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Online [Marketing+Traffic Generation] Strategy * Web Promotion

2012-01-27T03:02:00.000-08:00

The bottom line of online marketing is to increase the website traffic and in turn increasing your sales. Ultimately, you have created an online presence in form of website so that people can search you on World Wide Web and buy your products. But what if you are not searchable or visible on internet? Even if you are visible on web but your website fails in getting quality traffic, it may become quite difficult for you to survive in online business.

If you search on internet, you will find lots of resources sharing tips and information to increase website traffic. In this article, I have discussed the top 3 methods of increasing your website traffic.

PPC (Pay-Per-Click)

Pay-per-click is a proven online marketing strategy. If you are having limited budget for marketing your products, you can use PPC campaign offered by Google and Yahoo. In PPC campaign, you need to create an advertisement for your business and place a bid on the relevant keywords. In this particular marketing plan, Right choice of keywords is extremely important. To find keywords that match your products and services, you need to do some homework on your own or you can take help of professionals. If a visitor is searching for a travel money services provider found your ad with the relevant keywords then he/she will definitely click on the link which will redirect visitor to your website and you need to pay for every click.

Link Building

Link building is another effective method of boosting your website traffic. Link building can be done for free or you can also choose paid linking. In paid linking, you need to register in paid article directories and blogs submission sites. Once register you can post your articles and blogs with the link of your website. Ezines is one best example of paid link building. You can post your link in ezines and pay some subscription amount for that. If you are opting for paid linking then choose websites with higher page ranking so you can ensure a pay-off from your investment!

If you have opted for free linking, you need to put some sincere efforts in finding sites or article directories which have sections/categories that match your products and services. You will find a number of sites allowing you to post articles for free but that simply doesn’t mean that you can post your link on almost any site. Make sure that the sites you are posting articles to have some relevance and credibility on the web world.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO is a technique to optimize your website pages such that your website get higher page ranking in search engine results. SEO is the most effective way of increasing your website traffic. While performing SEO on your site, you need to make sure that you provide SEO content with supreme quality in terms of useful information. It is essential to use relevant keywords on your website to enhance your visibility but you should not overload your web pages with content of more than 500 words. People often avoid reading lengthier pages thus you need to provide all necessary information with SEO keywords in limited words.

Considering above three tips, you can certainly boost your website traffic. But to get quality website traffic (potential customers), you need to focus more on clients’ psychology. The more you understand your clients, the higher revenues you get.

Author: Jeremy

Jeremy is working as a business consultant in a renowned Web Development company. She has 7 years of experience in consulting offshore clients wanting to outsource link building services. She often writes about SEO services in India in various online magazines and journals.

Is Your Online Marketing Strategy Getting You Desired Website Traffic?

SEO - Avenue of Survival in the Online Business World

2012-01-19T05:33:00.000-08:00

Internet is the best source of information today. This pool of information is immeasurably large that it becomes very difficult to find the desired information without existence of search engines. You can compare internet with a library where there are hundreds or thousands of books available and to ensure that readers can easily find their desired books, books are sorted as per their subjects or area.

Search engines are basically the filters of World Wide Web platform. They ensure that users get the desired information based on their criteria and all other irrelevant information is sorted out. Today, buyers are quiet responsive and they will look for the product which fits to all of their criteria.

You can use search engine listing to increase traffic to your site. Most of the search engine listings are free. All you have to do is define your targeted audience and their expectation from your products. With help of search engine listing, you can ensure that when your targeted audience searches for the product sold by you, they are easily directed to your website.

One recent survey done on the website traffic sources states that 86% of the traffic is the result of keyword search on search engines. Most of the people search the desired product or service by typing a related keyword or key phrase. If you successfully want to boost traffic on your website, you have to make definite choice of keywords that represent your business or products.

While following search engine optimization approach, you need to compete with many other businesses that are selling the same product as yours and they are also targeting the same keywords. I have seen many companies making unrealistic promises to their clients that even a newly started company or website can rank in top 10. Well, it is certainly not the case.

The big firms and older websites are widely known on World Wide Web; they have lots of activities done on web thus so many back links would exist for such well-established websites. You might be wondering that if you are a small or young company / website why you should opt for search engine optimization.

Reasons To Choose Search Engine Optimization
There are plenty of reasons to choose search engine optimization; I have discussed some of the major reasons here.

It’s a one-time investment; you need not pay for the service again and again as you do in advertisement
It’s your own asset which enhance the image of your brand
There are more chances of getting reliable or potential customers unlike buyers gained from advertising campaigns.

Search engine users are people looking for your products only and thus you definitely get good consumers compared to all other promotional and marketing tools.

Author Bio: The author leads the team of SEO in internet marketing company. He has immense knowledge of SEO Services India and often shares her knowledge in newsletters and magazines.

[How] Google plus for Your Brand’s Promotion

2011-12-26T03:07:00.000-08:00

How Social Networking Site Google plus Can Work for Your Brand’s Promotion?

Launched at June 28, 2011 by Google, Google Plus has plethora of features which can be used effectively to enhance your brand in your niche market. Using the great features of Google plus, businesses can always remain one step ahead from their competitors. Let’s see how you can make best use of Google Plus features to increase your brand popularity:

You can post all the latest and interesting news of your domain on your profile and share with your circles. You can also write a blog on recent information shown on the website. To create a strong social media bond, you can keep commenting on other’s information and responding to your comments. Effective content and a habit of responding your users on a regular basis can make you a league brand in your niche.

Always keep a track on users’ expectations. With the abundant of information provided by Google Plus, you can easily write a blog or tweet somewhere at the perfect time. Serve your users with the latest and exciting news all the time and this will definitely work for your business.

Google Plus also allows you to post articles and blogs on a regular basis which, if used smartly, can be proved as one of the best internet marketing strategy. Using this amazing feature, you can update your readers or subscribers with a timely delivery of content. Following this approach, you can easily establish a trustworthy long-term relationship with the readers.

Looking at the worldwide demand of social media among people, it is best to use them as the avenues for your brand promotions. Google Plus has everything that will allow you create a buzz in your industry.

About Author: Stephen Rodger; manager of SEO department in the globally known internet marketing company. She has great knowledge about SEO Services India and thus often shares her knowledge with various online platforms.

7 Best Tips To Increase Blog Traffic Using Yahoo Answers

2011-12-21T01:59:00.001-08:00

Are you a blogger and want to pull all the stops to generate traffic for your blogs? Yahoo Answers is an answer for you. Many people use Yahoo Answers to enhance their brand worldwide and many others, especially bloggers and website owners, use it as lead generation platform. Millions of people from different parts of the world use Yahoo Answers which reveals its potential as a lead generation platform. You can take benefits of its large audience and direct them to your blog.

Below are some of the best tips on how you can use Yahoo Answers to generate more traffic on your website:

Try to Be As Real As possible!

When you start answering the questions of different users, they will try to know more about you and thus you should fill the profile completely. There are certain things you must ensure to make your profile look realistic like represent yourself as a real human, add a good photo, add link in ‘About Me’ section, provide as many information as you can, fill the skills related to your niche.

Members will not trust on you easily if you have half-filled the profile and have not provided any relevant information. You need to show your real face so that they will not hesitate on clicking your blog links.

Answer Only What You Know

Just because you’re on mission to generate maximum leads for your blog, you should not answer each and every question. Answer only those questions which you found have any relevance with your niche. When you answer any questions on it, the first thing you have to build is your credibility. Once they build trust for your expertise, they will start viewing your profile and will also click on your blog link. It is wise to answer only 2-5 niche questions everyday.

Take Advantage of Being An Early Bird

It has been observed that the first answer of any question gets more visitors or readers and thus you should try to be a first person to answer your niche’s question. Definitely, this approach will take a long time to boost your traffic but it will definitely help you get quality traffic to your blog.

Go-all Out While Posting Answers

It is a fact that members do not read all the answers of a particular question. They just scroll their eyes and read the answer which they find appropriate. In Yahoo Answers, the best voted answers appear at the top and if you truly want to generate traffic then you must make your answers rated best.

To get your answer voted as best, you must avoid casual writing. Write content professionally and as an expert. You must avoid grammar and spelling mistakes as it’s create a negative impression of yours.

Get Higher Points

In Yahoo Answers, they follow the point system. For example, they give 2 points on posting an answer of any question. If your answer is voted best then you get an additional 10 points. Similarly, they have allocated different points for different actions. As your points increase, your level also increases from 1 to 7. The high level profiles can leverage so many benefits from the platform and thus you should make sincere efforts to get more points.

Connect With the Like Minded People

As the time passes, more and more members are joining Yahoo Answers platform. You can new people in to your contact lists. You can easily find the people who share the same skills, interests and thoughts. You can include many members in your fan list. This can truly be a great platform for you to boost your blog traffic.

Adhere to Yahoo Answers’ Guidelines

Every reputed online community platform has its own set of guidelines for their members to follow. Like you should not submit question in wrong category. Your questions should be clear to other members. You should never misbehave with other community members. Infringement of any of their policies can make you lose your profile or sometimes you may lose your Yahoo ID.

There are plenty of other ways to boost your blog traffic using Yahoo Answers like research more about your niche, know what people are asking usually and what they would like to know, improving credibility and so on. Following the above sure-fire tips, you can certainly boost your blog-traffic.

About Author:

The article author is an SEO manager in an Indian company and have years of experience in handling various SEO projects from global clients. He is expert in internet marketing outsourcing services and also writes often about SEO services in India in various publications.

3 Best Online Marketing Strategies That Gets You Desired Results

2011-12-15T02:28:00.001-08:00

Owning a website isn’t enough to run a successful online business, you need to enhance the visibility of your site on search engines. But there are millions and trillions of websites available on internet then how you can make your site reach to the customers? Well, you need to do internet marketing on your own or you can hire internet marketing services provider. Using this internet or online marketing services, you can higher the page rank of your site in search engine results. The higher the page rank, the higher the revenues generated from your business.

There are lots of techniques you can apply for internet marketing but here we will cover the 3 most important techniques:

Protect Your Emails from Spam Filters

Emails are one of the best tactics of online marketing. First of all create your subscriber and contact list. Many a times it happens that your emails are recognized away by spam filtered and your valuable efforts results in no gain. To protect your emails from going in spam folder, you need to follow certain precautions. The first and foremost thing you can do in this matter is avoid using specific keywords. For example, If you write in your email that your product will make people rich or millionaire then there are obvious chances of going your email in spam folder.

Now, the question comes here is, how you will know all such keywords which can drag your emails to spam folder. In this case, you can take help of online discussion boards and other internet resources. Surfing on internet, you will come to know the keywords that are captured by ISPs. You need to make detail research on internet in order to ensure that your email reach to the inbox of your prospects. Following all these techniques doesn’t mean that there is zero percentage chance of getting spammed but you can somehow reduce the probability to rarest.

Value Your Clients

In the current scenario of cut-throat competition, customer is the king. You need to make every attempt which can satisfy your customers and help you make long term relationship. Get regular Feedbacks from your clients. Feedback is the best way to improvise your service and get 100% customer satisfaction. To maintain life-time association with clients, you can do many things like providing quality services, delivering product on time and keeping the most competitive rates.

Follow Website Content Syndication Approach

You might be wondering what this website content syndication is. It is nothing but making your site content available at many places at a time. Using this method, you can generate in-links for your site which means that your site will get higher page rank.

Internet marketing techniques do not require any big software or tools and thus the professional services provider keep the charges lower for internet marketing. All what they need is PC and internet connection to start with online marketing.

About Author: Samuel is working as a marketing team trainer in reputed SEO Company India. He has vast knowledge of internet marketing services and thus often writes on it in various magazines and journals.

Increase Backlinks | 4 Top Strategies to Increase Quality Backlinks

2011-12-14T01:27:00.000-08:00

Before putting your head directly in to inbound link generation strategies, let me give you a brief idea on what is inbound linking and how we perform inbound link generation activity? Say for example, site X has pasted its website link on site Y. So, for Y the link is known as outbound link but for site X the link is coming back to it only and thus it is known as inbound link. Inbound link is also known as Inlink or backlink. The more inlinks your site has, the more reputable it is for Google and thus Google will allocate high page rank to your site.

If you are a part of online businesses then it’s impossible that you are unaware of backlinks’ importance. But many of you might be unaware of the fact that quality backlinks is more efficient way of increasing your website traffic and boosting your sales. Now, you might be wondering what this quality backlinks is. Well, Quality links are the backlinks generated using the specific keyword or phrase to your website. Google consider this backlinks under top most priority.

Here are 4 top strategies to generate quality backlinks for your site:

Keyword Research
Keyword research is the first step in making quality backlinks. To know the most effective keywords and phrases, you need to identify your target audience. Once you know your niche market, find the keywords which are used for maximum time in search engines. Also, the keywords you are using should exist on your website content. One should give as much time as possible for keyword research; this really adds value to your business!

Post Content
Once you are done with your keyword research, you can post the content with specific keyword on article directories, blog directories, online forums, review sites, etc. Here, one smart tactic is choosing the reputed websites to post your link so you can tap traffic from their high rankings. Moreover, you can comment on various blogs and on social networking sites with the targeted keywords.

