SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION - SEO TIPS FOR WEBMASTERS

Article about getting web traffic trough SEO

2010-01-24T10:43:00.004+01:00

While I was searching for some useful information about search engine optimization this morning I have stumbled on this article. I think it is very useful and informative so I want to share it with visitors of my blog.
Author of this article is Paul Richard Doyle.
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Web traffic through Search engine optimization

Search engine Optimization is one of the finest ways to generate targeted Web traffic. The ultimate goal of Search Engine optimization is to get a web site to the first few pages of Search engines which generate a lot of search engine web traffic.

A lot of ways exist to achieve search engine optimization to get web traffic. The first thing among them that bothers the most is the use of keywords appropriately on the site.

So, search engine optimization starts right from the website design. Using the highest priority keywords is the key tool in search engine optimization.

Google, in the past, considered keyword density as the tool for search engine optimization. Keyword density simply means placing the main keyword many number of times the content of the site for web traffic. This proved good for a period of time to provide good web traffic. The only disadvantage here is that, repeating the same keyword many times brings in duplicate content to the site and duplicate content is never good.

So, Google has made changes in this law. What Google defines as quality now is that content that not only contains the main keyword but also contains a few other related keywords that Google finds basing on an algorithm and awards traffic this way. Google named this as LSI relevancy.

Google has put in its generous effort to define the highest priority related keywords for any content of the site. The effort resulted Google Ad word tool. What we do here is, very simple. We just type in the main keyword for which we are targeting web traffic into the input box and a list comes up with all the related keywords. As you can imagine, this has made it easy to find the related keywords. The next step is to include maximum number of the related keyword in the content of the web site. It’s as simple as that.

Most of the people use this way. Another way exists, but many ignore this. In the other way, we make a search of our main keyword in Google. We then find out the website ranked highest by Google for our keyword. We can then find out the keywords used in the highest ranked website. To do this, another part of Google Ad words tool is to be used. This appears as “Instead of descriptive words or phrases you do it by web content”. This is pretty easy. We just need to type in the URL we got from the first website in the search engine results and in a few seconds a list appears with all the related contents. These are the related keyword that we need. The next steps are similar. We just use these related keywords in the site content. This makes the site search engine optimized in the eyes of Google. Hence our objective is accomplished.

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SEO Tips & Tweaks – Some Timeless Ranking Factors and Some Outdated Ones

2009-08-26T10:32:00.001+02:00

The search engine optimization industry has been one of the most dynamic ones. It always keeps web masters and website owners on their toes as they strive to get their websites on the top of search engine results.

Search engines like Google frequently change their algorithms of which, some of which they announce and some of which are left for us to guess. Either ways, we have to keep up out optimization efforts in order to preserve the rankings and make it score higher. However, in spite of the changes and updates, there are several practices that remain consistent throughout i.e. they are as relevant in today's time as they were in the past.

Here are some timeless SEO tips and tweaks that would help you improve your website ranking in search results.

Title Tags

Search engines place increased importance on the title tags of web pages. In fact, the title tags are one of the most important SEO elements of a web page. Good title tags are defined by their effective summarization of the web page in relevant words. All the pages of your website should have a unique and keyword rich title tags. These tags not only inform the search engines about the page contents but also appear in the search results and tell users about the contents.

Anchor Text

The visible text of the link is called the Anchor Text. One of the most important SEO ranking factor is the number of inbound links and the text that is used to connect the link hold increased importance. This is because the text that is used for the links also get indexed by the search engine crawlers and affects your rankings. For example if you sell T-shirts online and there is an external link that says 'Find Customized T-shirts Here' it would be a whole deal better to link the words 'customized T-shirts' than 'here'. This is the same case with your internal linking as well. Therefore, try and use descriptive 'keyword-rich' text for your links while linking to your own web pages.

Quantity of Inbound Links

With links, what is more important than the number of links is the number of unique domains they are coming from. If you have 100 inbound links coming from 50 different domains, it is actually better than having 1000 links coming from 5 domains. It is all about how dispersed and extended your link architecture is rather than how dense it is.

Social Media

Social media is a very powerful media to establish your presence and extend your business on the web. Social media websites like Facebook and Twitter offer enormous opportunities to plagiarize your content and increase your linking on the web. They can act as efficient traffic generating sources if used correctly.

Just as there are these basic SEO tweaks, there are also certain practices that have become outdated and don't work anymore. Here are some of them.

H1 Tags

They were a rage in the past because they informed the search engine crawlers about the increased importance of the particular text just because of the increased size. What happened was a little bit of CSS was used to specify H1 tags just anywhere and everywhere. However, at present H1 tags don't have all that importance.

Keyword Density

This was an important SEO consideration sometime back until people started stuffing keywords in the text to get a high density. As of now, there is no important placed on them. Rather, what is important is having good and highly valuable content.

Kabir Bedi works as a senior web consultant at LeXolution IT Services, a reputed web development company based in India, that specializes in providing a full range of web design services, website maintenance services and search engine optimization services. He has over 10 years of experience in the web industry.

Do It Yourself SEO: 7 Easy Steps

2009-06-17T06:42:00.002+02:00

SEO doesn’t have to be expensive, yet day in and day out, small companies pay agencies thousands of dollars in hopes of getting better rankings. Here’s the thing about agencies, though: the turnover rate is high, the pay is low, and passion for your industry isn’t always there. Half the time, you’re paying for a new hire to re-learn your product and industry, while the other half, you’re not able to get a hold of your account manager.

Do It Yourself SEO

Even in industries and companies where you wear many hats, it’s possible to tackle SEO. “Do it yourself SEO” means that you can move at your own pace — no worrying about agencies going over budget because they spent too many hours researching a blog post, and no wondering why someone else took your company name on the newest social networking site.

“I don’t have time for ‘Do it yourself SEO’”

That’s OK! There’s a few reputable services out there that will outline exactly what needs to be done, from linkbuilding to content generation, and will alert you of the next steps to take. You’ll get an SEO checklist of sorts that will lead you to Page 1 rankings for targeted and high converting keywords. Even if you absolutely don’t have time to one or two things from the checklist each week, you can find someone to outsource these tasks to — check sites like craigslist.org for freelancers that will work for lower costs than agencies and that are readily available for outsourced work.

What kind of program will allow me to partake in “Do it yourself SEO?”

There’s a few, but the one I stand by is LotusJump. For under $24 a month, Lotus Jump will tell you EXACTLY what needs to be done in order to achieve Page 1 rankings for the keywords of your choice. Here’s the thing, though — anyone can tell you “Build backlinks” or “Create content - content is king!”, but how do you know your building the right backlinks or creating the right content? LotusJump tells you exactly what you need to be doing - the sites you should be building links on and from, the content you should create and which sites to distribute it to, the directories you should be checking out, and the links that your competitors are grabbing. You’ll get alerts whenever one of these tasks should be done. No guess work needed.

Not sold on Do It Yourself SEO Programs yet? Take this challenge and try these tasks on your own. It’s a bit of work, yes, but once you start seeing results, it’s worth it. The hard part about this challenge, when SEO isn’t your main source of income and your company is, is finding the correct outlets - the backlinks, the content sites, the social sites. That’s why a tool that TELLS you what to do is nice, but I dare you to do this yourself.

Step 1: Social Profiles

Create 1-2 profiles on social media sites on a weekly basis. Find sites in your niche, as well as sites that have a high PR and can bring in quality traffic. Build html backlinks from those sites back to your web site. (Weekly)

Step 2: Q&A

Monitor Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers and WikiAnswers for questions relevant to your industry. Respond to those questions as a way to establish yourself as an authority in your niche and to build links and traffic to your web site. (Daily)

Step 3: Social Bookmarking

After you’ve created quality content on your site, bookmark the content on high traffic and relevant social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking should be done with every post you believe is of the highest quality, and really, shouldn’t all your content be high quality? (Per Post)

Step 4: Buzz

Monitor the keywords you’ve selected to target and respond every time those keywords are mentioned in blog posts, forums, twitter status updates, or articles on the web. (Daily)

Step 5: Content Generation

Write how-to and informative articles and post them on high PageRank and highly trafficked sites. In the resource box, link back to your web site. (Weekly)

Step 6: Competitive Backlink

Monitor your competition and the backlinks they are building. Every time you get an alert (or manually check) that a new backlink is created, try to procure a backlink from that web site to your site. (Weekly)

Step 7: Directory Submission

Find relevant directories that you can submit your web site to. (Weekly)

Completing the above tasks is easy — that’s “Do it yourself SEO.”

The hard part is finding the sources - where is the newest social network you should belong to and do you have a few hours each week to research them? What kind of tool do you use to monitor different Q&A sites, or do you manually check each site each day, trying to find a mention of your keyword? How do you know when your competitor gets a new backlink? Who alerts you when a new directory is available for you to submit to?

Do it yourself SEO isn’t difficult, but the research part can take a bit of time. If you’re still ready to give “do it yourself seo” a try, check out .

SEO For Travel-Based Websites

2009-06-12T12:35:00.001+02:00

It is almost officially summertime and it feels like it in Austin. The travel bug has already been biting for weeks now in Volacci’s home base, and I know I can’t help but check out a few travel-based websites to dream of a getaway. Unfortunately, it isn’t a good year to set any tourism records abroad, stay-cations are on the rise in popularity and are giving travel agents the shivers just to think about. That is why having the right foundation for SEO on your Web site is even more important than ever before.

Various financial experts agree that a recession is an opportune time to implement new and forward-thinking initiatives within a business to tighten up and re-calibrate their overall marketing model. If search engine optimization isn’t involved yet, then you may not see too much business even after this recession dwindles into the past tense. It is time to step up, and make sure that your SEO efforts are ready for take-off.

Creative Keywords

This is the tail that wags the dog of your SEO campaign. You need the right chemistry of keywords to be successful. This means getting creative with a mix of brow sweat and elbow grease. Use Google’s Keyword Tool and focus on competitive keywords within the travel industry. If they have a high search volume, chances are the pool is crowded. Everyone is fighting to optimize these terms. It’s easier to find your kid in a swimming pool with fewer screaming kids. Look for the keywords that have a decent volume, more than 500 per month and where the Google Adwords competition bar isn’t completely full, but is green. Find keywords around phrases such as “best time to visit X”, “things to do in X”, where “X” is a city or country.

Use Keywords in Content

So you have just finished a thorough, research initiative for keywords, and you are satisfied in the investment. Now, you need to use those keywords in all the written content you create for the site. Every web page on your Web site should be rich with keywords, but don’t keyword “stuff” the content. Be very careful to retain the integrity of your copy so that it sounds natural. You are still talking to humans, after all. You should also inject them into the external articles you have written during your link building campaign (which I address later). These articles will be informative resources for people interested in your specialty. The articles will lead them right to your site.

SEO-Friendly Website

Now that you have your keywords picked out, and have used them throughout your site, make sure your site is SEO-friendly. If you are still using frames, javascript/AJAX, or flash without any HTML version added, then your website is considered an ancient wonder of the internet. A SEO-friendly website consists of clean HTML. Build your website in a content management system, such as Drupal, which is very user-friendly and allows you to customize your site like you have never be able to before. The more professional it looks, the more people will book.

Link Building

You now have quality content, both on- and off-page, and your site is SEO-friendly. You can promote your business and blog through social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter, forums, and commenting on other people in your professional community. This should jump-start a link building campaign that will help your online presence gain relevancy with people and search engines, boosting your site’s rankings and online traffic.

Travel websites are highly competitive in these frugal times. Making sure your website is found and closes the deal with consumers is more important than ever before. If you ensure that your website is SEO-friendly and is implementing a quality SEO campaign, then you will ensure your business will make it through the global popularity boom of stay-cations.

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Ethan Luke. search engine optimization - Volacci is a Drupal SEO company providing marketing services to your Drupal website ranging from Search Engine Optimization, PPC Management, and SEM consultation.

Ingredients of a Successful SEO Campaign

2009-06-07T07:54:00.002+02:00

In this article we will explain some basic “ingredients” which will make your SEO campaign more profitable in the long run.

Most internet marketers get confused as to what factors to attend to in order to make their website rank high in Google. There are a lot of books cracking the “so-called-SEO-secrets” which have provided their buyers with nothing but outdated, rehashed junk. These books have a habit of focusing on only one thing in order to be “successful”.

The problem with SEO is that there is no secret. There is no hidden way to achieve higher rankings. What you need to do is all of the points mentioned below and use some discretion:

1. Have a solid idea and website design. Outsource this task by either going to Rent a Coder or Elance

2. Make sure your domain name has your targeted keywords in it.

3. Build links at a steady page from authority websites using anchor texts. Although getting links from them is not the easiest thing in the world, it is worthwhile.

4. Make sure your on-page factors are attended to. For example, use a 3-5 % keyword density. Use your keywords in your title, description and H1 tags. Do not stuff your keywords in the tags.

5. Where applicable, submit a press release for your website every now and then. PR Web is an excellent website for press releases. Make a habit of submitting at least one every month.

6. Ethically “Spy” on your competitors to figure out what they are doing right. Then do it. I have found SEO Spyglass and SEO Elite excellent tools for achieiving this.

7. Do what proves to work. Discard what does not.

8. Rinse and repeat.

This is easier said than done, but there really is no such thing as a free luch in SEO. If you get ranked high in the search engines for all your efforts, it will be a result well-worth the hassle!

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The Way to the Top Search Engine

2009-06-01T15:38:00.002+02:00

It is no real secret that a well written topical blog can significantly help out your website - so why aren't you doing it? and how to a better search engine optimization in your site.

The most common reasons I hear for not starting a blog involve a lack of time to write posts, and limited ideas to write about, but taking that extra time to get some useful content out there can do wonders for your search rankings among other things.

An established blog that is updated regularly gets spidered by Google often, and increases the chances of new search rankings considerably. I have seen multiple situations where regularly updated blogs wind up ranking #1 in Google for relevant phrases literally within a couple hours of posting. It usually takes a well established website and blog to make this happen, but there is big potential if you do things the right way.

While blogs work best if updated multiple times per week, even those with a new post every week or two have advantages. Blogs don't have to be a major undertaking, spending only an hour or so a week on posting can have you seeing results in no time.

There are many advantages to adding a blog to your website. Here are a few.

Increased Rankings
By boosting your topical content, you increase the value and relevance of your site. The more new stuff you add, the more of an authority you make your site, and this helps to improve your overall search rankings. It can also help you obtain rankings for "long tailed search phrases".

Long tailed search phrases are those that are less commonly searched, and usually exceed 3 or 4 words in length - they are also very targeted to your product or service. Blogs are great for getting rankings on long tailed search phrases. If you see a long tailed search phrase you want to rank for, use the phrase as the post title (if it makes sense to do so) and write a good, content rich post about it and your ranking potential for this phrase will rise.

By writing blog posts with your target phrases in mind, you can often help improve your overall rankings by increasing the relevance of the site to that search phrase. Consider also linking to other relevant pages within your site from the post.

Increased Traffic
Blogs are great for increasing internet traffic. Aside from the added traffic you may see from search ranking improvements, if your blog is interesting and topical, you will get some repeat visitors to your site as readers check back for new posts. If people really like your blog, they will spread the word, resulting in even more visitors. Just think, have you ever emailed or instant messaged a friend with a link to an article you have read? Don't you want your link to be the one passed around?

Credibility
By blogging regularly about your industry you will help to establish yourself as an expert. Many of your potential customers will see your blog and notice that you know what you're talking about and be more likely to utilize your services. By sharing your knowledge it can help to instill trust onto your visitors which can actually result in increased conversions. There are a lot of faceless, anonymous websites out there - an active blog can help people relate to you and trust you.

Links
A good, well written blog can result in free one way links to your site. Sometimes it is as simple as a fan adding your link to their blog roll, and other times it may be RSS working its magic. Try to squeeze in a link or two into your posts and direct them to other internal pages on your website. If anyone then republishes or syndicates your posts on their sites, you will also end up with a relevant back link. A blog is not a magic bullet used to skyrocket your inbound link counts, but it can certainly help.

What Platform To Use
I am a firm believer in the power of WordPress and the seemingly unlimited plug-ins available to help you. That said, just about any blog platform will work. It is probably best to stick with the main stream providers as they tend to have more options available and better support forums in case you get stuck with customization issues. In the end however, any search friendly blog platform will ultimately do the trick.

Blog Post Ideas
If after reading this you are sitting there thinking, "What should I write about?" here are some ideas to help you get going:

->New product launches
->Press releases
->Industry relevant news
->How to's related to your product or service
->Answers to reader comments
->Posts revolving around relevant long tailed phrases
->In depth product descriptions or tutorials
->Company history or interesting stories
->Reviews of related products, services or online tools

Blogs are relevant for pretty much all industries, and they don't have to take a lot of your time. A little creativity can help you come up with ideas for posts, just try to think outside the proverbial box.

If you've been putting off the blogging idea for some time, consider getting started now. There is much to gain and very little to lose.

Author of tyhis article is Alina Farace a freelance writer and website designer. I have written many articles on web site design and managed hosting for top internet marketing services web sites. I have also given suggestions and tips for cheap web hosting and internet business.

Web Directories For SEO

2009-05-14T20:17:00.001+02:00

If you are looking for ways to promote your website, than web directories should definitely be considered a big part of your promotional plan. Web directories provide web visitors with a one- stop destination on the web to find the information they are looking for. Further, in using web directories, you can increase the visibility of your website and derive myriad benefits offered by web directories.

Let’s take a look at the benefits that webmasters derive from web directories:

1. Some webmasters might wonder why they should bother to submit to web directories when 80% of all website traffic comes from search engines. The answer is simple when you consider the following: what about the other 20%? When you are attempting to maximize the traffic that comes to your website, every little bit of promotion helps and web directories can help you gain a big chuck of that 20% of web traffic you have been missing out on.

2. Did you know that a key factor in the ranking algorithm of search engines is link popularity? By using web directories you will be creating more links that point directly to your site and the higher your ranking becomes in various search engines across the Internet. Further, everyone knows that a higher search engine ranking is equivalent to easier accessibility and easier accessibility equals more traffic for your website.

3. The first way to increase your link popularity is to include keywords in your hyperlinks. When you submit to web directories, the links you submit should not only lead to your site, but also should possess themed keywords within the links. The themed keywords will not only make your site easier to find, it will also increase the rating of your links in various search engines—again getting more, free web traffic for you.

4. Links that are created within web directories are votes for a site and they use your keywords within your hyperlinks to associate your link with certain key phrases. As such, the keywords you select are extremely important because they determine how often your links will be pulled up whenever a key phrase is associated with your created links. Therefore, It is a good idea to research the most popular keywords associated with your website theme before submitting your website to various web directories: the most popular keywords can make all of the difference in the world.

5. If you are submitting to various web directories, there are a few things that you need to consider. First, for a directory to be valuable, the pages you submit your listings to must, at minimum, be listed in various search engines. For instance, if you submit your links to a web directory that doesn’t appear in any search engines, chances are web visitors will not only have difficulty finding your website, but they will also have extreme difficulty finding the web directory you have listed your site in. In such cases, the listing in the web directory is a fruitless endeavor. Conversely, if you list your web site in several popular web directories and you utilize keywords in your hyperlink and short website description, you greatly increase the visibility and accessibility of your website.

6. The second consideration you must keep in mind when submitting to web directories is that when you are submitting your hyperlinks, you will derive the most benefit from submitting to directory pages that have a comparable theme to your website. For instance, if you have a website that is based on credit cards you will find that you get more web traffic from a web directory page that focuses on credit cards. Thus, when searching for web directories, look for web directories with topics that parallel the central focus of your website.

7. Here’s a quick tip for you that can help you derive the most benefit from listing your hyperlink in web directories: watch out for Google Adwords as these are a good indicator of how Google at least categorizes the page. In other words, if you mirror your hyperlinks and descriptions to appear much like those seen in Google ads, you will more than likely increase your search engine ranking as well as your listing in various web directories.

8. In order to be successfully listed in any web directory, you will need to conform to the terms and conditions of the directory. Typically, web directories list a series of specific listing regulations that you must adhere to and it would pay for you to adhere to them. In addition, to improve the chances of your listing being accepted you should try to avoid promotional language and you should choose a category that is as close to your website theme as possible.

9. Webmasters have much to look forward to in terms of web directory posting. In fact, the next generations of web directories are now appearing that allows business card type pages. Not only do webmasters get the opportunity to post a short description of there website, but now they are afforded the opportunity to display their logo and contact information as well. Such offerings prove to be particularly appealing because eye catching logos and easy contact information will make a Webmaster’s website that much more appealing.

10. In the end, web directories are a valuable part of your web promotional program and should not be overlooked in terms of their value. Along with the use of search engines, and article databases, a Webmaster will be pleasantly surprised at the free advertising available on the Internet. Finally, the increase in web traffic that webmasters will reap is truly astonishing indeed.

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Robots.txt to Keep Those Crawlers at Bay

2009-05-08T10:26:00.001+02:00

The world of the internet is a crazy mix of various tools, technologies and terminologies that can have you winding up in circles with the apparent complexities involved. Much of that obviously happens to hover over the arena of website marketing or promotion in which lots of tools and strategies are at play. The act of making your website more visible for the audience denotes its quantitatively improved appearance on search engines. The more number of times your website is reflected on search engines when people search for relevant services or products, the more traffic you can generate. This is possible through a process known as search engine optimization or SEO in short. A search engine optimization firm analyses the potential that is underlying your website and prepares a strategy for its promotion. For this purpose, a web promotion firm engages in activities like keyword research, article submissions, link building and directory submissions. With a lot of such firms prevalent today, you can avail really affordable search engine optimization services.
In the midst of this entire process, a web promotion specialist may face certain obstacles in the way. One such obstacle is variably known as robots or crawlers or spiders, which can visit your websites regularly to scan the contents and make an impression out of it. Now, this can be both advantageous or disadvantageous for you with the latter being a common scenario since you would not be updating your website content everyday and the robots can lower the search frequency after some time. To avoid this, a program known as robots.txt or robots exclusion protocol has been developed to prevent the accessibility of your website by the robots. So, the next time you seek out an affordable web promotion service, be sure that you specifically ask for the inclusion of this program by the SEO specialists for your website. The lesser the hassles you face in your web promotion process, the more chances you have of success.

Eight Steps to Number One on Google

2009-05-01T18:48:00.001+02:00

We are all aware the Internet is constantly changing and staying up to date on the latest developments is extremely important if you want your business to do well online. The fundamentals of search engine optimization don't change and if you pay attention to these tried and true rules you can be extremely successful online.

The following are eight elements for you to take into consideration whenever you add any new content to your site. If you address each of these elements your search positioning will consistently improve, as will the quality of visitors coming to your site. Let's face it ... You don't just want traffic; you want relevant traffic that is looking to buy. The following is a list of things you need to focus on so your website will appear at the top of the search results in the most relevant of searches.

Page Title

Your page title is one of the first things the search engine spiders view. This title tells the search engines what your page is about. You should NOT simply repeat the keywords over and over in this title. You should limit this title to 8-10 words and it should make sense to the visitor. Don't simply write anything for the spiders. If you do it will lead to a bad user experience and your visitor won't return.

URL

The URL that displays in the address bar of your browser should also contain the keyword focus of the page. The best way to include the keywords is to separate them with hyphens (-). If you don't the search engine spiders will view all the words as one big word.

Meta Data

The meta keywords and meta description are not given as much importance by the search engines as they used to. You should still take the time to create a meta description which includes your keywords of focus for each individual page. Make sure this description makes sense and contains at least one use of the keyword phrase you are focusing on. Also include your keyword phrase in the meta keywords but don't stuff it in over and over. Limit your meta keywords to 8-10 keywords.

Headings and Sub Headings

Headings and sub headings are very similar to chapters of a book. They describe what it is you'll be reading in the coming pages. With your website you should use H1 tags with your keyword of focus on the page. If you have multiple, related keywords of focus for that page, you can use additional H2, H3, and H4 tags as sub headings. Remember, your visitors will be reading these headings so they need to make sense while still including your keywords.

Text Based Navigation

Search engines cannot read images or flash. It is best to use text based navigation which includes the keywords you are focusing on for the page that link is leading to. This will let the search engines know what the page it is linking to is about, and will act as a "vote of confidence" for that keyword. It will also create an excellent user experience since the visitor will know exactly what they are going to see once they click the link. Avoid text based navigation that simply says "About us" and change it to "About Your Company." There are millions of other companies that are doing it wrong and competing for the phrase "About us." It is much easier to win for the phrase "About Your Company."

Image Alt Text

Search engines cannot read images, but they can read the alternative text in your images. If you add this, the spiders know what your image is. If you include the keywords you are focusing on as alternative text for your images, you'll be letting the spiders know what relevance the image has and it will be yet one more instance of proper keyword usage. Many companies skip this, so if you pay attention, you'll be further ahead.

Body Copy

When writing the copy for your page it is important to include your keywords in the copy. Each page of your website should contain between 250 and 600 words and you should include your keyword phrase at least 4-5 times. If adding it that many times lessens the quality of your copy and you believe it will lessen the value your visitor will give to it. DON'T do it! Your objective should be to create an excellent user experience and provide value to your visitor.

Build Links

The phrase from the movie Field of Dreams, "Build it and they will come," doesn't apply to the web. Once you've built your website and have paid attention to all of the elements above, you need to generate awareness and gain inbound links. Search engines look at these inbound links as "votes of confidence" for your site. If those links are coming from relevant sites which have a high page rank, they will be viewed as highly credible "votes" by the search engine algorithms and you will see an increase in your position.

If you use these eight steps as a template to refer to when creating each page on your website, you will find yourself rapidly moving up through the ranks of the search results and the quality of your traffic will soar. This all leads to much higher conversion rates, and huge increases in your online revenue.

If this article has left you with any questions you can simply go to our "Ask the Web Marketing Expert" page and submit your question. We'll answer it right away and we might even write a future article fully addressing your inquiry.

Pete Brand
Co-Founder Mindscape at Hanon McKendry

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Pete Brand is the creator of the Mindshare Process which, if followed, can guarantee online success. This process can help your company move from the point you realize you need a site, through each step in the process and help you create a website which will lead your customers to become raving fans of your company, product, or service.

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Page One of Google - How can I get there?

2009-04-25T09:55:00.002+02:00

It’s Not Just About SEO

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process by which a website is engineered in such a way that it will be listed highly in the various search engines. Essentially SEO can be divided into two distinct parts; On-page optimisation and off-page optimisation (by the way, in the United Kingdom it is optimisation; in the USA it’s optimization!).

On-Page Optimisation

This is the ‘traditional’ techniques applied to a website, for example, is the content relevant, are the correct metatags in place and are alt tags used? There are various guidelines that can be followed and the subject is easily researched on the web.

Off-Page Optimisation

Off-page optimisation can be summarised as using techniques to get your website listed elsewhere on the world wide web (the nature of these links and how they can be obtained is too wide a scope to be part of this article). Off-page optimisation is essentially an ongoing process whenever there is some kind of competition involved, quite simply because your competitors will almost certainly be doing ongoing work to build the number of links that appear back to their website.

By combining these two strategies, a website owner can get their site listed at a high ranking within the search engines and a ‘good’ SEO company will be able to offer you both of these services. They should possess a good measure of experience in on-page optimisation so that they get the fundamentals of your site in good order (it’s pointless getting your website to appear all over the internet if the search engine robots simply bypass your site because it has poor or incorrect coding within it).

A good SEO company will have built up a wealth of experience also within the sphere of off-page optimisation. The nature of this has changed markedly over the past few decades, even over the past few years, as the search engines change the way in which they rate (or rank a particular site above another).

