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A website audit is a procedure for assessing the search engine optimization of a web site in numerous places. Consider it as a detailed evaluation of the overall functionality of the site. A website analysis is based on whether a site looks on a search engine results pages. Continue reading “Site Audit Guide For Young SEOs”
Responsive Web Design is an approach where the designer and developer consider the user experience across all screen widths. This includes smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop computers and big televisions that can connect to the internet. You can test the ‘responsiveness’ of a page you like by reducing the window size as shown above. A study published on Mashable has already predicted that by 2015, the mobile usage will exceed desktop usage making it extremely important for you to take care of your mobile users.
You can make your website mobile friendly in three (that I can think of) different ways.
A> Having a separate website: like m.example.com for mobile users where your mobile content is hosted and serving a more mobile friendly content from this url. Your data stays synchronized as you connect both desktop and mobile websites to the same database.
B> User agent detection: this technique lets you serve a different theme for your mobile users. All urls stay the same but different html is served to different devices.
C> Responsive Web Design: serves the same html to all users with from same url but this content can respond when the screen size changes.
Responsive Web Design is the most advocated technique of handling mobile friendliness since it requires the least effort in maintenance and is most SEO friendly. If you think about it, hosting a separate mobile site: m.example.com practically means that you have to optimize and keep an eye on the health of two websites. First two techniques I have mentioned above also require you to have a very good user agent detection mechanism in place and unfortunately, the variety of devices being produced is only going to increase. Smartphones, dumb phones, tablets, laptops, desktops and smart televisions. There’s no limit to the amount of agents that are going to be accessing your page.
Things to consider while creating a responsive website (or choosing a responsive theme).
Responsive websites are pretty low maintenance but there are a few things that you should be careful about when you are choosing a theme for your website. I have listed two of the most critical factors to help you when you are choosing from a big selection of themes.
A> Responsiveness on different devices – This involves extensive testing on all devices. If you have hired a developer to build a theme, make sure you build it considering mobile and tablet platforms before you go towards the desktop and laptops. If you are buying a theme, load the theme demo on mobile devices and see how user friendly it is.
B> Pageload time – Speed is a very important factor these days from crawlers’ point of view. Most of the Search Engines will prioritize another page that offers similar services but loads quicker. Fortunately, you can test the speed of your theme (demo url) using tools like pingdom, GTMetrix and Google’s pagespeed insights. Google pagespeed insights also suggests the measures that you can take to increase the pagespeed of your website.
I do not like themes with a lot of features. Main reason being, all of those scripts load on all pages of your website. Even if it is a small page with very less content. Most of the times you won’t even use all those fancy features. I prefer lightweight themes instead. These themes load with a lightning fast speed and make sure that your visitors’ stay on the site is not a painful one. If you have any concerns or questions, I would be pleased to address them in the comment section below.
Feel free to share your favorite responsive websites and themes in the comment sections below.
Guest blogging has been employed by a lot of webmasters in order to get a quick Search Engine Boost. Just last month Google’s webspam team head – Matt Cutts published an interesting post on his personal blog. This has come as a surprise to some people in the Search Engine Marketing community but I think Cutts has just talked common sense in this post. I think it makes sense to keep an eye out for those webmasters who are trying to abuse the system by posting poor quality posts with the sole intention of extracting some pagerank from that website. Continue reading “Is Guest Blogging good for SEO”
Here’s a compilation of my some of the favorite tools I would suggest to my blogger friends. I won’t be mentioning any of the tools that come with your operating system like MS paint for image editing on Windows and photobooth for photo capture and adding effects. Continue reading “Best Desktop Tools for Bloggers”
A brief introduction to Yoast, Joost or whatever way you pronounce his name: well known for his WordPress SEO plugin — WordPress SEO, Yoast blogs at yoast.com.
Chances are you have already got his SEO plugin installed. I use and recommend this SEO plugin to all the readers and in fact, it is one of the first items in our website launch checklist.
If you are a major fan of his blog, you might not like this post as we are poles apart on our views of Hostgator. Continue reading “Why you should avoid Yoast’s opinion of Hostgator”