Harish Mandokar - Digital Marketing Expert

  A sitemap gives indication to Google that which pages within your website are important & needs to be indexed. Also sitemap gives useful information about the pages like, when the page last updated, how often it gets updated, what is its priority etc.  Now sitemap is of 2 types. xml sitemap & HTML sitemap. xml sitemap are often used by search engines crawlers to pick up the relevant data & index them in searching results. HTML sitemap are designed for users for navigation purpose within the website. xml sitemap helps to boost SEO. This gives clear ides about your website structure to all the search  engines. This is useful for a site having the multiple pages & gets updated on regular basis. You can decide the priority of your pages also. In webmaster portal, sitemap can be updated regularly, hence the newly added pages will be updated quickly. HTML sitemaps acts as the directory for the large websites. User can directly jump to their targeted pages w...

  Connecting one site to another is called Cross-linking & it's same as exchanging the link with the principle that you link to me; I will link to you.  It's the same person who is responsible for cross-linking 2 or 3 sites. Cross-linking is basically categorized into 2 parts, i.e., 2-way link & 3-way link. This linking process generates authority of your website pages & encourage users to find the relevant content & access it according to their requirement. This will increase user engagement with our site & also this the valuable for search engine rankings. This is useful for pages indexing in search engines. Advantages of Cross-linking - Improve user engagement with your website - Improve site navigation - Improve keywords ranking - Improve site indexing  - Improve backlinks - Improve traffic

Internal vs External Links Internal links are hyperlinks that direct the reader to a target page on your website, whereas an external link is a hyperlink that directs the reader to a reputable page on a different website. External links may seem counter intuitive — after all, you don't want customers clicking on links that direct them away from your site. However, linking to trustworthy material (from authority sites, not sites perceived as spam-like) helps you also appear to be an authority and can help Google figure out what your content is about for SEO purposes. It's important to keep in mind that other sites for different companies can provide external links to your website in their own content as well. For instance, if you publish a blog post with useful content, another company may link back to that URL as a source for their own blog. These types of links to your site are key, as they boost your search engine rankings in Google's search algorithm. Benefits of Interna...

  SEO Ranking Factors 1. Site Security Sites with HTTPS encryption have SSL certificates that create a secure connection between a website and its users. It adds an extra layer of security that protects information exchanged between users and the site. Search engines want to drive users to the most trustworthy sites, and HTTPS encryption shows them that a site is secure. If your website URL begins with HTTP, not HTTPS, your site is not secure, and you should add an SSL certificate. 2. Crawlability Search engines can’t rank a site if they can’t find it. That’s why site crawlability is such an important SEO ranking factor. Crawlability allows search engines to scan a website and review its content, so they can determine what the page is about and how it should rank. If you want Google to rank your site, allow search engines to crawl your site properly. Submit a sitemap to the top search engines. Check your index status in Google Search Console to review the number of p...

Accurately measuring the success of an SEO campaign depends on your business type and objectives. So, there are 3 key performance indicators (KPIs) you should always consider when measuring a campaign's effectiveness. - Rankings - Traffic - Conversions These 3 factors can also provide you with provable data to improve your campaign over time. Rankings Keyword rankings are the most usual KPI, especially when research shows that websites listed on the 1st page of Google get up to 92 percent of traffic. Tracking keyword rankings over time gives you the ability to design your SEO strategy around the keywords that needed the most attention and offers the most benefit. For example, let’s say you’re tracking 20 keywords, and five of these are on the first page of Google. You know that in order to take these five keywords on the first page , you will have to invest more optimization efforts for them. On the other part, you can discover that these keywords are just too competitive, and ba...

A keyword is a single word, and while a combination of those keywords makes phrases. These keywords or phrases are used by the search engines to populate the subjects over the internet. Search engine stores keywords in the database, and when a search is done, it will come up with the best possible match. SEO, or search engine optimizatio n, is a process by which websites become more appealing to search engines. By targeting certain keywords through different search engine marketing techniques, site owners can improve their chances of showing up as a result for a search. If you have been struggling with your web traffic recently, it may be because you haven’t fully employed SEO to the best of your abilities. Nowadays, the battle to get to the top of Google, Yahoo!, Bing and the like has become quite a challenge, so you need all the help that you can get. Proper keywords research is required to get the website in search engine rankings . The keywords are used by search engines to popu...

What makes a website search engine friendly     Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an on-going process that must be a priority in order to reach the top of search engine results, and to maintain those rankings. Proper design is the foundation for SEO efforts, but design alone cannot deliver the maximum results. Search engines (such as Google) send “robots” across the web to fetch “high quality” information for their users. These bots use links to discover new web pages and fresh content. A search engine friendly website makes it easy for them to do their job. It welcomes them, makes their exploration a breeze and then provides that high quality, useful information. A search engine-friendly website will have all (or most) of the following:   1)    Valid Coding HTML and CSS coding can be validated through the W3C. Valid coding will help to ensure that your pages will be accessible across a range of different internet browsers, screen sizes, devices, as well ...