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How to Block TikTok ByteSpider Bot ByteDance

How to Block TikTok ByteSpider Bot ByteDance

Prevent unwanted bots from crawling your website by adding this code to your .HTACCESS file. Use the code to block specific bots, including ByteDance's crawlers, from accessing your site.

- Monday, August 19, 2024
How much does it cost for Guest Post and Backlinks

How much does it cost for Guest Post and Backlinks

Discover the average costs of guest posting and backlinks. Learn how to invest in high-quality content and backlinks to boost your website's authority and SEO ranking.

- Friday, August 02, 2024
Google Ranking Factors still works in 2022

Google Ranking Factors still works in 2022

The most important google ranking factor is your website crawlable and indexable. There are many other factors that dictate how well Google will crawl and index your website.

- Tuesday, September 27, 2022
What is Attribution Modeling

What is Attribution Modeling

Attribution modeling is a set of rules for assigning credit to the various touchpoints in the conversion path. The objective of attribution model is to determine which all marketing channels have impacted users on their path to conversion.

- Sunday, April 11, 2021
How to Save your Job from A.I. and Automation?

How to Save your Job from A.I. and Automation?

With the emergence of AI and increased automation, a lot of jobs will be lost. This has already started many years ago and it will only accelerate. Here’s the important thing I need you to realize, the majority of professions will not actually disappear. Number of jobs will diminish.

- Sunday, January 03, 2021
 Creating Calendar Table in Power BI

Creating Calendar Table in Power BI

You can generate a date table in your model by creating a calculated table using either the CALENDAR or CALENDARAUTO DAX functions. Power BI Calendar Table with Weeks, Month, & Year. Creating the Date Dimension in Power BI.

- Saturday, January 02, 2021
Top 10 Free Cloud Storage Services

Top 10 Free Cloud Storage Services

Free Cloud Storage Services, find yourself with more than enough free storage to meet all your needs. Looking for free cloud storage offering the most space for your photos, videos or any other type of data?

- Monday, August 24, 2020
JSON-LD Schema for Google Rich Result Features

JSON-LD Schema for Google Rich Result Features

Google uses structured data standardized formats to understand the content of the page and enable special search result features and enhancements. To Enable rich results with structured data, below are the code snippets.

- Sunday, March 29, 2020
Digital Marketing Tools for Competitive Analysis

Digital Marketing Tools for Competitive Analysis

Through digital you can understand the product strategy, pricing, promotion strategy, competitive advantage and communication strategy of your competitors. Here are the few tools which you can use to analysis competition.

- Friday, January 17, 2020
Top 5 Web Design Trends in 2020

Top 5 Web Design Trends in 2020

2020 is another exciting year for Web Design as lot of new web technologies have been introduced. In this blog I am going to talk about five web design trends that may play important role in this year.

- Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Targeting Tips in Digital Marketing

Targeting Tips in Digital Marketing

In digital marketing one can target very narrow set of customers. You can customize the messaging and positioning you want to portray. This will help to expand your target market.

- Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The Cobra Effect in Business Management

The Cobra Effect in Business Management

The Cobra Effect is a term in economics. It refers to a situation when an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse. This name was coined based on an incident in old colonial India.

- Monday, September 09, 2019
Internet Banking Security Tips

Internet Banking Security Tips

If you receive any phone calls seeking your personal credentials like Customer ID, Password, OTP, Debit/Credit Card Number, PIN or CVV, never fall for it, since it could be a phishing phone call that can result into fraudulent activities leading to financial loss.

- Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Alexa Ranking - All You Need To Know

Alexa Ranking - All You Need To Know

Alexa records visitors using the Alexa Toolbar. Amazon has taken steps to try to make this toolbar, a browser extension. Unfortunately, the age of toolbars has gone

- Monday, May 15, 2017
SEO Content Writing Best Practices

SEO Content Writing Best Practices

Write for the end users and not crawler, Catchy and Engage heading, Use Picture, Banner Image for the Page, Hyperlink Keywords (internal domain linking) and more.

