There are many websites out there that Google would not have any relationship with. What happens to these websites is that they won’t be found on Google search results.

It is very important that your website be listed among Google’s search results. This is because so many web users uses Google search engine to conduct most of their searches. If you want your website to be seen among the search results, you need to make your website Google’s friendly.

In a few minutes, I will be showing you guidelines on how to make your website Google Friendly. Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site.

If you choose not to make your website Google friendly, your site will be removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site is penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google’s partner sites.

Design And Content

1. In designing your website, make sure you give a proper hierarchy of tags and text links. Every page on your website should be reachable from at least one static text link.

2. Add a sitemap on your website for your users. The sitemap must have links that point to the important parts of your website. A sitemap with extremely large number of links is not advisable. You should break the sitemap into multiple pages. (If you have a big blog, having a sitemap in .gz format is really advisable — Typhoon)

3. Use a reasonable number of links on any page of your website.

4. Ensure that your website’s content is useful and information-rich.

5. Optimize your website for search engines. This you can do by conducting a research for the words users would type on Google.com to find your pages. Once you get those keywords, always include them in your website’s content.

6. Use more text instead of more images to display important names, content, or pages on your website. The Google crawler that puts website on Google search results does not recognize text contained in images. In cases where you cannot do without using images, consider using the “Title” element or “ALT” attribute to describe what the image is all about. Make sure that they are descriptive and accurate.

7. Avoid broken links and correct all links on your website that goes nowhere. If a link is not available, do not include it on your website site. If you must include it, let your users know that it is coming soon.

8. Do not use dynamic URLs (i.e. the URL containing a “?” character). It is not every search engine spider that crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages.

According to Google, the following technical details needs to be followed in order to make your website Google friendly.

• Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.

• Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.

• Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.

• Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it’s current for your site so that you don’t accidentally block the Googlebot crawler. You can test your robots.txt file to make sure you’re using it correctly with the robots.txt analysis tool available in Google Webmaster Tools.

• If your company buys a content management system, make sure that the system creates pages and links that search engines can crawl.

• Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.

• Monitor your site’s performance and optimize load times. Google’s goal is to provide users with the most relevant results and a great user experience. Fast sites increase user satisfaction and improve the overall quality of the web (especially for those users with slow Internet connections), and we hope that as webmasters improve their sites, the overall speed of the web will improve.

Google strongly recommends that all webmasters regularly monitor site performance using Page Speed, YSlow or WebPagetest.

If you are wordpress blogger, then you may like reading – “How To Speed Up WordPress Blog In 3 Simple Steps“

In addition to the above mentioned, there are quality guidelines you need to follow in order not to have your website banned from Google. It is better to be safe than sorry when it comes to Google listing your website on their search engine.

These quality guidelines covers the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices such as tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites. It’s not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn’t included here, Google approves of it.

Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

If you believe that another site is abusing Google’s quality guidelines, please report that site. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so they attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports they receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.

• Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”

• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”

• Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

• Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate Google’s Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Conclusion

In conclusion, do all that you can to make your website Google friendly. Google’s terms are the only thing you need to rank high on Google’s search engine. You should read Google’s Recommended Practices for Website Owners so that you know more about Google’s term in ranking your website high on her search engine.

How To Make Your Website Google Friendly is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

For most people blog traffic and search analytics is done with help of Google Analytics which is quite understandable because it is free and really advanced.

You can get really in-depth traffic analysis with the tool or, if you don’t want to go onto any geeky details, you can just see your traffic sources and keyword referrals.

This post will show you three simple Google Analytics hacks you will love! To try two of the following tips, make sure you have Greasemonkey installed.

1. Export Your Report to Google Docs and Share them easily! (Greasemonkey)

This Greasemonkey script exports up to 10000 rows of Google Analytics data to Google Docs and thus allows a handy option to save, organize and share your reports!

2. See Your Unusual Traffic (Greasemonkey)

Here a cool Greasemonkey script that allows you to see referrals that have sent you unusual traffic:

• Referring sites with higher 50% traffic over the last 3 days;
• Referring sites appearing  in the last 3 days;
• Referring sites with lower 50% traffic over the last 3 days:

3. Check Your Traffic for the Current day with One Click of a Mouse (Bookmarklet)

Are you obsessed with your search analytics which makes you check your current traffic again and again? If yes, you will love the tip!

