What is Google Penguin?

Google Penguin is a new algorithm of Google that was first updated on April 24, 2012. The aim of the Google Penguin is to decrease search engine rankings of websites that violating Google’s Webmaster Guidelines by using black-hat SEO techniques, for example keyword stuffing, cloaking, participating in link schemes, using duplicate content on websites.

After updating Google Penguin approximate 3% websites are affected due to this and they lost their ranking and popularity on Google search.

Here’s the list so far, showing when each Penguin update came out, the percentage of English-languages queries it was said to impact (other languages are also impacted, but we’re using English as a consistent baseline):

1. Penguin 1: April 24, 2012 (impacting ~3.1% of queries)
2. Penguin 2: May 26, 2012 (impacting less than 0.1%)
3. Penguin 3: October 5, 2012 (impacting ~0.3% of queries)
4. Penguin 4: May 22, 2013 (impacting 2.3% of queries)
5. Penguin 2.1: October 4, 2013 (impacting ~1% of searches)

Link Limit or Maximum Size for XML Sitemaps

An XML sitemap file has a maximum limit of 50,000 URLs and the size limit of 10 megabytes (MB) per sitemap. However, multiple sitemaps are supported by Google, and therefore If you have a large website with more than 50,000 URLs, it is permissible to divide the number of URLs in to as many parts as necessary.

How do I organize multiple sitemap files?
If you have a large website with more than one sitemap, the best option is to create a sitemap index file. Site index files can define up to 1000 individual XML Sitemap files.

12 Ways To Increase Website Traffic

While working on increasing traffic of a website from organic search, we should have to keep in mind some basic ways. Here I am writing some basic ways to increase your websites traffic:

• Blog commenting: Comment on a popular blog or website related to your niche. Use a thought provoking question to draw attention and get some conversation started. Use keywords in your comment and you may drive some good traffic.
• Article commenting: Go to article directories and search an article related to your website or product. Pick a famous article site and leave a comment under one of the articles. Popular articles will get many views and with your link at the bottom, you can drive some visitors to your own website.
• Social bookmarking sites: Use social bookmarking websites like Digg or Twitter. When you post new content on your website, be sure to send the links to popular social bookmarking sites.

Link Wheel SEO

A Link Wheel is a group of links coming from different web 2.0 property, blogs, article submissions, press release, bookmarks and feeds pointing to a specific landing page, so to pass the link juice from more established web sites to our money site because every authority site send power to next one and next in this way making more powerful backlinks.

One of the most talked about modern SEO concepts are link wheels, and there is a lot of scope and future that they hold. Experts are unanimous in agreeing that various facets of link wheels are going to be explored in the next few months and in the next year or so, link wheels are going to become a mainstay of search engine optimization processes.

What is C Class IP and its importance in SEO?

Any IP address is divided into divided in to 4 parts. Eg. aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd. The third (ccc) section is called Class IP.

Many webmasters started creating multiple website on same server and linked each other to increase the sites backlink and ranking. Search Engines identified this issue and started avoiding links coming from similar IPs – given its easy to get different D class ips on same server, Search Engines also started avoiding Links from same C Class IP. So when Search Engine see that you’ve a link coming from same C Class IP on which your website is located, the backlink will not have any importance.

Please note you’ll not get penalized if you’ve link coming from same C class IP, but you’ll not get any advantage either. So if you are doing the link exchange specially if you don’t have your own server, do check if the person you are linking to has a different C class ip than yours.