Bounce Rate improvement for TheQuotes.Net

 Our Motivational Quotes site TheQuotes.Net  is getting good response from visitors. The visitors are sharing the motivational articles and pictures with their friends thro' social media, and they have started using the Facebook Covers available in TheQuotes.net. And, home page of this site got more than 3.6K Facebook "Likes" while writing this post.
But this site is still not getting traffic from search engines especially from Google. I had done lot of on-page optimization for this site. But still no improvement.

One reason may the poor Bounce Rate for this site.  Previously it was not optimized for mobile devices. But lot of people were visiting this site from their mobile devices. This may be the reason for the poor Bounce Rate. So, few days ago I had made it mobile friendly. But it didn't help to improve the Bounce Rate much. So, I had taken few more steps for improving the Bounce Rate. I had added "previous" and "next" buttons in articles and facebook cover page by hoping that it will help to improve the bounce rate for this site. Let us see whether it will improve the Bounce Rate.

And, I would like to know whether improving Bounce Rate will really help to get search traffic. I am curious to know how actually search engines find the the Bounce rate of any site. I heard that Google won't use Google analytic data for its search engine as it is not permitted by regularity.



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We had developed a SERP Checker Tool few years back, and selling it at affordable price of $48 USD.








This SERP Checker has below features.

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• Option to specify maximum position to find the Keyword.(Get position from user for seaching within that position). It will help to avoid unncessary waiting time if you don't care about the positions beyond certain number.
• Option to choose Search within different country specific search engines (now search with .in,.uk,.com)
• You can choose multiple Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing
• Display SEO Tips while fetching position.
• option to enter multiple keywords in three different ways (file import, text area, and dynamically added text boxes)
• PDF report export feature

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This script is one among our best selling products.

Today we are launching an option to freely download this Script so that you can use it in your local machine or in your own site.

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SEO Your Blog the Easy Way - Guest Post

We all know how important search engine optimization, also known as SEO, is to a web site. There are whole sites devoted just to methods of SEO and the profitability that a properly optimized site can get you.



However, beyond all the tricks and gimmicks that come and go with Google updates, there are some basic things that really do not change. These basic SEO techniques are not difficult, but they do take time and effort on your part. However if you are intent on making your blog a success and getting as much traffic as you possibly can then they are well worth doing. Here are some simple ways to optimize your blog for search engines and make it easier for readers to find your blog:

1. The URL is important – when you first create your blog make sure that the URL you choose is easy for people, and search engines, to remember. A sting of random letters and numbers is not the best idea. Dashes and dots do not work well wither. Instead go for something memorable, simple and pertinent to your blog’s niche topic. You should also pay attention to how additional pages and posts on your blog are formatted in the URL. If a new page or post does not come up as backslash and the name of the post, then you might want to fix that. The URL is often the first place a search engine will look. That brings us to…

2. Title appropriately – The title of you blog post is one of the most important parts. This is what the people and the search engines will come across before they ever see your actual writing. You want the title to not only catch people’s attention, but also give some insight into what you post is really about. Do not go for random, eclectic or cute titles. Yes, you can be creative but stay within the bounds of rationality. Your best bet is to keep your title shorter than ten words and use key words that people search for. You can find out what people are searching for with a variety of programs, some that are free. You can also use name recognition in your titles to get more hits. Name recognition is when you include a famous name, real or fantasy, in a blog post title. People like Batman, Clark Kent, or Robert Downey, Jr. are all well-known and well searched names. When you include names like that in your title not only do people want to read it to find out what connection they have with your blog, but your blog post also comes up in searches that have to do with those name, bringing you new audiences that you would have otherwise never have reached.

3. Tag your blog posts –Tagging comes with many different terms. Sometimes they are called categories. But whatever the case may be, this is your opportunity to tell the search engines what you post is really about. Shoot for a dozen tags or less per post or this can backfire on you and never, ever tag a post with something it is not really about. That is a good way to get your blog on the search black list. Make sure you know what tags are being searched for and which ones are plural or singular. It will not do you any good to tag a post “tech” if people search for “technology” and vice versa. Know who your audience is and what terms they use to search.

4. Use keywords –Like tagging, keywords are important. Search engines ‘see’ how many times you use a word or phrase in a post. You do not want to go overboard or you will get penalized again, but you should repeat a key word or phrase a few times in a blog post for the best effect. It is just another way to get the search engine to connect your blog post with what peole are searching for. Make sure whatever keywords you use are the words people search for or this will not help you at all.

5. Know what people are searching for – As I have said many times now, know your audience. Search engine optimization is only there to get you more traffic. You want to rise in the rankings so that people can find your blog. Well, there is no point being number one in a search for “flibbertigibbets” if your blog specializes in “whatchamacallits”. Plus people are not searching for either of those terms (at least not a lot of people) so try more generic terms like “funny words” to really get your target audience’s attention. The history of searches is your new best friend. Get to know what people are searching for in your niche and then write about it. It is just that simple.

6. Stay in your niche – I have been talking about a niche this whole time with the assumption that your blog has one. It does, right? If not maybe you should think about getting one, like now! A blog without a niche is like a compass without a point. Potentially interesting but not very useful. You need to know what your blog is about, who your audience is, and what they want. Without that information you can SEO all day long and not get anywhere. Make sure you are passionate about whatever topic you pick because blogging about it every day will get very annoying if you are not. Not only that, but readers and search engines know when you are faking an interest in something. So, my advice is love it or do not do it at all.

