I have seen various webmasters anxious about the GEO targeting of website. Google use various parameters to judge the location of a website. So if you are concerned about GEO targeting, below given things can really help you out:

1. ccTLD - A country code top-level domain
2. Country specific location of server
3. Setting Geo Targeting with the help of Google Webmaster Tools
4. Submit your website in regional search engines and local directories
5. Get back links from the local authority websites
6. Add local address to the landing pages

Definitely all the parameters have their own value but per my experience, I would like to say that a county code top-level domain (ccTLD) is the most essential factor which Google and other search engines use as the primary method to determine the location of your website.

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Website analysis: As we all know Google is having the top search share in internet market. So it is important to target Google for your online marketing campaign. In Google, the success of your campaign depends on the analysis done by you. SEMRush is a good tool to do the analysis of your website. This tool will provide you various information’s about your website. You just need to visit the site & enter your domain name and it will create a report based on various factors.

Report Includes various important information:

• Top Organic Keywords
• Top Adwords Keywords
• Adwords Ads overview
• Competitors in organic search
• Competitors in AdWords
• Potential ad/traffic buyers
• Potential ad/traffic sellers

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Image optimization is very important for those who are engaged with search marketing field. But optimizing a webpage is little bit different from optimizing Images. Before starting about image optimization one thing should be aware is the traffic you receive from image search might not convert in sale. Image optimization, work pretty well for some particular business.

It is very important to optimize your images for search engines. We all know about the common aspects like image naming, alt tag etc. Here I have enlisted some additional thoughts about optimizing the images.

1. Image Naming: Use a descriptive name for your file. You should use your important keyword in name of the image. If you are using a long filename you can use hyphen instead on underscore as a keyword separator. For example if you have any image about diamond stud earrings you can name it as diamond-stud-earring-for-sale.jpg instead of non-sense jewelry12548.jpg or just earring.jpg.


2. Alt for Images: We all are aware about this tag. We should use a descriptive and appropriate alt text as search engine use this text for reference/information about the image. Additionally your alt tag is displayed on web page when someone opts for not showing images.


3. Title Attribute: Use a descriptive title text for your image. You must include your keyword in title tag as it is an important point in image optimization.


4. Surrounding text: The text which is used around the image is very important as it adds the relevancy to the image. So must use relevant and keyword rich text around the image.


5. Description Attribute: You can use a long Desc attribute to describe the image in detail. It will help to provide information about the content of images.


6. Heading tags: The heading tag used on the webpage help in getting ranking for the webpage as well as images. So if the image is very important, you can use the relevant heading tag on the page.


7. Incoming links: Just like web promotion, we should add incoming links for the image. Use your targeted keyword with some variation for back links.


8. Use the image on relevant page: It helps a lot. You should use the image on the relevant page. For example like above, if your image is about the diamond stud earrings, it is better to use that image on earring page like diamond-stud-earrings.html


9. Enhanced image search: For optimizing your images in Google, just log in webmaster account and activate the enhance image search feature.


10. Ranking of web page: Ranking for the parent webpage is very important. If you webpage is ranking well then there are a lot of chances to rank your image. If the pages in which you have used the images are not valuable in search engine’s eye then search engine might not rank the image.

• Optimize/reduce the size of images because not all the users use high bandwidth connections. There are lots of chances to visit your images if your images are lightweight.


• It is good Idea to check your images in search engine index. Ensure that your image is not filtered out from safe search filters of search engine. For example your can use site:domainname.com in image search box.

We all know, there is no hard and fast rule in search engine optimization. I have tried to include all the important factors for image optimization, if you think any other important point to add this list feel free to put in comments.


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If your site is not following the TOS of Google, then it may be filtered and been penalized. There are various problems (internal or external) like duplicate content, hidden text, bad neighborhood, over optimization etc which cause penalty for website. If you remove the errors, the filter will be removed. You can also inform Google by sending reconsideration request.

But the main problem is most of the webmaster might be unaware that their site is under penalty. Below are some basic symptoms which show that the site is being penalized by Google.

