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What is Canonical Tag

Google search console provides variety of features to analyze our website performance. A canonical tag is an onsite SEO aspect that tells search engines the page is having similar content to another page and that which one is the master page.

The syntax for this code is as below:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”here comes URL of similar content page”>

This tag is placed in the code of the respective page (either page from the similar ones). Apparently there is no harm of having this notification in your google search console however, if you unnecessarily add pages of the similar content would affect your search ranking. Hence you’d be deprived of potential traffic that was meant to conversions.

Google search engine also identifies similar content pages and stores/indexes only the parent version of the page. That’s the reason you see few pages are indexed and rest duplicate aren’t.

Here is example of how you see this notification in your google search console.

Canonical tag and validation google search console

How to Fix?

Just after the report seen in the image above, you’ll find reasons why your pages weren’t indexed. Simply select on the link “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” and it’ll get you to the list of page with canonical tags/duplicate content.

You may proceed and fix the issue by having unique content pages with no duplicate throughout your website pages. Once done you may validate in the google search control and you’ll see no further notifications any such.

The image below is a reference where you can see “Validate Fix” button that you can click once your resolve the issue.

Canonical url fixing, validation

There can be multiple reasons behind why your pages are not indexed, like:

Alternate page with proper canonical tag

Duplicate where google choose different url to index than the user

Page with redirect

Excluded by the “noindex” tag

etc..

Quick Keyword specific On-Site SEO Guide

On site SEO or on page Search engine optimization is a process of optimizing your website for search engine ranking.

There is no complex theory but an understanding of how we can make the things compatible to real life examples. The more we’ll understand real life scenarios of search queries, the best we’ll be playing in our SEO tactics.

Here is a quick guide to boost the possibilities of your website ranking in search engines through specific keywords.

• Title

First of all your title inside the header must be optimized with upto 80 characters at max. And then your major keyword must also be included in the title and the title tag.


• Description

Description tag inside the head must be placed and optimized with maximum 150 characters along with the inclusion of core keywords same as in the title tag.


• Content.

Your content on the page or inside the body, must also be worthwhile to have to the point and detailed information of what people are looking for. It must also be filled with the keyword you used for title and the description tags. Be sure to not to over stuff or flood the content with repetition of keywords.


• Page.

Then comes the turn of your page loading time while the people start browsing for it. A recommended time is less than a second but as we understand speed of the network at user end differs, also nowadays more and more additions are made on the pages including sliders, animations, tickers and so on, the delays could be expected but still must not exceed 2-5 seconds at full load.

if it is a landing inner page, then we can expect a swift load not exceeding than a second is highly favorite to search engines.


• URL.

Your Universal Resource Locator refers to your domain name and the address of your specific page. A recommended practice is to have your core keyword inside your main URL (Domain name i.e WebHostingProposal.com contains the keyword “web hosting” that refers to their main business.) Or at least create a landing page (inner page) that should include your keyword inside the URL. For example if your business is brand clothing and your main domain name is Shop4Ease.com which doesn’t include any term regarding brands except the word shop, so you can create a inner page with your brand’s name like shop4ease.com/clothing/nike, this would refer to both keywords you are dealing business in like “Clothing” and the brand “Nike”


• H1, H2, H3 tags.

Same refers to your heading tage h1, 2, 3 those have significant values to search engines, so must have at least one H1 heading of your core keyword and same with H2 or H3.


• Meta tags

Meta tags are the keys to draw search engine’s attention, as we discussed on the top, title tags, description tags, and the keywords tag are most prominent those must include your keywords.


• Images

Images on your site must always be kept as lighter as possible, try using jpg, jpeg formats instead of png, tiff, gif etc those hold a heavy weight and disliked by search engine bots. Then your images should also have alt tag, title and description tag too.


• Permalinks

Your permalinks mean your inner page addresses or inner pages urls. These must always be kept optimized with keywords and informative titles those could possibly refer to search queries.


• Placement in meta tag

As discussed before, meta tags are placed in header and must be optimized as discussed above.


• Title Length/ post title length

Title of the website and urls should be short, specific to what you are going to write about. Too long titles aren’t liked by the search engines.