7. Become a part of the community –No blog is an island. No matter what you write about you will have other blogs out there writing about the same things. They are not just your competitors, though. They can be a big help to you if you let them. Become a part of the blogging community and share resources. Let other bloggers know the latest news that pertains to your niche, cooperate and share your audience, and you can even guest post on each other’s sites for additional help. I know this sounds farfetched, but blogging together is much more effective then blogging separately. Together you can verify your existence, as it where, to the search engines and the readers.

8. Be social –This time we will focus in on the audience. Social media is a great way to communicate with your blog followers and keep in contact with readers. It is much shorter and simpler then emailing notifications of new blog posts and so on, plus it gets you bonus points with search engines. If you get your name out there and your blog talked about on things like Facebook and Twitter then you are the real deal. Human interaction is the name of the game here, and social media is the way to get it.

9. Encourage interaction –Like I said, human interaction. A good blogger encourages comments on their blog posts. I know that some bloggers turn off comments to avoid spam and hacking, but that is like locking the door when the store is open. Sure you might get a few bad guys in, but you will also get a lot of readers, and that is what you want. Interaction shows that a blog is alive and worthy of notice, so try to encourage your readers to comment with questions and other incentives.

10. Get your name out there –Last but not least, get your name out there. Donate money, help a charity, guest post, offer to do things for free, join a group. Whatever you have to do to get your blog’s name out in the world, in places other than your own site. The more your name is used by others, the higher your search ranking will be.

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Jason Miner plays a vital role for www.blogcarnival.com. He is an expert in writing topics of different categories. He is helping the carnival team to grow & working on making this an even better place for bloggers.

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Attrakt.com - The Next Big thing in "Content Curation" after Pinterest.com

These days millions of websites are available to provide content about any subject. But the biggest challenge is finding right content. Search Engines such as Google.com help to find suitable content from millions of websites upto some extent. But still it is NOT effective as the Search engines don't know much about the quality of the content.


The concept of "Content Curation" (The process of finding, organizing and sharing online content ) is growing fast to solve this problem.

I have explained about Pinterest.com few months back. Pinterest.com uses "Content Curation" concept to provide Images/pictures.


Recently I came to know about Attrakt.com which is growing very fast by applying "Content Curtaion"

Attrakt.com allows the users to create their own "Search boxes" by specifying URLs of websites from where the box need to do the search. The URLs / Links can be a website, image, webpage, youtube video, twitter Hash tags, or/and RSS feed.

For example, if you frequently browse the motivational quotes in few websites (eg. TheQuotes.net, wikiquote.com, brainyquote.com ), you can search all these sites from single search box. You need to create a search box from Attrakt.com by specifying these websites. Or, you can use the search box created by other users. For example, if you are interested in searching Motivational Quotes, you can use this search box created by me.

i-e Attrakt.com is somewhat similar to "Custom Search" provided by Google. But it looks like Attrakt.com is working on to provide more features. Let us wait to see how Attrakt.com is growing. i-e We can consider the Attrakt.com as the combination of Wiki and Google Custom Search.

It seems Attrakt.com is growing very fast. You may refer the below Alexa rank screenshot.

I will be writing a detailed blog post about Attrkt.com in few months once I am much familiar with this emerging site.


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Traffic got Reduced for this Blog. Is it because of Google's recent EMD update?

Yesterday, I have noticed a huge "traffic drop" for this blog (qualitypoint.blogspot.com) in the AdSense Report.

I had checked the Google Analytics Report also to confirm the drastic reduction in the web traffic. And, I came to know that lot of keywords which were ranking well in Google search results got affected heavily.

Even I got an alert message in my Google Webmasters tools with the subject "
http://www.qualitypoint.blogspot.com/: Big traffic change for top URL"

I couldn't understand the reason for this sudden traffic reduction.

According to the Google Analytics Report, the traffic reduction got started on September 29th.

By doing some Google search, I came to know that Google had released EMD (Exact Match Domain) updates on September 28. Many people reported that traffic got reduced for their sites also.

So, I am thinking that the EMD update may be the reason for this traffic reduction. But I couldn't understand the reason why EMD update should hit this blog as this blog domain name is NOT an exact match Domain.

If you have any comments about this traffic reduction, you can share it thro' the comments section of this post.



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Testing Significance of Page Loading Speed for improving SEO Rank

Everyone is telling about the importance of keeping good Page loading performance for getting good position in Search Engine results pages. But it is NOT clear about up to what level the light weight pages help to get Good SEO rank.

So, I decided to find answer by creating a light weight page "Famous Quotes", and monitoring the SERP (Search Engine Result Page) position of this page for the related keywords such as "Famous Quotes" and "Famous Motivational Quotes" in various search engines including Google and Bing.

Normally I use Google Webmaster Tools for seeing the change of keyword position for any of our web page. Today I started using Bing webmaster Tool also for doing this test.

I have created this "Famous Quotes" Page without much javascript codes or images so that it can load very quickly. I haven't added adSense ads. According to the pingdom tool, this page takes less than 250 milli seconds only for loading completely. And, the Pingdom report says that this webpage is faster than 99% of all tested websites.

