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Creating a Website Explosion

2007-11-16T03:20:00.000-08:00

By the time you’ve finished reading this article, you’ll be part of a real-time experiment by becoming my oxygen. Let me explain …

One of the easiest ways to promote your website and your business is article writing. There’s no better way to show off your expertise than to write an article about what you know and publicize it.

Articles can help your website explode with popularity. One of the keys to ranking well in search engines is getting other websites to link to yours. By writing an article about your area of expertise – whether that’s fishing, rocket science, or anything in between – other websites will link to you, raising your popularity.

Will other websites actually link to your article? Yes. I’ll prove it.

I’m writing this article on July 27, 2006. It’s an original work and this date is important because it’s the beginning of this live website popularity experiment. This article is an ingredient in a chain reaction. It will end up blazing a trail across the internet. It won’t cost anything and it will raise my website’s popularity for months.

In a few moments, I’ll show you how to measure the results of this experiment yourself.

First, let’s think in terms of a fire - there are three ingredients: fuel, oxygen, and heat. We’ll apply those three to creating a fiery website explosion.

Fuel: Your fuel for creating a website explosion is an article. For instance, this article is what’s going to catch flame and spread. Without fuel, nothing happens.

Oxygen: Your oxygen source is the internet itself – it’s the audience that will be interested in what you say. That source is what will help this article stay lit and continue to spread. Much like an actual fire, oxygen keeps everything going.

Heat: Ignite your articles with a little bit of online promotion. As with a real flame, it doesn’t take much to get started. Even a little promotion can go a long way.

Subtract any single ingredient, and nothing will work. You can’t promote an article that doesn’t exist, nor can you promote something without an audience. If you have an article and an audience, but you don’t promote it? Nothing.

So you write an article and you’ve got an audience, now it’s time for promotion. If your article is well written and available in online article directories, you’ll get picked up by other websites and the chain reaction will begin. After all, you’ll have the fuel, the oxygen, and the heat to get things started.

Now let’s measure the success of this experiment! Go to Google (www.google.com) and in the search box, type in the title of this article (including the quotes): “Creating a Website Explosion”

The results will show every website that has published the article you’ve just read. As I’m writing this right now, that result is zero. As soon as I type the last word, I’ll start generating the heat. As you check out how far my explosion has reached, think about what you can do to ignite your own!

http://www.articleson.com/Article/Creating-a-Website-Explosion/16436

The Future Of Online Marketing

2007-11-16T03:19:00.000-08:00

The NMA held a conference in London on the future of online marketing. The discussion covered a lot of interesting topics surrounding the increasingly popular world of search engine marketing.
Website usability and conversions
Peter Ballard from Foolproof spoke about improving website usability to improve conversion rates from your search engine marketing campaigns. Useful tips from this sessions were as follows:
• Buying decisions aren't always immediate. Visitors return to sites they had bookmarked or printed out
• Comparison shopping is very popular, and visitors view comparison sites as true guides, often a wrong perception
• This results in lower visitor loyalty and the need for sites to convince users why they should buy from them
• Provide users information they might need to make a decision... don't just push for a sale.
Search marketing in the future
Nick Cox from Mirago spoke about the future of search engine marketing - both optimisation and paid advertising. His session highlighted the following:
• Regional search and Europe-wide search are both growing initiatives. Whilst Google is pushing towards regional search, Tier 2 search engines are driving for Europe-wide search services
• Shopping comparison sites are gaining popularity
• As Google slashes agency commission, there may be motivation for agencies to return to SEO to make up for lost commission revenue
• Personalised search might make search engine optimisation nearly impossible if different users see totally different results.
Email marketing
Peter Chapman from Blue Streak discussed email marketing - yes, email marketing! - it is not dead, and when done well, it still provides great results. The main tips provided for the future of email marketing were:
• Email marketing is most effective when segmented according to:
o Stage of customer life cycle
o Product usage
o Geography
• Email marketing will be integrated with SEO and PPC even more in the future, to provide a more robust marketing model with multiple customer touch-points
• New avenues of marketing such as RSS and SMS will complement email marketing in the future.
Web site visitor analytics
The current market leading web site analytics providers, WebTrends spoke about a handful of issues currently surrounding analytics packages and the future of analytics. The main points to be noted were:
• Not all users accept cookies. An estimated 5-10% systems do not accept 1st party cookies, and as much as 28% of users do not accept 3rd party cookies. Therefore always look out for solutions offering multiple tracking method options.
• Conversions are not always detected by the Google AdWords or Overture system. Users often come back to sites later to make a final decision or purchase. Analytics packages should be tuned to count these conversions
• Ways to calculate conversion rates include:
o Number of conversions / Total visits
o Number of conversions / Sum of daily unique visitors
o Number of conversions / Absolute unique visitors
• Pay attention to segmentation information provided by website visitor data analysis, especially new versus repeat users, and referral sources.
The future of analytics providers seems to indicate a shift towards providing business analysis services rather than just tools. This need is being driven mostly by smaller businesses recognizing the need for visitor analysis but not having the skills to do it in-house.
Integration of analytics solutions with all forms of marketing, from PPC to email to banner marketing seems to also be on the upswing as client awareness improves.
The most immediate effect the above changes will bring about will be better navigation on website's, as businesses realize their customers' needs and optimise their site navigation to facilitate finding the information easily.

http://www.articleson.com/Article/The-Future-Of-Online-Marketing/17319

The odds of success in online business - affiliate marketing

2007-11-16T03:15:00.000-08:00

Given the number of sites out there it's an interesting subject to talk about the success rate of online business ventures. Of course we know success is defined in different ways and a degree of personal satisfaction can be a measure of success. So for the sake of the discussion we are looking at only sites that set out to generate an income that can replace a wage and everything above that level.How many sites do you think come online every day? Thousands ? Millions? It's
a massive number, they are all trying to get search space and all trying to get traffic. The odds of making a dollar for Joe average are extremely low at best,I've am asked almost daily how is it done and the answer is there is no easy answer.It takes skill, a good idea and a good execution of that idea to even get you started. Once you have a formula that is working you should try to replicate that over and over if possible. This can be a a key factor in being good and being great. Start small, find a plan and then scale up, if your plan does not lend itself to easy replication then your behind before you start. There are a lot of good affiliate programs out there the hard part is deciding which one is worth pursuit and which ones are genuine and not scams. You need to stay ahead of the curve and that is not always easy online. One of the big hurdles is traffic, many new sites get little or no traffic - ever. I often tell web hopefuls to investigate Ebay because the traffic is already in play, all you need to do it tap into the Ebay site and your on your way, although I don't operate an eBay business it's pretty clear going this way will increase your
odds of success. If I had to make 1 dollar tomorrow I would choose YPN or Google adsense - But if you want to make more than a few bucks then your going to need serious traffic and page views and be prepared to align your self with one of the search companies. Lets face facts here, when you align with adsense they don't disclose the % they pay to you and they will "adjust" your % based on some mysterious quality score? and the benefit of the lower quality score only equals a larger slice to google not a better deal for the advertiser. Who wants to do business this way? I've seen some big adwords cheques published online so there is clearly money to be made here, the point is you need a good site with traffic volumes to make money.So it can be done and it is being done, to make an income online to replace your wage is very possible you just need to understand it is not going to fall out of the sky and land in your lap. Be prepared to have your site scraped,content stolen, your site dropped from search engines, server downtime and your
inbox loaded with all sorts of get rich yesterday schemes! If you want to stack the odds in your favor get a good website and some good SEO, look at PPC and other paid traffic options
and try to be fresh and original.

http://www.articleson.com/Article/The-odds-of-success-in-online-business----affiliate-marketing/17643

Search engine optimisation of Title Tags

2007-11-16T03:14:00.000-08:00

Search Engines and Title Tags
The Title Tag has always been considered to be one of the most important on-site factors considered by search engines when ranking a site. In this article we revisit the rules of working with Title Tags for search engine optimisation (http://www.accuracast.com/services/search-engine-optimisation/ ).
Top 3 reasons to love your web page title tags
The title tags lie between the and tags of your web pages and are marked out as . The text included within the title tag displays on the top of your browser window.
1. Title Tags introduce your site
Title tags tell the users what you do in a few words. The title tag tells users what your web page is all about. E.g. a title such as "Cheap New York hotels" immediately tells you that the website deals with low-cost hotels in New York. Ideally they should be under 60 characters, including spaces.
2. Very important for search engine optimisation
All search engines pay a lot of importance to title tags (http://www.accuracast.com/services/search-engine-optimisation/website-development.php ). Since the title tag is meant to convey exactly what your web page is all about, search engines consider it to be a very important indicator of web page relevance when searching for a certain keyword. E.g. if you search for the term "reality tv" on Google, you will find the top 10 websites Google finds all contain the words "Reality TV" in their title.
3. Well written Title Tags will boost your sales
Good title tags ( http://www.accuracast.com/services/search-engine-optimisation/implementation.php ) will make you a winner. Most search engines display the text from your title tags in the search results, usually as the title of your listing. Good title tags prompt users to click on the search result to visit your website. Well constructed title tags will ensure that your site ranks high on the search results and attracts appropriate visitors who are most likely to convert into customers.
Top 3 reasons to hate other websites' title tags!
1. Title tag stuffing
Many businesses abuse the importance of title tags. Title tag stuffing is a common occurrence. It is a short term strategy and a very easy way to get your site blacklisted on most search engines.
2. Misleading title tags
If your title tag does not describe your web pages contents correctly, users will get irritated and leave your website quickly. Search engines also recognise this as a way to trick visitors and penalise web pages resorting to such tactics.
3. Empty title tags
If you do not specify your web page title, the search engine is compelled to pick up text from the top of your page. This may not always be what you want visitors to see as an introduction to your site.
Other articles to read:
• The future of online marketing ( http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/online-marketing-future.php )
• Search Engine Marketing for MSN and Yahoo! Still worth it ( http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/msn-yahoo.php )
SEO Weekly ( http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/ )

http://www.articleson.com/Article/Search-engine-optimisation-of-Title-Tags/17825

Google AdWords Quality Score for Landing Pages

2007-11-16T03:12:00.000-08:00

Google announced that it will also include metrics based on the relevance and quality of landing pages (http://www.accuracast.com/services/ppc-management/landing-pages.php ) in the quality score, which affects ranking and CPC of sponsored links, will now also include. We discuss:
AdWords Quality Score basics
The Quality Score is a number used by Google to evaluate the quality of your keywords in order to determine your minimum bid and the position your ad is shown in for a given maximum bid value. The Quality Score was normally determined for each keyphrase you bid on, by the clickthrough rate for the keyword, relevance of the actual ad's text, historical performance, and some other factors.
The Quality Score multiplied by the Maximum Bid gives you the value Google uses when deciding whether to set your keyword's status as active or inactive, and to decide the position of active keywords.
Changes in calculation of AdWords quality score
With the new system for calculating Quality Score, Google will now also include the quality and relevance of the landing page and the site to the keyword.
This means Google will probably spider your entire site from your AdWords landing page(s) (http://www.accuracast.com/services/ppc-management/google-adwords/ ), evaluate it in a manner similar to how it evaluates sites on its organic listings, use techniques like Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) to determine what the site is all about and then decide how relevant the site and the landing page are to the keyword.
Moreover, there is a high likelihood that Google will also use your conversion tracking values to provide an indication of whether or not their users are judging your site to be valuable and are converting into leads or sales on it, and include this as yet another metric when calculating the Quality Score.
How does this affect your search engine advertising?
On the face of it, this new metric does not change much for a scrupulous advertiser, who follows all of the Google AdWords ( http://www.accuracast.com/services/ppc-management/google-adwords/ ) editorial guidelines. The guidelines merely state that your landing page should be relevant to the ad copy and the keyword you bid on, it should include the main elements of the ad, should ideally provide details on any special offers quoted in the ad and should not attempt to mislead users.
If you follow the editorial guidelines and use AdWords scrupulously, the effect of this change should either be positive -marked by a lower CPC or better position - or none at all for your campaign.
Advertisers who chose to bid on low-price, high popularity keywords ( http://www.accuracast.com/resources/seo/seo-keywords.php ) just to gain visibility with the hope that a few inquisitive visitors might buy something from their site, will now find that they need to bid much more to keep these keywords active.
Keywords that don't convert well into sales or leads might also be negatively effected. This again, can be good for you, since you don't want to continue paying for words that are not winning you any money. This can be problematic, though, when your conversions tend to be offline, or over the phone for some keywords and not for others.
Google AdWords Landing Page and Site Quality Guidelines
https://adwords.google.com/select/siteguidelines.html
Other articles to read:
• Search engines and Title Tags ( http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/title-tags.php )
• The future of online marketing ( http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/online-marketing-future.php )
SEO Weekly

http://www.articleson.com/Article/Google-AdWords-Quality-Score-for-Landing-Pages/17849

Back-links Strategies

2007-11-16T03:06:00.000-08:00

Off-Site optimization playing a major role in any web-site ranking. Off-Site optimization refers to the factors that you can't control it in your site. One of the most critical parts in Off-Site optimization is back-links. The search engines sees the back-links as it's voting for your site, and as this voting increases your ranking increases also. There are many ways that enables you to get back-links to your site in order to get high ranking position for your site, however we will mention the most two important ways.

First way to get back-links is article submission. There are many sites in the Internet allowing you to submit your articles for free, and it also allows you to put up to three links by the end of your articles. By this way you will get free one way back-link to your site without the need to put a link back to the article site. This way not only gives you one way back-link, but it also gives you massive laser target traffic to your site. Simply there are a lot of members in article sites that seeks the latest information technology and the latest news by reading articles. So the members will visit the the article site, read your article, visiting your site, and that's it. You have just got a new visitor to your site.

Second method of getting back-links is directory submission. Today directories became a very important part of the Internet, and there are a lot of people that searching for a specific web-site service using the directories. However this method is not always free, because of the massive submission reports that the directories admins receive they start to take some fees to accept new sites. Some directories still provide this service for free, others ask for linking back in order to accept your site, and the last method is by paying money.

In conclusion, web-site ranking can be heavily effect by using Off-Site optimization. Off-site optimization can rank your site in the top ten, and also can drop your site to a lower position. In order to get a high ranking you should master Off-Site optimization, and especially the ways that gives you back-links.

http://www.articleson.com/Article/Back-links-Strategies/18083

Seo: Focus, Focus; Not Hocus, Pocus

2007-11-15T03:51:00.001-08:00

Anyone who knows me, knows that my biggest pet peeves are loud eaters, auto-loading music on web sites and my next door neighbor. Today we can safely add to this list web sites that are so ambiguous, it could be argued they are part of some cryptic conspiratorial code.

My company offers a free service analyzing web sites from a search engine marketing perspective. At least once daily, we are sent the link to a web site with no clear and apparent focus. It's so bad that we don't know what keyword exactly to talk to the web site owner about in their analysis. I always tell these people, their biggest problem is not search engine optimization (or lack thereof), it's focus!

The most important aspect of any web site in any industry, anywhere in the world is user friendliness. There is no straying from this. Your web site can be optimized for the most competitive keyword in the world, it can rank number one across the board and you can even have your URL flashed across the posing torso of America's Next Top Model on CNN and it will do absolutely nothing whatsoever for your business if your web site is not user-friendly.

Visitors need to come to your site and know immediately what it is about. You have literally just a few seconds to capture their attention. If they don't see what they are looking for, quickly, they will leave.

Some tips to help you make sure your web site visitors stick around and understand what your web site is all about are as follows:

1. Find out the language your target audience is using to find your site, refer to your product or refer to your service. More often than not, professionals in an industry refer to things differently than the layman. If you are using too much jargon on your web site, you will lose your visitor's interest.

2. Avoid start pages, flash intros, or extra steps before getting to your sites info. In this day and age, we've all been spoiled by instant gratification and we all know how to get what we want within seconds. If your site doesn't offer answers as fast as it possibly can, you've already lost customers. Flash intros and welcome pages are pretty and sparkly and fun, but pretty, sparkly and fun doesn't make money. Visitors do.

3. Do not, under any circumstances, ever have auto-loading music or sound on your web site. A vast majority of computer users listen to mp3s while using their computers, and now their mobile phones with built-in mp3 players. If they're listening to the new Jimmy Eat World record or singing along to The Cult, the very last thing they want is to have some cheesy sales pitch interrupt the chorus. The first thing I do when I hit a site with any sort of sound or music, including the web sites of my favorite bands, I leave. I immediately leave, no questions asked. They could probably pay me to stick around for a bit, but cold hard cash is about the only thing that would keep me around and being as the purpose of your site is to make you money, paying people to visit it isn't necessarily the most cost-effective route to take.

4. Use nice, clean, professional looking graphics AND text. Most web users tend not to read. They skim and usually will only go that far if prompted by something graphic that strikes their interest. As is the case with storefronts in the real world, what draws people into a store they've only just seen or heard of for the first time, is looks and what it's selling. Think about it. If you're looking for antiques and you walked up to a store called "Joe's Emporium" and the entire thing had tinted windows so you couldn't see in, would you bother going in when the store right next door says "Betty's Antiques" and has a beautiful display of some the prettiest old stuff you ever saw? No. Joe would be out of business in no time.

Your site needs to be clean, professional and enticing. Cut the bells and whistles, stop beating around the bush and give it to them straight. No one wants their time wasted or their intelligence insulted and no one wants to be chasing white rabbits around trying to make sense of your web site. Give them the goods, give it to them fast and give it to them with class. When you've done that, then focus on search engine optimization and you will find that your numbers in traffic will reflect nice and proportionately, your numbers of inquiries.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/SEO--Focus--Focus--Not-Hocus--Pocus/339308

Seo Or Ppc - Choose The Right Option For Your Business Web Site Marketing

2007-11-15T03:48:00.000-08:00

When businesses start web site marketing or promotion, two main options help to achieve the goal, SEO (also referred as “organic optimization”) and PPC (also referred as “inorganic optimization”). Selecting the best option of these two is the first mile stone of any Internet Marketing Campaign.

Pay Per Click involves online advertising on web sites, search engines and their related advertising networks, by bidding highly searched and product relevant keywords and appropriate creating ads. These ads are called "sponsored links" or "sponsored ads”, which generally appear to the right or on top of organic (natural) results of search engines. Advertiser needs to pay whenever user clicks on the ad in accordance with his bidding amount.PPC is the ideal option for highly funded adversting campaigns aiming to achieve visitors and targeted traffic within short duration, however involves more cost and risk involvement.

Edge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) over PPC :

• Guaranteed Clicks: Many Researches revealed that visitors in general prefer natural organic search links in comparison to PPC sponsored links.

• Long Term Traffic and ROI Benefit: Web site once ranked top in search engine’s organic results brings steady, long term traffic and in return ROI in contrast to short term traffic and ROI based ppc campaign.

• Less Risk and Cost Involvement: “Click Fraud” is the most concerned, risky and costlier affair for any PPC Campaign. SEO, in comparison involves zero or less risk and cost involvement.

• More Keyword Targeting: PPC facilitates bidding and ranking for limited set of keywords. SEO offers no such limitations on keyword targeting and ranking

• More Exposure and Wider Space Promotion: PPC Campaign is confined to pay-per-click search engines and its advertising networks. SEO promotion gives more exposure and wider space with RSS, Blogs, Social Search, News Articles, in addition to Search Engine placements.

In general ,SEO has major gains in comparison to PPC. However PPC can be considered for short duration in combination with long term and result -oriented seo promotion strategy.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/SEO-or-PPC---Choose-the-right-option-for-your-business-web-site-marketing/339694

Top Seo Tips To Get Higher Search Engine Rankings

2007-11-15T03:47:00.001-08:00

Getting listed in search engines is not a difficult task but what matters how have your site been listed in a search engine. Your site can get higher ranking in all search engines if you follow ethical SEO strategies. In this article you can find some important SEO tips which can help you to get higher Search engine rankings:

1.Do Research on Keywords: Keyword being the weapon of your success in SEO as search engines work as per your keywords hence be careful while selecting right keywords. It is widely advisable to use Overture or Wordtracker tools to select right Keyword.
2.Work On Content: It is widely said that for websites ‘Content is King’. So concentrate on your web content and make sure that the content provides some unique information to your visitor and not duplicated from elsewhere. While writing content for your web pages, insert vital keywords which relate to the products and services that your company offers.

3.Proper Design: Design your site that clearly represent your business and make an easy navigation based on your keyword research. Your overall webdesign should be simple, nice and user friendly. Make web pages that are easy to load. Don’t make pages with large images, if images are necessary; make a thumbnail and must add a description of the image.

Be Search Engine Spider Friendly: Search Engines read the websites content through its spiders or crawler. These spiders go through the site and categorized them as per the need of searchers. Always make sure that you have HTML link in your main navigation on each page. Avoid javascript link and menus, flash, graphics as search engine spider’s can not read them.

5. Build incoming links to your site: Incoming links are very, very important for SEO and also possibly the hardest part of SEO to implement. One way Incoming Links always have more importance than reciprocal links. Avoid link farms and try to get links from authority websites, edu and gov sites as they have more weightage than others and also preferable by search engines. Writing articles and submitting them to various article directories is also a better way to get free one-way incoming links and it also build a good reputation at the same time.

6. Don’t try to fool the search engines: Search Engine spiders are now more clever than you think and Search Engines update their algorithm time to time so don’t try to make them fool otherwise your site will be banned from search engines. So avoid cloaking, link farms, keyword stuffing, alt text spamming or other and unethical methods.

Have a little patience and follow the Ethical methods of SEO. It will surely give you your desired results.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Top-SEO-Tips-To-get-higher-Search-engine-Rankings/339961

Search Engine Marketing Firm: Call The Specialists

2007-11-15T03:46:00.000-08:00

A common marketing method in use long before the internet era was that technique called article marketing. The seller publishes articles with interesting content related to their product to promote it and to get others to use the copy for more exposure to other potential clients. Now this is a very popular and effective web site marketing strategy as well.
Making use of a search engine marketing firm is perhaps the most effective way to use article marketing online. Firms like these enhance copy and make it more appealing to search engines. This is achieved by drawing search engine spiders to a site through use of key words. The search engines in turn increase the site's traffic ranking. As the copy is discovered by increasing numbers of other sites who then post it themselves, more links are created to the original site, building even more traffic, and potentially sales.
Choose a search engine marketing firm for their skill in picking terms and keywords that are the closest fit for a website's actual needs, not just what seems most popular. Every business has different requirements and these firms use the latest software to study the most effective ways to reach search engines and then explain their results to an online entrepreneur. Most offer several useful services.
Many site owners write good articles, but don't know how to rewrite those articles in the best way for searc engine optimization. A search engine marketing firm can be very helpful for such people. Others may not be very good at writing copy. Marketing firms can help those people as well by writing original content or rewriting their copy so that it is republished and attracts links. Such articles will use keywords in a way that attracts web spiders looking for those specific words. These firms can even duplicate an author's signature style.
As with all forms of marketing, website marketing relies upon informing potential customers about yourself and your products. Traffic is essential if you're going to achieve that, and traffic is created when people search for topics related to your product on a search engine. If you select the correct search engine marketing firm, you'll find that your exposure will be maximized. As a result, traffic will increase, and this is essential if you're going to make money.
If you like the idea of article marketing to sell your product or service, it doesn't matter now whether you have writing or promotion talent or not. Marketing firms who specialize in online business have the resources to provide whatever skill you need to be a success.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Search-Engine-Marketing-Firm--Call-The-Specialists/340479

Every Web Site Should Include

2007-11-15T03:45:00.000-08:00

Having a Website is no problem, but possessing a quality website with respect to search engine crawlers is most important. When ever you want have website consider following tips:

About Us page
The About Us page is a important place for visitors of your site to find out who you are, what your comapny does, what you sell, why they should read your content or buy your products, how valuable your site can be. From this page they can be know about you, your company and your products.On this page it will be worth to have contact information of you or your company, or at least should have link to your contact us page.

Contact Us page
Visitors of your site and target traffic need an easy way to get in touch with you or your company. Have a clearly marked link for contact information and include every avenue you receive communication through, like Telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, physical addresses, etc. all should appear on this page.

A Site Map

This page has very high importance as far as SEO is concerned, because this page contains all of your site page links and their mapping. So when any search engine crawls your site URL can crawl every page if it sees the well formulated site map.

A News, Press Release, Blog, and/or Articles Page
These are information pages, which helps providing useful information to your customers about the current events, products, endorsements, and other company happenings all in one place. Make sure to maintain these pages with fresh content that is reader friendly so your target traffic is more likely to come back, bookmark your page, and they may even provide word-of-mouth advertising. Free advertising! Believe me, search engines love these types of pages. New, fresh, relevant content is the stuff of search engines. Each time, a search engine’s spider crawl your site and find new content it ups your chances of ranking higher in the organic search listings. More free organic visitors to your site!

A Relevant Page Title
Many people have no idea that your page title holds a lot of weight. Search engines displays the title of your page on their searches, therefore, the catchier and more accurate your title the better the chance you will hit target traffic. Page titles should be different for every page in your site. They should clearly and accurately describe your page, it is very good idea to use keywords in the page title. The page name are also important and might be selected same as the page title, but, these should be smaller in length and readable for your users and search engines.

A Balanced text contents

For example, Good Grammar, Correct Spelling, Sentence Structure and readable text, Not only should your site have relevant content, the more the better, people should be able to read your content. Choppy or run-on sentences that seem to go nowhere cannot provide the type of readership concise, correct sentences can.You do not want to distract your readers, Misspellings, wrong word usage, bad grammar are all distractions. You want to captivate them. If your site is a business site avoid slang and offensive language all together, just don’t confuse readers more than necessary. If you are not good on writing, don’t do yourself ask some one who can do it for you.

Professional Design, Colors, and Images
Design should be implemented with usability in mind. Create easy navigation and links to all your pages. A search bar for your site is also a good idea. Colors should be inviting, not blinding. Use colors to emphasize your brand, product or content. Don’t overpower the visitor with colors. Use colors to make text pop without being distracting or hard to read. Images should be friendly and relevant to your site. Make sure your images can load within a reasonable amount of time, you don’t want to lose visitors because a single image caused an incredible amount of load time, or worse froze the visitors browser.

Make Sure ALL Links Are Working Links
The site with broken links, is against credibility of your website. You avoid this mistake and check, recheck, and check your links again, to avoid bad impression about your company

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Every-Web-Site-Should-Include/340706

Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

2007-11-15T03:44:00.001-08:00

Everyone knows that the best way to increase your income online is to increase your Search Engine Rankings. When researching how to increase your rankings you come across lots of hearsay and rumor but very few real facts. Separating the facts from the rumors can be a difficult task.

Every now and again a product is released that is worth it's weight in gold. One such product is Xtreme Rankings by Ryan Moran. Xtreme rankings contains no fluff and lot of information that will allow you to capture top search engine rankings. These in turn lead to more visitors and more income.
It is quite possible that you haven't heard of Xtreme Rankings. This is probably because the Ryan didn't want the entire usual marketing guru's promoting it. He preferred to let word get around naturally about just how good the product is.

Xtreme Rankings is a video and e-book package that will take you by the hand and show you step by step how to get your sites ranking highly in Google, Yahoo and MSN. It's not rocket science and everyone will be able to achieve good results by using the methods shown.

Unlike many similar products Ryan keeps Xtreme Rankings up to date. This is really useful as the SEO methods change all the time. Recently Netscape changed their name to propeller and Ryan has already incorporated this into the program.

I've been using Xtreme rankings for several months now and the change to my business has been immense. I have drastically reduced my PPC costs as I no longer need to advertise as much as my sites now get organic traffic from the the search engines. The savings in advertising costs alone would have paid for Xtreme rankings many times over.

When I now launch a site I am secure in the knowledge that within 4 weeks by using the methods in Xtreme rankings I'll be generating a good level of free search engine traffic. In the past 2 days a site created at the end of last month has made 2 sales. This is only going to grow over the coming few months.

How long does it take you to get 100 visitors per day to visit a new site? If I told you that by using the methods Ryan teaches in Xtreme rankings that I have received an average of 120 a day for the past 2 days to a site that is just slightly more than a month old would you be impressed? The traffic to this site has been building daily. I could only hope to do this in 6 months before I started using Xtreme Rankings.

If you want to make money online then the best way is to increase your search engine rankings in Google , MSN and Yahoo. The best way to rank well is to read the e-book and view the video that comes with Xtreme Rankings. You owe it to yourself to look at what Xtreme Rankings can do for you.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Improve-Your-Search-Engine-Rankings/340794

Is Google Preparing To Counter Yahoo's Search Assist?

2007-11-15T03:43:00.001-08:00

On the evening of October 30th 2007, I was doing my typical SEO rank checks, when something caught my attention at Google.com. As I was typing some text into the search box, out came a gray box with search suggestions that got ever more precise as I typed in my text.
The dropdown box on Google certainly appeared to be very similar to Yahoo’s Search Assist. The exception is that the box also contained the number of search results for each given term, much like what is found on Google Labs. This was a two column format, with the suggested search term on the left and the search result number on the right. I saw no option to disable the search suggestions as Yahoo provides.

Thinking that this was the launch of yet another search engine feature, I quickly logged on to my Digital Point forum account and began a thread about this new feature. The responses took me off guard. Nobody else could see it. Knowing that my vision is good, I returned to Google to try it again. This time I would post a screenshot. Well, I never was able to take the screenshot as the search suggestions were off. What I had seen was a rare occurrence and quite possibly the testing of a new search feature on Google.
Despite being the dominant player in the search engine market, Google is smart enough to know that Yahoo is its closest competitor. And even Google, the behemoth it is, plays catch up to the competition every now and then.

The search engine market is an ever changing landscape. Behind the scenes it appears that Google is testing a comparable feature to counter Yahoo’s Search Assist. Only time will tell if this feature ever makes it to market, but I feel privileged that Google shared something with me and apparently few others.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Is-Google-Preparing-to-Counter-Yahoo-s-Search-Assist-/341337

Search Engine Marketing Company- Take Your Business To New Heights

2007-11-15T03:41:00.000-08:00

Search engine marketing isn’t a new technique but with the changing trend it has gained a lot of popularity and importance. If we talk about the potential market, the UK is one country which carries true potential of search engine marketing.

You can find the best and competitive search engine marketing company in UK, which not just guarantees high ranking but also more business. If you perform a search using keywords like search engine marketing company UK and internet marketing company UK, you will be bombarded with staggering results.
The core process of search engine marketing or website marketing is to attract new prospective clients and buy new customers. Initially you might have low sales but once you are constantly on, no one can ever beat you. You will be amazed to know that across the Internet, every month millions of people perform search on various keywords and key-phrases. This means if you are offering that service and you are ranking high, more business will be coming your way. Search engine marketing company in UK’s main aim is not just to rank your website higher but to push your sales too.

Generally there are two approaches when it comes to search engine marketing strategy. If you wish to enjoy higher ranking and that too just in a few months, you have to get black hat SEO techniques. These black hat SEO techniques fetch you high ranking along with increased traffic but in long run you will be at loss. This is because contemporary search engines have become very clever to judge whether that person is applying legal techniques or not. You will be getting whooping results but in the long run either there will be a sharp dip in your business or you will get your website blacklisted. And this is certainly not your aim.

Whereas, the other technique is white hat SEO technique. This process and approach might be a little slow but in the long run you will be at a benefiting end. You will get not just high ranking but your website will never ever see a dip, hence, why to go for something which proves to be dangerous for your business in the long run. Moreover, search engine marketing company in UK even guides you in taking steps that prove to be beneficial for you. During your search engine marketing strategy, try to find each keyword that you identify for search engine marketing initiatives. It’s true that there are numerous keywords which mean the same but only a few are able to deliver the desired result. Search engine marketing company provides a wide range of effective as well as targeted services that drive highly targeted visitors and traffic to your website.