- Monday, March 13, 2017
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

What is AMP? Why Accelerated Mobile Pages? Get the SWOT Analysis of AMP. Get the edge over competitors and resellers. Highly Cost effective. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).

- Saturday, October 15, 2016
Use .HTACCESS to block IP Address and Disable Hotlinks

Use .HTACCESS to block IP Address and Disable Hotlinks

The .htaccess file is used to alter the configuration of the Apache Web Server to Enable and Disable additional functions and features that the Apache Web Server has to offer.

- Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Mobile Website vs. Mobile App - Case Study on Myntra

Mobile Website vs. Mobile App - Case Study on Myntra

Myntra decided to shut down its website in 2015 and shifting to an exclusive mobile app-based model. Definitely it was a bold move by Myntra and many analysts and investors criticized it as ill thought out decision that would alienate many shoppers.

- Friday, May 06, 2016
SEO 2015 - Strategies, Trends and Techniques

SEO 2015 - Strategies, Trends and Techniques

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the latest trends and techniques which are going to dominate the Search Engines. The latest SEO trends for year 2015 are listed below.

- Saturday, August 08, 2015
How to Update Nokia Phone Firmware / Software

How to Update Nokia Phone Firmware / Software

Nokia phone firmware with the latest firmware software available with Nokia, and for that first you have to install Nokia Software Updater which you can download from the following link

- Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Types of Facebook Users (Fun Post)

Types of Facebook Users (Fun Post)

There are some kinds of people on the Facebook that can easily piss you off. If you use facebook, chances are you've encountered a few of these before. Everyone is free to use Facebook the way they like to, but some people really don't get Facebook at all.

- Monday, July 16, 2012
Website Analysis: Gain Authority, Popularity

Website Analysis: Gain Authority, Popularity

Search engine performs analysis of a page to determine what parts of content are most important. Analysis Keyword Weight, Internal Linking, Indexed Pages, Backlinks, Geo Location, Heatmap, Valid HTML.

- Wednesday, March 14, 2012
How to setup Custom Error Pages

How to setup Custom Error Pages

How to Set Up A Custom Error Page. A Custom Error Page allows you to have your own custom error page(s) instead of using the default error page(s) or having no page.

- Tuesday, January 24, 2012
SEO Overview: What? Why? And How?

SEO Overview: What? Why? And How?

SEO is an on-going process of optimizing the website with current search engine algorithm, best practices and guidelines. Maintaining Site Architecture, optimizing the tags, fixing site errors, getting backlinks, removing duplicates and encouraging social sharing.

- Wednesday, November 16, 2011
How to Verify Authorship (rel=author) in Google SERP

How to Verify Authorship (rel=author) in Google SERP

Authors are given a very prominent treatment on search results. To identify the author of an article, Google checks for a connection between the content page (such as an article), an author page, and a Google Profile.

- Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Website URL Structure Strategy

Website URL Structure Strategy

Get better ranking in search engines by following the URL structure best practices recommended for any website. Which includes Descriptive URLs, Keywords in URL, Avoid Keyword Stuffing, Directory Structure, Length of the URL and many more...

- Monday, June 20, 2011
How to avoid duplicate content issue caused by mobile website

How to avoid duplicate content issue caused by mobile website

Google is seeing your mobile website as duplicate content of your main website, and it is affecting your search ranking. Although Google is smart enough to figure out your mobile content is not duplicate to your main content.

- Wednesday, April 27, 2011
URL Rewriting SEO Friendly: Convert Dynamic URLs into Static URLs

URL Rewriting SEO Friendly: Convert Dynamic URLs into Static URLs

Static URLs are always known to be better compared with dynamic URLs in SEO, because of many reasons. Static URLs are always more users friendly to your website visitors, static URLs normally rank much better in search engines and search engines are known to index the content of static URLs a lot faster compared to dynamic URLs.

- Wednesday, April 20, 2011
What should we do with the website expired pages?