So, I can consider this page as fast loading page, and if the SERP position for this page is improving very quickly comparing to our other pages, I can say that page loading speed plays important role in deciding the Search position.

Let us see the outcome of this test in few months. If this test proves the importance of fast loading pages, I am planning to create more light weight pages.

Have you done any similar test? Can you share your findings thro' the comments.




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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Quiz Questions and Answers.

Find below some MCQ Quiz Questions and Answers for  Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

It will be useful for testing your Knowledge in SEO, and it can help to improve your SEO knowledge.


And, you can attend online Quiz to test your knowledge in various subjects.

SEO QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1) There is no apparent search engine rankings benefit to having a keyword matched domain name (eg www.TheQuotes.Net for keyword "The Quotes").
a) True
b) False
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2) What does the term “Sandbox” mean in SEO?
a) The box with paid ads that appear when you perform a search.
b) This is where sites are kept till they get mature enough to be included in the top rankings for a particular keyword
c) A special category of sites that are listed in kid-safe searches
d) The first 10 search results for a particular keyword.
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3) High quality links to a site's homepage will help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same domain
a) True
b) False
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4) Which of the following sources is considered to be the best for acquiring competitive link data?
a) Yahoo!
b) Google
c) MSN/Bing
d) Alexa
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5) Which of the following search engines patented the concept of "TrustRank" as a methodology for ranking web sites & pages?
a) Yahoo!
b) Google
c) MSN/Bing
d) Teoma (prior to Acquisition by Ask)
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6) If you were a SEO for a technology site, what would you not to do build a back links for it?
a) Post in technology blogs.
b) Submit articles to technology ezines.
c) Buy 10,000 links on a link exchange site.
d) Exchange links with other reputable technology sites.
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7) When creating a "flat architecture" for a site, you attempt to minimize what?
a) The number of links a search engine must follow to reach content pages
b) The KB size of search-targeted pages
c) The number of tabs/windows that open during normal navigation
d) The amount of vertical scrolling necessary for navigation
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8) What aspects of a hyperlink are not important for SEO?
a) The visibility of the link text.
b) The anchor text, especially the keywords in it.
c) The place from which the link originates.
d) The place to which the link leads.
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9) How can you avoid the duplicate content problems that often accompany temporal pagination issues (where content moves down a page and from page to page, as is often seen in lists of articles, multi-page articles and blogs)?
a) Add a meta robots tag with "noindex, follow" to the paginated pages
b) Link to paginated pages with rel="nofollow" in the link tag
c) There are no duplicate content problems associated with pagination
d) Display each page in a new tab/window
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10) Which of these is least likely to have difficulty ranking for its targeted terms/phrases in Google?
a) A brand new domain that quickly buys a large number of links from a link broker
b) An established domain moving to a newly registered domain
c) An old domain transferred to a new registrant and repurposed
d) A new domain that has received significant buzz and attention in the online and offline media, along with tens of thousands of natural links
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11) Which of the following is NOT a "best practice" for creating high quality title tags?
a) Make sure the title is unique for every page
b) Include an exhaustive list of keywords
c) Limit the tag to 65 characters, including spaces
d) Write compelling copy that encourages users to "click" your listing
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12) Danny Sullivan is best known (in the field of web search) as:
a) A journalist and pundit who covers the field of web search
b) Google's internal search marketing evangelist
c) The founder of Twitter
d) The founder of the upstart search engine, Mahalo
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13) A page on your site that serves as a "sitemap," linking to other pages on your domain in an organized, list format, is important because...
a) It reduces the crawl rate of spiders to your pages
b) It is the preferred navigational method of most web users outside the US
c) It may helps search engine crawlers to easily access many pages on your site
d) Its required for submission to many important search engines
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14) What is the advantage of putting all of your important keywords in the Meta Keywords tag?
a) There is no specific advantage for search engines
b) It increases relevance to Yahoo! and MSN/Live, although Google & Ask ignore it
c) They will be bolded in searches for that term
d) You have to have a term in Meta Keywords in order to bid for AdWords to that page
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15) Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that has been temporarily relocated and links to the old location will not pass influence to the new location?
a) 301
b) 302
c) 304
d) 311
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16) Which HTTP server response code indicates a file that no longer exists? (File Not Found)
a) 401
b) 301
c) 500
d) 404
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17) If you have a site that is targeted at a particular country only, which one of the following are not recommendable to do in order to rank well in country specific search results? Check all that apply.
a) Use the appropriate language attribute in the HTML code of the page.
b) The site should be hosted in the same country, so that its IP falls in the range of IPs that are specific for this country.
c) Have the site written in the language of the country.
d) Use Geotargeting.