It has been now proved that if you wish to stay on the top in this rank world, you have to hire services of the best search engine marketing company in UK. So what are you waiting for, perform a simple search in search engines and locate the bankable search engine marketing company in UK.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Search-engine-marketing-company--Take-your-business-to-new-heights/341441

All About On Page Seo

2007-11-14T02:47:00.000-08:00

When it comes to doing business online, you will soon discover that it’s all about the traffic. Traffic, or the number of internet users you’d be able to generate for your website, is and will always be the lifeblood of any online venture. After all, what good is a website when there’s no one there to see its pages? How successful will your digital products be if no one would be able to know about them? Who will avail of your services when no one will get exposed to their existence?

Contrary to what many people believe, generating traffic for your website does not start once you pages are published and have gone live. Traffic generation strategies start at the very moment you are conceptualizing an idea for the website itself.

This is what on page search engine optimization (SEO) is all about. It is concerned with techniques that you could implement on your web pages themselves to ensure a good volume of traffic for your website. 80% of your traffic would come from the many search engines in the World Wide Web. If each and every web page you have is optimized for these search engines, then your website would be in a good position to have a high rank for the results of every relevant query.

• Keyword selection. Choosing the right keywords is essential for the success of your website. Keywords are the popular search terms that people use to gather information from the search engines. If your web pages are populated by the right density of the correct keywords, then you’ll have better chances of winning the attention of the search engine spiders. To determine the appropriate keywords for the subject that your website will be servicing, use the free tools that can be found at http://www.nichebot.com .

• Keyword placement in content. Content is the king of the internet. But even royalty needs support. Populate your content with the proper amount of keywords. A density level of at least 2% should be sought. This means that the right keywords should be mentioned at least twice for every 100 words of text.

• META tags. META tags are HTML codes that do not have a bearing on the physical appearance of your web pages, but they do inform the search engine spiders that such web pages are appropriate for a particular query. Always include the following META tags on the top portion of your source code. You could copy-paste them from the list below, but do change the indicated fields. Also, make sure that you include your keywords as much as you could on your META tags.

• ALT tags. ALT tags refer to the text that would appear every time the mouse cursor would pass through an image. Your ALT tags should include your keywords.

• Page titles. Page titles are the captions that appear at the very top of your web page. Make sure that each web page in your website would have a different title that will include the appropriate keywords.

• Focus. Remember, search engines will crawl through your website per page. Each page is a different project altogether. Focus is the key. Ensure that each web page of yours would focus on a particular keyword or key phrase. If there is an article in that page, make sure that the article will only discuss and include one keyword or key phrase from the list you have made. Also, it would greatly help if you would name the page file in a manner that would include the keyword or key phrase it is focused on. For example, http://www.thisisyourwebsite.com/thisisyourkeyword.html is a good page filename that would help boost your SEO efforts.

Following these guidelines would help you a lot in securing a favorable position in search engine results pages. This in turn would guarantee for you a sustainable and sufficient volume of traffic that would make your website a genuine success.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/All-About-On-Page-SEO/349423

Seo Fundamentals

2007-11-14T02:44:00.000-08:00

Introduction:
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to view my SEO hints and tips e-book on the often forgotten aspects of SEO. This book was written from the collective knowledge and information gathered by Chris Diprose, owner and manager of Kanga Internet. Kanga Internet are located in Melbourne, Australia and they focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Web Development for the Joomla Content Management System (CMS).

With Search Engine Optimization there are lots of unknowns, educated guesses and knowledge gained from personal and associative experience. Google, Yahoo and MSN keep their cards close to their chest when it comes to revealing how their ranking systems actually work. They tell the community trickles of information on what things can affect search engine results, how they can be improved and what to do in certain situations, but mostly knowing what to do to achieve good results is achieved by studying and hard work. Much alike other SEO consultants I have gathered information from various sources and worked constantly on improving results for customers. I am always looking for new intelligent ways to improve search engine results. I believe in "White Hat" (or more appropriately, "Grey Hat") principles.
Edition 1 of this e-book is intended for people looking to improve their websites from the ground up. I address SEO design fundamentals; the things you need to consider before embarking on any text and keyword analysis. I hope you find these hints and tips useful.

Enjoy the readings herein.
- Chris Diprose

The Website Revelation – What owning a website actually means.
As a Web Developer and SEO consultant I deal with many existing website owners who are looking to modify or improve their website. I also deal with many people who are looking to start their web presence with a new website. Through both of these interactions there is often a common theme; a misunderstanding or an attitude. I call this a misconception of reality, as often the reality of what the Internet can actually do for the persons business and what they think it can do differ massively.

Often it is presumed that by simply owning a domain and having a website built and published on the Internet, thousands of people will magically find the website, visit it and buy their products. "If you build it, they will come" should be removed from the vocabulary as soon as possible if you are to adjust attitudes to the underlying search technology. As a businessman in the real World, it is obvious that it would not happen outside of the Internet ether, so what is so different online? Maybe it was the Technology boom 10 years ago that caused a rift in understanding or maybe the buzz that caused the meteoric rise in the stock prices of Tech Companies, I can hear the thoughts of the small businessman, "surely this can be replicated for my business" – in answer I would say, "well, it is unlikely, but you should be able to achieve some results over time".

It is most important when taking on a project like Search Engine Optimization for a website, to know that it is important to be committed for the long haul. It is no small task and sufficient funds need to be allocated to the project. Delivery deadlines need to be correctly scoped against required changes, in order to meet client expectations. The key points of responsibility to the SEO project are in knowing that there are big changes near the start and during setup but the changes do not stop after setup, there are a continuous ongoing refinements to the design and system over time. In this regard I find it important to manage expectations and set realistic long term goals on what a website can be expected to achieve and in what time frames those goals hope to be met.

So what should your goal be when you are delving into SEO for your website? Well, everyone’s goal is exactly the same; improve page rankings, improve page visits and hits and finally gain more sales through the website.

When it comes to SEO and achieving these goals you have to have principles and my main principle is, "Good websites get good ratings and bad websites get bad ratings or none at all." As time goes on with the improvement of search engine technology and the refinement of search engine results this statement becomes truer and truer. I believe in results through "white hat"(reads; "Grey Hat") principles and methodologies.

What are "white hat" principles? I guess I would compare it to doing things the honest way and the right way without risk. So develop a good site, promote good linking, have good informative content and keep working on it and then you are on the road to good rankings through "White Hat" principles.

So, why should you do things the "white hat" way? Well, search engines do have some kind of understanding, an artificial intelligence. They soon catch on to websites spamming or linking to websites with no relevance and bad cross linking. It’s about being smart, in for the long term and wanting your business to grow organically, naturally.

So how do I go about improving my site and making it optimized for search engines naturally? Well, that’s why you’re here! So let’s run through few of the things you should be doing in your websites from a fundamental level.

Domain names:
When choosing a domain name, choose one that is relevant to the product or service you are going to provide and that is as simple as possible. There are considerations of branding and product/service provided that should go into this choice. Involvement of marketing personal and product understanding is required but also consultation with your SEO professional is advantageous. In this step I would say, take some time and choose wisely. Keep it simple and easy to remember, often saying it out loud will make it clear whether it can be understood by a simple man.

It is a strongly held belief by many SEO professionals that buying a domain which is older, and that has been around for a while, means it will not be sand boxed by Google. What’s the sandbox effect? Well, it refers to what Google does to a website or domain that is new or is relatively unknown by Google. In many instances Google’s Sandbox effect relegates the new domain to sub-optimal inclusion in search results. Regardless of the sites optimization it lowers the websites relevance and ranking to the term searched upon. If you can use your old business domain name, then consider this very important.

If, however, you are buying a new domain name then keep it relevant to the product or service being sold or offered on the website. Keep it close, relevant and simple. Relevance is primary.

Location specific domain or international domain ( .com or com.au)? Personally I think dot com’s are better, mainly because they appeal Internationally but if you want to you can keep it location specific and to your region then consider purchasing all similar higher level domains, yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com.au, if you can.

Choosing a Host:
Fast, reliable and gives you all you that you need and want. Preferably gives a unique IP. Again some SEO professionals believe this can also have a detrimental affect in Google rankings but from my experience it sometimes does and it sometimes doesn’t. I have had some sites come in with high PR rankings on shared IP’s and others when I shifted to a new IP the PR of the site jumped, so this is still a bit of a mystery when it comes to Google rankings. I guess a consideration

Traffic considerations: When choosing your host ensure the plan you are on can be expanded so that any new increases in traffic can be accommodated accordingly.

Site Design:
There are several fundamental things to consider when you are modifying or designing a website.

Flash:
Flash is has been popular for a few years now and I truly believe it has its place. It is a great way of showing many products or services in a small area, has great visual impact if done properly and can set a good friendly tone to the website visitor. Having said that, I also hate flash; it can be an absolute nightmare when it comes to search engine optimization.

What you should know about flash; it cannot be read by a search engine as the search engine cannot read the text or the images contained within it nor can it interpret what is in the pictures being shown.

When it comes to flash I would suggest, not making your whole website flash. If you are designing a new website and you want to use flash then use it in high impact areas to capture the attention of your intended audience but use it sparingly. It is important to ensure that as much text content(to a maximum discussed in my next book, generally 300-500 characters) is available on the webpage and in simple HTML.

Frames:
Many older websites were designed with frames. Frames are where the main home page is actually a frameset page that includes several other pages into it. This makes the page hard to index in search engines and should be avoided. While Google do now index framed sites, it is important to note that most of the other top search engines still cannot follow frame links. They only see the frameset page and ignore the rest of the inner frames. This presents an SEO problem to us because it is highly likely those inner pages contain our content keywords.

Nowadays this is not really a huge issue as it is so uncommon for a designer to actually use frames but the easiest way to resolve the issue would be to enforce a no use policy on frames.

Page Layout:
According to research the Googlebot trawls web pages from left to right and top to bottom. So given this little tidbit of information it is clear that you should be putting our most valuable keywords and information on the left and near the top. Of course this is a blanket statement and does not take into account design principles and beautification. Just keep it in mind during design of page layout. Position your move relevant keywords to the left of the page and near the top.

Good HTML Coding:
A lot of HTML generator programs out there bloat HTML to the point it is 3-4 times larger than what it would be if you hand coded it. Keep it simple, use a text editor, edit your HTML the old school way; until there is a HTML generator tool worthy of use. If you can’t code HTML then do a search on the Internet and find a decent, free, e-book and learn how to do it.

Javascript:
This is very popular among many web development professionals for menu’s, popups, scollers etc etc. It would be my suggestion to use simple plain HTML menu’s or as little Javascript as possible in web pages. There are many small JavaScript menu’s out there that are slim on JavaScript code to reduce this issue and make it almost negligible. Don’t over clutter your site with JavaScript as it increases page size, page load times and the search engines won’t understand it.

Image Sizes:
Keep them small and use only what you need to. This is essential for decreasing page loading times and getting information onto the users screen as soon as possible.

Overall page size and loading:
The overall page size is an important factor. It should load quickly and be easily trawled. If you have followed the HTML hand coding, used minimal javascript, used simple table layouts and good image sizing then you should be fine. There is much evidence that supports the fact that Google and probably the other search engines also, do not like to scan huge files, so keeping your overall HTML page size below 25k is my suggestion.

Dynamic URL’s & page/file names:
Dynamic pages are roadblocks to high search engine positioning. Especially those that end in "?" or "&". In a dynamic site, variables are passed to the URL and the page is generated dynamically, often from information stored in a database as is the case with many e-commerce sites. Normal .html pages are static - they are hard-coded, their information does not change, and there are no "?" or "&" characters in the URL.

Pages with dynamic URLs are present in several engines, notably Google and AltaVista, even though publicly AltaVista claims their spider does not crawl dynamic URLs. To a spider a "?" represents a sea of endless possibilities - some pages can automatically generate a potentially massive number of URLs, trapping the spider in a virtually infinite loop.

As a general rule, search engines will not properly index documents that:
• contain a "?" or "&"
• End in the following document types: .cfm, .asp, .shtml, .php, .stm, .jsp, .cgi, .pl
• Could potentially generate a large number of URLs.
To avoid complications, consider creating static pages whenever possible, perhaps using the database to update the pages, not to generate them on the fly.

Slightly Off Topic Thoughts:
The topics covered here are not considered completely SEO topics but in terms of overall objective – increasing sales, this section is very important. Take these things on board, consider them, consult with your designer and marketing team. Make educated and informed choices on these topics when considering your audience and what your website objectives are.

Screen Size:
Over 65% of all screens in the World are set to run at the 1024x768 resolution. Of the remaining percentage, 13% are running at 800x600, 20% running at larger sizes and 2% are unknown. So this affects the way you design. It would be my suggestion to always design for the smallest user to visit your site, but often I find 800x600 restrictive so I tend to design for slightly larger. Not large enough to make an 800x600 user angry but large enough to make it look good on larger screens also. I weigh up my target users, my intended amount of content and find some happy medium. I generally design for 1000x620 as this is the perfect amount of real estate for a 1024x768 user when they have the browser top bar and status bar and Windows taskbar.

colors and themes:
One important aspect of marketing - selling - is the use of color. Meanings are attached to colors in the same way meanings are attached to words.

• Gold is the color of wealth and prosperity.
• White is the color of pure innocence and cleanliness.
• Pink is the color of femininity and softness.
• Green is the color of natural things and freshness.
• Red is the color of danger and stress.
• Blue is the color the calmness, intelligence. The majority of the World selects blue as a favorite color. It often represents "trust"

Use of color to establish an image or a brand is common in the marketing community, yet when you visit the websites of many search engine optimization professional’s, it's obvious that color significance plays no part in their own web optimization. Some of the colors I found on SEO websites:
• Baby Blue, a color which implies weakness.
• Red, a color which implies risk, or danger.
• Orange a color which implies a cheerful "levity". Orange is one of Americans’ least favorite colors.

Although color selection is off topic for SEO I would consider it a very important factor in what SEO is trying to achieve, in the end, for your website – selling more product, creating loyalty to your brand and customer impact. color research is something you should seriously consider. In summary of color choices I would suggest studying and learning more about your customers, researching color choices and their relevance to your underlying products and making informed choices on these in collaboration. If in doubt then I suggest sticking to safe and trusted colors within safe eye pleasing designs.

Gifs for logos & jpgs for pictures:
Ensure you are using gifs for logos and background placements and jpgs for photos on your website. This helps reduce size and improve clarity of the web site overall.

Browser:
It is vitally important to ensure your web page works in both IE, Firefox and Opera. Testing other browsers is also an advantage but these are the main three in use nowadays (2007). I think quoting stats on the browser breakdown are irrelevant as you need it work in all browsers. W3C cross browser compliance is great for this.

So, this brings us to the end of Volume 1: Fundamentals of SEO Web Design. There are many things to consider when designing a website or modifying a web site to make it more SEO friendly. Clearly I have a few more volumes left in SEO for websites.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/SEO-Fundamentals/349593

Newbies -- Critical Work You Have To Do When Starting A Home Based Internet Business

2007-11-14T02:43:00.001-08:00

Attention all Newbies! Critical work you have to do when starting a home based Internet business...

There are many crucial facets to excelling in the home based Internet business arena. What I want to do is show you how to come out of the gate strong and not waste valuable time and money while learning the ropes. Internet based business can be a tedious and tough gig, but if you apply a few simple principles from the outset, you will get a great feel and build links to gain visitors along the way.

First things first. You have started the home based business and now you need a plan to know what to do. You probably have a good training program, but the very first things you should apply are these which I am about to present to you. Not necessarily in this order, but they need to be done ASAP!

Start a blog. Start a blog. Start a blog. Blogs are crucial to search engines and once you learn to use them effectively, you can find your article at the top of the search engines for your keywords in no time at all. Search engines love new, original content. The more you post on your blog, the more your blog gains strength in the search engines. Your home based Internet business should be linked to every post that you write because it builds wonderful back links to your business site.

You can start a free blog at Blogger or Wordpress and both are easy to set-up if you follow the instructions. Both can be used as you do not have to choose one or the other. Many home based marketers use both in great harmony with their Internet based business. After you start the blog, try to post new content to it as much as you possibly can. This builds links, remember?

Next, join a forum. Many home based businesses have forums for Newbies to learn, but you have to interact and not just read. Forums give you the ability to put a "signature" into each post that you write and this is also crucial for back links to your home business site. This also adds more new original content to search engines. Forums are also very insightful and can be very fun.

This tip is critical! Learn how to use keywords effectively. This is probably the #1 mistake that Newbies make. It takes them months to utilize the shear power of keyword optimization. There are many, many free tutorials, tips, and tools that show you how to use keywords to greatly enhance your web presence. If you can learn this from the start, you can save months of frustration trying to break into the top pages of the search engines. Keywords, keywords, keywords. Drill that into your mind.

Also, learn how to optimize your website (if you have your own). There are also many great tools on how to learn basic html code. If you can make your site unique and stand apart from others, this attracts more than just the search engines. Visitors are soon to follow. You do not have to have a million dollar looking website, you just have to have the right content and keywords on there to make it effective in SE rankings.

Lastly, learn how to write articles. If you cannot write, then practice. Find tutorials or books that show you how to right good quality material. Then start adding what you learn with keyword optimization and you can start putting good, original content on your home based business blog and website. You can also post your articles to forums, article directories, and social sites.

These are the fastest ways to building links to your home based Internet business website. Start with these and you can get off to an amazing start with your home based business journey. Save yourself some time and trouble because being a Newbie in home business is tough enough.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Newbies----Critical-Work-You-Have-to-do-When-Starting-a-Home-Based-Internet-Business/349639

Google Blocks Pagerank Queries

2007-11-14T02:41:00.000-08:00

Google’s war against PageRank continues. It appears that Google has now introduced a filter to limit the PageRank queries its data center’s receive.

On November 8, 2007, a good number of PageRank (PR) followers began to notice their favorite PR tools were inoperative and/or returning erroneous results. Initially, there was some speculation that Google would be unleashing another round of penalties against link sellers. Others believed Google was running yet another toolbar export. Everyone was wrong.

Any IP address that queries PageRank from multiple data centers is being blocked after a number of queries. Some are speculating that the queries are capped at 1000 per hour, while my observations lead me to believe it is much lower. Fortunately for some, this filter appears to be only temporary. After a few hours, the temporary block is lifted. One can only speculate if this is the beginning of a more intense offensive against PageRank queries and those that use such tools to validate the sale of links.

The release of this filter is already beginning to ripple through the paid link economy. Link sellers and buyers typically use Online PR tools to verify rank at multiple data centers. Of these Online tools, some offer more advanced features to determine if the rank is authentic or being spoofed by a redirect.

Link sellers and the buyers seeking higher PageRank are not the only ones that benefit from multiple data center tools. There are a number of Websites that have built their visitor base because they provide these tools.

Over the last several months Google has stepped up its enforcement of link sales. Limiting access to its data centers is just another step in reigning in the sub-economy that was created with PageRank.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Google-Blocks-PageRank-Queries/349993

Article Marketing Conversion Method – How To Multiply Your Article Marketing For Maximum Profits! Part 1

2007-11-14T02:39:00.000-08:00

Many marketers write articles without a back-end in mind. They lose a lot of time and money with their article marketing efforts to only make tiny profits.

Don't be one of them. Here is a powerful article conversion method that I learned from my first affiliate marketing and search engine optimization coach.

Follow these simple steps:

Pre-step: If you don't have an adsense account, get one today.

1) Step 1: Article Writing

Write a quality article on your topic. If you are in the martial arts niche, your title could be: “How To Win Any Fight In Less Than One Minute”...

Your title is very important, because it is the first element of your copy that your visitor will see.

You have less that five seconds to get your visitor attention. Write a powerful article title, and then, a great opening.

Tip: Whenever you write an article, think about your reader. Will he say “wow, thanks, this article helped me a lot”, or he will be disappointed?

Publish it on your website as an ezine (you can even assign a number).

2) Step 2: Create a web page on your site.

Add the article on this page, and copy and paste the adsense code as well.

Note: you can replace adsense with affiliate marketing programs if you wish. Don't forget to test to find out which one is the most profitable for you. This will depend on your niche.

If you don't have a site yet, don't worry, nothing can be easier when you get the design dashboard.

3) Step 3: Send an email to your list.

Send an email to your list (you can use the broadcasting feature or you can schedule it at a predefined date).

It's easy, here is what you need to do: you put the title in the subject line (a powerful title will force your subscriber to click).

In the body of the email, write a sentence or two about the article, and put a link to your web page.

Whenever someone opt in your list, he will receive your message, and read your article (a big percentage of your subscribers).

When they click on your adsense ads (or they buy something through your affiliate link), you earn money.

So what you need to do now?

1. Write an article
2. Add the article to your website
3. Add a related affiliate program (or simply adsense)
4. Add it to your autoresponder sequence
5. Repeat.

It's easy and highly profitable, so go back to work now.

EA -

Search Engine Optimization And Article Marketing Strategy!

If you write articles regularly to promote your websites, you don't want to distribute those articles and let them die on your hard rive.

Whether you are just a bum marketer or you only write articles for your own website, you need to use leverage to increase your search engine rankings.

I mean that you should profit again and again from something you've done only one time.

This is one the secret of Internet rich...

Whenever you write an article for your website, you need to research the keywords first. Because if you don't do this, nobody is going to find your site, and it will be hard to make any money.

In a second time, add the article to your auto responder. Like this, when someone subscribe to your list, he will see your article.

I remember reading an article from a marketer, and when I finished to read it (it was excellent), I found that the author wrote it in 2004...

Three years later, his article is still making him money. And this will continue (unless he drops this page!).

Add the article to your website (with your keywords), like this, the search engines will send more traffic your way.

Here is how it works: visitors come to your site from the search engines, and they subscribe to your newsletter.

Even if they don't read the article on your website, they will receive an email in their email inbox with a link to visit your website again.

Obviously, if you stop here, this article is not going to make you any money. That's why you need to monetize it....

You have many options to monetize an article: adsense, private label rights, your own products, affiliate programs, cost per leads offer, ebay auction... The list can go on.

Once you do this, you have a powerful article technique in place because many people will visit your article and click on your links.

If you monetize with adsense, every single click will make you money. If you choose affiliate programs, you will earn a profit when the visitor buy at the merchant site.

If you choose a cost per lead, you will earn when your reader fills in his name and email address for more information, etc...

This article marketing technique is easy to implement. It will take you only twenty or thirty minutes of your time, so don't delay, write your article, add any of the programs listed above to monetize your web page, and then add it to your autoresponder.
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How To Leverage Your Article Marketing Efforts...

If you already heard about the bum marketing method, I hope you are not only submitting articles and linking to the merchant's site.

If you do this, you are leaving a considerable amount of money on the table.

Why? Because if you do this, you will not profit from all the backlinks in the long run.

Here is what you need to do whenever you write an article...

1. Write an article
2. Add it to your website
3. Monetize it with affiliate programs (cpa, cps, cpc)
3. Add it to your autoresponder series.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Article-Marketing-Conversion-Method---How-To-Multiply-Your-Article-Marketing-For-Maximum-Profits--Part-1/350298

Press Releases – The Secret to Search Engine Optimization Success

2007-11-13T03:28:00.000-08:00

Search engine optimization through the Google search engine revolves around website links. The goal is to have links to your website from other websites that have a high Google page rank. One way to obtain these links is to contact high page rank websites so they will put your website link on their website.

Another method is to send out a press release that contains links to your website. This is a much easier way to set your website up for search engine optimization. Your press release should contain three links pointing to your website.

A great resource to create and send press releases is to use prweb.com and prewebdirect.com. Prwebdirect costs money, but is well worth it. You can find a package around $200 that optimizes your press release for search engines. Prwebdirect can turn your keywords and keyword phrases into hyperlinks for you. These links will point towards your website.

You should send press releases out every single week. Normally, the purpose of a press release is to gain the attention of media outlets such as newspapers and television. However, you are sending press releases out for a different reason. Your purpose is to optimize your website in the Google search engine. Therefore, don’t worry about getting a media response from your press release. The key is to put three different links to your website on your press release.

After your press release is sent out it will go to websites with a high page rank. Google sends a “spider” that sees that your press release is at a highly ranked website. This prompts Google to give your website a higher page rank. Google figures that if your website link is on a highly ranked page then your website must be worthy of a high page rank.

It is important to minimize the number of outbound links on your own website. You don’t want more than 20 links pointing out of your website. Google will lower your page rank if you have a great deal of outbound links. Essentially, Google doesn’t want you to set up links for the sole purpose of increasing the page rank of another website. Why? Google may think that you are spamming the search engines with a bunch of your own websites. Google does not want you to use gimmicks in order to create a search engine optimization scenario.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/Press-Releases---The-Secret-to-Search-Engine-Optimization-Success/30126

The Power of Testimonials in SEO

2007-11-13T03:27:00.002-08:00

Search engine optimization should be at the top of your list when it comes to your website. You want to earn a high page rank in the Google search engine. Two ways to increase your page rank in Google is to have high page rank websites link to your website and to send out press releases that contain links to your website. Both of these search engine optimization options are effective, but they are not the only methods you can employ. It is critical to diversify your search engine optimization efforts.

Another option to add to your search engine portfolio is to give testimonials to other websites. Offer to give testimonials on websites that you value. Look for products and services that would benefit from your testimonial. Make sure that these websites are of high quality and have a high page rank. You want to ensure that your website information is posted on a top notch website.

Always make sure to put your name and website address at the bottom of each testimonial. Verify that your website address will be given has a hyperlink and not just text. This hyperlink points to your website, thus improving your placement in Google’s search engine results. Plus, if a visitor clicks on the hyperlink then they will be automatically directed to your website.

Another major benefit of providing testimonials on high page rank websites is that it will give you name and website recognition. Plus, your page rank will increase because you have created incoming links from quality websites. The key is that your website address is in the testimonial.

While it is beneficial for you to give testimonials on other websites, do not put testimonials on your own website. Having testimonials on your own website does not help you for two reasons. One reason is that if a customer clicks on the website address of a testimonial they may never come back to your website. Another reason is that the links from the testimonials will lower your page rank in Google.

Testimonials are a great way to promote your website. You will be amazed at how testimonials can shoot your search engine placement to the top spot on Google. Testimonials don’t cost you any money. They only cost you a little bit of time that will bring your much higher rewards in return.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/The-Power-of-Testimonials-in-SEO/30176

Keyword Research: Choosing the Right Keywords

2007-11-13T03:27:00.001-08:00

Before starting any search engine optimization campaign it is crucial to target the right set of keyword phrases for your market. Often times the most obvious keywords aren’t always the best. This can be the case for a number of reasons. When choosing the right keyword phrases, it is important to remember three elements: popularity, competition, and relevance.

Keyword Popularity refers to the sheer number of people searching for a particular keyword phrase. This is often the concept that most people have no trouble understanding – if your website is optimized well for a keyword phrase that a lot of people are searching for, this will bring you more traffic. After all, what good is it to be ranked #1 in Google for a keyword phrase that nobody searches for?

Keyword Competition is an area that some newcomers to SEO fail to examine. When a particular keyword phrase is popular, this usually means that there are many other websites out there competing for top rankings of that phrase in the search engines. The number of competing websites is the number of results a search engine returns for a specific query. Optimizing for a competitive keyword phrase can make it much more difficult for you to achieve successful search engine rankings for these phrases.

So now you may be asking yourself, “Ok, great! Now how do I find popular keywords that aren’t very competitive?”. Many keyword research services, such as WordTracker.com, include an index that measures exactly this. The Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) is a qualitative measure of how easily it is to optimize for a particular keyword phrase. KEI is essentially a matter of ‘supply and demand’. Ideally, we want to select keywords that are extremely popular but aren’t very competitive. This would result in a very high KEI and take very little effort to achieve successful rankings.

But we can’t forget one other very important element when choosing the right keywords…relevance.

Keyword Relevance has to do with how much a keyword phrase relates to your products or services. If you rank well for a popular search phrase and receive a lot of traffic from it, this still doesn’t help you if the traffic doesn’t translate to sales or leads. For instance, let’s say you’ve found a good niche phrase that is fairly popular and has a high KEI index – “free keyword ranking report”. So you optimize for this keyword phrase, rank well, and receive more traffic. However, if your website doesn’t offer a free keyword ranking report or have any information on how to receive a free keyword ranking report, these extra visitors will not actually convert to customers. It is important to remember not to get too caught up in the popularity and KEI of a keyword phrase. You must also think about keyword relevance when conducting your keyword research.

Choosing the right keyword phrases to target can be the deciding factor between a successful and unsuccessful search engine optimization campaign. When doing your research, remember to keep in mind your business goals and the three factors discussed above. Is it always easier to work with the market trends instead of against them.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/Keyword-Research--Choosing-the-Right-Keywords/30208

Increase your Page Rank by Using EBay

2007-11-13T03:25:00.000-08:00

Did you know that you can increase your Google page rank by using EBay? You can do this by actually buying a link off a website. You can purchase website links from the popular auction website of Ebay.com. Essentially, you are buying your way to a higher Google page rank.

How do you purchase a website link at EBay? First, go to ebay.com. Next, type in the words “Page rank” in the search bar in EBay. Hit search. EBay will provide information that contains the words “page rank”.

What page rank should you buy? Only buy page ranks of 5, 6, or 7. How much should you pay for each page rank? How can you determine the value of each page rank? Multiply the page rank times ten. For example, you would be willing to page $50 +/-10 for a page rank of 5. The +/-$10 allows you to have flexibility. It gives you a range that you are willing to pay. This payment amount is how much you are willing to pay per month.

Why not buy page ranks of 8, 9, or 10? Purchasing page ranks this high is like buying a multimillion dollar home. It is difficult to figure out how much to pay for these links. There are much fewer websites that have page ranks of 8, 9, or 10. Therefore, it is hard to ascertain their true value. In other words, one page ranked at 9 may be a five million dollar house while another page ranked at 9 might be worth a one hundred million dollar house. However, you won’t know which “house” you picked.

Only buy page ranks that have the “Buy Now” option. Do not deal with bidding. You don’t want to waste time in negotiations with the seller. The “Buy Now” feature allows you to instantly purchase the link and not worry about a changing price.

Examine the page rank deals on EBay. Look for a page rank deal that has a page rank that is 5, 6, or 7 and fits in your price range. Take your time and explore the various page rank deals. You may find deals that are undervalued. For example, you may find a “Buy Now” deal with a page rank of 7 for only $20. This would be a great deal because it costs much less than what you are willing to pay for a page rank of 7. Take advantage of these deals.

Now it’s time to purchase the link with the high page rank on EBay. Make sure that you only purchase from sellers that have positive feedback. Do not purchase from sellers that have negative feedback no matter how great the deal may be.

Find out where your website link will be placed on their website. You want to purchase text links. Examine how they will deal with your website. What type of what website is it? What are the terms of the deal?

Don’t forget to look at their maximum number of ads. Remember, each ad on their website has a link pointing to another website. You want to make sure that their maximum number of ads is less than twenty. Otherwise they are just creating links for anyone who will pay. This will lower the page rank of their website.

It is important to note that when you buy a page rank link off EBay, they most often will not tell you the actual name of the website where your link will be placed. The seller will also specify the maximum length of your ads.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/Increase-your-Page-Rank-by-Using-EBay/30212

Search Engines, Keywords and Dictionaries

2007-11-13T03:19:00.000-08:00

Using the right keywords is crucial, for searchers and webmasters alike. Here are two sites with definitions and translations of hundreds of thousands of words, in a wide variety of languages.

Most webmasters quickly learn the importance of using the right keywords when they start to "optimize" web pages for search engines. Using the right words in the right ways can mean the difference between pages being found in search results and being lost among a sea of millions of other web pages.

