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Page Rank vs Traffic - Whats More Important?
2008-04-18 08:55:00
Today we were faced with the age old question: what is more important to a webmaster page rank or website traffic? In order to answer this question we must first answer a few other questions that come into play when developing a search engine marketing strategy: what did you expect from an SEO campaign and what is your ultimate goal?It is amazing to know that not many people actually have plans regarding their websites other than making money which is a good goal but it does not provide specific steps in order to achieve this goal. Having a clear marketing strategy for your site should be the first thing that comes to mind even before you start to develop it. There are many ways to monetize a website, you could run advertisements or sell ad space, sell links, join an affiliate program, etc. you must choose one or a combination of these in order to generate revenue.Ever since Google invented the page rank system webmasters and have been puzzled about the idea of increasing their w...
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Search Engine Optimization
2008-04-11 16:22:00
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a process used to improve the quality and volume of incoming traffic towards an intended website or a group of websites from searches made on various search engines. It works using the "algorithmic" or "organic" search results techniques on pre targeted keywords. The rank of any site in a result from a search is decided by the position of the website in the search results; the earlier the higher. The concept is straightforward and logical, the earlier the site is listed in the search; the higher is the number of people who will check the site for references. Another variation of the SEO can help the webmasters to target other types of searches like image searching, industry specific search engines and local search. The necessity of increasing traffic onto a website is purely a marketing strategy for many. Higher the traffic, more popular is the site and better is the business or throughput from the website. To increase the site's relevance to a ...
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Linking Out to Attract Valuable Links
2008-03-13 15:42:00
When working on your backlink strategies and off-page optimization it is imperative to know each possible method in order to gain inbound links, if you don't know them all then it is time to do some research . The easiest links to get are those called reciprocal where webmasters of related niches share links with each other because they are relevant and complement each other, the reciprocal link exchange technique was penalized by the search engines due to heavy spam but it still gives some benefits so don't be afraid to start your reciprocal link exchanges.We then have the wonderful world of inbound one-way links, these are hard to get because people have to willingly put a hard-link from their site to yours, there is no automatic reciprocal network which could aid you here, this is why having a good strategy to come up with one-way links should be at the top of your optimization list.During off-line meetings what do people do to get noticed? They dress well, they use nice fragr...
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The Right Way to Build Backlinks Through Article Syndication
2008-02-16 13:06:00
So you've heard that article submissions is a great way to SEO your site but don't know how to do it the right way? There are many things you need to focus on, the first step is to write content for human readers and not for the search engine spiders, web crawlers will eat the content if it is fresh and unique so don't worry too much about them. The following are a good pointers you might want to follow if you are genuinely interested in optimizing your site and building backlinks the right way.Article Title:Learning how to write your article title will provide great benefits in your article marketing efforts, catchy article titles or interesting title lines bring in the more hits, for instance writing about the "History of video games" will not bring you as many hits as writing about a game in particular. Another factor you need to keep in mind is that high PR sites look at your title and if you place advertisements on it, you are very likely to be turned down, advertisements in...
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Bad Ways to Build Back Links
2008-02-10 10:40:00
When it comes to SEO many webmasters think of link building in order to boost their rankings, generate traffic and earn money during the process, however the methods used by many people are less than appropriate and the same practices are replicated by many others who want to make a quick buck. When it comes to link building, the end doesn't justify the means.If you are brainstorming your link building campaign here is a good checklist of things to avoid while optimizing your sites.Spamming WikipediaAs many of you know, this particular site has tremendous value for the end user, it has unbiased information which can be used for research because it is factual and not based on emotions and speculations; in fact this is one of the reasons why it ranks so high on the search engines, particularly Google. Many webmasters have thought of editing an article related to their site with the purpose of obtaining a high PR link, the only problem is that in order for your article to get accepted...
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How to Select Good Web Directories for Link Building
2008-02-04 11:33:00
It is common knowledge among webmasters that web directory submissions are of great help for search engine optimization, the fact that you can get several of these listings allows your site to be exposed to more people who visit the directory and the search engine crawlers which visit them as well. An added benefit of directory submissions is the link equity which comes from sites with good reputation, a vote from one of these trusted sites will often count a lot more than links from similar sites.Today's web directories tend to be quite diverse in terms of categorization, traffic and trust. Some directories will offer several categories which may apply to your site, however its is important to see what type of content distribution they are applying to the resource, some will allow their indexes to be spammed simply because the directory is ran by one person who doesn't have the time to review and edit all categories and certain sites do have periodical reviews in order to keep al...