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18) If you update your sites URL structure to create new versions of your pages, what should you do with the old URLs?
a) 301 redirect them to the new URLs
b) Move them to a subdomain
c) Nothing, keep them active so the links to them aren't lost.
d) Shut them down and request removal via Webmaster Central in Google and Site Explorer in Yahoo!
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19) Which one of the following practice is ethical ?
a) Buying links from link farms
b) Having the same page twice - once in html, once in pdf.
c) Using hidden text that users dont see but spiders can read
d) Stuffing the metatags with keywords
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20) Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that has been permanently relocated and all links to the old page will pass their influence to the new page location
a) 301
b) 302
c) 311
d) 500
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21) Is the following metatag appropriate for a site that sells ebooks?
a) Yes, the following metatag contains all the keywords I need.
b) No, it is rather short, I have more keywords to optimize for
c) Why bother with metatags at all?
d) Yes, this metatag is OK even though it could have had more keywords.
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22) What is Page Rank?
a) The Alexa technology for ranking pages.
b) The way Yahoo! measures how popular a given page is based on the number and quality of sites that link to it.
c) The search relevancy of a page compared to the other pages in the search engine
d) The way Google measures how popular a given page is based on the number and quality of sites that link to it.
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23) When linking to external websites, a good strategy to move up in the rankings is to use the keywords you're attempting to rank for on that page as the anchor text of the external-pointing links. For example, if you were attempting to rank a page for the phrase "hulk smash" you would want to use that phrase, "hulk smash" as the anchor text of a link pointing to a web page on another domain
a) True
b) False
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24) The de-facto version of a page located on the primary URL you want associated with the content is known as:
a) Home Page
b) Canonical Version
c) Heretical Version
d) Empirical Version
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25) A link from a PageRank "3" page (according to the Google toolbar) hosted on a very strong, trusted domain can be more valuable than a link from a PageRank "4" page hosted on a weaker domain.
a) True
b) False
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26) Is it generally considered acceptable to have the same content resolve on both www and non-www URLs of a website?
a) No, this may cause negative indexing/ranking issues
b) Yes, the search engines recognize they're the same thing
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27) When you have multiple-pages targeting the same keywords on a domain, which of the following is the best way to avoid keyword cannibalization?
a) Remove the duplicate keywords from the Meta Keywords tag on the less important pages
b) Restrict search engine from crawling/indexing any of the less important pages
c) Increase the keyword density on the most important page to be greater than that of the other pages
d) Place links on all the secondary pages back to the page you most want ranking for the term/phrase using the primary keywords as the anchor text of those links
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28) Which of these is NOT generally considered to be a highly important factor for ranking for a particular search term?
a) Quality and quantity of external links to the page
b) Keyword usage in the title tag of the page
c) HTML Validation (according to W3C standards) of a page
d) Link popularity of a page within the domain (internal link popularity)
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29) What is the generally accepted difference between SEO and SEM?
a) SEO focuses on organic/natural search rankings, SEM encompasses all aspects of search marketing
b) No difference, theyre synonymous
c) SEO refers to organic/natural listings while SEM covers PPC, or paid search
d) SEO tends to be a West coast term, SEM is more East coast.
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30) Which of the following is the best way to maximize the frequency with which your site/page is crawled by the search engines?
a) Add a short "crawl delay" parameter to your robots.txt file
b) Frequently add new content
c) Search for your website more frequently in the major engines
d) Submit your site through the search engines submission forms
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31) Which of the following is a legitimate technique to improve rankings & traffic from search engines?
a) Submitting your domain to the top 2000 search engines on the web
b) Hosting your site on a "search engine optimized" web hosting platform
c) Re-writing title tags on your pages to reflect high search volume, relevant keywords
d) Adding keyword-dense meta tags to each of your site's pages
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32) Which of the following factors is considered when search engines assign value to links?
a) The use of a proper link title in the HTML tag of the link, matching the anchor text of the link
b) The visual appearance of the link using external CSS files
c) The date/time the link was created and the temporal relationship between that link's appearance and other time-sensitive criteria
d) A footnote at the bottom of the page referencing the link and indicating whether it is an editorial endorsement
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33) Which of the following content types is most easily crawled by the major web search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live & Ask.com)?
a) XHTML
b) Windows Media Player Files
c) Java Applets
d) Flash Plugin Files
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34) Which of these factors is LEAST likely to decrease the value of a link?
a) The linked to domain has a link somewhere that points at the linking domain (each domain link to pages on the others site)
b) The link exists on a page that is not indexed
c) The linked to and linking sites are both hosted on the same IP address
d) • The linked to and linking sites are both registered to the same company/individual
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35) The practice of showing one version of content on a URL to search engines, and another, different version to human visitors of the same URL is known as?
