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How To Find Who Links To My Site

By Shivam Vaid On May 3, 2011 Leave a Comment 339 views

As a website owner/blogger, it is important to know which all websites are linking back to your site. Links from popular sites mean better exposure for your blog and increased credibility. Following are the two ways in which you can check out on who links to your website. Google Option 1 In the Google search box, just type in link:www.yourwebsiteurl.com replacing the yourwebsiteurl by your own domain name and click on search. The search results would represent the set of web pages that have a link pointed to this very….. Read More

Bulk Following On Twitter? – Don’t!!

By Shivam Vaid On September 9, 2010 1 Comment 4,648 views

Bulk following on twitter trend is becoming popular today. A large number of websites and services have emerged which provide you with the required tools to do it. However, my view on this trend is that doing bulk follow should be avoided. Before I get to core of it, let me explain you how I look at twitter and what is my criteria to follow anyone. Twitter – The Powerful Tool No one can deny the power of twitter today. From individuals to small/medium/large businesses, everyone is striving for their….. Read More

The Must Have WordPress Post Publish CheckList

By Shivam Vaid On September 2, 2010 Leave a Comment 173 views

Whenever I complete writing a post, there are always a set of steps that I take care of before hitting the publish button. Initially, the number of steps were few but as I started learning more and more about blogging/SEO/social media and so on, this small checklist started increasing to take care of the same. I will be sharing this checklist in this post as I feel that it is a kind of must have for every blog publisher. Typically, I use the wordpress editor itself for composing/editing/publishing my posts.….. Read More

Find DoFollow And NoFollow Links On Any WebPage

By Shivam Vaid On August 24, 2010 6 Comments 382 views

NoFollow and DoFollow links are used for instructing search engines as to whether a hyperlink should influence the target link’s ranking in the search engine indexing algorithm or not. From SEO and page rank perspective, if you have dofollow back links from high page rank sites, then it automatically increases your credibility in the eyes of the search engine and vice versa. We had talked about these links in context of anchor text earlier as well. Considering the importance of these links, it will be very useful if there is….. Read More

Website Traffic Recovering After The Drop In June

By Shivam Vaid On July 17, 2010 Leave a Comment 45 views

I mentioned in my previous post as to how Google traffic dropped to Inficone in late June. This was very surprising and disappointing as I get majority of my traffic from search engines. I remained patient since I was not able to co-relate this drop with the May update by Google since the drop happened only in late June. I was hoping that this is indeed a temporary drop and the traffic would recover back. Holidays in some part of the world OR temporary glitch in search results were my….. Read More

Most Popular WordPress Plugins – The Dreamhost Way

By Shivam Vaid On July 16, 2010 Leave a Comment 132 views

As you would be aware, dreamhost recently crossed 1 million website hosting landmark. This is a huge achievement and also highlights how users across the world have endorsed dreamhost as their preferred hosting company. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging/website platform these days. No wonder a large majority of the above domains do run on WordPress. Dreamhost has revealed that nearly 500,000 of their hosted domains run on wordpress. Additionally, they have tried to gather data about the most used/popular plugins across all these wordpress instances. From a….. Read More

Importance of Heading Tag In SEO

By Shivam Vaid On July 14, 2010 Leave a Comment 181 views

Whenever you would publish a post on your blog, you would try to take utmost care to ensure that there are no spelling mistakes, formatting is correct, the sentences are grammatically right and so on. The quality and presentation of the post would have a definite impact on the reader that could attract him to revisit your blog in the future. There would be content in your post that would be a kind of primary keyword about which you would be mainly talking about in the post. It is important….. Read More

Using Anchor Text Correctly For SEO

By Shivam Vaid On July 7, 2010 2 Comments 185 views

If you are a blogger and conscious about improving search engine ranking of your blog, you would appreciate the importance that anchor text plays in search rankings. Following are a few set of important information that I have learned over a period of last few months that can act as a guideline for correct use of anchor text. What is Anchor Text? Anchor text is the visible and click-able text in a hyperlink. For example, refer to the two styles of writing which convey the same information as given below.….. Read More

Website Traffic From Google Dropped In June 2010

By Shivam Vaid On June 30, 2010 Leave a Comment 32 views

The traffic on Inficone has been growing steadily and the analytics graph has been showing a healthy upward growth for the past few months. However, in middle/late June I suddenly noticed that the website traffic has considerably on the downside and has almost dropped by significant as well as serious 50%. I could not make out any apparent reason for this sudden drop. The main reason for the drop looked to be the fact that suddenly the keywords that used to give hits on a daily basis were totally absent….. Read More

Spam Detector Helps Detect Keyword Stuffing And Text Hiding

By Shivam Vaid On June 30, 2010 Leave a Comment 197 views

Inficone completed 100 posts recently. It was good to see the hard work of last 7 months convert to a small milestone. The readership of the blog also kept increasing all through this time encouraging me to write more as well as write better. I thought it to be a good moment to apply for Google Adsense. So I did the same last week and was eagerly waiting for a response. However – to my disappointment I recieved the following email “Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately,….. Read More