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Kichus posts about Latest News and Updates about SEO, the latest trends and algo updates and much more.

“Unavailable After” Google Introduces New Meta Tag

Last week Google has introduced one new Meta tag – Unavailable After – using which you can restrict Googlebot from crawling a particular page at a pre-defined time. That means, if you have a temporary page which will get moved after a certain period of time and after that you don’t want to receive any [...]

Why should I report paid links to Google?

Why? That would probably be as a way to help them to override the link buyers. I am not sure whether they can figure out algorithmically a link is paid or not. Recently they updated the Webmaster Guidelines to include one paragraph on Buying Links which you can read it here.
We all know that how [...]

iGoogle and the Google’s Search History feature

New! View and manage your web history
Did you noticed the new option when you search using your Personalized searches – when you sign in using your google account and do a seach – in the Right Top side. New! View and manage your web history. You ever knew this was switched on by Defualt [...]

What exactly is going on in the Google SERPs?

Nowadays if you are taking the Keyword Density reports for popular SEO forums, you may be seeing a significant raise in the Ratio for phrases like “Google Index Updates”, “Google SERPs refresh”, “Google data refresh”, “my ranks went down”, “my site get disappeared” or more similar. What is happening all over? Is that an Algorithm [...]

Now you can use “&id=” in URLs – Google

Happy news for all the Webmasters, after the recent Google Algorithm update they’d removed the sentence -”Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index”- from their Webmaster Guideline page.

Track Outbound Links – New Live.com (MSN) Search Option

Live.com (MSN) announced a new search option for tracking all the Outbound Links from a website. [ Linkfromdomain:] enables you to get the entire list of links from your site which are pointing to other external domains.

India’s First Local Search Engine Launched Today

Glad news to all Indians, today we got our First Local Search Engine, launched by two Delhi IITians, with a commitment of USD seven million from a leading Indian venture capital firm. It’s called ‘Guruji’ (Hindi version of ‘Master/Teacher’) and the domain name is www.guruji.com. Two young Indians, Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra, ex-IIT [...]

Track Google Supplemental Results

UPDATE: “This Hack no longer exists” 
Supplemental Results, this word is a little bit annoying one, ‘especially after the deploy of BigDaddy and the [site:domain.com] search bugs in Google. Ever wonder a way to track the Supplemental results for your site in Google? Here is the simpler and suggested way with a new search command.

Live Search replaces MSN Search

MSN search is now replaced with the Windows Live Search after a long time of waiting. Monday, September 11, Microsoft made Windows Live Search off from Beta and replaced the OLD MSN Search, along with some added search features like, Local Live Search, Enhanced Image searches, News and a Live QnA Beta search.

Danny Sullivan Leaves SEW & SES

As he posted in his personal blog, Danny Sullivan confirmed about his signing off from Search Engine Watch (SEW) and most probably from Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference Series. Even though there is only a Slim chance – in his own words – to turn back, but according to him , it’s a very slim [...]