a) Phasing
b) Cloaking
c) Phishing
d) Trapping
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36) Which of the following is the WORST criterion for estimating the value of a link to your page/site?
a) The ranking of the linking page for its targeted keywords
b) The inclusion of the page in the indices of the major search engines
c) The number and quality of other external links on the page
d) The popularity of the domain on which the page is hosted according to Alexa
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37) Which of these keywords will you optimize a pets site for? The site provides information about different breeds and also fundamental facts about breeding pets at home. It does neither sell pets, nor is interested in wild animals. The main audience are adults. The words in the different options (a., b., c., etc.) are arranged in order of importance.
a) pet, pet at home, pet animal, pet breed.
b) pets, kids, puppy, kitten.
c) pets, breeds, dogs, cats.
d) pets, cats, dogs, animals.
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38) How can Meta Description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?
a) Trick question - meta description are NOT important
b) They help to tell the engines which keywords are most important on your page
c) They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on your listing
d) Theyre an important ranking factor in the search algorithms
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39) Which of the following is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?
a) Meta Keywords
b) Meta Description
c) Title
d) Body Text
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40) Which of the following site architecture issues MOST impedes the ability of search engine spiders to crawl a site?
a) Dynamic pages with 2 or more variables in the URL string
b) Pages that require form submission to reach database content
c) Missing robots.txt file
d) Web pages that employ iFrames
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41) Page Rank is so named because it was created by Larry Page, not because it ranks pages
a) True
b) False
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42) Whats the largest page size that Googles spider will crawl?
a) No set limit exists - Google may crawl very large pages if it believes them to be worthwhile
b) 1000KB
c) 2GB
d) 100KB
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43) Which of the following link building tactics do search engines tacitly endorse?
a) Reciprocal link exchange programs
b) Renting pages from trustworthy domains and placing links on them
c) Viral content creation & promotion
d) Buying links from link brokers & networks
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44) You have a book selling site. If you have a keyword density of 7% for the keyword “book”, 6% for “reading” and 3% for “bestseller”, how does the following metatag relate to your keyword density:
a) The metatag is completely useless.
b) The metatag might mislead the search engines that we offer mainly American literature.
c) This metatag helps to point out that some of our bestsellers are the novels of Grisham and other American authors.
d) It might help to get some additional traffic without having to optimize the site for additional keywords like “Grisham” and the different genres.
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45) If you want a page to pass value through its links, but stay out of the search engines' indices, which of the following tags should you place in the header?
a) Use meta robots="noindex, nofollow"
b) Use meta robots="index, nofollow"
c) Use meta robots="noindex, follow"
d) Use meta robots="autobot, decepticon"
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46) Which domain extensions are more often associated with greater trust and authority in the search engines?
a) .mobi , .info and .net
b) .edu, .mil and .gov
c) .com and .net
d) .gov, .edu, and .org
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47) Which of the following character limits is the best choice to use when limiting the length of title tags (assuming you want those tags to fully display in the search results at the major engines)?
a) 110
b) 65
c) 80
d) 40
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48) Why are absolute (http://www.qualitypointtech.com/my-category)URLs better than relative ("/my-category") URLs for on-page internal linking?
a) You get keyword weight out of the domain name in the URL
b) Search engines cant spider relative URLs
c) When scraped and copied on other domains, they provide a link back to the website
d) They provide more keyword context for search engines judging internal links
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49) Spammy sites or blogs begin linking to your site. What effect is this likely to have on your search engine rankings?
a) It may negatively affect your rankings as search engines associate your site with bad neighborhoods on the web
b) It will boost your rankings at Live/MSN, keep them the same at Yahoo! and lower them in Google as the three engines treat spammy links in different ways
c) A very slight positive effect is most likely, as search engines are not perfectly able to discount the link value of all spammy sites
d) No effect - the search engines discount all spammy sites from passing link value, but do not penalize sites for receiving these links
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50) Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?
a) http://www.qualitypointtech.net/quiz/easylearning/
b) http://www.qualitypointtech.net/mcp.php?i=134
c) http://www.qualitypointtech.net/category/easylearning
d) http://www.qualitypointtech.net/category/27/article/56
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51) When do you apply for Re inclusion in a search engine's index?
a) When you have made changes to your site.
b) When you have changed your hosting provider and the IP address of your site.
c) After you have been banned from the search engine for black hat practices and you have corrected your wrongdoings.
d) When you are not happy with your current ratings.
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Answers
(1) b	(2) b	(3) a	(4) a	(5) a	(6) c	(7) a	(8) a	(9) a	(10) d
(11) c	(12) a	(13) c	(14) a	(15) b	(16) d	(17) d	(18) a	(19) a	(20) a
(21) d	(22) d	(23) b	(24) b	(25) a	(26) a	(27) d	(28) c	(29) a	(30) b
(31) c	(32) c	(33) a	(34) a	(35) b	(36) d	(37) c	(38) c	(39) a	(40) b
(41) a	(42) a	(43) c	(44) d	(45) c	(46) b	(47) b	(48) c	(49) c	(50) a
(51) c