• Keyword Stuffing in Description

Same goes with description which should be concise and to the point with a single keyword, no repetition etc.


• Page Load Time

Page load time as discussed above, for home page 1-3 seconds or 5 seconds at max depending upon use of sliders and animations, but for inner pages it should be less than a second.


• Sitemap

Sitemap should also be incorporated with the site. It shows a structure of your website in a more convenient way to search engines.


• Robots file

Robots file tells search engines about your site, it should also be there in.


• Google Analytics

Create account with google for the analytics of your site visitors and other functionalities.


• Final SEO Score

Always keep an eye open for overall SEO score since seo is not a one time effort, it is a regular process to keep the website favorite to search engines.

on site seo tips
Step by Step Quick Guide to SEO and Domain Selection

Few tips to setting up a website from scratch and selecting domain name with SEO approach. If you already have a website, you may follow steps after domain is setup.

Selecting a Domain Name:

Domain name plays important role in search engine indexing against organic search from users and makes SEO efforts easy to implement to get on the top SERP (Search Engine Result Pages). So, before you select a domain for your blog or website, try including the keyword of your product or services you are going to target. For example, if you are planning to setup a website or blog to sell or promote jackets, you may try registering domain name that contains the word “jacket or jackets” i.e cowboyjacketsonline dot com or ladiesjackets dot com etc. You may use shopping, online shopping also with your product if your site is an ecommerce website.

Now you can see your domain itself promoting your brand and working as a keyword against numerous user-defined enquiries in search engines.

Creating SEO-Oriented Website Structure (Basic):

If  you have a little knowledge of html and css, you may go to your “header” file from the hosting control panel. Here you need to add some meta tags and the title tag for your website. Title tag should contain between 50 and 70 characters in a good SEO practices. Then two meta tags have to be significantly inserted and these include meta “keyword” and meta “description” tags. In best SEO approach, your description should contain no more than 150 characters and the same you may use for keywords writing.

Selecting Keywords:

Keywords are the words which best describe your product or services and are the words which people generally search in the search engines like google, yahoo, bing etc. It is always good to create a keywords package that reveal your product or services. You may use Google Keyword Planner to select appropriate keywords and to see the competition as well. You can also see complete bidding values if you are interested in googleAdwords after your have selected targeted regions of your choice.

Developing SEO-Oriented Website Content:

After you have selected a domain name for your website, it’s time to follow SEO approach to setup your website on your hosting. You may select any of the CMS for your blog or website including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal OR you may have a private engine to run your website. After your engine is installed (you have setup your website) you are now required to put content on your website. Keep in mind, content is the key power to your SEO and overall indexing after domain name. So it’s better to have the content pre-written for your main page (home page) either yourself or from a professional content writer. Your content should speak about your product or services uniquely and in a way that stimulates visitors to turn into customers. Be sure to avoid any duplicate content and the repetition of similar words.

Adding Posts or Articles to your Blog:

If your website is a blog, it is better to you have some articles pre-written which you may post one by one after 3 to 5 days delay in each. Remember, the more unique and informative useful articles you have on your blog, the more indexing and promotion you’ll get for your blog. Try writing articles with the minimum length of 300-500 words but better if you could include more length but always avoid copied content.

Backlink Creation for Indexing:

Google and other seach engines like yahoo, bing etc automatically index web pages however it may take some time, but to get your web pages indexed quickly you may use backlinking techniques in which you may put comments under relevant blog posts of other websites or you may create forum profiles and can participate in discussion leaving your link back to your own website. If you don’t have a time to do this at yourself, you may hire services from any service providers like us “The Media Annexes“. Always remember, your irrelevant or improper backlinks may lead to google penalties where you may lose your indexing for longer time.

Backlinking for Promotion:

After you have seen that your web pages are all getting indexed in all major search engines, you may now proceed to get your web pages promoted against certain keywords of your business. You can either do it yourself or may get is done from any SEO service providers like us – >> The Media Annexes  for instant and strategic link building. A very careful selection of websites and blogs is required keeping in mind the relevancy of content, authority and the search engine ranking as well in order to get on the tops of SERPS.

