What is Google PageRank?

What is Google PageRank?

PageRank is Google’s technology for rating the importance and quality of a web page. It is one of the variables used by Google to determine how high your site will be placed in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP). The … Continued
What are Search Engine Friendly URLs (SEF) and why are they important?

What are Search Engine Friendly URLs (SEF) and why are they important?

There are different ways of showing your site content on the Internet. Many site applications show pages in format similar to this: http://yourdomainname.com/index.php?page=photos Such links are bad for the SEO of your website. The search engine will consider both http://yourdomainname.com/index.php and http://yourdomainname.com/index.php?page=photos as one … Continued
Is there crawl-delay on SiteGround servers?

Is there crawl-delay on SiteGround servers?

We do not apply any default crawl delay directive on our servers. You can decide what crawl-delay, if any, should be applied to your site(s) by editing your robots.txt file. Crawl-delay can be set by adding a line in this file with the following … Continued
SEO – General Guide

SEO – General Guide

Basic Understanding Most people understand Search Engine Optimization or SEO as a way to increase the traffic on their site. A better understanding of SEO is the process of optimizing your content in order to be easier to find by … Continued
How to configure Google Analytics for your website

How to configure Google Analytics for your website

One of the many great services provided for free by Google is the well-known traffic monitoring feature called Google Analytics. It is a tool that provides a wide range of information regarding your visitors’ physical location, referring websites, unique visitors’ number … Continued
How to Stop Crawler and Ghost Spam in Google Analytics

How to Stop Crawler and Ghost Spam in Google Analytics

One of the most useful Google Analytics features helps webmasters track the referral URLs, from which people land on their website. Unfortunately spammers utilize this possibility to promote their own websites or damage the image of unrelated companies by inserting … Continued
How to decrease the crawl rate of Bing’s search engine bot

How to decrease the crawl rate of Bing’s search engine bot

The MSN bot or BING bot crawls your website to index your website’s content and show the results under the Bing search engine. Bing supports the directives of the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) which can be listed in a site’s robots.txt file. The crawl … Continued
How to submit my site and optimize it for the search engines?

How to submit my site and optimize it for the search engines?

You can submit your site to Google by using the this link. Once submitted to Google, other search engines will index it too. Each web application has specific search engine optimizations. You can check our SEO tutorial below which will help … Continued