PPC Advertising Model
PPC stands for “Pay Per Click”. It is a paid internet advertising model which is highly efficient to generate quality traffic to your website. In this model, the website owner adopts publisher’s service to display his ad. It is like media advertising. This model not only helps businesses to generate quality backlinks but it also enhances their branding.

Link Wheel
This is a very good approach to generate a cycle of link. To explain this say my site is A and there are other sites B, C and D. Post link on B and give backlink to A. Then, post link on C and give backlink to B. Similarly, Post link on D and give backlink to C. now, to complete the cycle send a link from site A to site D. You can also link your blog comments and press releases with link wheel.

There are many internet marketing services around the world providing this link building services but SEO services in India stand out by generating fast quality backlinks at cheaper rates.

About Author: Samuel is leading the team of quality link building professionals and have years of experience in generating fast backlinks from quality resources. His company is globally known for its internet marketing services.

5 Sure-Fire Steps to Make Your Facebook Profile an Internet Marketing Workhorse

2011-12-07T05:08:00.000-08:00

Along with Blogging sites, social networking sites are becoming key avenues for online marketing professionals. When we are talking about social networking sites, Facebook (FB) comes first in our mind. In just 7 years of its release, the site has more than 800 million active users. This social networking site has created a new milestone for social media sites. Now, you may be thinking how Facebook can be used as a promotional tool for your business?

Today, we will go through various methods of promoting your website on Facebook:

Create A Facebook Fan Page

The very first step to introduce your website on Facebook is to create a Facebook fan page. Creating a FB fan page is like a child’s play. Once you are done with the Facebook fan page, you can simply link it to your personal account. In this way, you can access both personal account and fb fan page using single FB login. FB fan pages are designed effectively allowing perfect interaction level with the users. On this fan page, you can upload posts on a regular basis and can establish connection with the users. You can upload photos, post short messages or anything else you want users to know.

Post RSS Feeds And Interact With Users

RSS Feeds is nothing but the updates on blog entries, business news, audio and video and by posting these RSS feeds on fb fan page you can make users aware about your company updates all the time. The easiest way to do this is to use “RSS Graffiti” app. Using this app, blogs update will automatically get published on Facebook feeds page and thus users will be able to read it, see the images if any and comment on it. This app will also post your website feeds on your personal account profile and on your fb groups.

However, blogs updated automatically on Facebook feeds can’t captivate users. You need to post it manually so that users can find it genuine. Similarly, making a Facebook fan page isn’t enough, you must have a well-proofed strategy to manage it and interact with users. Replying to users comment is the rarest and most efficient way of strengthening your relation with the users and users will automatically reach to your website.

Share Videos and Links

Sharing videos and uploading photos on fb is very easy. The market survey done by leading digital analytics company states that video upload has 41% more chance of click by users. You can also share important links directly on your fb page. Now here the crucial thing you have to consider is, do not post only your video and links on your fb page. The better way to market is identify the users’ interest and share the link and videos which they may find interesting. This approach will increase your credibility among users.

Promote As Much As You Can

Promoting your website on Facebook fan page isn’t enough. You need to adopt cross-promotion marketing strategy to target more users. In this technique, you need to promote your fan page on your blog page. This strategy will result in an endless cycle. The users visiting your website or blog page will be drifted toward your Facebook page and the users on fan page will be drifted towards your website.

Get Maximum of FB Features

The “like” and “comment” features on Facebook are just marvelous. If you want to soak maximum from Facebook then it is great to enable these feature. If you are keen on posting hot and seductive content, you can also use Facebook send button.

It is obvious you might be using Facebook for socializing or may be for blog submission but considering the above points will help you get big for your business. There are 800 million users on fb, tap as many as you can!

About Author of 5 Sure-Fire Steps to Make Your Facebook Profile

Samuel is a SEO expert working in a leading Internet Marketing Services provider firm. He has many years of experience and expertise in SEO Services India.

eBusiness Promotion: Words of Wisdom on Internet Marketing

2011-11-29T01:12:00.001-08:00

Internet marketing is very lethal services for anyone who needs some views on their website and earn some money. Sales figures can improve with the help of internet marketing. Nowadays without internet marketing it is impossible to build an impressive client base. But you need to take some right steps for the right effect of internet marketing. Read on in this article to learn how easy and profitable marketing on the Internet can be.

So to be able to rise to the top you need to have internet marketing to drive you to the top.

You can promote other products or companies on your website that are related to your industry, but not your direct competitors. This will help you to build strong relationships with other companies and not only that, they will be able to help your marketing campaign by advertising your brand on their website. This is kind of a barter system, where you will help each other. In turn, your company will receive additional exposure. This will open you up to customers that visit the other website.
Posting articles helps a lot in improve your search engine rankings. Make sure all your articles cover a specific message that you want to convey to your users. This will help them to understand you in a better way. Anything special that you have to offer, share it so that they get a complete picture of your company.
Special offers and promotions will help you to connect to the clients very easily. People would be interested in knowing what you offer and will be interested in your products. Even the people who are your clients already will be interested in buying from you.
Another tip is that you can include a privacy statement on all pages of your website, which ask for customer information. Make sure assure them that their information will only be used to fill their orders and will be kept safe at all times. This will encourage them to shop on your site and above all they will safe. Moreover they do not have to worry about spam. If you send them emails or newsletters, keep an unsubscribe option so that they can stop your emails when they do not want it.
You can increase traffic to your own website pages by linking back to yourself. When you create new content, or a new page, make sure to include a link to your previous material, archives, or other relevant information. Always post fresh and unique content which will receive more love from the search engine spiders.

All these tips will help you to increase the traffic on your website and make you more relevant. Take time and take the right steps to be a winner.

Author Bio: The author of this article has been writing articles related to SEO Services India and offshore website development. He has an experience of over two years in writing about different IT services.

[How To] Tips to Optimize Website for Google Panda

2011-11-17T21:44:00.001-08:00

If you are getting a new website or redesigning your existing website, you really need seo to get the necessary boost to perform well. Most websites are built keeping seo in mind because it is plays a vital part in the success of a website. The idea is to be on top of the search results of Google as it is the most widely used search engine. What Google strives to do is provide the most relevant and correct search results to their users. Earlier this year Google introduced Panda algorithm as part of the company’s continual pursuit of that goal. For anyone of you who are unaware, the Google Panda update reportedly affected the rankings of almost 12% of all search results more than any other update before.

Panda changed the whole way the rankings were defined. There have been several updates of this and changed the whole way websites were ranked. Best quality sites with unique and fresh content started to rise to the top while the other toppled. So your site needs to be optimized with Google Panda in order to reach the apex of the search results. Another algorithm, Googlebot is starting to view websites more and more like humans. Thus the design of a site is going to start playing a much larger role in how it’s ranked more than ever before. Panda takes several aspects of a website into consideration, such as, amount of time spent on the website, bounce backs, number of web page visits, response time of the page and conversion rates. These aspects give you an idea as to how good a website is in keeping visitors engaged.

The next thing is very important is the content. The content that you post should be unique and fresh. Only fresh and unique content can drive you to the top with Google Panda. The content has to be original and true in all aspects. Now avoid too many ads on your website otherwise that can be a downside to loose rankings. Each page of your website should not have any duplicate content. Have your own unique Meta title attributes. Next high quality coding, the code quality also determines your ranking. So have the best codes for your website and be in the league. Use the W3C Markup Validation Service to ensure your HTML complies with W3C standards. If your website is not tended to regularly, you can end up having a lot more web pages all over the internet. This is something that you need to avoid. Poor quality affects your ranking. Panda is stricter and more user oriented. So play by the rules and use good ethics. If your website is not following the rules, you can be banned or penalized. So optimize according to Panda and see your ranking soar.

Author Bio: Samuel has many years of experience in the field of Search Engine Optimization and has been working with a company that specializes in SEO Services India. He has written various articles on seo and other related topics.

[How to] Tips to Get Top Rank on Google Search Results

2011-11-16T21:35:00.000-08:00

Every industry and every company faces intense competition. If you do not do enough to stay in the competition, then it is possible that you will be beaten by it. It doesn’t matter is you have the best website; it needs search engine optimization in order to stay in the face of the cut throat competition. If users are not able to find it in the top results then you are not drawing enough traffic. If you are not on top of Google then even if you exist there is not much traffic directed to your website. If you want to be on top of the relevant results then you need to devise a plan and follow it.

Let’s have a look at some of the steps you can take to be on the top. Better ranking means better business and better traffic.

Know about Your Targeted Audience

Before you start you need to k now your target audience. Once you determine your target audience, the next thing is to determine what kinds of keywords are popular with them when they are searching for similar products and services. Once you get to know that you can concentrate on these keywords and work on it to reach the apex.

Competitor & Marketing Strategy they are using

In order to be in competition you need to have the competitive edge. You need to know what your competition is doing and what kind of marketing strategies they are using. Unless you are aware of the kind of competition you are facing, you won’t be able to devise an effective SEO strategy.

Proper Keyword research, to be highlighted in search market

Once you figure out your competition then you need to do a keyword research. In this you will be able to find some potential keywords that you can include in your plan of action. This can often bring to notice some of the things you have missed. Some long keywords should also be targeted in order to cover all types of keywords. This will strengthen your campaign even further.

Organic Optimization on Targeted Keywords

Now you need to optimize your website which will include on-page and off-page optimization. These SEO tactics can actually help you reach the apex of Goggle driving some serious traffic onto yourself. This process is time consuming but constant efforts will eventually pay off. But always play safe with it. Too much of the medicine can result in serious problems.

Website Sitemap Submission to Google

Submit your sitemap with Google maps, another way to help you come out on the top. Google will index your site map and that way you will be able to have more possibilities on being on the top.

Unique & Quality Related Links Building

If you want your website to be on the top search results on Google, you should devote adequate time to inbound link building. Search engines like Google treat inbound links as a key algorithm to gauge the overall quality of a website. This will give your website more impetus to reach the top.

Present Your Web with Fresh & Unique Content

Avoid duplicate content because that is something that Google doesn’t take nicely. Unique content can trigger you quickly to the top. Do not have multiple pages of the same content; you don’t want to get banned on penalized by Google. Freshness will help get noticed and get you to the top.

About Author: - Samuel; The author of this article is very well versed in the field of Search Engine Optimization and works with a company that specializes in SEO Services India. He has written various Articles on Search Engine Optimization and related topics.

Be Unique With Custom Joomla Theme Design

2011-11-08T21:11:00.000-08:00

Joomla is a widely used Open Source CMS. The main reason of Joomla being widely used is due to itd accessibility. Moreover it is easy to use and anyone with minimal technical knowledge can manage the website easily. Joomla is a very effective and strong CMS and it powers many great websites. Being an open source platform, that enables webmaster to mend the website in the future if required easily your need without spending a lot. Joomla is also very easy to install and it is loaded with great plug-ins and themes.

There are some great features of Joomla, templates, plug-ins and themes that make Joomla a great choice for your website. Moreover all these features can be customized in order to fit our needs and requirements. Custom Joomla Template Design is very popular because no one wants to look similar to the other website built with Joomla. So templates are modified and in order to get a unique look and feel. More websites are using custom Joomla templates and the demand for it is ever increasing. Custom Joomla templates allow one to feature the distinctive idea and prove their abilities along the line.

In order to create an interactive and attractive Joomla website you will have to take the help of a professional Joomla developers. Joomla will give you a design that is simplistic yet attractive and interactive. So you will need the help of a Joomla developer who can modify the template and render a unique look and feel. Creating such a creative template does not just require a lot of experience but also a skillset. Joomla templates and themes are highly flexible and that is why you can modify them any way you want. Be it online stores, emails, blogs etc. So be it any kind of template Joomla has all the right solutions for you. A custom Joomla site is also not very expensive, so you can get a highly interactive website at an affordable rate.

It has everything you need to get started and has the potential to deliver a great website that can attract customers. Custom templates are much needed as most businesses now have very specific needs and also every business wants to take a step further to please their customers. It is a solution that is needed for small scale companies and mid-size companies. Being from the open source family it has been a great solution and has got the due fame it has received.

Guest Post by: Samuel. I am working with one of leading Website Development & customization Company, which offers monthly and hourly base Joomla Developers. I am blogging about Tech, gadgets, Open source tricks & hacks and sharing solutions about .Net Tricks.

Joomla, Best & Winning Solution for your Website

2011-10-31T21:46:00.000-07:00

Joomla is probably one of the most widely used CMS. It is easy to work with and websites developed in Joomla is also very cost effective. Joomla powers millions of websites around the world. Developing a website in Joomla also saves a lot of time. It has the ability to give a great website at a cost effective price.

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) which provides maximum flexibility to the user. Anyone with minimal technical knowledge can edit or add content onto the website with ease. Joomla is a platform to make great interactive websites. It can be used to build any kind of website because not only it gives you a unique crisp look but websites developed in Joomla are also interactive.

There are many free and paid Joomla Templates that are available at your disposal to give shape to a good website. Another great feature of Joomla is that it has multiuser authentication where multiple users can log onto the website at the same time. The templates that are available are not only free but also customizable according to the needs of the customer. This will yield a unique and crisp look. There are other additional features and functionality that will enhance your website.