Similarly, seasoned searchers know that using the "right" keywords in queries can often mean the difference between great results and total garbage.

While there are many techniques for selecting the appropriate keywords for both search engine optimization and searching, dictionaries and glossaries are the most fundamental tools for both processes. And while there are many word-oriented web sites, Xlation and OneLook Dictionaries provide a wealth of resources largely unmatched elsewhere.

Xlation is a site primarily designed for translators. It features more than 1,600 dictionaries, which also serve as glossaries. Using the links on the Dictionaries page allows you to select both multilingual and single language dictionaries.

Xlation's Glossaries page lets you narrow your focus by selecting both category and language. Using drop down menus, you can select from a variety of categories rom Aerospace to Transportation (or all categories), and more than 60 languages from Afrikaans to Yiddish.

Although OneLook Dictionaries is somewhat smaller than Xlation, with "4,197,163 words in 746 online dictionaries" included in its index, it works differently enough, and provides enough variation that it's a worthy companion to Xlation.

OneLook Dictionaries also provides an answer to the niggling riddle that occasionally makes its way around listservs on the Net:

"There are three words in the English language that end in 'gry.' One is angry and one is hungry. Everyone knows what the third one means and what it stands for, and everyone uses them everyday. And if you listened carefully, I've given you the third word. Why can't I find the third one?"

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2159951

Blogging for Search Engine Recognition and Rankings

2007-11-12T03:12:00.001-08:00

Another benefit that you can derive from blogging is an increase and enhancement of both your search engine recognition and rankings. Indeed, this is one of the clear benefits that continues to draw an ever growing number of business enterprises into using blogging as a means of business enterprise enhancement.

One simply methodology you can employ is to actually incorporate your blogging efforts, your blog itself, into your business enterprise website. After taking this step, you can then incorporate into your blogging appropriate dispersed keywords that will attract the attention of search engine and that will increase the rankings of your business website on search engine results.

Of course, many people worry that they cannot attract enough traffic to a blog that is tied into a website. In other words, these business owners have come to believe that having a blog at a popular blogging location on the Net rather than at the website of the business enterprise itself can be more beneficial. You need to keep this in mind when you are considering the location and structure of your own blogging efforts in support of your Internet business enterprise.

If that is the case, you can still infuse your blog with appropriate keywords relating to your business enterprise and the products or services that you are offering. Once you attract traffic to your blog, you can then include backlinks to your business website throughout your blog. Although this two step process may seem a bit cumbersome, it is proving itself to be well effective in the enhancement of an online business enterprise in this day and age.

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Exploring Search Engine Optimization

2007-11-12T03:10:00.000-08:00

The process that is aimed at improving a website's ranking among search results on leading search engines is often referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This may be targeted at vertical search that is specific to an industry, local search or image search, among others.

The efforts aimed at SEO include ensuring that the search engines can index the content of the site easily and that the content that is uploaded is unique and highly relevant. The search engine robots should be able to access the site fully and any problems that are likely to prevent these from doing so should be removed. The site's structure and coding might have to be looked at, for this purpose. Improving the presentation of the site could also make it more appealing for the users. Other methods, which are not approved of by search engines, are called spamdexing and include techniques such as reciprocal linking and stuffing the site with keywords that are likely to attract the desired type of visitors.

Since the source code of the website often has to be modified suitably for SEO, techniques for optimization can form a part of the design and development of a website. Therefore, companies offering such services offer SEO services as well, nowadays. Those shopping carts, site designs, systems for the management of content and menus that are fairly simple from the point of view of optimization, may be described as friendly towards SEO.

Ensuring that sites get listed on search engines:

Although it is not possible to guarantee the ranks that the owners of a site may wish to specify, certain search engines operate programs that ensure that the site will be indexed in return for a certain amount of money. Otherwise, the sites have to be submitted manually for crawling. Whether or not a page is to be indexed may depend upon a variety of factors, including how far away a page is located from the root directory. However, some sites allow the submission of XML feeds that aid the discovery of those pages that cannot be accessed by following links automatically.

The programs that guarantee inclusion in lieu of payment have attracted a considerable amount of criticism, of late.

Preventing specific content from getting listed:

A text file in the domain's root directory can be utilized for preventing specific directories or files from being crawled by the search engines' spiders, by the site's webmaster. Meta tags can also be used for this purpose.

Pages that are specific to logging in and that have content that is specific to users are generally the ones that are not to be crawled by the search engines.

Legitimate versus illegitimate techniques:

As mentioned earlier, the SEO techniques whose effects the search engines try to minimize are known as spamdexing. On the other hand, those techniques that are recommended by search engines are considered significant towards ensuring excellent rankings for the website in the long run. As and when the sites that employ spamdexing are found to be doing so by the search engines, these are excluded from the databases and banned.

The legitimate techniques, or those that are in accordance with the guidelines followed by search engines, are free from deception. This implies that the content that a user accesses on the website is the same as that indexed by the search engine.

Therefore, to summarize, these techniques seek not to create content aimed at search engines, but to create content aimed at providing maximum utility to those who visit the website and then making this content easily accessible to them, through SEO.

The illegitimate techniques include designing different pages for search engines and for human visitors, besides including text that is visible to the search engines and not to the human visitors, among other methods.

Marketing through search engine optimization:

SEO may not be the best tool for achieving the marketing goals for a website and may have to be combined with other tools, techniques and strategies, in order to attain success. However, something it can definitely do is to help increase the number of visitors i.e. bring about an increase in traffic and, if properly done, traffic of good quality, as well. Since people are known to scan web pages, including those containing search results, downwards from the top and from the left towards the right, it is obvious that placement among the highest ranked search results can dramatically increase the number of people that are likely to visit the website.

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Where Can I Learn Search Engine Optimization?

2007-11-10T03:41:00.001-08:00

Over the years I've read so many books about Search Engine Optimization that I can't even guess the number... 50? 100? Somewhere around those numbers.

But I've also read thousands of articles, thousands of forum posts, hundreds of blogs...if not thousands. I've done more reading about SEO than I care to think about, to be quite honest with you.

So why do I expect you to read what I'm saying about reading SEO information?

Because I wanted to let you in on a little secret... there are VIDEOS on Search Engine Optimization these days. I've seen quite a few over the past year or so and there's a few that really peaked my interest. One in particular will be mentioned at the end of this article.

Aaron Walls, Author of SEOBook, has even started creating SEO Videos and posted them to YouTube. There's new videos with other SEO "rock stars" (not THE SEO Rockstars - do a search on google for that!) that speak on SEO. There's even WebMasterRadio that has lots of MP3's ready for download.

But what's the BEST way for a newbie to learn? I would definitely say by Video and practice. Books are great for reference and so are blogs, articles, etc. But you should at least learn by Video as well. It gives you more clarification, more visible evidence.

Below I have posted a great video tutorial series on my Blog. I think this Video Tutorial is fantastic and I would recommend it to ANYONE who is serious about learning SEO quickly. I've seen Video Tutorials but this is, by far, the best series I've watched myself.

Just remember that knowledge is only "know-how" and not "know-how-to-do" until you have put forth the actual physical effort to learn by doing. Learning by doing is the ONLY way you're ever going to truly learn anything in life... we've learned this, even as kids.

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How To Use A Search Engine As Reverse Cell Phone Directory

2007-11-10T03:40:00.000-08:00

The biggest databases of phone numbers are free... and you use them all the time... they are - simply - the very search engines that likely brought you to this page!

Though most think of using search engines when searching for information, they may not think to do so when they are searching out a person. Don't skip this source of information if you are trying to find a person, or the owner of a particular phone number.

The search engines are often the only ways to have access to almost anything online that you would not find otherwise. You do have to make sure you know how to search before you start, and you have to be willing to put some time into your endeavor.

You are probably aware of the major search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo, but there are many more out there. You should try as many as you can find time for, as sometimes each comes up with different information, even when using the exact same search terms.

Some lesser known, but very useful, engines to try are AltaVista and Ask.com. Don't forget to use all of the options each one offers. The news, image, blog, and video searches on each one can be useful as well.

When searching with just a phone number, you have to know a few things to get the best results. If you have a number and wish to do a search on it with Google's search, you have to be sure to format the number correctly to get results, if there are any. You should always type in ‘phonebook:' and than add the number in the search box.

When you add the number, you should leave out the dashes. Use spaces instead for better results. This formula will give you any results they have on their phonebook page.

A big problem with searching is that most search terms will result in thousands of different hits or results. When you only have one thing to go on, this might mean you have to sift through those. If you have any other type of information, be sure to use it in your search to help narrow down what comes up as relevant.

For example, if you know a name, but you also have a good idea about a state of residence, put the name with a comma, and then the state. If you know the name of a city or town, add that to the mix as well. You will find you have fewer and more relevant results.

There are times when using a search engine that the results don't seem to be relevant to what you are searching. When that happens, there are a few tricks you can use to be sure you aren't getting junk hits that don't have anything to do with what you are looking for. When you search for a name, first and last, put quotes around the names. That way, only results where those two names are side by side will appear.

You can use the same principle when searching for words that you want to appear together within the text. This often helps find more relevant links, and will make finding information much simpler.

Terry Taggert writes informational articles about people search, privacy, reverse phone lookups, and other similar topics. Conduct an instant reverse cell phone lookup at http://reverse-cell-phone.weebly.com

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Search Engine Marketing - Just Do It, Now

2007-11-10T03:38:00.000-08:00

Have You Started Your Internet Marketing Campaign Yet? You Can Bet Your Competitors Have! With respect to the brilliant ad people who created Nike's unforgettable mantra "Just do it", I would like to add a caveat..."Now!"

Why now? Because time is slipping away for you to begin your Search Engine Marketing campaign! You see, just like affordable beachfront property, keywords are a valuable commodity, and once someone lays claim to them, they're gone.

In the fight for domination in the search engines, keywords are the virtual real estate of the Internet. Keywords are valuable because they are what people use to find your industry, company, products, or services. How valuable are the right keywords? Well, sex.com sold for $12 million in 2006. Even the more mainstream, Business.com sold for $7.5 million in 1999. (Domain names show up as results for keyword searches).

Other domain names, possibly even those in your industry, are being snapped up in the popular social sites used by Search Engine Marketers. These are found as extensions to the site's URL. Example: "www.EzineArticles.com/yourindustry." The keywords are also being used as meta tags in videos on YouTube and the like.

Obviously, the sooner you start the more virtual real estate you can amass over the Internet. The more times your keywords show up and point back to you, the higher your site goes up in the page rankings on Google.

The trouble is, unless you are doing nothing but Pay Per Click advertising, Search Engine Marketing takes time to establish and populate throughout the Internet. The good news is, unlike Pay Per Click advertising, the articles, videos, blogs, and forum entries you make stay active, compounding on themselves, working for you long after your original efforts to put them out there. Pay Per Click stops working the minute you stop paying.

What if your competitors have already started their Search Engine Marketing programs? You just have to work a little harder to catch up, and be a little more creative with the keywords. A good Search Engine Marketer will find a way to promote your company, but to make it easier (a.k.a. cheaper). It's time for you to start your Search Engine Marketing campaigns now and get a jump start building your online empire of virtual "real estate."

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The Evolution and Revolution of Search Engines

2007-11-08T03:20:00.002-08:00

Search engines, where would we be without them? Within the past 10-15 years the internet has become a huge part of every day American life. Many people nowadays cannot remember the time prior to having this wonderful information highway we call the internet. The internet has really revolutionized the way people live their lives; for example, you can bank online, buy just about anything you want online, meet new people online, and even find local movie times. However, one of the biggest benefits of the internet is the use of search engines. At any moment in time you may have a question, or an urge to get more information about a certain topic and that information can be easily attained through a search engine. In this article I am going to give you a brief history on the evolution of the search engine, and show you how they truly have revolutionized our lifestyles.

The history of search engines is the story of university students' projects evolving into commercial enterprises and revolutionizing the field as they went. The first attempt at creating a search engine was called Archie, and it was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University. This very primitive search engine did not use any robot technology. All Archie really did was just become a database of archived filenames, which it would try to match with users' queries.

The next evolutionary step of the search engine was the introduction of "robots." The first use of robot technology was in the search engine World Wide Web Wanderer. Simply what robots would do is scan the internet for URL's, starting at one site and using the links in the previous site to find more sites. The problems with these first robots were that if they were not written properly they would cause too many hits on a server decaying the systems performance.

To combat these initial problems Martjin Koster came out with the first web directory called "Aliweb" in October 1993. Web directories are different than search engines because the sites listed in them are not from automated robots, but rather from human editors reviewing sites and placing them in the directory.

However, shortly after, in December 1993, a new robot was born. This was called the "spider." Spiders added a much further degree of accuracy by indexing the entire text of a webpage. The older robots only indexed the URL and titles of a page, which meant that some pertinent keywords might not be indexed. This greatly improved the relevancy rankings of their results, and thus was the first major step in forming the major search engines that we have all become so used to using today.

Not long after the spider, we saw the emergence of some of the big guns. In 1994, out of Stanford University came the extremely famous Yahoo. The two guys who started Yahoo were students, David Filo and JerryYang. Basically, at first Yahoo was just a list of these guys' favorite websites. But soon, due to its easy user-friendly interface, became the most popular web directory. Due to the fact that its websites were all human reviewed, Yahoo was only able to index about 1% of the web. At this time, Altavista became the fastest growing search engines using the spider technology and was indexing up to 10 million pages a day.

By this time there are two different types of search engines, "author controlled" such as Altavista and Excite, in which results were ranked by keyword relevancy, and "editor controlled" such as Yahoo, in which humans manually placed websites into their index.
Then in late 1997 out of Stanford University was born the most popular and well-known search engine to date: GOOGLE Google has a different way of ranking its websites. It used a Pagerank system. Simply what they did was list websites higher in their results based on how many links were pointing to a particular site. Of course, the content on the page had to be relevant to the keyword typed into the search box. But basically, Google invented what you could call a system of voting. So a site with numerous backlinks or votes would rank higher. A backlink is just when someone else puts a link on their site that points to another outside site. Jump forward to today and Google has more than 80% of the websites on the internet in their index, which is pretty impressive.

Search engines have had a huge impact on the American lifestyle. They basically will grant you just about any information you want, all you have to do is type into the search box the topic you want to find more information about. Human beings are natural born information junkies, we always want to know more and find out more and search engines have made this urge of ours extremely easy to cure. Just think about it, maybe you need to fix a simple problem you have with your car. By using a search engine to do some research you may very easily figure the problem out, saving you a very costly trip to the car repair shop. They are just great educational tools, before search engines emerged if you really wanted to learn something you would go to your library and check out a book. Now before making that trip you may find out what you wanted by just sitting at your desktop and surfing through Google. The list goes on about the many benefits of this great new technology we call the search engine. I'm sure you can recall a time when you found some very good information by using one. If you're anything like me and find yourself addicted to this easily accessible information highway then your making uses of them daily.

Search engines by nature were made very easy to use. However, with a little extra knowledge about how they work you can really take advantage of them and find great information very quickly. With the right knowledge of search engines and the use of specialized tools you can literally find anything you want. And when I mean anything, I mean ANYTHING. For me personally I am excited to see what search engines will evolve into in the future. The sky is the limit. Who knows what type of search spiders the future will spawn, but one thing is for sure there will be newer and newer search technology it's just our human nature to keep trying to top ourselves.

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Free SEO keyword analyzer tool!

2007-11-08T03:20:00.001-08:00

This article is about a free website which has a great text analysis tool, that is very useful for anyone in the internet marketing game or who optimizes their website for search engine rankings. The sites address is www.textalyser.net this tool really does the job when it comes to analyzing either all the text on a website or just a certain portion of your choice. Giving you all sorts of great information about the keywords used in the site.

When you first enter the site you can either paste in a certain portion of text into the designated area, or you just type in the URL of the whole website you would like to have analyzed. Then you can choose as to what analysis options you would like to perform. Such as the minimum characters per word, whether you would like it to ignore numbers, and a few more. After you chose your options then you simply click analyze the text, thus returning you a complete very detailed analysis.

At the very top of your analysis it shows some basic text information like the total word count, number of different words used, sentence count, a readability index ranging from easy to hard. That little function comes in handy, because you definitely want the text of your page to be easy for the viewer to read.

The next and perhaps most important feature, shows you the occurrences and frequency at which the top keywords for your page show up. It ranks them from the number one word to whichever number you would like it to stop at. That is set at the options you chose before you analyzed the text. This particular feature is very nice to SEO's, seeing as that it lists the top words on a site and the density/frequency of which they appear. So an example of how this might help would be if you were targeting to have a certain keyword density for a particular keyword on your site. Thus enabling you to figure out whether to add more or less of that word to meet the density at which is required for the search engines to list you for that keyword.

Not only does this tell you your top ranking keywords it tell you the top word phrases, ranging from 2 word to 5 word phrases. It gives the count of how many times that phrase was used and also shows the frequency compared to the rest of the text on the page.

Anyone who is in the internet marketing field especially marketers who optimize their websites for search engine traffic can make great use of this free tool. I personally find great use in this tool for the process of my keyword research, which is essential for any search engine optimization campaign.

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SEO Services, What To Look For

2007-11-08T03:18:00.002-08:00

Search engine optimization has evolved into a competitive, growing industry. There are plenty of hoaxes and scams on the web. It seems that as the Internet grows more complex, so do the scams. Choosing an effective company can be quite a challenge. There are many factors to consider when hiring an SEO service. This article gives advice on how to select a credible website optimization service.

Assess the services and credibility of the SEO company. Customer service is always the key factor that one should look at. There are many ways of assessing an SEO service. One can try to inquire by placing a call or by sending an email to the company. Depending on the courtesy and time of response, you can initially assess its customer service. Does the company provide an "about us" page on their website? A reputable online business will provide an informative look at the personal side of their company and who they are. Look for other company details such as, the company address and location.

Avoid a guarantee of instant results or the #1 position. There are many factors to consider when optimizing a webpage. Search engines use different algorithms and their spiders can vary. Any SEO company that guarantees the #1 position in the search results should be avoided. A legitimate company will be straight forward and honest and will tell its clients that no single company can give a guarantee of the top positions in the search results. A desireable SEO service should also provide reports and details regarding the standing of a client's website. They will be able to track the developments of their clients website in terms of keywords, links and their rankings in the major search engines.

A customer testimonial can provide a valuable insight when assessing a company's credibility. A satisfied customer is always a good indication of the effectiveness of a company's operations and will always be the most valuable piece of information about its integrity. If possible try to locate and contact people who have received benefits from hiring an optimization service or at least try to validate the testimonials.

It's important to consider the cost of website optimization. Keep in mind a higher price does not necessarily mean the expensive services are more effective than the less expensive ones. The optimization rates companies charge may vary greatly. Search engine optimization is a trial and error process which requires research, hard work and dedication. Make sure the SEO service is primarily involved in search engine optimization and does not treat it as a sideline.

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Search Wars! Battle of the Major Search Engines

2007-11-08T03:18:00.001-08:00

It's pretty safe to say that anyone who has a computer has at some point or another used a search engine. Search engines are extremely useful creatures. They have had a major impact on our society, I mean its pretty amazing that you can just go type in anything you want into a search box and get back information about it in about two seconds. Before search engines came along you pretty much had to rely on going to the library to get more information. With that being said the popularity of search has created quite a huge market. The advent of paid advertising has sprung search engines into a multi-billion dollar a year industry, thus creating some pretty stiff competition. Right now we are in the midst of a major war on the internet, with the major players being Yahoo, MSN, Google, and an upcoming strong contender in Ask. So you may ask who is winning this war right now? And why? And who will take the lead in the future? One thing is for sure the reward of being the king of the search mountain will reap billions and billions of dollars annually.

So what are these top gun search engines competing over? The answer is clicks, on the paid advertisements they present every time someone uses their search engine. If you notice when you use Google for example that at the very top of the page and on the right hand side it says sponsored sites. This is where people trying to make money online pay to advertise for their company. These prices range from nickels and dimes per click, all the way up to hundreds of dollars per click, depending on the keyword. So the main objective for a search engine is to get as many people as possible using them to search the internet. Just think about it for a second, the more searches they get, the more chance of people clicking on their paid ads, which is where they make their money. Now of course not everyone is going to click on the paid ads, only a small percentage of the searches they receive ever actually make the search engine money. However, with millions of searches a day it only takes a small percentage to really make a big monetary difference.

So who are the warlords going to battle here? And who is in the lead? The three major competitors are MSN, Google, and Yahoo, and Ask is fighting its way back into the mix of things with some pretty sweet search features.

As of right now Google is in the lead, they receive somewhere in the ballpark of 80% of all search queries on the internet. Google is estimated to gross around 3 billion dollars in 2006, all from just paid advertisement. Now you may ask why is it that Google is so far ahead? Well there are a few reasons. First, Google has the most advanced algorithm, which is the mind boggling mathematical equation that ranks and lists sites depending on the keyword. Trying to understand their algorithm is extremely complicated, Google only hires absolute geniuses to work for them. Second, is the brilliance of Google.com itself, which is their homepage.

Take a look at Google's homepage, all you can do is type your keyword in the search box and hit search. There's really nothing else going on it's pretty clean cut and user friendly, with absolutely no distractions from getting people to do what they want. Which is search

Now take a look at MSN, or Yahoo's homepage. It is just jam packed with all sorts of stuff to do from playing games to reading articles about the news. This stuff is great and all, however it does distract people from typing into the search box and inevitably clicking on a paid ad putting money in their pocket. I believe this is a major part in why Google has such a gigantic lead in the volume of searches they receive compared to the other top guns. .

So I firmly believe that in this case the giant will not be taken down. Even though you see commercials for Yahoo and Ask, you know the ones with the cheesy guy screaming Yahoooo and the monkey that Ask is featuring. The bottom line is Google has the best algorithm right now and their site doesn't distract people from searching, which will yield many more search queries. Who knows though just as Google basically came from no where and took over the market, there may be a new kid on the block that will topple them. However as of now though they are the reigning champions.

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SEO- 9 Ridiculously Easy Steps to the Top 10

2007-11-08T03:15:00.000-08:00

Search Engine Optimization companies are making a fortune by doing the menial work that is overlooked by many designers. It is ridiculously easy to do most of the work done by most SEO companies, all you have to do is create good habits.

There are 9 main points you should focus on:

• Keywords
• URL Text
• Description, Meta tags
• Title tags
• Image Names
• ALT tags
• Heading tags
• Content
• Hyperlinks

The focus of these 8 steps is to load your pages with as many "keywords" as possible.

Keywords
Keywords are the most important aspect of good SEO, this is where you tell the Search Engines what your site is about. Search Engines use an algorithm to determine the "Keyword Density" of your site, this formula is:

Total Words ÷ Keywords= Keyword Density

Use this formula on your competitors web site and see how they score, then aim to beat that score.

Choose keywords that best relate to the information, products or services that you are offering. For instance, if I am designing a site about "Web Design", I want my site to include the words "Web Design" as many times as possible.

However, most people don't just search for just one word, they type phrases, so you should consider the phrases that best suit your sites target market. For example, if I am creating a site about "Web Design" in New Orleans, I would include "New Orleans web design" in my keywords. Another way around this is to not separate my keywords with commas, just use spaces, and the Search Engines will make the phrases for you. The most important thing to remember is that the content of each page is different, so only use keywords pertaining to that page.

URL Text
When you name a new page you have the option to call it anything you could possibly think of, why not se a keyword? After all, the URL address is the first things a search engine comes across when indexing your pages. You have to remember content doesn't come easy to everyone, so you gotta slip in your keywords when the process gives you an easy one.

Description Meta tags
These tags are dwindling in importance since Search Engines are now looking at content, but every little bit counts.

Optimize your meta tags to match your content, products, and services, and the Search Engines that still look at meta data will reward your efforts.

Title Tags
Title tags are the tags that tell the Search Engine the title, or formal description of the document or page. This is the word or phrase that is seen at the top of the browser window. The most important rule about title tags is, don't put anything in the title tags but keywords. Once again this is an easy time to slip in your keywords, so don't miss out.

Image Names
As I said before, content doesn't come easy to everyone, so slip in your keywords whenever possible, this applies to image names. If you are saving a picture of a guy working on a computer for your web design web site, don't call it "some_dude.jpg", call it "web_site_design.jpg". The Search engine will look at the code for the site and see the image pertains to the content of the site and this will be another relevant element on that particular page. You have to take the easy ones when you are given a chance.

ALT tags
Alt tags are keywords that you can attach to images, giving more weight to the image since Search Engines can't analyze the content of the image itself. Here is a chance to slip in more keywords without writing great content, use it.

Heading tags
Heading tags are associated with the bold font that leads into a section of text. Like this:

Web Design
Web Design Inc. offers custom web site designs...

Your heading tags should only be keywords, and should be presented in the order that your Meta tags follow.

H1= first meta tag, H2= second meta tag...

Try to utilize all 6 heading tags on each page to ensure maximum page optimization.

Content
As every expert will tell you, "Content is King." Each web page should have at least 350 words on it, and the more the better, but keep in mind the formula for keyword density. You don't want to fill a page with 1500 words of jibba-jabba and only 5 keywords in it. Some people get hung-up on how browsers display text, and use images with text in them because they want a cool font, but browsers can't read the text embedded in images, so this content ads no weight to the page in a Search Engines eyes.

Linkbaiting is the new trend among high ranking sites. Linkbaiting means writing quality content, or articles that other web sites can display on their pages as long as they give credit, and a link to your site.

You don't have to be a vi or emac expert to write good web content, just be thoughtful of how you word things and incorporate your keywords.

Hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are text links to other pages on your site. The rules of SEO and hyperlinks are easy:

• Use hyperlinks so the Search Engine will have a text link to follow to the next page
• Don't use one word links, use long link phrases, preferably keyword phrases
• Use bullets, or some sort of small image that you can attach an ALT tag to, this will ad more importance to the link, and throw in a couple of free keywords for you.

Keep these 9 aspects in mid when designing a site, and you are sure to have a leg up on the competition.

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Search Engine Marketing - An Emerging Trend Of Marketing In India To Brighten Up Your Future!

2007-11-07T04:41:00.000-08:00

Search engine marketing or Internet marketing is one of the latest trends of marketing. It's really helpful to increase the reach of your offline business by making it online. This trend of marketing is very much used in UK, US and some other countries but now it's also spreading like a virus in India as well. As we all know the number of internet users is increasing day by day, so saying the future of online marketing will go brighter and brighter in India would not be wrong. So it's the right time to move ahead by making your offline business online to get more out of it.

If we see the past the number of online buyers was not good enough in India as compare to US and UK. But now India also has a huge number of internet users making online transactions. Like many other countries the plastic money (credit cards, debit cards) is being popularized and mostly used in India for making online transactions. So the future of online marketing seems to be very bright in India.

As compare to some other countries in India there is huge number of web development/solutions companies offering search engine marketing or Internet marketing as a service. Clients from all over the globe having online businesses outsource their internet marketing services to India. A huge number of web solutions companies in India offering cutting-edge search engine optimization, PPC, Email marketing and many other search engine marketing services at reasonable prices. That is why the interest of the global online marketers is now more focused on Indian search engine marketing companies.

All the major cities in India have various web design and development companies to provide cost effective web services and solutions to the global clients. Most of these companies have their separate department for search engine optimization services as well as Internet marketing solutions.

These web solutions companies in India with their proven records are really very successful in getting the attention of the global clients. Within in a very short period of time there are lots of vacancies opened in Internet Marketing field in India. Lots of technically qualified professionals are now getting jobs in such companies with good salary packages.

Now if you have any technical qualification and want to join the marketing field than a search engine or Internet marketing job can be a fruitful decision.

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7 Key Steps To Search Engine Traffic

2007-11-07T04:40:00.000-08:00

Search engine traffic is the way you are going to get the most clicks on your website. People search for your business or organization using search terms, not for your business specifically unless someone has told them about you. So make sure your website is positioned for the best targeted search engine traffic to increase your rankings. Here are 7 steps to increase your traffic.

Step 1: Your Domain Name
Choose a name that contains your keywords if at all possible, or that says as much about you in as short a space as possible.

Step 2: Content
Make sure your content contains good keywords, and only one keyword or key phrase per page. More than that will dilute the power of your keywords.

Step 3: Titles
The titles of your content sections of your website should contain your keyword phrases. This will increase your targeted search engine traffic by repeating the keyword close to the top of the page.

Step 4: Keep Your Site Simple
Your targeted search engine traffic will be un-targeted as soon as you start using language or phrases that don’t pertain to the subject, or that don’t fit stylistically.

Step 5: Keep Current
Another thing that makes people click off a website is irrelevant or out of date information. Stay fresh and keep your rankings high.

Step 6: Keep Your Clicks
make your website friendly enough to keep the people you attract when you rank high in a targeted search. Simple layouts and clean visuals go a long way.

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Best Search Engine Optimization - Intermediate Ways To Great Search Engine Optimization

2007-11-07T04:38:00.002-08:00

As the owner or operator of an Internet business, you understand the vital importance of having the very best search engine optimization. When it comes to getting the best search engine optimization, there are some intermediate ways that you can best enhance your own search engine optimization for your website.

First of all, when it comes to having the best search engine optimization, you will want to make sure that you regularly review the keyword selections that you have made to be included in content and copy that is included on your website. The fact is that there can be changes with quiet a degree of regularity when it comes to the actual search terms that individuals are using.

Second, in establishing the best search engine optimization for your website, you will want to monitor the traffic to your website and pay attention to how long a person stays at your website and what that person actually does when they are at your site. You need to make certain that they keywords you select work in tandem with the materials and information that you have at your site to fully attract a potential client or customer.

In the end, you need to keep in mind and appreciate that the best search engine optimization is a fluid process. You need to be versatile and adaptable in order to stay on the top of your SEO game. By doing so, you will enhance your revenue and profits.

One of the real keys to seo is testing and tracking - if you are not testing and tracking, you are leaving money and rankings on the table.

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Lucrative Search Engine Marketing - 4 Ways to Search Engine Marketing

2007-11-07T04:38:00.001-08:00

If you are involved in the ownership or management of a business that is based on the Net, you need to understand and fully appreciate how to achieve lucrative search engine marketing. When it comes to lucrative search engine marketing, there are four ways that you actually can be best assured of achieving your goals. Through this article, you are provided with the 4 key ways to lucrative search engine marketing.

First, you need to make very certain that your Internet website contains content that is search engine optimized. This is a foundation upon which other lucrative search engine marketing steps can be built.

Second, when it comes to lucrative search engine marketing, having a powerful and identifiable URL is also important. In this regard, if your URL or domain name contains common search terms that will be used by people seeking your products or services you will be all the better off.

Third, because of the intense competition online today, you will want to consider engaging in some sort of pay per click campaign like AdWords by Google. This can assist you greatly in advancing a lucrative search engine marketing campaign.

Finally, you will want to continually review what you are doing to enhance you chances for lucrative search engine marketing. The Internet is a very fluid place that is always changing. You need to be able to change and adapt to stay ahead of the game today and in the future.

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Best Search Engine Marketing - Top 4 Techniques to the Best Search Engine Marketing

2007-11-07T04:37:00.000-08:00

Search engine marketing is one of the most effective methods of online marketing. More business web sites and successful internet marketers are profiting enormously by using this strategy. The following tips can be your top 5 techniques to search engine marketing:

1. It is generally assumed that if you rank high on search engines, your web traffic can increase greatly. Web traffic generated by search engines is highly targeted and it could mean lots of customers for your site.

2. Good content and the right key word density are very important in search engine marketing. Having these two elements can help your web site achieve good page ranking in search results. If your site is always on top of the searches, traffic to your web site will definitely increase. And lots of web traffic can only mean more profit for your business.

3. Link building is also an important technique in search engine marketing. If numerous web sites are linked to your own site, this can be interpreted by search engine robots as a sign that your site is useful to other web sites. Search engines can fast index your site and rank it highly.