What should we do with the website expired pages?

In the recent Google Webmasters YouTube Channel, I have asked Matt Cutts about 'What should be done with the website expired pages?' Though I'm still waiting for the official statement from Matt Cutts in the Webmaster Videos, I have discussed this topic with my fellow SEO colleagues and came up the following options.

- Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Leverage your .htaccess file efficiently

Leverage your .htaccess file efficiently

The .htaccess file is a configuration file which is used on Apache based web servers to control many features of the server. The .htaccess file gives webmasters a lot of control over their website. The file contains the configuration statements (web server configurations) to customize the Apache Web server software for the website.

- Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Google Image Search Observation

Google Image Search Observation

Google is more likely to index bigger images compared with smaller once. May be when Google see multiple images on a page, it decides not to index images with small resolutions.

- Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Mobile SEO Best Practices

Mobile SEO Best Practices

The best thing to improve mobile SEO is to ensure that the mobile crawlers and user agents determine that content of the website will render well and load quickly on any mobile phone.

- Tuesday, January 25, 2011
All about SEO Meta Tags

All about SEO Meta Tags

Meta tags offer the website owner the ability to control some degree on how their web pages are described by some search engines. They also offer the ability to prevent pages from being indexed at all.

- Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Page Speed Best Practices

Page Speed Best Practices

Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Web developers that would like to evaluate the performance of their web page to improve them should download the extension.

- Monday, November 29, 2010
Social Media Share Button

Social Media Share Button

Social Media Buttons helps you to share your content with the social Web. These buttons allows your visitors to share your content quickly and easily if they feel the content is worth sharing. It can also help you to generate significant amount of traffic to your site, without spending any extra penny.

- Thursday, September 16, 2010
Update: Twitter Apps and You

Update: Twitter Apps and You

Over the coming weeks, Twitter will be making two important updates that will impact how you interact with Twitter applications. Twitter is updating this to all Twitter users to make sure you are aware of these changes.

- Thursday, September 02, 2010
Yahoo! and Bing Search Alliance

Yahoo! and Bing Search Alliance

Bing will begin to power the English language organic search results on Yahoo! Search in the U.S. and Canada. The Yahoo! and Bing search alliance covers algorithmic search (web, image and video), search advertising and contextual advertising.

- Wednesday, August 25, 2010
HTML5 Overview - Introduction to HTML5

HTML5 Overview - Introduction to HTML5

HTML5 is the next evolution of the Web and includes many more tags and elements for rich media content. In practice, HTML5 is starting to become a reality. Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Safari 3.1, as well as niche browsers like Opera and Chrome, have already implemented partial support.

- Monday, August 16, 2010
SEO Best Practices for 404 Custom Error Page

SEO Best Practices for 404 Custom Error Page

Create an Error Page which reports a 404 Response Code, add Robots META Tag noindex, follow. Have Unique Title Tag to the page. Use Normal Crawlable Navigation. Do NOT Use Canonical Tag. And also Track the Error Pages with Web Analytics.

- Thursday, June 17, 2010
Geo Location Targeting in Google SERPs

Geo Location Targeting in Google SERPs

Google search engines give a lot of weight to geo-location, even when the user does not select a country specific search. So it will influence all users on which Google site they use (Google.co.in, Google.co.uk). Your website will be performing better in Google.co.in or Google.co.uk than it will in the other Google site.

- Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Social Media Mistake

Social Media Mistake

Social Media Mistake: What mistake most people do while doing Social Media. They only twitting about their Blogs (: Now get a T-Shirt printed of this...

- Thursday, May 13, 2010
List of HTTP Response Status Codes

List of HTTP Response Status Codes

List of HTTP Response Status Codes, 1xx Info / Informational, 2xx Success / OK, 3xx Redirect, 4xx Client Error, 5xx Server Error.