Web Designers

You need to be aware that many (but not all!) Website design Companies will tell you that they have SEO expertise. They may well have, but don’t take it for granted; check out their credentials and success stories before you employ their services.

Is That It? Is That All I Need to Know?

The short answer to that is “NO”! There are many websites that are listed highly in the search engines for a particular product or service but they are not entirely successful in making a profit. Why is this? Well, let me just say that it’s one thing getting a million people to visit your website every day, but it’s another thing to get those same people to buy anything! It’s like putting a giant advert in the national press advertising a huge discount store and then when the people turn up to visit that store, the products are badly displayed and of poor quality; they just won’t sell very well.

So What’s The Answer?

The answer is to find an SEO Company who has a proven track record of optimisation of various sites. Asks for testimonials and then visit the sites that they have optimised and see if you think those sites will make any profit. A good SEO Company will not only have SEO skills and expertise, but will also have general commercial experience and will be able to help you not just to get your business top of the search engines, but also how to make sales.

The best SEO Companies should even advise you NOT to spend money with them simply because your e-commerce idea will not make money!

In summary, check SEO Companies out carefully; get testimonials, check out their success stories, but make sure those success stories are about making profit, not just getting top of the search engines.

The Author is the owner and webmaster of a business offering SEO Advice, in particular advice on getting on page one of Google.

Occupation: Self-employed
Mike has an extremely diverse military and commercial background. He spent 17 years in the Royal Navy, working as a Nuclear Technician, Submariner, Diver, Helicopter Pilot, Flying Instructor and Special Operations Pilot, including teaching leadership at the Royal Navy Leadership School. Since 1995 he has run several successful businesses and worked as Project Manager for Richard Branson's round-the-world ballooning attempt before becoming a Director in the Virgin Group. He has been teaching percussion for over 7 years and has been running his own SEO company for the last 3 years.
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How to Use Multiple C Class IP hosting with SEO to Build Backlinks

2009-04-22T14:35:00.003+02:00

We all know that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best and most effective way of marketing a website. It is the most efficient method for driving traffic to your website.

Google largely values backlinks that your website may have from some other relevant websites with barely any outgoing links. Generating backlinks is still very important to gain Search Engine trust and to boost up your rankings. So, it would be good, if you find any way to get few backlinks for your site from relevant sites.

But, it is not always possible to get backlinks from the relevant site as other sites are your competitors and why would they provide a link to your website?

With the motive of clearing out illegitimate techniques of SEO employed by black hat users, Google has given a set of restrictions that prohibit black hat users from using their techniques to play with Google’s Algorithms. And, one prominent restriction among these is: Google does not consider any backlinks from other websites hosted on the same C Class IP as yours.

If you want only to increase the Page Rank of your website for flipping, then multiple C Class IP hosting is not the one you want to waste your time on. But, if you’re looking to rank your website for a particular keyword, if highly targeted traffic is what you are craving for then multiple C Class IP hosting is the best thing for you.

C Class IP Explained

Basically, an IP consists of 4 parts: Class A, B, C, D divided by ".". These numbers are given to identify a particular network and a host on that network.

Now, as we mentioned above that Google does not count backlinks from websites that are hosted on IP Addresses in the same IP C Class as your website is hosted, it might get little complicated for utilizing backlinks for ranking. However, this trick surely has a solution. What you can do is create your own websites and trick Google into counting the backlinks.

Simply, you need to create websites on different C classes and place your backlinks on them. The entire procedure is extremely simple, provided you arrange for Multiple C Class web hosting. Once you avail this requirement, all you have to do is registering 10 different domain names in accordance with the niche of your website.

Create WordPress blogs on each domain and craft exclusive, keyword rich articles for these blogs. And then easily get your keywords hyperlinked and backlinks them to your website.

When it comes to boosting your position on SERPs, these backlinks work wonders. They efficiently boost your search engine rankings for your specific keywords as you have backlinks from 10 different websites all of which have low outbound links. This step increases your trust rank amazingly and opens a huge funnel for traffic from Search Engines.

Hence, Multiple C Class IP Hosting is a successful way to enhance your search engine rankings. However, link building is somewhat an expensive option but Multiple C Class IP hosting makes it simple and effective for low budget webmasters.

Robin Dale is the webmaster for the SEO|SEM|UK Web Hosting at www.teeky.org, dedicated for providing useful articles and news about Search Engine Optimization & Web Hosting.
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Effective Search Engine Optimization Strategies For The Small Business Owner

2009-04-13T10:39:00.001+02:00

For small business owners the Internet has proved to be extremely beneficial. Unlike traditional forms of advertising and marketing the Internet provides several advantages that helps small business to reach more potential customers and also get better value for money. While traditional advertising requires organizations to spend thousands of dollars on branding and promotional activities, with online advertising and effective search engine optimization better results can be achieved at much lower cost. Moreover results achieved in the Internet media offers more lasting benefits than conventional promotions.

Small business owners can reach a large customer base with the help of effective search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) strategies. More than 80% of people searching for goods and services start with Internet to find them. Therefore if a small business can attract even a small part of these potential customers to its website and eventually convert then into actual buyers it can increase its online revenues significantly.

Internet marketing, which includes SEO and SEM, requires formulating and implementing effective strategies to draw more targeted traffic that can eventually be converted into customers. Although every business must consider optimizing their websites in the search engines, for e-commerce website it is an 'absolute must'.

Small business enterprises engaged in e-commerce face fierce competition nowadays. To stay ahead of the competition they need to be visible to the targeted visitors and quickly draw their attention. Ranking higher in the search engines is the first major task, followed by successful branding campaign.

For a small business owner to achieve their highest and best return on investment, it is crucial to first formulate a strategy before starting an internet marketing campaign. Then you can begin taking advantage of comprehensive SEO tactics involving various proven methods for driving more traffic to your site.

1. Know your Audience
This is the most important task since your entire internet marketing campaign is directed towards your niche audience. If you fail to know your audience you will target the wrong people and subsequently lose business. A little research to identify who are your customers and also to know how they look for goods and services in the search engines will help you make the right strategy.

2. Set a Goal
Unless you have a well-defined goal, you do not have a direction. Therefore it is important to set the right goal. Once you have your goals clear you can use the optimal amount of resources and channelize your efforts in the right direction. The budget for small business marketing can be estimated once the goal is set.

3. Select the right SEO techniques
There are several SEO techniques that will prove helpful for your internet marketing efforts although the amount of benefit you can derive from any single technique can be difficult to ascertain. A mix of various techniques is necessary to have a balanced SEO campaign. Basic SEO will include a balanced
combination of Niche Directory Submissions, Social Media Marketing, On page optimization through effective Meta tags, great content, a working internal link structure and a site map to name a few. Other important techniques include link building campaigns and excellent PR and article marketing strategies. Oh, and don't forget about analyzing your competition! What are they doing differently than you? What's working and where can you make changes to your strategy to achieve similar results? Use Alexa and other traffic/competitive measurement tools to check up on your competition.

3. Measure the Results
Without measuring the results and properly analyzing how your website is performing you cannot know if the search engine techniques are bringing positive results. However, it generally takes around 3 – 6 months to get tangible results from an organic online advertising and marketing campaign. Measuring the results periodically will help you identify if anything is wrong in your strategy or if you need to intensify your campaign. I strongly recommend incorporating a measurement tool such as Google Analytics to provide the tools necessary to measure your
results.

5. Make proper adjustments
After measuring your results to determine what's working and what's not you will need to make adjustments. Internet marketing is a direct response medium and A/B testing is crucial for success.Make changes to improve your results. This will be an ongoing process, not a one time deal. Google, Yahoo and even the smaller search engines continually change their algorithms. So, what worked one month may not work as well the next. Simple testing and making minor adjustments when needed will keep you ahead of the curve.

David Peters is a recognized internet marketing specialist and co-founder of Net Point Marketing , an internet marketing and web design firm specializing in helping small business owners gain greater online visibility. For more advice on improving your websites traffic, contact David here or visit Net Point Marketing or David's blog, Internet Marketing for the Rest of Us.

David Peters is an internet marketing specialist and owner of Net Point Marketing. Specializing in start up consulting and effective SEO and SEM strategies for small and medium sized business, social media marketing, content creation and increasing online visibility. His company can be found at - www.NetPointMarketing.com

Architecture for SEO

2009-04-13T10:35:00.001+02:00

Making your web site's information and content affects various parts of your business's web sites,

Usability:
Achieving high search engine rankings can drive voluminous amounts of targeted traffic to your website, but making the site user friendly is also important. You need to create a logical information architecture that will make sense to users.

Rankings:
In addition to users, it's also necessary to consider search engines in creating an intelligent content structure. You want to ensure you're giving the right pages the right amount of emphasis.

Conversions:
Web design for businesses should also feature a natural walk through the conversion process. IA in these instances should walk the user through the conversion process, offering informative pages which begin with broad, early-in-the-buying cycle content and consistently moves the user towards the next step in the purchasing process.

While every link on your site has value and passes some degree of "link equity" (search engines essentially see links as votes, and each "vote" passes a certain amount of "juice," also known as link equity), two types of links tend to pass considerably more juice than others,

Internal Links:
Links that are in your site's "site wide navigation" include an internal link on each page of your site. These links, notably those in your site's tool bar or left or right navigation bars, pass a lot of "juice" as they are voting for their targeted page across your site.

Inbound Links:
Your website receives link equity not only from its own pages, but also from other pages across the Web. In many cases, most of these inbound links will be pointed at your home page. Thus, pages that are "closer" to the home page (linked to directly from the site's home page) receive more of this valuable link equity.

The higher up in your site's architecture a page is, the more likely that page will be able to rank for more competitive keywords. The most competitive keywords, as one might imagine, are generally the short, broad, traffic driving keywords.

Integrating SEO with SEM

2009-04-08T12:54:00.002+02:00

Search engine optimization (SEO) and social media optimization (SMO) are two different techniques with a common aim. While SEO methods have been popular almost since the advent of Internet, SMO is relatively new. With more innovations happening in both levels, many experts now argue that SEO can be integrated in SMO.

The whole concept of SEO focuses on optimizing the Web site for search engines. This is important considering the role search engines play for driving traffic to a Web site. In fact, a Web site’s PageRank is now accepted as a criterion to decide the popularity of the Web site. Customers are likely to get attracted to a Web site that shows up on top of the search engine page result (SERP). They assume that only successful Web sites (read businesses) can achieve the top rank from popular search engines such as Google.

With so much of relevance for search engine optimization, Web sites have explored different ways to improve PageRank. Popular methods include keyword optimization, link exchange, social bookmarking, and pay-per-click advertising. With the evolution of social networking solutions, some of these SEO techniques are now merged with SEM techniques. Typical example is exchange of links through mass email, blogs and forums enabled through social communities such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

Social media optimization though focuses greatly on communicating with individual community members using popular communication methods such as email, instant messenger (IM), Skype, Twitter, etc. Unlike the SEO methods, there is a personal involvement in these communications. For example, a micro-blogging application Twitter enables a Web site owner to regularly send Tweets (small messages in the form of text, image, video, Podcast, and links) to customers on a regular basis. There are provisions to customize the message by displaying the logo and theme of the brand.

Twitter is the latest example that shows how SEO can be integrated with SMO. Twitter allows Web sites to share their contents through RSS or direct links to a large community managed by highly popular Web site Twitter. Other Web sites offering such micro-blogging services are Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr, and MySay. Micro-blogging is now integrated with popular social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Orkut. These are the best-rated Web sites among the trillions of Web sites launched in the World Wide Web. This would mean that any Web site that gains traffic through these sites will get a share of their popularity.

More such innovations are expected in the coming years. Any technology that facilitates smart and fast communication is the need of the day.

Shilpi is an SEO consultant and currently associated as Internet Marketing Manager with IDS Logic, an offshore outsourcing company and web design agency providing SEO services India and web based solutions to global clients.

Can We Learn From Search Engine Optimization Books

2009-03-12T05:46:00.002+01:00

Search Engine Optimization is definitely a learned skill. Understanding the way search engines rank websites is an important factor when it comes to making money on line. You can write the best articles, have the prettiest layout, and still find that no one is coming to your website. Relying on other people to share your website with their friends and family in not an effective way to monetize your website. Many people learn this the hard way, working their butts off to create a website that looks professional, but is basically invisible to the Search Engines. So where can you go for SEO help? The quick answer is to hit the books. SEO books, that is.

Certainly those who have cracked the code have read and written search engine optimization books that are widely available. Broken down into chapters that explain the virtues of well-conceived anchor text, the importance of word count, how to make sure that you're not stuffing keywords, the importance of page rank, the differences between Google's page rank and other ranking systems, like Real Rank, Alexa's ranking system and other website ranking systems. Each of these programs uses a different algorithm to determine which sites are the most relevant, and therefore the most important to show users.

Be sure to read the descriptions of the SEO book you plan to purchase, some focus more heavily on Google's page rank because Google is the most widely used search engine. Others, however, give a better overview of other search engines. It's smart to familiarize yourself with several different approaches available in a variety of search engine optimization books so that you can be sure your approach is balanced and informed. What works for one niche might not work in another.

Another valuable feature that you can find when you're looking for SEO help in search engine optimization books is additional tools that are offered by the search engines, and how to use them. Search engines that sell ad space will keep track of the keywords that people are searching for and a good SEO book will teach you how to use that information. If you're relying on ad sense or other keyword-based advertising on your website, you'll want to make sure that you're using keywords that advertisers are willing to pay for. You'll also need to know how to figure out which terms people are using in their searches.
Finally, SEO book selections should be made based upon the merit of the writer. Someone who hasn't made a dime on their website, or hasn't built a high ranking site shouldn't be selling books on search engine optimization. Be sure that you can verify the existence of a high ranking site, and that the book contains screen shots of their PayPal account, copies of their Google Adsense checks or screen shots of their Adsense account manager screen. Remember, the old adage If you build it they will come is just that; old. These days, keep in mind If they can find it, they will come and properly executed SEO will make sure that your site is found.

The SEO Help Book is a great place to start, it gives a fair understanding of every aspect of search engine optimization and even helps experienced designers create an aggressive strategy for increasing hits and revenue.

About the Author:
Cristina Mailat is the CEO of Submit Suite focusing on online marketing, author of the search engine optimization book SEO Help Book and also Directory Submitter software.

About SEO copywriting and its importance

2009-03-04T07:38:00.001+01:00

Search engine optimisation (SEO) copywriting is the technique of writing effective text that is not only viewer friendly but targets specific search terms by placing keywords/search terms strategically within the text and other on-page elements such as title, headings, meta tags etc which optimises the chances of your webpage being ranked highly by search engines such as Google, MSN, yahoo etc because of it.

The dual purpose of copywriting for SEO is therefore to clearly increase search engine visibility which in turn increases targeted traffic to your webpage.

While it’s tough enough to come up with great web copywriting, SEO content writing is given the additional task of pleasing the search engine spiders i.e. trying to match with the criteria (algorithm) of search engines, which are always fluctuating, thereby changing the rankings of web pages accordingly.

While Search Engine copywriting is therefore not a sure shot way of keeping stable rankings, owing to constant algorithm changes made by engines now and then, it is however quite successful.

It is recommended by practitioners of copywriting for SEO to keep the word count to 250-400 viewable words per page with at least two targeted search terms used in on-page elements, as well as, strategically placed within the text.�' Having relevant textual content and enough back-links i.e. links from other website’s to yours are other elements included in this method.

SEO copywriting services are aplenty but having said that it is a very expensive option. Being a specialized field in itself, hiring SEO copywriting services do not come cheap especially when there is stress on each page which can target only 1-2 search terms, the process is long and tedious.

In the competitive rush to gain top rankings in search engines, SEO copywriting in India has proved successful to a number of websites.

SEO copywriting in India is not only relatively economical but also comprehensive. It’s advisable that one take up the services of reputed SEO copywriting companies in India that provide website marketing and positioning solutions to increase your rankings.

About the Author:
I am the webmaster at www.synapseinteractive.com - an SEO company providing Search Engine copywriting services and advanced SEO services to businesses in India and abroad.

Don't Destroy Your Search Engine Advertising with Bad Website Design

2009-03-03T09:27:00.001+01:00

Don't Destroy Your Search Engine Advertising with Bad Website Design
Ask About This Article 02nd March 2009Author: Paul Marshall
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So, you've embarked on a search engine advertising program, maybe even SEO. Whether you're doing this on your own or using an SEO firm, there are key points to become aware of.

If you miss these, you won't increase conversions.

What good is a Number 1 organic search engine raking or AdWords ad listing, if you don't have increased sales or if you don't generate more sales leads?

Too often, we get all focused about the Internet advertising -- the ads, the offer -- that we don't think the whole process through step-by-step and consider the experience our website visitors will be having.

If we did, we'd be thinking "big picture" and we would head off some of these potential problems before they occur.

Overcoming Your Website Visitors Anxiety

When people come to our website it's natural for them to feel anxiety. After all, look at all the cr*p on the Internet today, all the too-good-to-be-true products and services.

But when you and I offer REAL products or services, we have to overcome that concern, even if we're treating our site visitors fairly and not making outrageous claims.

So, how can you overcome these anxieties?

1. Offer more than a 1-page website. Credible companies have multi-page websites, including Privacy Policy, Terms of Use | Service and About Us pages.

They also have more than 1 page about their products or services.

I'm surprised by the number of 1-page websites I see from companies using infomercials to advertise their products. Often, they have the purchase form right on their home page, their only page.

Websites that are only 1-page don't seem credible. And having the purchase form right on the home page comes across as very pushy!

2. Next to any sign up or contact form buttons clearly state that you don't sell your customers' private information and link to your Privacy Policy page.

3. Effectively communicate what your Value Proposition is, also called your Unique Selling Proposition. If you don't know why someone should buy your product or service versus your competitors', now is the time to figure it out. (And by the way, based on my experience, if you don't know this, you're not alone, by any means.)

But our websites have to be about more than just us. They have to be about our visitors. What's in it for THEM, to do business with us? What unique voids in the marketplace can we fill?

As a Small Business Owner, Personally Relate to Your Site Visitors and Communicate Directly with Them

People don't buy from websites, they buy from people! So, how can you apply this to your own website?

1. For many small businesses and solo proprietorships, their website text should speak to your visitors directly in first person.

This should be written from the voice of the owner or President. They shouldn't use third person, institutional-sounding language, getting rid of "we" and "our", using "I" instead, speaking first person, in an actual conversation. Don't try to sound like you're Microsoft!

And while your at it, be careful about overuse of words about you...whether "I", or those words, "we", "our" or "us".

Check out the WeWe calculator (Google: wewe calculator). Make sure to focus on customer-focused words and NOT on words about you or your company.

2. Include your picture on your Web pages.

For a larger small business trying to make that personal connection with their website visitors, try the idea used by the nutritional supplement company Lumina. (Google: Lumina Health Contact Us)

In this execution, notice how Lumina gets you to relate to their customer service department. I still remember it was John I spoke with and that's been over 1 year ago that I called them!

Again, people buy from other people, not from websites.

For us as small businesses, why should we sound large, pretending to be something we aren't? And why should we run from our advantage of being small: low overhead, friendly, personal service and accountability, among other advantages.

Make Each Step in Your Marketing a Smooth Handoff from One Step to Another

If you're running pay per click advertising, make sure your ad matches the experience your website visitor will have when they come to your landing page. Actually, this same principle applies whether you're using search engine advertising or organic search engine optimization.

Quite often when I'm Coaching my small business owner clients or performing the service of an SEO Firm, I find the wording for their organic listing or AdWords ad says one thing and their landing page says something that doesn't sound the same.

This causes confusion is the best case scenario. In the worst case, it causes a lack of trust. Dangerous!

We should understand our products or services. And we know what we want our visitors to do on our site.

Our potential customers may not understand either. We need to think like them, when we explain what we have to offer them and how to use our website to take advantage of what we have to offer.

And when "shifting" from one page to another, we need to hand-off from one page to another naturally and smoothly, like a car with a smooth automatic transmission.

Don't advertise one offer in AdWords, only to have your landing page sound like it was written for another advertising offer. I see this problem a lot!

Often times, having an affordable SEO firm reviewing what you're doing can offer easy, inexpensive fixes that can yield big improvements in your search engine advertising conversions.

Your Action Plan

Let's review what we've talked about.

First, overcome visitors anxieties by offering a multi-page website which answers questions about your company and your services or products, while inspiring confidence in your company. Effectively communicate your Value Proposition.

Second, personally relate to your site visitors. Avoid using the wrong words that may put off your site visitors. Use your picture on your Web pages.

Third, hand-off from one page on your website and one step in your selling process to another smoothly and naturally. We should understand what we want our site visitors to do, but they won't unless we make the process really clear.

Whether your using an SEO Firm or doing the work yourself, if you take these steps, your search engine advertising plan will convert at a MUCH higher rate, when you take these steps.

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Ok. I'Ve Got My Keywords. Now What?

2009-02-28T09:55:00.001+01:00

Okay, so you have found your keywords. Now what?

Well, you need to know where to put them!

Here is a list of the best places to use your keywords on your web pages to give you that much need SEO boost.

Title tag
This is an extremely important tag and it certainly should include your keywords. I've lost count of how many home pages I have seen with the Title of "home page".

The title is also what appears when your page is listed by the search engines and so it needs to be compelling to the human eye as well as include your keywords for the search engines.

Ideally the title should be no more than 100 characters including spaces. Google displays unto 66 characters, Yahoo much more.

Also, get your main keyword in early in the title text. For example, on a web page aimed at offering web optimising advice to small businesses and the keyword for the page is "web optimising" I might use the following Title:

Web Optimising for Small Businesses

Alternatively if my keyword for the page is "small businesses" I might switch the Title to be:

Small Business Web Optimising

Description Tag

Some search engines check the description tag to get a good understanding of what the web page is about. So you must include your keywords in this tag. It's important to remember that your description tag is frequently the test displayed when your web page is listed by the search engines. So again it needs to be compelling for your potential visitors.

Headings

The heading tags (ie: h1, h2, etc) are considered of importance by the search engines and therefore you should include your keywords in these headings whenever you can. You should certainly make sure the main heading of the page (ie: the H1 tag) contains your keyword.

Content

The main copy of your web page should also use your keywords. However it is important to remember that the copy is there to convert your customer to do something once they have arrived at the web page. If the copy does not guide them to taking the action you want them to take then getting your customer to the page has all been for nothing. So, write the page with the purpose in mind and try to work the keywords in naturally into the content.

Incidentally some pundits state that you should include your keywords near the top of the page as this effects the rating the search engines apply to your page. I’m not sure if that is true, however if I were a visitor to your site that found you through keywords on a search engine I would find it welcoming to find those keywords early in my reading of your page.

Links

Use your keywords in any links to your page from within your own web site and ideally where you can on links from external web sites. Search engines following these links will pick up on these keywords as being relevant to your page.

Alt tag

On all your images, use the alt tag and include your keywords in the text. Obviously the text needs to be relevant to the image. Using the alt tag is important for addressing web site accessibility which is now a legal requirement in many countries. Also, search engines read this text and use it for indexing your site.

Follow the guidelines in this article on how to use keywords to optimise your web site and I’m sure you will soon see increased traffic to your site.

Mike Seddon is the founder of KKSmarts. Their site contains many free guides that will show you how to drive traffic to your website. Their Free Google SEO Training is also very popular and can be enjoyed online in the comfort of your own home.

Some Great Amazing Ways of SEO

2009-02-27T10:29:00.000+01:00

SEO would expand to read Search Engine Optimization. It is a way that is used on the Internet to give a lot of mileage to web links. Since the Internet has proven to be one of the most important mediums for communication, a lot of people like to promote their business online. Sometimes SEO is used even when the promotion is not business related. There are two ways of using the SEO. It could first be done through companies, which are into this activity completely. This would cost a lot of money. However there are free ways as well with this kind of promotion for more detial:www.the20seotools.com.Those who are new to this business will end up wasting a lot of money with the SEO companies. It is always advisable to explore all the opportunities that the Internet would offer, before trying to use SEO. The freeways are very simple to handle, and this will need a lot of research. Once you are familiar with the use of the marketing, then it would be easier to do it on your own. It is also a better idea to handle SEO if you have a small business. While big companies can afford to lose money, small businesses cannot. Thus it would be better to do the SEO on your own. There are many ways that are part of this process, which can be done for free for visit detial:-www.offline-promotion.com.It could include article submissions, exchange of links and many more. There will be the need to spend a lot of time exploring all the ways to use SEO. SEO could be very tricky as there will be a lot of methods that are applied. There are many experts who would offer a lot of advice about how to use the ways. They will offer the information free of cost, and they could also offer it through books online which you will have to pay for. Until and unless you are sure about the books, do not waste money buying them. It is also a good idea to ask someone about how SEO works, and how one could promote the links. This is one of the best ways of the marketing for any business today. Once websites reach the top ranks through SEO, this will mean a lot more business for the company. It can grow in phenomenal ways through this method, and it should not be overlooked.

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The Importance Of A Good Internal Link Structure In SEO

2009-02-26T06:54:00.001+01:00

There are 3 reasons why you should spend time on the internal link structure of your site. It ensures that the spiders can find all your pages and index them. It builds the relevance between a page and a keyword. And as a site owner you can determine the PR value of your pages.

Indexing of your website

Ensure that all your pages, or at least those that are important to you, can easily be found by the spiders. This seems logical but if they are not found, you can not expect that one day your site ranks in the top 10. Miracles happen... but not in the SEO world.

1) More pages means a larger site, allowing you to be seen as an "authority", at least if you have something useful to say. For more details go to: www.the20seotools.com.More pages means you can build links between pages. These will get stronger and finally you will build more PR. And the more pages, the more keywords / phrases / long tail keywords you can target and the more pages you will see pop up in the results.

Building relevance between keywords and pages

Before you begin with your internal link strategy you must know for what keyword you want to rank a certain page in the search engines. Your main page will always have your main keywords and your internal pages can concentrate on less competitive keywords or long tails.

The key here is a good anchor text ... If you want to refer to a page that is about the "opening of a shop" and that is the key phrase you want to be found in Google, then use those keywords in the text that lets you link to that given page. Don't link with a text like "in a previous article".

Also try to link from relevant pages that have something to do or might be connected with the opening of a shop. That way you get relevant pages linking to each other.

The green bar

2) About this (too) much-discussed green poison, I will only mention that you should not be mislead by it however it is still very important for good results. The principle is very simple, the more pages you have, the more PageRank you can get and the more you can divide or send PageRank to important pages in your site. For can visit to: www.offline-promotion.com.There's a big difference if your site contains only 50 pages of which 10 have PR, or you have a site with 500 pages of which 300 are green.

Finally, I would say, create a good balance between your external link building campaigns and your internal link structure. Create a clear plan of keywords / phrases that you want high scores for in the search engines and try to give the feeder pages good external links.

Do you have any kind of web presence? Do you have a website or a blog? Do you have a Squidoo lens? Or a HubPage?

Then you have something to tell people, right? Perhaps you have something to sell and you want as many people as possible to find your site.

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Things to Consider Before Beginning an SEO Campaign

2009-02-25T09:16:00.000+01:00

If you have a website and want to begin SEO, have you thought about it properly? Do you know what you want you want to achieve and have you planned properly? The aim of this article is to give you some advice on the things you need to think about before you get started on your SEO campaign.