4. Finally, search engine companies also offer advertising options for web sites. You can do paid advertising in order to have a prominent place on search engines or in other web sites and blogs. This is a fast track approach but it doesn't mean that you abandon other methods of marketing techniques.

Using the search engines for your marketing and advertising work is a good way to promote your web site. Every one can utilize these methods but it is most essential for people who have an online business. Your best efforts in search engine marketing can yield tremendous results in terms of increasing web traffic, product sales, and successful online transactions.

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Introduction to Search Engine Optimization Part II

2007-11-07T04:35:00.000-08:00

It can also employ and hand over some form of a help with web logs and other consumer driven site forms like Really Simple Syndication or RSS feeds to get an even friendlier atmosphere with search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. More to this, when search engine optimization is performed on the set standards and on the basis of what is correct and appropriate, it should be able to successfully allow the search engines to facilitate web crawling which works essentially like web spidering.

With this mechanism, it allows for the web site to generate a more updated data that search engines capture during the time that it does ranking. In addition, when search engine optimization is regulated to work the correct way, it is able to make sure that your website tops from the various search engine results pages given the fact that your site contained more relevant and pertinent keywords. Adding more to that, the use of the SEO basically ensures a much higher rate of conversion on every visit from the net user on the site.

In a nutshell, the nature and the manner on how the search engines behave towards the site is predictably measured. Therefore, the achievement of a better optimization of the search engines on the site is something that can be attained under a pre-defined action and plan. As long as these plans are in conformity with what is usual, appropriate, accurate, and most of all on what is the best and right way.

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Getting Your website Right

2007-11-06T02:48:00.000-08:00

The temptation to rush through the creation of your website can force you to compromise on a great many fundamentally important aspects of solid website operation - compromises that you will ultimately need to go back and correct. The trick is to get it right the first time, leaving changing your website for those infrequent times when you change your corporate look or shift your company's message.
There are a number of things you need to consider when constructing your website so as to avoid the costly revisions later on. It should also be noted that many times, despite the good intentions, the revisions you are intending to make never seem to get made, as you become to busy to tend to them. The result then, is that you are stuck with a deficient website.
So what are those elements you need to keep in mind Tudog has a few questions you should be asking yourself. They are:
1. What is the purpose of this website
There are a number of legitimate functions a website can serve. For example a website can be set up as a means of disseminating information. It can also be an online example of your company's skills and expertise. Whatever the purpose, you must have it clearly and well defined before you start considering other aspects of website development.
2. What should be my user paths
The navigation you incorporate into the website with significantly influence the experience your visitors will have, how long they will stay, and how successful they will be in extracting from the website what they wanted (and what you wanted them to get out of it). User paths need to be logical, clear, easy to follow, and categorized in language that is common and typical. You do not want to create links that people cannot understand or send them through a maze to get to where they want to go.
3. How do I want the site to look
The appearance of your website will greatly influence the extent to which you are able to extract from the website the full potential of your effort. The development of the look of your site begins with the corporate identity of your company. The website should be consistent with this look. In addition, you should consider what "feel" you want the website to have. For example, a financial services website might want a "safe and established" feel, while a technology company might want to demonstrate its technical savvy or communicate its high technology image.
4. How will the site be used
While you considered your objectives, you also need to consider the objectives of the people who will be visiting the site. There is a need to anticipate the purpose people will have in exploring your site and make sure that you deliver the experience as you understand they would want it. While some of this has to do with the aspects we discuss above, such as site appearance and navigation, it also has to do with the core message of the website and the content you provide.
5. How should the content be presented
Beyond what content you should provide is the question of how it should be organized. While some of this is taken care of when considering the navigation, much of it has to do with the way pages are laid out and the interaction of text with graphics. Once again, this question is at the core of the visitor's experience, the success of which will determine in the long run the success of your business.
6. What communication channels have you created
You need to make sure that you are allowing your visitors the opportunity to interact with by providing the ability to email you or call you. Tudog recommends providing as much contact information as possible because we believe that websites with little contact information lack credibility, as if they do not want inquiries. You need to put your company out there for evaluation and you need to do so in such a way that you express confidence that you will pass any evaluation with flying colors.
The creation of a high quality, well conceived website will afford your company the ability to establish and maintain credibility while also serving as an interactive tool for people interested in learning more about your company. What they learn - and what they perceive - has a lot to do with how good your site is. When building your site, ask yourself these 6 questions, and you'll be able to answer the question "how good a site do I have" with the answer "quite good indeed".

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Web Based Promotional Techniques: Effective ways to get targeted visitors

2007-11-06T02:47:00.000-08:00

It is an ongoing trend for webmasters to compete for higher search engine ranking. Because in this way webmasters can get more targeted traffic to their website and it ultimately helps them to boost traffic of their website. But it is not so simple. Good and advanced web based promotional techniques can help you to achieve your objective. If you have already developed your website and also want to increase in the natural ranking in every search engine, then follow some effective web based promotional techniques.

Some of the vital web based promotional techniques are discussed below which can help you in better search engine ranking. They are as:

Though there are several search engines like yahoo, MSN, AltaVista and AllTheWeb, yet Google leads the industry with long strides. Hence, whatever you do, it should fit Google. It would be easier for you to achieve your objective; if you follow Google optimization techniques. The domains which are registered for more than five years, they are become more trust worthy for search engines. So, your significance increases, if your industry exists for a long time.

Keyword analysis is also considered as one of the effective web based promotional techniques. When a visitor searches for any information, search engines provide a list of webpages which either contain the keyword or have some relevance with the keyword. You can use the tools to find out the targeted keyword for your website. There are different keyword analysis tools are available online. You can use the tool that gives better and accurate result. While selecting keywords for your website, keep it in mind that the selected keyword should have more search volume and less competition.

Among different web based promotional techniques, link campaigning is the most significant one. Presently article submission, blog posting, PR posting and forum posting are considered as effective link building techniques to get quality inbound links for your website. You can attract more targeted visitors for your website, if your site appears within top search results of major search engines. Link campaigning can be done in three different ways, such as; one-way, two-way and three-way link campaigning. This technique will help to increase your website ranking magically.

Quality content is the most vital aspect for getting good search engine ranking. Try to write unique content for your website. Dont copy content from other websites. If your content is able to maintain balance between search engines and visitors, then it will definitely help to boost your business. While writing content, try to maintain the keyword density within 3-7%. Your targeted keyword must appear within the first paragraph of your content.

If you are really interested to achieve higher search engine ranking in major search engines, then the web based promotional techniques discussed above will definitely be helpful for you.

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Increase Website Traffic with SEO Services

2007-11-06T02:46:00.000-08:00

Website Traffic:
Increasing web site traffic and Revenues have always been the aim of all internet marketing strategies. At the end of the day, you create a website so that people can visit it and you can get the desired result. You can do it by selling a product or a service and this could be your own or for another company. But if there is no traffic then there will be no sales, which means no profits. When we say traffic, it doesn’t mean just about anyone visiting the Internet but a targeted traffic that consists of visitors who will buy your product or use your services.
There are of course many ways or methods to bring traffic to your website but we are going to look at only the ones which have proven to be successful. In all, you can use three internet marketing strategies to get targeted traffic to your website and they are:
Pay-Per-Click/PPC: This is a perfect plan if you have a marketing or advertising budget. Pay-per-click campaigns offered by Google or yahoo don’t need you to spend too much money but it all depends on how effectively you are able to choose the right keywords for your advertisement. In a Pay-per-click campaign, you have to create an advertisement that is relevant to your product or service and place a bid on the keywords you select. So the primary concern is the keyword. You will have to do some research to find the right keywords and also understand how each keyword is associated with your product or service offering and how they can actually drive traffic. If you have a website selling travel tours, you can use keywords like trekking and hiking, honeymoon packages. If a visitor is looking for a travel tour company and sees your advertisement with the right keywords then he will definitely click on it and you will have to pay for every click.
Link Building: The second method of effectively bringing traffic to your website is through link building. Link popularity startegies can be free and also paid. In the paid method, you will be either paying a membership fee for submission of your website link to multiple directories, and ezines. It can prove to be costly if you are approaching too many vendors. To cut down the cost, you need to approach only those ezines, which have a higher page rank and where there are more than 500 visitors a day or more than 500 members. The free linking method on the other hand requires a lot of hard word and you will have to search for them. Again remember, don’t just go around putting your website link in just about any directory. Relevance is important hence approach only those directories or ezines, which have your product or service as one of their sections. There are many ezines where you can even submit optimized articles with your link free. These ezines probably have thousands of such articles but it will help in the long run to create visibility.
Organic Search Engine Optimization: The third and one of the most effective methods of increasing web traffic is Organic search engine optimization or SEO. Organic SEO is basically a method by which you can optimize your web pages so that you can start with a decent ranking by the search engines, and then work your way up. As the ranking increases, so does the web traffic. It is a long process but quite effective. Your website can be search optimized only when you use strong and relevant content on your website. The content should not just be attractive but will also be informative and keyword rich. If you are selling a service then provide as much information as possible without making the page too long. Again, try to keep the content within 500-700 words a page. Any longer than that, people will start losing interest. No one really has the time to read so much. People have come to your website to find a solution and hence you should focus more on providing the solution through good navigation, great content and refined information.
Once you have applied the three methods, your work doesn’t end. You need to also monitor if your website is getting the relevant website traffic or not. There are times when you may get only 40% of the relevant traffic and the 60% are visitors who came to your website out of curiosity or by accident. You can have a form on your website that visitors can fill so that you will get to understand their psychology.
Do it Yourself or hire a SEO Services Company

Web optimization techniques are pretty complicated but anyone dedicated and willing and able to invest time to learn them can acheive a certain level of expertize. Certain competitive keywords will require professional help. If your site is a business and your budget allows you to do so, It is suggested you hire a professional SEO expert as doing it yourself will be extremely time consuming and may not even lead to noticeable outcomes.

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SEO Services Explained

2007-11-06T02:42:00.000-08:00

Website Traffic:
Increasing web site traffic and Revenues have always been the aim of all internet marketing strategies. At the end of the day, you create a website so that people can visit it and you can get the desired result. You can do it by selling a product or a service and this could be your own or for another company. But if there is no traffic then there will be no sales, which means no profits. When we say traffic, it doesn’t mean just about anyone visiting the Internet but a targeted traffic that consists of visitors who will buy your product or use your services.
There are of course many ways or methods to bring traffic to your website but we are going to look at only the ones which have proven to be successful. In all, you can use three internet marketing strategies to get targeted traffic to your website and they are:
Pay-Per-Click/PPC: This is a perfect plan if you have a marketing or advertising budget. Pay-per-click campaigns offered by Google or yahoo don’t need you to spend too much money but it all depends on how effectively you are able to choose the right keywords for your advertisement. In a Pay-per-click campaign, you have to create an advertisement that is relevant to your product or service and place a bid on the keywords you select. So the primary concern is the keyword. You will have to do some research to find the right keywords and also understand how each keyword is associated with your product or service offering and how they can actually drive traffic. If you have a website selling travel tours, you can use keywords like trekking and hiking, honeymoon packages. If a visitor is looking for a travel tour company and sees your advertisement with the right keywords then he will definitely click on it and you will have to pay for every click.
Link Building: The second method of effectively bringing traffic to your website is through link building. Link popularity startegies can be free and also paid. In the paid method, you will be either paying a membership fee for submission of your website link to multiple directories, and ezines. It can prove to be costly if you are approaching too many vendors. To cut down the cost, you need to approach only those ezines, which have a higher page rank and where there are more than 500 visitors a day or more than 500 members. The free linking method on the other hand requires a lot of hard word and you will have to search for them. Again remember, don’t just go around putting your website link in just about any directory. Relevance is important hence approach only those directories or ezines, which have your product or service as one of their sections. There are many ezines where you can even submit optimized articles with your link free. These ezines probably have thousands of such articles but it will help in the long run to create visibility.
Organic Search Engine Optimization: The third and one of the most effective methods of increasing web traffic is Organic search engine optimization or SEO. Organic SEO is basically a method by which you can optimize your web pages so that you can start with a decent ranking by the search engines, and then work your way up. As the ranking increases, so does the web traffic. It is a long process but quite effective. Your website can be search optimized only when you use strong and relevant content on your website. The content should not just be attractive but will also be informative and keyword rich. If you are selling a service then provide as much information as possible without making the page too long. Again, try to keep the content within 500-700 words a page. Any longer than that, people will start losing interest. No one really has the time to read so much. People have come to your website to find a solution and hence you should focus more on providing the solution through good navigation, great content and refined information.
Once you have applied the three methods, your work doesn’t end. You need to also monitor if your website is getting the relevant website traffic or not. There are times when you may get only 40% of the relevant traffic and the 60% are visitors who came to your website out of curiosity or by accident. You can have a form on your website that visitors can fill so that you will get to understand their psychology.
Do it Yourself or hire a SEO Services Company

Web optimization techniques are pretty complicated but anyone dedicated and willing and able to invest time to learn them can acheive a certain level of expertize. Certain competitive keywords will require professional help. If your site is a business and your budget allows you to do so, It is suggested you hire a professional SEO expert as doing it yourself will be extremely time consuming and may not even lead to noticeable outcomes.
Remember: when Choosing an SEO Services Company: 60% is Search Engine Optimization Techniques 25% is business consulting, and 15% art

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History of the Search Engine - What Came Before Google

2007-11-05T03:18:00.000-08:00

Although we credit Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines for giving us the system we use to find the information we seek, the concept of hypertext came to life in 1945 when Vannaver Bush urged scientist to work together to help build a body of knowledge for all man kind. He then proposed the idea of a virtually limitless, fast, reliable, extensible, associative memory storage and retrieval system. He named this device a memex. But there is a long list of great minds that have given us the information system we now use today. This article illustrates some of them. Here is the History of the Search Engine:

Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson created Project Xanadu in 1960 and coined the term hypertext in 1963. His goal with Project Xanadu was to create a computer network with a simple user interface that solved many social problems like attribution. While Teds project Xandadu, for reasons unknown, never really took off much of the inspiration to create the WWW came from Teds work.

George Salton

George Salton was the father of modern search technology. He died in August of 1995. His teams at Harvard and Cornell developed the Saltons Magic Automatic Retriever of Text otherwise known as the SMART informational retrieval system. It included important concepts like the vector space model, Inverse Document Frequency (IDF), Term Frequency (TF), term discrimination values, and relevancy feedback mechanisms. His book A theory of indexing explains many of his tests. Search today is still based on much of his theories. History of the search engine uses some of the same techniques even today.

Alan Emtage

In 1990 a student at McGill University in Montreal, by the name of Alan Emtage created Archie; the first search engine. It was invented to index FTP archives, allowing people to quickly access specific files. Archie users could utilize Archies services through a variety of methods including e-mail queries, teleneting directly to a server, and eventually through the World Wide Web interfaces. Archie only indexed computer files. With Archie, Alan Emtage helped to solve the data scatter problem. Originally, it was to be named archives but was changed to Archie for short.

Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill

Archie gained such popularity that in 1991 Paul Linder and Mark P. McCahill created a text based information browsing system that uses a menu-driven interface to pull information from across the globe to the users computer. Named for the Golden Gophers mascot at the University of Minnesota, The name is fitting, because Gopher tunnels through other Gophers located in computers around the world, arranging data in a hierarchical series of menus, which users can search for specific topics.

Tim Burners-Lee

Up until 1991 until there was no World Wide Web. The main method of sharing information was via FTP. Tim Berners-Lee wanted to join hypertext with the internet. He used similar ideas to those underlying the Enquire (a prototype created with help from Robert Cailliau) to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first web browser and editor, called WorldWideWeb, and developed on NeXTSTEP. He then created the first Web server called httpd, short for HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon. The first Web site built was at:

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Internet Marketing is hot and happening

2007-11-05T03:16:00.000-08:00

Do you know television took 30 years to reach a mass audience while broadband has taken just three years According to estimates, by 2010 most people will be watching TV via high-speed internet.

Understandably, internet advertising is becoming a preferred marketing tool for companies which have an online presence. Today almost every company worth its salt needs to have a web presence, and if your website doesnt stand out in a crowded market, you wont sell!

As more and more companies jump on to the online marketing bandwagon, this rapidly growing trend has spun two online revolutions:

Online marketing, especially search engine optimisation and pay-per-click campaigns, is giving traditional offline advertising a run for its money.

What you need to keep in mind is: If you dont play your online marketing cards right, you stand to lose out on a huge global market that is within your reach.

A growing number of internet marketing companies are beginning to compete for a share of the huge and rapidly growing online marketing industry.

What you need to keep in mind is: How you succeed in your internet marketing campaign is going to depend to a large extent on how you choose your online marketing company.

Advertisers are increasingly preferring online media over offline media for their advertising and marketing campaigns. The phenomenal success of the search engine Google is evidence of a clear shift from traditional advertising towards online media.

For instance, Google and Yahoos pay per click (PPC) campaigns are becoming the preferred marketing mediums for advertisers, who are now setting aside a significant part of their marketing budgets for online marketing.

Google has rewritten the rules of online marketing and promotions. Other leading search engines such as Yahoo and MSN are also coming up with innovative strategies and technologies to make it easier for users to find what they are searching for.

With competition hotting up between the search engines, companies that have an online presence are competing against each other to gain maximum visibility in these search engines.

The result is that internet marketing has moved on from having merely static websites to highly specialised and competitive strategies and Web 2.0 technologies such as search engine optimisation, PPC campaigns, viral marketing, social networking, internet advertising, tagging, blogging, wikis, and more.

Online media has definite advantages

Online media has some definite advantages over offline media in terms of cost, reach, interactivity, targeting the right markets and measuring responses. For instance, pay per click campaigns provide the most qualified leads and are proven to have highest sales conversion rate.

There are several techniques of search engine promotion such as SEO, PPC, Banner Exchange, Link Building, and so on. Lets have a look at the advantages of online promotions over offline promotions:

1. Online advertising is relatively cheaper. It includes booking ad space in other websites, launching SEO or Pay-Per-Click campaigns, email marketing, viral marketing.

Offline marketing is expensive. It includes printing marketing material, placing print ads in newspapers and magazines, booking ad space in public places, producing and broadcasting television or radio advertisements, dispatching direct mailers.

2. Online advertisements are more interactive and therefore more likely to really connect with consumers.

Offline advertisements are generally not interactive.

3. Online advertisements do not violate the privacy of customers.

Offline advertisements such as cold calling violates your customers privacy.

4. Email marketing enables instant business communication whether the customer or business affiliate is across the street or across the globe.

Offline advertisements have a limited reach in terms of distance.

5. Advertising on the internet is not bound by time limits. Marketing campaigns can continue for as long as you want (often at minimal extra cost).

Offline promotions, be it print ads or radio/TV ads are usually bound by time limits.

6. Customer queries can be solved instantly and very cheaply in online media as visitors can themselves look up the website for further information.

This facility is often lacking in offline media, or would require expensive resources like call centre staff to service customer enquiries.

7. Customers can look up online advertisements at their own convenient time.

In offline determines when a particular advertisement should be broadcast or printed. If you miss it, its gone!

8. Search engine optimisation and pay per click is demand driven, as your companys products and services appear at the exact time when the customer is seeking those services. This means you have a much higher chance of converting a lead into a sale.

Offline promotion is usually interruptive and blanket-targets an audience whether they are seeking your services or not.

9. Online marketing can access millions of potential customers across the globe with just a few clicks.

In offline promotiont it is impossible to reach millions of customers at one go unless you have an exceptionally large budget (e.g. a Superbowl TV spot).

Choosing a good online marketing company

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A number of highly specialised creative and technical processes are involved in online marketing. You will not achieve the desired result unless you select an internet marketing company that has a thorough knowledge of search engine optimisation, pay per click campaigns, website analysis, web copywriting, keyword analysis, code optimisation, link building, and web analytics.

Before you decide on which internet marketing company to use, make sure the company has a thorough professional and updated knowledge of these specialised skills. Check out their processes, find out how they plan to take on your internet marketing campaign step-by-step, and make sure they give you some form of guarantee for their services.

If you are interested in learning more about the detailed steps in a SEO or PPC campaign, visit www.CleverClicks.com.au, a leading SEO and PPC services provider in Sydney, Australia which has outlined the processes involved in internet marketing in clear and easy-to-understand detail.

How to find an ethical Search Engine Marketing CompanyIts a dog-eat-dog marketplace out there. The web is teeming with millions of websites and yours

2007-11-05T03:11:00.000-08:00

Its a dog-eat-dog marketplace out there. The web is teeming with millions of websites and yours is just another one of them. To rise above and ahead of this cut-throat competition, you need to work with an effective search engine marketing company that can put your website up among the top results in relevant keyword searches and help you reach out to your target audience.

Search engine marketing is vital for improving your sites conversion rate, attracting relevant traffic and maximising your Return on Investment (ROI).

Search engine optimisation is not an overnight job. It is a highly specialised and time consuming task. It may take months to get the desired results.
Although search engines issue broad guidelines, no one can say with certainty exactly how search engines rank websites. A professional SEO company has a good understanding of search engine behavior and experience in successfully achieving top ranking websites to advise you about the competition, ingredients, mechanisms and strategies that can be employed to make your website visible, frequently visited and a revenue generator.

The top 3 search engines, Google, Yahoo! and MSN, receive over 1.2 billion searches daily! Unless you use the correct search engine optimisation techniques with your website, you will not rank high with the search engines. Here is where the services of a professional search engine marketing company to handle your SEO campaign may help to deliver the desired results.

Search engines are strict about ethics

Search engines are clear in their guidelines about what they like and what they dont like. A good search engine optimisation company uses the specific sets of criteria laid down by search engines and their expertise gained over the years about what has worked in the past to increase the rankings of your site.

The SEO steps that abide by the search engine guidelines are called ethical and practices that are not approved by search engine guidelines are unethical.

Because search engines operate in an automated way, it is possible for webmasters to use methods not approved by search engines for better ranking. But these unethical attempts are fraught with risks.

Once your site is caught using unethical practices and banned by search engines, it will take a long time and a significant amount of effort to rank high in search engines again. Some SEO companies may use unethical practices to get high rankings of your website, but the results are only temporary. In fact they are devaluing your site.

Unethical search engine marketing companies do not consider the long term and want to show quick results to impress you. Hence, it is important to find an ethical SEO company that will ensure sustainable high search engine rankings.

Unethical SEO Practices

It's disheartening that many companies claim to be in top rankings of search engine but the truth is many of them are hype.
If youre serious about your business, dont try to bluff the search engines. The unethical practices will be caught eventually, leaving your website far behind the competition.

Unethical practices used by search engine optimisation companies include:
Keywords stuffing: Unnecessary repetition of keywords in the content
Page swapping: A highly unethical practice where a webmaster copies a page from a high-ranking website, changes the title and description META tags, then submits this page to the search engines. Once a ranking is obtained, they replace the stolen page with one of their own web pages.
Copyright violation: Copying content of other websites without permission.
Irrelevant link exchange: Establishing reciprocal links with irrelevant websites for the sole purpose of increasing the number of links to your website.

How to select an ethical SEO company

Here are some tips for selecting an ethical SEO services company:

Learn the basics of SEO: Study some basics of website promotion and search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques so that it will not be a new concept to you. These can be accessed easily on internet. Just spend little time to your research.

Does it sound too good Be wary if an SEO company offers ultra quick results. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is unethical. Both time and efforts are involved in the SEO process. There are no short cuts.

Evaluate your needs: Evaluate which SEO program best fits your needs. You can evaluate this by checking sales conversions, log reports, and so on. You must discuss your objectives with the SEO services provider then analyze yourself, how good it would be for serving your purpose.

Guarantee: Make sure that the search engine marketing company gives you some level of guarantee for their services. But, be wary of companies that offer a #1 ranking guarantee. No one has that much control over Google, and it is a sure sign that they may use unethical practices.

Experience: Check the industry experience of the people behind the company and also get feedback from the references given.

Strategies: When you choose to optimise your website, you need to look at the methodology a search engine optimisation company would be using. Ask the SEO company about the strategies they are going to use to optimise your website...

Cost: You usually get what you pay for. An offer for 500 links for $29 is a possible sign of unethical practices.

You need to keep in mind these few points while you research SEO services for your website. Return on investment (ROI) can depend on several factors, such as the size of your market place, geographical target area, the sales value of your products/services and the number of people searching online for your products/services.

Searching for an authentic ethical SEO company is a time consuming task. But remember that its not simply enough to only achieve better search engine rankings. Your website needs to be designed in a way to ensure you convert your visitors into buyers to boost your sales and revenues and increase your brand recognition.

If you are wondering how to find an ethical SEO company, visit, a leading SEO and PPC services provider in Sydney, Australia. It has clearly outlined processes involved in search engine marketing in specific and easy-to-understand detail.

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Expert Search Engine Optimization

2007-11-04T23:15:00.001-08:00

With the huge number of websites that are entering the battlefield, it is difficult to play the number game, that of page ranking. It takes a huge amount of effort and new ideas based on the constantly changing scenario, to win the battle of the ranks.
Search engines index millions of pages for particular keywords and your website could be anywhere in the 10th or 20th page, if not optimized for relevant keywords.

What is expert search engine optimization? SEO or search engine optimization begins with coding, designing, and programming a website to ensure that the website appears at the top of search engines and attracts targeted high quality traffic. If the web pages are not optimized, they will not get high ranking and this leads to no results, and the number of search engines the site has been submitted to does not make any difference. This is where expert search engine optimization professionals come in.

The SEO professional is one who understands the intricacies of how search engines are coded, how they work, and what they expect from websites. With expert search engine optimization, a website can be made visible to visitors querying for various related keywords on the search engines.

Web pages should meet the needs of the visitors in a particular niche. The idea is for the target audience to find the web page information easily through web directories and search engines.

This is a daunting task and expert search engine optimization involves the scientific and artistic skills of a company that has the expertise and the high skill set required to perform and succeed at this task.

Being top ranked on the search engines for a keyword that only brings in about 30 people monthly is not what we are talking about. Just as with any form of marketing, expert search engine optimization providers ensure that the return of investment (ROI) is reasonable. It is the duty of the SEO expert to achieve rankings on search engines that actually bring enough traffic to the website concerned, to offset the money that is paid for his services.

Expert search engine optimization - why do you need them? Why cant this be done by ourselves? Good question. Experience is the keyword here. Because with experience, the expert is able to look into the various nuances of search engine optimization and provide the key to a successful campaign with ease.

When expert search engine optimization services are hired, you must ensue that the company has got a clear picture of the direction to take in order to obtain best results. This intelligence is what creates a miracle on search engines.
Expert search engine optimization professionals have a wide range of skills, such as web designing, copy writing, HTML knowledge, link development, keyword analysis, off page optimization, on page optimization, distribution of press releases etc. Different experts believe in using different methods and while some specialize in result-oriented copy writing, others are more technically savvy and look into things like IP delivery. Whatever the route taken, the goal is positioning and attracting traffic.
When choosing a company that provides expert search engine optimization services, it is important to look into the background of the company. There are hundreds of SEO service providers on the internet today claiming to be experts in search engine optimization. But are they competent enough? Im afraid NOT. It is not a good idea to go by assurances; it is the results that are important.

It is a great idea to check the expertise level of the so called expert search engine optimization providers, by making sure they possess the complete skill set, which includes copy writing skills, ability to write great headlines that are catchy, and most importantly, solid technical skills. The last but certainly not the least is the aspect of looking into the previous work done by the SEO company in order to classify them as an expert search engine optimization company.

http://www.articleco.com/Article/Expert-Search-Engine-Optimization/62043

Correctly Building Backlinks

2007-11-04T23:13:00.000-08:00

Getting Backlinks the Natural Way

The idea behind including backlinks as part of the page rank algorithm is that if a page is good, people will start linking to it. And the more backlinks a page has, the better. But in practice it is not exactly like this. Or at least you cannot always rely on the fact that your contents is good and people will link to you. Yes, if your content is good and relevant you can get a lot of quality backlinks, including from sites with similar topic as yours (and these are the most valuable kind of backlinks, especially if the anchor text contains your keywords) but what you get without efforts could be less than what you need to successfully promote your site. So, you will have to resort to other ways of acquiring quality backlinks as described next.

Ways to Build Backlinks

Even if plenty of backlinks come to your site the natural way, additional quality backlinks are always welcome and the time you spend building them is not wasted. Among the acceptable ways of building quality backlinks are getting listed in directories, posting in forums, blogs and article directories. The unacceptable ways include inter-linking (linking from one site to another site, which is owned by the same owner or exists mainly for the purpose to be a link farm), linking to spam sites or sites that host any kind of illegal content, purchasing links in bulk, linking to link farms, etc.
The first step in building backlinks is to find the places from which you can get quality backlinks. A valuable assistant in this process is the Backlink Builder tool. When you enter the keywords of your choice, the Backlink Builder tool gives you a list of sites where you can post an article, message, posting, or simply a backlink to your site. After you have the list of potential backlink partners, it is up to you to visit each of the sites and post your content with the backlink to your site in it.
You might wonder why sites as those, listed by the Backlink Builder tool provide such a precious asset as backlinks for free. The answer is simple � they need content for their site. When you post an article, or submit a link to your site, you do not get paid for this. You provide them for free with something they need � content � and in return they also provide you for free with something you need � quality backlinks. It is a free trade, as long as the sites you post your content or links are respected and you don't post fake links or content.

Getting Listed in Directories

If you are serious about your Web presence, getting listed in directories like DMOZ and Yahoo is a must � not only because this is a way to get some quality backlinks for free, but also because this way you are easily noticed by both search engines and potential visitors. Generally inclusion in search directories is free but the drawback is that sometimes you have to wait a couple of months before you get listed in the categories of your choice.

Forums and Article Directories

Generally search engines index forums so posting in forums and blogs is also a way to get quality backlinks with the anchor text you want. If the forum or blog is a respected one, a backlink is valuable. However, in some cases the forum or blog administrator can edit your post, or even delete it if it does not fit into the forum or blog policy. Also, sometimes administrators do not allow links in posts, unless they are relevant ones. In some rare cases (which are more an exception than a rule) the owner of a forum or a blog would have banned search engines from indexing it and in this case posting backlinks there is pointless.
While forum postings can be short and do not require much effort, submitting articles to directories can be more time-consuming because generally articles are longer than posts and need careful thinking while writing them. But it is also worth and it is not so difficult to do.

Content Exchange and Affiliate Programs

Content exchange and affiliate programs are similar to the previous method of getting quality backlinks. For instance, you can offer to interested sites RSS feeds for free. When the other site publishes your RSS feed, you will get a backlink to your site and potentially a lot of visitors, who will come to your site for more details about the headline and the abstract they read on the other site.
Affiliate programs are also good for getting more visitors (and buyers) and for building quality backlinks but they tend to be an expensive way because generally the affiliate commission is in the range of 10 to 30 %. But if you have an affiliate program anyway, why not use it to get some more quality backlinks?

News Announcements and Press Releases

Although this is hardly an everyday way to build backlinks, it is an approach that gives good results, if handled properly. There are many sites (for instance, here is a list of some of them) that publish for free or for a fee news announcements and press releases. A professionally written press release about an important event can bring you many, many visitors and the backlink from a respected site to yours is a good boost to your SEO efforts. The tricky part is that you cannot release press releases if there is nothing newsworthy. That is why we say that news announcements and press releases are not a commodity way to build backlinks.

