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Smart Traffic SEO Tip #52 – Chrome Extensions for Web Development

The additional features now available makes Google chrome an even better web development environment, providing useful features in creating applications and sites for the web…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #51 – GWT Crawl Errors reports soft 404s

Google Webmaster Tools has a tool which helps you discover undesirable “soft” 404s.

What is soft 404? A soft 404 occurs when a webserver responds a 200 OK HTTP response code for non-existing pages instead of the appropriate 404 Not Found. This non-existing page may display the homepage of the site or an error page…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #50 – Multiple types in one sitemap

Google previously announced that Sitemap can include images and videos. Now, Google recently announced another advancement for sitemap. It is now capable of containing multiple content types in a form of a standard sitemap. Multiple content types include videos, images, mobile URLs, code or geo information which can now be accommodated in one Sitemap…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #49 – Google Videos Best Practices

Google suggests 3 best practices that help crawlability and indexation of your video content

Best Practice 1: Verify your video URLs are crawlable – to verify if the video URL is crawlable, check your robots.txt to make sure they are not disallowed. Be sure that the robots.txt file is not blocking any of these URLs specified in the sitemap, playpage, content and player, and thumbnail…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #48 – Adding Videos to your Sitemaps

Video Sitemaps is an extension to the Sitemap protocol where you can specify all the video files on your site including relevant metadata. This will provide Google with essential information about your videos, including the URLs for the pages where the videos can be found. Video Sitemap helps make your videos more searchable via “Google Video Search”…

Smart Traffic SEO Tip #47 – Adding Images to your Sitemaps

A sitemap is a list of the pages on your website particularly the most important ones. It helps to inform Google about all the pages on your site including those that are not discovered by Google’s normal crawling process. Recently, Google announced that a Sitemaps extension can now be used in providing image data to Google. This is a good opportunity for important images of the site get discovered by Google as well.