Category Archives: SEO Tips

Google Webmaster Tools – Setup and Data Usage

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 17, 2009. Filed under Gadgets & Tools, SEO Tips, Site Side Analytics. No comments.

Google Webmaster Tools is a free service provided by Google which allows webmasters to have an insider’s view on how Google views a website.   Google Webmaster Tools also provides webmasters with a commnication channel with Google to provide them with info such as reporting spam in the Google index, reporting paid links (eg by competitiors ) and most crucially,  submitting a [...]

SEO Checklist for the New Year

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 2, 2009. Filed under SEO, SEO Best Practices, SEO Tips. No comments.

Lets get the new year started on the right SEO footing.  I’ve summarised below a laundry list of critical SEO items to check for the new year.     Meta Data Check all your site’s meta data and ensure that it conforms to SEO best practices incuding length (60 characters for title, 150 characters for description), keyword [...]

Finding Valuable Pages on Your Website Using Google

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on June 12, 2008. Filed under SEO Tips. No comments.

Ever wondered what search engines see as the best perfoming pages on your website?  This post shows you how to find out what google sees as the most important pages on your site.  Why is it important to find the most valuable pages on your site?  Very simply put,  to help you  optimise your internal “link juice“. For the most important [...]

Google Analytics Tips

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 26, 2008. Filed under Measuring Success, SEO Tips, Site Side Analytics. No comments.

Google Analytics is by far the most robust free site side analytics program out there.  Now owned by Google, Google Analytics started out its life as a small analytics company called Urchin. Google Analytics is used by millions of sites (hobby as well as ecommerce) to measure the amount and quality of traffic to a website.  Moreover, if [...]

Subdomains – A Best Practice Guide

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 18, 2008. Filed under SEO, SEO Tips. 1 Comment.

There’s been much debate about whether ot not the strategy of creating subdomains to improve natural search ranking works or not. Well, I’m writing here to tell you that it does, but only if you do it right. First of all, let me explain to you what a subdomain is.  Its basically what it says, [...]