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Kichus posts about Latest News and Updates for Web Masters, the latest trends and updates and much more.

Shame on You AMEX, Commenting SEO a Waste of Money

We were aware that there are lot of mis-concepts exists on SEO, but never thought that it’s such a serious issue. I am shocked to see a recent comment from AMEX saying, SEO is a wastage of money’. You hired a wrong company and how on earth you can blame the [...]

Limitation of Short Term SEO Solutions

One more question I do get on a regular basis is ‘Why do you propose always long term SEO?’ or ‘Why don’t you propose a short term SEO solution?’ Simply I would like to say, I don’t have any personal benefits by suggesting SEO to your website rather you own the benefits directly from increasing [...]

Manage Multiple Websites with a Single Sitemap.xml: WebmasterCentral

Webmaster Central blog reports, a new update. Now you can submit Sitemaps for multiple hosts in a single host. This is helpful for those who are managing multiple sub-domains under a single domain. As we know Google considers these sub-domains as different websites, previously while submitting Sitemaps you need to create different XML Sitemaps [...]

DMOZ is Not Banned by Google, Just a 301 bug

Today I was just stumbling through some of the SEO related blogs and found one interesting blog saying ‘DMOZ have been banned by Google‘. I checked Google and saw Google is not listing DMOZ’s homepage for any of the following searches:
[DMOZ]
[dmoz open directory]
[dmoz open directory project]
No cache for DMOZ homepage in Google.

Google Stopped showing Supplemental Results Label

Google Stopped showing Supplemental Results Label

Google killed the Supplemental Results label from its search results pages. Word of Caution: Just the Label appearing in the result pages, not their Supplemental Index.
What are Supplemental Results?
In 2003 when Google expanded their Indexed pages database, they have created a substitute database for storing less relevant pages called Supplemental Index. Most of the [...]

“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 [...]

Different Votes on “Buffy” – the Google June 2007 Update

People started reported about some major fluctuations to some of the SERPs – mainly on single word searches. Webmaster World has taken the pleasure to announce the rollout of Google latest update. “Buffy”.
But something quite major is now going on with the Google SERPs. Members are reporting major changes in the single word search results, [...]

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 [...]

First Official Confirmation on Google Buys FeedBurner

Hey, we all knew that. What on earth made the official confirmation get prolonged till date? No clues. But anyway it’s rolled out today. You can read the official confirmation from Google Blog, and from the FeedBurner Blog.
If you’re interested, listen to the 45-minute audio file file of the press call today with FeedBurner [...]

Yahoo! is for sale? I certainly don’t like Google buys then

Why? Because I don’t like monopoly. Suddently when you got a kingdom to rule and nobody to question you, definitely you won’t bother about the words you’ve given earlier. If Google buys Yahoo! there won’t be any competition to them at least for this century. Do you guys justify the Veto power? I don’t [...]