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Optimal place for content
2008-02-01 16:28:00
In web-site development and SEO industry we can classify content into few groups. First group is the content for human beings. This type of text should be very interesting, unique not only in wording but in sense as well and this text should not to be optimized well. This type of content usually used for reasonably big web sites with quite large traffic. Second type of content is the human like, SEO optimized texts. The main goal of this content is to attract users from the top positions of the search engines. Third type of content is the readable text, preferably unique to avoid search engine sanctions. This type of content should not be optimised and should never be on the top of any searches, but the role of such type of text is quite high – this is a feeling of the small sites, also known as a satellites. The only important role of these web sites – proper niche links with required anchors to support main project. The last, fourth, type of text it the computer-generated text...
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Duplicated content problem solved?
2008-01-28 12:57:00
One of the biggest problems for large websites is the duplicated content. Usually, webmaster does all the best to avoid it but sometimes it is impossible to do by standard techniques available in content management systems. Let us consider few examples of such problem. Internet shop has thousand different pages with goods description, but this description is reasonably short in compare with the rest part of the page, which includes navigation and other shop related TOS etc. This part of the page is repeated almost on each part of the internet shop and it is very convenient for user but for the search engines this is a bit of problems, because major part of the page is the same. Another type of web-sites where you can find this problem, it the internet-catalogues which give you classified information sorted by locations. Again this webpage contains large navigation and only one short string “unfortunately there is no flower shop in New Underwood” or similar. Even if you have got ...
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Natural Linking Strategies and Complex Structures
2008-01-16 09:48:00
As we all know link building plays a critical role when it comes to website promotion and optimization. Artificial off-page optimization through reciprocal link exchanges has lost most of its value because most of them are made to spam the search engine results, that's why most of the sites which promoted this linking pattern (link farms) and reciprocal networks have disappeared from the result pages.Natural linking refers to one-way linking where site A places a vote to site B because of its content and relevance, through this structure site B is not required to place a link back to site A which makes it look more natural to the search engines thus increasing the rank of site B. Creating unique content is often the best way to gain this type of incoming links, however there is a still a similar linking structure which resembles reciprocal exchanges but is not heavily penalized by Google because it looks natural, of course we are talking about A-B-C exchanges.This particular exchan...
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Controversial Link Building Techniques
2008-01-02 11:05:00
As we all know link building is a tedious process which no webmaster likes to do, it takes time and effort to build a good amount of inbound links in order to draw some relevant traffic from the search engines, the only problem is that not every webmaster knows how to do it right; since most webmasters tend to be quite lazy the thought of requesting relevant reciprocal link exchanges comes to mind and we immediately think of automated link exchange networks, while this worked some time in the past, as of today, this has become an ineffective link building technique which offers close to no benefit to the surfer, specially when several low quality sites appear in your link list.Since the weight given to reciprocals went down it is important to focus on one way links but how do we obtain these type of inbound links?, again since we have picked lazy webmasters as our example we can deduct that the next obvious course of action would be to buy links, yes, this is the lazy people's way ...
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Rank High for Your Keywords with Diverse Anchor Texts
2007-12-19 11:23:00
In the world of search engine optimization, we all know the value of back-links, these can be better defined as votes of trust which point back to our website. There are several types of links and they are ranked differently by the search engines, a few are: one-way links, reciprocal links, three-way links, etc. The most important type of links are the one-way links since reciprocal links have somewhat lost their value due to the incredible link spamming which took place a few years ago.The reason many reciprocal links lost value is because they were mostly placed in what were called "link pages", these pages contained huge numbers of links and many times they pointed to websites which were completely outside of the linking site's niche; in other words pharmacy websites were linking to real estate sites, sports sites were linking to technology sites and so on. As you can see, this linking structure offered no benefit for the visitor and was specifically designed to manipulate the s...
