Keywords in the URL

Reading the post 8 Tips to Get Domain Diversity came across important tips about keywords in the url. As most of us uses tinyurl or bit.ly for making our long url to short url we forget the feature tinyurl and bit.ly provide "Optional custom name/alias" this is important for SEO.

E.g., for the page http://ansarahmed.blogspot.com/2009/06/fingerprinting-to-dynamically-enable.html, you should probably try to use bit.ly/dynamic-caching

Managing Secure Protocol in Apache-Based Websites using PHP

In this post author explain of https protocol, how to effectively manage it, he is helping you to have good rank from google. Nice, see about use of rel="canonical" tag. He helps how to avoid your content being duplicated by googlebot as it will index your both http and https version of your website which will cause you to loss the page rank more details.

Submitting Sitemaps using robots.txt

What are Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

You can tell Google and other search engines about your Sitemap by using robot.txt