Backlink Building Practices to Avoid

One of the practices that is to be avoided is link exchange. There are many programs, which offer to barter links. The principle is simple � you put a link to a site, they put a backlink to your site. There are a couple of important things to consider with link exchange programs. First, take care about the ratio between outbound and inbound links. If your outbound links are times your inbound, this is bad. Second (and more important) is the risk that your link exchange partners are link farms. If this is the case, you could even be banned from search engines, so it is too risky to indulge in link exchange programs.
Linking to suspicious places is something else that you must avoid. While it is true that search engines do not punish you if you have backlinks from such places because it is supposed that you have no control over what bad guys link to, if you enter a link exchange program with the so called bad neighbors and you link to them, this can be disastrous to your SEO efforts. For more details about bad neighbors, check the Bad Neighborhood article. Also, beware of getting tons of links in a short period of time because this still looks artificial and suspicious.

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Making Google Work For You

2007-11-03T02:29:00.000-07:00

When you think about search engines, likely the first name that springs to mind is Google. A popular and fast search engine, it has come to be relied upon by many as the first place they head when they want to search the billions of pages of information on the world wide web in order to find the specific information they need. If you have an online business that is represented by a online storefront, then you realize that procuring search engine optimization services can be the key to making Google work for you.

Search engine optimization services can improve both the number and quality of visitors that stop to peruse your website, and take some kind of action you wish of them. Internet marketing services encourage visitors to take action. This might be purchasing something, or downloading some type of information, or filling out some kind of action form. A good seo company can help improve your web business's conversion rate of number of visitors to your site versus the number of visitors who take the action you request.

Google, like most other major search engines, searches the Internet for key words that you have entered, and then they index the specific words and their locations, after which they allow you to search the index for the information you desire. Google was started at Stanford University and originally was used as an academic search engine. Google relies of web robots, called spiders, to search for the keyword you type in, and all pages that link to its initial search findings. Not only do the spiders have to work quickly, but delays must be minimized by having an optimized system for sending information to the spiders. To make this happen, Google utilizes its own domain name server to maximize speed.

Spiders used in Google look for keywords on a webpage and where those keywords are located on the page. The spiders start at the top of the page, moving to the bottom, and also start from left to right. This means that if your keywords are located at the top left side of the page the spider will get to it sooner than if it is located farther down the page. Knowing this, an SEO company can create content for your website so that your specific useful keywords relevant to your website appear in the most strategic places in the content, making it quicker and easier for the spiders to find them.

Optimization helps boost your website in the index listing that you see on your computer screen. Although several pages of index are available, many people confine their search to the first page, and even the top few results on the first page. SEO can help move your website further up the list, improving the chances that a visitor will stop at your site. Google also offers more refined searches, including local searches, product searches, web page translations so that foreign readers can understand your website's content and more that an SEO company can utilize to your advantage.

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Search Engine Optimizers... Beware!

2007-11-03T02:28:00.002-07:00

Search engine optimization is gaining immense popularity as an online marketing service. An increasing number of businesses are getting involved in it, lured by high revenues and maximised returns on investment.

Although the online marketplace is flooded with service providers in this field, very few actually know the dos and don'ts of this process. SEO can be a very rewarding investment for those venturing into web business promotion. However, the use of wrong techniques can get your site supplemented, blacklisted or even banned by search engines.

The following is a list of activities that should be avoided by optimizers in order to be successful with this process:
1) When creating meta tags, do not stuff them with keywords. Your keywords and phrases should be incorporated judiciously and in an acceptable manner. Meta tags should not be created just for the process of optimization; they should have some relevancy too.

2) Avoid the use of keywords in hidden text of your web pages. Even though these words will not be visible to the lay user, search engines do crawl them and index pages for better rankings. This technique is regarded unethical because this text matter usually is not pertinent to the page in question.

3) The keywords of your business should be effortlessly incorporated in the content of your web pages. Do not overdo their usage as the content then looks highly promotional in nature.

4) Link building is one of the main off-page services of search engine optimization. When you set out to link with other websites, avoid being linked to 'bad neighbourhoods' like link farms. You cannot stop any site from linking to you. But, you can regulate the quality of sites you reach out to. If you link your site to a link farm, there are chances that the search engines might ban you.

5) Do not get into link exchange with blacklisted or banned sites. By doing so, you stand the risk of being penalised or even blacklisted by a search engine network.

As an optimizer, you are solely responsible for the 'character' of your website. Even though not everything can be controlled or regulated at your end, you should always tread the acceptable path and do away with the lure of quick traffic or revenues.

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Importance of inbound and outbound links in SEO

2007-11-03T02:28:00.001-07:00

Just in cause you've forgotten, an outgoing contact is an url that you have on your website that points to another site. In nowadays Google PR obsessed Internet domain, everyone is all thinking on getting in limit links to your website. While you should ever be on a charge to have more sites to join to yours, you must non block their different opposites. Remember, by having outgoing links from your website, you are in heart "balloting" for the website you join to. This is air of the whole ranking algorithm activity for all the hunting engines. The mind is that if two sites are same in message and plan, a website with many links pointing to it would be taked more great by the hunting locomotive. So, why should you assist away any new website? Actually, by cautiously linking to new related sites, you are increasing the relevance of your personal website. Pretend I have a pizza store, and I am sited in Anywhere, UK. It's a true website that displays types of pizza, stock position, minutes, and coupons. I too know the might of outbound linking. For this example, I am getting to join to 10 sites: Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Ceaser’s & Papa Johns. Next, I join to 6 sites that are physically sited in Anywhere, UK. (And their natural addresses are named on their sites.).

Now, I will shift roles and consider the website as a hunt locomotive spider. I sail through the website, and take that this website is about pizza. Then I get an imagination page and name some known links (Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Ceaser’s & Papa Johns - and as the spider I know that these are better players in the domain of pizza. Next, I get 6 links to sites sited in Anywhere, UK.

So, as a content spider willing the website, I today know that the website I only visited is about pizza (website message and links to the better players of the pizza diligence), and that it is sited in Anywhere, UK.

Next, I see one of the 6 sites named as an imagination in Anywhere, UK. I get the topical destination, and it has the very nothing code as the pizza website I was but at. Now I know how these two sites are linked to each new.

Taking into history the fact that this topical pizza store has too tied to the better pizza chains, as the spider, I am take to think that this store has relevance to the nothing code of Anywhere, UK.

So, as the spider returns the data to the database to be worked in the algorithm, it has pre-sorted some hunting results founded on the links your website points to.

Another welfare of outbound linking is Geo Targeting, or Local hunting. There is a set of venture that topical hunting is the following important course in Search Marketing. While single second will say, it won't pain to have your personal destination named on your site for those who will be covering topical hunting.

As an experimentation, I created a website with a real single URL (to avert the opening of folk getting it by accident), and I made it but 1 page long. The single matter the page consisted of were 80+ outgoing links to related sites in the SEO manufacture, tools, forums and some tutorials. When the Page Rank was first updated for the website, it came out of the corner with a PR of 3. It has since fallen to a PR of 2 (today that I’ve placed a some sites to it.

The full end of this experimentation was to control how outgoing links touch your personal rankings of your website. I was competent to get a PR of 2 stationed only on linking to office sites in the SEO diligence. So, be the second to join to some related sites, the great names (if any), and love the might of the available, outbound contact.
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Search Engine Optimization As A Marketing Strategy

2007-11-03T02:26:00.001-07:00

SEO or search engine optimization is one of the most commonly used methods to increase the volume and the quality of the traffic to a website. Using relevant content, internal linking, and incoming links from outside the website, potentially any search engine can index a website for terms your company finds important so your website will appear in the natural search results of a search engine results page (SERP) and thus, is an important weapon for Internet marketing.

There are many criteria search engines use to rank websites, and not all search engines put the same weight on each criteria. Generally, the earlier the website’s domain has been active, the more likely that the page rank will be higher. Also, text links within the website using the keyword phrases you find important are also good tools to use. SEO can work in a number of different ways besides just showing up in search engine results. It can also be used to guide the writing and placement of your content, as search engines that find your content useful from their point of view has a better chance of being useful from the visitor’s point of view.

SEO can also stand for search engine optimizers, which refers to the people who work as consultants to perform search engine optimization. Search engine optimizers can work as a sole service provider as well as a part of a whole marketing team. SEO techniques can be a part of the designing and development of the website as sometimes, it may require some changes in the HTML codes of the website. Some of the basic components of SEO are web designs, menus, content management systems and shopping carts, because these can be optimized easily.

Top ranking of a website in more than one search engines does not mean more sales for the websites. The technique only works in conjunction with clearly defined goals for what visitors will do when they come to the site. In other words, your website must have a clear call to action. Therefore, a business that is mainly depended on search engine traffic can suffer a lot if there is not an accompanying website designed to engage the visitors upon arrival. As a part of Internet marketing strategy, SEO increases a site's traffic so your message gets out there. Your job is to also makes sure you have a clear message when the visitors find you.

Mark B. York is the CEO of Vertical Warfare, Inc. an Internet Marketing and Search Engine OptimizationCompany located on Long Island, N.Y.

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The Three Essentials of Search Engine Optimization SEO

2007-11-03T02:25:00.001-07:00

There are of course many factors that go into your online success; everything from lead generation to having the proper advertising system in place. However there is one element which you will find indispensable to your online success and that is web site search engine optimization commonly referred to as SEO.

SEO refers to the process of constructing your website in such a way that it is looked at favorably by search engines like MSN, The Google and Yahoo. This in turn leads to higher rankings, more internet traffic and free advertising for your website. What makes seo optimization so important is the fact that over 80% of your site traffic will arrive via the search engines. For this reason alone, having a good web site seo strategy in place is essential.

There are a variety of factors you need to consider when putting together your strategy but these three standout in particular:

1. Keyword Prominence

Where do your keyword search terms show up first? Usually the closer your keywords appear to the top of the page, the more prominence search engines give them. This is because they crawl the html code of your site before the content. Putting keyword search terms into places such as your title can give you a distinct advantage over other webmasters who only use keywords in their content. The trick is not to overdo it by stuffing too many keywords (or worst keyword search terms that have no relation to your web content) into the head tags of your html code.

2. Inbound Link

Back in the day, it was vital to get reciprocal links to your website. Search engines placed a lot of importance on who you were linking to and vice versa. Not anymore. Instead of link exchange, search engines are placing more value on inbound links commonly referred to as backlinks. In essence, search engines view this as a kind of referral system. One site is recommending another without having to reciprocate. To make backlinks really work, you must get them from sites which already rank well in the search engines. All of this does not mean reciprocal links are of no value. A quality link exchange is still looked upon favorably by the search engines and you should definitely use this technique for your website. But concentrate on getting those inbound links first and foremost.

3. Web Site Content

While search engines do value your keyword prominence and amount of backlinks to your site it still comes down to what's on your webpage. The internet is at the dawning of a video revolution but that only means more information will be required. Content is king and will be for a long time.

Write as many unique and quality articles as possible and place them on your website. If you want to, you can outsource this process or just visit the article directories and find content related to your niche and use it on your website. Be sure to read the term and conditions in regards to using other people's articles. Grow your web content slowly, so it looks more natural to the search engines. Update the information frequently.

The importance of web site search engine optimization cannot be overstated. A site that is ranked favorably can bring in tons of free internet traffic. Evaluate your keyword prominence; focus on getting good inbound links while concentrating on providing useful web site content and the search engines will start bringing more and more internet traffic to your website.

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Work at Home. Search Engine Optimisation SEO. Affiliate Schemes. Start a new career using the Intern

2007-11-03T02:19:00.000-07:00

If you want to start an internet business you need the building blocks. One of the first things you need to do is learn about Search Engine Optimization so you don’t go throwing your money away on Pay per Click campaigns. I know how hard it is to create a website, only that's just the beginning. Getting it optimized and doing what it's supposed to do, which is earning you money working at home is the hard part. If you want to work at home you are going to have to put in quite a lot of effort to start with. When you work at home think minimum overheads and maximum profit.

If a company guarantees you top ranking on any or all of the search engines in a matter of days, they are lying. The only way to achieve having your company on page 1 of any search engine within days is by running a pay per click campaign (PPC), those little ads you see on the top, bottom, left or right hand side of your browser search results, which is what these so called “Self Made Web Optimization Gurus” will do for you with Google and Yahoo using Your Money, and quite a lot of it too. On our “WORK AT HOME” page you can view a report of how Arun Agrawal of SEOtop10.com threw $2470 down the Google Adwords toilet conducting a PPC Campaign
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I don’t spend hundreds, and believe me when I say it could run into thousands of pounds on “SEO Gurus” who make such claims, nor Companies to achieve these results. It takes weeks and even months to achieve page 1 rankings in the Main Search Results if you are competing for very competitive keywords or phrases. The reputable SEO companies (and not so reputable ones) can charge you upwards of £200 per month to begin this process, and there are ongoing costs to do the tweaking so you get to the top and stay there.

I have the answers for you about SEO and can provide an immediate downloadable copy of SEO Techniques, or alternatively provide you with my personal web optimization support, both at a fraction of the cost of what you would normally pay most so called SEO Gurus or Companies. Visit our website. SEO, Internet Marketing, Web Site Promotion.

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15 FAQ'S on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

2007-11-02T00:29:00.000-07:00

1.What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)?
Search Engine Optimisation is the process of preparing a web site in order to achieve search engine rankings that drive traffic to your site. SEO is an ongoing process beginning with the initial optimisation of the site, monthly maintenance of the site, regular evaluation of search results and adjustments to the site.

2. What good is having a web site if it is not being seen?
90% of Internet buyers are turning to search engines to find the products they want. Google alone conducts over 150 million searches a day. In fact, recent studies show that purchasers are about 12 times more likely to buy your products or services after finding your site through a search engine than all other traditional advertising methods combined (including trade shows, print ads, direct mail, radio, and even television)... at a fraction of the cost! Why? Simply put, when a consumer finds you through a search engine they are ready to buy. With traditional forms of media, you are broadcasting a message hoping to reach the right consumer at the right time.

As searchers generally only explore the first two pages in the search results, achieving high rankings on the search engines will make an enormous difference in the amount of visitor traffic your site receives.

3. Why doesn't my web site rank very well in the search engines?
Having your web site rank high in the search engines is a science and the rules for search engine optimisation (SEO) are always changing.

Here are some reasons why you may be having poor ranking:

Incorrect usage of the TITLE tag or no TITLE tag content.
Too many occurrences of the same word in a page (spamming).
Missing H1 and H2 heading tag content.
Missing ALT tag content in your graphic links.
No meaningful content in the first 250 characters on each page.
Less than 200 words per page.
Very few pages on your website.
No links from other web sites to your web site (link popularity).

4. How does the Search Engine find websites?
There are two ways a search engine can find a website to add to its database. The first and most direct method is to accept submissions from web site designers and optimisers. Most search engines have a "submit your URL" section inviting submissions from Internet users.

The second, and least obvious method of finding websites is to send a "spider" to follow each and every link on, off, and through a website. New URLs encountered by the spider will be added to the database. In this way, some search engines will grow very rapidly.

5. How long does it take for SEO results to kick in?
The amount of time required to see results of search engine optimisation work range anywhere from 2 weeks to a few months. This is dependent on how often search engines update their index and subsequently re-rank sites. The Google Dance for example is almost a spectator sport among the SEO community.

6. What is my site ranking dependent on?
Site ranking tends to be "cumulative" and is dependent on the following factors:

The specific keyword phrases (search terms) that have been targeted
The overall competitiveness of your industry - how many players are there
Whether you are targeting a regional, national, or international market
How well ranking is monitored and the site tweaked over time for SEO improvement
The progress of your inbound linking campaign
Number of competitor sites achieving new ranking themselves.

7. Why might I need to have extra elements added to my website?
A search engine spider is an automated program that electronically probes every URL submitted to its database. As the spider is a computer program, it is designed to look for and rank very specific items on each page it probes. If those elements are present, the spider computes a higher ranking than it would if those elements were not present.

8. If these elements are so important, why didn't they get added when my site was originally designed?
Most website designers haven't learned the importance of search engine friendly design. In almost every case we've encountered, the site designer is a highly skilled and creative person whose job is to put your ideas on the web. More often than not, the designers have not received any training in search engine optimisation and don't think about it while pursuing a cool looking design.

Search engines are also constantly changing their ranking criteria. They do this to prevent gross manipulation of their search tools. Often, website designers are not fully up to date with changes at search engines.

9. Does every page of my website really need to be optimised?
In a word - yes. Every page of a website can be a potential entry point or 'landing page' for visitors. You can't predict which page or pages will be ranked the best for specific keywords. As such, each page must be individually optimised too for optimal ranking. Collectively, all pages of your web site reinforce the common "theme" of the site, which also can help boost ranking. Don't assume that your home page is the only important page on your site.

10. Isn't This Something We Can Do Ourselves?
Large amounts of time, attention and expertise are needed to achieve the desired results in such a constantly changing niche industry. The expense of adding personnel and necessary resources alone would quickly outweigh the cost of hiring our company, which is why outsourcing SEO is by far the most popular method. Remember, an SEO company has already established strong, ongoing relationships with all the top search engines, and has experienced professionals who are constantly researching the changes and trends in this dynamic field.

11. Can you guarantee a number #1 position in the search engines?
Nobody can guarantee a number #1 position or specific ranking for your site for a given keyword phrase in the organic search engine results. There are simply too many factors beyond anyone's control - the search engines changing their ranking algorithms, efforts made by competitors, and new sites being added to the Web.

Obtaining a specific ranking is analogous to managing a portfolio. Your financial advisor will do their best to monitor the stock market and other indicators and to make sure your portfolio is managed to the best of their abilities. However, your advisor cannot guarantee that your portfolio will be at a specific value or even that the amount will be up at all by a given date.

12. It's been several months and my website finally shows up in Google but it's ranked in the hundreds. Why is that?
It's not always easy to get better search engine rankings. In fact, search engine optimisation is part science and part art. Search engines continually change their algorithms and tweak their rules for ranking. It is possible that Google does not fully read your page due to structural issues, your web site (or at least individual web pages) could be lacking in meaningful content, no significant web sites link to you, your web site is too small to be of any value to people searching for your topic, or any other range of problems.

Search engines may be flooded with web sites on a given topic, making it more difficult to achieve higher rankings. As such, a good search engine optimiser will look for a niche to exploit. For example, consider whether your web site has greater appeal to a local, national, or international region.

13. My web site did not get accepted last time I submitted to the search engines... why?
Search Engine listings are not guaranteed to everyone who posts a web site to the Internet. Search engines are for-profit businesses and have the right to refuse to list any site for virtually any reason. We ensure all bases are covered and all necessary elements are present before submitting the finalised site to the search engines or directories.

14. Why Should I Choose to Outsource SEO?
To achieve a high ranking web site, you have to know exactly the most effective META tag design formula, best web copy writing techniques, keep track of current search engine ranking algorithms, know what format to submit the site in to every engine and how often to resubmit the site. You also need to know whether your site is technically compatible with search engine robots, what types of pages the engines will accept and which will be barriers to ranking, plus what sort of overall "relevancy score" your site will receive from each engine you submit to.

Not only that, but once you're ranking highly, you have to monitor your progress and adjust your tags every now and then to ensure you stay up above your competitors on all engines for your major search phrases. These are all crucial steps to a high ranking, but very time consuming and not your core business!

15. How Do You Choose the Best Keywords?
The first step in our SEO campaign is to develop your Keyword Profile. Based on your initial input, we will use a combination of experience and software programs to generate a list of the most effective and well-searched keywords in your industry. We then work together to refine this list and compile the list of keywords and phrases that will be most beneficial to your product or services. You know your business and we know ours. We know how important it is to work together to generate the most effective Keyword Profile possible.

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Latent Semantic Indexing In SEO

2007-11-02T00:26:00.000-07:00

Indexing has changed as search algorithms have evolved. At present if you enter a search query into Google search and the websites displayed are somewhat optimized to an exact word or phrase. As a continual effort to "improve"(?) search Google has employed a form of "latent" semantics into their indexing algorithm - and it's called LSI.

What is LSI? It's another form of indexing that supposedly moves Google search closer to human search parameters. It will assist in finding websites that are based on the theme of the site instead of whether or not the exact word or phrase is repeated on the page.

Search engines may further adopt Latent Semantic Indexing to prevent a rigid response that values keyword-loading as opposed to assessing meaningful content.

LSI seems to have had some effect. Some websites that had impressive links based on a keyword have seen their pages drop in the rankings. Other pages with more variance in their inbound links have moved up in the ranks.

SEO must respond to LSI with better content and quality inbound links. SEO can no longer depend on keyword density and placement or link-farming.

Content For LSI is better if naturally written and worded. LSI supposedly moves closer to assaying "natural instinct" of the writer of content. Using different tenses, plural and singular forms, as well as synonyms may well be rewarded.

Your link profile should no longer needs thousands of links with the same anchor text. Now you can look for relevant and similar terms and improve your link profile by gaining links using these as your anchor text.
What this offers searchers? LSI offers some advantages over earlier form of indexing. In example, LSI will recognize that the word "pickle" in "dill pickle" is not related to searches for terms like "metallic pickle process" and is instead related to food. LSI will supposedly give more accurate results as well as a broader range of pages on a particular topic.

Google has been pushing many changes in search engine function and latent semantic indexing is one of the latest. Yahoo and MSN may adopt LSI over time. This effects your website's success in SEO. With natural content including keywords and keyword alternatives, and a link profile that is diversified for a number of related keywords then your rank may begin to improve.

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The Absolute basics of SEO

2007-11-02T00:24:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization is the process of maximizing the ranking of you site in search engine listings. The most important factors to consider to achieve a high ranking are: the keywords you use, your title, your description, the text of your site, and the links others provide to your site.

To begin selecting keywords, consider what words and phrases the people you are trying to reach will be searching on. When placing keywords in your keyword tag, it is best to use phases rather than single words. Almost all single words are in very widespread use, thus will not tend to produce high rankings. Keyword phrases can be better tailored to your business. Also, since phrase searches produce fewer results, people are more likely to search on them. It is also a good idea to produce a list of keyword phrases for every page of your site. If you must include difficult to spell words, it is a good idea to include some common misspellings of these words as well.

The title is just as important, if not more important, than your keywords. Most search engines place the highest level of importance on the words found in the title when calculating the ranking. You should place your most important keyword phrases first in your title, as some search engines limit the number of characters you can use. Make your title a readable sentence, as this is the first text that will appear for your listing on the results page. One thing you should avoid doing is simply listing keywords. This could be regarded by the search engine as keyword spamming, and may lower your search ranking, or even get your listing removed from the site. As with keywords, it is a good idea to give each page a unique title.

In your description you should once again make use of your best keyword phrases. In this case, you can use more of them, since search engines will give you typically around 1024 characters for the description, while they will give you only around 50 to 80 for the title. Again, place your keywords as close to the beginning of your description as makes sense.

In the text of your site you should make use of, yes, you've guessed it, your keyword phrases. Also include any text you have used in other tags, such as meta tags, alt tags, and headings. Having a lot of content helps as well. A minimum of 200 words per page is recommended. Having many pages of content also increases your rankings.

Having many other sites link to you is another good way to increase your search rankings. Both the links themselves and the increase traffic which results will help. Also, having bloggers link to your site is a good idea.

Although these practices will boost your rankings, there are certain design elements that can interfere with your search rankings. These include frames, dynamic URLs, Flash, using image maps for navigation, and using javascripts for navigation. Also, there are certain practices that search engines regard as spamming, and these practices will get you permanently removed from the site. These include using keywords in your meta tags that do not relate to the content of your page, using multiple instances of the same tag, and listing keywords in the text of your site.

This is just the briefest introduction to search engine optimization. One book available on this topic is Search Engine Visibility, by Shari Thurow. Software packages that can assist you with SEO tasks include Bruce Clay's SEOToolSET and Web CEO's Web CEO. If you prefer to have someone else do your SEO for you, Marinerblue is ready to help you for free with your .ws domain.

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About SEO for 2007

2007-11-02T00:23:00.000-07:00

When Google is buying into radio and television advertising that should tell you something about SEO generally, and in particular for organizations who are not web-only entities.

Mass marketing advertisers would have used various strategies for spending on ads - including telephone directory, radio or television, newspaper, magazine, billboards, etc. Each of these media provides some form of statistics showing their effectiveness.

In a multi-format approach to advertising and marketing each company will have to analyze the effectiveness of dollars spent in each medium, OR combinations of those media. The idea that groups of these media will band together to offer competitve prices versus Google is a given. Whether any of these multimedia ad groups, some combining with Google or other search engines, can offer more bang for the buck than a first year marketing student can put together is a major question.

Major Ad and Marketing firms know how to squeeze a buck, if necessary, but their advice is not usually free. Google was able to grab resources allocated for print this past year when they dabbled in print ads campaigns. Effective or just making their presence known?

News organizations have been losing ads on and off for years as each new medium was invented, then perfected, then improved. National and International organizations can expect more multimedia prepackaging offers. Congressional investigations of PPC schemes and various lawsuits make it mandatory for ads buyers to keep it cheap and keep it flexible when they plan spending. They will have to read their own stats sheets, not Google's, newspapers, or anybody else's.

Google will the most prominent example for 2007 of a techie overselling their services and their stock prices. The message should be clear by now - only the truly legit tech corps survive. In my opinion, any corp that isn't user-friendly is dead meat before the wave is over, no matter how many investors they have hypnotized.

As Google focuses on quick profits an maintaining dominance - they make themselves a big and stupid target for corps like Yahoo and the newer breed of search engines that focus on getting it RIGHT.

While Google is trying to push you into all it's favorite traps they lose friends, create enemies, and have to lean heavier on their imagined mystique with their investors.

Video, voip, internet voicemail will all become a standard component of online communication. Video particularly will revolutionize news and movies online.
Yahoo Publisher Network, YouTube, Flickr and distributed podcasts will only partially replace professionally developed network broadcasts, except in the niche and nonprofessional areas.

SEO will be forced to adopt billing that is based on the success of a campaign as opposed to flat fees charged up front or on a monthly basis.

Microsoft Vista users will hopefully get a Patch in 2007 but they may need a new computer before then, and maybe a bigger one to hold the big Patch.

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Internet Traffic and SEO Techniques

2007-11-02T00:14:00.000-07:00

You might be wandering the reasons your web site is not getting much internet traffic. After all your web site took lots of financial and human resources, but unfortunately like so many web sites, it is quite unknown and as a result it does not get enough internet traffic to make it financially viable.

Did you know that about 80 percent of all web site traffic originates from search engines? Yes, it is true! Listing near the top page of search engines and obtaining the attention of your target audience should be a main priority for any web site internet promotion.

And the good news about this is that improving a web site position in search engine pages may be done for free. How? Using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.

There are many ways to promote a web site. Some promotions are paid and some are free. Among the free ones, the search engine optimization techniques enable web sites to become search engine friendly. In other words, it makes website pages to accept the search engine crawler in a friendly way. These techniques will be some of the steps one will have to use to obtain a better position in search engine's pages, when searching for specific keywords, related to services or products offered by a web site.

Search engine optimization steps for a web page:

Title:

The html Title tag is a very important element and must include the most important keywords or phrases, which best represent the products or services offered by the web page. It should not contain more than 60 characters.

Keywords:

The html meta Keyword tag should have all the keyword phrases which best represents the products or services offered by the web page. Avoid repeating keywords and bad use of capital letters. It should not contain more than 250 characters.

Description:

The html meta Description tag is a description of the web page, which will be displayed by the search engine. Make sure it contains keywords phrases. Avoid repeating keywords and bad use of capital letters. It should not contain more than 200 characters.

Keywords in Headings:

Keywords in Headings tags (h1) will be interpreted by search engines as being an important keyword relevant to the web page, and it should be looked for and indexed by the search engines.

Web page text:

It is a good practice to include informative text one every page, using natural language and appropriate keywords. It should contain more than 200 words. Informative text should be placed in the html Body section of the web page.

Keywords in Alt Tags:

Every html picture "img" tag should contain an ALT tag with an appropriate description. Keywords should always be used when appropriate.

Keywords in Anchor Tags:

Every html hypertext link "a href " should contain a TITLE tag with an appropriate description. Keywords should always be used when appropriate.

Robots.txt file:

Make sure there is a robots.txt file in you web site directory. This is a text file created by the webmaster, which will guide the search engine´s crawler when indexing a web site.

There are some cases in which one might not want to have some web pages indexed. This way thru the use of robots.txt, one will have control over which pages will be indexed and made available to the search engines.

User-agent: +
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /data/

HTML code validation:

Search engine's crawlers become more efficient when indexing web pages with no html errors. Beware that some html errors can make search engine crawlers to give up indexing web pages. So it is recommended for those web pages to be indexed, there should be no html errors.

Links:

Links are very important to search engines. The quality of links and whether it is reciprocal or not, are important factors in evaluating the importance of a web page. Links from web sites with higher page ranks are a plus.

Registering with Directories and Search Engines:

It is very important the registration of a website with directories and search engine web sites. It is a way of telling the world that your web site exists. Avoid using automatic search engine/directory registration.

Search engine optimization has become a very important set of procedures which helps web sites to become more relevant to search engines. To obtain an increase in internet traffic will take some time. It probably will take some kind of additional promotion too. But anybody in need of higher internet traffic, free search engine optimization might be considered his first option.

Roberto Sedycias
IT Consultant

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Benefits of Articles Submission in SEO

2007-11-02T00:11:00.000-07:00

Article submission is a great resource for increasing traffic to your website and also getting one way links back to your site. There are a lot of article directories on the web that accept articles for a variety of categories. It is important however, to pick a category that directly relates to the content of your website. This is an effective marketing method referred to as targeting visitors to your web site.

It is also important to understand when submitting your articles, that a massive amount of articles are submitted to popular article sites and directories. For this reason, only some of the articles that are submitted actually generate a significant amount of traffic to their respective websites. The most important question to ask yourself is: what unique information can I provide that will be of the most value to my readers?

Here are some additional important things to consider before you begin your article-submission endeavors in order attract readers to your articles and ultimately get a large amount of traffic to your website:

1) Provide valuable content! Always be asking yourself, would I want to read this? Then take it one step further and ask yourself: after reading this article, would I feel enlightened in such a way that I would be motivated to do something that I would not otherwise have known how to do? By answering this question, you are evaluating what is referred to as your "call to action". Good writing influences the reader's behavior.

2) Your article's content should not be too long, so keep it short. If you have large article content, then try to split them into two or more separate articles.

3) Try to keep your article title short as well, and make sure it is directly related to the contents of the article.

4) Make sure to keep your article title very close to the main keywords of your website as well. As per my experience, keep article titles short and close to the keywords of your website, Google will place far more value to the article's contents in comparison to your competitor's websites with the same keywords as you.

For example: If you had a web site related to hemorrhoids diseases and we wanted to write an article for this site, then if we put our article title "Hemorrhoids" or any other relevant keywords, then Google wiil give more value to our articles as well as our website in comparison to other related web sites, whose articles consist of vague, meaningless titles.

5) As most article directories do not accept articles with URLs or hyperlinks in the article contents, be sure to not violate this rule or your article will usually not be considered. They do however usually allow you to include your company name and web address in the "about the author" section that is included with each article submission.

So then what is the advantage of article submission for the SEO work of your website?

1) Great sources of getting one way link.
2) Generate interest in the content of your website so as to attract new, unique visitors.
3) Best alternative to link exchange and link exchange networks.
4) Save time in getting back-links to your website instead of directory submission and link exchanging.
5) Some article submission and PR web sites allow people to subscribe to specific categories related to their web site as RSS feeds. If a website subscribes to the RSS feed for the category that you have submitted your article to, your article and back link will not only show up on the website that you have submitted to, it will also automatically appear on all of the websites that subscribe to the RSS feed of that category. However, only articles that have unique and informative content are chosen to be included in these RSS feeds, so make sure to follow the directions we have provided for you here.

