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Images can help bring more Visitors than Search Engine Hits
2006-12-13 15:53:04
OK I hear you thinking what an earth is he on about images bringing more visitors than people coming from keyword searches??? well its very simple but often overlooked Both Google and Yahoo have a service where you can search for images rather than keyword web searches , many people overlook this as an important opportunity to get there images listed in the image search You do not have to do anything special to get you images listed just follow my previous posts and make sure you name your images and use the ALT tags with relevant keywords and phrases, again we will use the border collie web site as an example On a page we have a picture of a border collie , The image is called black_white_border_collie.jpgthe Alt tag uses the description black and white border collie When someone searches the web for black and white border collie your web site might not come up on the first few pages BUT if you search the images for black and white border collie your web site will more than likely...
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How Image ALT Tags can improve your SE Rankings
2006-12-09 03:49:01
One areathat can have substantial results in improving your rankings within the search engines is the ALT tags on images included in the pages of your web site you will be amazed at the amount of people that forget to use the image ALT tags Again as per my last post use your relevant keywords in the ALT tags , not only are the ALT tags used by the search engines they are used by surfers that have poor eye sight , by running the mouse pointer over an image on a web page you will see a description of the image thiss what the ALT Tag does Using the border collie web site theme again if you have a pictures of a border collie called Ben on your site make sure that you use the word "border collie" in the ALT tag , don't go mad using exactly the same keywords over and over for all images on your site , try to mix them up a little but keep them relevant to you website content The image ALT tags can be very effective in increasing your rankings in the search engines
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Image Renaming a Simple rule
2006-12-09 03:49:01
Make sure that when you rename the images you dont leave a space in between the words otherwise renaming a image on your pc like this "border collie called ben" will look like this when its displayed on the internet border%collie%called%ben.jpg This is because the spaces cannot be understood by the browser and so it inserts the % sign obviuosly this is counter productive for helping to increase your search engine ranking and so there are two better ways to rename images to help with this Either rename with a hypen inbetween each word or use and underscore between each word examples of both are listed below border-collie-called-ben or border_collie_called_ben I prefer to use the last option as it can display better isf the image is viewed thorugh a browser independantly of a web page but either will over come the problem discussed above
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Using Image File Names to improve your SE Rankings
2006-12-01 12:48:04
One area that most people often overlook is images , always name your images with relevant keyword names For instance if you have a website dedicated to the border collie dog breed then make sure that you name your pictures of any collies on your site with keywords in them Imagine you have a picture of a lovely black and white border collie called Ben on the page , make sure sure rename the
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Improve your Google Rankings
2006-11-05 03:03:01
Keywords in the Title Yes its is more keyword work that will help you improve your rankings in Google , as in my last post it really does pay to research you keywords very thoroughly Always have 1 of your keyword in the titles , 2 keywords is even better but dont stuff your title full of keywords 3 is the absolute maximum and make sure that they are relevant to the content of you page , if you simply stuff your title full of keywords that have nothing to do with the content of the page you will be seen as spamming the search engines and your rankings will fall The golden rule is make sure your content is relevant Content is King
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Research your SEO
2006-10-31 02:54:02
As hopefully the little that you have already read on my blog regarding getting your web sites high up on the rankings that the key to success is doing the research, making sure you fully understand the subject matter This is where the vast majority of amateur web masters fall down it is not simply a matter of building a site with some text and a few photos; if you want your site to be successful you need to do a whole lot more Knowing your subject and all the important keywords and phrases is very important more than just for the Meta tags which are no longer as important as many years ago
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More Meta Keywords Tips
2006-10-27 15:45:04
Meta Keyword s Make sure that you also have a list of good meta keywords for the content tag again use the same rules make sure the words you use are relevant to the actual page i.e. they are mentioned on the text and if possible use ones also used in the description and in the H1 and title tags Dont under any circumstances spam these keywords but listing them more than once this can in fact damage you search engine listing, use the plurals for the words as well as the singular ones Keep it simple and dont try to cheat
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Simple Effective Website Design
2006-10-26 15:45:01
Cheap web site design doesn?t have to mean a poor quality web site to my mind any effective website should be simple , full of relevant content, easy to navigate and visually attractive to the surfer Simp le effective web site design can be seen as cheap web site design in our view here at affordable webdesign, after all as a web site designer its important to build and design a site that gets your message across Simple web site design greatly helps in achieving higher search engine rankings and after all what?s the point in having a website if no one can find it!! sure you should include you web address in all you literature, advertisements etc But the internet is the biggest audience that you could ever reach so why not do every thing you can to help surfers (potential visitors) to find you
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Cheap Web site Design Tips
2006-10-13 15:30:02
Another important issues with flash movie entry pages is for surfers on slow internet connections they can takes ages to load deterring potential customers , currently the feeling within the web design industry is that such splash pages are to be avoided as they are counterproductive Another way to help achieve cheap web site design is to use a simple web site navigation system Again there are many visually attractive menu systems that can be created with java and more importantly flash , its a well known fact that non of the search engine spiders can travel through the links on your website if all your navigation is created in a flash menu
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Where can I find cheap web site design?