The first thing to say is that if you are considering SEO then your marketing strategy is going along the right lines. However the last thing you want to do is waste money. Before you begin there are some important questions you should ask yourself. Once you have addressed all of them then you are ready to begin:

1. What do you want to happen?

This seems a very simple question but it is important to set proper goals. Many companies will focus on getting higher rankings in the search engines. However this is a very vague measure and you should think more in terms of traffic and conversions. Your goal should be to get more people to your website and to increase the percentage of those people that you get to buy your products or services.

Another important thing to do before you begin is to get an understanding of SEO. If you know nothing about it then how can you expect to find a firm that will be able to effectively carry out your goals? Like in any other area there are plenty of companies that claim to do SEO but really have very little knowledge at all. In order to find a good firm you need to know what questions to ask and the only way to do this is to research the subject and get an understanding yourself.

2. Where do you want to be?

You know you want to appear in the search engines, but what do you want to appear for. Think of the main areas of your business and what words you think you have the greatest chance of converting for. You can either research the words yourself or a good SEP company will be able to help. It is important to find words that are not only relevant but also have a high search volume and low competition.

3. What will it take to achieve your goals?

Many companies will tell their SEO company that they want to get to the top of the search engines urgently. This is where you should be careful. It is important to point out that there is no magic or any special tricks involved with SEO. The main idea behind search engines is that they want to show interesting popular sites first.

You might be in the very lucky group of people that already have a popular interesting website and there are just some technical changes needed to help your ranking. However if you are being realistic there are a few things you will need to think about.

Firstly you might have to wait time to acquire the links you need to be at the top of the search engines. Secondly you may need to employ the services of a copywriter to produce more content for your website that you need to compete. Also remember that the more competitive your keywords the longer it will take and the more work required to get to the top of the search engines.

4. What will it cost to achieve your goals?

It is important to know what your SEO efforts will cost you and what your return on investment will be. Remember that SEO experts that do the job properly are hard to come by and so will cost decent money. However the return on investment can be great and well worth the investment.

Let’s suppose you are spending £5000 per month on your SEO. After a few months you are appearing in the top 2 for the search engines for your keywords. If chosen correctly this could generate you 50,000 visitors per month. Being conservative, let’s suppose you convert 10,000 of those visitors and an average sale for you is £5. This means you will bring in £50,000 of sales giving you an ROI of 1000%. This is clearly an investment you should be making.

Conclusion

There is a great saying - Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. What we mean by this is don’t jump into your SEO campaign before you have carefully planned out the route you are going to take. In the long run it will save time and money.

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Back Links With Anchor Text

2009-02-23T07:11:00.002+01:00

Today even 6 year old kids know that content is the king of Internet. If you have good and relevant content, search engines will find your site faster, people will visit this site more often, and you will be enjoying targeted traffic.

The first sale on the internet took place in August, 1994. It was the sale of a CD in the USA. Six years later in 2006 internet sales were £800 million per year, and in just the last 2 years internet sales are now worth a whopping £250 billion per year.

Anchor text, in a nutshell, is the text attached to a link that points to your site. Google and other major search engines place a lot of weight on not just links but also on what exactly is made-up of the actual link. Many times people attach links to such words as "click here" or "homepage". Unfortunately, according to Google's search algorithm or ranking formula, you are now getting credit for the term "click here" and not "widgets online" or whatever keyword or phrase you are optimizing for. When link building, it is very important to fully understand what keywords you are trying to optimize for and include them in the links you build. When issuing press releases, news articles, and blog entries, make sure you are including anchor text with all links pointing to your site.

One important part of SEO is anchor text - which means the text that is linked. For instance, if you hyperlink the text "home page" then home page is the anchor text. Usually people think of back links when the term anchor text is used, but anchor text is also important for internal linking.

As with incoming links, you should try to include important keywords with internal links, where possible & appropriate.

Why links are so important? Quantity of links pointing towards your site decides the future of your internet business. While building links you should pay attention not only on quantity but also on quantity of links. Quality links serve two purposes for your website. They not only build credibility of your site but also generate targeted traffic to your website.

How to Improve Search Engine Rankings of Your Site:

1. Research Keywords: It is very important to have a keyword or phrase related to your site’s theme. Type a suitable keyword and go to wordtracker.com, which is a catalog search activity at major search engines. They show the number of times that an entry is being searched at major search engines. This service also gives you a list of related terms. Wordtracker gives you more ideas to look for other important search words appropriate to your site for attractive visibility.

2. Pick Keywords and Get Some Links: Compile a list of often-searched names related to your site’s theme. Pick the phrases with several thousand searches and use in the anchor text of the inbound links that you build for your site.

The search engines will just think you're trying to spam its index so that's why making sure your link is on topic and points to a relevant webpage. Another way to supercharge you back links is to make sure the page that your link is on is also on topic and is a related webpage to your topic.

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Most Important SEO marketing ideas

2009-02-21T13:03:00.001+01:00

When contemplating web design function combined with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies it is important to understand that virtually all elements of marketing are connected and interdependent. Each component may serve its own unique function, but is enhanced through the blending (mashing) of the various marketing strategies available.

Let’s run through a few to see how marketing elements can work together to create something bigger than you would have thought possible.

Social Media – this generally non-intrusive marketing tool can provide the possibility of blogging, video streaming and podcasting all in one convenient location. for more detials:-www.sitemap-makers.com.This off site page can also be used as a powerful backlink that can direct potential customers from your social media page to your primary website.

Forums – this element provides a mechanism for customers to talk together about your products or services. It allows you to obtain free marketing research. The microcosm of a forum may not present an entirely clear picture, but it can forecast certain trends within your customer base.

RSS Feeds – Real Simple Syndication can be a positive in alerting those most interested in new posts in blogs as well as any updated content on your primary site to any new posts. RSS has to syndicate something so it makes sense to use this feature in traffic building strategies by syndicating your own unique content.

Autoresponders – this marketing tool helps keep those interested in your site in tune with your site longer. It provides access to dynamic knowledge based information and can be directed to the customer at the point of greatest interest – and it does so hands free and instantaneously.

Email Marketing – when using this tool you are attempting to improve traffic to your site and convert visitors to buyers. Email marketing is best developed in conjunction with a solid website filled with useful consumer-centric information. If you provide solid email marketing, but have not developed a comprehensive site you essentially defeat the purpose of this form of marketing.

Ezines – you can use email marketing or RSS to alert consumers to new ezine editions. Ezines can feature PPC advertising for residual income and the ezine can be used to point customers to specials, discounts or freebies – and your primary sales site. for visit detials:-www.greatseosecrets.com.Traffic Building – virtually every aspect of the features listed in this article are designed to improve traffic to your site. Social media and the use of blogs, video streaming, podcasts ezines, email marketing, forums, and RSS feeds all contribute to traffic building.

You can mix and match marketing ideas, but the more you can add to the mix the more opportunity you will find in the midst of improving SEO and affiliated marketing strategies.

Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of HighPowerSites and many other web projects.
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SEO some Tips To Boost Your Home Business

2009-02-18T17:25:00.001+01:00

SEO refers to the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engines via natural or organic search results. Whether your website gets very little or massive amount of traffic depends a great deal on how much effort you have put in to optimize your website for SEO. In this article, I will describe some SEO on-page optimization factors in which you can very quickly make on your site to improve your search engine ranking. This will give you a boost to your home business ideas you promote in your website and start to make money now.

Keywords Meta Tag

It would do you good if you keep your keywords and phrases not exceedingly long, perhaps not more than a dozen. A mistake some marketers make is putting popular keywords here but why would people want to do that. Would you put a popular keyword like diet if you are promoting home business ideas? The tip here is to use keywords that are actually found in your website content. In reality, a lot of search engines ignore keywords meta tag and some marketers remove this tag completely and focus just on the content page. for more details visit to www.offline-promotion.com. But there is really no harm putting them, as there are many search engines which still index this tag. You also do not know when search engines change their strategies.

Write Unique Content

You’ve heard of the saying “Content is King”. If you consistently write good content and update it regularly, chances are, you will have more people visiting your site and looking at your interesting home business ideas. If you own a blog, always write not only unique content but update it regularly too.

Using Keywords In The Headline

Document title is what users see at the top of the browser. It is very important to put most of your main keywords in here. It would also help to remove any prepositions like “and” and substitute them with a “|” key. I would also go as far as to say, besides the content of the document such as your article, the title is the second most important factor which determines your SEO ranking.

Using Keyword Phrases

Don’t focus on single keyword but rather keyword phrases. There are five million pages on the web that contain the word “cat”, so a search for just that term produces meaningless results. If your page is actually about cat care, then that’s the keyword phrase you want to have on your home business ideas page. Similarly, make money and make money now produce very different results too.

Make Use of alt image tags

Include an image tag on every image or graphic and put your relevant keywords there. An example would be “weight loss picture graphic” or “safe weight loss image” using both words of graphic or image so that search engines do not view them as spam.

Add header tags (h1 and h2)

Add one header tag (h1) and place our most important keyword there. The header tag should be as far towards the top of your home business ideas homepage. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page. So, it‘s best to place your (h1) header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an (h1) header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page. Similarly put your secondary keywords in h2 header.

Page Optimization Is A Skill

When a user enters terms into a search engine, the engine starts to scan the web looking for those words. If the engine finds the words on a page, it will count how many times the words appear and also determine whether the words appear in conjunction or on their own. For more information logon to www.keyword-swipe.com .If the words are grouped together, it’s more likely that the page is a good result. So, how can you associate your page with certain keywords? It’s simple really. Put them on your page. Put the keywords in the title element, the headings, the file name, and the text of the home business ideas homepage.

Keywords In Domain Name

A website with keywords in the domain name often ranked higher. So if you have not chosen your domain name, you have a great opportunity now to take advantage of this well known secret.

SEO is the process of optimizing a website as to obtain a high rank in search engine results pages. Search engine positioning and increased traffic essentially comes down to 3 basic elements. Keyword and keyword phrase selection, search engine friendly SEO, and good off-page SEO which includes your backlink management and strategy. Additionally, writing and posting articles, press releases and even videos can substantially help SEO placement and ultimately making money now for your home business ideas.
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How to Optimise Your Website For Local Search Traffic

2009-02-06T07:53:00.001+01:00

With search engine optimisation getting more and more competitive, it can be tough to reach the top of the search engines for highly competitive keywords. For popular keywords it can take months and a great deal of cash to get anywhere near the top but that doesn't mean your website is destined to sit at the bottom of the listings though. Search engine optimisation is all about finding niches and thinking as a search engine user so you can predict what people will search for.

Whether your company has a small or large marketing budget, you can make an impact in the search engines by focusing on highly targeted keywords. Optimising your site for a very broad term such as 'search engine optimisation company' is unlikely to bring you much traffic as there will be hundreds or even thousands of companies out there who are also targeting that keyword. Instead of broad terms include local key search phrases in your website copy such as 'SEO Leeds' so local businesses looking for local service providers can find you.

How to incorporate local search terms in your website copy
Thankfully the days of cramming multiple keywords into website copy have just about gone with many businesses opting for fewer keywords and quality content instead. The next time you review your keywords and website copy consider these tips below...

• Local speech
Depending on where you are in the country, people will speak in different ways and call certain items different names. If you're looking to attract local traffic then consider how people in that area will search for your service by the way they talk. For example, local people tend to shorten local place names such as referring to 'Scunthorpe' as 'Scunny'. People who live in the North of England use different words to describe different items to people in the South and these can vary greatly from city to city. Decide on the terms which are used in the areas you want to encourage local traffic and use these in your website copy. Another aspect to optimise your site for includes covering the local area of a town or city. If you optimise your website for 'SEO Leeds' then make sure you also cover the term 'SEO West Yorkshire'.

• Contact page
The Contact page on your website is the ideal place to mention the areas that your business operates in. Most Contact pages have the business address but try adding a paragraph above this to encourage people to contact you as this will give you another opportunity to add a keyword to the copy. You could also include the local areas you operate in and also exact towns and locations in the copy. Consider adding a footer to each page of your website which features your company name and address - this is good practice from the website visitors' point of view as well as it means people can easily find your contact details.

Make sure you harness local traffic looking for local services in your area by using these simple tips to optimise your website with highly targeted keywords.

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White Hat and Black Hat

2008-12-17T12:01:00.001+01:00

White Hat and Black Hat are two methods used in SEO. White hats tend to produce results that last a long time, whereas black hats anticipate that their sites may eventually be banned either temporarily or permanently once the search engines discover what they are doing.

White SEO conforms to the search engines' guidelines and involves no deception. As the search engine guidelines are not written as a series of rules or commandments, this is an important distinction to note. White hat SEO is not just about following guidelines, but is about ensuring that the content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is the same content a user will see.

Generally, White hat SEO creates content for real users, not for search engines, and then making that content easily accessible to the spiders, rather than attempting to trick the algorithm from its intended purpose. White hat SEO is not exact like website promotion, but they are similar in certain ways.

Black hat SEO attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by the search engines, or involve deception. One black hat technique uses text that is hidden, either as text colored similar to the background, in an invisible div, or positioned off screen. Another method gives a different page depending on whether the page is being requested by a human visitor or a search engine, a technique known as cloaking.

Search engines may penalize sites they discover using black hat methods. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms.

One example was the February 2006 Google removal of both BMW Germany and Ricoh Germany for use of black hat SEO. Both companies, however, quickly apologized, fixed the offending pages, and were restored to Google's list.

About the Author
David is the developer of Article Post Robot, the software which can post articles to hundreds of article sites and mail lists automatically. http://www.articlepostrobot.com . Demo is available upon request at help(at)articlepostrobot.com . David also has a directory submission service.

Surefire Search Engine Optimization Link Building Tips - Internal And External

2008-11-13T04:38:00.003+01:00

I have been working as a SEO Expert in the search engine optimization field in Phoenix Arizona for over 12 years, and unfortunately I am still learning. SEO consultants can teach you about a lot of things when it comes to the search engine optimization marketing of your website. However, one of the most important things that they are going to teach you about is linking. There are 2 forms of linking, Internal linking within your website and external linking; which is the process of obtaining links from other websites.

If you have never worried about the marketing of your website online, then you may not know how important linking is. Sure, it helps to get the name of your website out there, because the more links to your website, the better. SEO experts will teach you that linking is used also for a totally different reason. They will obtain links to your web site for the purpose of improving search rankings in popular search engines. Internet crawlers are the bots that crawl the web for search engines to find updated information on the internet. Then they report back to the search engines and use an algorithm to determine where you belong on the internet search rankings. The more quality links you obtain to your site, the higher you should rank. The better spot you get in the search engines, the more traffic you will obtain.

This is how it works; As search engines move around the internet, they come across tons of sites. When the search engines come across websites that link to your site, then it's like you get a thumbs up towards improving your search rankings. As you can guess, the more points you get, the higher your ranking; and thus, this is what a lot of SEO experts build off of. SEO consultants usually use their services to better work on your web site as well as teach you how to improve your site on your own. They will teach you how to obtain quality from popular sites. Because there are a lot of tips and tricks to make it easier and more effective. Link building is what makes search engine optimization so hard!

The truth of the matter is, you can not just throw your link out there anywhere and expect it to count towards your site. In fact, a lot of search engine crawlers look to make sure that the websites have something in common and that they are credible links and referring sites. For example, let's say that your site is about cars, and you place a link on a flowers website. This is not going to help as much for your website rankings. If you do this sort of thing a lot, it can actually hurt your site. Many SEO experts are masters at getting links to your site that work for you. Their services are aimed at simplifying your online marketing with their professional services. SEO consultants can help teach you about the basics of search engine optimization, and how you can use it to get ahead.

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How To Get Free Web Site Traffic

2008-11-12T06:13:00.001+01:00

Creating a website is just the first step in creating an internet presence. Once you build and launch the site, now you have to drive traffic to it. You can do this in a number of ways. Some cost money while some are free but cost lots of time and effort. Regardless of which techniques you choose, it is a good idea to try several different approaches simultaneously for best results.
The following traffic techniques work the best:

Writing and Submitting Articles
Writing articles is an effective free way of driving traffic. When you write a 500 word article, submit it to article directories. Your article can give a backlink to your website with a link in the author information area. The web has lots of article directories to choose from. You can submit to some or all of these directories. Some authors believe that you should submit to as many as possible. Others believe that there are only four main article directories you should submit to:

articlecity.com
ezinearticles.com
ideamarketers.com
goarticles.com
When using article marketing on lots of directories, you should also consider using automated tools to help you submit the articles since it can be a very time consuming task.

Pay Per Click
If you want traffic right away, the best way is to use pay per click advertising. Google and Yahoo let you create a brief text link ad and show it in the search results such that you must pay money for each time someone clicks on your link and visits your site. Pay Per Click lets you pay money to drive traffic to your website, and it does indeed work. But you must be careful with PPC advertising because it can get very expensive very quickly.

Web 2.0 Bookmarking
Web 2.0 or Social Bookmarking is a technique that can be very effective in creating backlinks. To use Social Bookmarking, create accounts at sites like Furl.net or Onlywire.com and post your website URL as a bookmark. Bookmarks on these websites are very valuable as backlinks. When other users see your website bookmarks, other users can also bookmark your site, giving you additional links. So, if you can convince other people to bookmark your website, you can get a potentially unlimited number of backlinks.

Leave Comments On Forums
Just about any topic will have forums on the web related to that topic. Post a useful comment or two on these forums and you can get a backlink for your efforts. Many forums will not allow you to specifically promote your website, but they will let you post on the forum as long as your comment is useful and relevant.

Leave Comments On Blogs
Blogs also allow you to comment. Just like for forums, you must leave comments that are thoughtful and relevant or your comments and backlinks will be rejected. Also, try to comment on blogs that do not have "no follow" in the links, because "no follow" links do not pass page rank to your website.

Link Networks
New technologies and systems are now available to partially or fully automate the process of getting backlinks. Backlink networks give you backlinks from other sites in the network. These networks make it really easy to get links without spending lots of time and money.

When considering an automated approach, it is important to look at all the features it offers. Are the backlinks one way or reciprocal? Does it let you submit articles so you get backlinks in context? Can you get free articles from other users? Does it offer social bookmarking capabilities? Does it encourage everyone in the system to help each other with social bookmarking? Selecting an automated system with these features can be the single most important step you take in solving your backlink problem.
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Seo Needed Adsense Techniques

2008-10-20T11:08:00.001+02:00

1. Find a topic you can create a two part article on. Write part one of your articles and place it on a page on your website. Place Google Adsense ads next to your article. Next you will want to create part two of your article and make sure to make reference to your first article in your second article. Take part two of your article and submit it to ezine publishers, and article directories.

Using this technique, part two of your article will drive traffic to part one of your article. In this way you will profit when someone clicks on your Google Adsense ads when visiting the web page that you have part one of your article on.

2. Create a site that is related to your market that has nothing on it but good quality content about a popular topic in your market. Make sure that you place Google Adsense ads on the site also. You'll then offer ezine publishers and ad on one of the pages of your site if they'll mention your site to their subscribers. Make sure they know they'll benefit by other ezines publishers sending traffic to your site. Their subscribers will be exposed to those ads also. You'll profit from the earnings you earn by people clicking on your Google Adsense ads.

This technique is profitable for everyone involved. I haven't seen anyone using it so be a pioneer and watch this technique explode your Google Adsense income!

3. Find a profitable topic and create a 5-10 website about the topic. Make sure to place Google Adsense ads on your website along with the content. Next you will want to create a mini-ebook or report about the topic, and include affiliate links for products and services related to your topic. Take your mini-ebook or report and give it to website owners and ezine publishers who can reach your target market. Allow them to brand the affiliate links in your mini-ebook or report with their own affiliate links. Within your mini-ebook or report, you'll want to make many references to the website you created for this topic that have your Google Adsense ads on it. Whoever passes this mini-ebook or report around will be driving traffic to your site, and you'll profit from those that click on your Google Adsense ads.

This technique uses viral marketing which in my opinion one of the most powerful marketing techniques is around. You can get some added exposure by submitting your ebook to ebook directories. Do a search to find ebook directories.

4. Take a couple of articles that you have written, and upload them to your website. Make sure to place your Google Adsense code next to your article. Now take the URL of your articles and place the URL in your signature line in your email or forum signature line.

With this one easy technique, I've made up to $46 a day for spending a few minutes putting the URLs into my signature line.

5. Create a mini ecourse on a topic that you know about or do research on a popular topic and create a mini course for it. Take each day of your course and place it on its own website. Day one will have its own page. Day two will have its own page, and so on. Make sure you place Google Adsense ads on each of these pages also.

When people sign up for your ecourse instead of emailing them the content, send them to the website address where the content is. The key to this is putting your Google Adsense ads before the content.

By using this technique you are not only building a subscriber list, but you'll also profit from people who click on your Google Adsense ads when visiting to read your ecourse.

In the future I will be writing more articles on how to profit with Google Adsense without having to use any SEO techniques. By using the techniques above, you are working smarter and not harder, and that's really the key to making money with Google Adsense.

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Search Engine Optimization – How Helpful it Can be

2008-10-15T07:12:00.001+02:00

With millions of websites flocking onto the Internet everyday, there is nothing hidden about the intense competition that is prevalent in the web world. As a result, merely submitting your website with a search engine doesn't prove to be of any help. Finding a good search engine ranking is necessary to mark a niche of your website online. Optimizing a website with the search engine is an art and is no child's play. Search engine optimization is a confusing and difficult task. However, once you are thoroughly acquainted with the best optimization techniques, you need to have a lot of patience and time until your efforts provide you a gratifying reward.

Search engine optimization refers to designing a website according to the optimization techniques so that it gets the topmost positions with the search engines. An optimized website is definitely seen and visited by more people and thereby reaps more benefits for the website owner.

The website that is assumed to be one of the best websites by the Internet users may remain unnoticed for higher positions by the web crawlers. Think that there is a website that contains mellifluous music, stunning photographs, great illustrations and impressive animation. It may be astonishing for many of you to know that such a website will easily be overlooked by web crawlers. This is because web crawlers do not appreciate much of this fancy stuff on websites as it takes more time to download the website and wastes the time of the Internet user. Hence, instead of focusing on these aspects, search engine optimization professionals always emphasize on ethical optimization techniques for better visibility of the website.

There are many benefits of search engine optimization:
Visibility - A website that is not optimized is like not existing at all. SEO tools are utilized to make sure that the website is easily found by the Internet users.
Comfort of the users and benefit of the website owners - While SEO is basically undertaken by the website owners for the better online marketing of their website, but in a way SEO also make things easier for the Internet users as well. This is because the users readily get the thing that they were looking for when a suitable keyword is submitted by them with the search engine.

SEO requires a vast amount of knowledge and years of expertise for effective results. So, it is better to hire SEO professionals for this task. Also, there are a few basic things that must be kept in mind by the SEO professionals are:

Only ethical search engine optimization techniques should be used. Black hat techniques may give quick results but is not appreciated by search engine and the website is soon banned.
The more relevant the selected keywords the better the profit of the website. Also, the right placement of keywords is very important. Not to forget, too many keywords may draw the suspicion of spamming towards the website.
Easily comprehendible and updated content should never be compromised.
The content should be written in HTML code that is easily recognized by the search engines.

Steve Waganer has specialization in web marketing. He is expert in Search engine optimization, Social media optimization and Search engine marketing. To get the seo tips from Search engine marketing firm for your website to get high rank and top position in major search engines visit www.cometsearchenginemarketing.com

What it Takes to be a Leader in the SEO Field ?

2008-10-14T12:55:00.001+02:00

There are many different emerging careers that have sprung up with the growth of the Internet as a legitimate way to do business, but perhaps none of them is as important to continued development of these new industries as a Website SEO Services provider.

In effect, a Professional SEO Company is to ebusiness what the ad man was to the business that existed before things went to cyberspace. So now that the Professional SEO Company has made itself known as a real player, there are a set of guidelines that any SEO Company in San Diego should follow to make sure that they're perceived as both professional and knowledgeable.

SEO Marketing Tasks

First off, there are several things that you should be well versed in if you plan on making a go of your Web Promotion Company in California. If you clients allow you to take over all of their SEO marketing tasks entirely, you should have someone on your staff or at least have access to someone who is a professional writer.

The results will speak for themselves when you convince your clients that fresh SEO copy is the way that they'll get the keyword rankings that they need, and to do that working with someone with a journalism background is essential. As the owner of the Professional SEO Company, you'll also want to understand the importance of knowing how to install and maintain a custom Wordpress blog on you client's site(s). When you become proficient with this feature, you'll be able promote your Website SEO services with confidence knowing that these Wordpress custom blogs are responsible for driving traffic to the sites and keyword rankings up.

Links to Homepages

There are always concepts that you'll need to stay on top of if you plan on driving traffic to your customer's sites and establishing yourself as a Professional SEO Company. One way link baiting is a relatively new idea where an SEO optimized article is distributed all over the Internet in the hopes that readers will follow the links provided back to the intended homepage. Another method that the entrepreneur who wants to build up their Web Promotion Company in California can use is video to build their customers links up.

Crest Media is one of the leaders in search engine optimization Los Angeles . Our tested expertise and innovative design techniques will boost your web marketing and e-commerce business. Your search for a professional SEO firm and web design company San Diego will over at http://www.crestmediainc.com

Patent Analysis: Search Engines Dealing With Inbound Links

2008-10-09T09:48:00.001+02:00

Patent Analysis: Search Engines Dealing With Inbound Links
Just recently, Yahoo was granted with patent analysis from the time it was filed since 2002. A patent analysis is a certain tool that shows how link texts can be useful in increasing the relevancy of rankings of a particular web page. It also provides interesting details on how link texts can be useful for search engines.

The Importance of Link Texts

Most of the major search engines focus much on the texts to be used in the links that will be helpful in the linking of web pages. Some web pages are more oriented and give relevance on the searched term of the web surfers. However, there are some web pages that get higher rankings on search engines even though they do not contain the searched term as long as they are link to web pages that contained the search terms. This idea had been demonstrated with several Google bombs.

How Do Search Engines Treat the Link Texts

Have you ever thought why link texts are very important for search engines? Well, the answer to this wandering is very clear since link texts give weight to search engines while indexing web pages. In this way, the patent analysis becomes important since link texts can be broken into parts called the “tokens”. Here is a sample that can be use as reference:
Page 306 has phrase "best Louis Armstrong site. The tokenization produces the following tokens:
"Best Louis Armstrong site"
"Louis Armstrong"
"Louis"
"Armstrong"
"Best"
"Best Louis"
"Best Armstrong"
"Best site"

For each of the tokens above, the algorithms of search engines are calculating the weights. If the weight exceeds the threshold.

How Weights are Calculated by Search Engines

The sequences of every word or word for word are greatly considered by most search engines especially on how often the token appears in the index in every found word in link texts. Search engines also consider on words that usually appear the least frequently in the search indexes. One reason for this is that some words are more often related to the searched topics. Furthermore, tokens that appear more often on link texts give higher weight of pointing to the special web pages.

The Importance of Patent Analysis to Your Websites

Most of the major search engines use the method of patent analysis to be able to rank pages. To make sure that you can get high rankings on the displayed results of search engines your website should have good inbound links with the right link texts. Web pages or sites with good optimization are important since it provides relevancy of the keywords to the search engines. In this way, the higher the chances are that the web pages are displayed with high ranking results.

The DOs of Getting High Rankings on Google and Yahoo

In as much as you can, optimize your websites with keywords. Special keywords are also best for your websites.

Try to secure many inbound links if possible for your websites. These links should be able to use the targeted keywords in the link texts. Avoid using exactly the same texts over and over again. You can vary your link texts but use related words of different expressions for the links of your websites.

