Some Best SEO Blogs for the Search Engine Optimizer

As we know SEO is everyday updating one. Also SEO has to read and update him or herself everyday to withstand in the Optimization Field by reading worth blogs and forums. Learning the right source of SEO Knowledge is always a SEO Person should have in his day today life. 

I Jus planned to post which helps a SEO to get real SEO Knowledge from various SEO Blogs. The below are the Latest and Knowledge Sharing blogs. I love all the below blogs surely these blogs helped me a lot to improve me..

SEO by the Sea 
Justin Briggs
SEOmoz
SEOBook
Distilled
Seer Interactive
Conversation Marketing
Blind Five Year Old
SEO Gadget 
Kikolani 
Search Engine Land
Search Engine Roundtable 
Webmaster Central Blog
SEO wizz
David Naylor
Occam’s Razor
Blumenthals  
Inside Search
Stone Temple
Marketing Pilgrim   

   

How to check if your SEO is working?

It is really not a matter how much we are spending on SEO every month, because without positive or beneficial results you can’t make any return on your investments. 

This blog is absolutely for the SEO beginners. If you have enough knowledge on SEO surely this post won’t be great stuff, but some nice stuff surely for the people whose spend money on SEO and doesn’t know how to track the results.

Checking the Key search term in various search engines is always great idea but that is not enough for the Future development of business or a website. Let see few factors to look out for to see for sure and how to know if your SEO is working.

Check your Traffic from Search Engine

If you see your daily views have gone up in Analytics dashboard, then this is the real and clear sign of your SEO Campaigns working well for you. Google Analytics will show you where specifically your traffic is coming from. If the views are from Search Traffic from Search engines then you can be very confident that your SEO is doing well. 

Track Your Conversions

If you are selling product or service on your website and started to get Calls, queries, emails and new sales then it is perfect indicator for worth paying the SEO. It doesn’t mean that at the earliest itself you should take a customer, all that you should keep get some emails and comments some activities on tour website. Always check the present results with previous for further improvisation. 

Track Your Key Search Terms Ranking

This would be great, if you are afford to track your keywords with keyword rank trackers. These tools are helps you to know if your SEO is working effectively.  These tools will check your website where your key search terms are ranking in Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing).

Google Removes ‘Not Selected’ from Webmaster Tools

If we login in our Google Webmaster tools and try to check the Index Status report in the advanced section, you will see the “Not Selected” option was removed.

What is “Not Selected” Option was used in the Previous days

Go to your Google Webmaster Tools using you login details.

Then Click Health -> Index Status ->Advanced

You can seen this before

Now Google was confirmed and removed the “Not Selected” filter with Google Webmaster tools.

Now you can see as 

What “Not Selected” Actually mean in previous days:

• It redirects to another page
• It has a rel=”canonical” to another page
• Our algorithms have detected that its contents are significantly similar to another URL and picked the other URL to signify the content.

Google’s John Muller said it was removed jus because of the reason it was confusing one for the webmasters. It was actually removed to help the Webmasters. Still many webmasters found the data useful. In fact, there were times when John from Google said himself that “not selected” data can be useful in some situations.

 

Is it Google will support PageRank Tool Bar in Future?

Google has recently launched a video which explained by Matt Cutts about PageRank tool bar.  The video is all about featuring Matt Cutts supporting the view of having the Toolbar PageRank updated for an only some more years until internet explorer 10 becomes so accepted that fewer people feel the need to add Google Toolbar on their browser. He says still many visitors are still using the PageRank Toolbar to judge the web page importance. Hence Google will keep update the PageRank Toolbar until percentage of users of this toolbar get reduces. This is a future possibility as internet explorer 10 provides as add on free practice, to eliminate the need to install the toolbar. Also Google Chrome does not display the Toolbar PageRank. Look at the Video of Matt Cutts about this:

How we can improve the Link building strategies for Penguin Update?

We all know update the Penguin update, it’s mainly to minimizing the manipulate of sites using black-hat SEO techniques which mainly done for keyword stuffing, cloaking, spamdexing, content duplication, and much more. So Lots of Websites were losses the rank due to the penguin update. Few websites not affected. This post explains how we can improve our link building strategy to gain good links for this penguin update.

Link Building for Page Rank

The main objective of link exchange or blog comment is to increase back links and also improve page rank. Increase your website exposure by obtaining comments on your own blog through compelling content, and convincing other websites to link to yours through organic means. It actually involves having strong blog articles, attention from social media’s and updating. This type of strategy will reward you with good and natural high-quality links but more brand exposure and quality traffic from these placements.

Remove Bad Links and start gaining Good Links

As we know penguin update is mainly to penalize the sites links of poor quality. So it’s time to act on your links. Know all your and do analysis on it. Then identify which link is high risk and downgrading your website. The final step is to request link removal from the sites presently linking to your website and hope that webmasters follow through on your request.

Removing high risk links is one part and also you should pay good links on website is needed. After the Penguin Update, the Links which was placed on footer and side bar becomes less value. If you have such links on your website, it’s time to remove. Now the only right place you can safely place links is within your website content and in your blog posts, your product descriptions, your reference pages, and other standard content locations.  If you really have good reason for adding another site on your website please do it. If it for some link reasons then don’t do it.

Suggestions are adding testimonial and contest pages, increasing the frequency of blog posts, and adding videos, social media feeds, and other physically powerful search engine-friendly content to your site.

Having Balanced Nofollow and Dofollow links

When we start gaining links for website ist sure that few links would be great and few not. It appears natural to the search engine when we have both nofollow and dofollow links are balanced in the website also gives you the proper search engine boost you’re looking for.

Importance of Anchor Text and Branded Links

 Keyword focused anchor text also come under search and there’s a need to be natural looking here too. After penguin update, links using keywords where a company name or brand name should be listed have made Google and other search engines guarded. Instead having direct keywords to link we can have the company name this is highly appreciated by search engine these days. You can have this type of anchor text for few links not for all the links. This same idea applies to the whole thing on your website.  When it comes to written content, type of keywords, amount of links, and everything else, the objective is to keep it natural (remember, think like a PR person). If someone like your brand and find it a helpful resource, then search engines will like it too and your link building tactic will be a success.