2006-10-10 15:24:01
This is a question I here a lot , then the other question that also pops up is well if it cheap it must not very good Well the truth is that keeping your web site design clean, simple, and using an easy to navigate menu system will make your web site design cheap to design and build How you may well ask? Its common sense really will give you an example Often client will ask their web designer for a highly visual animated flash intro page , your web designer will obviously oblige but if he is well versed in the art of Search Engine Optimization he will point out that this page will do nothing to help you search engine rankings. In fact it will more than likely reduce your rankings but more importantly complicated animated flash movies, logos or similar will take many hours to create pushing up the design costs of your website Now I am not saying that a cheap website design should not look visually pleasing, obviously any website has to be pleasing on the eye but in the end it is the...
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Keywords and common misspelled words
2006-10-07 15:18:02
Today most of us rely heavily on the F7 key far more than we really should do in my parents generation before home computers were around it seems that they were much better at spelling and grammar probably because they practised it in the hand written style and were taught it at school Most people are not always taking a lot of notice when they are searching on the internet especially if they
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Uppercase vs. lowercase
2006-09-16 02:45:03
Meta Keywords Most search engines do not notice any difference between lowercase and uppercase type and as a result placing the same keyword in both uppercase and lowercase is a waste of time and more importantly it can be seen as spam Another point to consider is: when people type in words and phrases into a search engine query, they tend to type words very quickly. The quickest way to type in
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Meta Keywords Tips
2006-09-14 14:39:01
OK here is the most important of the meta tags the keywords , here are a few tips Also try to use keywords that are mentioned in the text of your page as there are some SEO experts that think using meta keywords that are not listed in the text on your page can be considered as spamming When creating your keywords list, place the version of the keyword that your site visitors use the most at the beginning of your keyword list this may sound obvious but it is often overlooked
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Meta Description How Many Words to Use
2006-09-13 14:36:02
How many words should there be in the Meta Description well I would aim for 25-30 maximum but no more than 30 This tag is extremely important because it is what will be used by many engines when they display the description of your web site in the search results. So, remember to make your text sound inviting. Descriptions that are obviously designed purely for high ranking are unattractive to
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Meta Description and Keywords
2006-09-02 14:21:01
First we need to insert your meta description , make sure that you insert them into the header area of your page and try to get them close under the page title Your meta description should contain 2 or 3 keywords in a sentence describing the detail of the page For example if your page is about widgets it could be something like Blue widgets available at low prices and manufactured in quality stainless steel Blue widgets would be the key words, its also best to try and get the keywords at the beginning of the description
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Meta Tags and Keywords and SEO
2006-08-18 14:03:02
Next we want to use the keywords in the Meta Tags which are located inside the code of your page, you along with any surfers that find you page will not see these Meta Tags but they are still important for Search Engines Before we get deep into Meta Tags I think that it would help to explain a little bit of the history of Meta Tags and Search Engines Up until fairly recently in the last couple of years or so, it was very important to make sure you inserted the keyword and description Meta Tags in the code of your site, this was because all search engines of the time were Metacrawlers This meant that they indexed sites based on your keyword and description Meta Tags along with you page title, they did take into account your content but there was a big reliance on your Meta tags
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SEO Heading H1 Tag and Keywords
2006-08-15 14:00:01
In the last post we discussed the use of a keyword in the title and the importance of having a decorative title which is often overlooked by the amateur web designer Just as important is the H1 tag or Head ing , when creating pages make sure that you also create a heading for each page this will insert the H1 tag into your html As with the title try to make sure you have a relevant keyword or phrase in this heading Make sure that the keyword is relevant to your site and this particular page
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Keywords more uses for achieving good SE Rankings
2006-08-12 13:54:01
Those key words and phrases that you worked so hard on have lots of uses so make sure you keep a list of them in a text or word processing document The importance of your Title Make sure that when building your site and adding new pages that you add a title, often in WYSIWYG html editors you use the create new page function to launch a new page, these program automatically defaults the title to Untitled Document You would be amazed at how many websites have pages with the title Untitled Document simply because the creator forgot the change the title This is where the keyword comes in again, use one or two of your keywords in the title for example Your company manufactures or sell widgets and you are creating a page about blue widgets giving details of the sizes etc that you make, then you would title the page Blue Widgets Types and Sizes Search Engines look at your page titles and check them with the content on the page to make sure they are both relevant to each other If they are ...
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Quality Content Counts
2006-08-10 13:51:02
Relevant quality content is the most important issue in helping your search engine optimization, we have discussed this in our last post. The more relevant quality content you site has then the more likely it is too score above your competitors in the search engines This is why some listing sites have forums relating to the listing for instance property rental in a certain area, at the back of this site they may have a forum where you can discuss all thing related to the listing site and area As 100s of people will be posting messages onto these forums often mentioning the keywords and key phrases, this will increase the listing sites rankings. Often listing sites will offer a system for making your listing more visible by offering you the chance to earn points by writing personal reviews of a subject related to the listing site or area This also has the effect of increasing their rankings within a search engine by increasing the keywords and phrases but also it will have the affec...
