Link Building Tool Box – Productivity on Steroids

Only after compiling this mega list, i realized how many tools i use on daily/weekly basis just for link building.  I have mainly listed those tools which i use often and which are free to use. I keep adding/removing tools

Ultimate Data Visualization Guide for SEO

In an ideal world of analytics there will be no tables and mountain of text, just charts and graphs through which you can visualize patterns and trends in data and take decisions which are beneficial both for your company and

12 ways to speed up your Link Building

‘Time‘ is such an important factor in the Link building process, yet many SEOs fail to take it into account while talking about link building tactics. Build relationships with linking partners, develop kick ass contents, become a thought leader in your

How to create your own Backlinks Analysis Tool

 This is my first post on seotakeaways.com (formerly known as seohimanshu.com). If you do link building then my new tool is going to help you a lot. It is a tool designed to automatically segment the back link profile of

Link Building through Blog Themes Sponsorship (A-Z Guide)

 Sponsoring a wordpress/ blogger theme (template) if done right can become a powerful link building tool, a tool which can automatically keep building links for you for the foreseeable future. Such type of one time investment can fetch you hundreds

How to Automate Event Tracking in Google Analytics

Do you like automation? I do. It speeds up my SEO process. In the next few minutes i will teach you how to automatically track file downloads, email clicks and external links across a website of any size with very little work from you or your

Data Scraping guide for SEO

Web scraping or web data scraping is a technique used to extract data from web documents like HTML and XML files. Data scraping can help you a lot in competitive analysis like determining the titles, keywords, content categories and ad copies used

Title Tags – Where you can go wrong?

Let me tell you one little secret. Google can and is making changes to your title tag to make it relevant to the search query. Not always but can quite often. For e.g. Search Query – seo tools seomoz Page

Scaling Keyword Research & Competitive Analysis to new heights

Today i would like to introduce you to a keyword tool which is truly a gem for any SEO and keyword junkie. Meet SEMRush. The kind of tasks it can perform in keyword research and competitive analysis is truly outstanding

10 SEO Metrics you can’t live without

Have you ever wondered which are the most important metrics you should be tracking for SEO and any other online marketing campaign? If you look at Google Analytics (GA) report they have shit load of metrics for each dimension from

Social interactions tracking through Google Analytics

It is very important that before we move forward, you understand the difference between event tracking & social tracking and difference between normal users’ interactions & social interactions: 1. Event tracking is implemented by calling the _trackEvent() method whereas social

10 best ways to Screw Up your PPC Campaigns

This is my first official PPC post on this blog. After managing some of the worst structured PPC accounts, going over budget by few grants and lot of trials, failures and successes, i am finally in the position to pen

Why Every SEO should know PPC

  You can get away without coding. But can you truly optimize your SEO campaigns without using PPC. I don’t think so and here is why:   1. PPC is the best keyword research tool for SEO- Beyond doubt, the success

How to do Site Speed Optimisation

You must have come across several articles on site speed optimisation which talks about improving site speed but don’t make much sense for a SEO: 1. Defer parsing of javascript (what?)2. Leverage proxy caching (what???)3. Add a far future Expires

Google Analytics Account Setup Checklist

  How a Google analytics account is set up tells a lot about the agency/seo consultant’s understanding of analytics and SEO at large. For e.g. if custom reports are not set up in an account I can safely assume that