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Google's Panda and Penguin Updates discourages Black-Hat SEOs

The Search Engine Google is continuously updating their search algorithms so that users can see high quality and relevant search results at top positions in the Search Results page(SERP). Google strongly believes that giving high quality results is the only way for leading the Search Industry.

But many Black-Hat SEO people were following black-hat tactics for bringing their low quality webpages at top positions of Google Search Result page.

Recent Google updates were found success in forcing these kind of Black Hat SEO people to stop their Black-hat SEO tactics.

The recent algorithm changes named as Panda update and Penguin update are playing significant role in suppressing Black Hat SEO.


Google Penguin update is aimed at decreasing search engine rankings of websites that violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines by using black-hat SEO techniques such as keyword stuffing, cloaking, participating in link schemes, deliberate creation of duplicate content, and others.


Google Panda update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.

Panda is a site wide penalty. i-e If few pages of your site were flagged for having thin content, your entire site could be penalized.


So, Panda and Penguin updates force the webmasters to create websites with high quality content for the users and force them to follow Webmaster's guidelines given by Google.

Now, let us see how to improve Search position while we know that getting backlinks forcefully will bring the risk of Penguin update.

I have heard that the search engines started giving importance for Social Media Sharing. i-e Similar to number of Back links, Google is giving importance to Facebook Shares, Facebook likes, reddit upvotes, Diggs, number of retweets, etc.


So, it is better to improve the Social Media presence of webpages instead of spending more time on traditional SEO steps.

Let me discuss more about effectively utilizing Social Media in coming blog posts.

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Updated Card Matching Memory Game site with new Design and Bug fixes.

Few months back we have launched a website "PlayMemoryGame.Com" for allowing the users to play Card Matching Memory Game.
And, we had added Games in various Topics including the topics that will be attracting the kids too.

I came to know that this Card Matching Game was having some small bugs that were showing up in specific situations.

Now, our Team has fixed these bugs. And, apart from fixing the bugs, our Team had improved the look and feel of the site. We grouped the topics under various categories so that the player can easily choose his favorite topics.

And, we had done some more tweakings to make it more SEO friendly and Social Media friendly. For example we updated the script to keep the meta description unique. And, we added Favicon.

Right now, this site is not getting much traffic. But I am planning to bring more visitors to this site by putting the links of this site in our other sites once after completing our Testing.

Let me (rajamanickam.a@gmail.com) know if you still find any bug in this site. And, If you are interested to buy this site you can contact me with your offer price.

And, if you want to buy the script alone (i-e without domain and data) you can refer this page.

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Google shows summary info of Famous persons, Books, Places and Films at Right Side Bar of SERP

Today I have noticed that Google is showing Summary information at right side bar while searching some kind of keywords like famous person name (e.g Obama), Places (e.g New York City, Delhi), Books, and Films.

For example, when I searched for "Abraham Lincoln", Google showed photo of Abraham Lincoln, brief introduction about Lincon, a link to wikipedia page about Lincoln, and key details like Born, Height, Spouse, and Children.

It seems this new feature is working on Mozilla Firefox only. When I tested it in Google Chrome, it didn't work. And, it works only if I have logged in with my Google Account.

I am not sure whether I am just noticing the old feature of Google today only, or Google is going to release it in future. Because I haven't seen any updates in Google official blogs in recent days. You can share your thoughts thro' the comments section if you know more about this new feature.

updates on May 18
Google has given more details about this new feature. This new feature is part of Google's new initiative "Knowledge Graph".


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Selling Multiple SEO scripts useful for Web Masters with Offer price (Offer Valid for 2 days only)

As I specified in my previous posts, these days Internet Marketing is very important for selling any kind of product.

There are lot of ways available for doing Internet Marketing. Most of the approaches (eg. PPC ads) will be costly and will bring low outcome.

The best and free way of doing Internet Marketing is, Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Mostly people trust the products/companies which appear on first page of Google search than the products seen on Advertisements.

We need not spend lot of money for doing SEO. Proper understanding about competition, choosing proper target keywords, doing simple tweaks in on-page content and relevant link building can bring good number of target visitors to increase the sales/conversion.

For example our Motivational Quotes Site "TheQuotes.Net" started getting good number of visitors even when there were thousands of good Motivational quotes sites are already available for many years. The reason is very simple. TheQuotes.Net is appearing in Google/Bing/Yahoo search results for the relevant keywords "Motivational quotes" and "inspiring Quotes". SEO Tools such as Inbound link analysis and SERP rank checker helped me to achieve this easily.

There are lot of SEO Tools available for using them freely. But all of them are having some kind of restrictions or limitations. So, we developed our own SEO tools to do our SEO tasks properly.

And, he hosted them on InboundLinksChecker.com. We too imposed some limitations to avoid our server IP address is getting blocked by search engines due to the over-use of these SEO tools.

Anyway, I have come up with a plan to allow the users to use these tools without any restrictions.
i-e I am selling the script with source code at affordable price. The web masters can use these scripts without any restrictions from their local machine or on their server. Even they can earn money from advertisements if they provide they show Advertisements along with these tools on their server. Many people will be using these tools as there is a huge demand of these kind of tools.

I set appropriate price for these SEO scripts. Still I am going to give offer if any one wants to buy multiple SEO scripts. Note that this offer will be available only for two days (i-e till April 18th, 2012). You can contact rajamanickam.a@gmail.com if you want to use this Offer.

Anyway, if you want to buy only one script, you can just proceed with "BUY" button available in the InboundLinksChecker.com


And, you can send your Offer price to rajamanickam.a@gmail.com if you are interested to buy the website ( InboundLinksChecker.com ) itself.

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How to Calculate Keyword Density

This Article is a Guest Post.

Keywords are the key to help your website get a better ranking and a stronger chance of getting visible on the search engine results page.

Why use keywords:
The keywords are now what many people in the old west called the gold rush. The reason for saying so is that the person utilizing the right keywords would be able to not only get more traffic but also would get a better ranking in the search engines as search engines like Google or Yahoo use the keywords in your web pages or the title of your web pages to find and tag them. Therefore the right amount of keyword density should be used by the writer of the web page content to increase the web pages’ visibility on search engines.