Joomla has been downloaded more than 23 million times and it can be downloaded for free of cost. With a free solution you can actually create a beautiful and dynamic website. Since its advent it has been very popular and has been used to create some great websites. Joomla websites have the potential to convert visitors into clients, and can also work wonders for a business.

Joomla launched a version of it 1.7.2 which was released on 17th of October 2011. Just like the past versions this version also seems to be getting rave reviews from developers. Just like all the other open source counterparts Joomla also doesn’t disappoint. Loaded with over 7400 features and extensions Joomla can give your website everything that it needs. Unlike other commercial solutions that offer advanced versions according to your budget, Joomla is available in just one all-encompassing version and it doesn’t cost a penny.

Joomla is probably one of the best CMS and it is effective and easy to use. It yields great websites and is loaded with awesome features and extensions which will make your website successful and attractive.

[Advantages & Tips] How To Avoid Disadvantages Of Email Marketing

2011-10-20T19:10:00.000-07:00

Email marketing, the best way to inform about your product, services or inform about your awareness on internet, is speedily being the most famous in online marketing industry. The reason behind popularity of email marketing is higher success ratio and targeted leads by email marketing services provider. Though email marketing has few disadvantages, but if it performed with care and have good data collection job done previously, it’s the best.

Ability to Reach Worldwide @ Any Where, Any Time

Email marketing certainly has a set of unique advantages over other types of marketing both online and offline. Perhaps one of the most significant advantages to email marketing is the ability to reach a worldwide audience with minimal effort. It is certainly possible to reach a worldwide audience with other types of advertising but traditional types of advertising such as television, radio and the print media are not nearly as effective for reaching potential customers around the world all at once.

Email marketing is Extremely Affordable

The main advantage of email marketing is, it’s easy to procedure and very affordable. Any kind of business owner, even he is small business owner, can hire email marketing services and afford it. You no need to be dependable about time ration for success. If you are not getting reply for your mail, you can assume, that receiver was not interested in your deal. So you can go through new resources or contact data’s for next mail marketing campaign.

Advertisements Benefits with Creating Graphics

Graphics advertisement for email campaign may be costly, but compare to simple text mails, graphics mail are very important and helpful. You would like to know about benefits of graphics and why people like to see graphics, compare to read text and long mails. Well designed and structural graphics may be bit costly, but some special occasional like Christmas celebration or Valentine’s Day promo announcement, graphics mail, related to festival trend, will increase clicks and orders from your mailing campaign.

Spam and Junk may be Disadvantage

The most common and well known disadvantage of email marketing is SPAM mails. We all are known about spam mails. If mail, sent by us directly goes to spam folder, we need to avoid that by sending mails from trusted domains or good subject lines. To avoid this, your mail id should no to be listed on some sites, where spammers or less quality information available. Very less users are serious about their spam mail box, even I am also not checking spam or junk mail box, I am just select all and delete those all.

Unique Subject to Avoid Spam

Email subject line is very important key for email. If you have creative and catchy email subject line, readers will like to open mail, sent by you. Here are chances for mail to be read. Also if you share full detail to contact you will phone number, it will generate trust level on you and your services. If sending mails for your products, just mention your product image and few advantages and amount of product with some discount, if they buy from your email referral link.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Email Marketing

From the above information, you may have idea about advantages and disadvantages of email marketing, so now you need to be very serious and careful, while you are working for email marketing. So you can avoid spam and junk impression for your mail. Well subject and mail from trusted domain name, never make your mail spam and junk.

Highlighting Product and Services

The content of the emails should also be carefully considered. They should certainly highlight the products and services you offer but should do so without appearing to be a hard sales pitch. A writer with experience in writing this type of copy should be able to assist you in providing insightful and accurate copy which also entices the reader to find out more about your products and services. Finally your emails should provide the readers with a call to action. This should be a statement urging the reader to take a specific action such as making a purchase or researching a product.

[info] Details of Google Adsense Preview Tool

2011-10-18T11:52:00.000-07:00

Google Adsense: Familiarize Yourself with the Google Adsense Preview Tool. The Google Adsense Preview Tool allows you to preview the ads that may show on any web page thereby letting you make an educated decision on whether to add Google Adsense to your existing pages.

You can also view sample ad formats and colors which will allow you to see how the colors and formats you want to appear in your ads will look before they actually launch on your pages.

You can also view borders, backgrounds and text colors from the preview tool and by clicking preview you can see how these will look with actual ads.

You can also see geo-targeted location ads meaning you can see what ads users in Canada can see even if you live in Japan.

The Preview Tool is available in all active Adsense languages and is easy to install. For specific installation instructions, you’ll need to go to the Google Adsense Support site. Follow the instructions and click on the link provided and you’ll be a previewing genius in no time!

Good content writing is great skill to make money from Internet

2011-09-09T21:29:00.000-07:00

The Internet literally runs on information and articles are a great way to give people what they need in exchange for what you need. However, if possible stay away from these errors every time you are writing articles.

One of the mistakes we were talking about is when internet marketers do not write articles on a specific topic. The best way to write articles for the Internet is to use a specific top and then expand. You should try to relate it as much as possible and explain it in a profound way. Bullet points can be used to give your readers a clear indication of what we are talking about. If your article is about many things, people get confused. Provide a focal point and then give your readers something to think about. By giving a narrow topic, is shaped to present new information that the reader has never seen and will make your paper really independent. Always be aware of this and your content will not be considered generic.

Going too long is another mistake that is common with writers of articles on the Internet. If you find that your research is not enough for your article length writing, not only repeated. Instead of getting more points that can be added to the article. People who read your article does not appreciate it if you repeat over and over again, and is simply wasting time and space article also beautiful. Not only that, but people get bored with long articles that say nothing, so the appropriate number of words, focusing more on research. Check out this latest twist items ready website

Also many article writers spend most of his articles dealing with themselves. In all its self-absorbed talk forget to consider the readers. His articles should focus on providing readers with useful information and solutions. Remember, people always have the option to leave your article if you are not gaining anything from it. The content of your articles should always be oriented toward the reader and the solution of their problems. For a better idea of what your readers want to put a survey on your site or send one to your mailing list. You should also do a keyword research to see what terms are currently being sought. Therefore, try as hard as possible to avoid such mistakes when writing articles, if you expect to see the fruits of their labor. You want to make sure you are keeping to a specific topic and its title is really attracting attention. Do not include any stolen content on their articles and only spoil their reputation. Be honest with your readers and ensure that all content is all yours. Need a quick way to earn some money online? Get the scoop on the Best Turn PLR Articles page ready

How to Get Better Visibility on Google with SEO

2009-12-26T00:43:00.000-08:00

Matt Cutts - Google's Search Engineer gives some tips on how to get your site ranked on top page of Google, in an interview with Jefferson Graham of USA Today.

Tips to increase inbound links

2009-11-06T06:30:00.000-08:00

5 Tips to increase inbound links through Article Marketing

If I am not wrong then every SEO is looking for inbound links. Then how to get or improve SERP? Are you looking for a solid, reliable method to consistently build large numbers of inbound links over time? In this article, you find some tips and tricks to improve inbound links through article marketing:

1. Keywords play an important role. There are so many website available for you where you can find the keywords for your site. Use those keywords for your article and try to put those keywords in your articles, especially in headlines.

2. Title: When you are writing article, make sure that your title should be attractive because if your article title is attractive maximum visitor eager to read your article. Use numerals in the titles. For example, "8 ways to..." or "7 tips to...." And use words like "avoid," "how to," "tips" or secrets".

Creating snazzy titles is "must know" information so don't neglect it.

3. Proper Grammar and Punctuation: While writing article, try to avoid grammar and punctuation mistakes. So make it look good. Use Microsoft Word or WordPerfect and keep the spell checker and grammar checker on at all times.

4. Placing links on articles: In some articles sites, you can place your links in article body and some site don’t allow. Its better, if you place links on the keywords. Try to place two links in the article. It is a good for generating links from articles.

5. Resource Box: This is the area after the article where you can put your info. The article is your "give" and the resource box is your "take" as they say at Ezinearticles. There is a whole technology on how to write a concise effective resource box to maximize your return. You can find some great articles on it at Ezinearticles.com. Be sure to include one of the main keywords from your site in your link's "anchor text."

The Importance of a Sitemap

2009-11-05T07:08:00.000-08:00

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a Web Redesign, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1) Navigation purposes
A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site’s theme
When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time.

3) Site optimization purposes
When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your Professional Web Design.

4) Organization and relevance
A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accesible and neatly organized for everyone.

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Google PR Update October 2009

2009-10-31T04:20:00.000-07:00

Google PageRank update October 2009

When I was checking some of my new sites in the morning, I noticed that their PR went up from 1 to 3. There is no change in the PageRank for this blog, but many internal pages have gained PR. So, it is sure that It Google is rolling out a long awaited PageRank update in this last week of October. The last PageRank update was on June 23 this year. The Google dance has just begun and by tomorrow we can get a better idea about the effects of this October 2009 PR update.

This PR update was a surprising move from Google. As Google removed PageRank data from the Webmaster Tools, I was wondering whether Google would ever update the toolbar PageRank. But I am happy to see that Google has updated the toolbar PageRank today. Although PageRank does not affect your position in SERPs, it surely shows your site social status and power. It also acts as a confirmation to the SEO that his link-building efforts are recognized by Google. This is particularly very important if you want to show the Search Engine Optimization results to your clients or if you want to flip a domain or website to get a higher price.

From my observation about the October 2009 PR update, I think that Google has changed its method for calculating PageRank. I could see most of the sites with PR 5 or 6 have sort of stabilized, and others have not gained high jumps in PR values. It is becoming increasingly difficult to gain PR, as Google must be discounting many types of link-building strategies.
source:http://www.google-success.com/google-pagerank-update-october-2009.htm

7 Tricks to Get a Google of Links

2009-10-26T05:55:00.000-07:00

7 Tricks to Get a Goooooooooooogle of Links

by Richard Gilmore

SEO is a race. And in any race learning from your competitors makes you a better runner. Even when you're running first it's sometimes good to look back and check the runner-ups. And if you're not the yellow jersey guy, you absolutely should examine the leaders: their gear, their training, their strategy. In SEO the most interesting thing about your competition are their links.

Whether you like it or not SEO is still pretty much about links. Good link profile can make up for almost any lack of optimized content and other onpage flaws. Love or hate, the best thing you can do about it is embrace the fact and run with it.

So let's go through some tricks that will enable you to look deeper into your competition's link profile granting you access to the restricted areas: their locker room, dirty laundry and even the briefing hall where they plan their link building strategies.

Let's talk competitive link research

Finding out where your competitors' links come from is not all that hard. You just go to Yahoo! or Google and type in link:www.your-competitor.com to get a list of inbound links to the site.

Yahoo's much better in that respect as it tends to give more extensive and accurate data. The problem here is that there's a limit of 1,000 links per website which is often not enough as the fattest link sources get left behind the limit fence. Here're some tips to break through to the other side.

Note: If you're lazy like me skip to the end of the article where I'll share a tool that does it all much quicker.

Trick 1: Search for links to particular web pages of a competing site

Alongside with link:www.your-competitor.com search for link:www.your-competitor.com/products.html or link:www.your-competitor.com/services.html and so on.

Trick 2: Exclude internal links

You may examine the internal linking structure of your competition if you want to gain some insight on their navigation and marketing steps. But as we want to find more external links, let's exclude the internal ones.

You can do this by adding -site:site.com operator to your search query. Type in link:http://www.your-competitor.com -site:your-competitor.com or linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com -site:your-competitor.com"
and you'll get a list of external backlinks only.

There's a dropdown option in Yahoo! site explorer that does the same.

Trick 3: Exclude links coming from certain domains

The -site: modifier lets you exclude links coming from specific sites. So, whenever you see a large chunk of links coming from same domain add -site:thisdomain.com modifier to your query and the links from this site will get replaced with new ones.

You can add -site: multiple times in one query so that you have something like this:

Trick 4: Check links coming from certain TLDs

This is a little known trick. The site: modifier actually lets you get a list of links coming from domains with certain TLDs: .com, .org, .edu, .co.uk and so on. Just type in link:http://www.your-competitor.com site:.gov or linkdomain:www.your-competitor.com site:.gov and you'll get a list of .gov sites linking to your rival.

Note: Do this in Yahoo! regular search, not site explorer

Trick 5: Exclude links coming from certain TLDs

This is an even lesser known trick. You can exclude certain tlds from the results with the -site:.tld modifier. Usually the biggest chunk of links comes from .com's so add a -site.com modifier and you'll get lots of new link data.

Trick 6: Use different combinations of the first 5 tricks

Try

link:http://www.your-competitor.com/page.html
-site:your-competitor.com -site:.com

Or link:http://www.your-competitor.com site:.org -site:wikipedia.org

Give it a thought and I'm sure you'll come up with lots of your own. Feel free to share your findings in the comments

Trick 7: Use the above 6 tricks in different search engines

Don't limit your searches to Yahoo! and Google, go to AltaVista, Alexa, (Bing doesn't give you link data, so forget about it) but then there're Exalead, Excite and tons of regional search engines. Search them, remove the duplicates and you'll have a goooooooooooooooogol of competitor's links to study.

