Using Photos in your blog posts

I believe I have mentioned this in past blog posts, but more in the nature of a tip rather than an actual focused post. For some time now, I have been reviewing the sources of page visits on the Gadgets blog that I maintain, called Ultra Cool Gadgets (link). Sitemeter provides a simple set of [...]

Learning how to use the Google Webmasters Tool

The Google Webmasters Tool is a very useful tool for webmasters eager to ensure that their sites are quickly indexed by the Google Search Engine, that new posts / content is quickly indexed by the GoogleBot, and overall, their posts have a much higher ranking in the search engine. Now, using the Google Webmasters tool [...]

Google does not use keywords meta tags for search engine rankings

This may seem pretty obvious to somebody who knows about this, but there are a large number of people who do not know this. At some time in the past, many years back, Search Engine Optimization used to emphasize the need to add keywords to your web page, so that you would get an advantage [...]

Promoting your Photo Blog (contd..)

An earlier post covered some tips for promoting a photo blog. This post covers some more tips that I learned while researching this topic of trying to promote a photo blog. 1. Ensure that your site does not have a robots.txt file that could prevent the search engine crawlers from indexing your site 2. Ensure [...]