- Thursday, April 08, 2010
How to position DIV at the center of web

How to position DIV at the center of web

There are two ways to place a DIV at the center of a web page, JavaScript and CSS. Your DIV will appear at the center and middle of the page, vertical and horizontal.CSS can come in handy when dealing with multiple browser issues or JavaScript disabled/blocked in browsers.

- Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Rich Snippets for Events - JSON-LD Schema

Rich Snippets for Events - JSON-LD Schema

Rich Snippets help people make more informed clicks and find what they need even faster. Events markup is based off of the 'JSON-LD Schema'.

- Tuesday, March 30, 2010
How to Suck at Social Networking

How to Suck at Social Networking

Below are few points you should not do at all. Well my answer is keep your personal life personal and try not to making your personal life public. Below are few points you should not do at all.

- Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Send PPC traffic to landing page and not homepage

Send PPC traffic to landing page and not homepage

Many business owners like to send their PPC traffic to their website homepage and not to the specific landing page. Other advantages of directing your PPC traffic to specific landing page(s) are higher conversion rates, leads, sales etc and it doesn't happen when people are directed straight to the home page.

- Tuesday, February 02, 2010
XML Sitemap Best Practices

XML Sitemap Best Practices

XML Sitemap helps search engines crawlers to crawl the website and keep their results up to date. These XML sitemaps can be submitted to Google, Bing and Yahoo! search engines.

- Wednesday, January 06, 2010
What is Canonical URL Tag?

What is Canonical URL Tag?

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. Canonicalization helps to solve issues like www version vs. non-www version, re-directs, duplicate URLs, hijacking, etc...

- Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Utilize your 'robots.txt' file efficiently

Utilize your 'robots.txt' file efficiently

Never underestimate the value of 'robots.txt' file, if you want your website to be ranked top in the search engines results. Always keep this in mind that the 'robots.txt' file is meant to prevent search engine spiders from searching certain pages.

- Friday, July 31, 2009
Keys for a successful Website

Keys for a successful Website

You may have a spectacular website, but there are a few essential requirements that your website needs to be successful. It is not very difficult to create a website, but to stands out in crowed, you need to include these important elements.

- Monday, June 08, 2009
Why paid search numbers often don't match

Why paid search numbers often don't match

By taking care of simple mistakes and carefully implementing the PPC campaigns, we can avoid a lot of data loss and errors, but still some things are out of reach and can't be avoided.

- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
How Accurate is your Web Analytics Data

How Accurate is your Web Analytics Data

To be able to judge your website performance, your web analytics should be accurate. You will be able to achieve this if common errors in collecting the data can be avoided. You need to understand your website visitors behavior along with their entry and exit points.

- Monday, April 20, 2009
Optimize Your Landing Pages

Optimize Your Landing Pages

A Landing Page is the first thing any user interacts with before interacting with you/company and it may or may not lead to a sale.

- Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Guidelines while building a Corporate Website

Guidelines while building a Corporate Website

When it comes to design or creating a website there are lot of things to take care of before you start, specially when it comes for Corporate websites.

- Monday, May 26, 2008
Best Practices and Guidelines for eMail Newsletters

Best Practices and Guidelines for eMail Newsletters

To be sure that the eMail Newsletter is reaching to the end users properly without any formatting issue(s) and getting displayed properly to the end users, follow the below guidelines.

- Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - DO's and DON'Ts

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - DO's and DON'Ts

We use SEO to get more traffic to the Website free of cost and also to gain popularity and business on Internet. But forget that SEO takes a lot of time and efforts to get top rankings on search engines.

- Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Gyan - Fundas

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Gyan - Fundas

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best and hot ongoing process now in market. Now it's the time to hit the market through web also, or you are era back.

- Wednesday, May 09, 2007

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Joydeep Deb

Joydeep Deb is a Senior Digital Marketer and Project Manager with strong experience in Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, Online Brand Management, Marketing Campaigns, Project Management, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), PPC, eMail Marketing, Web Analytics, Web Technologies, Web Design and Development.

With an MBA in Marketing. IIM Calcutta Alumini. Lives in Bangalore, Karnataka - India.

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