Note: Some search engines have a different set of operator so you'll need to type domain: instead of link:.

Getting it all done fast

This sure seems like a lot of work and it is. Moreover, getting the links list is only the beginning and the easy part of competitive link research. Once you get the list you need to analyze each link, weed out poor quality sites and only leave the ones you can get a link from. Now THAT's a lot of work.

I'm too lazy to do this all by hand, besides I value my time too much to waste it on such kind of work. That's why I use SEO SpyGlass an advanced link analysis tool that employs all the tricks described in this article (plus some more advanced ones I don't even know) to get up to 25,000 links per domain, which is much, much more than any other tool can get.

SEO SpyGlass also finds all the data I need to analyze the links:

> Google PR of the domain and linking page
> The URL and title of the linking page
> The anchor text and description
> Whether the link is still on the page (sometimes the link gets removed but search engines will think it's there till they reindex the page).
> Whether the link is no-follow or dofollow
> How many other links are on the page
> How much link value the link passes
> And some other data like TLDs, domain age, country, etc.

If you want to do competitive link research seriously I'd strongly recommend trying SEO SpyGlass out. And of course you can always use my tricks whenever you want to run a quick background check on that new guy on your block.

Get more link building advice and SEO software to help you implement it.

Richard Gilmore is an Internet marketer, freelance SEO, author and addicted guitar player.

source:http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/7-tricks-to-get-a-Goooooooooooogle-of-links.html

Latest Announcement: Verify your blogger Blog in Webmaster Tools

2009-10-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

There is latest announcement of changes to the verification system in Webmaster tool. This announcement is especially for blogger. If you are a blog owner, then you will have to use the Meta tag verification method rather than the "one-click" integration from the Blogger dashboard. The auto verification link from the blogger dashboard is now not working and sooner it will be removed. Follow these steps to submit and verify your blog in webmaster tool:

Step-By-Step Instructions:

1. First you have sign in Webmaster Tool
2. Click the "Add a site" button on the Webmaster Tools Home page
3. Enter you blog URL
4. Click on continue button and go to verification page
5. Copy the code in the verification page.
6. Select the "Meta tag" verification method and copy the meta tag provided
7. Now Sign In in blogger
8. Click on Layout option and then Edit HTML
9. Paste the Meta Tag(which you copied) immediately after the Head.
10. Click the Save Template button
11. Last option: go to the webmaster tool and click on verify button.

Your blog should now be verified. You're ready to start using Webmaster Tools!

Google Adsense | Insert Ads without Template Modification

2009-09-13T09:07:00.000-07:00

WhyDoWork Adsense allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template with a variety of useful options.

WhyDoWork Adsense is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. More then that, you can set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then X days (x is the number of days you decide).

For example, you can insert a 468x60 ad at the bottom of a new article, and once that article turns 7 days old it will have a more aggressive 336x280 ad blended with the text from the beginning of that article.

This way your regular readers will not be bothered by your ads, while visitors coming to older posts from search engines or other sources, will see a version that is monetized better.

Another feature is the ability to exclude ads wherever you like based on post id, or by using our no-adsense tag.

== Installation ==

1. Upload `whydowork_adsense.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory .
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. All settings can be configured in the 'Options' area of your blog.

Money Making Site | Create Money Making Sites

2009-08-30T10:51:00.000-07:00

7 Tips For Creating Sites That Make Money

Having a Google AdSense site is a great way to make money. And to create an AdSense site, all you have to do is have a Google AdSense account (which is free), a website or a blog (which is free), and some articles (which are free if you write them yourself). Once you get your site up and running, the AdSense ads will be targeted to your content.

Therefore, those looking for your content will come by, read your articles, and have a high probability of being interested in the targeted ads. Every time someone clicks an ad, you get paid! That is, as long as you have designed your site to maximize AdSense clickthroughs!

Let's look at seven tips for creating AdSense sites that create money.

#1: Keyword Density

Before you place ads on your site, be sure your keyword density is good. You will want to be sure that the right kinds of ads are placed on your site. A free way to determine what the ads will look like on your site is to go to http://www.resultsgenerator.com/adsense/ and type in your keywords. You will then be able to see exactly what ads would show on your site.

If you don't like what you see, then you know that you need to make changes to your keywords! You can get keyword suggestions from Results Generator from Overture or from the free trial version of Word Tracker.

#2: Focused

Not only will the ads be based on your keywords, but they will also be based on your content. You definitely want your keywords and your content to match as closely as possible.

#3: Write Often

The more information you have the better. Why? Because the more content you have, the more visitors you get. Many people suggest that you write a new article every day since no one wants to come back to your site to find the same old messages!

#4: Choose The Right Format

AdSense allows you to choose many different ad formats. Research has shown that wider ads are more successful. The top three formats are:

" 336x280 large rectangle
" 300x250 medium rectangle
" 160x600 wide skyscraper

Additionally, the 468x15 horizontal ad link under the navigation bar is also a good bet.

#5: Color Counts

You have the option to create a Google AdSense ad in any color of your choice. The best thing to do is to make your ad blend well with your site color scheme. You should make the border color and the background color the same color as your web site. You will want your text color to either be black or the color of your main content.

When creating your Google AdSense ads it is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website so that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom better than ads within borders with background color.

#6: Position Counts, Too

It is well known that visitors to a website scan the site to determine if it is worth reading. You definitely want them to see and scan your AdSense ads. Therefore, the best place to put them is in the top left part of your page or directly under your headlines.

#7: Increase The Number

AdSense allows you to use up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes, and one unit of ad links. Using all that you can increases the chances of earning money.

Keep these seven tips in mind when creating your AdSense site and you will find that your clickthrough rates increase, thus increasing your money making potential.

URL Metrix | Online Back Links, Traffic Rank Checker Tool

2009-08-29T01:56:00.000-07:00

Check your web popularity, rankings with URL Metrix

Useful and Best Online tool to check back links, Traffic Rank and other information for our website. We can use this tool for compotator website analysis, which kind of back links they are collecting for their ranking and traffic. This is online tool and Free For All. Any web master can access this tool with out installation. I have checked my site analysis with URL Metrix. URL Metrix gives below mentioned information about any web site.

Check your web popularity, rankings and more with URL Metrix http://www.urlmetrix.com/

Title
Google PageRank
Alexa rank
Compete Rank
Quantcast Rank
Technorati Rank
Google Indexed
Yahoo Indexed
Google BackLinks
Yahoo BackLinks
Delicious Bookmarks
Diigo Bookmarks
Twitter Tweets
FriendFeed Links
Reddit Links
StumbleUpon Reviews
Wikipedia External Links
DMOZ Links
Google Blog Search Links
Technorati Blog Reactions
Google Trends

Keyword Selection | Various Methods for Keyword Selection

2009-07-06T19:36:00.000-07:00

For online business website is must, in some cases like to earn online as publisher or affiliate, it can be done with blog. In case of B2B or B2C model, website is very important to make your site and company a big brand. In this time site promotion is also very important thing. Here keyword research is main part of brand promotion, traffic generation and increase online business. Google Adwords keyword selection tool is the best tool. We need more and more information about its use.

For any kind of keywords; Google Adwords tool shows these four types of keywords selection, broad match, phrase match, exact match, and negative keyword matching. For optimization purpose, broad, phase and exact are very helpful and negative keyword matching is very useful for ppc. You can get more and more clicks from negative keywords during PPC, it depends on your campaign, and how it’s been presented.

The best technique to achieve this is proper application of “keyword matching” options. There are four different methods of making sure your ad campaign is targeted to your intended audience and potential clients.

Broad Match: Match your all search words, ex: you are searching seo services ahmedabad you will search result related to seo services, seo ahmedabad and also those listing will come where is not word seo or services or ahmedabad (might be one or 2 matching words) in these types of

Exact Match: [Best Gifts USA] if you think you need only this kind of information and also want to rub your Google Adwords campaign on same keywords in brackets

Negative Keyword: when working with Google Adwords, some negative keywords are also important for our campaign. Some times, some negative keywords also generate more traffic, this same thing we can implement for on page optimization.

Google Searchology event, Search Options-Updates

2009-05-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

More Search Options and other updates from Google Searchology event

The Google Search Options panel also gives you the ability to view your results in new ways.

One view gives you more information about each result, including images as well as text, while others let you explore and iterate your search in different ways.

Google think of the Search Options panel as a tool belt that gives you new ways to interact with Google Search, and Google plan to fill it with more innovative and useful features in the future.

Another challenging problem Google have worked on is better understanding the information you get back from a search. When you see your results from a Google search, how do you decide which one has the best information for you? Or, how can Google help you make the best decision about where to click?

Make More Money From Articles

2009-05-16T20:56:00.000-07:00

Tips to Make More Money With Articles

Writing articles and blogs are fun and some people earn money along the way. You should aim at polishing each and everyone of your article so that you can increase its number of views, easy to search, great title, catching audience and ultimately its entire value. Each article will so much more if you take a little time to edit your title, key words, humor, niche, hook in, and its content. Great content always sell more than the technical stuff.

You can have the most fancy vocabulary build in but if your audience doesn’t care for it you still have not succeed. The most important person to focus on is your reader. After all they will be the one that will come back for more or look at your other content. They can also buy your work, article, or your book if they like your content.

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Benefits of Link Building

2009-05-16T20:53:00.000-07:00

Higher Search Engine Rankings – More Back Links Can Help us to get Top ranking on search engine ranking pages.

More Targeted Traffic on Website: if you are getting link back from your theme related site, there are more possibilities to divert his traffic to your site, if you have get link back from right place of site, Here Link From Banner can attract visitor to click.

Large Attendance on Internet

Good Page Rank

High Alexa Traffic Rank

All Benefits of Unique “C” Class IP Link Backs.

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Social Media Blogs | Best Social Media Blogs

2009-05-15T09:49:00.000-07:00

Five Best Social Media Blogs

This list is based on my own personal favorites , cutting the list down to five was very difficult but here they are:

1. Chris Brogan – Chris writes as if he is speaking for all of us. He tells it like it is in a straight forward style with plenty of sarcasm and wit. He includes great tips for working smarter with social media in your business as well as how to create the conversations between company, employees and customers. Also contains great video book reviews.

2. Mashable – Everything you always wanted to know about social media but perhaps didn’t even know to ask the question. This blog is the top source for what is going on in social media as well as tips to get the most out of your social media experiences.

3. Socialmedia.biz – A great resource for keeping up with the news of social media. Lots of great articles as well as tons of vlog posts. There is also a lot of help here for companies developing or just trying to improve their social media strategies.

4. Instigator Blog – Ben Yoskovitz brings a trademark sense of humor to his posts which focus more on the point of view of the entrepreneur and small business people. Ben also provides plenty of insights, tips and strategies for business in areas outside of social media.

5. PlugInHQ – Formerly viperchill.com, Glen Allsopp uses his personal experiences as a social media manager for some of the biggest companies in the world to provide tips and strategies for companies as well as individuals to get the most out of social media sites, applications and widgets as well as how to drive traffic.

There are many other great social media blogs out there. I would appreciate it if you would let me know whether you agree/disagree with my choices or if you have some favorites of your own.

Source: http://saintelk.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/five-best-social-media-blogs/

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SEO Tips, Search Engine Optimization Tips

2009-04-16T21:58:00.000-07:00

As I am very big fan of social media sites and forums, so I daily check some top social media communities and some forums. Today while I was checking some threads in one of the best forum, I found this nice and very useful information. I have posted same here just for sharing purpose; hope it may be very useful for SEO.

Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.

Be sure you have a unique, keyword focused Title tag on every page of your site. And, if you MUST have the name of your company in it, put it at the end. Unless you are a major brand name that is a household name, your business name will probably get few searches.

Don’t design your web site without considering SEO. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. Doing a retrofit on your shiny new Flash-based site after it is built won’t cut it. Spiders can crawl text, not Flash or images.

Check the link to your home page throughout your site. Is index.html appended to your domain name? If so, you’re splitting your links. Outside links go to http://www.domain.com and internal links go to http://www.domain.com/index.html.

Search engines want natural language content. Don’t try to stuff your text with keywords. It won’t work. Search engines look at how many times a term is in your content and if it is abnormally high, will count this against you rather than for you.

Links from .edu domains are given nice weight by the search engines. Run a search for possible non-profit .edu sites that are looking for sponsors.

Cater to influential bloggers and authority sites who might link to you, your images, videos, podcasts, etc. or ask to reprint your content.

You’re better off letting your site pages be found naturally by the crawler. Good global navigation and linking will serve you much better than relying only on an XML Sitemap.

To get the best chance for your videos to be found by the crawlers, create a video sitemap and list it in your Google Webmaster Central account.

If you have pages on your site that are very similar (you are concerned about duplicate content issues) and you want to be sure the correct one is included in the search engines, place the URL of your preferred page in your sitemaps.

Some of your most valuable links might not appear in web sites at all but be in the form of e-mail communications such as newletters and zines.

