The Beginners Guide to Coding for SEO

  Back in the year 2011 we all made promises to learn to code. Some of you may have kept those promises while others haven’t. If you have already started learning to code then Cheers. I have tips for you

How to become a WordPress Ninja in 15 minutes

  WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform and I have been using it for the last couple of years. Though it is an awesome CMS but then like any other CMS is prone to errors and bugs. I

How to use Web Analytics 2.0 to improve your conversions

You all have probably heard of web analytics 2.0 at some point in your life and thought what it is all about and how it can help me. In case you don’t know, Web Analytics 2.0 is a term coined

Link Building Tool Box – Productivity on Steroids

Edition-2 —  Updated: February 16, 2012 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

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