Usually many bloggers pay a lot of attention towards the tags and categories while writing on their blog. They do believe that they can get a good a good traffic by doing so. They do spend hours in fixing and putting tags in their posts. But as per Matt Cutts of Google, this tag-building strategy isn’t really needed. Matt says that he doesn’t pay attention towards tags and even categories in his blog. Rather than making a separate category for each separate post, one category would do better. Just you can mention where that post will fall.

Have a look at the video by Matt Cutts and let me know what you guys think about it.

Is it worth spending time on tags and categories is a post from: Tech Of Web

For any website or blog, Google plays a major role of traffic. No doubt, every SEO wants to have a good traffic from Google and for that, one focus on titles, tags, post content, categories, page rank, back-linking etc. This is a video by Matt Cutts of Google which tells you how works google. This is a must watch video for every webmaster.

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How Works Google is a post from: Tech Of Web

Do you ping your own blog?

If yes, then do stop it. I have seen many bloggers, even some professionals, pinging their own blog. Some think that in this way, they do get a linkback to their posts. The link to your post might appear in your related or recent posts. Or, you can deliberately too induce a link in your post. But, this-way linking in your comments section should be avoided.

Moreover, self-pinging is not good as part of SEO. So why not avoid it. In wordpress blog, you can stop self pinging your own blog easily with the help of a plugin called ‘No Self Ping’.

Download No-Self-Ping Plugin for WordPress at http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/no-self-ping.0.2.zip

You can also read the post at Shoutmeloud

Self-Pinging a Blog Good or Bad-No Self Ping Plugin is a post from: Tech Of Web

I recently added techofweb.com as an Add-on Domain to mine primary domain oceanofweb.com

Addon Domains can be accessed in following 3 different ways:
*www.addonDomain.com
*www.primaryDomain.com/addonDomain.com
*www.addonDomain.primaryDomain.com

You can have the same thing in following ways too:
*Without www
*With prefixing http://
*With prefixing http:// and removing www

So, it counts total of 12 different ways your add-on domain can be accessed through browser, resulting in the addition of great duplicacy for Google.

I was also facing the same problem and it ate my whole 1 day in order for the solution to come up. I mailed to my many blogging friends, contacted Hostgator customer support, googled but nowhere solution was coming. While googling, I got the following code at many places:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addondomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.addondomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.addondomain.primarydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.addondomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addondomain.primarydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.addondomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

To place this code, go to your FTP/cpanel, primarydomain directory>>>addondomain directory>>> open .htaccess
And copy the above code in it.
But unfortunately, this code too didn’t work for me.

So, if you too on the same floor, then try this:
Open your .htaccess file and paste the below code under mod_rewrite in it (by replacing addondomain with your domain).

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www.)?addondomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.addondomain.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

This code worked for me like a charm
So, try the above 2 codes. Atleast one will definitely work for you.
Now, access your site by the above 12 different ways.
Every time, you would be redirected to http://addondomain.com

NOTE: Please do back up your .htaccess before making any changes
Replace addondomain with your respective addondomain

How to redirect Addon Domain -htaccess changes is a post from: Tech Of Web