SEO is not a one-shot process. The search landscape changes daily, so expect to work on your optimization daily.

Pay attention to the context surrounding your images. Images can rank based on text that surrounds them on the page. Pay attention to keyword text, headings, etc.

Search engines like unique content that is also quality content. There can be a difference between unique content and quality content. Make sure your content is both.

Get the owner or CEO blogging. It’s priceless! CEO influence on a blog is incredible as this is the VOICE of the company. Response from the owner to reader comments will cause your credibility to skyrocket!

Use absolute links. Not only will it make your on-site link navigation less prone to problems (like links to and from https pages), but if someone scrapes your content, you’ll get backlink juice out of it.

Videos that show up in Google blended search results don’t just come from YouTube. Be sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites like Metacafe, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to name a few.

When considering a link purchase or exchange, check the cache date of the page where your link will be located in Google. Search for “cache:URL” where you substitute “URL” for the actual page. The newer the cache date the better. If the page isn’t there or the cache date is more than an month old, the page isn’t worth much.

Links (especially deep links) from a high PageRank site are golden. High PR indicates high trust, so the back links will carry more weight.

There are two ways to NOT see Google’s Personalized Search results:

Use captions with your images. As with newspaper photos, place keyword rich captions with your images.

If you absolutely MUST have your main page as a splash page that is all Flash or one big image, place text and navigation links below the fold.

Be aware that by using services that block domain ownership information when you register a domain, Google might see you as a potential spammer.

When link building, think quality, not quantity. One single, good, authoritative link can do a lot more for you than a dozen poor quality links, which can actually hurt you.

Check for canonicalization issues - www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other to it. In other words, if http://www.domain.com is your preference, then http://domain.com should redirect to it.

If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good, logical reason for that site to link to you, you don’t want the link.

If you absolutely MUST use Java script drop down menus, image maps or image links, be sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.

Frames, Flash and AJAX all share a common problem - you can’t link to a single page. It’s either all or nothing. Don’t use Frames at all and use Flash and AJAX sparingly for best SEO results.

Your URL file extension doesn’t matter. You can use .html, .htm, .asp, .php, etc. and it won’t make a difference as far as your SEO is concerned.

When optimizing your blog posts, optimize your post title tag independently from your blog title.

Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your target is “blue widgets” then link to “blue widgets” instead of a “Click here” link.

videos that show up in Google blended search results don’t just come from YouTube. Be sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites like Metacafe, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to name a few.

Not only should your links use keyword anchor text, but the text around the links should also be related to your keywords. In other words, surround the link with descriptive text.

You get NOTHING from paid links except a few clicks unless the links are embedded in body text and NOT obvious sponsored links.

Optimize the text in your RSS feed just like you should with your posts and web pages. Use descriptive, keyword rich text in your title and description.

Understand social marketing. It IS part of SEO. The more you understand about sites like Digg, Yelp, del.icio.us, Facebook, etc., the better you will be able to compete in search.

See if your hosting company offers “Sticky” forwarding when moving to a new domain. This allows temporary forwarding to the new domain from the old, retaining the new URL in the address bar so that users can gradually get used to the new URL.

Add viral components to your web site or blog - reviews, sharing functions, ratings, visitor comments, etc.

Surround video content on your pages with keyword rich text. The search engines look at surrounding content to define the usefulness of the video for the query.

SEO is useless if you have a weak or non-existent call to action. Make sure your call to action is clear and present.

Give link love, Get link love. Don’t be stingy with linking out. That will encourage others to link to you.

The bottom line in SEO is Text, Links, Popularity and Reputation.

Make sure your site is easy to use. This can influence your link building ability and popularity and, thus, your ranking.

Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.

Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.

If your site content doesn’t change often, your site needs a blog because search spiders like fresh text. Blog at least three time a week with good, fresh content to feed those little crawlers.

Focus on search phrases, not single keywords, and put your location in your text (“our Palm Springs store” not “our store”) to help you get found in local searches.

Got a new web site you want spidered? Submitting through Google’s regular submission form can take weeks. The quickest way to get your site spidered is by getting a link to it through another quality site.

Give each page a focus on a single keyword phrase. Don’t try to optimize the page for several keywords at once.

Use the words “image” or “picture” in your photo ALT descriptions and captions. A lot of searches are for a keyword plus one of those words.

Broaden your range of services to include video, podcasts, news, social content and so forth. SEO is not about 10 blue links anymore.

Enable “Enhanced image search” in your Google Webmaster Central account. Images are a big part of the new blended search results, so allowing Google to find your photos will help your SEO efforts.

Check your server headers Search for “check server header” to find free online tools for this You want to be sure your URLs report a “200 OK” status or “301 Moved Permanently ” for redirects If the status shows anything else, check to be sure your URLs are set up properly and used consistently throughout your site.

Press Release to drag maximum SEO advantage

2009-04-10T01:51:00.000-07:00

Here I came though a nice tips and I want you all to have a look. Those who are doing press release, I hope this will help all them to do it effectively with maximum SEO advantage.

What Features To Look For When Choosing A Press Release Submission Site

Look for a press release distribution site that makes the title of the press release into the title tag for the item. This greatly improves its ranking in the various search engines and increases its visibility when you use your keywords in your press release titles.

While not a must, social bookmarking buttons are a definite benefit. Social media sites like Stumble Upon, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Furl, Digg, and others expose your item to millions more readers to increase the excitement around your news.

One of the most important features to look for in a press release distribution site is the availability of anchor text links. Building anchor text backlinks is an essential part of any search engine marketing campaign. Avoid sites that use text link advertising. These direct readers away from your news and generally clutter up your SEO press release.

Since press releases are ultimately written for the reader, look for sites that keep the reader in mind. The news items should be easy to read and use a standard format. This allows the reader to find the information he or she is interested in and directs their attention to the important things. Pull quotes, for example, instantly catch the reader's eye and make the press release more visually appealing and work to pull the reader into your message.

A professional look makes it possible for you to send the link to potential customers. You can also include the link in newsletters and emails to current clients to keep them updated on the latest happenings within your company.

Happy Press Releasing

SEO Expanding During this Recession

2009-04-09T23:31:00.000-07:00

SEO Firm is Actually Expanding During this Recession

Increase Visibility, a leading search engine optimization and marketing company, is experiencing a surge in the demand for their SEO/SEM services. The firm's sales have increased by 200% during the first quarter of 2009. Due to the significant increase in requests for services by new and established clients, Increase Visibility will be purchasing a new 30,000 square foot corporate office building in Orange County, California in the appealing city of Irvine.

More companies are seeking help from SEO/SEM firms in order to survive and flourish during this recession. Companies are discovering that talented search engine optimization specialists are even more important during economic difficult times since their markets may be shrinking or experiencing slow growth. Converting traffic into paying customers in this economic climate requires talented SEO specialists. Due to its skilled staff, Increase Visibility is actually doing very well during these economic difficult times.

When asked why his company's sales growth rate has surged, Increase Visibility's President Jim Lisi stated "Our talented staff has demonstrated they have the skills to obtain first page search engine rankings for our clients, which is essential if our client's are going to be prosperous." He went on to say "Consistently being ranked at the top of the search engine optimization services list by TopSEOs.com indicates our clients are pleased with the results we have achieved for them. These high rankings are attracting new client to us." Combining new clients with a 96% client retention rate has provided the firm with a strong sales growth.

Many website owners look to unbiased, knowledgeable sources in order to select a search engine optimization firm. Each month during this recession, the highly esteemed TopSEO's.com has performed comprehensive interviews with the clients of 2,500 SEO firms and asks them to rate their overall experience with their search engine optimization company from 1 to 10. Return on investment is also a significant factor in the ranking process. These monthly rankings show which search engine optimization firms have been declared successful by their clients during the ongoing recession.

Increase Visibility has been ranked #1 or #2 for SEO firms from August 2008 - April of 2009 by TopSEOs.com. The firm has also been honored by being placed in the top 3 in Promotion World's Readers' Choice Awards for the best Search Engine Marketing (SEM) companies.

Jim Lisi has over ten years of experience in the field of SEO and has gathered numerous well-known SEO/SEM experts to create the highly ranked company, Increase Visibility. The firm has numerous Fortune 1000 clients and has recently added a large number of new internet business clients including Next Day Flyers, Italy Design, A Candy Store, Ultimate Celebrator, Term Advantage, Eat24Hours and Shop Rendezvous.

Increase Visibility is offering a free website analysis. After completing a simple website analysis form, website owners will receive a no obligation, comprehensive website evaluation. For internet businesses not satisfied with their current search engine ranking, the report offers an insight into what the search engines notice when evaluating their websites.

Increase Visibility is a leader in the search engine marketing services industry. The firm provides organic search engine optimization, pay per click management, reputation management, press releases and social media optimization services. Increase Visibility offers search engine marketing plans to fit small, medium and large marketing budgets. Visit the Increase Visibility blog for search engine optimization tips and internet marketing information.

Add Twitter to Wordpress - Video Tutorials

2009-04-08T21:51:00.000-07:00

How to add Twitter to Wordpress – Video Tutorials

Rank High on Google Ad Auction

2009-03-18T01:28:00.000-07:00

How To Rank Your Google Ad Higher?.

Forget about all the hype, myths, theory, ebooks, secrets you have ever read on the Google AdWords.

Google Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explains the AdWords Ad Auction and how your max CPC bid and quality score determine how much you pay for a click on Google.com (and apply it to rank your ad higher).

Everything explained in 9 minutes!

Source

Google algorithm putting more weight on brands in rank

2009-03-05T20:50:00.000-08:00

We were thinking looking fluctuation in Google ranking that algorithm may be changed or updates, and Finally Google Confirm that there is little big change in algorithm. Now concentrate on brand promotion and Breadcrumb Navigation for SE Friendly site navigation structure.

Matt Cutts of Google made a video talking specifically about this change

Small Business SEO Tips in 2009

2009-02-19T11:49:00.000-08:00

SEO for Small Business 2009

http://www.ireally.co.uk Brand NEW powerful SEO solution is about to be launched for the SME Marketplace in 2009. Want your business to dominate the search engines. Welcome to the iSITE.

Note: On February 21, 2009, AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 11:30 PM to February 22, 2009 3:30 AM India Standard Time due to system maintenance. Please note that your campaigns will continue to run normally during this short downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience.

LSI Latent Semantic Indexing

2009-01-31T00:54:00.000-08:00

What is LSI ?

LSI full form Latent Semantic Indexing. LSI in academic terms refers to methods of accurate data retrieval, or data retrieval methodology.

In layman’s terms, in marketing terms, here’s what is really means.

Search engines(Google) want to rank your sites according to what they think you should have on your site in order to rank you well for certain search terms and phrases.

If your site is about cats, and all the content on your site are about dogs, not only does that make for a poor visitor experience, but it also makes for misleading on-page optimization.

By misleading on-page optimization, I mean that you shouldn’ t optimize and design your site title and meta tags to “claim” your site is about cats when it’s really about dogs.

on-page optimization was a very critical part of your efforts to rank well in the search engines for certain terms.

Then Google realized that many web marketers were gaming the system with metatags stuffing and keyword stuffing their pages to fake the search engines out by making them think that their site was about something it really wasn’t.

LSI refers to data retrieval and the reason it applies to SERPs and rankings is that search engines like Google are basically just data retrieval systems that find sites that have certain words on them and add them to their index of sites that are about that certain word or phrases. With the advent, or coming predominance of Latent Semantic Indexing in ranking factors, the search engines appear to be looking for the best of both worlds by taking into account what relevant and related keywords are on your site, plus what kinds of sites are linking to yours.

Can LSI be gamed by marketers?

Yes, and it’s already happening, with some sites and services offering LSI keyword research services, and offering to build silo structured sites, which is another part of the LSI ranking theory for SEO.

Know More About: Google Golden Triangle and LSI

Points to Solve Indexing Problems

2009-01-26T22:11:00.000-08:00

I’ve outlined certain possibilities to the website not getting indexed:

(a) Your site was temporarily unavailable when the Googlebot was passing through.

(b) Your website has drastic errors – This includes having dead links or orphaned pages that are not allowing the Googlebot to crawl through all the pages of your website.

(c) Javascript or Flash is “un-crawlable” – The Googlebot may have trouble following links in Javascript or Flash meaning pages of your website may be excluded in the Google index. This means, your website contains Nofollow or Robots.txt code placed in the website.

(d) You are black listed – Google has the power to omit your website from their search results if they believe you are doing something illegitimate to boost your PageRank. Illegitimate practices include: Cloaking – having text/links on your website that are invisible to browsers, Over-use of Keywords – repeating keywords artificially to boost keyword count, Duplicating material etc.

(e) Your page may not be relevant to the search terms you want- if the content of your webpages are not relevant to your keywords, your pages won’t appear in search engine results.

Your website may be indexed but not appearing in search engine results due to poor performance. You can check if this is the case by searching for your URL as the keyword. For example, if your URL is www dot example dot com, enter “www dot example dot com” as your search keyword query. If your website appears in the search engine results, then you are indexed.

Source: Devhunters.com

Google Bowling, Negative SEO

2009-01-20T02:20:00.000-08:00

Today, While reading some information about SEO, I came to know about Google Bowling is not good for seo, and also it's one type of cheating to get good ranking. I don't like this types of activities in SEO.

