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I'm Navaneeth Kishor aka kichus - an Adwords professional and SEO Consultant from India. Owner of VirtueSEO search marketing, serving the industry from past 6 years.

Google Launches New Certification Program, Replacing GAP

Google is dropping out the old GAP (Google Advertising professionals) program while starting a new one in the name of Google AdWords Certification program (GCP). They have updated the program Terms & Conditions for Individual accounts as well for Company account. The new system is tough and its standards has been improved, tells Google. If [...]

Latest: Yahoo! Says No Use for Meta Keywords Tag – But Danny Says They Lie

It seems the cremation of Meta Keywords tag is not so far. Yahoo! declares today that they also have stopped using it from past few months from their search ranking algorithm. This news has just broken out in the current SMX East in the ASK the Search Egines session. More details has to be out [...]

How To: Alert Google about a Domain Name Change

Recently I’d a discussion with one of my SEO friend regarding moving a website under a new domain name. He was telling it would be good if Google provide a tool to alert them about the change rather simply depending on the crawl frequency, waiting for Google bot picking up on a 301 redirect. His [...]

Google Adwords Brings New Keyword Tool in Beta

Google Adwords Brings New Keyword Tool in Beta

Google Adwords team offers a new beta version keyword tool today. Quite a bit change in user interface and have introduced segmentation based on industry categories. Options to refine the results based on search key terms are another addition to this. Not available to public as the KeywordToolExternal, you need to be logged into the [...]

Google Analytics Hack for Exact Keyword List from Paid Campaigns

Google Analytics Hack for Exact Keyword List from Paid Campaigns

There are no questions why experts suggest you to stick with Exact Search while running Adwords campaigns. Especially when you are running on a moderate budget and sale is vital than just brand building. At the same time, unless you have a thorough understanding about the niche market and user search behaviors, in the initial [...]

The All-New Yahoo! Search is Live Now – No Change in Algorithm, Though

The all new Yahoo! search is up now, you can find the same here. They claim this is a faster version, offering new filers in the left panel from Search Monkey. A few features are good easing the refining, but no improvements in the search results as such.
They call it an ‘All-New Yahoo! Search experience’, [...]

The Meta Keywords Tag, We Don’t Use It: Matt Cutts (Google)

This has been repeatedly heard but once again hit the titles, ‘Meta keywords are no more used by Google’. ‘Why now, again?’ was the first question arose in my mind while seeing the heading ‘Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking today.

Once Again, Google Approves SEO as a Good Practice

Search engines had difficulties to approve SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as an industry for long time. Always there was a feeling like SEO is something against Search engines. Clouds are moving away and the Sky is getting clearer, now. Google Webmaster Central team has formally published a beginner’s guide to SEO. [...]

Google Introduces “Content Central” – A One Stop Shop for Web Publishers

Google introduces a new section named as ‘Content Central’ a one point shop for webmasters to submit their websites to various Google services. They also have launched an official blog http://contentcentral.blogspot.com/ from the Content Partnerships team – includes people from the YouTube, Book Search, and the Local/Core Content Partnerships teams;.

Solution: Forcing Trailing Slash Using .htaccess

From last one week I have been trying to fix an issue, forcing the trailing slash to the category pages of one of my websites. The website is built upon Magento, I’ve searched a lot in their forums and apache related websites but couldn’t find a solution which actually works. A lot [...]