• If you are not ranking #1 for your site name (yourdomain.com)
• Site: Operator returns 0 results (site:yourdoamin.com)
• Sudden down in traffic (traffic down may be occasional)
• Huge down in ranking for main keywords of site

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Link building, blogging, market research and other SEO campaigns requires signing up for various services. SEO need to sign up for free online tools, leave comments, bookmark etc.

So if you use your personnel email address, you will receive various junk and unwanted emails which results in wasting of time in cleaning inbox. Another way, which most of SEO use is having another email address for such type of activities. But maintaining separate account also consumes time and efforts. Here I would like to suggest your some tips to quickly signup for services without spam emails.

Already Registered Logins

• BUGMENOT: People share their temporary login information which they have created for websites which requires account for accessing their services. You can search for the required login info and if not available you can register & share with others.
• FIREFOX ADDON: (By Bugmenot) This is a cool firefox addon. You can use the available login information by right clicking on username/password field of registration required site.

• IPOO: You can get any email address end up with “@ipoo.org”. There is no need for any registration.
• TEMPINBOX: You can also use this for creating temporary email address which will end up with “@tempinbox.com”. Just enter the required username and check the inbox
• BUGMENOT: also offer temporary email service.

• DEADFAKE: you can send anonymous email and it will look like it was sent by anyone you want.
• NOSPM.ORG: you can send anonymous emails without any registration.

I found awesome tool to know whether the username is available on various social media sites or not. Just visit checkusernames and enter your desired username and this site will search across popular social media site. This tool is very helpful in two cases:

Before starting social media campaign:
If you are planning to start any social media campaign then you can check for unique username in all the social media sites. In this way, it is helpful in choosing unique/same username in all sites.

Check for your online identity:
If you have registered any domain name then you can check for your identity/profile in popular social media site. If anyone else is using your identity then you can claim for your identity and also can book the identity wherever available.

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Google has launched a new tool for creating sitemap. You can download the tool from code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator.

This new tools is very different than previous tools as it search the URL’s based on traffic on web server, log files and similar other files. Additionally this tool will ping Google automatically for new or modified URL’s.

It is pretty cool to see tool for creating sitemap because it use traffic for determining which pages to incorporate in sitemap file and automatically ping Google about the updates of the site.

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What is the main reason for growth of PPC advertising as an online marketing channel?
High ROI

Pay per click (PPC) is one of the profitable marketing and advertising channel. Some major benefits of using PPC in your marketing campaign are given below:

1. Get higher return on investment with PPC (pay per click) campaigns
2. You can get instant targeted traffic by PPC
3. Using PPC, you can find the problems with your offering and website
4. Brand your company while selling your offerings (with PPC campaigns)

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It is easy to search inbound link of any website with the help of link: operator but sometimes researchers need the information about the outbound link of a website. This data can help in getting the information about trusted sites of your competitors. You should be knowledgeable about the friends or the site which your competitors have linked. So how can you do this?

Below given are the tools to know the outbound link of any website.

1. You can use MSN/Live advance operator LinkFromDomain:
   This operator is pretty cool as this is very flexible to use. For example you can exclude any unwanted domain with the help of {-site:} operator. Below is the Screen Shot of result by this advanced operator
   
   
   
2. You can use Xenu Link Sleuth to get the outbound links of any website. You need to do is enter the URL of the home page which you want to check for outbound link and then wait for the ending of process. Then you can sort the result by URL.
   You can see the screen capture below:

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If you are getting visitor from any unwanted country, it is easy to block them with the help of .htaccess file.

Go through blockacountry.com and select any country or countries which you want to block. After selecting the countries, this site will generate some code. You need to do is simply paste this code in your .htaccess file. With the help of this code visitors from this county (selected country) will not be able to access your web site.

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Are you familiar with 503 status code?

If not, this post can help you to know about 503 status code. Search engines like 503 status code if your site is down for maintenance.