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Web Directories - Finding Quality Web Directories
2007-12-11 10:49:00
If you have already submitted to most web directories, you are not finished yet. Everyday there are at least 5 new web directories on the internet. Most likely if you submit to them and your site is accepted you wont get much of a benefit from them. But its possible later on that these directories will gain PR and will be worth more as a backlink. Just remember that every directory at some time was at PR0 and over time its likely that the quality will increase along with its backlinks.There are a few reliable places that you can find new and reliable web directories to submit your site to. The first I will mention is directory critic. This site is decent and one of the more popular websites that list all sorts of directories, they also have a rating system that is based off other people's votes for a certain directory. Along with web directories you can also find article, deep link, paid and free directories listed by PR, date added or sort by DC's point system.The second site I w...
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Optimizing Your Website’s On Page Content
2007-12-08 02:18:00
Part of Search Engine Optimization is the on page factor of your website. In the long run off page SEO will have more of an effect. But it is best to make sure that your website is already optimized before you start with off page SEO. One of the first factors that people think of when talking about on page SEO is the Meta tags. Yes meta tags can be somewhat important but they don’t carry as much as weight as they used to. The first thing you will look at is the title, this should consist of keywords that you are targeting and contain no more then 40 characters. The next tag will be the description tag. This is generally what will be seen when people are searching for your website, at the most I would make the description no more then 250 characters but only around 140 will show in the results in Google. The last tag is the keywords tag… this should include around 20 keywords at the most. Make sure that you place the most important keywords first and use variants of your target...
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Get ranked higher in Google Search Engine Result Pages.
2007-12-07 12:16:00
Today Google is one of the most used search engines for searches today, I will provide a list of thing that you can do to increase your site search results for a targeted keyword. Using these tips will not only increase your results with Google but will help with other Search Engine s such as Yahoo & MSN. Before you start to promote your site over the internet, it is best to first find out what search term or also known as “keyword” that you want to use to build your campaign. It should be a keyword that is related to your site and one that is actually being searched for. A great keyword research tool that you can use is Google Keyword Tool. Using this tool you can type in a keyword manually or let Google analyze your site by typing in your site address. It will return all the keywords that are found on your site and you can filter the results by search volume and competition. Once you choose your keyword or keywords you will want to implement this in your site which is known a...
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Building a Successful Web Directory
2007-12-04 15:22:00
Building and maintaining a web directory can be a difficult task and time consuming. I will cover a few ways that you can optimize your directory and get the most out of your web directory. The promotion for a web directory has also changed now that Google has stopped paid links. This article will be most useful for someone thinking about starting a web directory and has not yet established one. When starting a web directory you will first need to buy a domain, do some research for a domain. Generally its best to buy domains with the keyword in it, but seeing as there are so many domains already bought with the keyword directory in it, this may be hard. Its best to have an idea or template that you want to put up on your web directory before you even open it. It is well worth the money if you purchase a custom template for your directory. Once you have a domain and a template you will need to figure out what type of directory it will be… the most popular directories now are prob...
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List of Link building strategies
2007-12-02 14:09:00
This will be my first post that actually isn't an article but just a list of ways you can promote your website through various sites and services.#1 Directory submissions - There are many free web directories out there, why not take advantage and submit your site to them. Get a big list together and submit to 10-20 directories a day.#2 Article Directories - Make a few articles or hire someone to write articles for you. At the end of the article include some links with anchor text. The same goes for this, get a list together of top PR article directories and submit your article to them or hire someone to do it.#3 Forum posting/Community posting - There are so many forums out there you can post on, whether it be a forum that is related to your site or just a webmaster forum. Most will allow a signature link. Take advantage of this and put your links in your signature. You may also have the opportunity to mention your site if the post is relevant to doing so.#4 Social Bookmarks & Comm...
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What is next For Web Directories After the last Google Update?
2007-12-01 11:50:00
Everyone that is familiar with utilizing Web Dire ctories for link building or is an owner of a Web Directory knows that many directories were hit hard on the last Google PR update. I also know many blogs that were dropped out of the Google Index and lost PR due to selling links or purchasing them. So what’s next? Well the only thing people can do that were affected from this is try to rebuild your site back to being an acceptable, rule abiding Directory or Blog. But its not selling or purchasing links alone, I know that some directories/blogs lost PR because they were linked with others that lost PR. I’m sure if you are an owner you know if you sold or purchased links. After you are sure you removed all paid links from your website you can then login to Google Webmaster Tools and click on the “Request Reconsideration”. But you have to be patient because this may take a few weeks. I know that many Directory owners want to make an extra buck, so they try to sell space on their...