Note: It is always recommended not to perform crucial link building if your website domain is fresh and its rather better to do it gradually to avoid any indexing loss or penalties from search engines.

You have done with your basic SEO approach to website setup and promotion. For more information, keep visiting our blog or Contact Us for expert advice of services.

Good Luck!

 

Wipe up your bad backlinks

Are you affected from penguin or panda before? OR If you have not looked back to the links coming to your pages, it’s really time to revert and check if it was done appropriately.

The time is to evaluate your linking with all recent SEO trends to make your pages saved from any google penalties. If you have used some link building services far before, you are really on the risk of failure sooner or later because the trends have now been changed and you need to clean up your bad backlinks before they make and severe affects.

badbacklink

Make your back links crystal clear and always care for the relevancy of the content on the site/pages linking to your pages. Moreover, the pages linking to you should not be linked from pages irrelevant to their content because if they are penalized, sooner you might get the same consequences.

backlink chain

SEO Tips as a Gift on Ending Year 2014

Search Engine Optimization is indeed an art to either enhance or loose your website ranking among different search engines. A white hat SEO (also known as ethical SEO) always yield positive returns however, a black hat on the other hand may have risky results, could probably be positive or negative.

The year 2014 has been a great year and our expertise towards SEO have proven significant improvements matching the S.Es crawler’s philosophy. We would love share some handful tactics those are easy to understand and implement.

SEO for 2014-2015

1. Website Animation/Slider
Creating attractive websites with lot of animations and images on home page is a great fun however, generally impact negatively on the website’s SEO. You could alternatively have a slider processing no more than 3-5 images which should be well optimized to match the weight of the header. These slider images can contain both text and the images to convey your product or services message to visitors.

2. Title and the Meta Tags
Putting meta tags in the header which at least contain title tag, description tag and the keywords tag. These tags help search engine crawlers to understand the subject of your website and can easily fetch into the S.E results whenever someone put queries matching your website subject.

Here is the standard size list for all three tags in the header file/page:
Note: include them before </head>

(a) Title Tag = 50-60 characters

i.e <title>Your website Title</title>

(b) Description Tag = 100-155 Characters

i.e <meta name=”description” content=”This is all about your website description may include main matter” />

(c) Keywords Tag = 100-255 characters

i.e <meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4, keyword5,  keyword6″  />

3. Social Media Linking
Make an efficient use of all Social Media platforms including Facebook, Twitte, GooglePlus, LinkedIn etc.
You can route the information regarding your products or services within no time and without spending a penny. This will work for your as a free off page SEO.

4. Blog Posting

Try making use of WordPress technology which provides a decent website creation along-with blog to spread your news, updates or any other information.
Try creating at least one post a week to attract search engine crawler’s attention for all relevant queries. Use a combination of text and images (optimized) for better visitor’s attraction.

5. Free Blogging

Try reserving free wordpress and blogger domain naming your site and having link back to your private website. This will work as a off page SEO with free linkback to your page. Keep on posting relevant material with linkback to each respective page of your private/business web pages.

 

DON’T HAVE A TIME TO DO THIS FOR YOURSELF? LET US KNOW AND WE SHALL BE GLAD TO ASSIST!

Does page rank important in google ranking?
Does Page Rank Necessary to Rank in SERP?

Does page rank important in google ranking?From the last decade, page rank has been considered a major pillar to understand any website’s worth however, the idea is still true because a google page rank is only given when a web page meets certain tough criteria of being the best among many.

A page rank is a measure of particular standards google has already defined for each page that include unique and valuable content on that page, number of sites linking to that page, quality and rank of sites linking to the page, and the domain’s age itself etc.

However, saying that you’ll get a top position in google results just because your site is having a higher page rank would definitely be not always true because a low PR page or even NO PR page can get on the top of Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) because of the content it contains and couple of other reasons.

So, it’s good to have higher page rank but better to pop up in first results of search engines which actually makes a good move in returns.

We at The Media Annexes aim to get provide both page rank and the top position in search engine result pages through our strategic efforts in search engine optimization.

