This was a hot question in the SEO field about a year ago. Not anymore. Because, the evidence that there’s indeed something that matches the characteristics of a “Google Sandbox” is overwhelming.  And according to my experiences also, I’ve got no reason to say it’s not true.

But it’s amazing how many people fall into this trap day after day - not quite knowing what the consequences are. And as someone who had experienced them first hand, let me tell you that they are not so easy to go through with.

I sincerely apologize for not being able to post as much as I’m supposed to. The last few days had been really hectic and so much had been going on. I really appreciate the messages I got from the few of you asking whether I’m doing alright because of the one week silence.

Things are almost back to normal and I will be starting to post on ROCKFUSE regularly from now on.

One of the main reasons that I have not been posting much is because during the past few days I’ve been engaged in writing a blog seo e-book., which I’m planning to give away as a free download to all of my subscribers - new and existing.

Google Webmaster Tools is something that every blogger concerned about his or her blog SEO, should be concerned about. Simple because, it can reveal what you exactly need not to do in order to get top 10 ranking on Google, and ultimately other search engines. Think of it as a place where Google spiders report to you directly, what exactly is wrong with your blog’s SEO.

If you haven’t already signed up for Google Webmaster Tools, you can do so here.

Finding out where search engines spiders had major crawling problems

An unfriendly URL structure or certain rich media content may be giving the Search Engines spiders a bit of a hard time in indexing your blog.

Many of us bloggers are constantly looking for the next big SEO revelation. We’re looking for the killer secret that will land our blog on the top 10 in Google for our targeted keyword. While we’re wasting hours away looking for the big fish, we fail to see thousands of little fish swimming past us, that could’ve easily been caught to fulfil the day’s catch.

There are so many thing in terms of SEO that bloggers know and don’t do. Not that they are ineffective nor black-hat. But just because it’s effect isn’t that big.

All of us bloggers know a thing or two about blog SEO. Organic Search Engine traffic is the most “genuinely good” kind of traffic that you can receive for two reasons. One - it doesn’t die soon if someone else doesn’t put it out and Two - It’s totally FREE! So without further a due, let me present to you the result of one of my biggest list hunts ever…

It’s the biggest collection of Wordpress SEO plugins, ever compiled - to date.

Add Meta Tags Wordpress Plugin

What it does: This plugin adds XHTML META tags to your WordPress blog.

As Matt Cutts said a few days back on his blog, the July 2008 Google PageRank Update had commenced. Already seeing the results at few places, including here! ROCKFUSE went from PR-N/A to PR3 today. What do I think of it? Oh well… I expected to do a little bit better after iWebTool PageRank prediction told me with a 84% accuracy that it’ll be at least PR5. But guess Google has a funny way it’s own way of doing things.

It seems like I’m not the only one to blog about the aftermath of the update this early - mind you, the update is still going on, so I don’t mean to be the one who takes the initiative to disturb the hornets’ nest - though someone surely will within this week!