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Optimization Tips To Boost Your Site Rankings

2008-09-30T07:42:00.000+02:00

When you have created your website, there are several steps you can tips you can implement to start optimizing your site for search engines from the ground up. If you have selected strong keywords and keyword phrases, given your site its basic structure and drafted your content, then the next step is to optimize that content onpage.

Start by going through your content and identifying where you have used the keywords that you wish to be strongly identified in your site and in your message to your audience. What you are looking to do here is find a place that lends itself to having the keyword bolded, italicized or underlined. You only want to do this once, dont over do it. If you can see a spot that most naturally lends itself to this even better, as it affords more appeal for human viewers, not just the search engine crawlers.

Next look for a place that is suitable for a sub heading, somewhere around about the half way point in your webpage is ideal. This should have an html h2 header and should contain the second most important of your keywords. This guides both the human reader and the search engine crawler to the key points that you wish to be identified.

Moving upwards you next need to implement a page heading. This is the next step up from your subheading or h2 header and should include the most important keyword that you have selected. Your header should be identified by a h1 tag linked to the primary keyword. Once this is done you then want to place this all important heading somewhere in the top left hand side of the page or in the top, middle section of the web page.

The final step up is the top most heading, the actual page title. This is a crucial step to consider carefully. You should include the main keywords here and the fewer the better. When you make a strong title from your primary keywords, with out any unnecessary extras, you give your title more strength. The search engines give the words higher value when there are less of them and can show rapid results in boosting your page ranking.

Finally you should look at whether or not you have included any images or graphics on your page and have you labeled them correctly? Many people mistakenly forget to do this last vital step and you are missing an opportunity to include keyword rich tags when you skip this. An alt image tag is used to identify what the picture or graphic on the site is, either if the picture doesnt load or if being viewed by a blind person (it is read aloud). By using your keywords to identify your graphic or image, for example pet food image, you are adding a little extra weight when the search engines crawl your site. As with your other elements, dont over do it, there is more weight in doing it simply and effectively.

When you have completed these steps you will see that just a few small improvements upon your website will tweak your search engine results and make it a stronger contender in the search engine rankings. Competition is fierce, so take advantage of doing the little things to boost your site in a big way!

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Why Search Engine Optimization Is A Must For Online Success

2008-09-30T07:36:00.001+02:00

Many calls for articles are requested with the express description asking that a specific keyword or words be used for search engine optimization. If you are not familiar with the term, the definition according to Wikipedia is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results for targeted keywords.So do you know what it means now?

The search engine optimization request means that the word or words supplied by the requestor are to be used as many times as possible within an article while still sounding natural. The object is to generate the most traffic from search engines on the internet. When the word is used within a 500 word article a total of approximately 6 or 8 times without making the article sound too keyword stuffed, the chances of someone finding this article when they search the keyword is pretty good.

For the web owner who contracts for articles with keywords associated with their product or service, a search of that particular keyword will take you to their website. This is used to generate web traffic to their site in the hopes that they will purchase something. For instance, a website that sells hair care products may use hair or hair care as a keyword. When someone is interested in looking at anything that is remotely connected to hair they type in the keyword. The results are displayed and if your site made it to the first page of the search engines, chances are they will go to your website.

If visitors find something they like, they will buy a product from your site. If this happens several times a day you are generating traffic that will make your website more popular. The more hits or times that someone goes to your site, the higher in the rankings that are monitored by search engines like Yahoo and Google, your site will go. The goal is to be in the top spot of course, but number two to eight is a good spot as well.

This is the reason that many people who own websites post articles on their site. Using the keywords that will generate the traffic to their site is extremely important if you want your site to be recognized out of the millions that are starting to swamp the internet. The site can be several pages or one page and the articles that are used on the site are all linked back to the search engines. Search engine optimization has been the number one way for a site to gain recognition.

The first providers of content started the optimization for search engines in the 1990s. Then, it was a fairly simple process. The page was submitted, the search engines would basically send spiders to the page to dissect it. All the words and position in the article were searched and all the information was stored in the search engine.

The whole process of search engine optimization was so simple when it first started. Today, it requires specialized knowledge and serious effort. The search engine algorithms are changing everyday and there are billions of websites on the Internet to compete.

If done properly.... over a period of time, "search engine optimization" is well worth the effort because of the targeted visitors you get.

Ranju Kumar editor of 1webpromotion.com has a great experience in the field of internet marketing and Search engine optimization. If you'd like a team of EXPERTS to Search Engine Optimize your website AND promote it all over the Internet, go to http://1WebPromotion.com to find out how you can leverage other people's effort and time to your success.

Directories Submissions And SEO

2008-09-08T15:39:00.001+02:00

This article will guide you the importance of directories submissions in launching a new site, or ranking an existing one. I am going to review 6 important areas.

Directories are the “brand new site” best friend.

Since every new domain gets put in the Google “TrustBox”, since they favor links from trusted sites. This is a part of the "TrustRank" equation within the algorithm. Directories play a very important roll in getting good quality inbound links that help your site to get out. As they pass PageRank and reputation with Google, your site will greatly benefit from its inclusion in these directories, especially in the launching phase of its life cycle. So, finding solid directories to get your site listed is the key.

The viable alternative to link buying... and safer.

Directories provide one-way inbound links to your site, and drive traffic to your site through direct referrals. By doing this, they boost your link popularity and ultimately improve your search rankings. All this done naturally, and cost free in many cases.

Paid vs. free : the differences and the similarities.

Paid directories quickly list your site, were free ones may take several weeks or even months to review it. On the other hand, some paid directories charge expensive listing fees for the link they provide, and that is not cost effective. If you work on a limited budget for your site, you may want to submit to a handful of paid directories but a few hundred of free ones. Of these last ones, prioritize “one-ways” preferably. Whatever directories you submit to, paid or free or a combination of both types, the quality of the directory itself should be the biggest consideration in your decision.

The directory page that counts is where the link is.

When doing a directory submission, not only look at the PageRank of the homepage, but also of the subpage, where your link will be. While it may seem like a benefit to have your site listed on a PR7 directory, this is less effective when you realize that the internal page where your link is actually only a PR3, when you expected more.

Pagerank is not the only factor of directory quality.

A low PR directory is not necessarily a bad one. New directories fall in this category. These directories do review and list sites quicker. Also, when they become more popular, so will your listing. Again, base your decision based on the quality of the directory. And keep in mind whether or not the directory is search engine friendly. When checking the structure of the link to your site, make sure it is not dynamic.

Directories links shouldn’t be more than 10%.

You shouldn’t have more than this percentage in your overall inbound links count. Don’t rely on directories alone as your link source. Diversify them for your benefit.
Please refer to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics – Part 2 for more sources.

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How Important is Website Design in SEO

2008-09-04T06:16:00.002+02:00

Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines?
Thanks to the birth of professional search engine marketers the top ranks are saturated with the pages of companies that can pay for such insight. That said, it's certainly possible to employ high ranking tactics in your own website. Actually, the most basic tactics can move you up from an 800 position to a 300. However, it's the top of the scale where efforts seem almost inversely exponential or logarithmic, you put a ton in to see a tiny change in rank.

How do you meld the ambitious overhauls required to attain significant ranking and NOT compromise the design of your site?

DESIGN CAN'T BE IGNORED

If you have an existing site, you've probably tied it into your existing promotional content. Even if you've allowed your website to cater to the more free form of the net, it should still be designed as a recognizable extension of your business.

The reasons for doing so are valid, and can't simply be ignored for the sake of achieving a first age position, can they? If your research into search optimization leaves you shuffling around thoughts of content, keyword saturated copy and varying link text, you correctly understand some of the basic pillars of search engine optimization.

And, you aren't alone if you have this disheartening thought-If I do all this SEO stuff and reach number one across the board, who would stay at my site because it's so stale and boring I'm even embarrassed to send people there!

There are two ways to successfully combine design and SEO. The first is to be a blue chip and/or Fortune 500 company with multi million dollar advertising and branding budgets to deliver your website address via television, radio, billboards, PR parties and giveaways with your logo.

Since chances are that's not you, and certainly not me, lets look at the second option. It begins with some research into your market, some thoughtful and creative planning, and a designer who is a search engine optimizer, and understands at least basic CSS and HTML programming techniques. Or a combination of people with these skills that can work very well together.

DESIGN IS FOR BROCHURES, INSTANT RESULTS ARE FOR THE WEB

that’s not the whole truth, but it will help compare and contrast design and SEO. In reality, SEO needs the quantity and detail of supporting text that a brochure has, but good web design has to catch a viewer's attention in 5 seconds. It's pretty difficult to read and absorb the content of an entire brochure in less than 5 seconds.

Search engines need rich, related, appropriate, changing and poignant content. And for them to rank you, all of that must be on your pages. But if it's not well organized and broken down into bite size chunks, no one is going to bother learning about what you're offering.

Sadly, it's very difficult to optimize a site without completely overhauling it. You'll soon understand why. Design and SEO must be strongly rooted into every aspect of each other, possessing a true, symbiotic relationship. Lets look at a simplified example of this. Lets say you are optimizing a page for the keyword phrase, "pumpkin bread recipe."

From a design standpoint "Pumpkin Bread Recipe" would be the heading for the page, in a nice, readable font with the words perhaps an orange-brown color. And lets add a fine, green rule around it.

There are many ways to create that simple, colored heading. However, there is only one way that is best for both design and SEO. That is to use Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. In addition, that line of code containing "Pumpkin Bread Recipe" needs to be as close to the top of the page as possible (which CSS also allows).

To a viewer, the recipe text might be read more if it were located to the right of a photo of a buttered piece of pumpkin bread on a small plate next to a lightly steaming cup of coffee.

SEO needs to read that ingredient list and baking instructions. Search engines now understand on a rudimentary level that the ingredients are indeed related to the optimized words- pumpkin bread recipe.

Additionally, it would take many extra lines of code to make a table in this example if you didn't use CSS. Search engines don't like extra code. In fact, given enough times, that "extra" code will make the keyword phrases seem less important and hurt rank.

Note: In the page code, a few thousand characters more than you need to get all of that content organized would normally just add to your page load time, and might be acceptable. But to a search engine, that time can really add up. It won’t read through page after page, site after site, billionth after billionth character of unimportant code to find the relevant text. Therefore, the less code, the better your chances. Moral- Less code, more content.

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Internet Back Links And Google Ranking

2008-07-01T09:54:00.001+02:00

If you are aware of the Google ranking of websites, you must also be aware of certain factors that play a great role in heightening the ranks. You must also know that the backlinks are one of the most effective factors that are very important in improving the Google rank. If you are not quite well aware of the importance of the backlinks, click down this page since it will provide you with the necessary details.

How would you understand if the Google ranking of your website is high or not? You have to notice the page ranking of the pages of your websites. The higher the page rank, the higher the Google ranking of your website. If you are desirous to get your website listed in Google organic results, the important websites have to link to your websites. There are many website owners who generally manage to have a number of websites linked to their websites, bulk by bulk. If those websites are popular and frequently visited, and if the keywords of the backlinks are quite relevant, the linked websites are sure to be more and more popular. The page ranking also is sure to go high.

You might wonder if backlinks form the only factor which is important in deciding the Google ranking of the websites. The fact is that there are some more factors that are also quite important in deciding the Google ranking of the websites. These factors are discussed below.

The most important thing that matters in deciding the Google ranking of the websites or some pages is the quality of the content. It has to be taken care that the content has a uniformed density of keywords. The content has to be informative. The keywords should be used in a way that they should never appear to have been forced in to the content.

The keywords of the backlinks should be chosen after giving much thought to it. They should be attractive so that the visitors feel tempted to click on the backlink and visit the page. The more the number of the visitors is, the better if the Google ranking of the website since the number of the visitors into a website is one of the important factors that decide the Google ranking of the websites. Here lies the importance of the backlinks in Google ranking.

There are certain things that have to be kept in mind. Backlinking helps in facilitating the navigation of the visitor into your website. You have to take care that the websites from which the backlinks of your websites are should be of a high quality. If the quality of that website is too poor, it may harm the Google ranking of your website while if that website is high in quality, the backlinks from that website may heighten the Google ranking of this website. You also have to take care that the website where the backlinks link to your website contain relevant contents.

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SEO FOR ALL

2008-06-30T07:19:00.002+02:00

So you have a web site, great isn’t it as you sit back and look at your own little bit of world on the internet. It's been up and running some time now, but you have a problem, you aren’t getting many hits and you want to know what you can do about it. Course there are programmes you can buy to get your website higher in the search engines, but have you seen the cost of those things? They can cost £200 plus. Not something that most of us want to splash out on, when all we wanted to do was share a little bit of a hobby with the world, or sell a few items for pocket money. Spending hundreds of pounds seems to be over kill when more than likely the website itself didn’t cost that much in the first place.
So is there an answer.. well yes there is and it doesn’t cost you a penny. all it takes is a little time and a little insight to how the search engines work.
I openly admit that I’m no expert, what i have learned i have done so through hard work and a lot of sifting through the jargon that can be found out there to help us. Annoyingly though, most are trying to sell you something so your not sure what to believe, if what they are saying is all hype trying to sell you their answer. I’m not trying to sell you anything here,im just sharing with you what i know, in the hope that you too will get the traffic you desire to your website.
So, enough waffle, lets get down to the facts.

1) Did you know that the name of your website url is very important. to get the search engines to rank you high, you must have your keyword in the title. Lets give an example here of what i mean. Let’s take a website that sells new age gifts, let’s call it www.spiritcharms.co.uk nice name, and seems to convey the essence of the products. trouble is the name doesn’t tell you what they are or sell. A new age gift shop should have the words new age gift shop in the url title. if it doesn’t then the search engines mark that against you. A good example of good naming is
a website store that sells Gothic item, call it www.thegothicstore.co.uk and you are laughing, the search engines love that. so it is very important to choose your name carefully. it is worth it to change your url if it isn’t going that well, they are very cheap now. Co.uk only costs around £5 for two years if you shop around. Think carefully about your Url does it say what you are or do???

2) Content content content... now this is something else that is important. the search engines love what they call "RICH CONTENT". So what does that mean? well simply put, lots and lots of meaningful text for the search spiders to get their teeth into. Don’t just stick a few lines on your front page and fill it up with pictures,video,flash content. The search engines cant read that content and don’t like it too much. also change the content often, at least twice a week. The search engines seem to know when you have changed something and come to have a look, which of course is good for your indexing.

Don’t forget to include your keywords in your rich text content, but be very careful not to over do it. The densities of your Keywords are very important, too much and you will get penalized, leave a keyword out of your content and you will get penalized for that too.

3) Links, now links are a biggy when it comes to your rankings. some say this is the most important factor of them all when it comes to the search engine ranking you in a good position. Not just any old links though. The best links are those that relate to what your own website is about. So if you sell grass seed, then good links would have grass seed in the title of the website you are linking to. Failing that then the next best thing is websites that are closely related grass seed. Garden supplies, lawnmowers ect.

Don’t just link to anybody and everybody, the search engines do penalize you if your links are scattered about all over the place, stay away from link farms, and shady or banned sites too.

4) Speaking of content, did you know that the search engines rank you for the simplistic text; they rank you higher the less education you need to read it. Yep that’s right. If you have lots of big word on your site that you need a degree to understand because you think it makes your site look good, then think again. simple is best...

Now there are a few tips for you to be getting on with and don’t cost you a penny to implement....

Good luck

Stephen

I am a webmaster of two sites. www.spiritcharms.co.uk and www.thegothicstore.co.uk. i have owned a few websites over the years and have learned that the biggest stumbling block for most people is the search engines and how they rank you. most people dont want to splash out hundreds on SEO utilities, me included, so i have become dedicated to make it simple for ordinary folk like you and me, to understand the basics of SEO, and try to teach people the basics.
http://www.spiritcharms.co.uk

Article contribution in SEO Services

2008-06-23T06:55:00.001+02:00

There are several articles written these days on different type of websites and most of them look in the way that these are written primarily for the search engines. One can easily identify these articles because they are stuffed with lot of keywords and do not contain much useful terms.

Writing articles for search engines is not a bad thing but it should also from users point of view. Many websites may have ranked better in search engines due to such kind of SEO work and now the technology is catching up very fast and the reader and user are given due preference and it is not based on the fashion just nor repeat the keywords.

While providing SEO Services all the professionals and content writers must write with some common objective in mind like providing the accurate information, getting higher rank and better linking with other sites.

These days article writing and submission to different article directories has also proved powerful aspect in providing SEO Services and it also enhance a website visibility on the internet.The article seems lost in case the website does not provide the useful information. In case the visitors do not find interesting article, they will ignore it soon click out of the page.

Similarly distribution of the article which is not written well can not be appreciated and linked to by other websites. Thus in order to be able to attract good visitors to the website and its pages, the published article must be relevant and simple and well written. The article should be useful to the audience and informational. There should be no repetition of keywords and use of variation of key phrase. The article should be targeted to target audience and help the reader with its information.

Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO.He has vast exposure in writing for Web Promotions.He is working for NDDW. For Website Promotion ,Internet Marketing SEO Services India visit www.nddw.com

Directories in SEO Services

2008-06-18T05:29:00.002+02:00

One of the most significant parts to run a search engine optimization campaign is linking. Well placed links helps a lot to push your website in the top of search engine rankings on your choice of keywords. There are many ways to get these links, but some of these ways are quite automated. Taking this significant advantage of your all aspects of link building campaign you can not only get your websites in the top of search engine rankings but also get benefited with the incoming links for your websites for a longer time.

Directory submissions are a source of one of the easiest form of linking in SEO Services . There are hundreds of directories available on the internet where you can post link to your site by submitting in these directories. Some directories are available free while some are paid. The paid directories charge either one time fee or recurring fee. It depends on you to decide on your website strategy whether to post in free directories or it is worth your cost to get submitted in some paid directories.

Submitting the website to the free directories also helps to increase your website ranking in search engines as well as getting listed in search engines like google, yahoo and msn. All these search engine give a lot of weight age to the many incoming links from these directories.

Moreover submitting to directories whether by free or paid submissions is an excellent way to get success in the search engine optimization efforts. Do not stop with a few directory submissions. Make it a point to do regular submissions so as to continuously improve on your rankings in search engines.

Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO.He has vast exposure in writing for Web Promotions.He is working for NDDW. For Web Promotion,Internet Marketing and SEO Services India visit http://www.nddw.com

Search engine optimization: Carve out a niche in the market for yourself

2008-06-13T06:55:00.002+02:00

Basically, the term carries the definition of a process, which improves the volume of traffic on your website. In search engine optimization number of techniques are used, which are natural or algorithmic by which the targeted keywords are searched. A top ranking is given to the site which arrives earlier than others and this helps in attracting a large volume of traffic for the site. An optimization site can target different types of search such as image search, local search and industry specific vertical search engine. Earlier, businesses were conducted in a more unorganized manner and depended on the goodwill factor of any company’s clients. But, given the fast changing market scenario, a thoroughly strategy based approach works in a better manner towards an organization’s growth. Now, optimization techniques help in increasing the visibility factor of a company.

In the early 1990’s, organizations had begun to recognize the importance of making their sites rank higher and thus more visible on the internet. A number of eye-opening studies have been done, which show that the searchers read the pages on a site from top to bottom. A left to right scanning is also done by them to look for the meaningful results. Thus, placement near the top of rankings increases the number of searchers visiting the site. In the search engine optimization process, other internet strategies like paid advertising can increase the traffic on a particular website. This is the most effective step as it can increase the quality of the web pages. Many technical issues are addressed in the search engine optimization process and setting up of an analytics program helps the owners to evaluate their success.

Some of the leading search engines on the internet like the Google, Yahoo, Rediff etc., use the crawlers to find the pages for their results. The search engine optimization process involves a systematic methodology where an initial search engine optimization report is used. The next step involves the customized keyword analysis to define the most suited key phrases for any business. For designing the web pages, a title tag and the Meta Tag optimization is then carried out. This is followed by on page and image optimization process and then the search engine friendly site map is created. A number of search engine optimization plans also include the hand submissions to the top search engines, search engine submission confirmation reports as well as email assistance is part of the plan. Crawlers are used by some of the leading search engines, like the Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! etc., to find pages for their algorithmic search results. But for the pages that are linked from other search engines, the indexed pages need not to be submitted. As they are found out automatically, there is no need to go for it.

Search engine optimization is a good source of revenue for the companies. You, however, have to be cautious while opting for these optimization services as there is no guarantee of a continued referral. There is no need to put all your eggs in one basket. The lack of certainty, your business can suffer heavy losses as the algorithms change on a regular basis. This might result in lesser traffic on your website and can thus suffer heavy losses. Therefore, too much dependence on search engine traffic can be misleading. Since links from other websites could be the major sources of traffic for them, it is wise to look for the alternatives.

Steve Waganer has specialization in web marketing. He is expert in SEO New York, Search engine marketing firm, Search Engine Optimization.To get the SEO tips from search engine marketing firm for your website to get high rank and top position in major search engines visit www.cometsearchenginemarketing.com

Search Engine Optimization Factors

2008-06-12T06:41:00.001+02:00

Like anything, SEO is a tool that has it's place in the grand scheme of things, sometimes you need a hammer, other times you need a screwdriver. So, essentially knowing how and when to employ SEO, can be more pertinent than that the defining motive of why.

In order to keep the reading time brief, we will use a problem / solution summary to expedite the quandary and then move on to the next component.
Site Structure 2008 or 1998?

The Problem - WYSIWYG Editors If you created your site using a program that for lack of better terms does all the work for you, like Microsoft Front Page, Dreamweaver, or other types of WYSIWYG editors (what you see is what you get), chances are there is an abundance of code that is preventing user agents from crawling your pages.

If spiders cannot reach the content and are pressed by rampant renegade CSS, more often than naught they will simply move on to the next site and omit your chances of ranking since your pages fail to qualify (as a result of clunky code).

The Solution: If you really have content that is worthy of sharing, hire a developer or spend some time studying to build a search engine friendly/compatible XHTML,.Asp, or PHP site using an optimized content management system. WordPress works just fine for blogging and you can easily customize it by recreating an XHTML template version of your site that is W3C compliant (in other words squeaky clean with bells on it) to flag the spiders that you are ready to play ball.

This reluctance to relinquish the past with the "I built the site myself at Angel Fire / mentality" is what prevents a vast yet silent majority of websites from achieving their top 10 aspirations.

This becomes painfully apparent when you see examples of crusty content from 2 years ago cluttering up the pages, cobwebs on their ftp program or lack of fresh content whatsoever. Add a stint of questionable code with a poorly optimized site structure and your page is just asking for the boot.

Not to say that you can't use a WYSIWYG editor and still achieve high rankings (after removing the bloated in-line elements) such as tables or outdated HTML formatting, but let's just say that the internet is EVOLVING and it you do not, then those methods you clung to could be anchors dragging you down in the search engine result pages.

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Content, is your Content Cutting-Edge? or Dull as a Butter Knife?

If you are a business seeking to make an impact with your marketing message, what good is traffic if it does not convert? Granted, not all businesses are streamlined enough to shine in the spotlight online, but why just have a placeholder (as a website) when it could essentially replace all of your combined forms of advertising at a mere fraction of the cost per sale vs. print, radio, or television advertising?

The Problem - When asked about content creation, most small business owners reply by stating "they don't have anything to write about or they do not have the time to invest in developing new content for their website/brand".

The Solution simply hire someone who does. If you are that pressed for time or are quite frankly stumped to devise content that can serve as a bridge between you and your potential prospects, then pay attention to intrinsic opportunities, share your white papers, describe something about your industry in detail, parlay press from exciting trends, products or services that you can integrate from perusing RSS feed from news sources, Ezines and the like.

All of these things serve to provide your visitors with a satisfying reason to frequent your website or your blog again and again.

It is all about value, if your pages lack it, then your just another bump on the road until they click the back button or browser to find one of your competitors that does offer what your pages lack.

Strangers have no loyalty to your pages, unless you can convince them otherwise, this also applies to search engines as well. Search engine spiders are a tough lot to sell, they have been there, done that, seen that already and the uniqueness of your content is what they reward (by way of relevant highly qualified traffic that they can funnel to your pages) if you appease them.

Realistically there is a distinct formula for creating top 10 rankings, not that SEO's devised it that way, but rather the search engine engineers did by creating quality guidelines as the gatekeepers of the top 10.

For example, we know as a result of trial and error that search engines like;

* Fresh well written content
* Organized Site Architecture
* Traffic & Link Popularity

If you are not prepared to facilitate the 3 basic fundamentals of optimization outlined above, then save yourself the money on organic SEO, it simply may not be your cup of tea. Public relations and custom content creation may very well be more along the lines of a notable strategy to jump-start your internet marketing campaign.

In closing, What is SEO? Search engine optimization, much like a finely tuned piece of machinery, works best when pristine fundamentals are intact. SEO in a nutshell is a synchronized collaboration of themed on-page content, frequent engagement from search engine spiders, impeccable keyword selection to integrate relevance and a healthy portion of off-page link popularity to balance to the equation. So there you have it, the search engine algorithm simplified.

Jeffrey L. Smith is an seasoned search engine optimization expert and founder of SEO Design Solutions SEO Consulting Company. Jeffrey has been involved in internet marketing since 1995 and brings fresh optimization methods and Search Engine Promotion Services to businesses seeking organic search engine placement.

What is Anchor Text and how it can help your rank

2008-06-09T05:41:00.005+02:00

One of the most prevailing and talked about issues on the web today is getting traffic to your website. The reasons: more traffic will generate income, more traffic gets your advice and opinions heard and to be contactable. Regardless of your reason to run your own site and the results of running your own site, virtually all website owners want to be on the first page of the search engine. The feeling makes you feel important and satisfied that your e-work has paid off.
To help achieve these most sort after positions in search engines without having to spend any money is actually quite easy. You will hear the phrase SEO mentioned all the time throughout the web as a way to help achieve the somewhat elusive front page, number one positions. You will also hear that as part of your SEO (there are 2 parts) you need to generate links to your site. Apart from reciprocal linking and paying for links you can in fact do it all yourself.

The best way to get links for your specific keywords is by using Anchor Texts. Some people refer to them an Anchor Links. Whenever I peruse article directories, which I do daily, I read so many articles where that author might just include a URL link. Often, after reading the submission guidelines, I notice that authors can include anchor links and haven't done so and is ultimately a waste of an opportunity.

To place anchor text in your article is a really simple process. Once you have located your keyword you need to place the following code before the keyword -a href="www.yourdomain.com"- replacing yourdomain with the name of your website and putting < before the 'a' at the beginning of the code and > at the end. Then you place the code after your keyword. The end result should read -a href="www.yourdomain.com">xxxxx- and when formatted will read as it should as per the examples below.

The believed outcome is as followed. Search engines like anchor texts as the words are made prominent to a search engine. Therefore, when a surfer types in the keywords that you have anchor text for, the search engine picks up a match between your keywords pointing to your domain and the search words inputted by the surfer. The more anchor texts that you have for the same words searched for the more chance you have of getting on the front page of the search engine. Now the hardest part for many isn't generating the keyword lists it is the publishing of the content that contains the anchor text keywords. Chances are, you will require many of the same anchor text keywords on many sites for it to show results and that many other people will be targeting the same keywords. However, it can be achieved with persistence and a bit of research. Using the term "allinanchor: *keyword*" in Google shows the amount of webpages that use the same keyword that you are targeting.

Please remember, this is just one of a variety of SEO principles and should be used as part of the overall process.

Chris has a work from home business which researches home business scams. He recommends SEO Elite for SEO Software for the internet marketeer.