Google Crawler Latest Trends

Googlebot or the Google crawler’s current Algo defines a lot of change in ranking any websites. The major change was held with the use of unique content and the way sites are interlinked. Sites with duplicated content were set to n/a pr from even PR7 and so. Sites with unique content were upgraded to higher page ranks like PR6 and PR7 even PR8 from PR2 and PR0. Site linking from duplicate content sites were also lost there rankings and positions in search engines. The best way to achieve today’s search Engine ranking and positions, is to have matchless content, and to have links from Unique content sites.

SEO and your Website Presence

Search Engine Optimization has already played a significant role in promotion of online businesses through search engines. The web presence thus becomes vital when any business entity pops out first in the search results specifically when the organic search is made by the Internet users.

In the start, SEO remained mainly in the off-site areas where the focus was to make the site as much optimized that it should at least come in the first 10 pages results. Research teams were designed and they were devotedly continue to find the ways to improve the SEO stats as better as possible.

Sooner the teams realized that the off page seo is not enough to bring the site on the first search engine results they were thus intended to introduce another aspect of Search Engine Optimization. This aspect was the on-site SEO techniques that are also known as on the page seo nowadays. On site Search engine optimization is the process of developing site in such a way that it should become favorite to search queries and search engines. Here the core focus was to put right headings, very right contents that are pretty much related with the nature of website, layout and short source code with friendly tools and the use of optimized images.

This actually improved today’s online businesses web presence in an efficient manner and that it consequently guarantees better Returns on Investment.

Best Guide to Content Creation and Distribution

How to Create Effective Contents – How to Distribute Contents

Creating excellent content is a key element of optimizing your online presence, but once you have created fantastic information you need to disseminate it. You may be one fantastic source of information, but if nobody hears you, does it matter? Make sure that you aren’t leaving out the step that will get you heard. We have compiled a list of the 5 best practices for content distribution:

Understanding the Concept of Blogging

You aren’t the only blogger out there. This may seem like a bad thing sometimes when there are so many other blogs to read. How will your blog get read if there are so many others that have equally great content? The trick is to get your content on blogs that are already being read. There are many wonderful blogs that get a lot of their content from guest bloggers. You can submit articles that you have already published on your own blog or create something new that you think the particular blogger would like for their blog. They may even have a request for a specific kind of content they would like from those interested in guest blogging.

Along with contributing to blogs that you are following already, make sure that you are also using services that will connect you with other bloggers. These are great for not only getting your content posted elsewhere but also for getting guest bloggers on your blog. These blogger connection services already have a great network of bloggers who would love to share content. It would be a waste of a resource if you didn’t use something like this.

Getting others’ guest content on your blog is another great way to link up with more bloggers. These guest bloggers may not have a particular need for your content yet, but they will most likely read your blog if they are contributing to it. This is great because not only have you acquired another reader, but they will be more inclined to request permission to use one of your blog posts on their own blog in the future or to spread the word about your wonderful blog to all their friends and associates who it would appeal to as well.

Remember when submitting a guest blog post to include the byline that you would like the blogger to use for your guest post. You want to make sure that they give proper credit for your blog, and it makes their job easier if they don’t have to ask you for it. Conversely, remember to request a byline or resource box from each of your guest contributors so that you may give them proper credit as well.

Choose Authority Sites to Publish Contents

There are numerous well established article databases and other content-based websites where you can submit your content. These websites are selective about the content that they publish which increases their reputability. This is positive for you because when your content is accepted by these websites and published, you know that your content is top quality. Those who find your content on those websites will also know how valuable your content is by virtue of the fact that it has been published by an already well-respected source and they will be more likely to want more content from you.
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Be sure to read the submission guidelines of these websites. If you continue to submit content that is substandard, your future submissions will likely be ignored. If there are minor things to tweak in your content that will make it worthy of publishing on these websites make sure that you aren’t missing out on this. Overlooking necessary but simple corrections is an easily avoidable mistake.

Make sure you are running with the top dogs. If you think your content is worth submitting to a well-respected site, don’t hesitate to do so. Overcome your fear of rejection and go for it. You may be surprised at how valuable those leading authorities find your content. Don’t deprive readers of your information.

