Dev Basu, Author at Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/author/dev-basu Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:43:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/search-engine-people-favicon-2026-66x66.png Dev Basu, Author at Search Engine People https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/author/dev-basu 32 32 10 Keyword Research Tools to Add to Your Arsenal https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-best-keyword-research-tools.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-best-keyword-research-tools.html#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:19:08 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-best-keyword-research-tools.html Keyword research is one of the cornerstone's of starting any good search engine optimization campaign. While I use Wordze for all my keyword research, I started my adventures as an SEO with a fair number of freely available keyword research tools. Each of these are slightly different from the other, and when used in combination, [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-best-keyword-research-tools.html/feed 14 6 WordPress Plugins That Enhance Your Blog’s SMO https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/wordpress-social-media-optimization-plugins.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/wordpress-social-media-optimization-plugins.html#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:48:40 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/wordpress-social-media-optimization-plugins.html Wordpress plugin resource lists have been highly useful to almost any beginner or intermediate level blogger. However the old lists featuring 50+ essential plugins haven't been updated in a while, so I thought I'd give the blogging community a little refresher on the best new plugins available to jazz up your blog through social media [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/wordpress-social-media-optimization-plugins.html/feed 4 67 WordPress Pinging Resources You Need to Know https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/67-wordpress-pinging-resources-you-need-to-know.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/67-wordpress-pinging-resources-you-need-to-know.html#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:38:36 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/67-wordpress-pinging-resources-you-need-to-know.html My post on 5 Unique Ways to Make the Google Bot Your Best Friend attracted quite a bit of attention and a fair number of comments, which I'm really happy about. One of the strategies that I discussed in particular was using Wordpress's built-in pinging features to ping a large number of pinging services every [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/67-wordpress-pinging-resources-you-need-to-know.html/feed 21 5 Unique Ways to Make the Google Bot Your Best Friend https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-to-increase-crawl-rate-googlebot.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-to-increase-crawl-rate-googlebot.html#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:07:10 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-to-increase-crawl-rate-googlebot.html Credit: Walter Wycliffe With crawl rate being an uber factor in deciding how fast webpages are indexed in the SERPs, SEO's are always striving for ways to invite the Googlebot over to client websites more frequently. Of course, generating new and quality content is probably the best way to inject some fresh visits from the [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/5-ways-to-increase-crawl-rate-googlebot.html/feed 20 11 Firefox Extensions for SEOs You Didn’t Know About https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/11-seo-firefox-extensions.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/11-seo-firefox-extensions.html#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:59:09 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/11-seo-firefox-extensions.html Like most SEO's, I'm a huge fan of Firefox and all the versatility it offers as a browser, and a tool for optimizating my optimization experience ;) . With thousands of extensions available to augment your browsing experience, I thought it'd be great to create a resource for the top 10 firefox extension's for SEO's [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/11-seo-firefox-extensions.html/feed 10 Which SEO Lord of The Rings Character Are You? https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-lotr-characters.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-lotr-characters.html#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:58:27 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-lotr-characters.html If you're a certified geek ( not a nerd ) , its quite likely that you've grown up with epic classics such as the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. After going on a 9 hour Lord of the Rings triology marathon, I was wondering what the how Frodo, Gandalf, Gimli and Sam would [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-lotr-characters.html/feed 15 How the Facebook Psychic Read My Mind…Literally https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/psychic-facebook-ads.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/psychic-facebook-ads.html#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:54:59 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/psychic-facebook-ads.html Credit: Pixel Addict Is Facebook Getting Too Close to Our Interests? Recently, when logging into my Facebook profile, I was greeted with a very targeted ad that got me thinking - Can Facebook read my mind? The ad in question was along the left sidebar, and was for Hostgator, a popular shared hosting company. What's [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/psychic-facebook-ads.html/feed 3 SEO and The Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:47:45 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html Credit: Joakim_kna Fear of The Dark Are you afraid to implement the SEO techniques you've spent hours learning because you fear you may lose your existing rankings? God forbid your SERPs get knocked to the next page, but you can prevent such an event by taking some simple SEO leaps of faith :) Low Risk, [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html/feed 10 Amazing Link Diagnosis Extension Revolutionizes Link Analysis https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/link-diagnosis-plugin-extension.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/link-diagnosis-plugin-extension.html#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:37:18 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/link-diagnosis-plugin-extension.html Let The SEO Drooling Begin... I am a real sucker for SEO tools that make my work as efficient as possible, and I am literally ecstatic about coming across this little gem of a Firefox extension. The Link Diagnosis Firefox extension plugs directly into the Yahoo Site Explorer API that we all know and love, [...]

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]]> https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/link-diagnosis-plugin-extension.html/feed 12 Using Yahoo Answers To Capture Long Tail Searches https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/leverage-yahoo-answers.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/leverage-yahoo-answers.html#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:08:01 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/leverage-yahoo-answers.html Credit: Bocavelhma Yahoo! Because We've Got You Too Yahoo answers is a great resource for Q&A when you just can't seem to find the information you're looking for. Aside from authority sites such as Wikipedia or dedicated niche forums, where else can you find out how to make falafel the egyptian way? Obscure perhaps, but [...]

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