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 your merry way and forgot all about it. I’d encourage you to have a second look, especially if you’re working on your SEO campaign and struggling to get more traction, as these tools might help you find out what you’re doing wrong.
What Is Google Webmaster...
*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:
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...
