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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Copywriters: make friends with search engine optimization
- I don't know about you, but I felt a lot of internal resistance when it was first suggested to me that I write 'for' the search engines. Years of training and habit, and a lot of pride, turned me against the idea of adjusting or changing my copy to suit 'spiders'. It's about the reader, not some computer. Right? The whole thing smelled of compromise to me. And as us ego-driven writer...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Content management systems eyeball seos
- Content Management Systems and search engine optimization (SEO) used to be mutually exclusive terms. But the SEO community has been driving the developers of Content Management Systems to integrate more SEO-friendly methodology within their systems.Content Management Systems (CMS) are a hot topic right now with many corporate websites are turning to these systems to handle thousands of page...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Hens lay eggs (hle) by silke stahl
- "HLE" is a bit of a joke term, (or possible tongue in cheek could be a better label) coined in my Network Marketing Group - it stands for "Hens Lay Eggs" and is a take on the exponential growth theory - recruit two people, who recruit two, etc, and in six weeks you'll have 50,000 people sending you $250,000 - the false promise of MLM.The MLM exponential growth chart makes sense ma...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google page rank is dead - or is it? - part i
- For a long time now, marketing gurus all over the world have been talking about google page ranking. Page ranking is simply Google's way of measuring your pages accordingly.But there is a problem...More and more we tend to see NO consistency with page ranking at all. Please don't confuse the difference between "page ranking" & "search engine ranking". The two are completely di...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Linking for traffic not positioning!
- With more and more experts and search engine enthusiastsclaiming the right way and the wrong way to handle linkswapping, link exchanging or reciprocal linking! You can tell something is important when there is more thanone name for it! GRIN! There are also two schools of thought on the reasons linkswapping. The first reason for link swapping has always been to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google slavery...old habits die hard
- For the first few months after Yahoo decided to go their own way with natural search (and MSN decided to get serious about the search business), the search results provided by those two could only be described as bizarre. Enough time has now passed that the dust has somewhat settled and there are three main (from a traffic standpoint) sites for quality natural searches.The term "natural sea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Five short quick tips on web page titles
- By Catherine FranzSearch engine spiders read and record page titles first. Here are five tips on how you can get the search engine spiders to read your titles and use them in their optimization process:1. Character count is important: Google's maximum character count for page titles is 83. Yahoo's maximum character count is 111.2. Don't use filler words like: and, for, the. Th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Linking for fun and profit
- Well actually, linking isn't fun at all. In fact, it's quite tedious. Seeking, responding to requests and adding links takes time and effort. But, if you're not actively building links the RIGHT way you are going to be left behind. In other words, your site will be "Lost in Cyberspace". The plain fact is Google, and to a lesser extent, other important search engines, reward sites with links from r...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Link popularity pitfalls
- As we all know Google uses their PageRank technology to measure link popularity by counting the number of inbound links to your web pages, and it is one of the many factors influencing your ranking. Most website owners do not utilize properly what PageRank they already have. Their linking campaigns could be in vain if they let a large number of outbound links drain their existing PageRank. If thei...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An seo checklist
- Search engine optimization is on every webmaster's mind these days. Achieving a favorable ranking for the right keywords can mean a steady stream of targeted traffic to your site, and all for free - that's hard to beat. The key to high search engine rankings is structuring your website correctly, including plenty of content that is relevant to your keywords, and making sure your website is spider-...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beyond search engines
- Some webmasters report that search engines account for 75% or more of their total website traffic. However, it's important not to become too dependent on search engines for new business. Achieving a top listing from a major search engine is becoming more and more difficult over time. The competition for top spots is intense and it's getting harder every day to get listed at all. Also more and more...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Abandoned by google! googlebot, wherefore art thou googlebot?
- As a search engine optimization specialist I often optimize existing web pages for small business clients, upload them to the site and see pages re-indexed by Google within a week. This only happens with existing business sites that have been online for a few years. Google seems to be updating their index as often as every other week at this point and older established sites that are already index...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beyond hits!
- Your Website visitor reports are a goldmine of information. If you don't review these on a regular basis, you can't fully evaluate the return on your Web investment. And, you could miss critical clues as to how user-friendly your site is, how effectively your message reaches your visitors, and what unmet needs they may have. But the reports can be overwhelming - a confusing mass of graphs, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are search engines worth it any more?
- The "Number One" Question - the question that I (and probably every other Internet marketing expert on the planet) am most frequently asked: "How do I get to be Number One in the search engines for widgets? After all, my company is the world's leading provider of widgets - it's ridiculous that these other nobody companies are coming up in search engines ahead of us . . . &quo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Owning your category online - is our website broken?
- "Owning your business category online is more than just a few keywords... Is your website broken?"Let's face it, the Internet is a crowded place... and it's becoming even more crowded as you read this. Your business can't stand still online, and you can't afford to look backwards. Qualified, targeted traffic generation is what we all desire. Owning your category online goes a long way in pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is the google sandbox effect?