Monitory and Supervising Published Articles

When syndicating your blog posts and submitting them for inclusion on several different websites, you will want to make sure that you are keeping track of each place they have been submitted to and published. Part of building your credibility is that the content that you write is applicable to more than just your immediate readers. Make sure that you are keeping track of where your content has been published in order to write more content that appeals to those particular audiences.

Remember that part of interaction with readers and customers includes responding to comments and questions. How can you respond to these if you don’t even remember where your content has been published? Keeping track of comments and questions is easy when you are managing content posted on your own blog because you will receive a notice every time there is a comment left. Some blogs offer an option to notify you when anyone posts a comment after you have already posted, but you won’t know about initial comments unless you are keeping track of the post.
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One last but very important aspect of keeping track of published content is that, like all marketing strategies, these efforts need to be measured and analyzed in order to create more appropriate future content. If the published content is receiving a lot of positive feedback, be sure to create more like it in the future. If the feedback is negative, adjust your content until it becomes something that readers find useful. Success relies on customer and reader satisfaction. Be sure that you are monitoring this.

Distribute Contents in Press Releases

When an article, blog post, or video is being syndicated, it is completely appropriate to submit a press release. This doesn’t need to be an incredibly formal, pricey press release. There are many free press release publication services that will allow you to post as many press releases as you wish. Having your content syndicated is big news, make sure that you are reporting it!

Every time we have an article or blog post syndicated, we publish a press release about it. Our excitement about sharing our content with the world is equally felt by our readers who find out via press release. Creating a mutual interest, such as excellent content writing, with our readers is key in building relationships with them.

Press releases also get picked up by bigger news sources. The syndication of press releases lets even more people know about your incredible content and the cycle of content distribution continues. Make sure that you don’t skip this step because you may find new readers to provide with valuable content. Let the world know that others think your content is as great as you do. Write a press release!

Using Twitter and Digg to Publish Contents

Tweets and diggs are like mini, severely informal press releases. If you don’t have the time to sit down and write a press release the moment you find that one of your posts or articles has been published, make sure that you are at least tweeting about it. All of your twitter followers will immediately be aware of your content being published and if they haven’t already had a chance to read it they will be more inclined to do so.

The same concept goes for Digg. You can digg about your content to let even more of the world know what excellent content you have created and where they can find it. Let your friends and business acquaintances know that they can digg this content, too. You can let them know through your other social media platforms such as MyMark, Facebook and Twitter.

Creating great content is extremely important. The next step is to distribute that content throughout the internet so that it can be found. Make sure that you are publishing your content to other bloggers and websites and telling everyone you know that your content has been published there as well. This will increase the effective reach of your information. Start your distribution and information dissemination now!

How to remove blogger Out Bound Links

Guide to Remove un-necessary out going links from Blogger hosted websites

Out going links is one of the major elements that impacts website’s ranking and stats from search engines. Google discourages websites with many outbound links and sometimes drops from indexing as well. Unfortunately websites that we host with blogger.com generally have many outbound links on it and as we increase the number of widgets on our sites, number outbound links also increases.

So, how can we remove outbound links from blogger hosted private websites or from blogspot.com websites?

Here is a robust solution to this problem as you can certainly remove the un-necessary links from your private websites hosted with blogger and free blogspot.com domains. Follow the steps  blow to remove outbound links from blogger and to increase your website’s stats and indexing in search engines.

1. Login to your blogger account and go to “Design” or “Layout”.

2. Click on the “Edit HTML” tab.

3. Check the check box for “Expand Widget Templates”.

4. Press “Ctrl+F” to find the below tag

<b:include name=’quickedit’/>

5. Once you have located the tag mentioned above, delete the tag and find for next until you delete all the tags from your website.

6. Also search for the below tag

<!– quickedit pencil –>
<b:include data=’post’ name=’postQuickEdit’/>

7. Once you have found the above tag, delete it as well.

8. Press the “Save Template” button after you have make sure of there is no quick edit tag present in your blogger panel.

Note: Don’t delete the following tag from the blogger :

<b:includable id=’postQuickEdit’ var=’post’>

There is no harm to remove quick edit tags and it will no way disturb or disrupt the functionality of your website. Yes one option will no longer be available with you and that is the quick edit directly from your website. This is in fact an extra option to edit