Your Checklist To Search Engine Optimisation Reports

2008-06-05T05:10:00.003+02:00

The most important online marketing strategies that can help you be successful with optimizing your business on the web include building a plan, blogging, an email list, press releases, and much more. Be sure to have these items on your checklist and you will have an excellent and productive website for your business.

The first and most important strategy for optimizing your search engine for your website is to create a plan for your site and your business. You should determine all of the most important things. What are your goals for accomplishments with your site and who is your audience going to be? That is, what types of people do you believe will be interested in your products and what people do you believe you need to target that will continue to come back for more. You need to make a decision how you are going to make your website better than others, how it will stand out from the rest and grab the attention. All of these answers to these questions should be the base of your web plan to optimizing your website and they should be at the top of your checklist.

The next thing that you need to do for optimization of your website is to create a marketing plan that will work and get the word out about your business and your site. This includes writing press releases and getting them out to every contact that you have in the media. You should also post the press releases online to every place that will allow you to. In addition to writing press releases for your website, you should write extensive articles about your website, your company, your products, and more. These articles should contain important keywords that will take people back to your site. You should also include your website and company information in all of the articles including contact information if people have questions.

Creating a blog should also be on your checklist for total optimization. This is the one way you can have the keywords that you need for your site to be pulled up in search engines and remain at the top. You should start relevant conversations, add posts, and useful data to your blog and keep people coming back for more. If you are talking about a subject that is important to people they will discuss issues with you, in return, adding more keywords to your site. You should also get on other blogs across the Internet and talk about your website and your products in other blogs. This is good advertising for you also.

You should build a mailing list for optimizing your site. This can be done by determining who your audience is. Your email list may be created over time as people enter in their information and if they request to be on the list. It is important to respond to requests through email and to let the people that do come back know that you care about them as a customer. The best thing about email is that it is free and extremely helpful for your business.

Another way you can optimize your site is by offering incentives to people who visit your site. You can offer free stuff, discounts, and more. People often search the web just for free items and by doing this you are generating more traffic to your website.

There are many points you should add to your checklist when you are concerned about optimizing your website on the Internet for your business.

About The Author

Derek Rogers is a freelance writer who represents a number of UK businesses. For Reports, he recommends Impact Media Ltd, one of the UK's leading specialists of Search Engine Optimization Reports: http://www.impactmedialtd.co.uk

The Google Search Engine in SEO Services

2008-05-27T06:03:00.002+02:00

Google is known as number one search engine in world. It takes only 1/3 seconds to get the information whenever a person searches in Google. The search Bot searching for this search engine are known as Google Bot. According to information, this search engine, every day performs approximately more than 10 millions of searches. This includes students and people from corporate sectors. Google fulfills the information needs of doctors, authors, writers and scientists. It is due to this reason that Google is considered as number one search engines and assists a lot while delivering SEO services .

According to a survey at some places, intelligence level of people are considered on the fact that how many inventions have been done by them on the basis of Google. You can get quite useful information from Google which are very necessary for your day today works. Take it as the list of hospital names, specialists, doctors names, addresses, garage, list of petrol pumps, whatever may be the stream it covers all such sort of data and information. In some American cities people names, phone numbers and their addresses are also available on Google. Apart from this map of the city is also shown along with it.

The hard work and dreams of two students of Stanford University led to the invention of Google. These two met with each other and soon started working for the development of this search engine. The name Google is given due to the fact that Google is a technical word that means 100 zeros after one. Sun Micro systems provided the financial assistance to Google. It started its business from 100 thousand dollars and now it is in millions of dollars that shows a direct raise of hundred percent. Due to increase in income Google popularity is increasing worldwide. Now pictures and graphics etc can also be easily searched in Google. This has provided good benefits to its users and consumers. Google has also provided dictionary and phone book. If you get results in any other language, Google can also translate it. Google has also introduced another feature like news for businessmen and investors. Thus Google is also helpful in SEO Services with its certain developed web tools and other innovations.

Google gets most of its income from advertisements. On the right of search results in Google, there are certain ads shown where people can directory reach on the advertisers website on clicking on it. Another source of income is from those companies that takes license to use Google techniques.

Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO.He has vast exposure in writing for Web Promotions.He is working for NDDW. For Website Promotion ,Internet Marketing SEO Services India visit www.nddw.com

Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO. He has vast exposure in writing for Web Promotions and Internet Resources. He is working for NDDW. For Google Advertising, Google Marketing and Google Adsense visit www.nddw.com

5 Quality Check Tips from a Professional SEO Company

2008-05-21T08:55:00.000+02:00

Ever wondered what a professional SEO Company looks for when beginning a new project on a clients site.

There are a number of high-end quality Search Engine Optimising (SEO) and Marketing firms out there today. Ever wondered what is really involved when a website is put through its SEO maintenance check list. The following is an example of work that is normally carried out by professional SEO Company 360innovate.

ANALYSIS

Firstly, when a customer approaches 360 with a view to having SEO work carried out on their site the initial stage is to analyse the site and see what keywords they already target (if any) and also what on-site work needs to be done on the website (we call this on-page optimisation). It’s a bit like having a health and safety assessment on your premises, we go through the nuts and bolts of your site, the text, images, layout, navigation, structure and usability features to make sure that its been built to a standard that enables your site to rank at its most optimum in the main search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask).

There are at least 200 individual areas we examine and check and it is a very important first stage that gets you started. Thankfully there are a lot of customers out there who have employed good designers who make sure that the initial work is done and that the first stages as described above can be kept to a minimum.

KEYWORD RESEARCH

Keyword research is a very important step used in identifying what people actually type in the search engines to find your product or services.

For example, most of our customers find us using "SEO Company", or "SEO Company UK", but we also get traffic from "Search Engine Optimisation Company Scotland" or "Internet Marketing Company" plus a whole range of other sources.
Another factor to take into consideration is the conversion rate from a particular keyword search. Conversion rates can be determined by how many times it takes a unique visit to your site to actually buy something or even make an enquiry. There may be multiple reasons why your site is not converting from not targeting the correct traffic, bad design or navigation, perhaps your site suffers from a number of negatives that simply put people off from ordering/enquiring due to the lack of trust.

THE COMPETITION

We look at their site, not just once, but every day, we monitor changes, we log them, we work out why they are achieving such good results and we implement a strategy to better them.

KEYWORD DEFINITION

After extensive research into the keywords and phrases used in your industry we agree with you the amount of keywords that you wish us to focus on.This will vary from customer to customer, some customers will only want us to focus on a small amount of keywords for their SEO campaign and some will want us to focus on thousands of keywords, this is also how we define how much time we spend on your site initially and on a ongoing basis and according how much it will cost.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS/PRESS RELEASES

We produce articles and on-line press releases related to your business on a monthly basis linked to the keywords we use in your campaign, with links to your site within the content. We then release/publish these documents within trusted on-line sites that the search engines like to visit and read on a regular basis, this in turn links back to your site and gives you favourable search engine listing results, as the search engines see you updating your content on a regular basis.

LINK BUILDING

We will seek to link your site to as many other trusted sites available that are in your industry, for example if you are a retailer, we would link your site to National Retail Federation, or if you were a restaurant, we would link your site to a trusted restaurant review site. Link Building is a fundamental part of any SEO package. Search engines monitor the links pointing to your site. Gathering trusted links to your domain is a natural progression and any website that suddenly accumulates hundreds or thousands of links in a very short time frame will be flagged for underhand tactics and possibly put under review with a ban from the search engines being the favoured outcome. Not a good business strategy.

TIME SCALES

The time taken achieve good page one results differs according to how competitive your industry is, and anyone or company that guarantees you top ten results within a short time-frame be extremely cautious about employing them to carry out SEO work for you. However, If you have an uncompetitive keyword or phrase, then you can normally see results in about 6-12 weeks, if on the other hand you are in a fiercely competitive industry then it can be anywhere between 4-12 months.

ONGOING WORK

Everything spoken about here is not something that we do on one occasion, but is completely and utterly ongoing. It’s best to see SEO or Internet Marketing as a pro-active approach. The guidelines are always changing. What may work well today may not tomorrow. There are other approaches that we have not even touched upon in this article such as viral marketing, blogging, email marketing, podcasts, video marketing and social media marketing. The web is a fluid market, if you stand still then your competitors will pass you by.

Article By Paul Steven.

Why Early Identification of Keyphrases are Important to your Websites Development

2008-05-17T07:18:00.001+02:00

Having a successful profitable website can depend on many factors, none more important than effective keyphrases selection. If you get your keyphrases wrong then it can have a major effect on your website.

As SEO or search engine optimisation can take months to take effect, finding out six months down the road that you have selected poor keyphrases that aren't returning anything on your investment can be a hard pill to swallow. That's why it's very important you get it right from the get go.

When doing your keyphrase research try and think of targeted keyphrases because if you go for the more general keyphrases you will find that they are harder to get good listings for and the traffic will be of poor quality.

Let's go into this in a little more detail, let's take a fictitious company called Tartan Paint. Now you may think that "paint" may be a great keyphrase to use but in fact no. Doing a search on Google for "paint" yields 188,000,000 results. Now this keyphrase would be hard to get onto page one for and is far to general for Tartan Paints as they only sell tartan paint, and someone looking for any other kind of paint won't find this site very useful.

So a far more targeted keyphrase would be of course "tartan paint" and as the time of writing this article Google yielded 168,000 results which is a far more achievable keyphrase. This may be a very simple example but I think you get the point.

If you are looking for a good website design Edinburgh I found this company to be of great help and can help you to increase website traffic.

Use your imagination and try to drill down to specific targeted keyphrases and your traffic will be far more targeted. Using the Google keyword tool can be a good place to check if your chosen keyphrases are actually been typed into there search engine. Some other good tools are Keyword Discovery and Wordtracker, although the later two tools aren't free but are a great resource for finding good long tailed targeted keyphrases.

If you're having trouble coming up with keyphrases try asking your friends and work colleges for ideas, as this could discover some hidden jems that you may not have thought of. Just remember that keyphrases are the foundation of your SEO campaign and need to be taken seriously.

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How To Optimize The Flash Website

2008-05-10T10:45:00.001+02:00

The SEO experts and Web designer professionals are getting the hot problem for optimizing the flash related websites. Flash moves and intros are frightening for SEO specialists. The reason is the spiders will not crawl the flash movies and search engines will not crawl the flash related sites. Flash movie contain the inside of the text in the movie you can simply count this text lost for boosting your rankings. Of course search engines are start indexing the flash movies if contain the plain text, this is just incompetent way for optimization of flash sites.

Flash movies are very composite to the search engine spiders to index the flash movies. The spiders only index the flash filenames only not the content. This will be applicable for all search engines. There is no difference of Google, yahoo and msn because search engines are really united.

Tips for optimizing the flash sites

1. create metatags

Creating the metadata is very important aspect in optimizing the flash site. even though it is often undervalue and misunderstood. Actually metadata is not the important to search engines but flash tools agree to add the metadata to your flash intros or movies. So the metadata fields are not empty.

2. Flash SDK search engine

This is the most important tool for the flash movies. This tool will extract the links and content from the flash movie. The tool named as implies swf2html. This tool extract the text and links of the macro media flash file and write the output into standard format of html document. Then you can save the file as it manually.

3. SE flash.com tool

This tool will show the your flash files is visible or not to the search engines. After installation of flash sdk software you can use SE flash.com tool too.because it will give the extracted accuracy text from the flash movies. So this tool will give different results to you.

You should be following the basic rules of seo for flash related websites. They are don’t copy the content from your competitor sites; because it implies as doorway pages and don’t use the back ground color as similar to text color ; it will implies just like as hidden text.

SEO Analyst & Web designer (www.vinsystech.com)

How To Build Links For A Website?

2008-05-10T10:42:00.001+02:00

Do you own an online business? Are you trying to promote your website? If yes then keep on reading this article. This article can give enough information about link building methods. Every one tries to build an excellent website. After creation of a website you need lot of visitors. One of the main sources of traffic is major search engines. Search engines count the credibility of a website according to the number of backlinks pointing towards the website. There are two types of backlinks. There are several methods which are being used by webmasters to build links. It is very important to build quality links. According to the algorithm of major search engines like Google one way links are better then two way links.

One way links can be built in many ways. Most common methods which are used by webmasters to build one way links are directory submission, article submission, submission of website to social book marking websites and forum posting. All the above methods are effective but not all of them provide quality links.

Nowadays people are looking for link building services. There are many websites which offer link building services. With the help of these websites you can buy quality links on the related websites. Text link which you have bought on the related websites gives credibility as well as traffic to your website. It is a good idea to consult a SEO professional before you start a website promotion project. A professional can help you in every aspect of link building project. Proper use of link building methods will help your website to attain better rank on search engine result page.

If you want to know more about One Way Links then feel free to visit Link Building Service.

Give Your Online Business the Edge of Search Engine Optimization

2008-05-09T12:46:00.001+02:00

The online medium has become an important and integral platform for most businesses as its reach far extends the reach of the conventional mediums like those of the electronic and print medium. It is; therefore, expected that a brick-n-motor business will also have an online existence in the form of a website, besides the usual online businesses. Now, even if you do have an online website that talks about your product, service or ideas, but it will of no use until and unless the target audience is aware of its existence. However, not everyone can promote and optimize a website and you need professionals who have the necessary expertise in the online medium to do justification to your website. In this situation, you can get the maximum benefit by hiring a search engine optimization firm that is an expert in this field of work.

The job of a search engine optimization firm is that it provides high ranking on the popular search engines like Google and Yahoo due to a high relevance rating of your website. The firm providing search engine optimization services for your website would evaluate the target audience for your website and accordingly formulate the strategies to increase the relevancy of the website for the target users. Some of the more popular methods used for optimization include the writing and posting of keyword heavy articles and press releases, article syndication with other relevant websites, link building and participation in discussions on popular social media platforms.

Search engine optimization service providers look at the content provided by the client's website and ensure that it is well written, informative and relevant to the target consumers. The design and layout of the website should also be user friendly to enhance navigation for the internet user. The spider bots of the search engines find it convenient to crawl such websites and rank them high on the search engines, ensuring a high visibility for the client website. The higher the visibility is for the website, the more will be the traffic directed to such a website and if the target audience find relevant content then it is much easier to convert such potential customers into actual consumers for the client. Hence, the focus of the search engine marketing firms on the keyword relevant for a search engine helps your website gain the due recognition it deserves.

So, if you too have opted for the online medium of flaunting a website for your products, services or ideas, it is advisable to give it the maximum advantage of a search engine optimization (SEO) firm. Similar to the manner of advertising by a brick-n-motor company, the SEO firm will promote you website through high rankings on the popular search engines, helping your website grab the eyeballs of the target audience. Promotional tactics are the keys to generating awareness about any business, even for online websites. So, go ahead and spread the word about your online business and rake in the profits.

Steve Waganer has specialization in web marketing. He is expert in SEO New York, Search engine marketing firm, Search Engine Optimization.To get the SEO tips from search engine marketing firm for your website to get high rank and top position in major search engines visit www.cometsearchenginemarketing.com

Search Engine Optimization Mistakes

2008-05-08T11:02:00.000+02:00

Article by: Bruce Gow http://www.searchengine-guy.com.au

Many web designers and website owners believe in "If You Build It They Will Come". This attitude will get your web site nowhere fast.

Sure, if you build it you will get people that know about your company and know that you have made the site live come and visit, but you will not be unleashing the real potential of your web site.

Search engine optimization needs to be implemented from the beginning and to be ongoing if you want any sort of rankings for your website. The following are biggest mistakes in SEO that I see all the time.

1. Poor Choice of URL or Website Address

How many people, let alone search engines would know that www.mpna.com.au is all about mobile phones, even though the letters stand for Mobile Phones Network Australia? Adding a strong keyword in the URL like, www.mobilephonesnet.com.au would place this website in front straight away. It tells English literate humans and search engines that the site is about mobile phones!

2. Lack of Adequate Keyword Research

Keyword research HAS to be carried out initially or else you may be placing your efforts into becoming popular for keywords that few people are searching for regularly.

3. Laziness

Laziness is also a major contributing factor. Many webmasters feel it is just too hard or too time consuming to do search engine optimization or write articles about what they do best. If you are not adding at least one page to your website every month, then you can't expect to be ranked very high for your important terms.

In situations where you just can't devote the time to search engine optimize your site I would recommend seeking the services of a professional search engine optimization company, such as our SEO firm; http://www.searchengine-guy.com.au

Whatever your choice, make sure that any firm that you choose has the appropriate internet marketing qualifications to do the job well.

4. Aiming Too Low

Many people think "Well my site is only a small site, there is no way I will be able to compete with the larger sites that have top spots in the search engines". It is possible that that if you optimize your web site you may not be able to compete with the larger sites and may not be able to get a page 1 or 2 ranking in any of the search engines, BUT, what if you did? Always shoot for the stars so if you fall short you will at least hit the sky.

5. Lack of Planning

Simply said, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Planning is an essential factor in your SEO campaign. Knowing exactly what steps you are going to make and in what order and how you are going to go about achieving each of those steps will save you not only time but it will save you frustration as well. Planning is essential.

6. Too Many Changes Made Without Testing

Don't change your entire site all at once, instead, change a few areas at a time and see what results they produce. If you are satisfied with this then move on and optimize another section.

7. Failing to monitor Your SEO Progress

There are many ways to do this you will have to find the best method for you. You will need to monitor your search engine ranking for the keywords you are targeting after each update.

Changes should be recorded and used as references to monitor progress and for strategy adjustments. There are many tools for this process as well. I recommend IBP, Internet Business Promotion, will has most of the SEO tools that you need to get top rankings in the search engines.

8. Linking to "Bad Neighbourhoods"

These sites are also known as free for all (FFA) pages and link farms. They serve no other purpose other than to list tens of thousands of unrelated websites. Not only will these sites not provide your site with any traffic, certain search engines will ban sites who participate.

9. Over Optimisation

Trying to pull too many rabbits out of the hat at once, or "Over Optimisation" of your website.

Optimizing your web pages for a particular search engine can be a good thing. Over-optimizing can defeat the purpose, however. Search engines are catching on quickly to pages that appear ‘over-optimized’.

Stuffing key-words into your pages is the most common problem. Never use hidden (invisible) text to add keywords. Adding loads of links at once, even if they ARE related to your site. You will get caught, and your site will get banned.

10. Use of Doorway Pages

Using Doorway Pages to get unrelated pages popular. Doorway pages are orphaned web pages that are typically optimized for a particular key-phrase and a particular search engine.

They are promoted to the search engine in an effort to achieve high rankings. They are not linked back to by any other page on the website and, as such, search engines are able to flush them out quite easily and penalize the entire site.

One final note: Any company that tells you that it can achieve ‘guaranteed’ rankings is either lying to you or using some of these Black Hat techniques. Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee a number one result within (unpaid) search results. When choosing a search engine optimization company to work with, be sure you feel comfortable with them and trust them

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About the Author
Bruce Gow specialises in search engine optimisation, Search Engine Optimization & article submission.

This article is free for republishing as long as the article remains intact and a link is given back to our website. For a free report on search engine marketing of your website, visit http://www.searchengine-guy.com.au

Search Engine Optimization Tips: Rank High in the Search Engines for Your Keywords

2008-05-08T10:55:00.002+02:00

Every internet marketer or webmaster aims to have their websites in the first page of the organic search results for their targeted keywords. In this article, I’m going to reveal some vital search engine optimization tips that will boost your chances of being listed in the Top 10 results for your chosen keywords.

SEO has its advantages. It’s free, unlike pay per click where you have to pay every time someone visits your site, regardless of whether they buy anything or not. Being listed in the organic search results may also attract more visitors to your site than the paid listings; people are not inclined to click on ads and prefer to click on natural search items.

The downside of SEO is that search engines change their algorithms often; but don’t worry. By following the search engine optimization tips below, you’ll stand a much bigger chance of being listed in the Top 10 for your desired keywords and keeping your position for a long time to come.

Keywords must be in the anchor text of incoming links.

A different site linking to you counts as a vote in the eyes of the search engines. And if the anchor text of the incoming links has your keywords in it, then you will have better chances of ranking for those keywords.

Keywords must be within the title tag.

The search engines place great emphasis on the title tag; it tells them what your website’s topic is about. Place your keywords at the start of the title tag for best results. The title tag must not be longer than 60 characters.

Your link should contain your keywords.

Having your keywords in your link will help you get ranked for those keywords. For example, if you want to rank high for the keywords "website copywriting," your link should look like this: http://yoursite.com/website-copywriting.htm.

Play it safe with your keyword density.

There is no specific rule regarding the "right" keyword density, because the search engines change their algorithms often. There have been theories that Google considers a keyword density of more than 2% to be spamming, but Yahoo and MSN are fine with up to 5%.

Different SEO experts have mixed opinions on the ideal keyword density; so don’t focus all your energies on this. Just mention your keywords near the beginning and write naturally. To be on the safe side, aim to have no more than 2%, but space out your keywords from each other so they would look natural in the eyes of the search engines.

Put your keywords in headings (within the H1 tags, H2 tags, etc.)

The search engines place great emphasis on words between headings (H1, H2, etc.) so it would be a smart idea to have your keywords placed within them. Just make sure that the keywords are suitable to the content and you’re not “forcing” them.

Put bold, strong, or italicize tags between your keywords.

The search engines take more notice of words that are either bolded or italicized, so placing your keywords within the bold, strong, or i tags can help you rank higher for those keywords.

Put your keywords near the start of your content.

Although this does not count as much as the search engine optimization tips above, putting your keywords at the beginning of your content (not necessarily html code) is a good SEO strategy because the search engines place great emphasis on the first few parts of your webpage.

Put your keywords in metatags.

Google overlooks metatags, but Yahoo and MSN still read them. So spend a few seconds putting your keywords in metatags to add to your search engine credits.

Put your keywords within alt tags.

The search engines can't read graphics or images, but they can read the text descriptions within the alt tag. If you have images on your site, fill in the alt tag with your keywords, but don't overdo it.

Target specialized keywords.

Some keywords have very high competition that you have lesser chances of ranking for them. If you have a target audience or niche, it might be a good idea to focus on those keywords that are more targeted and have less competition. For example, instead of having a competitive keyword phrase like “jobs bartending,” you can focus on “alabama bartending jobs” if your target audience is in Alabama.

Observe LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing).

Don’t let that technical-sounding phrase put you off. To explain it simply, the search engines look for synonyms or words related to your target keywords to determine the relevancy of your content to your keywords. The search engines place more emphasis on those pages that have words related to the keywords as opposed to pages having only the targeted keywords. For example, if your target keyword is “self-hypnosis,” your webpage would have better search results if you have related words such as “auto-suggestion” and “visualization” rather than having only “self-hypnosis” in your document. For LSI suggestions, use Google Sets at
http://labs.google.com/sets

Observe keyword proximity.

Keyword proximity is the closeness of the keywords to each other. For example, you're optimizing your webpage for the keywords "marketing strategies." If you have "marketing" in the first sentence and "strategies" in the 4th sentence, it still counts but doesn't have as much effect as having "marketing strategies" together without any words in between. Keyword proximity is used for keyword phrases that have 2 or more words.

Never engage in keyword stuffing.

Don’t fill your content with keywords unrelated to your topic. This will have a negative impact on your search results for other targeted keywords. Never stuff your content with keywords deliberately, especially those unrelated to your content. If the search engines see you filling keywords in an unnatural way, you might get banned from the search results.

Hope these search engine optimization tips help you get first page rankings for your chosen keywords. Best of luck to your SEO efforts!

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Tell Search Engines about your website with Google Sitemap

2008-05-07T06:21:00.001+02:00

Google Site Map allows webmasters to submit a listing of all the URLs for Google to crawl. Submitting your sitemap to Google tells the Google bots, what exactly your website is about. In order to beat the hard hitting competition on internet among websites, submitting sitemap to Google better equip your website in order to attract Search engine robots to your site.

What a sitemap is exactly?
Sitemap is a single page dedicated to the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make navigating your site easier and having a crude idea about your website content as well as the basic theme of your website. Sitemaps are equally beneficial to search engines as well as web users. Technically a sitemap is an XML file embedded with all the links and other information regarding a particular website.

Reasons to submit a website
Sitemap can simply be called as a web page that lists each and every single web page on your website. Huge and unmanageable websites having thousands of web pages need a sitemap earnestly to help visitors as well as search engines. One has to link to every web page on your website from the sitemap page. Submitting sitemap for your website benefits you from two different points of views, visitor’s point of view as well as search engines point of view.

For Search Engines: Submitting sitemap to search engines assure you of better search engine visibility. Search engine might be able to fully index your website if your website is using a sitemap. Better search engine visibility can reward you with huge web traffic and make your website popular through out the world. Sitemap informs the search engines about changes you make in your website immediately, so it helps your pages to be indexed faster as compared to websites not submitting sitemap. Search engines can generate great traffic for your website as well as improve your SEO rank. Sitemaps also help to classify your website content. Having a sitemap on your website, external links become less important for you.

For Web Visitors: Sitemap also helps you to generate interest of web visitors towards your website. Surfing a vast website having more than 100 pages, it’s difficult for web visitors to navigate. Submitting a sitemap providing complete information about your website allows you’re your visitors to surf without hassles. A user can easily find what exactly he/she is looking for on your website with the help of sitemap.

Tarun Gupta is Director of the SEO Company which offers complete Search Engine Optimization Services to carry out optimization activities successfully.

SEO Web Design For Text

2008-05-06T18:33:00.003+02:00

It is well known that the best way to search engine optimize a website in terms of its design is to keep it as free as of many bells and whistles as possible (including images, banners and graphics.) However once you have some excellent copy to put on the front pages of your site your job does not stop there. You should make sure your web design is going to nicely support that text as well.

First of all make sure that there is no Flash, image map bytes, java script or any other kind of multimedia on that page. The search engine spiders will read that as blank space. Second of all make sure that you include text for your image ALT tags as well as for all of your anchor tags.

Thirdly, you need to consider how your HTML code will be prioritized and arranged on the page. It is also absolutely essential that your HTML code is clean as well. It does not matter if the web page looks right. It is what is beneath it that matters most to the search engine spiders (the sloppy HTML scraps and ends of mistakes that you don’t see.) If this is sloppy enough your website could end up being ignored or repressed for a long time before it actually becomes part of any page ranking.

You should also never underestimate the impact of your site’s functionality and architecture on the search engines. An assessment of this is definitely known to be a part of many of the algorithms that govern page rank popularity on the major search engines like Google. If a search engine does not think your site is well put together it can simply ignore it. This means that nobody will ever see the clever search engine copy that you were trying to get the site’s search engine optimized architecture to support in the first place. That, of course, would be a waste of time.

About the Author
Chris Angus is a SEO and website promoter. He helps to promote the following pages: http://www.my-great-site.com/cat/100/ http://urlsdirectory.com/Business/Industry/?s=A

Advanced SEO Concepts to Beat the Competition

2008-05-05T12:20:00.005+02:00

The cutting edge technology the world of search engines is changing day by day. In the current scenario search engines are smarter than ever before. To stay ahead in the competition it’s necessary to understand the advanced concepts search engines are introducing to assure that only genuine websites would rank in SERPs. Here are some advanced SEO concepts to stand with the cut throat competition webmasters are facing in order to rank well in the search engines.

LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing)

Search engine shave now introduced the LSI model. Now the documents appearing in search engine results are basically based on LSI or in order to appear in search engine results your documents should be semantically related. LSI basically helps search engines to find out what a web page is all about. It means you shouldn't focus on a single keyword when optimizing your web pages and getting links. The web pages on your web site should be related and focus mainly on a special topic while using different words that describe the topic

Google sand Box Effect

Google sand box is basically a theory which implies that Google like old websites as compared to the young ones. New domains are kept in a sand box for a particular time frame which is basically 4 to 6 months. After that much time period those websites are able to index by Google. Google sand box is not an official theory by Google, but SEO practitioners believe that Google sandbox exists and younger domains have to wait to be displayed in Google. But in many cases new domains has also got the top notch position in Google. The only required thing is the correct SEO approach you apply.

Geo-targeting

The most advanced concept in today’s SEO world is geographical targeting of websites. If your website is expected to make business in Japan it should be optimized in order to rank well when a user sitting in Japan searches for your services via search engines. Domain name extension helps you in geographical targeting of a website, if your domain name extension is co.uk you will definitely rank well in UK search results. Google webmaster tool also is now offering geographical targeting.

Tarun Gupta is Director of the SEO Company India which offers complete Search Engine Optimization Services to carry out optimization activities successfully.

Beating Your Competition In The Search Engines!

2008-05-03T11:40:00.002+02:00

Search engine optimization (SEO) is actually more complicated than most people realize. After all, not every business needs results from the search engines. Some businesses only need local results. Then there are businesses that rely on search engines for 100% of their revenue.

Once you figure out what your basic needs are, then you have to determine who your real online competition is. In traditional terms, your competition is the business down the street. On the Internet, however, your competition is the website that is beating you out on your keywords. Your competition might not even sell the same products or services as you. If he is getting your search engine traffic, he is the competition.

Know Your Keywords

Your keywords are your “turf” on the Internet. Your success depends on two things. First, what are the keywords that represent your products or services? You should be able to figure that out on your own. Secondly, what are the keywords your clients are searching for when they want the products or services you offer?

Let’s say that you sell cars. If you sell Chevrolet vehicles, you can easily guess a few keywords. It is not a surprise that “Chevrolet dealership” is a key phrase. Since your prospective customers are generally searching within one city, you do not have to beat out the whole world for “Chevrolet Dealership”. You must have to beat out the local competitors. Phrases such as “Chevrolet Dealership Houston” or “Houston Chevrolet Dealership”, will be easier to target and will produce your best results.

Know the Competition

Search Google.com, Yahoo.com, msn.com, and see who comes up in the top five results for your most important keywords. It does not matter if those sites sell cars. You want to be on top for your phrase so whatever comes up … that is your competition.

Beat Them at Their Own Game

Analyze those sites for the most common SEO tactics. Then whatever they are doing, you should one-up them in every respect.

Here are a few tips on what to look for:

Keyword frequency – How many times do they use the words you are targeting? Count them. Use those words and phrases more frequently and more times.

Inbound links – How many links do they have coming in? Search google.com using this format: link:www.anythinginternet.com

Prominent Keywords – Bolded keywords, keywords in the website address, keywords in the title bar, and keywords in headings are all considered important.

There are many other things to look for. I recommend you hire a professional SEO consultant if search engine results are important to you. These tips will help you optimize a few of the most obvious parts of your web page. There are a lot more things to do. You want your keywords in your page title, your META tags, and you want to optimize every page on your website.

Increasing the number of inbound links can be a lot of work. If your competition has a lot of these, you should hire a professional to help you compete. Experts can add hundreds of new inbound links for you quite easily.

If you make changes to your website, prepare to wait a long time for those changes to be 100% effective. Some things could take six months to become fully effective.

Jerry Hobby is the CEO and techno-guru of Anything Internet. He is always looking for new and better ways to help people get more results from their websites. Mr. Hobby is a frequent contributor to Steven Kay's business talk radio show on CNN AM 650 Houston.

Basics Of SEO For Online Marketing

2008-05-01T07:10:00.000+02:00

What do you know about Basics of SEO? It’s not a small part like some start tips that how you will adjust your keywords and how you can collect backlinks? Etc, because Basics of SEO are base of all online marketing like article marketing, affiliate marketing, viral marketing and more.

In Marketing we attract more and more visitors to increase our traffic rate and hope for more traffic tomorrow than today and thats why you need to make 100% quality site with good contents, and adjust all keywords by natural way because if you want to put your keywords to increase your keywords ratio paragraph wise then it would be known as keywords stuffing by search engine and you site will be listed in banned site list and then after you can not get any position or quality traffic for free, because after banned if you want to continue then you have to purchase target traffic services which are payable and you need to pay regular because free traffic are very low after got banned.

So if you want to gain free traffic to your site then you should know must that What is basics of SEO?

In SEO basics you will learn all things like if your site is related to marketing then how you optimize you site and if your site is related to shopping then how? Generally all process are same for optimization but if your site is related to affiliate marketing means your site is packed with affiliate links then what will you do because generally crawler avoid that type of links who have special characters like ?,@ and more. So in this type of case you have to adjust you site contents for crawler, in other words we can say that we have to adjust our contents according to keywords and avoid to put affiliate links in starting try to put your affiliate links in other page and link them from homepage.

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Search Friendly Content Rules!

2008-04-30T16:09:00.002+02:00

If you want your site to reach stay at the top of search engine results, you need to use compelling keywords and optimize them to your advantage. To do this, you have to put in the appropriate keywords anywhere you can so that your site would effectively rise up in the rankings of search engine results.

Getting on top of search engine results is one of the best ways to be in full view of the public in the internet. It will give you more customers because when people search, they find you and would almost always look up what it is that you sell and because you are on the top of the search results, they will navigate to your site for a look-see. Aside from keywords, having the necessary content gets you more customers as well. To implement this successfully, your keywords have to be embedded in informative content so that your prospective customers will get useful information about how to use your product, where to use it and more. Don't just fill up your site with words and phrases, otherwise the first time a potential client sees it, they'd leave in a hurry and you won't have any clients in the long run.

Doing business in the internet hinges on one very important variable -- information. People surf the web for information on almost anything. This is to the advantage of the internet e-preneur because you already know what people want then the next step is to provide them with it. For your site to be successful and highly visible, it needs to have informational web content that customers would trust. You have to provide this information through newsletter, e-mails, content and other forms but with one thing in common -- they have to be useful and informative. It has to be done in such a way that shows you are an authority and that you know what you are talking about otherwise your efforts would amount to nothing and just wheel spinning! When your customer takes the time to read the information on your site, that is your chance to convince them that the product or service you are selling is what they need. You have to continually keep your site's information content up to date so that clients would always return and look at your site week after week on a regular basis.

Writing informative articles is one of the best ways to make your site rich in content. However, you need to make sure that your articles are informative and entertaining to the readers and that they have a direct relation to your market. You can even expand on this by writing small articles about each of the aspects of your general subject matter so you do not fall into the trap of snowing in your audience. You can also add related news about your subject matter thereby enhancing not only the content of your site but your credibility as well.

Frequently modifying and adjusting your content with new information helps keep your site competitive

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Search Engine Optimization - Site map Optimization Technique

2008-04-22T09:34:00.002+02:00

Site Maps can be a great tool for making search engines crawl through your web site in a much more effective manner, thereby helping you get more pages indexed, and ultimately getting you more visitors. Most people know what site maps are, as they can be seen on many of the major websites, although for those who don¡¦t, ¡§a site map is a page which contains a list of all the links within a website, under different categories and headings, just like a table of contents of a book¡¨. Now when a search engine hits the site map page, it gets to see all the links within that website and this enables it to crawl through those pages. It¡¦s just like guiding search engines with the help of a map, in this large universe of internet.

Site maps also help visitors to get an overview of the entire web site, and hence act as a great navigational tool. It helps visitors find specific pages through a single page, for which they might have had to follow several links to reach the desired page. Here are some examples of well designed site maps.

http://www.google.com/sitemap.html http://www.lycos.com/sitemap.asp

This leads us to the next question, i.e. how should site maps be designed. Designing a site map can be as simple as designing any other static pages without any pictures, graphics, etc. But all effort should be made to keep the structure logical and simple. Its best to browse through the web, and check out a variety of site maps before you decide on what kind of structure you want to follow.

Here are some things you should keep in mind, before designing a site map.

Homepage Link: It is important to give a prominent link from the homepage to the sitemap page, so that visitors and search bots can easily hit the site map page. In fact, preferably there should be a link to the site map page from every page of your website.

Text Links: Plain text links should be used for all the links, as some search bots can have problems crawling through ¡§JavaScript¡¨.

Categories: It is important to organize the contents into well defined categories, and even sub-categories for easy navigation of the user. Although this doesn’t¡¦t have direct SEO implications, it makes more sense to the user.

Descriptive Content: It is ideal to add some content describing the links, as search engines tend to ignore pages, full of links. It is also important to use your targeted keywords in your descriptive content as well as in your anchor text.

Anchor Text Link: It is important to use page titles as your anchor text, so that you can increase your anchor text back links. This is helpful for search engine optimization as it increases your link popularity.

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) – What is it?

2008-04-22T09:24:00.001+02:00

Using Relevant Search Terms

Search Engine Optimisation is a process you employ to ensure top rankings in the search engines for the most relevant search terms on a website. When somebody is looking for a particular topic on the web they type in a relevant phrase. These phrases are the most relevant search terms. SEO processes target these search terms and high ranking will be sought for these search terms.

The first stage of the SEO process is to choose the relevant search terms for your website and put preferable one term per relevant page, but two per page is ok. Splitting large pages means you can make two pages and use a different search term on each page. Matching the search terms to the content of the page is very important.

Structuring the links within the site.

It is important that search engine spiders can find the all of your sites pages. The aim is to get your pages put in the search engines index. Indexing improves the chances of higher rating. Below are some things to remember to improve the chance of search engine spiders finding your pages.

Do not use links created by Javascript, spiders cannot read them.
When using Session ID's in URL's, check the rules about their use particularly if you are looking for Google ranking.
Make sure all pages link to at least one other pages.
Structure the internal links (page links) so that your targeted search terms are reinforced. This means making sure that the pages with sub topics of a topic link to the topic page using the correct link text.

Off page elements - Link Text This element is one of two important points for good rankings. You can put link text on pages within your site or on the pages of other sites. Here’s the point, the main search term on the target pages should be included in the link text. Where possible, use different link text for every link that links to a page, but always include the target page's main search term in the link text.

On page elements The aim here is to make sure that all page elements link to the target search terms on each page. Consider the following:

The Title Tag This is the second of the two important elements for good ranking. Ensure the page’s search term is contained in this tag. Put it near to the front as possible. Make sure it reads well. Remember each page’s title tag should be different to that for other pages. The Description Tag Write an attractive description tag for each page and include the search terms in it at least twice. Make sure the search term is mentioned at the beginning if possible. The H Tag (Header Tag) H tags have numbers from 1-6 with 1 being the biggest heading size. H tags carry more weight when read by the search engines. So include the H tag as near the top of the page as possible and include search terms in the tag at least once if not more on the page. Text Using the search terms in the text on the page as much as possible is important. Put the terms early on in the page and as much throughout the page as possible without losing the readability of the content. Search terms put in bold text carries extra weight but not as much as H tags. If a word from the search term words is found in the text but is separate from the other search term words. It can only help. ALT Text Make sure you put the search terms in the alt text of all images on the page.

So in summary, the key to effective search engine optimization is to initially choose relevant search terms. Then ensure you have search terms correctly placed in strategic elements of your website construction. These elements being at the point of link construction, in off-page elements and on-page elements. It is important to note that while search engine optimization is very effective it does not happen overnight. Be prepared to be meticulous in your implementation of SEO and patient in reaping the rewards.

Michiel Van Kets provides articles for Dave Glynn, who owns Searchenginesensation.com. They are part of Atomic Web Solutions and offer professional search engine optimisation (optimization) and web marketing services including pay-per-click campaign setup and management.

Search Engine Optimisation Basics

2008-04-18T11:08:00.001+02:00

Search engine optimization is a technique of increasing the visibility of the website and hence generating more traffic to the website. A search engine lists websites based on the keywords searched and after considering various other parameters. Designing a website that satisfies those parameters is what search engine optimisation is all about. Search engine optimization, also known as SEO, gained particular significance after organisations started using to get their websites listed at top positions on various website. The logic is simple that higher the rank of the website on the search engine, the more it will be noticeable and hence more number of visitors to the website. The visitors were considered to be potential customers and organisations started using search engines as marketing tools with search engine optimisation being a major contributor in this area.

The search operation of the search engines is usually based on some algorithmic calculations. Search engines use special type of programs to find pages and create a database for their search results. Such programs are usually called web crawlers or spiders and indexers, which pull out links to other pages, picks up relevant words from the page and their occurrence, and the structure. Once the website and its pages are registered in the search engine’s repository, the site is said to be indexed. Depending on how effectively search engine optimisation is done, the listing on the search engines of the website is decided.

Search engine optimisation primarily begins with studying the business and the keywords that will be used for optimisation. Keywords are some specific words that are relevant to the theme/business of the website and which the users would probably use in their searches. There are other factors that contribute to search engine optimisation. These include structure of the website, content of the website, designing tool used, keywords used, link building, and so on.

*The coding and structure of the website has to be such that the required tags (Title, META, and Heading) must be properly placed in the code. Also all the necessary keywords should be included in these tags.

*Sometimes, depending on the tool used for designing the website, some amount of unnecessary code gets added in the page. This might mislead the web crawlers and hinder the optimisation process.

*Using adequate amount of website content with appropriately placed relevant keywords is also an important factor in search engine optimisation. However, make sure that keywords are not unnecessarily stuffed, as this might work negatively for the website.

Search engine optimisation may be effective in getting some return on investment. However, the results and listings of the search engines may keep changing for various reasons and hence SEO needs to be strategically implemented.

Seo Vs Sem The Differences You Need To Know

2008-04-17T11:09:00.002+02:00

There are a lot of people who cannot state the difference between SEO and SEM, and definitely, it is more than just what the acronyms stand for. SEO, or search engine optimization, refers to the organic techniques of including your website in search engines. You may have set aside a small budget for your SEO campaign, but it is not going to be more than or even equal to what you will spend with SEM, or search engine marketing.

Why There Are Individuals Who Are Apprehensive with SEO

There are a number of people who feel more comfortable with PPC than SEO. This is because they can easily obtain the results that they wanted. First of all, the visitors are always targeted, which means these are only individuals who would like to purchase the product or avail of the service. Hence, there is a huge sales conversion rate for your business. This is especially important for you as you will have to pay for every click that a visitor does on your ads.

That is why when you introduce another form of marketing technique such as SEO, business website owners will often feel apprehensive. They need to make sure that they can protect their bread and butter.

However, you can also never deny the benefits that you can get from SEO. What is just important is you can work on companies and specialists that will be honest and straightforward with you. What’s more, you will still be able to milk some money with different SEO services.

What You Can Gain from SEO

It is always a problem for online ad agencies. You see, you will always be in question whether it is really possible for you to generate the same kind of profit that you will be enjoying with SEM when you know that you will be spending a lot of time and effort with it? Truth to tell, it becomes a lot easier for a business owner to create a few lines of description for their ad campaigns, incorporating the use of keywords and graphics to attract the attention of their targeted customers.

However, there can also be a disadvantage of using SEM more in your business website. For example, there is still a huge portion of Internet users that are still after organic listings even if they can already obviously see the ads in their screen. There are also times when text ads are not targeted properly. This means that there will be a lot of clicks that are not income generating, but will increase the revenue of your SEM agency, such as search engines.

Perhaps another excellent strategy to generate the kind of revenue from SEO is to create multiple webpages for your products and services. For example, if you have around 4 to 5 product lines, you may want to create individual pages for them. This is to give you enough time and effort to generate the much-needed sales revenues and leads for your business. The trend nowadays is to compile all pages in one website, which actually puts a lot of pressure both to the owner of the site and the SEO company. The problem with this is when Google changes the algorithm, because you only focused on one site, you will likely experience a loss in all your pages and traffic.

How to Go about Monetizing on the Website

Your website should not end up like a dummy. Hence, you have to do the following ways on how you will be able to boost your revenue or even cut down on your costs. Here are some of them:

1. Look for partners who will be willing to cooperate with you. If one of your greatest worries why you may not pursue with SEO is because you do not have that much budget to cover the costs that you may incur during the times when you are not earning much. The best way that you may get away with this is to look for a partner. He or she can be your friend or family member. Both of you may share on the costs or allow him or her to shoulder it for you in the meantime, provided that revenues too shall be divided depending on the contribution of each partner.

2. Encourage advertisers to buy space on your website. All it takes is to create a feasible marketing study for your business website: how many visitors you can expect in a month and the possible revenues that you can earn every day. Then, you can encourage advertisers who may be selling related products or services to buy space from your website. You can make use of the fees that you charge to sustain you in days when you have to focus more on SEO processes than in generating revenues.

Moe Tamani is a Marketing expert with a leading Dallas Search Engine Marketing company specializing in organic Search engine optimization.

How to Begin Social Media Optimization

2008-04-17T10:57:00.001+02:00

All those of you who are still stuck up with search engine optimization, in order to see your website on the top ranks with free flowing traffic. It is time now to switch your attention to a more beneficial concept of social media optimization.

You can call SMO or social media optimization, the latest fad of web 2.0. Like SEO this too is a time consuming yet profitable technique. Social networking is all about being social and engaging yourself in communities Online, which will give you and your website a wide exposure. Before beginning your SMO operation, make sure you have studied your website performance properly. Evaluate your website traffic and the nature of your target audience, so that you know whom to focus at once you are into social media optimization.

Once you have studied your website report, prepare your a rough SMO plan for your website and then begin the process. Your plan must contain a few important aspects like, targeted visitors and their movement in the website, keyword study, and SMO prospects.

Several websites like Digg, Stumbleupon, twitter are great sources to begin with your social media optimization. Use blogs and forums, community discussions and open chats too to popularize yourself on social media platform. Videos, audios and images are also a part of SMO. Podcast, bookmarks and weblogs too help in Smo techniques.

The more number of people reading your web page or accessing your e-commerce website likes, the better is your social media optimization program including web 2.0 techniques. The simple idea of SMO is to reach out to as many people as possible in order to make your website popular.

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About the Author- Naman Jain is an expert in Internet marketing, presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading internet marketing company, offering online marketing services, SEO services, affiliate marketing services and search engine marketing over the globe.

International Search Engine Opimization (SEO) Tactics

2008-04-16T07:57:00.001+02:00

The internet is making the world a smaller place. In the future, forward-thinking companies will begin to capitalize on world-wide search traffic, not just from their own country.
For many international brands, global Search engine optimization remains a virtually untapped arena. According to Oban Multilingual, 70% of internet search queries are not in English.

Despite the many SEO blogs I subscribe to, I see very little information posted on global SEO strategies. Below I've gathered some of the international SEO best practices and tips for global search engine optimization.

1. Use Local Domain Extensions: The most effective strategy for international SEO is the most obvious one. If you’re trying to optimize for Google.ca and your domain has a .ca extension, you have a great advantage (though it’s still very possible without one.) In addition to the domain extension, Google probably looks at the IP address location of your server to determine the geographical relevance of your site.

2. Translation Isn’t Enough: Many assume that a word-for-word Google translation of existing website content will result in high rankings on international SERPs. Those of use who’ve ever read a word-for-word translation from another language to English realize this isn’t a good idea. You may get into the SERPs, but your odds of converting the visitor and slim to none.

3. Get Links from international domains: If your site contains a good diversity of incoming links from many domain extensions (.co.uk, .ca, .fr, etc), Google will begin to notice your site on the non-US versions of Google.

4. Links to international domains: While I’m not sure if this will really improve rankings, it at least shows you’re participating in a global community by linking to international sources.

5. Keyword + Country Landing Pages: I’ve found searchers sometimes do a keyword search and append their country name to it. (e.g. "ipods uk") By optimizing a landing page for this combination, you can begin ranking for the terms.

6. Do International Keyword Research: It doesn’t make sense to get your keyword suggestions and counts from keyword tools only showing US results. Aaron Wall’s International SEO keyword tool allows you to get keyword data from 15 different countries.

7. Know the Local Lingo: Anyone who has traveled to another English speaking country knows there are significant differences in local lingo. For example, one of my clients discovered that "shop" is more frequently used than "store." in many European countries.

8. Consider Local Search Engines: Google doesn’t exactly rule the entire world of search….yet. While its still the number #1 engine internationally, local engines such as Voila in France, Ansearch in Australia, or Yandex in Russia are very popular. If you’re targeting a certain local audience, it pays to understand the algorithms of other engines besides Google.

The internet is making the world a smaller place. In the future, forward-thinking companies will begin to capitalize on world-wide search traffic, not just from their own country.

Justin Palmer is aninternational SEO consultant for Palmer Web Marketing. PWM is a full service internet marketing firm offering e-Commerce tips and SEO Help and SEO Advice.

How To Increase Search Engine Traffic

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The key to increase search engine traffic is quite simple. Follow this formula and you will be successful:

1. Research high traffic keywords in your niche

Use Word Tracker's free keyword research tool and identified some long-tailed keywords that don't have a lot of competition. Simply type in the keywords from Word Tracker into the Google search engine and note the 'results' on the right-hand side. Any keyword phrase with over 50 searches per day and under 500,000 results in Google is a pretty good and will increase your search engine traffic and ranking. Of course, there are far better, so don't stop on the first one that jumps out at you, get a good list.

2. Write articles for your website or blog that include a keyword phrase in them 2-4% of the time. Increase search engine traffic by out writing your competitors. Most webmasters are bad at writing keyword targeted articles, which makes it easy for you to out rank them.

Make sure to put your keyword phrase in your title and header with other words to boost interest. For example, for "Aluminum Bats" I'd put something like, "Aluminum Bats - Whack! Swing Away Kid" or something that stresses benefit like, "Now Hit Farther than Ever with Aluminum Bats". You want to get clicked on to increase your search engine traffic, so a good title is crucial, both for ranking well and getting visitors to click.

3. Now you need to get these pages noticed and build up some link juice. Search engines love sites that have lots of links pointing to them and that will increase your ranking and traffic. You can do this by posting on other blogs, forums, trading links, etc., but this can be a long and time consuming process.

If you want fast results without paying then I'd suggest using a backlinks tool to save you time and build viral links naturally, so you can focus on writing more articles to increase search engine traffic to your website.

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Profiting with SEO

2008-04-12T09:16:00.001+02:00

The SEO or the what is known as Search Engine optimization was perceive by most of the webmasters as one of the best profit gaining tools for any of your website on online marketing. If you are having a hard time thinking of ways and doing a constant work for it on how to make your page run according to your plans and if you are dying to figure out the different and most effective ways in increasing the traffic for your page, then here comes the six easy steps in achieving a profitable SEO techniques for marketing.

1. Addition on Contents. Are you aware of some of the websites on the internet that are often visited by billions of surfers around the globe? Yes, this site offers a lot of contents that can be called as all in one. Latest techniques in media like videos and music’s are some of the reasons why this site are most viewed and visited. If you continue to add new media contents, then the possibility that you’re rating level will climb up.

2. Create a Blog. Though most of the websites today have resources to host their business blog, acquiring an up to date content like for instance a blog will surely help you to increase your websites ratings. Start blogging today and make more profit through the help of SEO.

3. Article Writing. Do not hesitate to share whatever the things you have in knowledge about your hobbies or business. But never forget to include in your article the link to your website. This will definitely help in increasing the traffic to your website. Fast, easy and profitable SEO.

4. Keywords. Have them as much as you can but never have it much which might lead to loosing your sites good contents. This can somehow improve the level of your ranking.

5. Search for Forums. You can find plenty of forum discussions on the internet about different topics. You can join this forum and post some interesting stuff that are related to your page then add link of your page.

6. If everything else fails. If you happen to reach this point, then you need not to worry because there are companies available for you that will assist you about SEO. You always have an option if you want this to be done by someone else but always research before your decide. Of course you want to be assured that you will have the right firm who you think will assist you on performing the most profitable SEO than waste a cost.

The author is Mr. Sushil Raghav, CEO and President of Rensoft Technosys Pvt Ltd, developing large scale of social networking portals and several other kind of web portals.

Google Tells You How To Get Top Search Engine Rankings

2008-04-10T06:44:00.002+02:00

Did you know that the Google search engine actually tells you how to get a top search engine ranking? Everyone thinks it's a mysterious secret. However, it actually isn't all that mysterious at all. In fact, if you do a search for "Google Webmaster Guidelines" they explain what they look for when they add a web site to their search index and rank a web site in the search listings. By following the suggestions that Google provides, you can achieve top search engine rankings for keywords related to your target market without having to resort to tricks to manipulate search engine rankings.

First off, understand that the last thing you want to do is use tricks to manipulate search engine rankings. Also known as "black hat techniques" these tricks will do nothing more than make Google mad at you and get your web site eliminated from the search engines completely.

Remember, the purpose of Google is to provide relevant content to the end user, who is the person who is performing the search at a given point and time. What you want to do is to help Google facilitate that process, not try to fight against Google by creating a bunch of junk just to try to manipulate the search engine rankings.

You can do a search as I suggested above and read what Google wants yourself, however, I will highlight a few things that will help you in your search for top search engine rankings on the Google Search Engine.

The best way to get listed in the search engines is to create a very content rich web site. One of the factors that Google uses to determine search engine position is a concept called page rank. This concept describes the way that Google ranks each web page based on a variety of factors. One factor that determines page rank is the content on your web page. One of the things that Google LOVES is a web site that has lots and lots of content. Therefore, if you want to get ranked high in the search engines, a great way to do that is to create a web page that has a large amount of content.

One of the best ways to get Google to rank your web site high is to have relevant web sites link to your web site. If there are web sites that have content similar to the content that you have on your web site and those web sites link to your web site, then you significantly increase the chances of your web site getting a higher ranking in the search engine. It's even better if the relevant web site already has high placement in Google's search engine.

Another suggestion that Google makes is to get your web site submitted to relevant directories. This is also an excellent way to increase your search engine rankings for your web site. One area that is overlooked is niche related directories. By submitting your web site to directories that are related to the niche your web site covers, Google looks favorably upon your web site and will give you a higher search engine placement as a result.

In short, take some time out and look to see exactly what it is that Google is looking for. Then go ahead and give Google what they want. There's an old saying "If you help enough people get what they want, you can have what you want." This saying also applies to Google. Help Google get what they want (which is quality content in their search engine) and you can have whatever you want (which is a high search engine ranking in Google).

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SEO Mistakes That Should Be Avoided

2008-04-10T06:37:00.000+02:00

Here are some of the mistakes that are usually ignored while carrying on the SEO process.

Don’t do it yourself or don’t let any SEO Company to submit your url in thousands of search engines and directories. That is rather a waste of time and money altogether. These sites are usually link farms and do get penalized by google.

People waste time submitting site url’s to search engines. The crawler will index your site sooner then you might think. The only effort to be made is gathering some quality links that crawler can follow to reach your site. If your site is capable enough, it will be indexed in no time.

Good back links are the key players in getting your site up in the SERPs. Avoid back links from link farms. It takes a good amount of time and effort to gather good links but that is the only way to see your site rising in SERPs.Its optimal in any search engine optimization process to get not more than 500 back links for a site as tons of links can look suspicious to search engines and could result in penalty.

As far as visitors are concerned, if you want good traffic on your site make it an interactive tool. Give your visitors a regular feedback to their enquiries and keep them updated with the new offers and products that have been launched.

The best option is to get your site listed in volunteer-edited sites like Wikipedia.Such sites can place your site as a reference for visitors in their articles. If your sites are potential enough they can be suggested to the visitors for more information in such sites.

Google admires fair SEO and PPC practices. Optimize your site in a way that can lead crawlers to keep your site indexed and highly ranked in search engines.