Read about Google Bowling.

Google Bowling is the term given to "Negative SEO". It is to make your competitors website rank lower in SERP so that your website could rank above them.
Here one do not work on own website but work on competitors website to make it disappear (through off page optimization).

Web CEO 7.7 Increase traffic from search engines

2008-12-22T03:45:00.000-08:00

Web CEO 7.7 – Hot New Release!

If you are serious about search engine marketing and optimization, even the Free Edition of Web CEO 7.7 will help you.

Web CEO software suite for web promotion and search engine Optimization helps your site become prominent in search results, highly automates your search engine marketing and optimization efforts, and teaches you the best SEO and SEM practices. Have all the work done quickly, easily, and receive professional quality reports.

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Ensure your Web site is ultra-reliable

	Smart Keyword Marketing and Research		Advanced Site Optimization for search engines
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Site Builder Elite - Increase Adsense income with SEO Software Site Builder Elite

2008-12-18T03:46:00.000-08:00

Boost your Google Adsense Income with Site Builder Elite

Create Content-rich Websites with the Click of a Button. Monetize With A Variety Of Income Streams Including Google Adsense, Amazon, AdBrite, ModernClick, Kontera, Chitika. All Created Pages Have Rss As Standard. Add Instant Content. Sites SEO Optimized.

Using Site Builder Elite, You can boost Your Adsense and Affiliate Commissions by Building 10s, 100s or 1000s of web sites, each with click of a Button!

Build Dynamic SEO Optimized, Content Rich Websites.
Monetize your sites in a number of ways.
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Configure your site’s options at any time and rebuild your sites when ever you need to.

So, don’t waste your time for site designing, Click Here and order your copy now.

WordPress upgrade, WordPress updates 2.7 coming

2008-12-04T00:29:00.000-08:00

Today, i was doing my work in DIGG and i got a latest post that, "Wordpress 2.7 is coming". I was surprised after this news, coz i like wordpress, and it's best blogging platform, specially for self hosted server.

Featured Addes in Wordpress 2.7

Navigation
Section Labels
Expand/Collapse Sections
Minimize Menu Column
Shortcuts

Customizable Display
Drag and Drop
Open/Close
Hide/Show

Dashboard (Used to be tab above blog title)
QuickPress
Drafts
Recent Comments

Posts: Edit (Used to be Manage > Posts)
Show/Hide Columns
All Posts Order
List/Excerpt Views
Action Links
Quick Edit
Batch Edit
Reduced Scrolling

Read More About Wprdpress 2.7 Updates

Yahoo Launches “Vertical Lens” Search Through BOSS

2008-11-27T20:51:00.001-08:00

Yahoo announced an expansion to the BOSS technology named “vertical lens” technology. In short, this allows developers build their own vertical search engines using Yahoo’s search technology, through BOSS. This new technology is replacing Yahoo’s old Search Builder tool.

TechCrunch is one of the first to deploy a “vertical lens” on their site. TechCrunch’s solution searches technology-focused articles on both TechCrunch.com and across Yahoo’s web index. So this helps improve TechCrunch’s internal site search, and also give searchers other relevant search results that are not found on TechCrunch’s domain. Here is a picture that shows how TechCrunch implemented this BOSS technology:

Yahoo Boss Vertical Lens on TechCrunch

When we questioned Yahoo as to why they dropped Search Builder for BOSS, Yahoo told us:

BOSS vertical search engine is more powerful. Not only it can support Search Builder’s functionality, it has the following features

It gets “structured” content from customer sites to allow searchers to navigate and refine their searches.
It gets proprietary content in real time; the content is searchable immediately
It builds a vertical lens of the web for the customer and blends the results from this lens with the customer data.
It customizes ranking based on customer needs: ranking can be recency based, popularity based, or social based

Personally, I have been a Google Custom Search Engine user, but I am very interested in giving Yahoo’s solution a try on some of my sites.

Originally at: http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-launches-vertical-lens-search-through-boss-15618.php

Want to Block Complicate URl? - Block Complicated URLs with robots.txt

Links from .edu and .gov domains have no special value

2008-11-23T08:32:00.000-08:00

Links from .edu and .gov domains have no special value

Many webmasters and marketers think that a website will get a ranking boost on Google if it has links from .edu or .gov domains. Google's Matt Cutts and Google's John Mueller recently said that this wasn't so:

"This is a common misconception - you don't get any PageRank boost from having an .edu link or .gov link automatically. If you get an .edu link and no one is linking to that .edu page, you're not going to get any PageRank at all because that .edu page doesn't have any PageRank. [...] We generally treat all links the same - be it from .gov or .edu or .info sites."
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Blocking Complicated URLs with Robots .txt

2008-11-17T21:43:00.000-08:00

by Codex-M
2008-10-28

If you have a large web site, you might have some content that you do not want the search engines to index - perhaps for duplicate content reasons or you simply do not want someone casually stumbling across it. You know you can use robots .txt, but what if you need to block thousands of pages or block only certain files within a folder? This article will explain some of the more advanced uses of robots .txt. You will even learn how to block dynamic pages!

Robots .txt is one of the most important files to place in a web server. Basically, below are the main uses of robots .txt file:

It will tell the bots which URLs cannot be crawled.

When the bots receive these restrictions, they will focus on crawling those parts of your web site which are not restricted.

The main uses are very simple, but actually using robots .txt could be complex and making a mistake with it can banish your site in the search engine index. The objective of this article is to provide advanced techniques in robots .txt for blocking complicated URLs.

Read Blocking Complicated URLs with Robots.txt

Does Google Hate WordPress and Other Blog Platforms?

2008-10-29T01:43:00.000-07:00

Doing a simple search for the term blog reveals some interesting information found in the SERP. There is absolutely no mention of WordPress or any other blog publishing platform. Yet, there are three instances of Google mentioned.

Ironically, after allowing Google to track my web history, doing the same search logged into iGoogle, one would think that the results would be more "personalized" based off my previous browsing history and also due to the fact that visiting WordPress.org is one of my top most visited sites while logged in.

To no avail, the SERP still included three instances of Google with no listing of WordPress, TypePad or any other alternative blog publishing software. To further my research, I searched for the term: create a blog, and found that three of the top ten results show Blogger.com and once again, no instance of WordPress.

What are your thoughts about this? Does Google hate WordPress and other blog platforms? Is this a way of Google attempting to lessen the number of new bloggers from using more powerful platforms which in return make Google's job controlling them more difficult? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Google Penalty, Google Penalty Checklist

2008-10-18T19:17:00.000-07:00

Read the Google Webmaster Guidelines and check website compliance in all respects. Since early 2007, Google may alert webmasters via the Google Webmaster Console who they feel might have unknowingly broken their guidelines to advise them that their site has been removed from Google for a set period of time due to breaking one or more of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

However, blatant spam or significant breaches of Google’s rules will often result in a site being banned, with no Webmaster Console notification. Where notification of a violation of Google’s guidelines is received, it usually encourages the webmaster to correct the problem/s and then issue a re-inclusion request to re-include their site. From my experience, after this is done the website will usually regain its original ranking, having lost no trust.

According to Matt Cutts’s Blog, Google is improving webmaster communication with respect to banned sites and penalties. Google is now informing some (but not all) webmasters the cause of a website ban or penalty, via their excellent new Webmaster Console. In addition, a Google re-inclusion request can be made from the same interface. For this reason, if you’ve been hit by a web site ban or penalty, it is worthwhile signing up for Google Webmaster Tools and uploading an XML Sitemap onto your site and then to check site status in the Google Webmaster Console. This is an easy 15 minute job and may help to identify the cause and fix for the problem!

Purpose of making Table Less Website

2008-09-19T22:24:00.001-07:00

What's the purpose of making a website table-less? It makes the page load quicker than if it's in tables.

Die hard fans of CSS will say you should only use CSS, but in all reality, due to Internet Explorer not adhering to the web standards, you can sometimes get vastly different results appearing in each browser. I was given some advice once, when working with css to test it in Firefox first and then look to fixing it up for IE.

I use CSS for main layout (like your three cols etc) and occasionally tables for smaller content (or things that it's easier to just do tables in rather than sitting at the screen for a week trying to figure it out.

Use your own mind, explore the options - with CSS you can create faster loading pages, sometimes with some really interesting effects, but tables are easier to figure out depending on the complexity of your site design. If you go for CSS for the core and then utilize tables occasionally on certain content, go forth - you are the designer of your own corner of the web (just make sure it's cross-browser compatible - appears the way you want it to in other browsers aside from the main one YOU use).

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36491

Twitter make you dumbo

2008-09-14T21:43:00.000-07:00

Out of experience? Well, I don’t know, but looked like everyone is so interested in talking about getting successful on Twitter. Well, I followed many of them and, guess what? They enlightened me on the below points. With due courtesy to all of them….

Please follow your followers
Or guess what happens? Your followers would be responding to your tweet and they never hear back from you. Okay, you are a pro - master - guru, blah blah…fine..but that doesn’t mean that you won’t talk or reply. Does it ?
Please don’t even dare say “Good Morning” or “Good Evening” or even “Good night”
Cos, the 300ish guys subscribed to your tweet is not from your neighborhood, they’re most likely from the other end of the world. They may think you’re nuts!
Please try to respond, or be a bot
I can’t think of a good reason why one wouldn’t respond. Unless it’s a bot using your profile. I’ve seen Digg bots (some of them even have the profile pic of that of a robot), but twitter bots? Come on…that’s disgusting!
Twitter is not a place to yawn..come’on now for God sake!
Thou shall not yawn, or do any of those organic sounds. Remember, though you’re on your bed, the world’s watching you..err…listening to you.
Be logical
This is tough to explain. Example? Here goes…
Mr. X : I’m going out for a movie - Dark Knight.
Mr. Y : @Mr.X - Man, that’s a cool movie. Yaay!

(After 30 mins….)

Mr. X : Just woke up..had coffee, off to Gym !
Mr. Y : @Mr.X huh??

Makes sense?

All Credit Goes to Solanki Kiran to Post This Latest Social Site NEWS

Importance of Sitemaps in SEO

2008-09-08T21:30:00.000-07:00

Yeah sitemap feeds are the quickest and best way to get your site indexed well, however be conscious about your front end links that should be same in your sitemap feeds.

However it is not required that you divide the xml feeds and submit on daily basis. you can go with 50,000 links a file and submit all your file at once, Google and other spider will set schedule and will index pages according to their priority. For more understanding about sitemap feeds seek here http://www.sitemaps.org/

If your website had PR5 or higher spider will index quickly incase of new website the frequency to index your pages will be low.

Firefox Rank Checker, Firefox Search Engine Ranking Checking Tool

2008-08-22T11:46:00.000-07:00

Introduction Video

Want to know where your website ranks in the search results? Our Firefox Rank Checker extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search.

Want to learn more? Watch this video and/or read on.

Download & Installation Instructions:

You have to use Firefox version 2 or higher to get this to work. If you have not yet used Firefox go download Firefox, and then come back to this page using Firefox as your web browser.
Click Here to install the Firefox Rank Checker extension.
If the Software Installation window is visible click Install Now.
If not, then:
- See if there is a yellow bar near the top of your browser.
- Click the Edit Options button on the yellow bar.
- Click Allow. Then click OK.
- Click Here
- Click the Install Now button.
As a final step, restart Firefox.

Click on the words Rank Checker in the bottom of your Firefox browser to activate the tool. Enter a URL and keyword combination and click the start button to check it's rankings.

Off the start this tool is set up to grab data from the Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft SERPs. After you install Firefox Rank Checker and restart your browser you may want to configure the extension settings to automatically collect data periodically and/or pull data from international Google search results.

The Theory...

I like being able to check my rankings real quickly without worrying that some SEO company is aggregating my data and/or spying on me. This tool is open source and hosted your computer - designed with privacy in mind.

Looking at the rankings of a couple of your sites that you know intimately well and tracking how they change over time allows you to

learn how to read the search results
appreciate and understand general algorithmic trends
be one of the first people to know when the relevancy algorithms change in a major way

This tool is designed to be quick and easy to use, but to also give you the opportunity to gain the level of insight needed to compete with other SEOs at the professional level. Here is an image of what the tool looks like:

If your site is not listed in the top 200 results you will see a - (there are a few of them in the above picture).
If you have long URLs and/or long keywords some of them may be cut off in the results display. If that happens you can still see the full page names and keywords by scrolling over them.
You can verify your position in the search results by double clicking on the URL...this will open the associated search results in Firefox.
If you are logged into your Google account in Firefox this tool will show you personalized ranking results (which tend to make the rankings appear better than they are in many cases). If you want to, you can turn personalized web search off in the Rank Checker options / preference settings window.

First Things First:

In the status bar at the bottom of Firefox you can click on Rank Checker at any time to turn this extension on.

