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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Search engine optimization tips for 2005 - part one
- Anybody who has their own website or is involved in business online understands the importance of SEO or search engine optimization. Higher rankings equal more traffic. More traffic equals more potential sales. Simple, eh? Or is it?The problem here is that most people think search engine optimization is like magic and that only search engine "gurus" have all the answers.Forunately, f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why optimize your site for search engines?
- Sometimes a search engine optimization company will miss that glaring question posed by potential clients and assume the benefits of search engine optimization are obvious to everyone. While shelling out a couple thousand on an SEO campaign is common sense to some, others may find it hard to part with the cash unless they know it is an investment in their business that is sure to bring a good retu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What constitutes a complete and effective seo campaign?
- Unfortunately, not many Search Engine Optimization companies know what this involves. You may see a "one size fits all" package, link popularity development in the form of submitting to link farms, or even the dreaded "Submit Your Site to 1000's of Search Engines" scam. While the basic premise of each of these ideas is true, the execution of them is extremely important.First of all, your we...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 basic rules for where to place your keywords
- First of all, Google and most other search engines do NOT look at the META keyword tag. Many people say not to bother with it, but I use the META keyword tag and I place my keyword phrases in it. Here's why. I use this tag to help me remember what keyword phrases I am optimizing the page for. You'll find this to be a big help later when you have a lot of pages and have forgotten what keyword phras...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Search engine optimization for beginners
- If you are confused about terms like "search engine optimization" or having a "search engine friendly" site, then listen up! I am here to help.Depending on how long you have had, or considered having, a website online, you have heard terms thrown around like the above or even worse, acronyms! SEO comes to mind.Really there is not that much to fear even if you have no idea right now w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The top 3 mistakes that can ruin your websites search engine rankings- and how to fix them!
- Getting your website up and running is hard enough. After spending hours getting the HTML code just right and trying to make sure that you provide a great user experience, the last thing you want to do is change everything around in order to get your site ranked higher on the search engines. Follow these tips from the beginning and you'll see the benefits.1) Not changing the title tag from ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Finding the right seo company
- I often talk to people who have lost faith in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms because of bad experiences. Either they saw no results, felt that they were tricked into subscribing to a service that could not work, or that they wasted money on a firm that did them no good. Although I agree that there are bad SEO firms out there, I know that there are also many good ones. It's your job to make...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do not drop your web site off the search engine cliff
- If you've been feeling like Tom Cruise climbing up the side of some remote jagged mountain in the blazing hot sun and concerned you're facing "mission impossible", chances are you own a web site.Adding to the intense thrill of web site ownership are keyword comparisons and bidding for good keyword positions in search engines. You might hire a search engine optimization specialist who can tr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google love - five top tips to make google love your site
- 1. Google love ...Google and all its programming is not some form of enemy - unless you are a piece of web scum, that is.Google is based on the idea that it should help people FIND WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR.That's all.Sit with the statement above. Meditate upon it if necessary. Use EFT.But UNDERSTAND that a pointless site that has no unique content will NEVER get...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Meta tags explained and how to use them for ranking
- The META tags are used to provide extra information about a web page. There was once a time where a good search engine ranking could be achieved by simply changing the value of the META tags. However these days are long gone. Nowadays the META Tags are decreasing in importance in the eyes of the search engines who are using more sophisticated methods of ranking pages (namely link popularity, optim...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seo deadly sins - mistakes that hurt web page ranking
- The following are a list of mistakes can ensure that your site maintains a low ranking with the search engines. Avoid at all costs.* Specifying no title for your page *I cannot stress how important the title of a web page is. Failing to specify a descriptive, keyword optimized title will do untold damage to your ranking with the search engines. It is the equivalent to owning a shop a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Directories and their importance for search engine rankings
- About directories:A directory is simply a web site that contains a categorized listing of links from around the web. They aid surfers to locate the 'best' and most informative links for a particular category. For example a category may be called 'Home and Garden' and in this category there is list of links about home improvement and gardening. Directories consist of a collection of categori...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make a title tag that search engines will love
- Making the following changes to your title tag can help improve ranking and increase targeted traffic to your website:Include keyword phrases in your title tag:Think of a title tag as the name above a shop. Imagine you are walking down a busy street with shops on either side of you. However every shop window is boarded up and all that is visible is its name. You mean to purchase a ne...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Link popularity explained and how to build links
- Link popularity is the single most influential factor for determining how well a web site will perform in search engine rankings. A web site's link popularity is computed from the number and more importantly, the quality of links pointing to a web site.Link Popularity historyTo gain a better understanding of link popularity it is useful to know why it became so crucial for search eng...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 things to keep an eye on in the seo world in 2005...
