Changing Title Meta Tag Hurts Google Rankings

Does change of Meta Description affect Google Ranking?
It is no secret that the title meta-tag is one of the most important factors when it comes to on-page search engine optimization. Search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN give quite a bit of importance to the title and description metatags in their algorithms. What many people, however, do not know that the same title tag could actually hurt your rankings, if you try to change it abruptly with a hope to improve your search engine rankings.

If you are currently ranking well with your page title, you should not risk with changing it to improve your rankings. You may often see your current Google rankings go down with such a change. I myself have experienced negative results when I tried to change the title tag for a site which was already ranking well. In fact, Google slammed the site with a -950 penalty.

Your page title is the main entry gate of search engines. Changing the title meta-tag could easily make your Google rankings fluctuate. If you change your title, Google and other search engines will take some time to reflect rankings for new titles. Especially, it would definitely look suspicious in the eyes of Google and other search engines if you have made the changes in the main title and description tags after a long time.

In short, changing the main title of your site, although it’s already ranking well is not a good idea. Instead of changing the page title to try to have improvements on certain keywords, it is better to work on adding content about those keyword phrases on your page, and add links with appropriate anchor text from sites with relevant content. Google always penalized over-optimization. Now it seems as if it frowns normal search engine optimization too. So the best policy is to optimize the website at the time of creation - Do it once, and do it right !

Google Page Rank Updates : Last Google PR Update

It looks like Google is rolling out a PageRank update. I woke up this morning and some of my sites were getting a new PR.
Are you guys seeing the changes too? Let me know how your PR fluctuated.

It looks like Google is getting a regular schedule for the PageRank updated again though. The last one happened at 29/30 October 2009 , so that is more or less one PR update every three/ four months or so. It would be good if they kept that pace constant.

When’s the Next Google PR update?
Let’s see if in the middle of January/ February 2010 we will get another update.


Dates of Previous Pagerank i.e PR Upadates:
Last Confirmed - 30 October 2009
Confirmed - 27/28 May 2009
Confirmed – 1 / 2 April 2009
Confirmed – 30-31 December 2008
Confirmed – 27 September 2008
Confirmed – 26 July 2008
Confirmed – 29 April 2008
Confirmed – 9,10,11,12 January 2008
Confirmed – 26 October 2007
Confirmed – 28 April 2007

How to Make Mozilla Firefox Load Faster

How to make a Website load faster in Mozilla Firefox

Firefox may run quickly but it loads slowly; here's how to fix it.
(Note : This tip is are for experienced computer users only.)


You can slash Firefox's slow load time by compressing the DLLs and executables. There are many choices for compression but I suggest you use UPX which is free, efficient and time proven.

1. Download UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download

2. Unzip upx.exe into your Firefox installation folder which is normally C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.

3. Make sure Firefox is not running then shell to a command prompt in the Firefox installation directory.

4. Type in the following command in a single line and hit return:

for %v in (*.exe *.dll components\*.dll plugins\*.dll) do upx "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\%v"

5. If on some later occasion you want to unpack the files, just type in the command above but add the decompression switch "-d" after "do upx."

That's it; enjoy the difference!

How to Check if Your Website is Penalized by Google

How to Check if a Website is Penalized by Google
There are always a question asked by all webmasters that how to check whether your website is being penalized by Google or not?

Here are few points to let you verify that your website is a victim of Google penalization or not.

Keyword Rankings:

You were top on result for some of your keywords and you see a major and sudden drop in all those keywords. This indicates that your website is probably being penalized by Google because your Google SERP is very down.

Number of Page Index:

Large numbers of pages from your website were there in Google before when check using site: operator and now when you use site: operator, you are seeing very few pages. Most of your pages are no more in Google index. This major de-index also indicate that your website is in trouble.

Page Weight Loss:

If you see that your pages are there in Google when you use site: operator. Next thing to check is the weight of these pages. Even if these pages are there in Google index. They are not appearing in search results or appearing very last in results when you give complete post title plus your blog or website name.

For ex. Secret of Google + GoogleTips, where "Secret of Google" is the keyword you are searching for and "GoogleTips" is the name of your blog or website.

Google Cache:

Google Cache is another way to find if your website is being penalized by Google or not. Normally Google put every website on internet to its cache and this cache updates depend on many factor related to a website. Normally for popular websites like CNN, Washington Post, TechCrunch, you will find the date of last cache is current date or just one day back.

If you check your website with cache: operator in Google and find the date of last cached is too old, it means Google is not showing interest in your website anymore. Most likely it's a penalization.

Complete De-index:

This is the simplest way to check for Google penalization. When your site is completely de-indexed by Google and it's no more in Google either with info: operator or with site: operator.

Number of Backlinks:

Few days back, when you checked your website, Google was showing thousands of backlinks of your website and now link: operator is showing a huge drop in number of backlinks. If this is the case, then it's the possibility of Google penalization.

Index Time:

Index time is another factor by which you can check for penalization. Before penalization, new posts from your website were getting indexed in hours and now they are taking a week to get indexed. This is a clear sign of Google penalization or Google is getting in trouble indexing your website.

Google PageRank:

Google PageRank is a value attached to your website. You may see a drop in your PageRank value if Google has penalized you for any reason. Before few days, if your PageRank value was say 4 and now it’s become 2. It’s very obvious that Google has penalized your website.

Wait for Google Mail:

Google always send mail when it finds something harmful in your website. Google will de-index all those pages which are having problem and will inform you to fix the problem. Once you fix the problem, you can easily come back in Google search index.

Important words used in this article-

link: operator - If used with your website, provide you the number of backlinks to your website.

info: operator - If used with your website, provide you the information of your website in Google.

site: operator - If used with your website, provide you the number of pages indexed in Google search from your website.