This extension has courtesy settings which allow you to ping search engines for data at a slow rate. You probably want to set the delay to at least 2 or more seconds. If you set it at 0 do not be surprised if some of the engines at least temporarily block you for scraping data. To set the courtesy feature you need to

click on the word Tools at the top of your Firefox browser
scroll over the words Rank Checker
click on the word Options
at the bottom of the options window you can enter in the Delay between queries: whatever value you feel comfortable with (in seconds)

Uploading Keyword/ Website Data

You can upload keyword and domain name combinations directly in the Rank Checker interface by inserting them one at a time.

Next to the add keyword button is a link for adding multiple keywords. It allows you to upload a keyword list matching a domain.

If you want to quickly create a relevant keyword list just to sample how well your site is doing I recommend using our keyword research tool, or our keyword list generator.

If after using the tool you want to clear out the interface you can simply close the tool, or if you want to use it again you can click the clear button.

Firefox Rank Checker Extension Advanced Features:

This free rank checking tool allows you to check your rankings in Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live search results, and has the following features:

International: in the options section (mentioned above) you can select to pull results from international versions of Google and/or Google.com.
Presets: allows you to grab a list of keywords that you can research data on at any given point in time.
- useful for segregating data for different websites, different categories, etc.
- you can save a preset list by clicking on this button inside of the Rank Checker interface
- you can open a preset list by clicking on this button inside of the Rank Checker interface
Scheduled Tasks: allows you to look up any of your keyword lists daily, weekly, monthly, or at any periodicity you choose.
- After you have created a preset list of keywords you can use this feature
- To use this feature
  - click on the word Tools at the top of your Firefox browser
  - scroll over the words Rank Checker
  - click on the words Scheduled Tasks
  - at the bottom of the scheduled tasks window you can what keyword lists you want to run and how often to look them up

Want to Export Your Data?

With our free rank checker you can easily export your data to a CSV file. At the bottom of the tool window there is an export button for saving a spreadsheet of your rankings, which is convenient for providing a quick ranking report for clients.

These results can be viewed in any spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, or Open Office.

Inside the presets window there is the option to download the history of that keyword list to a CSV file, which shows you how your rankings for keywords change over time

This spreadsheet lists historical data for one keyword at a time

Possible Future Upgrades:

Check for multiple listings
Allow Google extension to be chose on a per preset basis
Add proxy support (although this is already baked into Firefox - there is even an extension for switching proxies).
Will see. Depends on feedback :)
Leave feedback here.

Other Useful Related Firefox Extensions and Goodies:

There are a number of other browser based extensions display other related SEO information. Advanced users may want to give SEO for Firefox a try. We offer a list of related useful extensions on our SEO extension page.

Have Feedback? Know of Any Conflicting Extensions?

If it does not work then throw your computer out the window, or leave feedback and read comments left by others here.

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Source: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/

All Credit Goes to Bhupendra Vasaikar - SEO Specialist India

Tips to Reduce Home Page Bounce rate

2008-08-12T22:03:00.000-07:00

Here are 7 tips I’ve found can reduce bounce rate. They really do work, unless you’re an overworked blogger who’s running an agency, writing a book and has 2 kids under the age of 10:

Answer questions. When someone comes to your site, they’re probably not thinking “Gee, I wonder what their office looks like.” Instead, they’re asking, “Do you have the mountain bike I really want”? Which question do you answer? Answer the latter and you’ll keep more visitors. (Inspired by Specialized.com)

Simplify. Believe it or not, every person in your company does not get to contribute one link to your home page. The average person is most comfortable processing 5-7 choices at a time. Don’t overwhelm them. Simplify by removing options or at least grouping and prioritizing them. How many links does Google have on their home page? How about Apple? Look at your traffic reports, find out what visitors really want, and then link to that and only that. If anyone in your office whines, blame me.

Remove autoplay videos. My first reflex if a video starts playing and music that sounds like a bad 70’s porn flick comes streaming out of my speakers is to hit the back button. I’m willing to bet most people feel the same way. Remove the video altogether, or at least have it paused.

Improve pageload time. If your home page takes more than 8 seconds to look intelligible, you’re probably shedding visitors. Note I said ‘look intelligible’, not ‘load completely’. If there’s a huge image or a video that takes longer, that’s OK, as long as it doesn’t prevent the rest of the page from loading. Trim 2-3 seconds off your pageload time and watch the bounce rate drop. Proof? When I first relaunched my blog, a bug in the code led to 10-15 second load times. Once we fixed it, the bounce rate dropped by 30%.

Write a better headline. A punchy, take-action headline will keep visitors. Instead of “Enterprise Security Solutions for A Web 2.0 Workplace”, try “Protect Your Network” (I made this example up).

Move the important stuff up. If you have a store, show products near the top of the page. If you’re promoting a candidate, put that message at the top. Always put your call to action up high, front-and-center. If you’re uncomfortable doing that, you may have the wrong call to action.

Dump the popup. I shouldn’t even have to say this any more, but if you have a popup or other annoyance on your home page, get rid of it. You’re losing a lot more than you’re gaining, plus you’re making me hate you.

Tips to Increase Inbound Home Page Links - Will Come Soon

PageRank Difference for Static & Dynamic url

2008-08-01T00:07:00.000-07:00

Matt Cutts answers Google questions: - Static vs. Dynamic urls: does PageRank flow the same to both? What pitfalls should I avoid with dynamic urls? - Can Sitemaps alert webmasters when their site has been hacked? - Can I do geotargetting within Google's Quality Guidelines?

Page Rank information for Static-Dynamic url by SEO Technical Analyst

Reinclusion Request Google need to know

2008-07-29T02:01:00.000-07:00

Matt and Emmy answer Google Questions: - How do I do a reinclusion request? - What should I put into a reinclusion request? - What does Google need to know before it reincludes a site in its index?

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Latest SEO Trends Sphinn - SEO Technical Analyst

2008-07-18T00:38:00.000-07:00

Use Sphinn to Keep up with SEO Trends
Filed Under (SEO Blog) by brandon on 26-06-2008

One thing about SEO is that it’s always evolving; new link building techniques, new search engine algorithms, new programing strategies, etc. If you really want to be on top of the Internet Marketing industry then you’re going to need to subscribe to some RSS feed or at least visit a well respected search engine marketing website on a daily basis. To get you started my recommendation would be to visit Sphinn it is an social website for those involved in the SEO industry, you too can sign up and submit news stories.

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Latest On SEO

2008-07-16T22:34:00.000-07:00

The Latest On SEO In Ireland.

By: sarahfolgea

What is the latest on SEO in Ireland? Well the Irish marketers are using SEO or search engine optimized ads for all their products and services. This ensures a flow of business that is generated by hits on a search engine. These ads on the search engines bring a constant flow of revenue by offering multiple listing ads for their business. These listing appear in the search engines using keywords in different formations in order to bring more business to Irish businessmen and women. This type of marketing does wonders for the economy in Ireland.

This is indeed a faster way to do business and bring new business into Ireland using the World Wide Web. This influx of new business is very helpful in all aspects to the Irish businesses and accounts for a good deal of trade done through the internet. This also increases the chances of their web pages to be brought front and center so that these businesses receive more international trade. The usage of search engine optimization isn't new however.

This has been going on since the internet was introduced. It is an optimal way to introduce businesses and new businesses to the world at large and has a hefty payday for those successful businesses that do use the search engine optimization for all their advertising on the web. This is guaranteed to provide excellent results at a fraction of the cost of other means of advertising that are currently available for the internet. This speaks volumes about the tenacity and cleverness on the part of all businesses in Ireland that advertise on the internet. It cannot be said just how much more revenue is brought in by this type of venture as opposed to other ways of advertising in more conventional ways and means.

The Irish usage of the search engine optimized advertisements goes along with the way of life in Ireland. The Irish are known for being thrifty and economical. These SEO advertisements don't cost much at all and bring much more revenue than the advertising itself costs to make on a search engine. This not only speeds up customers to sites, but also makes it more likely that overseas customers will also stop at their site and buy something. The effectiveness of the advertisement proves out that this is the best way to attract business, especially foreign business to their website and more often than not, business booms because of the usage of SEO articles and ads to attract more customers. However you choose to say it, it definitely works.

With all the Irish goods and services for sale on the internet you can see how many goods and services want to distinguish themselves from their neighbors. That is just the way of competition on the internet. With a SEO advertisement on a search engine or engines, you are guaranteed to make a fortune using search engine optimized ad for your Irish business. This is good fortune to all who use this very effective way of advertisement. It will really rake in the money good and proper from those that want to buy your goods or services. This means a much greater payday for all merchants involved with this form of advertisement.

The World Wide Web is a golden goose and the merchants are the ones that truly profit from it. This makes for a very happy merchant indeed, to know that his or her marketing efforts, while inexpensive can compete with anyone else on the web and get driven sales to their website by means of search engine optimized advertisement.

Article Source: http://www.content.onlypunjab.com

Sarah Folgea from Aceinternetmarketing.ie specialises in writing articles relating to the online Business Industry and SEO Ireland . Visit her website at www.aceinternetmarketing.ie

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Search Engine Optimization Copywriting

2008-07-15T01:42:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Optimisation and Copywriting Will Help Your Business Grow

Author: Kevin Donnelly

Have you got a beautiful website that no one knows is there?

Want more visitors and customers to your website?

Not appearing on the major search engines?

Then you need Search Engine Optimisation and Professional Copywriting.

Having the right content and text on your website is essential in today's highly competitive world.

There are so many websites on the World Wide Web, so many subjects and so many businesses for every single subject that it is getting harder and harder to attract people to yours.

So unless your website contains a Google Whack (and if that means nothing to you can we suggest you check out Dave Gorman’s book of the same name) then sad as it may seem, your site isn’t unique.

As a test of that theory try typing in two random words. Anything you like – the sillier and more unconnected the better. Try ‘kleptomaniacal zebras’, for example. When we Googled that we returned 80 results. 80! All loosely connected to thieving, stripy members of the horse family. Since your site is unlikely to relate to zebras of any description let’s try something a little more likely to feature on a website. Try searching for any product on the Web. Let’s try, for example, ‘black shoes’. When we checked there were 6,790,000 sites listed with that phrase.

If shoes are your business and you’re expecting to be found simply on the basis of having an expensive, professional website, then forget it. So are 6,789,999 others. That’s not a needle in a haystack – that’s a grain of sand on a beach.

There is no point in having an all singing all dancing website, with all the right colours and moving bits, if no one ever finds it on the internet. And let's say that some people do find your website – if the only text they find there is so dull that they fall asleep - just after logging off your website, then you’ve lost the potential customers who do, by some miracle, find your site.

This is where Professional Copywriting and SEO comes in. Working hand in hand these 2 industries will now produce amazing results for your website.

The SEO brings in the visitors and customers that are looking for your products and services, and then the new professionally written content on your website keeps them there and turns them from people about to leave into potential customers.

Studies have shown that customers will buy from a website that is fresh and unique, enjoyably readable and relevant to what they are after. The same studies have shown that these customers will not only return to buy again in the future (as long as you give them the right customer service now you have them there), but are more likely to recommend your website to their friends and colleagues.

Even Google is telling people to provide fresh unique text that changes on a regular basis.

Boring website + boring text = 0 customers. That has to be the easiest calculation you have ever done.

So now you know what to do, how do you go about it.

Search Engine Optimisation and Copywriting does not have to be expensive, however there are a lot of bad websites, with bad copy, out there. Make sure you use SEO and copywriting experts who know their onions. Go for the cheaper alternative and you’ll find your lovingly crafted website being optimised by a bunch of guys who’ve only ever had a passing acquaintance with English and haven’t got the first clue what you’re selling, who you are, and what your target audience is.

After all, it has to be worth investing in, to bring visitors and customers to your website instead of your competitors - doesn't it? Either that or do nothing, and watch your website and business fold in front of your very eyes.

About the Author:

Kevin Donnelly owns and operates XP Web Services, whose services include Search Engine Optimisation and Tailored Copywriting to help promote your business online, improve your rankings and bring in more visitors and customers to you website.

Source: http://www.a1articles.com/article_572411_62.html

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Search Engine Optimization Marketing Analyst

2008-07-14T01:44:00.000-07:00

By: Rob

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results, or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.

If the content is search engine friendly, there is every possibility that the content gets indexed in the SERP (Search Engine Return Page) in the high page ranking. In doing so, a content writer needs to be an SEO analyst and he must know the requirement of the readers and must possess some amount of the knowledge in the search engine.

SEO writing is not merely inserting several disjointed, thesaurus-sounding keywords into the copy, for the sake of the rank high in search engines. Content overstuffed with keywords will not help in this regard. The planning stage for search engine copywriting requires the consideration of the density of keywords in the content. Heavy keyword stuffing is not a good attempt. The search will see this as some kind of deliberate action to fit the keywords into the content, and it is called spamming; that way there might have been a possibility of being banned by the search engines. Therefore, one has to be very much careful about search engine copywriting.

SEO copywriting is not that much difficult but just a little bit complicated. Following some tips, one can easily attain the professional expertise to write content keeping in mind the elite SEO rules.

Basic Rules for copywriting for search engine optimization and marketing:

Keyword Info

To begin with, it is advisable to have the knowledge of the keywords optimized for. Once you start writing the content, please remember to include the keywords therein. It is better, to have the keyword info beforehand and then just complete the content, and depending on the circumstances, just fit the keywords in the content. Focusing your copy on only two or three primary keywords or keyword phrases will help a lot to get the best the best result.

