Dropped out of SERPs completely for some keywords

In an earlier post about disappearing from SERPs completely, I thought that too many internal links in the sitewide navigation of my site were causing the penalty for that particular page to be removed from the SERPs without any trace of it. I was hasty to remove the link to that webpage in an attempt to regain my previous rankings but then it occured  to me that the other pages which were in the sitewide navigation would have shown similar penalties if that was the case. 5 days after removing ...

Written by avinashsing on March 12th, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

Disappeared from first page of Google – The reason why!

I was ranking on the 1st page of Google for a long tail keyword (4 words) for months (or years) now and everything was fine until a couple of days ago when the ranking disappeared. My site was on the first page 7th/8th position for that search phrase and to my surprise it got knocked down through the major UK SERP update that happen the 2nd week of February 2010. I thought that the ranking would be a couple of places further down at least or a couple of pages down ...

Written by avinashsing on February 18th, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

Cleaning up WordPress Header

Wordpress outputs a lot of crap in the head section of the html. So if you want to get rid of them, you shouldn't just delete the call to wp_head() in your header.php file as this will break plugins which uses that function (eg All In One SEO Pack, Platinum SEO Pack etc). What you should do is place the following lines in your theme's functions.php file right after the <?php> tag: remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links', 2); remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3); remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'index_rel_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'check_and_publish_future_post'); remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_print_styles'); remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical'); If you want to just ...

Written by avinashsing on February 18th, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

Importing existing blogs into wp hive for wordpress

I've been playing around with wp_hive plugin for a while a day or two now and I wanted to see how I can import my other blogs into it. The reason is that I want to have a central point where I can manage all the blogs instead of having to update and upgrade at different places all the time. My other blogs that I wanted to import run on wordpress but they were an older version though. I had a look at the number of tables and they were ...

Written by avinashsing on February 15th, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

Wordpress MU or WP Hive Plugin for multiple blogs on single installation

Blogging is a great way to create content and bulk up a website. However if you run a couple of blogs, you'll soon realise that it becomes a nightmare to upgrade them as soon as a new version becomes available. I'm really talking about wordpress here because installing wordpress is really easy and there are millions of themes available for you to change the look and feel of your website. So in an attempt to have multiple domains powered through just one software installation, I had a go with Wordpress MU ...

Written by avinashsing on February 11th, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

Google caffeine and indexed pages

Just before google caffeine was implemented, the number of indexed pages on my site were decreasing dramatically. I was starting to get worried because my traffic were decreasing consistently with the number of removed webpages in google index. However I did nothing and decided to wait and see what happens. In January 2010, I noticed a significant increase in the amount of indexed pages for my website. The results were surprisingly high - I had 50%+ more pages indexed than before google caffeine. The number is increasing day by day probably ...

Written by avinashsing on February 9th, 2010 # Filed under Advice # No Comment #

Custom made sofa – Why settle for anything else?

After a long search for the perfect house, I finally found one which has got most of the features I wanted. Of course, if i had it my way, i would build a house from scratch rather than buying an already built house. Anyway, because I was renting before, i didn't find it necessary to buy my own furniture at that time and it would have been a hassle moving furniture to the new house and costly as well. Therefore I had to find a nice comfortable sofa so that ...

Written by avinashsing on February 6th, 2010 # Filed under Personal # No Comment #

My yahoo answers account got banned

Yahoo Answers is good for driving targetted traffic to your website. If people see that you're an expert in your field, they will usually click on the link to your website for more information (provided you've included a link in your report). However, you need to be at least a Level 2 account holder to be able to insert clickable links, otherwise the links will be plain text and people will have to copy and paste the url in their browser and the chances of that happening are very slim. So ...

Written by avinashsing on February 2nd, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

Hiring somebody else to do SEO for your site

If you are a one-man team, it's very difficult to cope with the demands of maintaining, updating and marketing a website. Even big websites can sometimes get really exhausting and the need for outsourcing work arises. Getting somebody else to do your job has many implications depending on what type of work that person will be doing. For content-writing, you can always check the content before you upload it to your site but even if you haven't done that, you can later on get it removed from your site quite ...

Written by avinashsing on January 9th, 2010 # Filed under SEO # No Comment #

New Year Resolution 2010

For a couple of years now, I've been looking at my previous year's resolution and see whether I've managed to achieve them or not. So for my 2009 resolution, here's what has been happening: Spend more time with Poum (holiday, less time on computers etc) - more or less achieved Set up a business - pretty much done Exercise - no time to do Play guitar - no free time to play For 2010, I've decided to concentrate on the bits which I didn't manage to complete in my last year's resolution. Therefore my 2010 ...

Written by avinashsing on January 1st, 2010 # Filed under Personal # No Comment #