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Keywords and Content
2006-08-09 13:51:01
OK so now we have done some homework and have found some good keywords and keyword phrases, you now need to use these in the content on your site I mentioned in an earlier article that the most important aspect to consider in successful SEO is content, this mean that the information on your web site must be relevant to the keywords that you have selected The keywords and phrases that you have selected are an estimate as to what surfers looking for a product or service that you sell will be using in a search engine Your site must have information that is connected with the surfers keywords that they type into Google and searches on and you must keep this in mind when you are writing the text for your page. Search engines take more that just the text into account but the text (content) is the most important area to consider Make sure that you mention the keywords you have chosen in the text up to about 3 times and make sure that you also mention the alternative keywords and phrases a...
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SEO and Web Site Design Considerations
2006-08-07 13:48:03
Welcome to Affordable Webdesigns search engine optimizations and cost effective web site design blog   We are hoping to bring you regular tip and tricks that are simple to implement and to give you and idea of the successful search engine techniques that we use on our client sites   For those of you new to SEO most experienced web site designer will have a good basic knowledge of how to optimize your site in the initial building process and will work with on this   Sometimes this can effect the overall look of the site and often a client will want a fancy flash introduction page but your web developer will advise you against this for SEO reasons , as the paying client you will want you site to look visually exciting and ignore your web designers advice after all I am paying the bill   Well you are correct but any web developer worth his fee will tell you that although the flash intro looks great and he will charge lots of money for developing it searc...
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The Important Search Engines
2006-08-07 13:48:03
Which search engines are important? Well thats generally an easy one to answer, Google is the No1 search engine in the world with Yahoo second and MSN in third place, the relevant percentages are listed below Google 42.7%Yahoo 28%Msn 13.2%Aol 7.6%Ask 5.9%Others 2.6% Source comscore March 2006 As you can see a large percentage of the market is taken up by the big 3 and so trying to improve you search engine optimization for the big 3 will bring in more surfers and as Google has the largest share then it pays to work on your Google rankings The trend from March 2005 to March 2006 has been that Google has increased its share of the search market by taking market share from all the other search engine with the exception of Ask which has had a small growth
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Getting your Web Site Listed with Search Engines
2006-08-07 13:48:03
In my last post we discussed which were the most important search engines and it was obvious that Google was No1 but also Yahoo and Msn are also important At this current time many SEO specialists are looking at the results you now get from a search using Google as they results are no longer as good as they once were and many spammy directory listings are starting to score high on Google making some user including myself start to turn to other search engines Before we discuss some basic Search Engine Optimisation techniques we will discuss how does a search engine find my site Most search engines will find your site without you having to do anything in the old days (a few years ago) you would have to had submit your web site address etc to all the search engines individually You can still submit your url to Google but the submission page is hard to find in fact its almost as if Google does not want you to submit web site address any more , You can only submit your site to Yahoo if ...
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How Search Engines find your Website
2006-08-07 13:48:03
On my last post I talked about the search engine spiders or to give them their correct name special software robots , they are called spiders because they crawl through the World Wide Web often starting with heavily used servers and very popular pages They index the words found on these pages and follow every link on those pages this in turn leads them into other pages spreading out across the most widely used portions of the Web. This will inevitably bring them to your site , especially if you have some Good links to your site How long this takes is difficult to say as its dependant on a number of things but as a general rule it takes at least 3 months for a new site to get listed in Google There are a couple of ways of helping to reduce the time it takes for your site to be listed in the search engines index , one of these is too submit your site manually to some of the popular quality directories such as Dmoz Another would be to have a few Good quality inbound links , this mean...
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Most Important Consideration for Successful SEO
2006-08-07 13:48:03
What is the most important thing about successful SEO ? The No1 thing you should consider when starting your SEO campaign is good quality relevant content , this should be your first item to consider above all else Content what is content you will ask , well this mean lots of written text within the pages of your web site that is relevant to your chosen keywords or key word phrases Careful planning before you start to build your web site will help you greatly in this areaSit down in front of your PC and think of the keywords that you would use to find your web site , type them into Google , Yahoo and Msn and look at the results For example I did a search on affordable webdesign and Google came back with the following stats Results 1 - 10 of about 43,800 for affordable webdesign Another search with different keywords used cheap web site design Results 1 - 10 of about 154,000,000 for cheap web site design This tells me that there is 3 times more competition for the keywords cheap ...
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Good Keyword Choices and Alternatives for SEO
2006-08-07 13:48:03
How to choose Keyword s In my last post we discussed keywords and how to select relevant keywords for your site and more importantly choosing the less completive keywords by spending a little time searching on the big 3 search engines Sometimes its difficult to come up with enough keywords that have the same meaning but are different so that you do not end up using the same keywords over and over on your site This is also important because if you simply keep repeating the same keyword over and over a search engine will score this as spamming and as a result your search engine rankings will be greatly reduced Everyone who has Microsoft office installed on their PC has a simple tool that they can use to help them choose words called Thesaurus you may or may not be aware of this Simply select the keyword in word and press Shit+F7 and you will see a list of other words with a similar meaning this I have found this can be a very useful tool Ok so now you have a good number of keywords, k...
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