Now, to see your traffic and referrals for the current day you need to make at least three clicks but with this handy bookmarklet generator you will need only one!

Just provide your Google Analytics ID and drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar:

I hope you will have find these firefox hacks for Google Analytics pretty interesting. Do give it a try and let me know your opinion about it.

Three Simple But Useful FireFox Hacks For Google Analytics is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

The new algorithm is called as “Site Speed” which reflects how much time does a website takes to respond to a web request. If you have faster and relevant website then better are the chances of getting top rankings.

Google, in its post states that:

Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there.

I completely agree to this point made by Google that Site Speed makes the user experience better. In past, we also read a guest article – “Faster Web Sites For Happier Visitors And Better Conversion Rates” in which the author told us why speed of a website matters and he contributed some tips in short which can be taken in order to speed up the website. If you haven’t read it then you must go and read that out.

Earlier, I didn’t used to bother much about my blog speed but as the blog traffic grew; the need of resources started growing up and the blog loading time was something like 20-25 seconds that time. Then I took some steps to optimize my blog speed and brought the loading time to 5-10 seconds which is considered good and it has really improved the overall experience of my blog visitors.

If you are having slow site speed then don’t get disappointed as Google have also stated that this signal doesn’t carries much weight right now as much the relevance of a page matters. But still that doesn’t means that you don’t need to optimize the speed of your website.

I strongly suggest you to optimize your website site speed in order to improve your visitors experience. If that is better then hopefully you will earn better profits with your website.

TIP: Take help of Google Webmasters inbuilt Site Performance tool. This will tell you the sectors on which you have to work on to improve your site speed. The tool also tells the average loading time of all your pages.

So readers, What’s your opinion on the site speed factor that has now been included as a ranking factor. Do you really bother to optimize your website speed or you are just happy that your website is opening quickly at your home(which is the only thing that matters to you)?

Google Includes Speed Factor – Is Your Website Ready? is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

This year, SmartBloggerz remained at PR4 but it gained PR1 from previous year. One of my autopilot blog gained a PR1 and rest remained at zero.

With this post being published, I also want to wish all my readers and friends a Very Happy & Prosperous New Year.

Blog URL Having PR greater than blog main page:

• http://www.smartbloggerz.com/twitter – PR6
• http://www.smartbloggerz.com/wprobot – PR5
• http://www.smartbloggerz.com/365k – PR5

So, let me know what happened with your blog’s pagerank? You got Happy or Sad after this update?

Google’s New Year PageRank Update 2009 is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

In 2009, one of the major things that was talked about is King Google. No doubt Google has been a major player in the internet media. They gave us blog before any other one came into being. One of their products is Google Wonder Wheel.

I have come to found out that only few bloggers and web users make use of this tool. I heard about it but did not do anything about it. Not until recently that I came to understand what I stand to gain by using Google Wonder Wheel. Anyway, I am not a selfish blogger and this is why i am writing this so that many people can make good use of it.

You will be glad to know that Google Wonder Wheel is not made for webmasters or bloggers alone. Google made the wonder wheel to profit whoever will use Google as a search engine. So if you are a user of Google, this post will tell you how to profit with Google Wonder Wheel. I am so sure you know how important search engines have become in our online endeavors. We can’t just do without them.

So if you make use of Google as a search engine, you will need to get yourself acquainted with how to profit with Google Wonder Wheel below;

1. Webmaster/Bloggers

You can make money by discovering related keywords or phrase related to your niche. With Google Wonder Wheel, you get keyword or phrase which usually gets a lot of hits from the search engine. This you can then incorporate into your blog. With Google Wonder Wheel, you gain more traffic to your blog. The more traffic you get, the more money you make.

2. Web User

You save time by exploring relevant results related to the original keyword you search for. Whether it’s for a personal research, a term paper, a project or just about anything else consuming your time. With this, you save more time which you can then use for other things. Google wonder wheel will tell you what you are missing or need to search and save you that precious time.

3. Internet Advertiser/Marketers

As an advertiser or a marketer, you can make money with the Google wonder wheel by discovering what’s hot in the internet. You can also discover what is related to your product/service or the product/service you advertise. Finding other relevant products or services using this tool will save you money on advertising/marketing and help you to make money from related products or services.

4. Business Manager

Mind Mapping takes time and cost money. Save some time and money and make yourself and your company money by using the Google Wonder wheel for data mining on ongoing projects.

