Saturday, February 10, 2018

GOOGLE ANALYTICS



Google Analytics


Google analytics is a free webservice offered by google which helps to track and reportwebsite traffic. It was launched by Google in 2005. It helps to track the visit details like the number of times visited, nature of the visit, browser used, location of visitor (country,city,etc), the time they spend on the site, which all pages were visited, from which webpage they navigated to a particular webpage, device used, network details, network traffic details etc.

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Different types of visits


Organic visit: The number of people visited our website as a result of an internet search in search engines like Google, Bing etc. It is very important in seo, as our goal is to increase the organic visits to a site.
Direct traffic: Some people directly enter the url of the website or bookmark some sites for future use. The traffic by these searches is Direct Traffic.
Referral visits: Visits we get through referral links from other websites. 
Social media visits: Visits from social medias like facebook, twitter, etc.

Steps

  • Login to your Google account.
  • Go to www.google.com/analytics.
  • Now click on sign in option on the right side of the webpage.
  • Then from the dropdown list select Analytics, we will be redirected to the following window.
  • Click the Sign up button and the page for new account creation appears in which, we have to fill in the details of our website.
  • Fill in the details of our website like account name, website name, its url, etc.
  • From the industry category, select the appropriate industry.
  • Be careful while filling the next option, Reporting time zone. It should be based on the time of that country for which we are creating website for.
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  • Click the Get Tracking ID button. Now a Terms of Service Agreement of Google analytics appear. Choose the respective country from the drop down menu and click on I Accept.
  • Now in the webpage that appears, copy the Tracking ID.
  • Now go to blogger, select Settings and from that select the Other option. Then paste the Tracking ID in the Analytic web property id text field under Google Analytics label and click on the Save settings option in the right most side of the window.
  • Now go back to Google Analytics and copy the Tracking code.
  • Now go to blogger, then Theme and select the Edit HTML option and paste it in the head section.
  • Now save it by clicking Save theme button. Now the process is completed.
  • Go back to Google Analytics and on the left side, select All Website Data and choose website data.
  • Now select Real time and select Overview. Then we can track the real time overview of our website.

We can also perform other tracking options to get various details like number of visits, details of visitors, time they spend, their location, etc.


Friday, February 9, 2018

WEB MASTER TOOLS

Google Webmaster Tools


Google Webmaster tools (GWT) now termed as Google Search Console, is the primary mechanism used by Google to communicate with the webmasters. It is a free web service offered by Google for webmasters. It acts as a platform for Google to advice webmasters to optimize their websites and it helps the webmasters to check indexing status and errors.
Verification Steps

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Verification is the process 

by which we prove that we own a particular site that we claim to own.

The steps to the verification process is listed

  • Create a blog
  • Login into your Google Search Console account or Google Webmaster tools account i.e., https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools.
  • Copy the url of the blog with ".com". The url of the blog may be showing country specific i.e., ".in" extension. If it is so, change it to ".com" extension by adding ncr (no country redirect) to the url.

For example, if our address is in country specific i.e., https://www.blogname.blogspot.in change it to no country specific i.e., https://www.blogname.blogspot.com/ncr and press enter and now the url will be changed in ".com" extension.

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  • Now go back to webmaster tools or search console webpage and paste the url to the text field box where website address is to added.
  • Click on the ADD PROPERTY button.
  • Now we get redirected to another webpage showing various options of verification methods. From that select the option Html tag in the alternate method of search console. Copy the "meta tag " data given like <meta name=google-site-verification" content="...."/>.

  • Now go back to blogger dash board. Select the "theme" option and from that select "edit theme" which helps to edit the html of your blog template.

  • Now look for the <head> in the template html code, and paste the copied meta tag in the head section and click "Save theme" button.
  • Go back to search console and click "Verify" button.

  • Now a message appears with a green tick mark saying "Congratulations, you have successfully verified the ownership of your blog i.e., https://blogname.blogspot.com.


Steps for Fetching and Indexing

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  • Now press on the continue button of the verification message. We will be redirected our blog dashboard.
  • In the left side of the dash board, select Crawl and from the dropdown list select "Fetch as Google" option.

  • Now a window appears asking to enter the url.
  • If we need to crawl the url, enter the entire url. Else enter the url of the page to be crawled.
  • Go back to the blog, and copy the url of the blog post to be indexed. Note that we should only need to copy the part of the url avoiding the blog address part.
  • Click the "Fetch" button.
  • Now a window like this appears. Now select as per your needs. If only want to crawl the particular page select first option or if you want to crawl its links also then select 2nd option and press "Go".

  • Wait for indexing to complete and the process is completed.

If you are interested to know more about related topics,  please refer On Page seo optimization.