- After the latest PR update at Google and MSN's beta search going live, there is one thing for certain in 2005: the world of search is in for some major changes. There has been growing speculation around the SEO world that reciprocal linking is a thing of the past. Rumors are abound that PR means less and less, if anything. Bill Gates came out of his cave to say that "Today's search is nothing...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google vs. yahoo -- how to rank high on each one
- Google likes incoming links, especially links from high-ranking, on-topic pages that include keywords in the link text. Google doesn't like over-optimized, high keyword densities and over use of keywords in headings, etc. like they use to.Yahoo, on the other hand, looks at on-page factors more, such as keyword density, keywords in headings, etc. That is where the problem comes in.Of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tips on optomizing your website for search engines
- I wish to give a few little tips, about optimizing. You may find it quite useful, depending on the type of website you have.This is it; basically, when you optimize a website, you first want to enter at least 30 keywords into the 'head' of your web page. No problem there.The next step in optimizing is that you must put each of your keywords into the text of your web page at least 4 t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google: the ultimate web writer?s style guide
- Indulge me for a moment.Forget that Google is a search engine. Just for a moment, imagine it is a style guide. A very different kind of style guide.Instead of this particular style guide being written as a static book by an expert or two, it is written by studying the searching and browsing habits of hundreds of millions of web users.Get the idea? Not a search engine. A style ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Link building services
- In today scenario when we talk about Search Engine Optimization, we also talk about one of the most important aspect of SEO, which is Link Building. But there are different types, aspects and limitations of Link Building, which would be discussed now under1.Types of Link Building: I would be explaining this factor in a more understandable manner with giving some examples with Site1, Site2 a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - All about google
- If you read The Search Engine Showdown, you know Google is my favourite search engine. Why? Google always offers the most results for any given search (they currently have over 8 billion pages indexed), it's faster than the Audi Quattro we test drove this morning, and 9 times out of ten, in my experience, all the fro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The search engine showdown
- If you're anything like me, you have a favourite search engine and you're loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research difficult for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-all and you even go so far as to deny any shortcomings it may have. But is your search engine truly the best? Inspired by a great article at the BBC News (BBC News: Search Wars), we decided to compar...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your online home-based business can lead to search engine stress
- As a member of several search engine optimization forums, I have recently noticed (especially since Yahoo recently decided to try their hand at competing with Google) that the stress level of many webmasters has gone way up. This applies not only to webmasters involved in Internet-based home businesses, but to webmasters in general.Additionally, it seems that many people that are in the bus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The life blood of internet-based home businesses...search engines
- Anyone involved in an Internet-based home business will soon come to recognize the importance of search engines as a vehicle to attract potential customers.Since the inception of Google in 1998, the popularity of using search engines has increased dramatically. Nielsen NetRatings reports that about 114.5 million Americans, or a whopping 39 percent of the US population, currently use search ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Using blogs for seo
- Why Start A Blog?I knew about blogging and blogs for years before I actually started my first blog... So this begs the question... "Why did it take me over 4 years to start my 1st blog?"Well, why would I want a blog? After all, blogs are just for geeks, self opinionated left or right wing zealots pushing some obscure political agenda, teenage school kids waffling on about their zits ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The first search engine marketing method: content that meets customers needs
- For your business web site, good search engine rankings and high user traffic depend on relevant content. More user traffic will mean more sales leads and then more sales. Beyond any technical tricks, content that meets the users' need for three types of information is the best guarantee that search engines and users will find your site. The Google and Yahoo page rankings favor sites that have art...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Search engine optimization with sitemaps
- I just wanted to share a little Search Engine Optimization experiment I ran to confirm the theory that Google likes content rich sitemap pages rather than just a bunch of links pointing to different pages on your site. I also wanted to look at a way of funnelling Google page rank to all the internal pages on my site as quickly as possible I have heard from a few search engine optimizat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to improve your search engine ranking
- With search engines like Google currently indexing over 8 billion pages, it is becoming more and more difficult to get a top search engine ranking. Type in a popular search phrase such as "Internet Marketing" into Yahoo or Google and you will be returned over 8 million results!Unless your website is in the first two or three pages, it is unlikely that you will receive many visitors from sea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An seo checklist
- Would you like a checklist of the important steps to take in optimizing a web site? Well, here it is:1. Use a keyword research tool to find profitable phrases (i.e. those that are actually being searched for).2. Build each page optimized for a single keyword phrase. Also sprinkle in some secondary keywords relevant to the main keyword.3. Link your web site together so that all...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Have you been dropped by yahoo?
- Yahoo has fairly recently updated its guidelines. You can read the full list at:http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.htmlI thought that a few points were of great interest to you because we have discussed these issue in the past when describing the best way to future-proof your site against search engine algorithm changes.Here are some of the new guidelines:...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google - pr & backlinks
- Here are some observations that I have made recently:1. On several of my own sites, I have some pages with zero page rank despite having links pointing to them PR 5 pages on the same site. These pages are now 2-3 months old. Shouldn't they have PR by now?2. Most of these pages rank well despite the apparent PR 0.3. Doing searches on Google show up a lot of anomalies. Many top ...