Pratik Dholakiya's Blog | SEO

Everyone keeps talking about how Panda and the Penguin have changed the world of SEO, for the better of course, but changed it all the same. But, if you actually take a look at the reasoning behind Google’s algorithmic updates, all it wanted to do was improve search quality, and when you get right down [...]

Nobody said guest blogging is easy, it’s as tough as they come; and whoever told you that all you need to do is have a nicely written post up your sleeve to successfully get this blog published on authority sites, never guest blogged in his life. Yes, great content is definitely a pre-requisite but successful [...]

Every year Google makes more than 500 algorithm updates in order to make the search better. In the year of 2012, there were 27 most important updates that all of us should be aware of. Here’s an infographic that explains all those updates. Courtesy of: E2M Solutions

If you ask most social media managers if there is any benefit to guest blogging, they are likely to discuss their own blog and its metrics and performance but not someone else’s. We understand that there is value to articles posted on blogs as a means of driving traffic, increasing website page views as well [...]

Out of two my recent posts in Search Engine Journal, one has got featured in the Best of Search Engine Journal edition for November, 2012. Without further ado, here’s the Best of SEJ edition link where you can see my post – http://www.searchenginejournal.com/november-2012-best-of-search-engine-journal/53587/ And here’s the actual blog post – http://www.searchenginejournal.com/7-uncommon-and-powerful-link-building-techniques/51224/

Guest blogging is a win-win strategy used by websites and blogs owners in order to increase their pages’ visibility on the web. The host bloggers see it as an opportunity to obtain fresh content without having to write it themselves or to pay a ghostwriter for the job. Moreover, guest blogs bring a different perspective [...]

It’s a startup… I want to cut down on my overheads…. I can’t hire an SEO company right now….. I don’t need it…. I am sure I can get the kind of clients I want without SEO… and so on and so forth…. These are just some of the reasons that come up in people’s [...]

Since the launch of Google Panda many marketers have been rumoring around the death of SEO. BUT the real fact is, SEO will never die. Here are 4 real reasons for this statement:- Search engines like to use the open angle to give publishers incentive to mark up their content so that the search engines can [...]

Lately, there had been a lot of talk going around with the questions like: Will Google penalize Exact Match Domains (EMDs)? Will Google decrease the value of EMDs? Should I buy exact match domains to rank a keyword? So on and so forth. And here’s the answer by Matt Cutts through his recent tweets last [...]

Since so long, I have been following a Quora thread that has a large amount of answers and resources that are useful for everyone in the SEO Industry. SEO Newbie, Mid-level SEO or SEO Consultant – I believe that everyone can benefit from the resources shared and the discussion happened (happening) over there. To make [...]