Saturday, February 3, 2018

SEO On-Page Optimization Methods

On Page Optimization Methods

OnPage_SEO


There are several method for On page Optimization 

Follows :- 

Title Optimization.
Meta Description Optimization.
Content Optimization.
Anchor Text Optimization.
Keyword Optimization.
Image Optimization.
Authorship.

Onpage_Optimization

Title Optimization  

The title name should only contain about 55-60 characters. The Google text visibility is 70 character length and the google pixel width is 512 pixel. So the title should not exceed both limits. That is writing title in all capital letters may lead to increase in pixel width.
The title name should be relevant to the content of the publishing page. It should be apt to the topic discussed. So by viewing the title name itself both Google and user should get a vivid image of what the webpage exactly is.The presence of the focusing keyword in the title in an descriptive manner is an important factor in optimization. It strengthens the chance to get noticed and it reveals the identity of what is being trying to convey. Now the other thing is Google should find it easy to crawl the website.
Another factor to notice is that it should be error free - both grammatical and spelling errors. 

Choose a unique name because giving same name to two same pages in the publishing website may leads to Keyword Cannibalism, where multiple pages targeting to same keyword. Here the listing would occur and another different webpage takes their place. The title names should be impressive and catchy.

CTR and impression are important for listing our webpage in search results. CTR is the measurement of how many times an impression (or a page lists) in a search result through clicks. When title names are not given, then h1 tag is taken as title name and is displayed in the title region of a snippet. If both title and h1 is missing then h2 tag is used as title.

Meta Description Optimization 

It gives a brief idea of what the page is about in sentences or in small paragraphs. The title of the page can also be a meta description. In case of webpages, the meta tag description can be up to a limit of 155-160 characters but when it comes to post like article or blog the character limit gets reduced to 155 characters.  The reason is the post being time relevant comes with a date in the beginning which itself contribute some characters.According to the updates of 2014, pixel width for a meta tag description is 1024 pixels.
Like title, meta tag description also needs to be unique. The meta description should also be impressive and relevant to the content else the page will get unnoticed. There is a meta tag named robot whose content value defines how it works. If the robot's content value is not given the default value is considered. If we don't want to crawl a page then the content value is given as contents = "no index" or "no follow".

Body Portion Optimization 

The most visible area in a body part is h1 tag. It is described as the identity of a page in a website. It clearly identifies our webpage and it should be relevant to the content. After h1 tag h2 tag is visited. Content of h1 and h2 can be same, but different one is a good choice. Only after looking into h1 and h2 we checks h3. For a title, 7-8 words can be used. It should be impressive without any spelling errors or grammar mistakes. It should be relevant and should also include focusing keywords in it.

When more than one h1 tags are used, then bot gets confused and put it into sand box which is a temporary storage area. The consequence is that page gets listed in search result but the position won't change. Like this, h2 tag also be one. We should be keen that the tags used h1, h2, h3 and h4 should be relevant to the published content.

Anchor Text Optimization

Anchor text are easily visible to Google. It is the clickable text that the user sees as a result of a link.  The anchor text as a fuel or catalyst in crawling the contents of our publishing page. The use of  anchor text is very useful as it brings visit to our pages. But when usage is more, then equity is passed and also confusion occurs. Equity won't be passed for internal links.

Keyword Optimization 

Keyword density is the occurrence of keywords in respect to the total words in our publishing page. But according to Google, the keyword density is not considered a factor in ranking. But they states that presence of a few occurrence of focusing keywords in our publishing document is a plus point. Keywords using in the beginning of a paragraph or a sentence is a good practice. It will easily catch the attention of both the Google and user. Because both will find the page is appropriate to the search query.
Some claims that making the focusing keyword in bold helps in ranking. But this is not true. But yes, it may help to increase readability and avoid repetition and omitting of sentences and words if our paragraph is big. Also the user will have a satisfaction that they have selected the apt page when they find the focusing keyword in bold which catches their attention quickly. So here the motive is to make the website useful both to bots and users. Some believes that focusing keywords in grey and used before comas or full stop is beneficial. Google neither denied or accepted this.

Image Optimization 

The image consists of src and alt mainly. The alternative text in a image is alt and src referes to source path. The alt name should be meaningful and should be related to the image. Using irrelevant names can degrade the image. Also the image file name should be meaningful and related to the image. It should be written by words separated by hyphens or underscores. Content of the publishing page and the image should also be related to each other.

Authorship Optimization

Authorship or editorial power in seo refers to the process by which, author of an article is connected to google to create the ownership of the content. To publish a blog or article, authorship verification is a must process. Authorship optimization is only used for a single article and is not for a website and is the most important on page optimization. It gives authority and validity to content readers. The editorial power is increased as it is posted in many websites. 



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