Posted on Wednesday, October 17,2007 at 10:05am
Keyword research is wherein you research everything that has to do with your business in order to find certain keywords that will help promote your business web site. This is important because you want to find the right keywords that are not too competitive or else your web site will not get the traffic that it deserves. Here is how you should go about researching your keywords:
- Start by evaluating what your business is all about and what your business offers. Every service or product that you offer is a potential keyword.
- Ask your customers for any feedback about their web site searching habits so that you know what keywords they tend to type into the Search Engines. You may want to offer a discount for completing a survey wherein you gather this information.
- Research any competition that is in the same field as you to see what keywords they are using. Of course, you will need to research a lot of different competitors but herein you may be able to find keywords that you may not have previously thought of.
- Use a keyword research tool. This will help you see how many times a certain keyword has been searched for by visitors.
Going for the most popular keyword is something that can be hard to pull off. Therefore, you should strike a good balance so that you are competitive while bringing in good traffic. This is more important than just adding some keywords here and there but it can be successfully done.
Posted on Thursday, October 04,2007 at 09:19am
You may have heard about the many different “hats” worn in SEO. The color of these hats is determined by the SEO philosophy and methods that are used for optimizing web sites. They include:
- Black Hat SEO’s (aka SEO spamming) goal is to heavily leverage technology in order to get fast results. This means quickly getting their web site to the top of the Search Engines, which quickly catch on and ban them.
- White Hat SEO focuses upon building quality content. These web sites are built for people, not for the Search Engines, and the webmasters rely more upon content, combined with their marketing skills, to get them top results. These webmasters understand that this is going to take time and so they do not rush the results and thus run absolutely no risk of being banned by the Search Engines.
- Gray Hat SEO varies in its use of questionable tactics as well as the risks that they take. While some techniques may be frowned upon by the Search Engines, they are not necessarily against their rules. However, other techniques may be more risky and should be carefully considered before use.
So, which SEO hat should you wear? This depends upon your goals and objectives. However, you probably should not use black hat since it is so short-lived. Instead, strive to wear a white hat. Sometimes gray hat techniques also make sense but do not take too big of a risk if your web site is quite valuable.
Posted on Monday, October 01,2007 at 08:41am
Search Engines measure your web site’s credibility in terms of its perceived importance by other websites, which is shown whenever web sites link to your web site. Therefore, acquiring inbound links is vital to achieving a prominent position in the Search Engines. Of course, one-way links from reputable, relevant sites are where the real value lies.
Here are 6 factors that will enhance link quality:
- The web site that is linking to you needs to be reputable. This is determined by Google’s Page Rank (a measure of incoming links) and Trust Rank (a measure that is based on human editorial opinion).
- The relevance of the web page that is linking to you is also important. Therefore, you need to make sure that it is really appropriate for that web site to be linking to you.
- The higher up your link is located on the page that is linking to you, the more valuable that link is.
- There should not be a lot of outgoing links on the page that is linking to you.
- You need to make sure that your link anchor text (the “clickable” phrase on the page that links to your site) is relevant and keyword-rich instead of simply saying something like “click here.”
- You also need to vary your link anchor text. This will make your links look more natural, which Search Engines also like.
All of this needs to be done gradually and should point to more than just your web site’s home page so as to also increase your credibility.
Posted on Thursday, September 27,2007 at 07:18am
There are 2 ways in which you can build links to your web site: by following a plan or haphazardly. Of course, the planned way is much more effective. This is because taking the haphazard route will not allow you to get as much work done as you would with some sort of a plan. Your plan can be as simple as deciding just how much time you are going to spend on link building, then making the most out of that time by being organized. This can be especially helpful once you learn just how much of a truly monotonous exercise link building can be.
Unfortunately, there is no one perfect way in which to go about building links. Therefore, your best option is to focus on a different technique each day in order to give yourself some variety. For instance, on Mondays you may want to focus on blogs, on Tuesdays you could write a few articles, on Wednesday you could submit to directories, etc. Once you have this type of a schedule in place, it is a good idea to try to stick to it. Of course, when you first get started it is perfectly fine to simply say that you are going to spend 3 hours on Saturday working on building links to your web site. However, you will need to decide upon just what you are going to get done during those 3 hours.
After you have your plan it is simply a matter of working that plan. In doing so you may discover that your plan is not as effective as you may have thought, which is fine. You will just need to make some adjustments and keep going.
Posted on Thursday, September 06,2007 at 11:01am
Bid directories are those wherein you bid for position. They are a relatively new way to build text links to your web site. However, you need to use them carefully in order to massively increase your web site’s traffic from targeted visitors.
Some of the great benefits that you can get from these directories include:
- If you get in the top 10 to 20 of your category on a bid directory you will be listed on the directory’s front page. This will then get you more Page Rank, which is important.
- Remember that a Search Engine will consider a link from any web site to yours as a vote for your web site. If the bid directory has a high Page The higher the Page Rank, their vote will count a lot more, thus moving you higher up in the Search Engines.
- As aforementioned, the higher paying bids are listed higher up in the directory. Therefore your listing will be more visible.
Of course, this does not mean you should just start paying to be listed in bid directories. There are some things that you should consider:
- These text links should simulate natural linking and thus be purchased from various directories with various Page Rank values.
- Various link titles and descriptions need to be used so that they are more valuable.
- Make sure that the bid directory you use has a category structure.
- Put your web site in the most appropriate category so that your keyword text of the other listings will increase your web site’s value.
Posted on Wednesday, August 22,2007 at 03:10am
Whenever you are working with Search Engine optimization, there are 4 main points that you should pay special attention to:
- You need to decide which key phrases to target by researching which words or phrases your target audience will search for. These keywords must then be incorporated into your title, description and content between 5 and 8 times within the editorial content that consists of between 200 and 400 words.
- Your site’s structure needs to be set up so that it can be properly indexed. You also should not build your site completely out of graphics, flash, javascript or other such dynamic content.
- Web sites that are difficult to navigate, slow to load or leave you wondering what it is about will not perform very well. So, make sure that the flow of information is both logical and intuitive.
- Inbound links are a very important part of organic optimization but herein quality also matters more than quantity. Relevant links are more important than “junk” links are and if you get a lot of “junk” links you will look like you are abusing or spamming them. Some examples of “junk” links are links that come from link farms and free-for-all link pages.
While paid search advertising is growing in popularity, the need for unpaid optimization is growing because paid campaigns can only offer short-term exposure and you will want long-term results. Plus web sites that have unpaid optimization tend to offer users a more quality experience.
Posted on Thursday, August 16,2007 at 06:21am
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Posted on Tuesday, August 14,2007 at 12:30pm
While you can spend a lot of time getting reciprocal links, you don’t need to because what you really need are one-way links. You can get these links really quickly through writing interesting articles on your blog. Other bloggers will then want to link back to you without even thinking about it.
If you don’t already have a blog, then it’s well worth your time to create one. You’ll want to place it on your web site’s home page in order to get backlinks. Of course, you can place it elsewhere on your web site but you should know it’s really easy to install. ll you need is a blog package such as Word Press. If you already have a web site, then go into your server’s admin and look for Fantastico Scripts and you’ll find that Word Press is a free download there. Then all you need to do is use cPanel or go to WordPress.org to install it.
So, how do you get your blog seen? You need to use your blog’s built-in pinging software or go to Pingomatic.com to ping various web sites, letting them know that you have updated your web site. Another idea is to find free lists of directories to submit your blogs to. Of course, these directories will want a reciprocal link but once your blog gets to be seen you will begin to reap the benefits of the one-way links that you desire for your web site.