Note from the editor: here's a great Monday to-do list to get you inspired for the rest of the week! Welcome our today's guest tip: 1) Check Google Analytics stats and look for any major happenings from the previous day 2) Analyze PPC accounts, adjust bids/budgets if needed, and add new negative keywords for broad match ad groups 3) Check out your business’ social network - stats and mentions – Twitter, Facebook, forums, blogs, social bookmarks, Google+ & Alerts, etc 4) Read up on the daily SEO news/posts – SEO category on Alltop is a quick way to scan the day’s headlines 5) Check...
Google has a couple of free tools that you can use to help trick out your SEO efforts. Yes, I said they’re free and in most peoples’ opinions (mine included), they are best in class. Yet it seems only the geeks and dorks are using them. I’m talking about Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. You might have installed some analytics code or loaded webmaster tools, then went on...
*The guest tip is by Umair Asif* There are times when we would like Google and other search engines to completely remove a URL from search engine results. These would be incidents like accidentally leaving personal information on the web page or website being bombarded with spammers, etc. In these critical moments, webmasters can take several actions to remove the URL of a page but with so many alternatives, it sometimes...
It may be not a frequent situation but it may happen so that you need to remove a page from Google SERPs really fast. What's the best way to do that?
Try this:
Exclude the page in Robots.txt + remove the pages using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools.
Return 410 status code for the page (to show the page is gone for ever);
Don't do this:
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This question is being asked so often that I just decided to go ahead and write a post about that: You notice Google report a 404 page on your site; You go to your site and fix the error (delete the link to the non-existent page or just fix the broken URL); Your Google Webmaster Tools account is still reporting the error Is there any way to tell Google the error is fixed? Currently, the only question to this question...