This article is for those SEO people who tend to practice good Search engine practices but don’t get good results even though. Try avoiding these mistakes and see how your site is boosted in a search engine.

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SEO - Insider Tips To Creating SEO Keywords And Phrases

2008-04-09T06:58:00.001+02:00

If you have been practicing search engine optimization you probably already know that it is a good idea to include quotes in your keywords and keywords phrases to make your web copy more attractive to the search engines. You probably also know that is a good idea to put things that your site specifically sells in quotes so that the search engine spiders see you as having exclusive or specialized content or information. However there are a few more tips that come along with creating SEO keywords and phrases that are less well known.

Many SEO experts advise practicing word stemming. This means that when you do find a keyword that works that you should not hesitate to use it in the words different forms. For example take the phrase “SEO optimization”. You might also want to use phrases such as SEO optimizing, SEO optimized and SEO optimizers which branch out linguistically from your original keyword.

Another big tip is to avoid using what are called kill terms. This is just a phrase for conjunctions and prepositions that are largely ignored by the search engines. Common kill terms include a, an and, at, by, for, in, it, of, the too, to, web and with.

Yet another tip is to be aware of case sensitive keywords. When in doubt you should always submit them in lower case. However when it comes to names and places you might also want to put things in their proper cases. For instance if you are searching for Frank Kern you will want to put in Frank Kern as well as frank kern. Some experts even advise putting in a keyword all in caps as in FRANK KERN as many individuals have stuck capital key caps when they search. The search engine that is thought to be most sensitive to case is Alta Vista.

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An SEO Glossary - Common SEO Terms Defined

2008-04-09T06:48:00.001+02:00

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become an essential weapon in the arsenal of every online business. Unfortunately, for most business owners and marketing managers (and even many webmasters), it's also somewhat of an enigma. This is partly due to the fact that it's such a new and rapidly changing field, and partly due to the fact that SEO practitioners tend to speak in a language all of their own which, without translation, is virtually impenetrable to the layperson. This glossary seeks to remedy that situation, explaining specialist SEO terms in plain English...

AdWords

See ‘Sponsored Links’.

algorithm

A complex mathematical formula used by search engines to assess the relevance and importance of websites and rank them accordingly in their search results. These algorithms are kept tightly under wraps as they are the key to the objectivity of search engines (i.e. the algorithm ensures relevant results, and relevant results bring more users, which in turn brings more advertising revenue).

article PR

The submitting of free reprint articles to many article submission sites and article distribution lists in order to increase your website's search engine ranking and Google PageRank. (In this sense, the "PR" stands for PageRank.) Like traditional public relations, article PR also conveys a sense of authority because your articles are widely published. And because you're proving your expertise and freely dispensing knowledge, your readers will trust you and will be more likely to remain loyal to you. (In this sense, the "PR" stands for Public Relations.)

article distribution lists

User groups (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Google, Smartgroups, and Topica groups) which accept email submissions of articles in text format, and then distribute these articles via email to all of the members of the group. See also 'article PR'.

article submission sites

Websites which act as repositories of free reprint articles. Authors visit these sites to submit their articles free of charge, and webmasters visit to find articles to use on their websites free of charge. Article submission sites generate revenue by selling advertising space on their websites. See also 'article PR'.

backlink

A text link to your website from another website. See also ‘link’.

copy

The words used on your website.

copywriter

A professional writer who specializes in the writing of advertising copy (compelling, engaging words promoting a particular product or service). See also ‘SEO copywriter’ and ‘web copywriter’.

crawl

Google finds pages on the World Wide Web and records their details in its index by sending out ‘spiders’ or ‘robots’. These spiders make their way from page to page and site to site by following text links. To a spider, a text link is like a door.

domain name

The virtual address of your website (normally in the form www.yourbusinessname.com). This is what people will type when they want to visit your site. It is also what you will use as the address in any text links back to your site.

ezine

An electronic magazine. Most publishers of ezines are desperate for content and gladly publish well written, helpful articles and give you full credit as author, including a link to your website.

Flash

A technology used to create animated web pages (and page elements).

free reprint article

An article written by you and made freely available to other webmasters to publish on their websites. See also 'article PR'.

Google

The search engine with the greatest coverage of the World Wide Web, and which is responsible for most search engine-referred traffic. Of approximately 11.5 billion pages on the World Wide Web, it is estimated that Google has indexed around 8.8 billion. This is one reason why it takes so long to increase your ranking!

Google AdWords

See ‘Sponsored Links’.

Google PageRank

How Google scores a website’s importance. It gives all sites a mark out of 10. By downloading the Google Toolbar (from http://toolbar.google.com), you can view the PR of any site you visit.

Google Toolbar

A free tool you can download. It becomes part of your browser toolbar. It’s most useful features are it’s PageRank display (which allows you to view the PR of any site you visit) and it’s AutoFill function (when you’re filling out an online form, you can click AutoFill, and it enters all the standard information automatically, including Name, Address, Zip code/Postcode, Phone Number, Email Address, Business Name, Credit Card Number (password protected), etc.) Once you’ve downloaded and installed the toolbar, you may need to set up how you’d like it to look and work by clicking Options (setup is very easy). NOTE: Google does record some information (mostly regarding sites visited).

HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the coding language used to create much of the information on the World Wide Web. Web browsers read the HTML code and display the page that code describes.

Internet

An interconnected network of computers around the world.

JavaScript

A programming language used to create dynamic website pages (e.g. interactivity).

keyword

A word which your customers search for and which you use frequently on your site in order to be relevant to those searches. This use known as targeting a keyword. Most websites actually target ‘keyword phrases’ because single keywords are too generic and it is very difficult to rank highly for them.

keyword density

A measure of the frequency of your keyword in relation to the total wordcount of the page. So if your page has 200 words, and your keyword phrase appears 10 times, its density is 5%.

keyword phrase

A phrase which your customers search for and which you use frequently on your site in order to be relevant to those searches.

link

A word or image on a web page which the reader can click to visit another page. There are normally visual cues to indicate to the reader that the word or image is a link.

link path

Using text links to connect a series of page (i.e. page 1 connects to page 2, page 2 connects to page 3, page 3 connects to page 4, and so on). Search engine ‘spiders’ and ‘robots’ use text links to jump from page to page as they gather information about it, so it’s a good idea to allow them traverse your entire site via text links. (See ‘Link paths’ on p.21. for further information.)

link partner

A webmaster who is willing to put a link to your website on their website. Quite often link partners engage in reciprocal linking.

link popularity

The number of links to your website. Link popularity is the single most important factor in a high search engine ranking. Webmasters use a number of methods to increase their site's link popularity including article PR, link exchange (link partners / reciprocal linking), link buying, and link directories.

link text

The part of a text link that is visible to the reader. When generating links to your own site, they are most effective (in terms of ranking) if they include your keyword.

meta tag

A short note within the header of the HTML of your web page which describes some aspect of that page. These meta tags are read by the search engines and used to help assess the relevance of a site to a particular search.

natural search results

The ‘real’ search results. The results that most users are looking for and which take up most of the window. For most searches, the search engine displays a long list of links to sites with content which is related to the word you searched for. These results are ranked according to how relevant and important they are.

organic search results

See ‘natural search results’.

PPC (Pay-Per-Click advertising)

See ‘Sponsored Links’.

PageRank

See ‘Google PageRank’.

rank

Your position in the search results that display when someone searches for a particular word at a search engine.

reciprocal link

A mutual agreement between two webmasters to exchange links (i.e. they both add a link to the other’s website on their own website). Most search engines (certainly Google) are sophisticated enough to detect reciprocal linking and they don’t view it very favorably because it is clearly a manufactured method of generating links. Websites with reciprocal links risk being penalized.

robot

See ‘Spider’.

robots.txt file

A file which is used to inform the search engine spider which pages on a site should not be indexed. This file sits in your site’s root directory on the web server. (Alternatively, you can do a similar thing by placing tags in the header section of your HTML for search engine robots/spiders to read. See ‘Optimizing your web ’ on p.22. for more information.)

Sandbox

Many SEO experts believe that Google ‘sandboxes’ new websites. Whenever it detects a new website, it withholds its rightful ranking for a period while it determines whether your site is a genuine, credible, long term site. It does this to discourage the creation of SPAM websites (sites which serve no useful purpose other than to boost the ranking of some other site). Likewise, if Google detects a sudden increase (i.e. many hundreds or thousands) in the number of links back to your site, it may sandbox them for a period (or in fact penalize you by lowering your ranking or blacklisting your site altogether).

SEO

Search Engine Optimization. The art of making your website relevant and important so that it ranks high in the search results for a particular word.

SEO copywriter

A ‘copywriter’ who is not only proficient at web copy, but also experienced in writing copy which is optimized for search engines (and will therefore help you achieve a better search engine ranking for your website).

search engine

A search engine is an online tool which allows you to search for websites which contain a particular word or phrase. The most well known search engines are Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

site map

A single page which contains a list of text links to every page in the site (and every page contains a text link back to the site map). Think of your site map as being at the center of a spider-web.

SPAM

Generally refers to unwanted and unrequested email sent en-masse to private email addresses. Also used to refer to websites which appear high in search results without having any useful content. The creators of these sites set them up simply to cash in on their high ranking by selling advertising space, links to other sites, or by linking to other sites of their own and thereby increasing the ranking of those sites. The search engines are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and already have very efficient ways to detect SPAM websites and penalize them.

spider

Google finds pages on the World Wide Web and records their details in its index by sending out ‘spiders’ or ‘robots’. These spiders make their way from page to page and site to site by following text links.

Sponsored Links

Paid advertising which displays next to the natural search results. Customers can click on the ad to visit the advertiser’s website. This is how the search engines make their money. Advertisers set their ads up to display whenever someone searches for a word which is related to their product or service. These ads look similar to the natural search results, but are normally labeled “Sponsored Links”, and normally take up a smaller portion of the window. These ads work on a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) basis (i.e. the advertiser only pays when someone clicks on their ad).

submit

You can submit your domain name to the search engines so that their ‘spiders’ or ‘robots’ will crawl your site. You can also submit articles to ‘article submission sites’ in order to have them published on the Internet.

text link

A word on a web page which the reader can click to visit another page. Text links are normally blue and underlined. Text links are what ‘spiders’ or ‘robots’ use to jump from page to page and website to website.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a particular page published on the Internet. Normally in the form http://www.yourbusinessname.com/AWebPage.htm.

web copy

See ‘copy’.

web copywriter

A ‘copywriter’ who understands the unique requirements of writing for an online medium.

webmaster

A person responsible for the management of a particular website.

wordcount

The number of words on a particular web page.

World Wide Web (WWW)

The vast array of documents published on the Internet. It is estimated that the World Wide Web now consists of approximately 11.5 billion pages.

About the Author:

* Glenn Murray is a website copywriter, SEO copywriter, and article submission and article PR specialist. He owns article submission service Article PR and copywriting studio Divine Write. He can be contacted on Sydney +612 4334 6222 or at glenn@divinewrite.com. Visit http://www.DivineWrite.com or http://www.ArticlePR.com for further details.

A - Z of search engine optimisation.

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Adrian McLean an advertising agency professional at Central London needs no introduction. Just like the BPO outsourcing, this guy too has outsourced the most significant responsibility of winning over clients, to the internet. He therefore, has no reason to market his organisation. Clients come naturally to him, much like moths to a flame. Doesn't that Sound incredible? Have you heard of a traffic jam on the internet? If not, don't miss out on this one. All thanks to Search engine optimisation (SEO).

Search engines are one of the key ways that Internet users hit upon Web sites they are looking for. This implies that the page should be constructed in confirmation with the current scenario standards, must have a coherent layout and that the heading, explanation and text content must have relevant keywords to the necessary search term. SEO thus is the act of amending a web site so that it does well in the whole, crawler-based outcome of exploration engines. That's why a Web site with high-quality search engine listings may see a dramatic boost in traffic. This is a remarkable and demanding process wherein a website supersedes the rest in a particular segment and wins over patrons and long term relationships.

This is done by " Search engine optimisers", specialists who carry out optimisation of websites on behalf of their clients. Other, more noticeable efforts of these people may include adding unique content to a site, and ensuring that the content is easily indexed by search engines and also appeals to human visitors. Studies by experts have shown that searchers scrutinise a search results page from top to bottom and left to right, looking for an appropriate outcome. Placement towards the top of the search engine thus increases the number of visitors to the site. SEO has a high probability to generate a return on investment. But, more search visits to the web pages does not assure more sales. However, search engines are not remunerated for search traffic, their algorithms change, referrals are unpredictable. Moreover, these days, even if you get to no.1 with a particular search term, you may still not show at the top of the listing since most search engines now use pay per click feeds that will always appear above yours. But of course they're paying to be listed at number one and you're not. Well, nothing is free! But everyone wishes to master the trick to emerge victorious from the battle of competition. And here are some tips that can prove to be handy if you are looking forward to be "number 1."

1. Use potential site design keeping in mind the set up problems.
2. Selecting the correct keywords can give a traffic boost.
3. Your title tag matters.
4. Your copywriting should be extraordinary.
5. Your Meta tags are essential .
6. Your images "alt" attribute.
7. Be cautions about the Dont's.

Challenges in Search Engine Marketing

Due to probability and dearth of warranty, a business house that depends deeply on SEO can undergo hefty losses if the search engines stop sending guests. Thus if you are a professional marketing a website on a search engine you must not rely solely on optimisation. Other marketing tools significant for you are advertisements on popular websites packed with flashes, offers and attractive layout and catchy one-liners apart from a plethora of other marketing techniques. Thus SEO is an effective tool and has become an essential for websites in this competitive scenario. And for those still scratching your brains, do inculcate those rare tips above.

About the Author
Raggu Teccer is an indepth expert on SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, specialists in internet
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Tips On Using On-Page SEO To Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

2008-04-08T13:37:00.002+02:00

Tips and techniques on how to improve your search engine ranking using on-page seo.

Enlarge ImageYou've laboured, sweated and poured lotsa love into designing and building your website. And phewee...ain't it just the prettiest thing for sore eyes! But just as in real life--so does it go for the online world--beauty will only get you so far. So you've got to put that site to work! And how do you do that? Get it out there...put it right in the bulls eye of the search engines! That's the way you're going to get traffic to your site. And just in case you don't know, traffic (specifically targeted traffic) is the life blood of any internet business.

By the close of 2005 the big kahuna...the absolute capo di tutti frutti of search was Google which commanded a whopping 46-47 percent of all searches conducted online. The runner up was Yahoo with about 25 % and followed distantly by MSN who conducted about 11.4 % of all searches. AOL boasted a paltry 6.9 % which still came to a not insubstantial 350 million searches. Searches through Google were a mind-sweltering 2.4 billion! Contrastingly MSN is the king of superfast indexing whilst Google is the snail in the site-indexing race. Yahoo once again falls in the middle of the two. So bear in mind, if your site is new and you're optimizing for Google don't forget about the other Big Two search engines (Yahoo and MSN) which can send some rather decent traffic your way in the meanwhile.

There are two types of optimization techniques that will determine your website's standing with the search engines. They are: On-Page Search Optimization and Off-Page Search Optimization. This article will give you pointers on On-Page Optimization.

On-Page Optimization of Your Site

Keywords

The first thing you must learn to do is to treat each webpage on your site as (if not quite independent) an autonomous entity. In essence this means a different title for each page and targeting different keywords for a particular page. Let's say for example your site is about vitamins and has a number of different pages for the various vitamins. Your home page (index page) would target general keywords such as vitamin, health supplement, dietary supplement, food vitamin etc. But a page with content about vitamin C should not target such generalized terms. It should target keywords (phrases) specifically related to vitamin c such as: vitamin c, c vitamin, ascorbic acid, benefit of vitamin c and so on. The title of each particular page should begin with your most valued (most searched for) keyword. Once again using vitamin C as an example, your webpage title should begin with Vitamin C and not something like 'All the facts about vitamin c'. If you actually design and construct your website from scratch you can even go a step further. Name your webpage files starting with the targeted keyword. Once again, taking your vitamin site as an example, for pages relevant to vitamin C, name them accordingly. So say one of the pages is about the benefits of vitamin C, name that page with a searched for keyword or phrase pertaining to the benefits of vitamin C; e.g., vitamincbenefits.htm. So how do you know which keywords are regularly searched for? Don't worry at the end of this article you'll be supplied with a list of great and free keyword search tools.

Nobody gets to see the name of your file other than you the webmaster and the various search engine robots. So it doesn't matter how awkward they look or sound because unlike people a search engine robot is not concerned with the aesthetics of a thing.

Keyword Density Versus Content.

While making your webpage as attractive as possible to the search engines bear in mind you're doing this to get traffic...human traffic. So the content (copy) on your pages should read attractively to your human visitors while also appealing to the search engine robots. In this respect keyword optimization is a fine balancing act and if push ever comes to shove you'd be better off weighing this balance in favor of your human visitors. After all what's the point of having a ton of traffic passing through your site and hardly any of it performing your most desired action (visitors buying something, signing up etc) all because of that lousy copy you wrote with the search engine robots foremost in mind!

Over-Optimization

There are also other very important factors to consider when optimizing for keywords. How many keywords (phrases) should you consider for a given page and how many times should that/those words appear on that page. Okay, the first thing that you have to understand is that there is such a thing as a website being Over-Optimized! You may believe that the greater the optimization the better but the reality is more complicated. You see the search engine algorithms take into account the keyword density of a particular page, and by doing in-depth analyses of the topmost websites for a given keyword (for Google, speculation puts the ideal keyword density at between 1.5 - 1.8 % while MSN runs up to 3.0 %, with consistent ole Yahoo somewhere in the middle) they will know that something just isn't right if your website boasts a keyword density of 10%. This is know as spamming the search engines and sends up an immediate red flag alert.

So what's the penalty? Your site won't get the ranking it perhaps deserves if it's new, and if it is an established site it will most likely be taken down a notch or two. Another factor to consider if your site is new, is that Google routinely sequesters new sites (a process called sandboxing) until the site can establish value and credibility. This is all part of the on-going battle between search engines (trying to deliver valuable and worthwhile information to search queries) and the spam websites that offer no substantial value whatsoever, but are keyword dense one-page websites with the sole goal of making money online in some manner or other.

More SEO Tips

Your Free Keyword Tools:

1. www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
2. www.pixelfast.com/overture/

What Makes A Good Seo Consultant

2008-04-07T06:44:00.001+02:00

As a SEO, I think you can only make a sound decision once you've had a good long chat with the company - individual whose services you're considering hiring. The most important thing to look out for are the promises - includes the ones they don't make. This will tell you a lot about the SEO, his experience and whether he really knows what he is talking about.

Here are some examples of what you should look out for:

1. "I'll definitely put your website on the top 5 results"
This is misleading and unrealistic to say the least. If you're lucky, there will be a few hundred thousand web-pages competing with yours on any given keyphrase. Any of those *could* beat you to the top. SEO projects are dynamic and depend on many factors, which makes is impossible to predict results.

A good SEO will merely provide a guide as to what the results may be (or are likely to be) since they are beyond his control.

2. "Yahoo, MSN and the others"
If the SEO starts to promise rankings on search engines other than Google, beware! Why? Well... 1. Google holds 70% of the market
2. High rankings on Google almost always mean high rankings elsewhere, and a SEO should know this.
3. Other SEs are extremely easy to climb in comparison to Google.
4. This is an easy way to divert trick you into thinking you're reaching a large share of the market, when in fact, if you're not on Google, you don't have much of a market.

A good SEO will briefly explain the most popular search engines and how they differ. Then he will explain why Google has such a majority and how his work will reflect this.

3. "I'll create another website/domain name"
One ridiculous technique employed by several companies in the UK is to create a website (or a page on another website) that will rank highly for a search term, then use that page to link to, or even worse, redirect visitors to your site. What's wrong with this? Well...
1. It's a common 'black-hat' technique. Say no more.
2. It adds no real SEO value to your website/domain. If you end your contract they pull the plug and you're back to square one (minus a small fortune).
3. One of the most important aspects of SEO is on-site optimization. It's about how your content is delivered to the visitors and how your content is organized and what exactly your content is.

A good SEO will carry out a thorough analysis of your website's code, linking and content then suggest how these can be improved for optimum search engine exposure. External links are a separate topic...

4. If the explanations are vague...
SEO is a huge field and there are millions of variables involved, but in my opinion it all comes down to content delivery. SEO is about getting all the fundamental parts of your website working as smoothly as possible so that your content organized, clearly defined and accessible to visitors and spiders.

If a SEO can't explain in detail what his strategy is, then it's likely to fail. I explain every detail of what I do to my clients, not because I want to bore them with jargon, but because SEO is actually made up of many very simple tasks, all of which can be understood by anybody who's ever used a computer.

A good SEO will be able to explain every task to a lamer (non-technical computer user).

5.a) You'll be #1 in searches for your company's name, or...
5.b) You'll be #1 in searches for "yellow socks delivery in london sw3 on Thursday afternoons by midday"
SEO should enable your clients to find your website before knowing it evens exists. Searching for your company's name doesn't require SEO - the user knows what he/she is looking for. This may sound obvious but I have been offered such a service from a SEO company, apparently approved by Google.

A good SEO will thoroughly research the keywords (and variations) most commonly used by people looking for your content/services. He will come up with a list of 2/3 keyword phrases and explain how he'll target each of those individually. "blue fishtank delivery in london sw3 on Thursday afternoons by midday" should be "fishtank delivery" or "fishtank delivery london", depending on how fierce the competition is...

6. "We'll see the results in 5 months"
It does not take that long! If SEO is done via the appropriate means, you should be able to analyse results within a couple a weeks. In fact, much of the work to be done by a SEO can be thoroughly tested, tweaked, fine tuned and analysed even before the project begins. This means the SEO should be able to provide reports on many aspects of SEO even before the search engines update their ranking, which allows you to keep track of your projects progress. Being in the dark for months and praying for good positions is a thing of the past.

A good SEO will have a range tools/techniques (although he may not want to share these with you) that will allow him to keep you informed of developments throughout the project.

If you're looking for SEO Friendly Web design in london, you're looking for Fyneworks - London SEO Consultant provides guaranteed results with a search engine optimisation service that focuses on long-lasting quality.

SEO Training – How to Get the Most Out of It

2008-04-04T09:07:00.001+02:00

Let’s set the stage…

You’ve just invested valuable time and money by completing your hands-on SEO Training. You are now sitting back in your office contemplating all the wonderful information you just gathered, but you’re really confused on where to start. You pick up your notes leafing through them hoping something will inspire you to know what to do next. You start to drift back to class wishing you where still there. You hated to leave, you didn’t want it to end, you silently wish your instructor was there telling you where to begin.

Good news! I am going to share with you a detailed search engine optimization and internet marketing plan to get the most out of your seo training and to get you started today.

Step #1 – Setting Goals

Before you can really get started you have to know what you want to achieve with your Web site. There could be a number of goals that you have in mind but your first step is get a clear picture of what you want the outcome to be. It could be:

• To gain higher rankings.
• To redesign your Web site to be more user friendly.
• To implement SEO basics throughout your site to make it search engine friendly.
• To increase your visitor response online.
• To open additional windows to your site through social media marketing.
• To launch an article marketing plan.
• Or all of the above.

What ever your goal is it is important to write it down and post it where you can see it every day. “Goals that are not written down are just wishes.”

Step #2 – Keyword Research

Any new project should always include this step. Keyword research is the basis for any successful page on your site. Let’s take the goals above and see how the keyword research you learned to perform in your seo training can be used.

• Higher rankings can be achieved by finding those keywords in your industry that have a high KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index) and low competing pages. You should concentrate on finding five phrases that you can work on simultaneously.

• By redesigning your Web site you can be including your new found phrases and work them into your sales copy. If you are creating a new site this is the ideal time to make sure you are concentrating on your visitors experience while on your site.

o Include a call to action above the fold
o Contact information above the fold in straight html including area code and zip code.
o Only use Flash in small elements and not as the whole page.
o Include something that will grab your user’s attention. Something out of the normal that will make your visitor stop and take notice of your page.

• Implementing SEO basics can be a daunting task if your site is large or it is many years old. Tactics that where used years ago are no longer useful and most times are being flagged as spam. Depending on how many elements need to be addressed you need to determine if it would be better to start with a fresh page or redo the existing page. A determining factor would be if the current page is already indexed. If this is the case then it would be best to fix the existing page. If the page has too many errors and creating a new one would be wiser be sure to name the new page the same as the old one or do a 301 redirect to the new page. Include your keyword phrase when implementing your basic search engine optimization.

• Visitor response will increase if you are giving your visitors exactly what they are looking for. Only your keyword research will help you with this. We are in an instant gratification world and your visitor will only give you a few seconds to answer their search, so make sure it exactly what they are looking for.

• Open additional windows into your site by using your keyword phrases in your social media avenues. A couple great places to include your keyword researched phrases would be in your blog post and creating a lens in Squidoo around your researched phrase.

• Article marketing is not for everyone but it does allow you to open multiple windows into your site but writing articles around your phrase and submitting them to places like Scribd, ArtcileFactory.com and EzineArticles.com.

Step - # 3 – Which one to choose?

I know you want to implement each and everyone of those goals into your site and you still don’t know where to start.

Stop here and go find five phrases to work with and don’t even think about anything else at this point.

After you find those phrases refer back to your SEO training notes and refresh your memory on how to create a search engine friendly Web page and create content for each of the new keywords you found.

It is going to be hard not to get side tracked but stick to the project at hand. Your only concern is finding 5 phrases, creating content and designing five search engine friendly pages.

Once that is done go ahead and publish the five pages to your Web site. Include each page on your site map, link it from and to relevant pages on your site and include keyword rich link text within the body of the page.

Make a note of the day you added the new pages to your site for later use.

Now that you have the first three steps under your belt you are ready to move onto step four.

Step #4 – Addressing Existing Web Site Issues

Now that you have gotten a good start with the above steps, you can start working on bringing your current Web site up to par while you are actually waiting for indexing on your 5 optimized pages. Your next plan of attack would be working on existing pages within your site. You may not be able to change every issue with your site but remember every small change could result in increased ranking for your site. You may only be able to change your title and Meta tags and not be able to change your corporate sites navigation so tackle what you can and don’t worry about the rest. Each and every issue is just one of the over 200 factors so learn to pick your battles and fix what you can.

Step #5 – Social Media and Article Marketing

Your whole goal is to open as many windows into your site as possible. You have already started this by creating 5 new pages into your site now it is time to open the windows even further. Whether you decide to use article marketing or all the endless possibility of social media marketing now is the time to concentrate on one or both of these window opening wonders.

You can use the five phrases you found in your first step or you can find 5 new ones but at this stage you are creating content to be used in articles, on blogs or bookmaking pages within the many social media avenues. Your title is the most important element when tackling this step. Make your title keyword rich, compelling and deliver what your title describes in the article or blog post.

If you are not quite ready to dive into social media start at least with adding a blog to your Web site. Your best results will come from the blog residing on your server and not one that is hosted on a free blogging site. Make a commitment to blogging regularly and always about your industry so your site and your blog are industry related.

Step #6 – Tracking Your Progress

Web analytics can show you information about all of your optimization projects. Not only will it show you your results for the 5 keyword phrases you are working on but it will open your eyes to how your visitor is moving through your site. Record your results on a weekly or daily basis. This step will help you in testing each one of your projects and help you decide which one you should concentrate more on. Usually I find 2 or 3 phrases that are really performing and those are the ones I concentrate on blogging and adding it to the social media venues.

