Use Google’s new Keyword tool to get comprehensive keywords ideas for your business, products and services . Currently the new interface for Google Keyword Tool is in Beta stage. There are many features added in the new Google Keyword Tool  e.g. Advanced Options, Categories, Google Insights, Sorting etc.

Advanced Options in Google Keyword Tool

Localizations and Languages: You can change the country and language setting to refine your keywords research. Changing the language and country setting would allow Google Keyword Tool to calculate monthly searches by locale, search trends by locale and competition statistics. (This function is present in the old Google keyword tool as well) Read the rest of this entry »

Apart from relevance of a page to a particular search query, quality back links and other signals for determining search rankings, Google is now incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals in their search ranking algorithms. Site speed actually reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.

Study reveals that users like faster loading websites and spends less time when a site responds slowly resulting in more usage of your website. Speeding up your website is a great thing to do in general which will help you create happy users, improve user experience, improve ROI and conversion rates and reduce operating costs. Since users place a lot of value in speed, Google decided to take site speed into account in their search rankings algorithms. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you think you will get the maximum traffic if your website is listed on the top 1 – 3 positions in Google? For most of the people the answer is “yes”, while for knowledgeable SEO professionals the answer wouldn’t be straight away “yes” and the issue is debatable, I believe. I have seen many SEO consultants, SEO Company’s,  SEO Professionals selling SEO services by pitching stuffs like: “Higher Rankings = Huge Traffic = Increased Sales = Higher Profits!”

I do question this kind of pitching and want to share an illustration on rank and traffic with you. The fact is that traffic has nothing to do with ranking e.g. if your website ranks increase, it does not necessarily mean that your traffic would increase, no matter how targeted the top ranked websites are for a particular keyword. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many blogs who have like entire paragraph full of tags and clearly have spend a lot of time writing those tags and believe that it would help in SEO. According to Matt Cutts – Head of the webspam team at Google, writing tags is not that needed for SEO and tags are not really going to make that much of a difference for SEO. Even he doesn’t never do tags on his blogs. However, he suggests to categorize blog posts but not a single blog posts under multiple categories. Read the rest of this entry »