August 17, 2011
How does Googlebot see my page ?
As a webmaster, we all wish to please Google and obtain higher SEPR, more indexed pages and regular visits by Googlebot. We also spend time on making sure that our pages look good in different browsers but do we know how our pages appear to Googlebot ? Google webmasters tool provides this cool diagnostics feature `Fetch as Googlebot` that let's you see a page exactly like Googlebot sees it.
This helps in understanding your page's actual content and structure which can be latter used for better SEO of your webpages. If you will try this tool, you'll find that Googlebot doesn't see images,videos and java-script and that's why it's advised to use more and more textual content within an article.
Along with that, page load time and http headers are also returned.
In order to use this feature, you must have added and verified your site under Google's Webmasters Tools.
You can access this feature from Google's Webmasters Tool Dashboard » Diagnostics » Fetch as Googlebot.
For some reason, Google has restricted this feature to 50 links per week.
Link: Google Webmaster Tools
March 27, 2011
Free Seo optimized and Adsense ready theme- Bizzarctic Isotherm news review| Almost a free premium theme
While setting up my Blog I was looking for a wordpress theme that is seo optimized and Adsense ready. For this I tested around 10-15 themes that had to much hype over internet. I have selected only few themes that were impressive enough to pass very specific criteria and also get through a rigorous test for speed, customization options, seo and Adsense requirement. Previously, I have reviewed one of theme named as Swift. This time it is a theme from Bizzarctic Isotherm news. This theme has an impressive customization option, seo and adsense options. This theme can stand up the criteria of premium theme due to its customization features.
- Nice image panel filled with recent posts for the home page-looks very stylish
- Popular posts in current browsing category
- Custom translations of all blog areas
- Pagination-very stylish
- Header / Footer Scripts Management
- Integrated Image Caption
- Relative Dates in Comments
- Choose Blog Title over Image logotype
- Total Feedburner Management
- Custom Control Panel
- Exclude Pages from header
- Exclude Categories from header
- Embeded AdSense Support
- Child Pages Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
- Child Categories Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
- WP 2.7 full compatibility (Paginated/threaded comments)
- Template â€" XHTML Site-map
- Template â€" Archive
- Fully Widgetized
- AdSense Ready (3 placements)
- Auto Image Re-size
- Custom Logo
- Relative Dates in Posts
- Author Information
- Excerpted Content
- 125×125 Banners (6)
- 250×250 Banner (1)
- 468×60 Banner (1)
- Google Analytics Ready
- Gravatar Ready
- Feedburner Ready
- Feedburner Email Subscribe
- SEO Optimized Code
- Sidebar Image Stream via Flickr (widget)
- Sidebar videos (widget)
- Popular Posts (widget)
The features are easily customizable. You can change the default colors of the theme. It has extensive options for Adsense and seo. You will not need an extra plugin to manage the seo or Adsense. You can also make your own child themes for better customization and use custom CSS file for the new look. This one theme gives nice competition to the Thesis theme. When compared the Thesis and Swift the only flaw is the loading speed. With Lot of picture layout it is a bit slower. But you can use caching to optimize the theme for speed. For me if you need a very customizable theme and do not have dollars to purchase thesis theme then you can use this theme on your wordpress blog.