Avinashsing Sunkur Blog

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the beginning or mid October 2009, i've noticed that the number of indexed pages on one of my site has been decreasing dramatically. Just before that happened, i had around 600+ pages in Google index. I started losing 5-10 pages in the index everyday and i'm not really thrilled about it. As of today, i have roughly 450+ pages in the index. So i've lost nearly 150 webpages. The problem is that losing pages in the index means losing traffic and losing traffic is very bad. It might have something ...

Twitter is the new buzz these days. Everyone is talking about it and if you don't know what i'm talking about, then you're probably not too up-to-date with what's happening on the Internet. The same thing happened couple of years ago when Digg came out. Personally i think that you can only maximise Twitter's potential if your business is big, a brand that people already know. For small businesses, I don't think it will work that well unless of course you spend a lot of time and money in advertisements. Twitter ...

For the past few days, I've noticed that adsense data are not appearing in analytics. There's like an 8 hour lag for the adsense stats to become available. This means that I have to check today's adsense data tomorrow (or yesterday's adsense data today) because of the time difference between US and UK. Integrated adsense data in analytics gives you insights into what webpages are converting the most for you. You see how many people have clicked on the ads by each url and how much money you've made as well. ...