What is Validation and why validation is important?

Validation is a process of checking webpages against Web Standards, mainly those which are published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Validation is done for HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, CSS, RSS/ATOM Feeds, XML-derived Web document types, WapForum for WML, etc. Every language has its own grammar and syntax and so every document designed with these computer languages are expected to follow these guidelines and rules so that they are standard complaint. The markup languages of all versions use a specific declaration called Document Type Declaration (DTD) which is machine-readable grammar, inherited from SGML. When a webpage passes through this validation process then the page is called valid.

SEO Tip: Promote the links linking to you, backlink the links which are backlinking you

I think you obviously know that it is very good to get backlinks from different sites to your site. If you don’t know then please read what is Backlinking and how it can help you in SEO. Now you can find out easily that which sites are linking to your site and its content. This can be done through any analytics software you use or even through some free online tools available.

SEO Tip: What is backlink and how backlink can help you

Backlinks are incoming links to a website or a web page i.e. links which are linked to that website or webpage. This is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or that page and also helps to determine the relevancy of the page. As per the number of backlinks to a website, the value of the website for search engines is evaluated. The backlinks to a page indicates how much people are interested in that page. It also means that if your site or a page in your website has many backlinks then many webmasters or bloggers are paying attention on your website or to that particular page. Backlinks are also called as inbound links, inlinks, incoming links, and inward links.

Noindex Meta Tag - Prevent Search Engines from Indexing a Page in your Site

So you want to hide a page in your website from the Search Engines. This can be easily done by just adding a Meta tag in the head section of the page which you don’t want to be indexed by the Search Engines. In this way you will be telling the robots (Search Enignes) not to crawl that page and not to store it in their search database. For this that page in your site will not show up in any search results and users will not be able to find that page through searching in Search Engines.

How to add link and script codes in the Head tag from the body section through JavaScript

Many times we need to add <script> or <link> tags for some selected pages of a website. In many websites we use Content Management Systems or some templates where we can’t add different headers to different pages. But in many pages we need some extra functionality through scripts and other codes which are used differently in different pages within that site. Sometimes we need to insert the scripts within the page body tag which is not at all Web Standards compliant. The scripts and links to css or JavaScript files should always be in the head tag.

How to make PhpBB Forums Search Engine Optimized (SEO)

Forums are extensively used as a platform of communication and interaction around the globe. PhpBB has been playing a very important role in developing popular boards and forums. This feature rich free software has many salient utilities which attract webmasters. PhpBB is serving the communities very much satisfactorily.

Making page titles Search Engine friendly for Blogger/Blogspot Blogs by interchanging Blog Title and Post Title

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for Blogger/Blogspot Blogs is a matter of challenge, since it restricts several procedures which can be easily implemented on other blogs. One such issue with Blogger blogs is their page titles of individual posts. The default page title of the blogs are as [BlogName] : [PostTitle]. But this is neither very much Search Engine Friendly nor very User Friendly. Since whenever your Blog posts appear in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs), users don't get the title they are searching for. Search Engines show up your pages according to your post titles, but users can't see the titles if your blog name is just a bit long. This is not at all wished to be. If users are unable to see the keywords, they use to search for, in your result pages then users are not going to enter your site.

How to add noindex, nofollow in Blogroll for your Blogger/Blogspot Blogs

If you want to add a Blogroll in your Blogger Blog you can add it from your layout tab in your Blog's dashboard. You can add new page element and select the Blogroll element, where you specify the links you want to display on your Blog. You can choose the title of the section. Now if you want that Google don't share your Google Juice(PageRank value) to those sites, you can specify Google not to do that. For this you have to specify all those links to be non-recommended by adding a rel="nofollow" tag to those anchor tags.

Here is how you can do it by editing the html template of your Blog. Open the 'Edit HTML' tab in your Blogger Layout. Check the check box to Expand the widget templates. If your title for your Blogroll section is Blogroll, then find out for the following section in your template.