About the Author

Vision Media Corporation is a Las Vegas & Nevada based marketing, software, design, and business development firm specializing in new approaches to information technology and it's relationship to marketing strategies and business models. For more information regarding search engine optimization, as well as the SEO services offered by Vision Media Corporation, browse to our site: Las Vegas Website Design & Internet Marketing Services

How To Get Quality Back Links To Your Website

2007-11-01T02:11:00.000-07:00

Today we will discuss how to get quality back links to your website. Back links are links to your website from other websites. Quality back links are links that are placed on websites that are relevant to your websites content.

For example: if you have a website that sells internet marketing services, you want to find websites that have the same type of content on their websites to place your website link on. Sites like internet marketing services, web design services, email marketing services, pay per click services, and affiliate marketing services will have content that Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the other major search engines see a relevant to your sites content.

Back links are important and count as votes of website quality. It use to be that quantity was more important than quality. But now quality is the key factor. It is better to have 10 quality back links that are targeted to your industry than 1,000 back links to uncommon topics.

It is better to get your back link placed on the first or second page of a website than hundreds of pages in. Make sure that you can get to the page your link is going to be on from the home page of the website. If you can't get there, than the search engines probably can't get there.

There are 2 types of back link placement, free and paid placement. Free placement can be done several different ways. You can submit your website to directories under the category of your website. Many will request that you place a reciprocal link on your site for the free placement of your link on theirs. Write articles about your expertise in the industry in which you have knowledge. This article is targeting internet marketing and back links. The link at the bottom of this article along with the article content will be placed on sites that need quality content on their websites. Most article directories are free to submit to. You can do research to find sites that are relevant to yours and write an email explaining the benefits of exchanging links with them It's a lot of work but can be beneficial if you can get some decent link exchanges.

When you don't have a lot of time to do manual link placement work, you may choose to look at purchasing text links for your site. If you plan on doing this you will want to do your research on the sites history using Alexa, Google, and other free website tools.

Many websites want to charge a monthly fee for this. Make an offer; don't settle for what they are asking for. If they want to place you on one page or every page of the website, that can change the cost and value of the link. See if you can get a deal for the entire year, it may be much cheaper than paying for the link each month. The benefit of getting on every page is that you may get more than back link credit; many times you will get extra traffic from the site itself.

Using the right information in the back link is very important. You want to use the description you're using to place in the search engines with. When the search engines crawl the back link, they will come to your site and see that the information matches up and will give your site more relevance in the engines.

Remember that building quality back links takes time. You must continue to build back links to your site if you want to make it to first place in the engines.

http://www.1articleworld.com/Article/How-To-Get-Quality-Back-Links-To-Your-Website/149339

Link Building And Places To Submit Your Links

2007-11-01T02:10:00.000-07:00

Search engines are a great way to get people to your site. The problem is no matter what you sell, search engine rankings for your keywords are most likely competitive. What makes it worse is, people usually don't bother looking for listings beyond the first few pages of the search results. The good news is, on the Internet a small company can effectively compete with companies that are willing to spend thousands of dollars for search engine optimization.

This is what makes it fun. When it comes to competing for keyword position in the major search engines you can stomp large companies in the ground. You will not be able to do it for all keywords, but you will be able to beat them consistently for many keywords. That is if you have a well thought out, persistent linking campaign.

Used effectively, link building can be one of the single best techniques you can use for getting your web site listed in the first few pages of a keyword search. Link quantity and quality are an important element of every search engine's ranking algorithms. If your site doesn't have links, it will not rank well for competitive keywords.

Places to submit your link.

Link Directories

There are hundreds of free link directories where you can submit your link. Search Google for, "link directory". Submit your site to a few new link directories every day. You will soon get link requests from members of these directories. Be picky, only exchange links with sites that are in some way related to, but do not compete with your site.

Article Directories

Good articles will bring one way, related links to your site. Write articles which are related to the subject of your site and submit them to free article directories. At the bottom of each article you can put a link back to your site. Don't just link to your home page, link to pages deep within your site. If your articles are worth reading, there is a good chance that web masters looking for content will use them on their site. There are no better links than one way links that point to pages deep within your site.

Blogs

Search for sites with blogs that relate to your site. If your site is about gardening search Google for, "blog gardening". This will pull up gardenings sites with blogs where you can leave your comments and a link to your site under your name. It is important that your blog comments are genuine and not spam.

Forums

Search for forums with the same niche as your site. Leave your link in forums signature. Again, it is important that your comments are genuine and not spam.

Web Directories

There are thousands of free web directories where you can submit your link. Always submit your site to the major search engines like Google and Yahoo by hand. This means going to their site and filling out the information they ask of you. Doing this to all the thousands of web directories is not possible. I recommend using an automated submission program like AddWeb.

Press Releases

Write press releases about your site and submit them to press release distribution services. Search Google for, "press release distribution service".

Social Networking

Social network services like MySpace and Facebook provide ways for people with the same interests to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, file sharing and blogging. Search engines and people love social networking sites, participate in them and leave a link to your site under your name.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way for people to remember, organize and share bookmarks of web pages and see what others have bookmarked. As people bookmark sites, sites that are of more use are bookmarked by more users. Thus, sites are ranked based on their usefulness.

Links are one of the most important ways for visitors to find your site. It's all about getting people to your web site. With persistent link building the search engines can find your site faster and will rank you higher on their search results.

http://www.1articleworld.com/Article/Link-Building-And-Places-To-Submit-Your-Links/150785

Linking Strategies for Website Traffic

2007-11-01T02:09:00.000-07:00

Linking Strategies - It's a fact that inbound links contribute heavily to your site's ranking in the search engine and that some links are worth way more than others. Here are seven of the best linking strategies to pursue.

Technorati tags - Add a widget to your blog that automatically creates Technorati tags for your posts. That means that you automatically get high-quality links to every blog post you make. Plus, this link strategy gives you one-way links that are relevant, on-topic, and keyword rich.

Social bookmarking - Add a widget to your blog and your website pages that allows users to easily bookmark your content at any of the wildly popular social bookmarking sites. AddThis is a great free tool that accomplishes this linking strategy while using minimal site real estate.

Directory submissions - Use a low-cost overseas service to submit your site to 1,000 SEO friendly directories. Directory Maximizer will submit five variations of your site title and description for $0.14 per directory. That's money well spent because it leaves you free to focus on content creation while gaining 1,000 one-way links.

RSS feeds - Submit your blog to all the popular feed directories. Be sure to include easy to spot RSS feed buttons on your blog so you can quickly add subscribers. You can also create an RSS feed for your website that creates traffic to your newest pages. This linking strategy gets high-quality links with keyword anchor text.

Forum posts - Search for and signup in forums related to your niche. Post helpful answers to questions and topics of interest. Add a signature file to your profile in any forum where you post to create keyword rich anchor text links back to your site from each post.

Blog comments - Comment blogs on topics related to your site. Be sure to include a link back to your site. If the comment allows a link to the username field, then pick a username that is keyword rich.

Automated tools - There are several high-quality tools which will automate many of these linking strategies. Information about them is below.

Tip: Get links to interior pages of your site, not just the home page.

Do yourself a favor: Signup for your free website traffic membership at www.hitsusa.com and get your hands on some really advanced Linking Strategies!

http://www.1articleworld.com/Article/Linking-Strategies-for-Website-Traffic/151316

Avoid Having Your Site Red Flagged

2007-11-01T02:08:00.000-07:00

It sounds like the simplest thing in the world. Just find someone with a site that has content similar to your own and strike a deal, "You place a link to me on your web site and I'll place a link to you on mine." There was a time when this could be an effective way to generate traffic to your site as well as improve your search engine ranking. But for the most part, those times are gone.

Unscrupulous web masters figured out how to abuse the system by creating link farms and other schemes with absolutely no benefit for the site visitors, and search engines got smart and put an end to the whole thing. So can't we benefit from reciprocal links anymore? Sure we can, but with a few caveats. This article will explore how safe linking practices can still help your site gain traffic, and do better in the search engine results pages.

So as you may have already guessed, search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are skeptical about two-way links. Due in a large extent to manipulation of the system, these search engines have programmed their bots to penalize sites for unethical linking practices, even if there is only the suspicion of wrong doing.

Where at one time a site looked popular if it was linked to by many sites, now that is a red flag. The search bots actually follow the links these days, and evaluate whether or not the content on both ends of the links is related. If it is related, everything might be fine. If it isn't related, or the bots aren't able to see the relationship, your search engine placements might be effected.

Basically, if anything you're doing even looks the least bit like you're trying to manipulate your search engine placements, you're likely to get dinged. So do you have to worry that a site links to you if they aren't based on a related topic? Technically that shouldn't be a problem; usually only the site placing the link will be penalized for an irrelevant link. Otherwise, it would open the door to a whole realm of sabotaging other sites by linking to them.

So if you want to avoid the famous "Google Slap" where you get knocked off the top of the search engine placements for what Google interperets as foul play, what is a safe linking practice? The answer is simple, "think naturally." Set up linking arrangements that appear natural and ask yourself, "Would I place this link if the search engines weren't a factor?"

Chances are, if you're only linking to improve your placement then you could be asking for trouble. But if the link is there to truly serve your site visitors, then go for it.

http://www.1articleworld.com/Article/Avoid-Having-Your-Site-Red-Flagged/152702

Inbound Link Building Strategy

2007-11-01T02:05:00.000-07:00

Your success on the internet is directly related to how many other sites are linking back to yours. The goal of every webmaster is to get more inbound links. I have listed three simple steps below to automate and multiply the process. Once the process is started you will be getting inbound links while you sleep.

Number One:

Write Articles. It is hard work to write a quality article but you will find it to be a long term strategy for building inbound links that will pay off for years to come in both link popularity and traffic to your website. You may not consider yourself an expert on a particular subject, but if you have a website I'll bet you are an expert on the subject you have chosen for that website. Write an article on the theme of your website and submit it to the various article directories on the internet. Believe it or not, you are an expert. You just haven't realize it yet.

You may experience a feeding frenzy on your article. Why? Simply because webmasters are constantly looking for content. Webmasters are busy designing sites and are able to save time by using expert content from other people. They often create websites with thousands of pages and are in need of content for those sites. And they know where the directories are that will contain your article. Every time your article is picked up by a webmaster, it will result in a link back to your site. In the first few days after I submitted my first article it got pick up and posted 400 times! I was shocked. You will be too!

Number Two:

Signup at a link exchange coop. A link exchange coop can give you more backlinks in a few minutes work than you could ever generate by yourself. You are utilizing a network of thousands of other websites. And thats what the internet is, a huge network. Take advantage of the power of networking. There are many link exchanges. One well known link exchange coop is: . Depending on the size and pagerank of your site, you could earn 1000 inbound links or more my adding a few lines of code to your website. Do some research and find the one that will bring the greatest benefit to your site.

Number Three:

Automate the reciprocal linking process by utilizing reciprocal linking software. Do not spend hours upon hours emailing webmasters and posting reciprocal links to your site. Simple buy a reciprocal link script, set it up at your website and it will process the links, add them to your website and then it will monitor to make sure each webmaster has posted your link to his/her website. This will free up your time to do something more important like writing articles. To find inexpensive software to automate the reciprocal linking process, simply go to eBay and type in the search phrase "reciprocal linking popularity software".

Rather than doing things the same old way, try these three steps. They will save you countless hours. By using these time savers you will be much more efficient in getting backlinks and you will also get hundreds, maybe even thousands more than you ever thought possible.

http://www.1articleworld.com/Article/Inbound-Link-Building-Strategy/155927

Importance and techniques of on page optimization

2007-10-31T00:28:00.000-07:00

SEO is divided into on page optimization and off page optimization. On page is which can be done to website itself and off page is which is done away from the website. Creation of right title for a webpage is classified as on page optimization. On the other hand creation of inbound links and their anchor text is termed as off page optimization.

On page optimization is one of the forms of search engine optimization. This acts as the vital requirement which is necessary to improve website rankings in major search engines like Google, yahoo and msn. In this process the elements of website are designed in this way that website is able to qualify for high search engine ranking on the basis of certain specific keywords. These are the basics which are often ignored by webmaster. They try to spend most of their time getting links to their site. If you want to make a successful online web presence, on page optimization is must. In on page optimization you need to have keyword in title tag and should also appear few times on the page.

Your website is focused on a theme, service or product. You need to select a unique keyword for it and this is the keyword on the main index page. Rest is secondary keywords associated with the main keyword. So there should be separate pages for secondary and associating keywords.

Your web page title tag must contain the keyword. It should be that word which you are targeting on a specific page. Do not use irrelevant words or website name in your keywords.

Make two sitemaps for your website. One site map is for a visitor that is in html format and other is for search engine which is in xml form.

Put quality content in all the pages of website and interlink on those pages on the basis of keywords used in the content.

Put emphasis on the keyword density. Keyword need to be there related with the product, services or the theme of the web page. Only on the basis of these the users are able to search for it in the search engines. Make sure keyword should used for a selected number of times so that keyword stuffing does not occur. So recommended keyword density is 5%.

Ensure your target keywords are used in h1 tag and displayed as strong italic and bold text wherever required. Make a practice to use the keyword in your opening paragraph at least once or twice and near to the bottom of page.

Every page of the website must have two Meta tags in the head section and other for your web page description and other for your web page main and secondary keywords.

Do not build a website with many pages in a short time, the search engines see the steady growth of website with the content and the number of pages they search for. Focus on providing the visitors the relevant information which they require.

Every image on the website must have an associated alt tag that must describe the image and include the content part.

Put emphasis on the inbound links.

Thus on page optimization factors are the base for search engine optimization for a website and which can not be ignored.

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Little SEO Secret about Headlines

2007-10-31T00:27:00.000-07:00

Folks are concentrating so much on using keywords and keyword phrases that they have forgotten something much more important and without which keywords can be virtually useless.

Lets illustrate this with a common scenario that we all go through fairly frequently. You enter a keyword phrase at your favorite search engine and the first page of the results comes through. What do you do next? Do you go to the first site listed or do you scroll down the listed sites. Most people do the latter, but what would they be looking for? The answer is simple, the headline or article title that looks the most relevant to what they are looking for.

Now let us assume that the site that comes up right at the top, at number one has a boring uninspiring headline and the site that is number 10 at the very bottom of the first page has a hot enticing title. What will happen? But of course No 10 will end up getting all the traffic while number one will be starved of hits. That is how important headlines are. So without a good headline all the good SEO work that you put in will not yield the expected results, even if you do end up right at the top of results for popular keyword searches.

Why SEO Will Hardly Work Without Powerful Headlines
In fact, SEO will hardly work without excellent headlines and titles to your articles. One of the key aspects about SEO is the accumulation of back links pointing to your site. Search engines favor this happening in a natural way rather than you having to purchase links. For this to happen, your article on the web page will need to get very high traffic so that when a fraction of these visitors link to your article, you will quickly end up with thousands or even tens of thousands of links pointing to your site.

To attract this traffic, a key component of your content will be the headline. Many stories have been told about headlines making the difference between a few hundred copies of a supermarket tabloid sold and a couple of millions. Online headlines are even more critical because many times it is all that somebody sees before they make a decision on whether or not to click on a link that will lead to you and your article.

Why Good Headlines Without Keywords Still Work
Many times webmasters have been greatly hindered in their work of creating suitable article titles by the need to use exact keyword phrases. The result has been awkward headlines that hardly inspire readership. Yet those who have realized that it is possible to leave out a keyword phrase from your headline or to modify it slightly and still succeed in SEO have greatly benefited.

The truth is that while it is true that your keyword phrase as early as possible in a headline will help a great deal in terms of SEO, it is in fact not the only consideration that leading search engines take into account when deciding how your site will be ranked in search engine results. More important are the number of relevant back links pointing to your site. This means that an excellent headline that will attract readership and ultimately back links to a site is much more important than a poor headline with the exact keyword phrase slotted in at the beginning of the headline.

What Is A Good Headline?
A good article title or headline has to be relevant to start with. Never forget that headlines are supposed to flag down your target readership and not everybody. This is perhaps the most common mistake people make when creating headlines. And this is where the webmaster thinks to create a headline that has as general an appeal as possible. Actually a headline that seeks to attract everybody quite often ends up attracting nobody.

Excellent Headlines Are the Fuel That Will Drive Your SEO Campaign
Always remember that without good targeted headlines your SEO effort will most probably come to nothing. It is therefore a good investment to spend your time studying the art of creating good headlines for your SEO content.

http://www.articlefair.com/Article/Little-SEO-Secret-about-Headlines/40289

SEO Services are necessary for online website requirements

2007-10-30T02:05:00.000-07:00

Your website is a vital part of your business plan. It provides the first online view of your business to the visitors. It becomes essential to update it regularly so that visitors keep on revisiting your website and doing business with you. This has created the need of websites to be designed according to the basic SEO Guidelines. So the growing number of companies nowadays are designing and developing websites according to the SEO guidelines described by Google and other major search engines. Without SEO Services it’s sure that you are missing important web promotion aspects existing in the present scenario of online marketing.

Nowadays SEO stream is catching the attention of everyone on the web so more people are keen to learn about SEO. If your business has an online presence but does not have high ranking then in major search engines then it seems like lost in the crowd. As majority of traffic comes from search engines, SEO services are required to make your websites search engine friendly and place them in the top of rankings. So Online industry is catching the attention of all, it has become essential for businesses to create their online identities. There are million of Internet users which indicates that huge amount of information is being done on the internet. You need an expert to find the right kind of information for you.

SEO provides the services of on page optimization, one way link building, directory submissions, article submissions, content writing and press release etc. These are termed as organic aspects of SEO and you can expect search engine rankings. The main aim is to get higher site traffic, more visibility over competitors, and increase in sales and conversions, brand recognition, better performance feedback and less promotion costs.

Another aspect of SEO Services is that these are cost effective as compared to the other marketing services in long run. They prove to be very effective in getting you the results and meeting the targets which you set. SEO gets you fast results as compared with traditional type of advertisements. In time and costs aspects also SEO rankings has more advantages than emails, banners and pay per click ads etc. SEO services also includes different types of services like keyword density help for your web pages, search engine submission, search engine optimization targeting certain areas of world. These consists of writing of keyword rich articles for you and provide you with a list of new keywords that can be added to your website pages to make it more search engine friendly.

Nowadays SEO also involves the aspects of site design and content which requires dedicated research, nice communication skills and other technical aspects. Just specifying the list of keywords for website’s Meta tags is not sufficient in the present scenario. As many factors affect the search engine relevance to it is necessary to carry on the task according to search engine behaviors. Even file naming conventions and site navigation aspects are framed keeping in view the search engine rules.

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Ten Search Engine Optimisation Mistakes

2007-10-30T01:21:00.001-07:00

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not something performed as a blanket approach to website development, it is an individual set of actions performed page by page to suit that page's particular goals and SEO needs. I like to break up a clients website into specific and important pages based on the keyword terms we have identified through research and then write the first few pages to suit those terms. We associate page titles, page file names (buy-blue-widgets.html), H1 tags, description and keyword Meta tags and in page content to tell the story that match those identified keywords. It is also important to ensure your pages are W3 compliant and have no errors.

I have compiled a list of some of some common Search Engine Optimization (SEO) mistakes.

1. Bad Titles. Titles are the most important thing about a webpage. Search engines spiders see the title on your page first and they make a general assessment about it based upon this. They scan the page and make sure the content of the page matches the title and then assign rankings based upon these matches and how they best fit. The title tag is the best way to inform the search engine what your page is about, and they play an important part in ranking if used properly. Placing your main identified keywords in the title and ensuring to obey the rule of leftward and stemming is vital - leftward rule, the closer the word to the left of the sentence the more important it is, stemming is where words can be associated but with words in-between i.e.: Great Blue Widgets when stemmed would allow Great Widgets. It is important to ensure your title matches your page content, description and Meta keywords and in unique for your website. Every page title and content should be unique otherwise is will be ranked supplemental.

2. Filename of the page. It is important if you are using dynamic websites like Joomla or other content management systems that a search engine friendly URL translator is installed. Because I use Joomla every day I will describe what I mean relating to Joomla. In Joomla (and most other dynamic websites) URL's like the normal Joomla URL "index.php?option=com_mtree&task=listcats&cat_id=1766&Itemid=35" drive the website. The problem with these URL's is that they are unintelligible by humans and also by search engines. Installing a search engine friendly URL component will change these pages to something more meaningful and also including your keywords in these page names can help with SEO. The newly transformed search engine friendly URL would look like this "buy-blue-widgets.html". If you do not have a dynamic website then ensuring your page name is short, to the point and contains your main keywords for that page maybe with a call to action like "buy" and "blue widgets".

3. Duplicate or Bad Content. Ensuring your content is unique and relevant is vital in SEO success. Often websites just duplicate content or bring in plagiarized content from other websites. It is my experience that these websites fail dismally in search engine rankings. Write some decent and unique content or maybe search online and find someone who can actually write you decent unique content for a fee. Make it good, friendly and unique content that people will want to link to. If you are listed in the supplemental index of Google then making sure you titles, descriptions, Meta keywords and on page content is unique is the only way to drag them out of the supplemental index.

4. No Links. Having covered off a few of the on page most important SEO tips we now look at links, which are an off page SEO concept. For each person or website that links to your website it is a vote for your site. If the website that links to yours has a high pagerank itself then it carries more weight. Simply having good keywords, titles and text on your page is only part of SEO. Just because you created a unique and perfectly optimized webpage does not mean you will automatically gain a decent pagerank for that page. In order to ensure SEO success you have to create incoming links - this is probably the hardest part of search engine optimization because you are effectively selling your pages all over the Internet. One way to gain instant (within a few weeks) links is to pay for text advertising - A search on Google will uncover some of the best text linking services. Link exchanges are bad because for every vote you get you are giving one away and if you happen to link to a "black listed" site then Google will penalize you significantly. One way links are the ultimate in SEO link campaigns so seek out directories (either paid or free, you need to evaluate), post in forums, write articles and submit them and ask other friendly webmasters if they can help you out with a link. The best way to gain links is to have unique content that other people actually want to link to.

5. Incoming link anchor text. Having pointed out how important it is to gain incoming links it is now important to also point out that the text those links are anchored to is important also. The text should be targeted at your main keywords and the page they point to should have those keywords as relevant and prominent also. The website you link from should be relevant to your website. So, as an example I own a web design company in Melbourne, Australia so I gain links from web hosting providers and/or open source Joomla sites in or around my region. Getting 1000 links from a casino related website will serve no benefit to my website and will not make it rank higher for "web design" keyword search terms. Use professional common sense when gaining links.

6. Bad Internal Page Links. We return to on page factors that you can work on within your website. It is important to make sure that the anchor text linking to pages within your own website is relevant to the target page. Make sure the title tag is filled in also for each link. You have the greatest control over links from within your own web site so make sure they are relevant and that link title and the on page copy match the main keywords of the target page.

7. Live links. Using some external tools like the link checker that W3 Org offer is good. I suggest harnessing as many tools as you can to ensure all of the links on your website are live, working and not sending people to 404 error pages. It is also important to check and make sure your page markup, or html, xhtml, is valid so W3 also offer a tool to check this. Make use of both of these freely available tools.

8. Impatience. Search Engine Optimization is not a short term task. It is one of an ongoing refinement after refinement and hour after hour of working on your website. Producing unique content, checking it, validating, listing and checking the search engines and making sure they have it listed correctly. Do not think for one second that you can optimize your site thoroughly ever and do not ever think that just because you are number one for a search term that it will indefinitely stay that way. Search Engine Companies are always changing their ranking and rating systems and coupled with this there are always other people out there gunning for your top spot. Keep looking to improve and learn more and don't sit back and wait for others to take your top spot, be proactive, seek out new content, links and keep ahead of the curve.

9. Keyword selection. This is proving to be a very common mistake among beginners to SEO. Often people base their own keyword selection on what they *think* is right but is this what people actually search for when they are looking for your product or service? Often the answer to this questions is no. It is an important step to do the correct keyword research and ensure you have the right keyword list before you optimize any pages with them. Using Overture, Google Adwords and some other paid keyword tools like WordTracker (the default standard in Keyword Finding) are vital to success in finding good keywords. It is important to localize your target market and figure out what they are actually searching on when they are looking for products or services that you offer. Do the research and be as specific as possible while still being broad enough to capture some high keyword traffic.

10. Keyword Spamming and Stuffing. If you sell "Blue Widgets" then every page of your site does not need to have "Blue Widgets" in the title, description and Meta tags. Try and be objective and analyze you website. Focus pages on a specific group of keywords you have identified from the keyword list. Sometimes finding niche markets locally first can be best. So, as an example, "Buy Blue Widgets Australia" or "Buy Blue Widgets Melbourne". These would be examples of good second or even third tier search keyword phrases but you can make some good sales with these niche terms because the searcher is targeting buying these items.

These are not the be-all and end-all of Search Engine Optimization mistakes but I have found these to be the main mistakes made by my clients prior to Kanga Internet being involved. Good luck and I wish you all the best with your SEO efforts.

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Search Engine Optimization - Ensuring the Best Results for your Business

2007-10-30T01:19:00.000-07:00

In last, today every site wants to be featured in the top ten list of the search engine. Therefore, to reach such cliff, you need to understand the algorithm of the search engines and you should implement changes according to the search engines. In order to achieve the benefits of search engine optimization, an effective SEO strategy is necessary. One of the biggest SEO strategies is link popularity, keyword research and website marketing.

Doing the proper research and finding the correct keyword combination will bring you're the proper rankings in the search engines and a traffic that is targeted to your site, and the added benefit is that it is free traffic. As you heard many time before content is king, your content should be structured to include the keywords that are relevant to your site, and your website needs to be SEO optimized so the search engines can spider it with ease. All the other pages on your site should revolve around a central theme and all be related in some way.

When visitors come to your website the text on the home page should explain and reflect the theme of your site and all of the other pages should relate to it. Search engine optimization or SEO is the hottest way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Your investment in the future of your website will be worth while. The reason you need to optimize your site is to get rankings in the search engines, by concentrating on search phrases and by promoting these keywords you will begin to build your rankings in the search engines.

Billions of sites are updated daily and they all need to be crawled on a daily basis. You can purchase high PR links and shorten the waiting period of getting your site in the serps. Check you site for broken links, not having links that work will have a negative effect on your sites ranking if the links stay broken for a period of time.

High quality articles are quickly snapped up and published prolifically. Every time you write an article and you get it published you receive another link pointing back to your site which will in turn increase your link popularity. Traffic is generated to your website from your signature box. This article can be freely published on a website as long as. With this wonderful innovation in web writing, each article will surely be given ample attention in terms of engine optimization and accessibility. The natural listing depends on the optimization techniques employed on and off the web site. A single article can be reprinted hundreds of times, and each time is another link back to your site. Ensure that each web page of yours would focus on a particular keyword or key phrase. If there is an article in that page, make sure that the article will only discuss and include one keyword or key phrase from the list you have made.

Getting more traffic is pointless if your site isn't an efficient sales machine. Since there are only a "handful" of search engines that everyone uses (the major ones), this is where we place our best promotional efforts. If you encourage them to link to your site, join your newsletter, read your articles, and so on, then the traffic will increase your search engine popularity. If you only sell product, then that is what you get money for products. Traffic is a must if any online business is to succeed.

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Search Engine Optimization Techniques

2007-10-29T00:40:00.002-07:00

One of the thing I get asked a lot is how to get a website higher in the SERPs. Well, it is going to take a lot of time, effort, and patience.

There are two elements to SEO - what you do on your website and what you do off your website. Let's talk about things you can do on your website to improve SERP results.

1. Hierarchal Design

The web pages you create should be in a hierarchal design with your home page at the top of the hierarchy. Every page of your website should be reachable by at least one static link.

2. Quality Content

You have to have a lot of quality content on your websites about your particular niche. For real estate websites, this can be achieved by news articles, blog threads, events calendar, and thousands of property detail pages.

3. Keywords

You have to use keywords in your content that related to your particular niche. If you just use the keyword "real estate" you probably are not going to rank very high in the SERPs. However, if you use "Holland Michigan Real Estate" for your key phrase, that gives a specific location. Chances are if you have a great website about Holland Michigan Real Estate, then you are going to rank high in the SERPs. By the way, you should make sure you have your keywords in a the keyword meta tag. Try to limit yourself to 10 keyword phrases.

4. Sitemap

You should have a sitemap on your website. This helps crawlers learn about the structure of your site and makes every section of your website reachable. I would make one sitemap for your users and another XML sitemap for the crawlers. Make sure you submit the XML sitemap to google and yahoo using the webmaster tools.

5. Avoid Black Hat Techniques

There are several black hat techniques such as keyword stuffing and hidden text that can temporarily give you a boost in the SERPs. However, in the long run, your website will be penalized and be even lower in the SERPs than you started out with. Stay away from these techniques.

6. Include a ROBOTS.TXT file on your site.

This tells the crawlers what parts of your site can be crawled. You should avoid making your member and admin sections crawlable.

7. Dynamic Content

Most real estate website use dynamic content. If you use dynamic content, keep your URL strings short and do not use session IDs in your URL strings.

8. Linking to other sites

Make sure you only link to sites you trust. Do not link to link farms or websites that have poor quality. Do not create a link farm yourself either. Linking to sites related to yours is good, but watch out for sites that are not directly related. A couple of these links will not hurt you, but if you get carried away it might.

9. Relevant Title Tags / Description Tag

Make sure your keywords appear in your title tag and description meta tag. Check out this home page to see how it is done: Holland Michigan Real Estate

Now, let's talk about what you can do outside of your website to improve SERP rankings.

1. Backlinks

You need to get as many backlinks as possible. However, you should pace yourself. Google knows the rate to which you get backlinks. If you increase this rate to fast, alarms go off and your website may get penalized. Plan on doing about 1 hour a day getting backlinks. Do not spend all day doing this.

2. Directories

Submit your website to directories and lots of them including dmoz and yahoo directory.

3. RSS feeds

There are a lot of RSS feed directories out there. If you got a RSS feed, submit it to these directories. This will increase traffic to your website.

4. Social Bookmarking

Submit articles to websites such as digg.com and propeller. Submit videos to websites such as youtube and google. People will bookmark your articles and videos. This will drive traffic to your site.

5. News Releases

Submit a news release about your website.

I hope you enjoyed this article. I may write another SEO article in the future with more advanced techniques.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Luke_Bouman

Search Engine Friendly Pages - The Way To A Crawler's Heart

2007-10-29T00:40:00.001-07:00

As the employment trend is shifting towards self-employment. To be a success in whatever field an entrepreneur is in, he must have the best marketing tools. One of which is a business website. Many business owners are faced with technical dilemmas, caused by the further merging of the business industry with the Information Technology field. Because of this, they outsource the development of their websites.

To enable people or internet users to find YOU, one important consideration in building a website is SEO. It is a process involving strategies to increase quantity as well as quality of traffic to a website. Targeted traffic is what the search engines bring to a website, through algorithmic, natural or organic search results.

Visitors to the site are the lifeblood of the website's existence.

Traffic means business and dominant contributors to this are major search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Thus, when blueprinting or designing a web page, outsourcing services should ensure Search Engine friendly pages to obtain higher rankings that would lead to more people clicking on the link to your site and more probable sales.

Primary search engines utilize programs or automated scripts that are more known as web crawlers or web spiders. These robots browse through the World Wide Web, methodically indexing web content, checking links and validating html codes. Information is stored and the websites that manage up-to-date content are pulled up into a listing when people type in one relevant keyword/ keyword phrase.

For your website/ web page to get indexed easily, the following are some of the techniques you could apply when designing on your own:

• Avoid the application of frames. The lengthy and complex codes used to create frames causes disarray among search engine spiders making them skip the site and makes bookmarking a lot more difficult.

• Use CSS or Cascading Style Sheets instead of bombarding html codes to style a page. Its efficacy lies in the elimination of redundant html tags that confuses the crawlers and makes page loading faster.

