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SEO Best Practices: How To Use Header Tags On Your Website

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Improving the on page SEO score of your website is important because search engines puts a certain weight on how properly organized a webpage is. Your content has to be good but then, it should also look neat and feel good to the eyes. You can't expect a good user experience on a page which has all the words piled one after another, without any headings or section break.Using header tags, you can tell users and search engines about the different sections of content and what a particular section is all about. It is important to note that you want to get ranked for the long tail of search and header tags play a very important role, when you are considering ranking for varied keywords on a subject. What are header tags? In Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which is the language used to display webpages in a browser (regardless of the CMS platform), there are various tags that can be used to create headings in a document. It’s very similar to creating headings ...

SEO in 2019: Are Online Web Directories Still Useful?

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For a long time directories occupied an important role in the evolution of the web. Before Google and complex search algorithms most of the internet was categorised using Yahoo's original web directory which categorised websites manually by niche and from which the company took its name. Things have changed a great deal since then and last year, twenty years since its inception, Yahoo rather innocuously announced the death of its directory, bringing to a close a fundamental chapter in the history of the internet. A Moz research revealed that web directories and local citations are still a small ranking factor, and mainly for small businesses. Although Google’s John Mueller said that directory links “generally” don’t help with the SEO. What Purpose does Web Directories Serve? Directories are the large databases, that hold huge number of websites segregated based on their categories and sub-categories. There are always paid and free directories, some of them take ...

Page Speed Optimization: How to Speed Up Your Website

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You’ve built your website, you’re getting traffic through your analytics but you just aren’t getting the kinds of benefits you’ve expected. Your repeat visitor rate may be low and the time people spend on the site doesn't suggest interest or engagement. One possible culprit may be your website speed or loading time. Why speed matters? The speed of your website is directly responsible for determining its performance, in terms of attracting visitors and keeping them interested for the longest time. If a website takes ages to load, users are bound to lose interest and move on to another website that offers the same services as yours but is much faster. Moreover, your website speed is very important for your SEO . If your website loads fast, your ranking in search engines will be higher. This is because Google prefers fast websites, and it rewards them by ranking them higher in search engine results. Apart from speed, the user experience is another factor in Google’s rankin...

Free Online Ping Website Tool | SEO Ninja Softwares

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What is Ping? P ing is a networking utility program or a tool to test if a particular host is reachable. It is a diagnostic that checks if your computer is connected to a server. Ping , a term taken from the echo location of a submarine, sends data packet to a server and if it receives a data packet back, then you have a connection. The term "ping" can refer to the time it takes for a data packet to travel round-trip. It means "get the attention of" or "check the presence of". In a computer network, a ping test is a way of sending messages from a computer to another. Aside from checking if the computer is connected to a network, ping also gives indicators of the reliability and general speed of the connection. What is the use of Pinging a website? Are you frustrated that the search engines don’t seem to be finding all the pages on your new website? Or perhaps you’ve been adding some great new content every week, but every time you do, it seems to t...