What is keyword Density?
We know that keywords are the phase that people write in the search fields of all the search engines to get whatever they need on the internet. Some keywords that we write are to find something and tend to be generic and vague which means that upon searching, the users will get millions of websites as the result of their search. This means that if you have used those keywords you will be shown to the user. But what matters is that how much the keyword has been used in your content. If you have used the keyword only once or twice in a 450 word article then you should know that it will be ignored by the search engines as they tend to show only those pages that have high keyword density. Hence keyword density can be defined as the number of times the keyword has been used against the number of word in a given article or content. So to ensure that your page is among the top results of the SERP or the search engines it is of utmost importance that the keyword is used repeatedly.

Calculating the keyword Density:
As it is clear that to write a decent and considerable web content you need to have the right keyword density. But the question arises how to calculate it. To calculate the keyword density you need to find out the number of words you have written. You can see the total word count of your content on the bottom left corner of your screen. Then go to the home tab and at the end of it you will find the find button. By using it you will get your keywords highlighted after you type the keyword. For example if the keyword is “density” typing it will show you the number of times you have used the word “density”. Divide the total number of words of the content with the number of times you have used your keywords and then multiply it with hundred. Following these steps will give you your keyword density.

To promote your website the keyword density is very important and it is for that reason that web page developers must know how to use it in their websites to increase its visibility and ranking.

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How Search Engine Optimisation Helps Online Entrepreneurs?

Though there are many ways to advertise online but it is essential for the online entrepreneurs to use tactics of search engine optimisation. Search engine optimisation is looked upon by most online business owners as a great way to earn high return on investment. Statistics prove that SEO is the only way to get high traffic to your website and boost sales. Though there are many online advertising tools but these do not guarantee success and they cost a hefty sum too. If you are looking for an Internet marketing technique that will deliver long term results, drive traffic naturally, optimise your website in a manner to give continual online exposure, then there can be nothing better than search engine optimisation.



There are many strategies you can follow to optimise your website. If you have a website which is not fetching the desired business results, then you can adopt certain changes or improvements to the website. Reputed search engine optimisation companies will evaluate your website from the SERP point of view and suggest ways to boost performance of your website. They will pinpoint areas with flaws in your website. Search engine optimisation companies aim to get a site more noticeable to the search engines by developing or bringing changes to the relevant content. Application of right text, videos and images can improve the appearance of your website and attract more targeted traffic. SEO experts also analyse the HTML codes in your site. HTML codes should be clutter free to meet search engine ranking goals.



Another internal site feature which should be checked for is appearance and navigation design of your website. If there is an internal search engine script the users can easily surf through the content in your website. They move from one page to the other effortlessly. Search engine optimisation can also improve the visibility of any website by making sure it does not contain any hidden text or duplicate content. Use of hidden texts is a part of black hat SEO and most reputed SEO experts discourage such a practice. Duplicate pages or duplicate content divert the traffic from your site affecting your exposure and profitability adversely.



It is only after you have applied all the search engine optimisation techniques and fixed the glitches with your website that you can move forward with online advertising. SEO experts can help in this marketing process too. Sponsored search solution or web advertising scheme are excellent ways to improve visibility in search engines and social networks. Many business owners also employ PPC advertising to get steady and targeted traffic. Even for success in PPC campaigns you need an optimised site. It can be said that search engine optimisation is the first choice for web masters looking for profits online. PPC is the second most popular tool in this regard.



As website is your online store it should be effectively optimised to impress both targeted clients and search engines. You can influence the incoming traffic significantly with search engine optimisation techniques. Once you have a steady flow of targeted traffic your profits are bound to increase. So, use the services of a reputed search engine optimisation service provider and fetch rich rewards.


About Author: Search Revolver is a well known UK search engine optimisation company. They have a different approach to work. Their end goal is to meet the client’s expected results.

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Walk-in Interview for Freshers (SEO Trainees) on March 1st in Chennai

We are looking for Freshers to join as SEO Trainees for promoting our products and our websites using white hat approaches of Search engine optimization.



  





Qualification

   *Having Good Technical Knowledge and willing to work hard for learning
new technologies.
   *Team work.
   *Sincere
   *First class Degree in B.E/MCA/MS(IT)/BSC-computer science/Diploma(CS/IT)
   *Good communication and documentation skills.
   *Willing to work in any Technology.
   *Experience 0-1 year

Job location :Chennai

Initial Salary/Stipend will be Rs. 3,000 per month.

And, preference will be given to the candidates with Software Testing knowledge or Web development knowledge. We prefer to recruit people who are staying in and around our office area (Guindy)

If you are interested you can attend Walk-in Interview on 1st March.
(Time 11a.m to 2 p.m)

walk-in-venue:

QualityPoint Technologies,

#10, New street,

Mosque colony,

Maduvankarai, Guindy,

Chennai-600 032, TamilNadu,

Contact number:044-22552294

Send your resume to qualitypointmail@gmail.com with Subject "March 1st Walk-in Interview" before coming for the interview.

And, the selected candidates needs to join on the same day. Bring below  things while coming for the interview.

- Hard copy of Your Resume
- Your Photo
- Xerox copy of marksheets
- Xerox copy of ID card
- Xerox copy of any document carrying your address.

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SEO Rank Checker Scripts updates

Today I had done  small changes in our Rank Checker Scripts (Both Keyword position SERP Rank Checker and Google Page Rank Checker).

Most of the changes are related to the latest changes in Google search results. I updated our scripts to make them work according to the new changes in Google results.