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Link Building with Directory Submissions and Articles.
2007-11-30 04:01:00
Everyone that is a webmaster is looking for an edge on their competitors on the search engines. Two of the more popular link building techniques is submitting your website to Web Directories and Article Directories. In this Article I will talk about the benefits and rules that should be applied when submitting to Web Directories and Article Directories. The main benefit of submitting your website to Web Directories is when your site is accepted into a directory you will normally receive a backlink from that directory as long as they have no follow turned off. The more back links or also called one way incoming links you have to your site the higher you will be placed up in the search engines for your targeted keyword. When submitting to web directories there are many things you need to review before creating your information to use when submitting to them. You will need an Anchor text, Description and keywords. There are other requirements but these are the only important ones. You...
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More ways You Could be Banned or Penalized in Google
2007-11-29 07:39:00
The other day I wrote an article on how you can be banned or penalized in Google . This article I will be covering additional ways that can get you banned or penalized and things that you can do to avoid this. One of the more popular reasons people are getting banned now is from buying or selling paid links. You see this happen a lot because people are always looking for ways to make additional money, and how much work involves listing another site on yours? You may notice two big name directories got hit for this, Aviva directory and Alive Directory. Both were dropped from Google Serps. For this reason straight from Google: Buying or selling links that pass Page Rank is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results. Many people im sure are guilty of doing this deed. Because everyone wants to get their site ranked up higher in the SERPS and increase their PR. One way Google recommends to avoid this is don’t sell or pur...
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Some ways to avoid being penalized or banned from Google.
2007-11-27 03:48:00
Now days I see more and more people complaining that their website is dropping far in the SERPS or disappearing from Google . There can be many reasons for this. There a lot of misconceptions and speculation on why this may happen. From my experience and from others I will list a few reasons why this may happen to your website.Some people who create new sites may see their website at the top of Google not long after it is indexed, the reason this may be is because Google likes to see new sites and normally will place them at the top to give them some exposure as a new site. But don’t get comfortable with your spot in the SERPS because it won’t last.I also had some experience being penalized from the Google SERPS, I was on on the first page of Google for a week and suddenly my site was back on page 10. I was clueless to why this happened. At first I figured that I lost some quality backlinks. Weeks later after I tried to rebuild my site to the top I found that someone pointed out ...
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Directory Submission Tips for New webmasters or Old
2007-11-26 06:13:00
Here are some tips ive came up with that i also use. Everyone knows submitting to directories gets you more backlinks and increases your SERPS.#1 If you have alot of free time on your hands and you can submit to directories yourself, come up with an organized list and start at the top. There are many all over DP directorycritic is the most notable. Everyday do about 20 and mark where you left off.#2 Take some time to research what keywords are the most relevant to your site to use for your submissions. Also come up with a detailed description and a title, Make sure the title and description arent too long. Avoid using too many keywords in your description. In general the best description should be between 150-250 chars.#3 Research says using different Anchor text will help your site, rather then submitted to 2000 using the same Anchor text. So try to rotate your Anchor text everyday, It doesnt hurt to use up to 5 different ones.#4 Avoid submitting to directories that have no follow ...
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Benefits of Using a Directory Submission Service
2007-11-26 05:51:00
With online business competition being at a near all-time high right now, website owners are constantly looking for ways to set their site apart from the competition. Online business is highly dependent upon internet traffic as advertising revenue goes to those with the most visitors. One of the best ways to improve a site’s online traffic is through the use of a directory submission service.What is a directory submission service and how can it help your website? To put it simply, it is a resource that has all of the time, capability, and networking to submit your website to the best web directories on the internet. This will help to build your website’s Google pagerank, which is an essential factor in improving online traffic. When you sign on with a top notch directory submission service, you are essentially building a highly functional link network that will direct quality traffic to your site over the course of time.What a quality directory submission service can do for you ...
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