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Search MeetUp Bangalore 2009 – Round Up
The first ever Search Meetup that took place on Friday, October 30, 2009 in Bangalore which was hosted by Crederity & Digital Marketers is an interactive session with Gillian Muessig (SEOmom). The event kicked off with an introductory among the participants and a small SEO tip session due to the delay by speaker to the event. If you think you had missed a great tip I would say ‘No’ it is again the old SEO story “Content is the King” that came from most of the participants. With few tips going on a sudden shift to this is the entry of the SEOmom to the event.
HTTP Status Codes and Search Engines
Server Status code are the number values of the HTTP request. It is important to understand the different server status code that will be useful in the SEO perspective and how search engines bots react to the same.
Before getting into the server status codes it is important to understand the difference between HTTP /1.0 and HTTP/ 1.1 protocols. The HTTP/1.0 protocol has been stunningly successful and as a measure of its popularity, HTTP accounted for about 75% of Internet backbone traffic. In spite of its success, however, HTTP/1.0 is widely understood to have numerous flaws. To overcome the flaws in HTTP/1.0 the HTTP-Working Group (HTTP-WG) developed an improved protocol, known as HTTP/1.1. This specification states the various requirements for clients, proxies, servers and later became an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Draft Standard. The server status code tends to differ based on the version of the HTTP.
Keyword Analysis: SEO Measurable Parameters – Part 2
This is the second part of my series of post on SEO Measurable parameters. Previously I discussed about the Pre SEO factors and the website audit in the Website Audit: SEO Measurable Parameters – Part 1 of my post. As a continuation to my previous post we are going to discuss about the keyword research and analysis phase however the performance parameters of the keyword w.r.t the website traffic will be discussed in the later stages of this series of post.
Google Adds Expand and Collapse Button for Show Options in SERP
Google is the search engine that often updates its SERP with more features on a regular basis even a small change is a big update in the industry. Adding to this update, I would like to add that today when searching I suddenly noticed that a small addition of the Expand and Collapse button for the “Show Options” link. Please refer to the below screenshot,