In a thread at Google Groups, Googler JohnMu told that Google prefer to use 503 status code if your site is down for maintenance. With the help of 503 status code search engine determines that the site is temporary down for maintenance.

If you are not using 503 status code and your site is in maintenance mode that means you are offering 200 status code, which means everything is OK and still no content. It can harm your presence and ranking on search engine. So the best way is use 503 (services unavailable) status code to prevent the search engine from indexing the error pages.

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• Title affect raking (search engine consider the title to about the webpage and listing your site in SERP)
• Title can affect clickthrough (Searchers mainly focus on title when going through the search engine)

1. Targeted Keyphrase: You should use your keyword in title tag as keyword in this tag helps in getting decent ranking in search engine and can attract the searchers.
   
   
2. Business Phone Number: If you are interesting in direct phone calls then you should include the business phone number. Whenever your site list in search engine, search will see your number without browsing your site.
   
   
3. Business Location: It can boost up your ranking on local search engines as well as ranking can boost up for the keyword (your keyword + your location). Such type of keyword can increase sales.
   
   
4. The Product Price: You can use the price of your product in title tag to attract the visitors if you are offering products at lower prices than your competitors. But remember if you change the price of your product the title cached in search engine will remain the older till the page gets re-cached.
   
   
5. The Company Name: If you are using company name in the title tag it will help you if you care about branding of your site. After some visits people will aware about your company name and this can increase your clickthrough and hence can increase your sales.

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While doing link building sometimes it seems that you have done everything you can do for searching link partners. At this time you should take the help of link building tools which are available on internet at free.

First of all you can take help of various backlink checker tools to know the backlinks of your competitors and take advantage of this researched data for getting links for your project. Another good Idea is using advance operators for searching link partners. Solo SEO is a good tool for searching link partners in various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.

Try this tool and keep your link building ongoing :)

Below is the screenshot of this tool.

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Many Search engine optimizers use site command to check the number of index pages of their site in any search engine. To check how healthy site is in any particular search engine SEOs use site:www.yoursite.com query. It is pretty well if 90% pages are indexed in search engine.

But the main problem is, the site operator is not reliable to check the number of index pages as these days users are reporting that Google is dropping their pages or Microsoft is dropping the pages. So SEO determines this drop of pages in search engine by using Site command.

Is this a good way to see how many pages are index in search engine?
After reading and searching on various forums I came to know that the answer is NO. You should not depend on site operator to check the number of index pages in search engine.

In Google Groups Googler JohnMu wrote why you should not depend on these numbers. He told it might be:

• the previous approximation was incorrect, the current one is closer to the actual number of URLs that we have indexed or would show to users
• the previous approximation was close and the current one is worse than before (this can happen)
• a change in our algorithms (we make a lot of changes that will impact crawling, indexing and ranking -- for some sites perhaps more than for others)
• an issue on your website (perhaps it's not reachable or the site is returning server errors -- you can find out more in your Webmaster Tools account).

At the same time Jeremiah Andrick from Microsoft told that it is not reliable to use Site operator to check the number of index pages. By using Site: operator you can only get an estimate about the number of index pages in search engine.


I think all SEOs use this operator, but now it is the time to think again :-)>.

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Recently Google has launched a new tool for their advertisers named as Search Based Keyword Tool. With the help of this tool you can get the Idea of keywords which your customers are using. Definitely this tool can help to maximize the ROI of your campaign. SEO can also take the advantage of this tool. By using this tool you can know about the keywords which you are not targeting for your campaign. So use this tool for getting help in finalizing the keywords for your campaign and bring in a positive ROI.

Below is a screenshot of this tool.

Results are pretty impressive, there are various information provided as the result. Apart from this tool Google has updated Google Adwords Keyword Tool.

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An excellent announcement by Yahoo Search Marketing blog that the people which are using sponsored search functionality of Yahoo can blog 500 domain now instead of standard 250.

This is very helpful and good news for those advertisers as the number of blocked domains has increased by double. But still there is a problem that advertisers are getting “lesser quality traffic” from yahoo search partners. I was reading some forum, there a user mentioned that 500 blocked domains are not enough and other mentioned that he wishes to block the all non Yahoo domains.