And, added restrictions to our Keyword position Checker as Google is blocking our server IP due to heavy usage. So, now I restricted our Demo for only 2 keywords and maximum 20 positions.
Initially I tried to use proxy, but it didn't help as most of the proxies were not working properly, and I think they were not stable.

If you want to use the SERP checker for more than 2 keywords or want to check the rank beyond 20 positions, you can buy the script from this sales page.

Similarly, I restricted over-use of our Google Page Rank Sorter Script  by adding Captcha field.

And, added below description to convey the importance of this script.

The Script will list the webpages in any website based on Google Page Rank so that you can find the valuable pages in any website. It will be useful when you are going to buy a website or adspace in any website.

And, updated the script to fix an error which occurred for some specific urls.

Right now I set the  price of these Scripts low, and planning to increase them soon. If you are interested to use this Offer you can buy them from below links.

http://qualitypointtech.net/pagerank/index.php
http://qualitypointtech.net/products/keywordpos/index.php

And, I am working on developing a New website for putting all our SEO scripts.

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Google will stop Search Traffic to Parked Domains

Google has announced that it is updating the Google Search Algorithm so that the Search Results won't include Parked Domains.

A Parked Domain name displays temporary web page without requiring any hosting account. Normally people park the Domain names till they decide to create any website or till they get any hosting accounts or just to hold Domain names and sell them later.

The Parked Domain name pages won't contain any useful content. They will show ads only.

Since the visitor of the Parked Domain won't have any other path to proceed, normally they will click the advertisements and therefore the owner of the Parked domains will earn significant income just by parking the domain name.

Now they will not be able to earn revenue as the Google won't show the Parked domains in the search results.

Because of this change, Parking providers are changing their policy. Today I got below email from Sedo.

As of January 1st 2012, Sedo will no longer pay out parking revenue for any domains parked using URL forwarding, regardless of the advertising provider source. This is based on a decision from our primary
online advertiser, Google, who has stated that they will only monetize name-server (DNS) parked domains.

• DNS-parked domains are more secure and less susceptible to downtime.

• DNS-parked domains load more quickly for visitors, resulting in better CTR and ultimately more revenue.

• DNS forwarding settings can be adjusted in bulk by most registrars, whereas URL forwarding must be set up one domain at a time.

Over the last few months we have sent out multiple communications (personalized emails and newsletter articles) reminding you of the required switch and deadlines to secure your parking earnings. Google already tested not monetizing URL forwarded domains for 48 hours between November 14 and 16.

If you own lot of Parking domains, you need not worry about this change. You can host your multiple domains as add-on domains within single hosting account. HostGator is giving reliable hosting at affordable price. You can use Coupon code QUALITYPOINTHG to get $9.94 OFF, or you can use QUALITYPOINT25 to get 25% OFF for Host Gator Hosting.
And, you can easily setup the sites using free and open source CMS Wordpress. If you are NOT familiar with setting up Wordpress site, you can contact me (rajamanickam.a@gmail.com) for getting done it at affordable price.

Google has done few other changes such as Related query results refinements, More autocomplete predictions, finding Original content, Image result freshness, Layout on tablets and Top result selection code rewrite.

See the complete details about the recent Google algorithm changes in the Google blog post.


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Google Kills many products including Google Wave and Knol

Google has announced that it in the process of shutting a number of products including Google Wave and Knol.



Find below the list products/services which are going to be closed by Google.

• Google Bookmarks Lists
• Google Friend Connect
• Google Gears
• Google Search Timeline
• Google Wave
• Knol
• Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal

Google Bookmarks Lists is the  experimental feature for sharing bookmarks and collaborating with friends. It will be closed on December 19, 2011.


Google Friend Connect (GFC) allows webmasters to add social features to their sites by embedding a few snippets of code  It will be retired on March 1, 2012. Google recommends to use Google+ badge instead of this retiring service.


Google Gears will be stopped on December 1, 2011. Instead of Google Gear, Google is going to focus on HTML5 for implementing offline browsing capabilities.

Google Wave we will turned off completely on April 3,2012. Wave users can export the individual wave to pdf files.

 Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and the knol authors can download  their knols to a file and/or migrate them to WordPress.com. 

Google recommends the Knol users to use Annotum.org, which is powered by WordPress and was built in collaboration with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite for moving the knol content.

We have lot of knols and Knol Collections including a knol about QTP Automation  which is getting around 2000 page views every week without doing any promotion.

I am analyzing the best way to transfer this traffic to our websites. Google knol has given an option to specify the redirect url for every knol. I am planning to redirect our QTP knol to our QTPbook.com site. 
But I am not sure whether it will transfer the SEO advantage too.  I need to do more analysis about finding the best way to do the redirection.

Anyway, I believe closure of knol will be useful for me. Because I had spent lot of time/effort to create knols and collections. But CTR for the AdSense ads in the knols is very low. Since knol is allowing redirection now, I think we can transfer the traffic to our own sites which will be having good CTR and therefore good revenue.

And, I can help the knol authors to set up their own websites at affordable price. And, they can choose HostGator as   hosting. And they can use my coupon code QUALITYPOINTHG to get $9.94 OFF, or   use QUALITYPOINT25 to get 25% OFF.

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