- In the age of fair competition you may find it hard to believe that a search engine may hinder the appearance of a new website. This is what is currently believed to be happening on more web servers today. Some programmers have viewed Google as uncomfortable to rank newer websites until they have proven their viability to exist for more than a period of "x" months. Thus the term "Sa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is pagerank?
- Chances are you have been on the Internet and have been surfing in and out of websites looking for valuable information pertaining to a favorite topic or researching a subject for school or work. As you type in keyword(s) you match the information you are searching for on Google, you come up with 10,000 pages of information. It's virtually impossible to go through every one, so you refine your sea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is the google dance?
- As with any good web developer, the ability to time the changes Google will update your website and refresh the content for better SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is in your favor. Welcome to the world of "Google Dance". The Google Dance is simply that the predetermination of when the actual update will commence. What really happens is Google sends out spiders to crawl the Intern...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Got spiders?
- Many internet marketers blow mountains of start-up cash on their websites just trying to break into search engine rankings. I was one of these internet marketers.I spent cash on get-rich-quick submission services that claimed they would submit my page to thousands of seach engines. . .for a small fee. I spent money to get registered with big name search engines. I even spent money on search...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Emarketing sabotage - top 10 steps to kill your search engine marketing practices
- We at America Web Works find ourselves amazed at the amount of effort people spend trying to fool or manipulate their positioning in search engines. People seem to focus on the shortcuts to success and NOT on their Web site or the true value their content provides to their prospects.In the spirit of educating marketers about best practices, we present this list of ten things you can do to s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to design a search engine friendly website
- There are many websites that fail to target their required traffic, even if they've had some search engine optimisation work done. One of the main causes for this is simply because the website isn't search engine friendly. This is a basic essential that needs to be incorporated into the design of all websites at the outset ? think of it as the foundation to establishing your search engine optimisa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Search engine marketing 101 for corporate sites
- When most people want to find something on the web, they use a search engine. Millions of searches are conducted every day on search engines such as: google.com, yahoo.com, msn.com and many others. Some people are looking for your website. So how do you capture people searching for what your site has to offer? Through techniques called search engine marketing (SEM). This tutorial is founda...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Choosing a good domain name isnt always so simple.
- So you need a domain name for your brand new internet business. You may even have some cool ideas for a new domain name combination that will really impress your friends. Question is, is your new domain name going to help your business or hurt it?What could be simpler than choosing a domain name right? Wrong. There are a number of things you need to consider and research before you register...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your website title could be costing you money
- Nothing could be simpler than the title you give to your web pages right? Unfortunately, the vast majority of the websites I visit these days have absolutely terrible titles that hurt their online business. The title of your website is a very important part of getting good rankings on most of the major search engines. A good title also goes a long way towards getting your prospects to click on you...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The budget webmaster?s 6 step guide to improving existing rankings in google
- The Budget Webmaster's 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in GoogleYou know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren't getting more clicks, and you find out that you're ranked in the 30's, 50's, or heaven forbid, the 300's. "Great", you think, "I finally get ranked for a good keyword and it's a worth...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - If content is king, then surely relevance is queen!
- There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the searchengine world of late and there are lots of conspiracytheories as to why these things happen. It is easy as a webmaster to get caught up in these webs ofintrigue. You get email notes about them, you view so-called experts'thoughts on bulletin Boards - hey you probably even readthings in newsletter articles!...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Get better search engine rankings with rss
- RSS is the latest craze in online publishing. But what exactly is RSS?RSS or Rich Site Syndication is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood.RSS allows publishers to "syndicate" their content through the distribution of lists of hyperlinks.It has actually been around...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The other side of the search gods abracadabra!
- Thousands of servers ...billions of web pages.... the possibility of individually sifting through the WWW is null. The search engine gods cull the information you need from the Internet...from tracking down an elusive expert for communication to presenting the most unconventional views on the planet. Name it and click it. Beyond all the hype created about the web heavens they rule, let's attempt t...
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- 2007-04-06 10:43:09 - Work with the search engines - don't try to outsmart the search engines
- Contrary to the claims of high-priced SEO firms, optimizing your
web site for search engines is not brain surgery. But you
must first accept the fact that "spiders" - the search engine
programs that read web pages - run away from non-HTML code.
This is why the first thing any SEO expert does - before
researching keywords or rewriting your copy - is look at your...
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- 2007-04-06 10:43:09 - When to hire a professional seo firm?
- In efforts to increase sales and profitability, more and more companies are turning to online marketing initiatives ? specifically, search engine optimization. Search Engine Optimization or (SEO) is the art and science of blending technical and marketing skills together into a finely tuned website that is both search engine-friendly, ranks well for specific keywords and phrases, and is tailored to...