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SEO URL - dashes Vs. underscores

December 30th, 2009
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Most of us already know that a SEO friendly url is recommended. By SEO friendly url we mean that the keywords should form the part of the url. For example instead of

http://referencedesigner.com/blog/id?=715

we may like the url to be

http://referencedesigner.com/blog/seo-url-dashes-vs-underscore.

Sometimes people design their website, so that they write the url with underscore in place of dashes as in

http://referencedesigner.com/blog/seo_url_dashes_vs_underscore.

One must note that google processes underscore in a different way than the dashes. In case of undersore, it thinks that the underscore is a part of the url. So when we write c_sharp, it attempts to gives preference to search for c_sharp and possibly less importance to csharp or c sharp. In case, where the url is c-sharp, google gives preference to search for “c sharp”.

It is therefore recommended that dashes are preferred over the underscore wherever possible when creating SEO friendly urls.

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Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 2

December 25th, 2009
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I am writing this bolg with two purpose. The first purpose is to write a review about the Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook. This purpose is not the main purpose. I am writing the review with the aim of optimizing the webpage for the keyword “Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook”. The reason I chose this keyword is that it gives only about 17,000 webpages and should relatively be easy to come to the top of the google.

The Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbookis powered by Atom N270-based Amilo Mini Ui 3520.  The MH380 has a 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 display, a 250GB capacity hard-drive and 1GB of memory. It also has Intel’s newest Pine Trail 1.66GHz processor.

The 2.97lb netbook manages manage up to 7hrs of runtime with its 6-cell battery - which is impressive. The Fujitsu have made both WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth standard as part of the netbook.

The operating system is  Windows 7 Starter. The netbook has a webcam and includes VGA, USB 2.0 and audio in/out. Fujitsu plans to start selling  LifeBook MH380 from January, priced at around $449.

I hope readers who arrived here with the intention of finding Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review are not disppointed. Now here is the main reason I wrote this blog. I am writing another identical blog Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 1. The two blogs are identical as far as the contents are concerned. The backlinks of both the blogs will be created in an identical way. The first Experiment that I want to conduct is to see what is the effect of the duplicate content on the Search Engine Result Page ( SERP). Do both of them come to top ? Does only one come to top and second one is completely neglected.

The coming days will verify this and I will write a separate blog about the results. Stay tuned.

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Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 1

December 25th, 2009
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Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 1

I am writing this bolg with two purpose. The first purpose is to write a review about the Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook. This purpose is not the main purpose. I am writing the review with the aim of optimizing the webpage for the keyword “Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook”. The reason I chose this keyword is that it gives only about 17,000 webpages and should relatively be easy to come to the top of the google.

The Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbookis powered by Atom N270-based Amilo Mini Ui 3520.  The MH380 has a 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 display, a 250GB capacity hard-drive and 1GB of memory. It also has Intel’s newest Pine Trail 1.66GHz processor.

The 2.97lb netbook manages manage up to 7hrs of runtime with its 6-cell battery - which is impressive. The Fujitsu have made both WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth standard as part of the netbook.

The operating system is  Windows 7 Starter. The netbook has a webcam and includes VGA, USB 2.0 and audio in/out. Fujitsu plans to start selling  LifeBook MH380 from January, priced at around $449.

I hope readers who arrived here with the intention of finding Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review are not disppointed. Now here is the main reason I wrote this blog. I am writing another identical blog Fujitsu Lifebook MH380 Netbook review SEO Experiment # 2. The two blogs are identical as far as the contents are concerned. The backlinks of both the blogs will be created in an identical way. The first Experiment that I want to conduct is to see what is the effect of the duplicate content on the Search Engine Result Page ( SERP). Do both of them come to top ? Does only one come to top and second one is completely neglected.

The coming days will verify this and I will write a separate blog about the results. Stay tuned.

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Text sitemap and submit sitemap with Webmaster Tool

December 24th, 2009
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If google can crawl ALL of  your webpages you do not need a sitemap. It is however possible that your web design is such that it does now allow google to crawl ALL the pages from the home page. Under such conditions you need a sitemap.

Here is a simple method to generate and submit your sitemap to google.

In a simple text file write one URL per line. For example:

http://www.ezdia.com/expert/vikasshukla
http://www.ezdia.com/expert/alokjain

As per google, for best results, follow these guidelines:

  • You must fully specify URLs as Google attempts to crawl them exactly as provided.
  • Each text file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If your site includes more than 50,000 URLs, you can separate the list into multiple text files and add each one separately.
  • The text file must use UTF-8 encoding. You can specify this when you save the file (for instance, in Notepad, this is listed in the Encoding menu of the Save As dialog box).
  • The text file should contain no information other than the list of URLs.

    • The text file should contain no header or footer information.

  • You can name the text file anything you wish. Google recommends giving the file a .txt extension to identify it as a text file (for instance, sitemap.txt).

You should upload the text file to your server. Once you’ve created this file, you can submit it as a Sitemap. This process, while manual, is the simplest and is probably best if you’re not familiar with scripting or managing your web server.

If you have not used the google webmaster tool I will suggest you do signup and use it. Here is how it looks like.

If  you make changes to your Sitemap,  resubmit it using your Google Webmaster Tools account.

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Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI)

December 9th, 2009
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Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) is an important parameter that every SEO expert must know. Before we try to  understand this key parameter, let us try to understand how an SEO expert decides which keyword to choose when attempting to optimize a website for a certain keyword.

The first important parameter is the number of search volume for that particular word. Ideally we would like to optimize for a keyword for which people are searching more on the internet. This will lead to greater traffic on the website assuming it is optimized to come on the top. So if Keyword A leads to 10,000 searches a month and Keyword B leads to 5,000 searches a month and, assuming it is possible for us to optimize for both  the keywords and we have to make only one choice we will choose the Keyword A. This is clear and straightforward.

It however, turns out that the keywords A and B are not equally easy to be optimized. As an example it turns out that the Keyword A results in 2,00,000 results in google while keyword B results in just 120,000 results ? Obviously Keyword B is much more easier to be optimized since the number of search results  are far less. We stay content with just 5000 search result and have it optimizes.

SEO experts use the term Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) to combine these two parameters. The Keyword Effectiveness Index is defined as

KEI =  (P^2/C)

where

P = Number of search volume of the Popularity of the Keyword.
C = Number of Search results or the competiveness of the Keyword.

Here P^2, means square of P.  Popularity of the Keyword is another term for the search volume. The more the people search for a keyword the more popular is the keyword and hence the name. Competitiveness is another term for the number of search result. The more is the number of the search result, the more competitive is the keyword.

Next time you need to decide which keyword should be used to optimize the webpage for, you should calculate the KEI for all possible keywords and choose the one that has the highest v alue.

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List of some more blogger sites

November 18th, 2009
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In my earlier post , I had indicated some websites, where we create our blogs that we could use for many purposes. We can use these sites to create our own blogs. We can also use these sites to create backlinks to our own sites for SEO purposes.

1. Zimbio.com
2. Wikispaces.com
3. Quizilla.com
4. Gather.com
5. Scribd.com
6.Wikidot.com
7. Weebly.com
8. http://www.nexo.com/
9. Xanga.com
10. 360.yahoo.com
11. Vox.com
12. http://spaces.live.com/
13. jimdo.com
14. http://www.yola.com/
15. http://www.webnode.com/
16. http://www.bloglines.com/
17. http://www.easyjournal.com/
18. www.wetpaint.com

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