HTTP header feature will allow your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since they last crawled your site. Supporting this If-Modified-Since HTTP header feature saves you bandwidth and overhead. Read more...

How to write Meta Tags for Blogger Blogspot Posts

Meta tags provides additional information about a page. Meta tags may help the search engines to more accurately crawl, index and place your blog in search engine results page (SERP). Creation of unique title and description tags can improve your blogs visibility in search engines. Though many discussions are going on about the ignorance of meta tags by search engines, still expert search engine optimizers use Meta tags for their client websites. Read more...

Free Keyword Analysis Tool – How to Use

Main part of Search Engine Optimization is to find the exact keywords for optimization. If someone asks me to suggest a free tool for keyword analysis, my first preference would be Google Adwords Keyword Tool. This keyword analysis tool is very useful, simple and at the same time free to use.

We can use this Google Adwords keyword tool in two ways:

• Search with keyword.
• Search with website content.

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Image Optimization - How to Optimize Images for the Web

An excellent way to drive traffic to your site using images is by optimizing the images present in your site. This can improve your site page speed as well as bring traffic through image search in various search engines. Good quality optimized often linked by other webmasters which can increase visits to your site. Read more...

htaccess 302 redirect - How to do 302 Redirection in Apache Server

In my previous post What is HTTP 302 Redirect - Temporary Redirection I have explained about the importance of 302 redirection in SEO.

Now its time to know how we can do the 302 redirect for our website.

How to do 302 redirect using htaccess for Apache?

Open a notepad and paste the below mentioned lines. Read more...

What is HTTP 302 Redirect - Temporary Redirection

A 302 redirection is used in a website to inform the search engines that the move is only temporary, and to index the original URL instead of destination URL.

RFC 2616 explains 302 Found as "The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests. The temporary URI SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the response SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the new URI(s)." Read more...

ASP.NET 404 ERROR PAGE - How to Configure Error 404 Page in ASPX (.NET) for IIS Server?

My previous post explained about How to create Error 404 page in asp. This method will work out for all extensions except ASPX files. In ASPX (.NET) these files pass through special parser which instead outputs a .NET error. If we want the .NET application redirect to custom Error 404 page, We have to edit our web.config file in the root of the website. Read more...

Request Reconsideration in Google | This Site May Harm Your Computer

There can be two reasons where you need ‘Request reconsideration of your site’ in Google.

1. When your site suddenly not performing well in Google search results and there is a decreased in number of pages indexed by Google.
2. Google flags your site in search results with the Message ‘This site may harm your computer’. Read more...

How to Configure Error 404 Page in ASP for IIS Server?

Let us assume you have created an .asp file called error404page.asp, which is customized to handle HTTP 404 errors. When a visitor to your site tries to access a page that does not exist on your server, say a page called missedpage.asp, then the ASP file will be invoked as if the user had typed:
‘http://www.example.com/error404page.asp?404;http://www.example.com/missedpage.asp’ in the Web browser.

From the information with the above query string, "404;http://www.example.com/missedpage.asp", we can show the user the page they have requested, and send instant information to the administrator. Let us see how this can be done. Read more...

IIS Error Page - How to Configure Custom Error 404 Page in IIS Server

My previous posts on Error 404 page explained about What is Error 404 page and its benefits, 10 Tips to create Custom 404 error page, How to find and fix broken links using Google Webmaster tools and How to configure Error 404 page in Apache Server.

Now let us find how to configure Error 404 page in Microsoft IIS Server.

To configure IIS server, you should either be an Administrator of the web server or Have access to an IIS admin interface. Read more...

Error 404 Apache : How to configure Error 404 page in Apache Server

It is extremely easy to configure the Apache server to serve your customized error 404 page.As mentioned in my previous post, create an error404page.html page for your server to serve whenever the visitors looking for a page which does not exists.

In your server you can find httpd.conf file. Read more...

Broken Links : Find and Fix Broken Links using Google Webmaster Tools

In my previous posts I have explained about Error 404 page not found and tip to create Custom 404 Page. Among the reasons behind this error 404 page, it was explained about Back links and Internal Links.

Let us go through these points once again. “Back Links: Some of the back links to your site will be leading to your old URL’s which is no longer available. You can request the website owners to correct the URL linked to your site. Read more...

Creation of Meta Tag : Tips to create effective Meta Tags

1. Landing Page: Find the best landing page for the keyword to be optimized.

• Part of the Key Phrase or the key phrase should be present in the URL.
• Density of the key phrase or part of key phrase should be more

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Custom Error 404 Page : 10 Tips To Create Custom Error 404 Page

• Create a custom error 404 page with the same look and feel with the navigation links as the rest of your site.
• Write the error message in plain language which can be understandable to even a non-technical user. Use friendly and apologetic language.
• Your custom error 404 page should list the most common errors in accessing the files on the site.

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Error 404 Page: What is Error 404 Page?

Whenever the visitor to your site asks for a page that is not available on your site, the Error 404 "Page not found" message will be displayed. The 404 or Page Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code which indicates that the visitor was able to communicate with the server but the server could not find the page which was requested. Read more...

How to do 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirection)?

In my previous post 301 Redirect: Why 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirection) Is Important? I have explained about the importance of 301 redirection in SEO.

Now its time to know how we can do the 301 redirect for our website.

How to do 301 redirect?
There are two possible ways to do 301 redirect, which depends on the type of web server - Apache or IIS (Microsoft) - that you’re running. Read more...

301 Redirect: Why 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirection) Is Important?

Why 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirection) Is Important?

Domain Aliases: Domain Aliases allows you to point more than one domain name to a single web site. Using Domain aliases may have a negative impact on your site. You may lose traffic from visitors who follow a search engine link. To avoid this you can use 301 redirect where the search engine spider will transfer all your credits from the old page to the new page. Read more...

Now Sitemap.xml Can Support 50,000 URLs

Sitemap File

Sitemaps.org now can support 50,000 URL’s (Instead of previous 1000 URL’s) in a sitemap.xml file. And a Sitemap index file can support 50,000 sitemaps. This allows large site to submit a maximum of 2.5 billion (50,000×50,000) URL’s with a single sitemap index file. Read more...

Page Speed- Improve the Speed of your Web Page

Most of the website owners will be thinking why the visitors to their site do not convert into sales. One of the main reasons for this is that our web pages don’t load fast enough. Web site visitors hate to wait for slow loading pages. Various studies say web surfers will wait for a maximum of 10 seconds for a page to load. If your web page takes more time to load, the visitors will go away from the site without looking at it. If you want to sell a product, fast loading web pages are very important. Read more...

Is your website removed from Google search Index ?

According to Internet World Stats as on 30 Jun 2007 1,173,109,925 people uses Internet . Even some online traffic tracking companies states that Microsoft is leading Google in search growth, studies shows majority of the internet users are still using Google search engine. This brings the website owners to seek Search engine optimization companies help on bringing their website to get high rank in Google Search Engine. Read more...