• Meta Tag use and positioning are one factor noted by web crawlers in deciding whether or not to index a site or how frequent they would visit it. So make sure to use relevant meta tags appropriately.

• Flash animations or images are not the best way to contain very vital information. Aside from slow page upload, search engine crawlers only index text in your source code. A good way to use images to represent text are when displaying email contact addresses, as these could be kept private from other bots accumulating unsolicited email lists.

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Web Design And Development Vs Search Engine Optimization

2007-10-29T00:38:00.000-07:00

Online promotion and search engine optimization is the in thing in the speedy growing internet world. Get an online promotion service for your website through a leading search engine optimization company and your website will be ranking high with the desired keywords. Although, an SEO service provider who is also accountable will cost you heavens, but you will certainly not mind if you are blessed with thousands of visitors per day.

However, do all highly ranked websites are the best providers in their field? Not essentially. So what are the options and how does one can find a GENUINE WEB DEISGN & DEVLOPMENT COMPANY?

While you are thinking of building a website, what would be your requirements? Let see, you would need an enticing website that is also user friendly and eloquent. You may require some dynamic features and therefore need appropriate development resources. Now comes another point worth consideration.

You have spent hundreds of dollars building a website and then pass it to a SEO service provider, who further recommends a number of changes on the website to make it search engine friendly and you end up re building your website, spending hundreds of dollars once again. Why not get a service that provides a search engine compliant web design & development.

Summing up, a typical web design and development requirements, the following are the most common of all:

1. A website design that goes with the latest trend e.g. web 2.0, div based etc.
2. Your website subject e.g. do you want to sell a product, is the website educational kind, revenue source etc.
3. The development requirements & details. Note down each single point/features that comes to your mind, may it be the simplest thing, while sending across the development needs to the company. This is to ensure that there is minimum space for ambiguity.
4. The website should be search engine compliant
5. Primary search engine optimization on the website e.g. unique title & metadata for all pages, optimum keyword density on pages, search engine friendly navigation and website architecture etc.

As of now, this has been apparent that web design & development and search engine optimization goes together. None is beneficial in absence of another. A clumsy and unimpressive website with high traffic will not get leads. Neither an awesome but unfamiliar website will earn revenues.

If you have not taken advantages of the emerging concept of search engine optimization, try to get some by exploring the www.synapseindia.com another web design & development company where information is available in abundance. You can further get reference of search engine optimization company to give you the full information on a search engine compliant website design & development. You may also find a brief detail on the service that may result far-fetched to connect you with your overseas clients and customers. Broaden your wings with the search engine compliant website design & development to reach to your ultimate customers.

Mridu Sinha is working with a leading web design & development company. While dealing with the clients, she has documented some typical problems that a prospective customer who wishes to design or develop a website comes through.

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Turn big via SEO New York

2007-10-27T05:53:00.000-07:00

Who does not want to have a great and profitable business? However, most of the times, they lag behind because they do not opt for information tools like getting their business advertised on a website or even going full fledged online for a better business deal. This happens due to the unawareness of online business strategies that can actually elevate a business on a bigger platform. Well, if these are your concern, then it is high time to consult SEO New York for getting your business optimized on internet. Many business ventures are going online, and it is a better way to get attracted at one go! What say!

Therefore, it has become necessary to be well versed with the ways of the web world for ever running business. Now you must be wondering that how can you achieve a way to a profitable business? Well, the answer is simple, in today’s time web is not just used as a tool for entertaining you, but also plays a crucial role in executing work perfectly. In fact, it serves as a guide for getting significant information on various topics, including social or non-social issues. Moreover, internet has shown the best results in the field of business and promotions. Therefore, if you want to make it big then turn to SEO New York, as it will take you ladders ahead in your online business deals with its marketing strategies. It utilizes a variety of pay per click, affiliate and content management methods.

You can say that it is the right medium to approach various people living in different time zones at one go. Yes, you got it right; with the help of SEO New York you can have people from all over the world who can be interested in buying your products. Search engine optimization plays a crucial role in the world of online business. You can find millions of people getting glued to the internet for various types of information that is helpful in the growth of business. In fact, for you, SEO in New York is an ideal choice as it not only designs websites that are user friendly but also takes your website amongst the best search engines; moreover, it has the ability to market products and services online by driving maximum traffic to your website.

However, creating the website only will not solve your purpose; the content has to be fresh and relevant as well as catchy. Otherwise, no user will visit your website for business purpose or for gaining knowledge on your products. Hence, it is important to impart significant information that can be easily understood by the users. You can say that the larger the traffic, the greater the profits and benefits. Further, it will make your business profitable. If you want to get a higher search engine visibility then you need the help of SEO New York. It is economically reasonable too, as it promotes your goods and services. So hurry up and grab the opportunity for the best available deal.

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Search Engine Optimization – The Right Use!

2007-10-26T05:34:00.000-07:00

Bothered that your website lacks visitors and traffic? Concerned that there isn’t much feedback? This may be because your search engine optimization needs some fine-tuning. There are many ways to drive the traffic to a website but search engine optimization still rules the roost. Tweaking the SEO of your webpage is one of the prime ways to improve the traffic. Also an improved SEO leads to a great usability by the users to find your website in the list that appears in the search engine.

By enhancing your Search Engine Optimization for your webpage, you will:

• Advance your page’s rankings
• Enhance traffic to your webpage
• Cope with genuine visitors who are interested in your products and services

Here are a few factors that would help drive traffic
The Right Keyword: - Determining the right keyword that describes your website in a word is of primary importance. The word should reflect the content of the page the visitor would want to know about. These words should be closely considered as this form a very important part of the search. Also the keyword that is selected should appear in all the primary locations on the webpage including the first few paragraphs of a page, headers etc.

Effective use of Directories: - By submitting the website to search engine friendly directories would help in effective ranking of the websites. The website should carry at least three descriptions with varied titles. This would increase the number of backlinks for your website. Backlinks determine the popularity or importance that your website possesses.

Relevance of Content:- Choice of the right words and necessary phrases is an important step as the content will induce many users the urge to click your website. Kindling their interest should be the main objective when the content of the webpage is decided. Linking blogs that advertise the link of your product and service with the website will also help in improving the ranking of your page.

The right use of Article Directories: - Choosing an appropriate title and designing articles and submitting them to the article directories also form an integral part of SEO ranking. The top rated article directories have to be listed to submit your website as that would be more popular among the users. Backlinks should be included in the website for effective search results. This would result in book marking your webpage for further reading or linking your page to the user’s website. This would only result in more traffic.

Effective use of Link Exchanges: - There are many webpage owners who are open to exchanging links to share your link to their page and vice versa. This is an effective way to increase traffic in both the web pages. Search Engine Optimization forums provide this opportunity to exchange links and send testimonials about your webpage.

The business of creating webpage and to make it effective among the users has a lot of challenges. By applying these rules of the SEO will give your webpage a better chance to be viewed, picked and bookmarked.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Search-Engine-Optimization---The-Right-Use-/332677

Seo Salary

2007-10-25T05:13:00.000-07:00

A set of salary estimates for SEO people. I understand the marketing value of having an “SEO Salary” post, but I don’t see the point for people working in SEO. If you have to argue about your salary level using outside references, you need Challenger Gray & Christmas or Robert Half or something based on data. But the article did remind me of the importance of staying aware of the real money in SEO work.

As I read, I see that Firm SEO work is quite different from Independent SEO or in-house SEO work. According to Rand’s descriptions, Firm SEO (like his SEO company) is a group of people working together on client projects, guided by an SEO Boss. Rand admits he hires inexperienced talent and the salaries he pays are “on the low side”. This is the opposite of what I do in my own SEO consulting, and what my better clients do with their competitive web and Internet projects. I am not an SEO Firm, so again this is perhaps highlighting yet another a different perspective of the unusual industry we call Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Steve Jobs once said something like “A people hire A people; B people hire C people” and I have always carried that around in my head. I often see it in action. The best people tend to want the best people to work for them. Less-than-the-best often hire people “lesser” than them, for what I suppose is a myriad of reasons. Please note I am not suggesting Rand is hiring people lesser than he is (nor am I suggesting that Rand might be an “A” person). I am simply saying that his description of Firm SEO is opposite of my SEO consulting experience, where the better clients seek out the best SEOs, the best web designers, the best developers, and the best marketers to work on projects. In fact, more times than not, my clients have experienced extreme frustration dealing with “agencies”. From advertising agencies to web design agencies, the expertise and dedication of the individuals assigned by that agency to the projects turns out to be significantly below the caliber of the leaders of that “agency”. Sometimes we collectively wonder if the agency actually has anyone at all of adequate caliber beyond the founder. Other times we know they do, but we wonder why those people are not available to our projects, even when price is not a barrier. Perhaps it is just an “agency” mentality?

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/SEO-Salary/330848

Search Engine Marketing - A New Start

2007-10-25T05:10:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet Marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in the Search Engine results pages (SERPs). According to the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, SEM methods include: Search Engine Optimization (or SEO), paid placement, and paid inclusion. Other sources, including the New York Times, define SEM as the practice of buying paid search listings with the goal of obtaining better free search listings.

As the number of sites on the Web increased in the mid-to-late 90s, search engines started appearing to help people find information quickly. Search engines developed business models to finance their services, such as pay per click programs offered by Open Text in 1996 and then Goto.com in 1998. Goto.com later changed its name to Overture in 2001, and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, and now offers paid search opportunities for advertisers through Yahoo! Search Marketing. Google also began to offer advertisements on search results pages in 2000 through the Google AdWords program. By 2007 pay-per-click programs proved to be primary money-makers for search engines.

Paid search advertising hasn't been without controversy, and issues around how many search engines present advertising on their pages of search result sets have been the target of a series of studies and reports by Consumer Reports WebWatch, from Consumers Union. The FTC also issued a letter in 2002 about the importance of disclosure of paid advertising on search engines, in response to a complaint from Commercial Alert, a consumer advocacy group with ties to Ralph Nader.

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Search-Engine-Marketing---A-New-Start/330845

Stay on top with search engine marketing firm

2007-10-24T05:02:00.001-07:00

Internet is a living network as it is inevitably changing day by bay. That is the reason why strategies and tips that did well in past are not that effective in present circumstances. Today every business needs to stay on top to be able to understand and control the ever changing situation. Businesses need to analyze and adapt these changes so that they may walk shoulder to shoulder with their competitors. To help business with that task of analyzing and adapting changes search engine marketing firms provide them with affordable and power powerful solutions. It provides you guidance regarding safe proceedings of maze and makes your task easier. However, all strategic decisions will be yours as only you are the caption of your ship. Ultimately it is up to you that how efficient you are in doing wonders with the help of search engine marketing support.

A search engine marketing firm is paves your way to get top position in your field. In order to secure concrete positive results these firms do whatever they can to make you website noticeable on web but it can serve its purpose best if you are also ready to accompany it in every step. Accompanying the hired firm does not mean that you will also have to sit with them to discuss everything but it refers to the support that you may provide by entrusting them your site completely. Well you may have an excellent site with plenty of content and vibrant graphics but if you are not visible at search engine rankings then your site can never give desired results. Search engine marketing firm decides what content is needed to get identification among consumers. Though big traffic does not mean big profit but getting heavy traffic represents that people are taking interest in your product and a bit more convincing can turn them in to regular consumers.

Many products that are in mass demand, fails in touching estimated sales figure just because of unremarkable presence. To gain real visibility and trust of your online consumers you need to market it properly so that the real and steady traffic can move to your website. Whether you are going to sell product or offer services, analyze which section of society will be your chief consumer. It is going to be youngsters, housewives, professionals, businesses or students, your website must speak the language they understand means it should contain exact information they are looking for.

Using irrelevant and misleading keywords can affect the traffic. Search engine marketing firm emphasizes on correct usage of keywords and supportive keywords so that your site may solve it very purpose. If your website has plenty of meaningful content that cannot be replaced by keyword containing text then search engine marketing firm uses invisible text improve your search engine ranking. Such firms provide their clients with advanced methods that are helpful in increasing traffic and turning the visitors in to regular customers. They go beyond the regular search engine optimization and profit your business beyond your expectations.

http://www.articlebliss.com/Article/Stay-on-top-with-search-engine-marketing-firm/156277

Why Good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Important

2007-10-24T04:55:00.000-07:00

Many people new to internet marketing wonder why search engine optimization, or SEO, is so important. In explaining why, this article could be very short or very long, according to how much of the topic I wish to write on, although the answer is basically a matter of common sense.

Anybody who uses search engines to find out information, which is the vast majority of internet users, uses phrases to find the information they are seeking. These phrases, to them, best describe the information they seek. Thus, if the are looking for information on what to look for when buying a second hand car they might use the term ‘buying second hand cars’, or ‘buying used cars’, or ‘how to buy used cars’ and so on. Each of these terms is commonly termed a ‘keyword’, and searching for the most used keywords, or even lesser used keywords, is big business on the internet.

If you have a website, or even just one web page, dealing with that topic, you can optimize it only for one of these keywords if you want the bets results. Many people make the mistake of trying to optimize a webpage for all the keywords they can think of, totally ignorant of the fact that if they have 20 keywords then they should have 20 web pages, each optimized for one keyword.

Some people make millions of dollars explaining to others how to find and use these keywords on their websites, even though it is historical information. Yesterdays most frequently used keyword could never be used again for the rest of the year. Let me give you an example of that.

When I was new to internet marketing, I wrote a website to sell my trivia quizzes. I run trivia quizzes in my local pub, and at that time also sold them to pubs in nearby towns and cities and wrote a book on how to go about it. I decided to advertise it online and also to sell my trivia quizzes. I paid $6,500 for a mentor from Corey Rudl’s Internet Marketing Center to teach me how to do it, and I was shown how to use keyword research to publicise my book.

My mentor ended up recommending I use the keyword ‘black american history quiz’ since it had a very high demand and low supply: so I did. Silly me! He was Canadian, and he didn’t know that the word ‘quiz’ in the USA can also apply to a school exam, and the ‘black american history quiz’ was in demand by American high school kids for an exam on the topic.

I spent a fortune and made zilch. That is the last time I paid for information, and I was ripped off by the late Corey Rudl and his so-called Internet Marketing Center. At least that is my experience. It was only later that I found I could have got the same information free by registering for a few newsletters from other marketers.

I ended up losing many thousands of dollars through that experience, and using the bad information I was given, and am only now making up for it. That is the importance of knowing how to use SEO in your website. Learn how to select and use proper keywords, and do not be mislead by trends or spikes due to high school exams or current news as I was.

There are techniques to use to ensure that your website gets traffic from people browsing the web for information. If you know these techniques, you can make money from any topic, or niche, even if you personally know nothing about it. I have many websites on a number of topics, each of which makes me money in many different ways. There is no reason why you should do the same.

However, to do that, you must learn how to optimize each of the pages on your website. Stop regarding the site as an entity. It is the collection of pages that is important, each of those of which has to be treated as a separate entity. Every page will be listed separately in the search engines, and you need to know how to treat each differently, and how to optimize each so that every one will be listed in the search results when somebody uses your keyword to find the information they are seeking.

Good search engine optimization is very important, and without a good understanding of SEO, your internet business will have less a chance of success.

http://www.articlebliss.com/Article/Why-Good-Search-Engine-Optimization--SEO--is-Important/156357

Why Google is so popular?

2007-10-19T05:04:00.002-07:00

Nowadays everyone seems to talk about Google. What makes Google so popular and great? Well the answer lies in these facts. Only this search engine has the capability to search more than 9 million urls. Google is able to crawl and index multiple pages at the same time and increase the chances of getting what you have been looking for. This returns more relevant results for your website. On the basis of a query Google returns the result that most likely match with your query and criteria. So you are able to get information on the top.

Google is fast and simple to use. In less than a second you are able to find the most results. Google also shows the cached version of the web page. Day by day Google is improving their results continuously. It provides results with information and links related to your query. Google helps to make and quickly find what you are searching for.

Lot of people trusts Google and this is the biggest search engine. People in good companies want to use it and put ads in these. There are also many choices in Google. There can be different results for different countries. So you can have a variety of choice and information forms all other world. Besides these Google are most dominant search engines in web. It is hard to think about web without Google. Google has entered in almost every aspect our our life.

Google marketing feature have covered various products like Google analytics, Google alerts, Google checkout, Google eblogger, Google toolbar-enterprise version. Google groups, Google adsense etc. and continuously research is going on these products to enhance it further.

The most popular online advertising tool these days has been Google AdWords. People are moving towards Google ad words that have something to offer by the way of products and services. Some people generally loose money through fraud clicks and bad techniques adopted by them. Google adword has become one of the top ways of money earning program and you can also implement ways to use get and use this program free of cost.

Adsense has been vital part of Google marketing. This has allowed webmasters to put content relevant advertisements on their websites. If a visitor clicks one of the adsense ads served to the website, the owner is credited for referral

Thus Google on its 9th birthday has become online electronic hub of human knowledge as it hold the distinction of indexing around billions of web pages as well as images ,books and vides . Google was registered in 1997 and it was officially launched one year later. People faith on Google has been growing as they are able to get the most exact and reliable information. Happy birth day Google. Go ahead with more innovations in the near future.

http://www.articlebase.info/Article/Why-Google-is-so-popular-/1816

What is Google pagerank?

2007-10-19T05:04:00.001-07:00

Everyone will have heard of the phrase ‘Google pagerank’ being mentioned from time to time, most people don’t even know what it is or how much of an important role is plays on the performance of your website. By learning basic methods that can increase your page rank you will be able to get the full potential out of your website. The scale goes from 0 – 10 with each step being harder to achieve, it doesn’t necessarily go up one level at a time, you could be page rank (pr for short) 0 when you first do your site and then after the first update, it could jump to pr 4. It depends solely on how much work you put into it, there are no set periods when Google decides to update but it’s generally around every 3 months or so. Basically Google page rank is the method of which Google uses to establish where in the search engine you will be place and your sites authority.

This does not mean if you have a pr 5 site you will outrank every competing page below you. There are a lot of factors that decide where you will actually rank which is why it’s important you do your research to ensure you don’t miss anything out that could severely affect your ranking. The pr of your website doesn’t really alter the search engine results that much compared to the content level and link building you will of performed, but if there are two or more identical pages, Google would place the one with highest pr above the rest.

A great way of increasing your page rank is to get other sites with high pr linking to your site, this will show to Google that highly respected sites think that you have a quality site which in turn will boost your pr. You need to put a lot of thought into your link building campaign, try to go for quality over quantity. Many people waste time grabbing thousands of pr0 sites which won’t have that much of an effect, Google may even penalise you for spamming. If you can get 10 pr5 links to your site it would give a better result than the thousands of pr0 would, if you get them on targeted sites you will have more chance of targeted traffic coming through to your website which has more chance of converting.

http://www.articlebase.info/Article/What-is-Google-pagerank-/2353

Optimize PDFs for search engines

2007-10-19T05:03:00.000-07:00

As competitive as the online world becomes, it also is crucial that a website is noticed online.

As repetitive as this might be, Search Engine Optimization ensures that your web content appears when a user is searching for it. It is essential that search engines can read the content from a website therefore optimizing PDF files as well as normal HTML/ XHTML web content would be an excellent step to take.

Search Engines rate websites based on their relevancy to content and keywords, but also on many quality links the sites has - outgoing and incoming. The same way Search Engine Optimization specialists can optimize websites, PDF documents can be optimized too.

How to optimize a PDF file:

* Make all PDF's in text format, so that the search engine can read it;
* Complete the document's properties, (especially the title) - what usually happens is that people forget to set a title, that way the search engine will pick content from the PDF file and it might not be exactly what you would want.
* Optimize text, by making sure that selected keywords are there and can easily be identified;
* Add links to PDF files, so that readers can always be redirected to your website;
* Save files at the lowest possible Acrobat version, so that readers can easily open it, and search engines can find it;
* Sizes should be kept as small as possible, if files take too long to download users will abandon the site;
* Place links to your files on your web page where it can easily be found, i.e. closer to the root level of the site’s file structure.
* Specify reading order, in terms of text and headlines;
* Publish articles in different directories that directly link to your PDF documents

In order to achieve a higher ranking, it is important to use a set of well chosen keywords and relevant content, by optimizing PDF files. They can achieve a higher number of links and the opportunity to have more content associated with your website and your business, which would ultimately affect one's ranking on the most popular search engines.

http://www.articlebase.info/Article/Optimize-PDFs-for-search-engines/2540

Organic SEO methods ensure your success on the web

2007-10-18T05:34:00.000-07:00

Does the term sound confusing? Well don’t be, as this is nothing drastically different from the usual methods that are implemented by online business owners for search engine optimization of their site on the web. Organic SEO are the simple natural methods that are used for promoting a site on the web. The web is populated with numerous sites that provide different kinds of services to clients. Visitors always look out for information and if you manage to reach out to such visitors, you can surely do good business. After all, this is exactly what all online business owners aim to do through their online business sites.

To be successful on the web, you have to understand search engines really well. So understanding search engines is very crucial, if you want to be successful in this business. Search engines work very differently and they do not view and receive a site like we do. Search engines have certain criteria and guidelines, and if a site fulfills those requirements search engines receive those sites very favorably. It is very important for you to understand what search engines like to see and what they do not like to see on a site. Taking care of all these factors will ensure that the organic SEO methods that you use for your site will be successful.

Search engines change their algorithms very frequently. There are several reasons behind this, and the most obvious among them is the fact that they want to improve their results. The results are concluded after making a study of the users who are active on the web. Organic search engine optimization methods involve using all the legal and white hat methods for the optimization of a site on the web. If you make use of all the legal methods, it will ensure that you will never be tangled in any kind of legal mess.

It is not humanely possible for search engines to crawl the huge number of websites on the web. So it is not a person rather automated software called spiders or bots used to crawl the sites. The relevance and importance of a site is determined based on the results of the crawling done by the software. Since search engines keep on changing their algorithm and criteria for giving rankings to sites, you must be fully aware of what is needed to attract the attention of all the major search engines.

There are several methods and technique that can be used for optimizing your site on the web. The idea is to announce to everyone that you have entered the market and are interested in doing serious business on the web. Well if you do not tell anyone about you, how do you expect others to know and find out about your business? Ultimately, it is your call to determine what methods you feel will be the best for your site. However, it can be safely said that organic SEO are one of the best methods that can be used for the promotion of your online business site.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/Organic-SEO-methods-ensure-your-success-on-the-web/35014

SEO: Proving Your Keywords Are Worth Investing Search Engine Optimisation Time

2007-10-18T05:33:00.000-07:00

One of the key skills you must develop when undertaking Search Engine Optimisation is the ability to identify and choose keywords that your clients are going to use, or I should say, most likely going to use to visit your website or to search for in a search engine. There are lots of great tools out there that will help you find the right keywords but be warned always test the results you get because there are anomalies in some of these tools that can cost you time and money. I want to examine a number of steps to follow to test that you have the right keywords.

There are a range of tools that you can use to work out what keywords are going to be most appropriate for your market, some of them are free, some of them you need to register and some you have to pay for. The tools include -

1. Wordtracker
2. Google Adwords
3. Overture
4. Free Keywords
5. Your Website Session Logs
6. Yahoo Advertising
7. Keyword Locator
8. Keyword Elite
9. Good Keywords
10. Competitors Websites

Before investing in the keywords you have found always check to see if the keyword is in fact as popular as the resources tell you in that search.

Why?

I recently had a situation recently where one keyword we found "advanced wealth planning techniques" was supposed to have 250 hits a day coming in from Google. We garnered this information from a range of different sources however what we found was that this was not the case, in fact those keywords prior to writing this article actually only get between 2 and 5 hits per day.

One of the most important lessons both I and my team learned from this was to ensure that you run a trial of the keywords in pay-per-click programs before you actually purchase any domains that use the keywords to ensure that the keywords really do get the traffic the keyword tools tell you. The way my team achieves this, is we will create the sales pages for the product or service that we want to sell and trial it on the key search engine we want to optimize the new website for using one of our existing websites.

For example, if we know that a certain keyword will get the most traffic on Google, then we will certainly use Adwords to prove that the traffic really is there. If we new that Yahoo was the major source of traffic for the keywords then we would use Overture.

Generally we will test the keywords for 2 to 3 days. Longer tests maybe necessary but two to three days is normally a good indicator. Once we are confident that the keywords get the volume of traffic we are looking for, we will then stop the advertising, secure the domain name and then implement our products onto that domain and optimize the webpages for that product or service. This ensures we are not caught in a situation, which we have been in the past, where we have domain name which contains keywords that are totally useless.

The best tool I have found for quick testing your keywords is Google Adwords. One of the core reasons I like using this resource is that you can immediately test your keywords rather than waiting anywhere up to 5 days for the other Pay-Per-Click engines like Overture.

One of the other ways that we look to see if the keywords we have chosen are in fact worthwhile is to look at what our competitors are doing. However, use this technique merely as a guide because they could be making the same mistakes as you. We know of a few people who copied what we were doing with the keywords mentioned before and they would have been achieving no traffic off those keywords just as we were.

The key to success in any business whether it be online or in the traditional world is to test and measure. The way we test to make sure that the keywords are being used is to check our logs and see who is actually referring traffic to our site. In ASP code there are a number of Session Values that will contain this information. We check our sites each day to ensure that the traffic is coming from our target keywords.

If they are not coming from the keywords we are targeting and the customers are buying our products we will then look at the keywords that are being used and find out how competitive they are and whether we should be optimizing our site for those keywords. Search Engine Optimisation and Internet marketing is really a science and like all science, you need facts and figures to make decisions so the better quality statistics you can collect the easier it is to make a direction change.

For example, we recently had a situation where we started getting a couple of hundred hits per day for a 5 word statement that was being used in both Google and Yahoo to find our site. Whilst a couple of hundred hits per day may not seem very many our conversion rate on that key statement was running around 70% which is huge for any Internet business. The bizarre part was that our website was actually place at number 97 in the search engine results for both Google and Yahoo.

What we did at this point was to simply write a number of articles on the keyword topics. Submit the articles to related sites, including article directories and then ensured in the Author Bio Section we included Hypertext that included the Key Word Statement back to the associated page. The result was that we increased our ranking from 97 to the top 5 and we gained a 70% conversion rate on all people who visited that webpage.

The key issue though is to make sure that the keywords you are using are what your buyers associate with. Sometimes I find that a client's perception of what keywords a person would use to search for a product is far more different to what their clients are actually using. Whenever we are looking at that issue, we simply go back to the client's logs for the last 6 months and troll through the data and find out how their clients are finding them.

The secret to search engine optimization for any website is in the logs because it will tell you very clearly what people are using to get to your site and more so which search engines they are using.

When you are looking at buying a new domain or building a new site, make sure that you really do your homework to identify the right keywords that people will use to find your products or services. Before committing to buying a new domain that contains your keywords always test to see that the keywords are actually being used and that there is sufficient volume to justify the purchase.

Remember, the reason why we test and measure is to ensure that you are making a sound investment. If you get it wrong, you are going to have to spend more money to correct your mistake and nobody likes having to spend their own hard earned money.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/SEO--Proving-Your-Keywords-Are-Worth-Investing-Search-Engine-Optimisation-Time/35030

The New Directory: Articles, Peer Review, and Deeplinks

2007-10-17T05:35:00.000-07:00

The New Directory: Articles, Peer Review, and Deeplinks
The SEO world has been following with rapt attention the news of dozens of directories' penalization by Google. For a very long time, directories were the mainstay of linkbuilding, and they do retain an important role in linkbuilding to this day, albeit a diminished one. So with the news that some of the best-known directories around were being slapped by the Internet’s most popular search engine, the debate about the ongoing relevancy of directories has been reopened.

In this article, I will propose my answer to a question that has been bothering search marketers for so long and introduce the New Directory.

For those of you who might not have known, one of the most perennially popular questions on SEO forums and blogs is whether directory submissions are worthwhile. With search engines counting decreasingly on directories as part of their algorithms, should SEOs still bother submitting? Or will other tactics provide a better ROI? (The subsequent question for those convinced of its worthiness as an SEO tactic is which directories to submit to.

Underlying the debate is the question of the value that directories offer surfers. The question can be put thus: “Why would a random surfer visit a directory?” The answer for most directories is … there is no reason.

Offline, the Yellow Pages help people find businesses. Search engines fill this role online in a much more effective way than directories ever could. The engines have taken away the raison-d’être of online directories as we know them. Why would you bother digging through 5 levels of a directory – in what may turn out to be an irrelevant category so that you will need to start over – when you could just type your keywords into MSN Live and get your answer instantly?

You wouldn’t.

That’s why directories need to have their purpose re-examined.

As we have just seen, the purpose of a directory offline is to provide searchers with an index of various options relevant to their search. If you look up “cabinet makers” in the yellow pages, you’ll find some phone numbers (and email addresses for the smart cabinet makers) that you can call for more information. In this paradigm, directories function as the starting point of a search.

But directories are obsolete as the starting point of a search in the online world, because of search engines. So what’s a directory to do?

Directories will become the end points of searches, if they want to remain relevant. Rather than list websites, directories will provide answers. The business model is already out there, and you’ve probably seen it around: About and Wikipedia are masters of it. Yes, I’m talking about articles. Not just your uncle’s “Here, go post the text of my brochure on Ezine Articles” type of articles, though.

Presenting … The New Directory: peer-reviewed articles with deeplinking.

The New Directory is a destination, not a starting point. It no longer serves as an intermediary for a person to ask a question to and deliver up an answer from its list of businesses/people. The New Directory serves as a destination where the question is answered. To answer the question, the New Directory relies on articles submitted to it.

Let’s compare About, Wikipedia and Ezine Articles to get a better handle on where the New Directory situates itself.

About and Wikipedia rank on the peaks and summits of the SERPs because they provide genuine value to users. Their articles are well-written, informative and generally feature proper spelling and grammar.

By comparison, Ezine Articles ranks on occasion, but mostly it doesn’t. This is because the overwhelming majority of its articles are of average-to-mediocre quality. The difference is not just in awareness, where Wikipedia will get links to its articles due to brand awareness that Ezine’s lesser brand awareness might not get it. It’s the quality of the writing.

To give you an example, I once found a fairly informative piece on Canada’s Constitution. It almost didn’t get reposted on my site because the grammar and style were such a headache and required so much editing.

Directory Owner Challenge One: Quality Control

The first challenge facing New Directory owners and promoters then is to ensure that the articles their directory features are only high quality pieces. How can that be done?

The solution I offer to ensure quality control is
• anonymous,
• randomized,
• peer-review
• overseen by an editorial team.

(To the folks at Avenue Q: That’s what you can do with a Bachelor of Arts, with an English major.)

Peer Review
I’ll be honest here: this isn’t entirely an original solution. I borrowed the idea from web design forums like Sitepoint (want to review my new corporate site?) where those people who want a review of their website must first review the work of others. I had to review three other sites before I could submit my own for review.

Similarly, The New Directory requires people to read and review other people’s writing before submitting their own. It requires a minimum amount of commentary on certain set aspects of the work – other aspects can also be discussed but there is a baseline set that must be reviewed - and a grade from 0-10, 10 being the best.

For example, The New Directory might ask for a minimum 150 words covering originality, style, grammar, quality of analysis and depth of research. This would then be rounded out by a grade. In this way, the New Directory can ensure a minimum substance to each review.

Anonymous and Randomized

The reviewer’s name is not available to the author, nor is the author’s name available to the reviewer, though both are available to the editors (we’ll get to them in a moment). This ensures that reviews are not biased upwards or downwards based on friendship/adversity/admiration/loathing between parties.

Once an author has written a certain number of reviews, they can submit one article. This article will in turn be randomly distributed to other would-be-submitters for review. Once a minimum number of reviews have been written on the article, it will have its average grade calculated. In order to gain admission into the directory, the average grade must be above a certain mark.