Step #7 – Keep Up With the Changes

There is no other step as important as this one. The internet changes its landscape on a daily basis so it is imperative that what you learn in your SEO Training is always the latest information. Your Web site and or clients are depending on your expertise so don’t let them down by applying out of date or useless techniques. There are many places you can turn to for guidance.

The first place would be Google, Yahoo! and MSN’s Webmasters guidelines. Each is posted on their site and is updates each and every time they have made changes to them.

Another place would be to subscribe to one of many search engine optimization and marketing blogs created by industry leaders. Your instructor should be able to point you in the right direction to their most trusted resources.

Continue learning by attending your favorite SEO Training provider’s courses on a yearly basis. Principles and techniques change often so always keep on top them.

Often students are overwhelmed with the amount of information they are given at class but if you learn to take them in small steps starting with setting your goals you will find that your seo training is working for you and your Web site.

About The Author

Tracy Fredrychowski – SEO Instructor
http://www.searchengineacademysc.com

SEO - An overview

2008-04-01T07:18:00.002+02:00

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process by which the quality and volume of traffic can be improved on a search engine on the Internet. Normally when we search for a particular piece of information or data on any top search engine ranking the results we get, are presented in a serial order by the particular search engine. This presentation of the results is derived from what is called the ‘Algorithmic’ basis and the results that figure at the top of the order are the ones that would be visited more often.

A number of times the process of SEO could focus on searches that broadly range from ‘vertical search’ to ‘horizontal search’ or could be a very specific search. The process of SEO depends to a great extent on how the search engine has been designed to respond to specific searches. A search engine may have a particular set of search words or ‘Keywords’ that has been used by a very large number of visitors to a particular site on this search engine. In this case the designers of the search engine would invariably give a very high priority to this particular set of keywords that would display the website in a privileged position in the top three or top five results on the search engine.

Now, although certain search engines do have somewhat different algorithms that are liable to change sometimes, it has been found that all engines more or less similarly appreciate the information that searchers look for, such as:

Simple, clean and implicit search engine friendly web site design
Carefully prepared, perceptive direction
Descriptive and well-written text
Tag content that that optimizes identification of relevant keywords
Accurate links that extend the scope of the search
It is true that good content that provides relevant information to the visitor to the site utilizing keyword phrases should be the objective of all contents that makes its way to the World Wide Web. Therefore a professional content writer and not SEO, is what is vital for that aspect of the job. In fact most people would rather be presented with information they require in clear, concise language, right on the main page of the site they are visiting.
Normally a decent search engine strategy takes up to a year to work although it might also work with minimal effort for a long time although it might not perform well in the beginning. If the site does not provide the visitors with what they want then it might never perform at all. Therefore while designing a site, it is important to remember that for the site to be up on the World Wide Web it will first be read by search engines that are machines. On the other hand, any content designed specifically for machine-readability could turn off a real visitor who is not interested in how the pages appear to a machine. Hence SEO is basically a question of balance.

About the Author
Raj Andrews is a senior experienced web developer with Apex Global Solutions specializing in California Custom Website design, E-Commerce shoping cart, Content Management System, Web Site Maintenance, Logo Development, Company Brochure Design, California Marketing Agency Branding Firm, Search Engine Optimization, Multimedia Development.

An Introduction To SEO

2008-03-22T18:50:00.003+01:00

Welcome to Daryl Quenet's introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), optimizing design, and how to maximize your websites search engine positioning for the major search engines.

When it comes to running an effective website that ranks well on the search engine results pages (SERPs), there are three major factors that can influence the number of search engine referrals (incoming searches) you get. This applies to all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Live).

Content Is King

The most important thing is the content on your page regardless of how much time you put into Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) for your website without the content people are searching for you will find very little return on your efforts.

Involved with the preparation of your content is analyzing the keyword(s) for your given industry. Just putting Keywords in the keywords meta tag will get you no where without those Keywords existing in your content. This is known as Keyword Density, basically the more often you're keywords the more relevant your content is for the searcher in the eyes of a search engine. Keep in mind an ideal density is around 3.5% per word in you phrase.

When writing your Search Engine Optimized content don't forget about the end user. If you can't get your keyword densities bang on, then don't worry about it. I prefer to have a lower density but higher quality content for the end user, than having spammy content and a lower conversion rate. The end goal is still to convert your visitors to your products, services, or whatever your goal may be. Users, unlike search engines, are not interested in Keyword Density so beware of keyword spam.

And a final note on Content for this introduction is that it is advisable to constantly update your content. The longer your content goes without updates, the staler the content gets, and the lower your search engine positioning will drop. However with enough Link Building this can be negated.

Link Building Your Way Too Success

Link building is easily the second most important factor in SEO, and in some cases the most. Building links into your website is the only way as a webmaster that you can affect the authority of your website, and the value your existing content may have in the eyes of the search engines.

To conceptualize link building think of your website as if it was a person. The more popular a person is the more authoritative what they have to say is to their target audience. The big difference being that our target audience is Google, and the other major search engines, and having quality links on other sites equates to your websites "popularity".

Now keep in mind when you start your link building that nearly no two links are exactly the same. When Google calculates the value of a link it looks at several important things to figure out just how much strength to give you. Here are just a few:

How much strength did the page with the link have

Number of external links on a page

Anchor text used for the link

Is a rel=nofollow tag used

How long has that link been there

Now keep in mind all of these factors above are irrelevant if Google hasn't cached the page with the link, if Google hasn't found it then it is worth nothing. The stronger the strength of the page your link is on the more strength you will get in return. The more outgoing links there are on a page the more that strength will be divided between all the linked sites.

A link with a rel="nofollow" attribute is virtually useless to your website other then increasing your overall link count to give your competitors a scare. You will mainly find NoFollow attributes for Blog Comments, Website Advertisers / Sponsors, Paid Links, or links to competitors (I use them on my resume for past work experience).

When a link is built very few search engines will give you the full strength of that link right away. This is done to maintain the quality of the SERPs if everyone could just go out build 1000s of links then rank there would be no quality to the search engines. Instead they slowly give you more strength as these links age up until around the 6 month period.

Lastly you will constantly see something called Google Pagerank. Pagerank is an arbitrary Google measurement assigned to a website / page to denote that pages strength. Now some people consider this measurement to be the end all be all, but in truth it means very little other than an indicator of you sites health. If you have a PageRank on your homepage as well as pagerank on most of your internal pages your off to a good start. Also keep in mind that pagerank only updates every 3 - 6 months, and ultimately the proof is in the search engine results not some number in the toolbar.

* It's important to note that when I'm referring to PageRank above I'm referring to the visual PageRank displayed in the little green bar, not the actual PageRank that Google uses internally to calculate the value of a page.

Optimize Your Website Navigation Structure & Design

I purposely left site structure to last as it can be the quickest way for you to royally mess up your website rankings. The worst case with bad structure is that no part of your website will be cached and you will see no visitors. I've seen a lot of sites with a lot of issues causing no search engines to crawl these sites. Some of the worst yet simple structural issues that can affect your search engine crawler visibility that I've seen are:

Automatically redirecting all visitors that come to your site to another page.

Using HTTPS only

Pure Javascript based navigation

On other sites I have seen Google only cached the index page, which may have an assigned Pagerank without spidering the rest of the website. The things to remember when mapping out the structure of your website are:

At all costs avoid having dynamic URLs (ie index.php?PageId=1), a dynamic URL is a URL that contains HTTP GET variables. Search engines don't tend to spider these sites well. And to users they don't have any relevant information to their Queries. Try to use Page keys that contain your keywords, if you need to use Dynamic scripts to build your website (i.e. through a Content Management System), use Apache Mod Rewrites to build a static in appearance website (Notice how all URLs on my personal web design & development appear to be directories). If you have to use Dynamic URLs keep your number of variables at no more than 2.

If possible try to use the Keywords you are targeting for your industry in your URL or Files / Directories. This helps increase your Keyword Density, as well as providing users clicking through on Google information relevant to their query in your file names.

Don't constantly change your website structure. Pagerank takes time naturally to develop, and Google holds new sites back in a Sandbox. By renaming a page you can often kiss your pre-existing search engine positioning away on renamed pages until their rank is redeveloped.

When designing a new site try to avoid having filenames with extensions in the URL (ie Products.asp), this can limit your options in the future if you change programming languages (ie ASP to PHP), as well as the platform your website can be hosted on (ie Windows vs Linux Hosting).

When implementing a new structure or new site, create a Google sitemap, and register it with Google to let Google know what to index.

Whenever possible attached CSS and Javascript as external files.

Once you have decided on a website structure, or you have a pre-existing structure, the best way to score higher search engine positions is to have minimalist coding in the HTML to maximize your Content to Markup Ratio. The best way to minimize the amount of HTML code required is to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Cascading Style Sheets allow you to pull the design out of your HTML pages and place them into a separate file. Not only does this remove a lot of HTML if you were using Tables for layout, it makes maintenance a lot simpler as all your design changes are made in one place.

When I moved my website from table based layout to Cascading Style Sheets I managed to reduce my markup code by around 60%! If you have a very large site this can be even more beneficial as some search engines limit the amount of hard drive space they will allocate to caching your website, as well as raise the position of your content higher up in your document.

Conclusion

And thus concludes my introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), it may sound long and long winded, but that is really just a little bit of what goes into successful positioning your website on the search engines. I'll finish up with one last warning and that is to not buy or sell links, as you can easily be penalized completely from the SERPs for this (Google supplies a page for reporting websites for buying and selling). Good luck on your Search Engine Result Pages and Positioning!

Daryl Quenet is a search engine optimization services expert and is the Director of Optimization Services at Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc. Daryl is also a writer for Beanstalk in their SEO articles and the developer of many of the new SEO tools that Beanstalk will be adding to their arsenal

Occupation: Search Engine Positioning
Dave Davies is the CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning. Beanstalk offers SEO, consulting, training, copywriting and link building services to clients from around the world. Be sure to visit our SEO articles archives for more information on SEO and web design best practices.

http://www.beanstalk-inc.com/

5 Tips to Improve Search Rank

2008-03-17T07:00:00.002+01:00

Optimizing your website for search engines can be a time consuming and costly process if you don't know what you are doing. Utilize these five search engine optimization tips provided by a professional SEO firm to improve your organic search engine rank.

1. Watch Your Keyword Density

Keyword density refers to the number of times a keyword is used on a web page compared to the total amount of words on the page. For example, if your web page is 100 words long and you use the keyword "SEO" eight times on this page, the keyword density of the search term, "SEO" would be 8%. When writing content for your website, be sure the keyword density of your content never exceeds 15%. The density you should use varies from source to source, but 15% is generally the highest density any source will suggest.

2. Build Relevant Links

Building links to your website is a time consuming process that is absolutely necessary for high search engine rank. If you don't build links to your website, your search results will reflect with low rankings. However, you should also pay attention to where you are placing your links. The quality of the websites that contain links to your website is taken into account by search engines, as is the relevancy of the website and the web page to your website and your web page. Relevancy is very important. If you're just spamming up unrelated websites with links to your website, search engines are going to catch on and lower your search rank.

3. Use Headers on Web Pages

It is common to see new webmasters bold their headlines and increase their size so that consumers will be sure to notice them. However, there is a much better way to make your headlines, titles, and subheadings visible to consumers, which will also improve your search engine rank. Headers, such as H1, H2, H3, and so on, are used to not only make headlines stick out for consumers, but headers also alter the size of the headlines according to their natural order in the article.

Headers should be used appropriately. While the keyword in the H1 heading will be viewed as the most important header by search engines, it is not savvy to place more than one H1 header on a web page. You can, however, use multiple H2, H3, and so on. Most web pages only get to H3, but try to make it to H6 if possible, without looking like a spammer.

4. Reduce Web Page Loading Time

If your website loads very slowly, consumers are likely to leave your website before they find out why they should stick around. Your website may have images that cause your page to load slowly. Other factors include the amount of code on your website, such as javascript; excessively large web pages or even a slow server can slow your website down as well. For your initial step, you will need to test the loading time of your website, which can be done for free on our website.

5. Write Your Own Content

Copying content is just plagiarism. It wasn't okay in 8th grade and it isn't okay on the internet. Search engines store every web page they come across, so if you copy content from another website and place it on your own website, your search rank is not likely to improve very much. You may see a slight improvement due to an increased amount of content on your website, but this improvement will pale in comparison to the results you can obtain with unique content. If you are not the "writing type," hire a search engine optimization firm to write your content for you.

Andre Zayas is a professionally syndicated author. Houston Search Engine Optimization

SEO - Insider Tips To Creating SEO Keywords And Phrases

2008-03-11T07:15:00.001+01:00

Why we are using Black Hat & White Hat SEOs

2008-03-10T05:35:00.003+01:00

The black hat SEOs and the white hat SEOs means we can say bad guys and the white hat SEOs are known as the good guys in the eyes of search engine, the white hat SEOs would be the innocent guys. Normally the white hate SEOs are suppose to win over the black hat SEOs, but this is something which is controlled to the blue screen of your TV and not your PC.

Here we are trying to reviews is that no search engine marketing service is completely right or completely wrong in its reality. These is what you are performing at your level and how the search engine is analyze it, so again that is depend on search engine they are either nominated by them or banned your site. If your techniques of SEOs annoy the search engines, they might just eliminate your site from search engine ranking totally and vice a versa.

Now the facts are, there is no more competition of the good guys winning over the bad guys. Instead it is the immergences of new area, where black hat techniques are also consider being right technique. Like if we take keyword usages, according the right white hat way of optimization u should not be used your keywords too many times in your webpage, but again there is no official control to usage of your keywords. Search engine has not mentioned any where that, these many times u can use your keyword in your webpage, and so it would be sagely & secure search engine or white hat technique.

Don’t get confused between Black Hat & White Hat SEOs , I would suggest that instead of out truly, you following only well or the bad things in SEOs, it is better and very good to find out the way to do SEOs. You should continue to do experimenting with all the various techniques of marketing or web promotion which you like or don’t like, and which is also available online. Find out the way yourself that how the major search engine reacts on your techniques & this is how you can measure your SEOs techniques as well as our expertise in SEOs.

So don’t follow the other rules or just do listed the white hat technique or black hat technique. It is appreciated to be saying a very good SEO. I SEO Specialist India like to do experiment the techniques of SEOs and the same thing I am following. What do you suggest?

Occupation: SEO Specialist India
Bhupendra Vasaikar - SEO Specialist in Ahmedabad India provide search engine optimization services, Link Building popularity services, Directory submission services, Article making & submission, Blog promotion and lot more… please visit my website Seo Services India
http://www.topseoindia.com/

The 5 Best SEO Tips You Will Ever Read

2008-03-07T10:35:00.004+01:00

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be an SEO "guru" to rank well in the Search Engines. There are only a handful of things you need to do in order to rank well. Those who concentrate on what’s important will quickly pass those who spend their time worrying about all of the little things that may or may not increase their rankings!

Below you will find the 5 most important SEO factors:

1: Links - The quantity and quality of the links on the WWW which point to your site and it's subpages is the #1 off-page SEO factor! When it comes to top Search Engine rankings the most influential factor really is the incoming links! Submit articles and do selective link exchanges to give your site a push-start and let your good content (below) bring it to the top!

2: Title and META Tags - The title and META description of each individual page is the most important on-page SEO factor! Craft your title and description in a way that is both Search Engine friendly (contains your primary keyword) and user friendly (convinces them to click.) Remember, if it is full of keywords and not user friendly, your rankings will not matter, as no one will click. If it is user friendly, but doesn't contain your main keyword, you will not rank as high as you would if it had your keyword (in most cases.)

3: Internal Linking - A good internal linking structure will not only show the SE's which of your pages are more important, it can actually increase the rankings of those pages! Use the rel="nofollow" attribute on links that don't need any "link juice" like your contact pages, about pages, affiliate links and duplicated pages.

4: Quality Content - Quality content will bring in "natural" links. If you're spitting out low-quality, rehashed content, you won't impress anyone. If you do not impress anyone your job will be much harder, as you'll have to manually build all of your links.

5: Keyword Density doesn't Matter - "Keyword Density" is no longer important. With the implementation of "Latent Semantic Indexing" (LSI) most major Search Engines do not rank a page higher because it contains a keyword a set number of times. Just write natural content and good things will come!

So to recap, build solid incoming links, compose a good title and META description, create a solid internal linking structure, write quality content and don't worry about keyword density!

This is the strategy that has worked for me in order to obtain front-page ranking for many competitive terms and I'm confident it will for you as well!

To see how I've conquered some of the most competitive keywords on the Internet, visit http://www.TheEasySEOReport.com/ where I provide my extremely popular SEO Report for absolutely Free!

8 Useful SEO Techniques Every Webmaster Should Know

2008-03-06T06:19:00.002+01:00

Every webmaster should have some basic understanding of
these simple SEO techniques if they want to achieve
Top Rankings for their site. The more you know about these
Search Engine Optimization techniques; the better your
web pages will fare in the different search engines,
especially Google.

Optimizing your pages for the search engines should be
your main priority because conquering and dominating your
chosen keywords is often cited as one of the major
determining factors in the success of your online site
or business. You must have a rudimentary grasp of how
SEO can work for you and your site.

These simple SEO Tips will help you understand
the basics and help you reach your online goals.

1. Title Tag

The Title Tag is located at the top of your html page
and it tells the search engines what your page is about.
When you open your page in a browser these are the
words at the very top of the screen. Despite its simplicity,
the title tag is crucial to 'on-page optimization'; it should
include your main keywords and it should be 63 characters
or less if you want your title to appear in full on Google.

Many SEO experts create web pages in a three-prong
approach. They place the title in:

- the title tag
- on the webpage itself
- and in the URL for that page.

Sometimes they will just pick the main keywords from
the title and place them in the anchor url instead.
For example: www.yourwebsite.com/keywords.html

3. Meta Description Tag

The Meta Tag contains the description for your web page.
Your description will show up in all the search engines
so you have to be careful to write precisely and objectively.
It should be about 140 characters or around 20 words.
Make sure to include your keywords but don't spam - don't
repeat your keywords more than twice, using variations is
helpful.

Keep in mind, successful webmasters make their descriptions
stand out from the crowd and entice the surfer to click
their link. It is also the first contact with your potential
visitor or prospect so make a good first impression.

3. Anchor Tag or URL

The anchor tag is used to form links within websites
or from site to site. This tag should have your title
or the main keywords from your page title to be the most
effective.

Anchor text is also important to know, these are the
underlined, clickable text or words in a link.
<*A HREF="url"> anchor text <*/A>

If you want to check Google for all web pages
containing your keywords in the anchor tags.

Just type into Google Search:

allinanchor:yourkeywords

4. Finding Backlinks

One of the keys to higher rankings is building quality
links from relevant related quality sites. The search
engines, especially Google, counts each link as a "vote"
for your site or content. Many experts suggest you include
your main keywords in the anchor text of these inbound
links in order to rank high.

If you want to find the number of backlinks your site
has.

Just type into Google Search:

link:yourURL

and it will give you the number of backlinks you have.

Google doesn't give you all your existing backlinks,
so you can try Yahoo! to find a more exact number.

Just open Yahoo! and type in:
linkdomain:yourURL

5. Checking Indexed Pages

If is very important for you to know what content
the search engines have indexed from your site.
You can also check to see how your links are
displayed and to see if any titles or descriptions
are missing from your pages.

You can see how many of your pages are indexed
in Google by using the site command.

Just type into Google Search:

site:yourURL

Another way to look at your pages in Google
is to type in "http://yoursite" and "www.yoursite"
with the quotation marks to see the exact number
of listings for each.

6. Checking Google Cache

You can also check to see the Google Cache
of your site by using the cache command.
You will also discover when it was last
retrieved.

Just type into Google Search:

cache:yourURL

7. Finding Associated Keywords

Keywords are the heart of the Internet, you
must dominate the search engines for your
chosen keywords if you are to succeed online.
So make sure you have your main keywords in
the Meta Keyword Tag on your page. Many experts
suggest you place your page's main keywords
in the first and last 25 words on that page.

You must also be able to find and use variations
of your keywords to completely conquer your targeted
niche. To find what other keywords Google has
associated with your main keywords, just use
the tilde ~ command to find associated phrases
in Google.

Just type into Google search:

~keywords

Variations will be highlighted in bold print.

8. Finding Titled Keywords

If you want to find competing sites that have
your keywords in the title just use the allintitle
command.

Just type into Google search:

allintitle:yourkeywords

In summary, if used consistently, these basic SEO
techniques should help improve your rankings and keep you
in the picture with regards to your standings in the search
engines. Your site's stats or raw traffic logs will also confirm
the rise or fall of your keyword rankings. You must have
complete knowledge of both your site and your keywords
in the search engines, especially Google. Since Google will
deliver most of your quality traffic, you must optimize for
it and be aware of what is happening to your site and keywords
within Google. This is yet another example where knowledge
equals success.

...

The author is a full-time web marketer who regularly
sells 1000's of dollars worth of affiliate products/services
online each day. He runs two sites on Internet marketing.
For the latest web marketing information try: Internet Marketing Tools
or Marketing Tool Guide
Copyright © 2008 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely
distributed if this resource box stays attached.

SEO is Easy - Be Your Own SEO Expert

2008-03-03T09:57:00.001+01:00

SEO isn’t nearly as hard as it’s made out to be. A good majority of the so-called “SEO Experts” are out to get your money. They run services, so they want you to believe SEO is some kind of a science.

In the past several years, I’ve been creating and marketing Websites. For the longest time I believed all the hype of mumbo-jumbo that’s constantly floating around out there about how you need to study search engines and stay on top of them 24/7 if you want to see good rankings.

During that time I continued to do all of the basic things we know we should be doing in order to rank well:

- Work on a lot of quality incoming links.
- Research your keywords and target relevant keywords
- Compose a good META title and description

I worked on those few things as well as a few other basic SEO techniques and over time I found myself competing for the first page of Google for some very competitive keywords!

I’m not talking about baby keywords either. I’m talking about those like “make money online,” “article directory” etc.

The fact is; there are loads of myths involved in the education of SEO online. Many of these myths come from those who are looking for customers for their SEO consulting firms and services.

It wasn’t until I stopped worrying about the latest search engine changes etc. that I started to see some extremely impressive results.

If you’ve been running a Website for a few months and you think SEO is hard, think again! Just learn the basics because that’s really all it takes.

Do your basic on-page optimization and build a lot of quality links! The rest will fall into place naturally and you won’t be paying ungodly rates to “SEO consultants” who nine times out of ten don’t know what they’re doing anyway!

To see the exact SEO Strategy that I use to conquer loads of extremely competitive search terms, visit http://www.theeasyseoreport.com/ where I offer the best SEO Report on the market FREE of Charge!

Link building service: An easy way to earn popularity for your website

2008-03-02T07:35:00.001+01:00

In this competitive world, every business organization has an aim to earn remarkable profit and a reputed name in very short duration. It is now indeed more like a necessary objective to get well noticeable among the other organization so that you can at least stand as a strong contender in the world of competition. Now the important question that arises is how to get popular among the populace and an easy answer to this complexity is better exposure. It is very easy to get your website posted on the Internet. But that is not all, the problem sustain as it is, if your website fails to attract good number of visitors. The only solution to this problem is creating a good informative website that is rich with all necessary details your company is focusing up on. Any wrong data or complicated piece of content is enough to compel the visitor to close it and look for another website. Losing interest is a common fact that visitors have while browsing the sites if they are not qualitative enough. Therefore, if you are promoting your product or service online, then there are certain factors which are must to keep in mind. One of such very significant concept is hiring link building service.
Many online firms are now seeking assistance from the providers of link building service. This is in fact an extremely popular way to navigate more and more traffic to your website. However, it is totally on the service providers to make the most of it. Professionals who provide link building service providers provide a chance to your website to flourish in an improvised manner. They manage the ranking of your website on several search engines by adapting a peculiar process of creating links of that website on several host sites. These host sites in turn are very beneficial in diverting the visitors to your website allowing a great deal of exploration. Once you get associated or linked with the host site, every visitor to the host site will promptly receive the address of your website as the referred links. This way the websites get popularity and an identity.

Link building service providers have all the latest technology applications to make your website clearly noticeable on the numerous search engines. You must to create your URL an already known link so that you can stand on the top of the search engines because all the search engines mark your website's rank according to the link you use. However, now many people own their sites and if you are among them and seeking heavy traffic then link building is indeed the perfect solution to your search. It largely helps in attracting Internet savvy users. These providers will not only give you the link popularity but also focus deeply on traffic controlling, page ranking and deep indexing.

On associating with a good Link building service provider you free yourself from the worrisome details of host site and its mechanism. All this will be taken care and resolved by your service provider. Do not forget the fact that the popularity of your online business is the outcome of the accurate placement, good promotion and quality link building. Therefore, make your website the most preferred option with link building.

Steve Waganer has specialization in web marketing. He is expert in Search engine optimization, SEO New York, Social media optimization and Search engine marketing firm.To get the Link building service from SEO Firm for your website to get high rank and top position in major search engines visit www.cometsearchenginemarketing.com

What are SEO keywords?

2008-02-29T08:44:00.001+01:00

An article looking at keywords within websites, and why their correct use in these sites content is so important. The article also looks at how failing to use keywords can have a negative impact on your website.

SEO Search Engine Optimisation is a method of attracting traffic to a website through the use of text within the website. Within this text are keywords which relate to the search that is being performed. These search results are classed as being ‘natural’ as the language within the text flows correctly and easily picked up by the spiders that search a website’s content in order for it to appear on a search list.

SEO is a hugely important aspect of a website’s marketing and can be the difference between getting 5-10 hits per day and thousands of hits. Everyone wants their website to be ranked highly on search engines and many people will go to great lengths to make sure that the site’s

SEO is of top quality. The text that is contained on a website needs to contain keywords that are likely to be used in searches for a particular topic or roduct. These keywords are often the name of the topic or product itself.

For example if a person wanted to find out about long haired cats they would type the phrase ‘Long haired cats’ into their chosen search engine. This ould then start to crawl or spider the Internet looking for all the websites that had these words contained within them. If a website had the exact phrase ‘long haired cats’ on it, preferably several times, then it would rank highly on the search results. The words ‘long’ ‘haired’ and ‘cats’ all separately would not really have much relevance to the search results, after all these could present
websites about long hair, or just cats in general and the person searching would find these of little or no value to them. This is where the use of SEO comes into play. If you were the owner of a website that was about long haired cats, you would obviously have this term contained within it, or so you would think. However, if you are not aware of SEO you might not use this term at all in your websites content, preferring to use breed names instead, or it might only be
used once or twice. This would result in low rankings and very little traffic to your site.

Keywords are easy enough to think of on a certain topic, but they do require some thought. However, the effort put into thinking about keywords is minor compared to the amount of traffic they can provide for a website. It is important to think about what your website is about and then think of all the terms are the subject that you can. Then from these you can decide on the best keywords, the ones that people are more likely to search for, and use them within the text on the site. Keywords do not need to be long and difficult to spell, in fact the more words that are difficult to spell the worse your rankings could be as many people might not know how to spell them. Some search engines will provide you with the correct spellings and results but it is best to go for simple words that are easily to understand and spell.

Once you have come up with your keywords you then just write the text of your website with those words contained. Good SEO is easy to read and not stuffed with keywords, as this can lead to your site being banned from directories as it is seen as using unfair tactics to gain a high ranking. By using keywords correctly in your text you can achieve a high ranking and attract many visitors to your site.

Adrian McLean is responsible for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), at the leading SEO Company in the UK, to learn more about SEO, please visit www.searchengineoptimising.com.