Latest SEO Tips

Robots.txt : It is a file created by webmasters is a set of instructions for the search engines robots that index the web pages. This is
called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

It includes User-Agent and Disallow. Here is the meaning of these words as these are very important part of robots.txt file :

User-Agent : It is used for the search engine robots. It gives the permission to a particular or all robots to index the
pages. Here is the syntax :

User-Agent : * ("*" means all robots have permission to crawl all the files/pages)

Disallow : It denies access to robots to directories/files. Here is the syntax :

Disallow : /images/ (it denies access to images directory.)

A simple robots.txt file should be :

User-Agent: *
Disallow:

It means we give permission to all the robots to visit and the directories and files.

It is very easy to create this file. Open notepad editor. Insert these instructions and save it by name robots in text
format. Put it in top-level directory and upload it. Suppose your website name is http://www.abctest.com/ then your robots
file's path should be here http://www.abctest.com/robots.txt

You can check your robots.txt file here http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml.

If you need help to create robots.txt, use robots.txt generator tool here : http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/robots-generator/

Definition : HTML entities placed within the HEAD section of a webpage. It is invisible to the visitors. The most relevant and famous META tags are KEYWORDS & DESCRIPTION tags. These tags are not very useful as these tags are used by some search engines only.
Examples of tags : KEYWORDS & DESCRIPTION
META name="KEYWORDS" content="Keyword Phrases 1,2,3...."
META name="DESCRIPTION" content="Description"...try to keep the length of description upta 200 character.
Some of the other META tags are :
a) META name="Author" CONTENT="Author Name" - You can use it to indentify you as an Author of the website.
b) META http-equiv="Content-Language" CONTENT="Language" - This tag is used to identify about the lanuage of the website. If you uses contents in english for your website the you can use abbreviation "EN" in content.
c) META name="copyright" CONTENT="statement" - This tag lets know to the visitors that your contents is copyrighted.
d) META name="expires" CONTENT="Date" - If your site will be expires on any particular day then you can use this tag to inform the visitors about it.

Important Points :

1) Title tag should not more than 5-15 words, maximum 2 commas.
2) Description should be upto 200 characters means 25 words. Some search engines read more than 170 characters and some reads about 130 characters like google.
3) Keywords should be 1000 characters in length, approximately 150 words.

Social Bookmarking is another way to increase traffic and even back links. It is the best way to share, store and search the internet bookmarks. It is the websites where we stores our favorite websites and these stored links can be accessible to all other users joined the same social networking website. Users can find the favorite websites through tags.

It is not possible for the automated softwares to add the links in the social networking websites. All the links added here by human user. We can increase the traffic to our websites by social networking websites. Other users of similar interest search our websites by using tags and visit it. Few of the social bookmarking websites are :

simpy.com
del.icio.us
netvouz.com
givealink.org
stumbleupon.com
digg.com
mybookmarks.com
ma.gnolia.com

Create your profile here and add your favorite websites here.