Editorial Oversight

This system is further reinforced by the oversight of human editors. Their role is to control for unusual circumstances and thus
maintain the directory’s quality. They would do this by checking on those articles that narrowly miss admission and those that display some strange characteristic.

Articles that narrowly miss are those within half a mark (a mark if you’re lenient) of the minimum required average. Editors would have the power to admit them to the directory if they deemed them good enough.

Strange characteristics might include oddities like four out of five reviews giving the piece a 10 and the fifth giving it a 3 – a large discrepancy between what most of the reviews said and what one or two of the reviews opined. Overly harsh or lenient reviewers would see their other reviews checked out by editors as well.

Note: Editors’ work should be limited by the fact that this system requires people to write detailed reviews before posting their own article. Further reducing their workload is the fact that potential submitters know that only good writing will be admitted into the directory.

Thus your submitter is someone confident in the quality of the article they’re about to post. And they’re dedicated enough to getting it into the directory that they’ll take the time to write reviews of others’ articles.

The sluggishness and slow-death of the ODP (taken as an example for being the largest human-edited free directory around) is avoided by The New Directory as editors needn’t personally look at each submission, but only at the strange ones. The directory would be regularly populated with new content independent of the editors’ work. Editors’ contribution would just be to help populate The New Directory with even more content.

Directory Owner Challenge Two: Attracting Quality

I’ve just shown that it’s possible to ensure you only accept quality into your directory. But now that you have a moderation system in place, how do you attract quality writers to begin with? You need to give them something they want.

Deeplinks

Most people submit to directories because they want links. That’s why many SEOs were so bothered by Google’s assault on such a great number of the directories that they had relied upon. Previously effective sources of links were now useless.

So attracting quality can be done by giving links to your authors (those whose articles achieve the minimum required grade). But you want to ensure that you offer your visitors good value now that they’re on your site (recall that a random surfer has no reason to visit old-style directories in the era of search engines).

So don’t just let the links be generic: make them deeplinks to quality content the authors posted on their own sites. You can include these in a bio paragraph at the start/end of the article or on a separate author bio page (and rank for the author’s name so that people who look them up will find an answer in your New Directory).

These links will be more valuable to authors than regular directory links for two reasons. First, they will be able to funnel traffic to the authors’ sites, which is the ultimate sign of an editorial quality link. Second, they will link to pages with little outside link popularity.

Alternatives

Other ideas to attract talented writers to submit their pieces to you: Offer cash or prizes for the best article of the week/month. It could get authors to edit their piece a little more thoroughly or even submit a better piece that they had wanted to save for their own site.

Directory Owner Challenge Three: Attract and Retain Editors

The editors of The New Directory are linguistically proficient experts interested in creating/developing a name for themselves as a topical authority. So the first place to look for editors is in places where their writing may already be published. Look at niche magazines, industry-specific websites and so on. Check out About.com and Wikipedia too.

Once you’ve identified your targets, you’ll need to pitch them on becoming editors. The benefit to them is an author bio page accessible from the homepage, with links to their own sites, publications and so on. In addition, they won’t need to write individual reviews before submitting their own articles (since they’ll already be reading plenty of articles as part of their editorial duties) and will see their articles passed on to regular contributors faster – skipping the line, if you will. Again, cash or prizes doesn’t hurt if you have the budget.

Managing Your Editorial Team

Retaining editors could probably be an article in itself. From my own experience as a soccer coach (similar role to human resources) and as a moblog owner/manager, I can suggest generous amounts of recognition, constructive criticism and a relationship that goes beyond strict business.

For instance, I always praised my players when they showed they had acquired a new skill or were working hard at such acquisition. Compliments go a long way, especially when you’re on a budget.

Constructive criticism addresses work done, not persons. You might say: “Way to find those three obscure articles we almost relegated to the bin. Try and do it faster in the future if you can so we get that content available to our users sooner.” Notice that the critique didn’t say they were a slow editor?

Other points of note are that it started with some kind words, to soften the blow. It also avoided the word ‘but’ so that the advice doesn’t come off as criticism (which everyone hates) but rather a suggestion for future improvement (perceived neutrally or as an appreciated tip). Not only will such criticism help you improve your editors’ work, it will motivate them to keep it up as they see somebody is paying attention.

Finally, I recall that with both my coaching and my moblogging, I regularly chatted with my team about non-work issues. For example, some of my players told me about their weekend up north before our semi-final. A fellow blogger would fill me in on the celebs he’d met/spoken to and the important work he was doing at Wikipedia as an admin.

Conclusions on The New Directory

I hope that this article has helped convince you about the direction the directory industry needs to go. Plain old site listing directories are going to die out eventually for all but a worthy core that are already established, because there’s just no more reason for these directories to exist – nobody uses them.

The New Directory gives visitors a reason to surf it by being a destination, rather than a starting point. It answers questions rather than serving as a medium to ask them through.

For its functioning, The New Directory relies on its would-be-submitters to also play the role of reviewers. They will provide the core content of the directory while remaining anonymous to each other [until their article is posted]. Editors will provide some oversight to ensure quality articles don’t somehow get left out.

I don’t pretend to claim that The New Directory is infallible. There are certainly minds more clever than my own out there that could figure out how to spam it despite the quality control system. I wasn’t trying to make the claim that my concept for a new type of directory is spam-proof. All I did was try to incorporate some safeguards into it.

I do think, however, that directories as they currently stand are obsolete old sites in the era of my search engines. My further claim is that by changing their paradigm of the purpose to be served by their directories, directory owners can make their sites relevant to surfers again. And by providing answers – who knows? They might yet reclaim their place as the starting point in a search as people bypass the search engines entirely in favor of their favorite directory. That is The New Directory.

http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1725/1/The-New-Directory-Articles-Peer-Review-and-Deeplinks-/Page1.html

5 Ways To Make Money With Blogs

2007-10-16T05:27:00.000-07:00

There are hundreds of ways to make money on the internet, but most oversee the idea of making money with blogs. Blogs are a great way to promote articles, discuss various ideas, and promote your website itself. However, there are several ways you can make money with blogs as well. Here are 5 ways to make money with blogs.

1. Sell advertising
The most common way people make money with blogs is selling advertising. If you build a large blog you can sell advertising space for people to put their ads on your blog. However, a majority of people aren’t capable of building a blog big enough to do this. That is where Google AdSense and BlogAds can help you. It is free and they pay you based on the number of people that click their ads for further information.

2. Sell your products
A blog is a great place to discuss advice and opinions on various subjects. It can also be a great place to promote your product and tell them how it can benefit them. Whether it’s your blog or someone else’s, look at it as an opportunity to fulfill peoples’ needs, not that you are just selling your product.

3. Affiliate programs
This is a great way to make money with blogs that hardly anyone even considers. By mentioning the product, the affiliate program will provide you with a clickable link to hyperlink the word with. This way if people are interested in your blog post and click on the product word, they are directed to the affiliate program website where you make commission on all products they buy.

4. Sell your website
It may seem cliché because everyone sells their own website and business through blogs. However, it is your approach that can mean the difference of you making money with blogs or not. If you spend the whole time talking you will seem uninterested in others’ insight. If you incorporate others’ thoughts and opinions and strike up a conversation with little bits and pieces about your business, you soon will have them reeled in. By talking about their business and showing interest you will find that more people are interested in your business in turn.

5. Consistency
The more you post the more chances people have to see you and your website link. It is vital that you make one post a day or at minimum a few a week. This way people become accustomed to seeing your posts and hearing your advice or questions. This is a great way to build relationships, which will help you sell your product, share ideas, and promote your website.

If you take the time to put in the effort in blogs you can easily make money with blogs. There are some people that make a living through making money with blogs. However it is commitment, consistency, and your approach that can either break your or make you money with blogs.

http://www.articlejoe.com/Article/5-Ways-To-Make-Money-With-Blogs/27636

How To Determine A Name For Your Business Blog

2007-10-16T05:25:00.000-07:00

The growing popularity of blogging by the general public is making business blogging a necessary marketing tool to stay competitive. There are many factors that can determine the success or failure of business blogging, and how successful it is with the business's target market. These factors include how well the blog is marketed, how easy it is to comprehend the blog content, and how well the blog entices people to take action. Determining the name for the blog is one important factor in driving the right kind of targeted visitors to the business website.

Why the name of the blog is important

The name of your blog is important because it sets the tone for the blog and it is the first line of marketing for your desired visitors. If a business names their blog 'Jim's Blog' or 'Jane's Blog', it isn't descriptive enough for people at a first glance to decide if they even want to visit your blog.

Another important result of how you name your business blog, is that most blogging software will put the name of the blog in the title of the browser. Many search engines will list the title of a web page in their results page. If your blog name isn't very descriptive and accurate, you will risk losing potential customers or prospects coming to your site if they stumble upon your blog from a search engine results page.

Research the keywords for your blog:

This is an important step because you will want to include some keywords in your business blog name to get maximum results. In order to determin which keywords you should use in the name of your blog, you will need to research the viable keywords for your industry. There are many free and paid tools that you can use that will tell you what keyword phrases are being used in searches. This information will tell you what phrases your target market uses to find businesses in your industry.

While performing your research, you will find many results for keyword phrases. The ones you should be most interested in are the keyword phrases that don't have too many words (no more than 4), as we will be adding more to the name if possible. You will also want to pick the keyword phrases that have a relatively high number of total searches for the month (10,000 or more).

Once you have decided upon a few keyword phrases, experiment with some different arrangements of the words to create the beginnings of a compelling business blog name.

Pick a clear benefit of your services to use in your blog name:

You are in business to fill a need or pain for your target market. If you aren't doing that, you won't be in business for long. Pick a clear and concise solution to a problem that your business provides for your target market, and try to incorporate that benefit into the name of your blog. You should end up with a name that will include relevant keywords and also contain a benefit for your clients or customers. Following these steps will give the title of your business blog a more relevant and enticing name.

How to put all the elements together for the name of your business blog:

How do you put together a keyword phrase and a clear benefit to create a powerful blog name? Let us go over an example for the travel industry. We will use a hypothetical company that provides travel insurance to travelers. A common problem for travelers that need travel insurance is to replace lost property and luggage. The benefit of this particular travel insurance business is that it provides coverage that is over and above what the other travel companies provide, or provides a service that makes it quicker and easier to process claims.

Our keyword research for this industry finds that 'travel insurance online' has just over 10,000 total keyword searches for the month (total of all 3 of the major search engines). So in creating the name for the blog, we could call it 'Quick Claims in Online Travel Insurance' or 'More Than You Expect From Online Travel Insurance'. We have included a benefit, and the keyword phrase in one short sentence, and we did not make the name too long to make it look awkward.

As you have seen, the name of your business blog serves a couple of functions. The biggest one is that it can be used to help drive targeted visitors to your website, but the name also plays a role in search engine optimization for your business blog. When choosing a name of your business blog, don't leave out the fact that it should also fit into the branding strategy of your business. Choose wisely and do your research well and you could reap the benefits and rewards for your business.

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Search Engine Algorithm Quandaries

2007-10-15T06:05:00.001-07:00

Before you make drastic changes to your website after a rocky search engine update, take time to study your web server logs, changes in traffic to your site, and your ranking in the search engines.

Making Changes Before Analysis

Making rash decisions when you are hearing one thing then another from forum postings and articles is not the best choice to make. Much of the talk about fluctuations in the search engine rankings is just that--talk. Cold hard facts come from established tests of what is going on and why. Don't jump ship before examining what is going on with your website first. Panic will lead you nowhere.

Let's talk about basic search engine fundamentals you need to know.
Search Engine Rankings Fluctuate

First, you need to know that search engine rankings fluctuate; that is just the way it is. Google is a prime example of ranking changes happening throughout the day. The best way to find out how you are faring is to study the traffic coming to your site over time. Nope, not just a day or two, try a week or two at least to see if your rankings return. A search engine update may last a week before finishing and the rankings settle. Most importantly, are you receiving traffic at your website? Are you still making sales? Okay then, something is working. Don't jump on the "change everything" bandwagon. Pay attention to what is true in regard to your website.
No One Knows Algorithms Like The Search Engines

The truth is much of the talk about organic (natural) search engine marketing information is speculative. The people who know exactly what the search engine is doing are the engineers who created it, and they are not going to give away their secrets. This means that understanding what happens when updates occur may be difficult to pin down. Keeping tabs with leaders in the industry through articles, forum postings and blogs may give you a general idea of what is happening. Take that information and then apply it to what is actually happening with your website traffic and sales.

You Need A Log Statistics Program

If you do not take anything else away with you from this article be sure you heed this advice: you need a log statistics program in place. With a good log statistics program you will be able to see various reports showing the number of unique visits taking place on your website, what keyword phrases visitors use to find your pages, what pages are being visited, which search engines are being used to find your website, and much more. Knowing what the "normal" website traffic of your website is will give you a good idea of what may be actually changing over time when updates do occur.

Resubmitting Doesn't Help

Don't resubmit your web pages in the crush of an update. Search engines have crawlers, known as search engine robots or spiders, that are able to pick up a web page through links in order to add it to the search engine databases. For this reason you do not need to submit your pages to search engines anymore. Even if you mysteriously go from "top ten" to number 500 in the rankings, the fact that you are still listed means that you are still in the search engine's database, and you do not need to resubmit. Watch search engine robot activity in your server logs and you will be able to see when your web pages are being revisited by the robots.

Google PageRank Should Not Rule Your Life

So many people fixate on Google's PageRank. I suggest you should be more concerned about the traffic coming to your website, sales, the amount of content on your site and the number of on topic or directory backlinks you have acquired. PageRank is part of a much bigger equation of over 100 ways in which Google evaluates your website. Don't forget about the traffic that comes from the other search engines as well. Google may not always be the leader in search engines, keep current with the other major search engine players in the industry.

Common Sense Makes Sense

Use common sense. If you are a small business you can ill afford to make changes that may adversely affect your bottom line. Observation and patience will gain you more than quick fixes. In my experience, the true test of an update is watching the search engine results settle over at least a week or two worth of time. Let the dust settle, analyze the situation, and see what happens from there.

Moderation may be helpful, whether in gaining backlinks, making website changes or your reactions to changes. Don't panic. If it isn't broken...don't fix it.

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The Secret of Black hat seo

2007-10-13T00:49:00.001-07:00

Are your seo efforts at a standstill while everyone else seems to be getting results? Maybe it's time to take some tips from the guys that know the limits of optimization and the benefits of playing in the grey area.

So let's see what black hats do to get traffic:

1. Go for the long tail - black hats do this because it's easier to rank for a 4,5 or even 6 keyword search that has no direct competition than it is to rank for a search phrase that has hundreds of thousands or millions of results.

Of course, spam sites have the advantage of massive numbers of pages, so even if that page only brings one visitor per month it's still enough - spam sites are created in only a couple of hours and usually have from 30 000 pages and up.

But if you keep writing daily (or even more than once a day), it will add up. This brings us to the next point:

2. The money's in the archives - although some visitors will first see the main page of your site, many more will first see one of the inside pages as these will be the ones that come up for specific, long tail searches.

With each page you publish you increase your chances that at least one more visitor will find your site and more importantly, if it's a good resource, it will more than pay for itself by getting backlinks from many different sites that will diversify your inbound links profile.

3. Small degrees of separation - this is one of the best methods for writing new content: if you have a page on a certain subject just write another that has some differences.

For example: you've just written an article on how to promote a site on Digg - now write another on how to promote on Del.icio.us, and yet another on how to promote your site on Slashdot (of course, don't just change the names and URLs, you actually have to change the article a little bit).

Please understand this: if you have a 30 page site don't put up 10 pages that resemble each other very much. By doing this you'll surely trip a duplicate content filter.

4. Comment spam but without the spam - let's face it: black hats are synonymous with spammers. They rely on comment and guestbook spamming to get their huge websites indexed and this proves one thing that i've tested and found to be true: even "no-follow" links have the power to rank and index your site, although most optimizers say these are useless.

What to do: find 10 or 15 blogs that are on the same subject as your site and start contributing with valuable information. Don't spam, don't say "Nice blog!" every time just to get a link! You must actually participate.

5. Create (legitimate) doorway pages - this is a great method for link building and actually getting customers while your site is in the sandbox or not ranking very good.

A very good example is Squidoo.com: it's a very powerful site with lots of link juice that lets you create pages on almost any subject. Start by creating 10 or 12 pages with unique content on various subjects that match your site and then place various links to your site on the Squidoo pages you have created.

Even better, you can actually create a very big network of pages which you can logically structure as a homepage with categories and product pages - it's allowed, encouraged and in the end very good for you.

Now think of other powerful sites on which you can put your content: Blogger, Google Base, Wordpress.com, Xanga, Livespace and many more.

6. Blog and ping - this is very simple and yet a very good method to get indexed fast. Each time you write a new article go to Pingoat.com, put in the name of the article and the url and ping away. You'll be indexed in no time!

Apply these tips now and just watch your rankings improve and traffic increase!

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Optimizing with Firefox

2007-10-13T00:47:00.000-07:00

One piece of software any optimizer should love is Firefox. Now some may say "Why Firefox, it's only a browser?" Yes, it's a browser, but one that supports a big variety of plugins, some of them very useful for search engine optimization. So let's see what those plugins are:

1. SEOpen ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/570/ ): this is one of the best and most used Firefox seo plugins, and has many tools that make it a favorite of mine. So let's see what it can do:

* in Google it can check for: backlinks, indexed pages, related pages, cache and PageRank.
* in Yahoo and MSN: backlinks and indexed pages.
* for Alexa: overview, traffic details, backlinks and related sites.
* keyword density of the most used words on the page.
* DMOZ checker: see if the site is included in the directory.
* check for robots.txt.
* validator to check your page for errors (it uses the validator from www.w3.org).

There are other things, but these are the most important.

2. SEO Links
( http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-tools/firefox-extensions/seo-links/ ) is another extension I use everyday. When the extension si active and you hover over a link a tooltip will appear that will show you Yahoo, MSN, and Google link popularity and ranking data for the URL and anchor text pair. When you're simply browsing this can be annoying, but you can simply deactivate it with a right-click!

This could be very easily used to check your search engine rankings for a certain page, and here is how: write up a list with all the keywords and keyphrases that you want to rank for, and then link those words or phrases to the web pages associated with them!

Now every time you want to check your ranks activate the SEO Links extension and hover over the links -- you will see where your pages are in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

3. Don't waste anymore of your precious screen real estate just to find out what your PageRank and AlexaRank is! SearchStatus ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/321/ ) can sit anywhere you want (I keep it in the status bar) and you'll receive the precious info at a glance. But this little tool can do a lot more than that:

* it shows what metatags a site has
* checks for backlinks and indexed pages in Google, Yahoo and MSN
* it shows the robots.txt file
* keyword density report function
* and best of all: the highlight "nofollow" links will show you what links will be followed by search engine spiders -- very useful when you want to submit your site to a directory and don't know if it will matter from a seo perspective.

So in case you're not using Firefox, go get it! It could be your best friend when it comes to search engine optimization!

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Tips for Choosing a SEO Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=509534821990831325

2007-10-13T00:46:00.000-07:00

Even if you have a good knowledge of SEO & you try hard to get a good ranking, your site doesn’t do well. It is simply because your site needs to be optimized & maintained on a regular basis. It is a ongoing process which requires a lot of time. So, in this case, it is advisable to hire a Search Engine Optimization Company in UK for your website.

There are many search engine marketing company in uk but choosing a right internet marketing service in uk is the most important. Here are some of the main points that should be kept in mind while selecting SEO services.

Do they provide website analysis report – a good semcompany will provide you a complete analysis of your site regarding what all needs to be done. The hampering elements in reading & indexing of your pages can be in functionality, page design & its content.

Do they understand “traffic” and “qualified” traffic – if unqualified traffic is coming to your site due to irrelevant keywords, then it will not be productive for you. They need to work on relevant keywords.

Tools to determine keywords – what tools they use for searching keywords. What methodology they use for keyword analysis? There are suggestion tools provided by google adwords or they use basic tools.

Collecting back links – from where they get back links as back links are very important for good SEO working. They should have it from good sites only.

Cost structure – a good SEO company will give the costing after analyzing the work involved. High prices do not ensure high quality always. Prices should be consistent with the services provided by the company.

Timeline involved – If sheer hard work & proper planning is involved then only results can be achieved in time. Some SEO packages claim to get first page result in 10 days. No SEO company can guarantee you of no. 1 ranking in Google in just 10 days. This is the guideline published by even google. So, beware of false promises.

There could be some other factors too but the main thing is that if you’re looking for long term SEO partners for your site, you should get some knowledge about it. SEO services enable your site to get maximum exposure within search engines and it means more prospective traffic to your site. A Website marketing company will analyze the overall functionality of your site. Links are very important in website optimisation. A good SEO company can also give an off-page optimisation linking strategy. But a linking strategy is a long term process. So, now-a-days SEO packages do not include this.

Your SEO services should not be secretive of their services. If it does something deceptive on your behalf, your site could be out from Google’s indexing. And later you will be in trouble. So, getting familiar with some knowledge on search engine optimisation will help you to choose a right search engine company for your website.

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KEYwords: Are the Key to SEO

2007-10-13T00:45:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization will help increase the traffic generated by your online business‘ website or Web page by ranking high on search engine results, and one way that this can be achieved is through the use of appropriate keywords in describing content to your website or Web page. In order to optimize and improve your website‘s search engine result so that you can increase your online business‘ chances of gaining profit, you must be able to draw targeted traffic to your website. Keep in mind that people who are searching in the Internet find websites and Web pages that are easier to find more appealing, which is why making your site easier to locate in different search engines will help your online business draw in more potential customers.

It is important to remember that already a lot of online businesses are using SEO, so in order for you to beat your competition in SEO, you must be able to know what keywords and criterion to use in order to improve your search engine results ranking. Using the appropriate keywords will help you share your site‘s content to a lot of Web users who are also searching for similar content. This will also help inform people of your site‘s content even before they visit your site. Keep in mind that people will most likely overlook your website even if your site ranks high in the search engine results if they are unable to derive what your site‘s content is through your keywords.

Using good keywords and their placement are essential in how your site is going to place in search engine results. So it is important that you use only relevant and appropriate keywords to your site in order to get the most traffic. Aside from this, it is also important to constantly use them all throughout your website‘s content and text. You can use description and keyword tags whenever you can, especially on certain page elements such as page titles, headers, links, whenever possible. Try to avoid, however, spamming unrelated, different, or grossly repetitive keywords in a single page as this can have a negative impact to your ranking. Make sure that you only use text or keywords that you want your potential customers to read.

Common SEO Mistakes

There are some online business owners who commit the mistake of ignoring their keyword selection, which is actually the most crucial factor in SEO. When they do take a notice to it, they sometimes do not use good choices of keywords, choosing very general keywords, or keywords that not a lot of people would be searching instead of using specific keywords in what they are optimizing. If a lot of your competitors are using the same keywords, then it is best that you try to find an alternative that will still bring traffic to your site.

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High Search Engine Ranking Is a Result of Focused Effort

2007-10-13T00:44:00.001-07:00

High search engine rankings have always been sought after since the day search engines have been initiated. Users have tried from the very beginning to get high search engine rankings in Search Engine Result Pages. Initially, the techniques of search engines were quite easy with stuffing keywords or using invisible text on the pages. However, after the search engines caught these tactics, the technology of achieving high search engine rankings has changed into more complicated methodologies.

The fact is that search engines establish ranking criteria based upon widespread study of their users. Most often, the sites which don’t have high search engine rankings don’t provide the visitors with the stuff that the search engines give importance. A web designer or business owner can’t expect a better search engine ranking unless and until he has got the knowledge of what the visitors want from his site.

The webmasters need to put informative content on the pages. You should not centre your search engine techniques on taking an existing site and making little changes for the sole purpose of achieving high search engine rankings. It should somewhat centre around making essential changes to directly address the interest of your visitors. While working on your site you should keep in mind that visitors are of prime importance and you will be rewarded with high search engine rankings by the search engines.

For High search engine rankings you also need to make sure that your website gets fully indexed. There are basically two main ways to make your site spider friendly and that the relevancy is added. Firstly, to place text links at the bottom of your home page to your main internal pages. The second thing is to create a sitemap to all internal pages and link to it from your home page.

All major search engines consider quality external inbound links to a site to be one of the criteria to get high search engine ranking. The first place to seek links is with topic-specific directories. Afterwards you may move to reciprocal link building. While reciprocal link building, some of the webmasters link to any of the sites that link back to them. But it is always advisable to link to sites that are relevant.

If your web designer is not able to give you satisfactory result in getting high search engine rankings, it is high time you should opt for a change. Search engine optimization (SEO) specialists like auroin.com brings effective solutions for your site to obtain high search engine rankings. You need to find a specialist with good track record and get in the result.

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7 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Links

2007-10-13T00:42:00.000-07:00

Link building in a nutshell, is the process of getting other web sites and web pages to link to your web site. These links will not only drive direct targeted traffic to your pages; but more importantly will increase your overall search engine visibility and rankings. Building a solid incoming linking structure for your site is one of the most effective techniques used by search engine optimization professionals to improve your search engine rankings and boost the overall amount of traffic any given web page receives. However the process of building incoming links to your site can be a daunting and tedious task when just getting started. The purpose of this essay is to outline the importance of building a strong linking profile for your site as well as offer a handful of key strategies that any webmaster regardless of marketing budget can employ to climb to the top of the search engine ladder.

1.) Purchasing Links & Sponsored Reviews

Paying other web masters to place a link on their site back to yours is probably the easiest and most straight forward way to generate links to your site. However the down-side of purchasing or renting links from other web masters is that it can become a very expensive venture, not to mention you need to pick and choose your potential candidates vary carefully. There are many services out there to help connect you with other web masters that are interested in selling links from their web pages, however you will save yourself a lot of time, and money by working directly with other web masters as apposed to paying a middle man to act as a link broker. Unfortunately there is no set standard on determining what any given link is worth: however you should pay careful attention to a few key factors before cracking open your wallet and spending your hard earned money on a paid link. These things include but are not limited to the number of incoming links the candidate site itself has, it‘s overall page rank, the age of the site and finally the search engine saturation (number of pages indexed in the major search engines) of the site. When approaching a web master to purchase links from make your goals as clear as day - and ensure that he or she knows you‘re interested in purchasing a link for Search Engine Optimization reasons. You need to ensure the link will not be cloaked (hidden from search engine spiders) or nofollowed (marked to inform search engines not to follow the link with the rel=“nofollow“ attribute) as either of these conditions will make the link relatively worthless from an SEO stand point.

2.) Comment and Post on Related Blogs & Message Boards

Even a web novice can find a litany of blogs and message boards for any given niche or market to post comments and feed back . I strongly encourage you to register on message boards related to your topic or subject and include links within the signature of your posts and messages. The same goes for blogs and commenting. There are many blogs that will allow you to include a link back to your site either within the content of your message, or make your user name a clickable link back to your site. However there is a fine line between spamming and offering valid comments, posts and responses to community based web sites and blogs. Making obvious spam posts such as “Cool site, check my site out at ...“ will likely get your IP address banned from the web site or network, and can negatively impact the reputation of your brand or web site. If you don‘t have a valuable view point, or comment to offer other readers of the site you‘re posting on, you‘re better off not commenting at all.

3.) Write User Testimonials & Product Reviews

Writing user reviews or testimonials is an under appreciated technique to create a wealth of back links to your site. Most often when you write a review for a product or service you‘ve had success with, the web master will include a link back to your site in the signature of the review. This technique is simple and straight forward; if you‘ve purchased a product or service write up a short 100 - 300 word review for the product outlining it‘s strengths and your positive experiences and include your full name, and web site address in the signature of the review. Nine out of ten times the web master of the site you‘ve written the testimonial for will be more than happy to include and activate the link when they post the review onto their website.

4.) Develop a Free Online Service or Software Application

Most people wouldn‘t even consider spending their valuable time developing an application or online utility to give away for free. However the benefits of creating and distributing a free online utility or software application can create several 1,000 back links to your site very quickly. A perfect example of this is creating a small, easy to use Mortgage Calculator with javascript and offer the code to embed the Mortgage Calculator onto other web pages. Include a link back to your site within the coding of the Mortgage Calculator perhaps in a copyright statement at the bottom of the application and require the link as a condition for using your free application.

5.) Write Articles and Distribute Them Online

Assuming this isn‘t the first essay you‘ve read on improving the amount of links to your web site, you should be well aware that writing articles and submitting your articles to the popular article directories is a fantastic way to generate many back links to your web site. The premise is simple yet effective; Write a handful of articles geared toward your topic and subject matter and distribute them to the many article directories on the Internet. Often times when your article is posted on these article directory sites they will include an authors bio, or resource box. Within the authors bio area you want to include a little information about your company or product(s) as well as a link back to your site. Whenever your article is picked up by other web masters or syndicated across other popular web sites you will receive a free one way link back to your site. Repeat these steps over and over to build several 1,000 links back to your web site. This is an amazing technique as your only investment is a little time to write and submit an article.

6.) Submit Your Site to Directories

Over the past few years links from directories or web indexes has become less and less valuable. However there are still a handful of well trusted and high quality directories that you should consider submitting your site to. This will boost both your linking profile, as well as your page and trust rank. Some of the most notable directories to submit your web site to in no particular order are DMOZ, The Yahoo! Business Directory, JoeAnt, Gimpsy, GoGuides, Linkopedia and Uncoverthenet. Though most of the directories l‘ve mentioned here are not free to submit to, the cost of submission is well worth the price as the links you‘ll receive from this investment are quality one-way links that carry a good amount of page trust and rank. When submitting your site to any of these directories, pay special attention to the category you are submitting your web address to, make sure that you are submitting your site to the most relevant, and related topic to the subject of your own web site. As this will ensure that you‘re submission is not denied, or skipped by the directory editors once it gets reviewed.

7.) Exchange Links and Build Partnerships

Link exchanges or trading links with other web masters is another technique that has lost a little of it‘s gusto over the years, however this method of generating back links does still hold a bit of value and should not be overlooked. Many webmasters dedicate a page of their site titled references or resources and use this page to link out to other web pages that have agreed to link back to their site. As mentioned above this technique is not as effective as it once was; however picking and choosing web sites that are well trusted and ranked by the search engines and that are related to the topic and subject mater of your own site promise to be well worth the effort. Finding other web sites that are prime candidates to exchange links with are those that are linking out to other relevant sites in your field or niche. Once you‘ve found a web site that you‘d be interested in swapping links with, contact the web master via email with your offer. When soliciting another web master for a link you want to write a personal email message and refer to specific content and aspects of his or her web site. Doing so will show the prospective linking partner that you‘ve actually taken the time to give their site the once over before sending your solicitation; as a result you will be far more likely to receive a positive reply. As with purchasing paid links you want to ensure that the site you are requesting to exchange links with doesn‘t end up cloaking it‘s outbound links (hidden from search engine spiders) or nofollowed (marked to inform search engines not to follow the link with the rel=“nofollow“ attribute) as either of these conditions will make your link relatively worthless from an SEO stand point.

In this article we‘ve discussed 7 of the most effective, and commonly used methods to generate a massive amount of incoming links to your web site. With any luck, after reading this article you should have a handful of ideas and techniques in your tool box that you can employ to kick-start your web site‘s model for success. Building links to your web site is by no means a set-it and forget-it facet of web marketing and requires time, dedication and ongoing analysis. You can never have too many quality incoming links to your site and once you‘ve had a small taste of success with link building I‘m confident you‘ll be hungry for more.

About Author:

Jeff Spicher has been practicing web design and developing Internet marketing campaigns for 10 years and runs a web design and search engine marketing firm called Coastal Web Innovations. visit our web site at: www.coastalwebinnovations.com