Note: It is important you read “How to use Google Wonder Wheel” if you have not.

Using the Google Wonder Wheel is completely free! And that is one of the many reasons why I like Google. So, Is this post helpful? Let me know your opinions. Or have you tried Google Wonder Wheel? If you have, what was your experience? Feel free to share your experience with us.

How to Profit with Google Wonder Wheel is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

The Rule I broke was that the links were do-follow in the text link and banner ads.

After that, I just went and made all of them NoFollow and striclty added a clause in the “Advertise Page” about this. Then I filed in a Re-Consideration Request in Google and the result was that the PageRank was recived back and now all my readers can enjoy it.

The Interesting Thing which I have noticed in this PageRank Update of my blog is that many of my URL’s which are redirected are having greater PageRank than my blog i.e greater than PR4.

Here is a list of few of them:

• http://www.smartbloggerz.com/twitter – PR5
• http://www.smartbloggerz.com/wprobot – PR5

So, What about your PageRank? Has there any change occurred in it?

Happy PageRank Day ;) is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

But What if you are given a page divided in 3 columns with 3 kinds of results for your keyword from the search engine Google, Yahoo and Bing but not telling in which column that search engine results lies. Looks Interesting? Even I think the same.

Michael Kordahi, an employee of Microsoft created a tool as Blind Search that will return search results in 3 different columns but it doesn’t says that which search engine lie up in each column, those columns are changed at random so that they can not identify if it Google, Yahoo! or Bing.

The challenge is to choose the column you most like after entering your search keyword and then you get the images of the 3 search engines so you can differentiate the search results.

The tool lets you search for text or images that you can compare and choose your favorite result.

The objective of the site is simple, they want to see what happens when you remove the logos of the search engines and see which search engine your brain liked the most.

The site also released the data after testing it for 8 weeks and according to it people choose Google: 41%, Bing: 31%, Yahoo: 28%

So, I recommend to check and participate in my blog poll to tell which search engine you choose in the blind test.

Which Search Engine you choose in blind search test? is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips

Google gives different search results often based on the location of different users i.e A lot of keywords shows distinctive regional comparison. It has been seen that many times when you search for your keyword and you are living in countries like china or India you will see lots of sites which may rank very poor for US search results. For example, search for restaurants, banks, if I search in India right now, the vast majority of cases in India want to see the local restaurants, banks, rather than referring to the United States, even if I was in the Google.com search.

(When I searched for restaurant right now I saw that the result after the wikipedia was related to my own country which proves this thing)

This makes for a global target site, the need to optimize the ranking in different countries. There are several factors that may affect the site’s ranking in various countries.

Host location

Web server on the India, means a greater possibility of the site content is on the India or for Indian users. Then the IP address from India; when a user searches, the site is even more likely to be out front in the search results.

Domain Name Category

This logic is the same as the host location, the local country means that the website domain name for this country for example .co.in , . com.cn , .co.uk . Domain name suitable for Indian users – . co.in ,Chinese users – .com.cn or .cn and co.uk for United Kingdom users.

Many large companies in different countries would like to improve the rankings for that country, for which they often use  this strategy.

Indexed local directory

If the website is indexed in the local directories and yellow pages of that country chances are that it would help Google in recognizing your site more properly for your country results. This is a very strong signal.

Website Contact

Web site address, telephone area code, zip code if provided through meta tags or any other means, the search robots will index it and it will make it easy to determine the site location for good user experience.

External Links and Internal Link

In order to improve the ranking for a country, we should try to link or get backlinks from the same country targeted website. If you are a website owner targeting specific country users like India or China you will be more likely linking to websites made for the same countries.

Text and spelling

English web sites (and there may be other text), different countries have different usage and spelling of words.

SEO – search engine optimization or search engine optimisation.

For example, SEO; Anglo-American spelling of the name is different, search engine optimization web site is obviously the United States, and about the use of search engine optimisation is a British website. So this difference in British and United States spellings also helps search engines determine the local characteristics of the site.

I hope these things would help you rank better if you are thinking of having a website for specific country or language users.

Do tell me if have any more ideas in your mind which could be important for ranking good for specific country results by commenting below.

How to rank high on Google for your targeted country users is a post from: SmartBloggerz - Blogging Tips & Make Money Online Tips