A few forum members are hoping that Google will take this as a challenge and ups the number of domains that can be blocked:-)

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If you have any question which you want to search in search engine, you must willing to know what other people are searching to get the same answer. Wordtracker makes it easy with the launching of new tool for searching questions. SEO can easily take the advantage of this tool and can gain the traffic by these questions.

You need to enter a keyword/Keyphrase in the search box and this tool will provide you the questions related to this keyword. For example have a look at screenshot given below:

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Below is the list of press release submission sites, you can submit your press release in these sites at free.
Please Note: The list is sorted by page rank.

PageRank - 6
http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php
http://www.indiaprwire.com/
http://www.itwire.com/

PageRank - 5
http://www.free-press-release.com/
http://www.1888pressrelease.com/
http://www.prlog.org/
http://www.newstin.co.uk/
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/

PageRank - 4
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/
http://www.prurgent.com/
http://www.freepressreleases.co.uk/
http://www.articlecirculation.com/
http://www.bizindia.net/site/
http://www.pr9.net/

PageRank - 3
http://www.i-newswire.com/
http://www.xtvworld.com/
http://express-press-release.net/
http://www.prcompass.com/
http://www.live-pr.com/en/

PageRank - 2
http://news.eboomwebsolutions.com/index.php

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Below is the list of classified Ads submission sites, you can submit ad for your site at free. Enjoy Reading……..
Please Note: The list is sorted by page rank.

PageRank - 6
http://www.gumtree.com

PageRank - 5
http://www.chooseyouritem.com
http://www.click.in/
http://classifieds.rediff.com/
http://www.indialist.com/
http://www.indiabook.com/

PageRank - 4
http://www.classifiedads.com
http://www.classifiedsforfree.com
http://www.adlandpro.com/
http://www.olx.com/
http://www.ablewise.com/
http://www.inetgiant.com
http://www.freeadlists.com/
http://www.domesticsale.com/
https://www.businessitonline.com/
http://classifieds.click4choice.com/
http://www.whereincity.com/

PageRank - 3
http://internationaladvertiser.com/
http://www.gopostit.com/
http://classifieds.co.in/
http://www.agreatindian.com/
http://www.classifiedicon.com/
http://www.adsforindians.com
http://indianclassifieds.com/

PageRank - 2
http://www.indyapage.com/
http://www.adupdate.com/

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I have created a list of social bookmarking site having good PageRank and want to share with all of you. Below is the list of social bookmarking sites. The list is sorted by pagerank.

PageRank - 9
http://slashdot.org

PageRank - 8
http://digg.com
http://connotea.org
http://propeller.com

PageRank - 7
http://squidoo.com
http://blinklist.com
http://furl.net
http://newsvine.com
http://www.mister-wong.com
http://backflip.com
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://mixx.com
http://www.reddit.com/
http://www.citeulike.org

PageRank - 6
http://www.work.com
http://buzz.yahoo.com
http://bibsonomy.org
http://myjeeves.ask.com
http://spurl.net
http://corank.com
http://searchles.com
http://linkagogo.com
http://clipclip.org
http://jumptags.com
http://www.simpy.com
http://www.kaboodle.com
http://www.netvouz.com
http://www.clipmarks.com
http://www.mybookmarks.com

PageRank - 5
http://hubpages.com/
http://delicious.com/
http://bumpzee.com
http://shoutwire.com
http://faves.com
http://spotback.com
http://buddymarks.com
http://connectedy.com
http://mylinkvault.com
http://givealink.org
http://bookmarktracker.com
http://myvmarks.com
http://www.fark.com

PageRank - 4
http://diigo.com
http://blogmarks.net
http://oyax.com
http://bmaccess.net
http://a1-webmarks.com
http://socialogs.com

PageRank - 3
http://plugim.com
http://mypip.com
http://tedigo.net
http://www.bookkit.com

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