Target Audience

It is also very much required to have a proper info about the website for which you are writing the copy. The information first prompts you to have a sound knowledge about the target audience. That reduces your toil largely.

Text Length

Generally, 250-500 words article is better in the web site. The search engine can read it properly. Make sure to have the keywords fitted in the first two to three paragraphs as the search engine spider does not go deep into your content. This way you can help the search engine finding the relevant keywords. Try avoiding the images as much as possible, as the search cannot track the images. If, however, there is a necessity, you can use the Alt texts on the images.

Using CSS

It is a good practice to use the CSS or Cascading Style Sheet as it allows you to tell a browser how to present your page. CSS approach separates the presentation style of the documents from the content, hence simplifies site maintenance. One can easily maintain the visual appeal of the text in headings through CSS.

The importance of Search Engine Copywriting

We take your lead, perform further research, and present a Search Engine Optimization strategy that best integrates Best Practices SEO and your company's unique needs.

Content is King! This is a major part of any SEO Strategy. Remember that the whole internet is based on words, so having the right words in the right place is crucial.

Search Engine Optimization - Beyond 2007

As long as people are searching for something, using Internet technology, there will be a need to understand what the mechanisms are that prioritize search results. Search engine optimization becomes a practice of understanding where not only users, but users potentially interested in your information, will be online, what sites they visit, where their questions are being answered and what tools they are already using to find information like yours.

Article Source: http://www.content.onlypunjab.com

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When Not to Use Header Tags Latest SEO Tips

2008-07-09T01:14:00.000-07:00

SEO Tip: When Not to Use Header Tags
Filed Under (SEO Blog) by Chris Hornak on 08-07-2008

Recently a friend of me came to me with an SEO problem. His site is almost two years old and has a 0 page rank. I took a quick view of his site and all his paragraphs were in h4 tags and I think that search engines are seeing that as a Black Hat SEO method. Now I can’t say this is the only reason Google hasn’t gave his site any page rank but I am going to definitely recommend that he change it.

From all that I’ve studied and experienced during my internet marketing day job I can say it’s always good to use HTML tags that make sense. If it’s a paragraph use a paragraph tag and if it’s a header use a header tag.

Also if you’re using a header tag make sure you use them in order. Usually I have one H1 tag on the page and that’s at the top and it is the name of the page. Then below that a topic will be an H2 and once and a while I go as deep as an H3.

Why is it important to use tags?

It has been said by Google themselves that they put more weight on keywords found in header, strong and list tags.

When should I use these tags?

Just use them where they make sense. If it’s a lists of items then use the ordered or unordered list tag and if it’s a paragraph use the paragraph tag and use CSS Style Sheets to customize those tags.

Summary:

Use HTML tags where they make sense and use a CSS Style Sheet to customize the look and feel.

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Google Golden Triangle and LSI

2008-07-06T01:04:00.000-07:00

In this article I will explain the importance of this study, and how it does affect natural search engine optimization, in combination with paid search.

What is the golden triangle?
Eye tracking firm Eyetools, with help from search engine marketing firms Enquiro and Did-it, have done a Google study showing a "golden triangle". This is created by the areas of maximum interest among searchers. During a search, eye tracking activity happens in a triangle at the top of the search results page. This triangular viewing pattern reaches out from the top left of the search results. Searchers normally scan the rest of the listings in "F pattern", looking laterally at the top results, then vertically, with less lateral scanning the further down the list.

What are the main numbers?
According to the study, the top three results had 100 percent visibility, the fourth had 85 percent, the fifth had 60 percent and sixth dropped down to 50 percent. Overall, 72 percent of users clicked on the first link of interest, only 50 percent of searchers move to the second page of results after making the initial query.

What do the numbers mean?
Once again, they show that Natural Search Optimization rules, as 75 percent of all clicks are made on organic listings. Because only the top three results get 100 percent visibility, that is where you want to be. The top listings are trusted or deemed most relevant, most often. Searchers have a collection of words in their heads that they subconsciously look for in search results. Therefore, understanding the semantic map in your searchers minds as they search for your site is key. The study found searchers tend to respond to search results that do the best job of matching the concept in their minds, regardless of the position of the search result on the page. There are two important behavioral events: Searchers eyes are jumping around on the results looking for direct matches, but they are also using peripheral vision which can indirectly help them find information on the page. Clear branding and visibility advantage is offered by gaining top positions, especially on Google’s top sponsored links above natural results. It is very clear, according to this and other studies, that it is a mistake to rely solely on paid listings for traffic. Both, properly done SEO and paid listings should be used to capture the full range of searchers behavior in a well balanced search marketing campaign.

Article Source: http://www.christiannotepad.com

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Themed Based Relevancy and LSI - SEO Tips

2008-06-26T00:46:00.000-07:00

In the past 2 years, a very important factor in web content writing was keyword density, with the recommended 2 to 7% agreed by most seo experts. Well, that has changed for 2007, at least as far as Google goes. Their new patent clearly indicates the massive role that Latent Semantic Indexing is going to play in how they evaluate the relevancy of any given page and therefore its rank by closely considering co-occurrence rates and semantically related phrases, especially focusing the attention on the first one.

Here is an excerpt of the patent filling:
"The system is further adapted to identify phrases that are related to each other, based on a phrase's ability to predict the presence of other phrases in a document. More specifically, a prediction measure is used that relates to the co-occurrence rate of two phrases to an expected co-occurrence rate of the two phrases. Info gain, as the ratio of actual co-occurrence rate to expected co-occurrence rate, is one such prediction measure. Two phrases are then related where the prediction measure exceeds a predetermined threshold. In that case, the second phrase has significant information gain with respect to the first phrase. Semantically, related phrases will be those that are commonly used to discuss or describe a given topic or concept, such as "President of the United States" and "White House." For a given phrase, the related phrases can be ordered according to their relevance or significance based on their respective prediction measures."

So basically, anything that help determine the topics, contexts and themes of a given page, like industry terms, synonyms, buzz words, acronyms, etc, will be more than ever, very useful and impact the way your page gets ranked. The relevancy of theme based words will be playing a key role this year and beyond. New factors such as LSI and theme based relevancy were not even discussed two years ago.

On a final note, on-page optimization will become as critical as the off-page, which will have to be properly implemented so they complement each other in a new way that satisfies both your visitors and the search engines. Every person interested in achieving top ten rankings under the new LSI-driven environment should understand the basics of this methodoogy, and how to comply to its requirements.

Article Source: http://www.christiannotepad.com

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SEO Techniques Overview Look - SEO Tips

2008-06-17T00:24:00.000-07:00

Over the last few years, search engine optimization (SEO) has been needed and used more and more, although it has been around for much longer than most people think. With new development tools being used to create websites that are heavy on Java, Flash and images, it's important to have something that the search engines can read. If the content can't be read by search engines then they can't index it, and if your site doesn't get indexed then it won't be found when people search for it on Google, Yahoo, MSN, or anywhere else. This short tutorial will outline what SEO is, how it works, and some unethical SEO methods that you should avoid.

What is SEO?

SEO is a way of analyzing your site and modifying it to allow search engines to read and index it more easily. SEO is all about maintaining and building websites that get ranked highly on the major search engines.

You see, when people use a search engine, they generally don't look beyond the top 20 or so results. If you want to make any money from your website, you need to get ranked in the top 20 out of potentially hundreds of websites.

How Does SEO Work?

Search engines maintain a huge database containing information from individual websites. Most of the information search engines collect isn't listed on their results pages, but it is taken into consideration when it comes to deciding those results' rankings.

It is very important that you encourage the search engines to rank your website in a high position, and you can do this through the keywords that you use on your website, as well as when you submit it. If the keywords you use in your submission tool don't match the ones on your site then you could harm your rankings - be sure to have all the keywords you want to use on the website itself before you submit it.

Most websites don't focus on their topic well, and so keyword lists containing 50 or more phrases per page are recommended. By focusing some of the pages of your site on keywords, you will score higher with the search engines.

Free Search Engines.

The major search engines on the Internet are still free, and it's not hard to take advantage of this free advertising - you can do it in as little as an hour.

There are several companies that provide free SEO tools, or you can pay a professional to take care of it for you. Looking around on the web will turn up all sorts of useful resources.

What is Unethical SEO?

Unethical search engine optimization techniques can be unlawful, unscrupulous, or just in bad taste. You'd be surprised how many people use these methods. A lot of what is now called unethical SEO used to be accepted, until people went overboard and it started to have a negative affect on the web as a whole.

Keyword stuffing is when your site consists of long lists of keywords and nothing else. Don't do it. There are ways to put keywords and phrases on your site without running the risk of getting banned.

You may have seen 'invisible text' if you've been selecting the text on a page and found words that are the same color as the background. This text is often lists of keywords put there in the hope of fooling search engine spiders while hiding the words from visitors. This is considered unethical, and you shouldn't do it.

A doorway page is a page that isn't designed for real people to see - it's purely for the search engines and spiders, in an attempt to trick them into indexing the website in a higher position. This is a big no-no and should be avoided.

Even though unethical SEO is tempting, and does work, you shouldn't do it - not only is it annoying to users, but it's likely to get you banned from the search engines sooner or later. You sites' search engine rankings just aren't worth the risk. Use efficient SEO techniques to get your site ranked higher, and stay away from anything that even looks like unethical SEO.

SEO is a set of techniques used in order to attract visitors or prospective customers to your website, and the goal of a search engine is to provide high quality content to the users of the Internet. These two objectives are not in opposition, if you do SEO the way it should be done.

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Build Career in SEO Field Latest SEO Techniques

2008-06-14T00:07:00.000-07:00

12 Tips to Help Build the Foundation For a New SEO Career

Are you thinking of starting up a new search engine marketing business? Here are a few of my best tips for getting started on the right foot.

TIP 1. Set your focus on your clients success.

Stop focusing on sales and start focusing on your client's success! Do all that you can do to make them successful. Pour all of your talents into making their projects work. So many folks I talk to can never stop thinking about where they will make their next sale, instead of working on delivering results to the clients they ALREADY have. In so doing, you establish "lifetime" residuals.

Make your client successful and they will literally become part of YOUR sales team.

TIP 2. A difference in your performance is a difference in your profits.

If you are NOT up to speed, you better catch up fast. Truely a difference in your performance is a difference in your profits! If you are not up to speed on solid SEO marketing techniques and methods, start learning now. Take a course or study at a live workshop but however you do it, get your SEO skills up to speed so you can genuinely help get your customers results. If you can show them a strategy that really puts dollars in their pocket, they'll put dollars in YOUR pocket!

TIP 3. Have confidence in your own strategies and explore profit sharing.

How's your batting average with profit sharing? Don't be afraid to explore this one! If your skills are medium to above average, why not share in the profits yourself? I am referring to offering someone a vertical deal. This would be a deal where you own part of the company in return for making it successful with your SEO skills. Don't brush this off. There are some exceptional deals to be had if you start thinking laterally.

TIP 4. Don't forget community and charitable work.

When's the last time you helped promote a charitable work at NO cost. Build a site and promote it for the literacy council or the Easter Seals Society or your local Rotary Group or your Chamber of Commerce.

Don't forget that this work can OFTEN open unusual and even surprising doors. Help make others successful and you will NOT fail. Many important leaders within your local community will be serving on these committees right next to you! This is a great way to network and meet new people and help the cause too.

TIP 5. Work on Relationship building and position yourself for success to come.

Watch the latest SEO trends and position yourself to quickly take advantage. The study and practice of SEO has been extraordinary. A few years ago, I never dreamed that my study of optimization would lead to the Internet lifestyle. As a result of our work, we enjoy wonderful repeat business and client loyalty.

If you have not been enjoying good profits, a rewarding lifestyle and being appreciated by your clients, then you need to consider a plan of action.

Tip 6. Set your course of action and get started.

Consider taking a live hands-on SEO workshop which can kick-start your professional SEO career in just a few days of hands-on training. Or if you cannot travel, consider taking an Online SEO Training Course.

Tip 7. Choose which voices you choose to listen to carefully.

You MUST be able to "deliver" and make a difference. Do whatever it takes to get your SEO skills and lateral thinking skills up to speed. In business there are many voices offering free advice. You need to choose carefully who you will listen to.

Tip 8. Run a balanced business.

Are you charging for what your services are worth? There are some folks who charge steeply and don't even know how to get the results. For goodness sakes, if you're good at what you do, make sure you are charging well for your services. You DESERVE fair reward if you're helping other business owners to prosper.(Some folks are afraid to charge for their work)

Note: The ones that charge steeply but DON'T deliver may make a few dollars initially, but they won't enjoy the customer loyalty, the referral business, and the repeat business that you do, and they won't have a "customer for life" like you will.

Tip 9. Don't forget to recognize and be thankful for the progress you've made.

Yes, this is extremely important. How else can you truly measure your progress unless you benchmark along the way. Be sure to benchmark your victories but even more important, celebrate your CLIENTS' VICTORIES too! After all, you helped bring them about.

Tip 10. Give something back to your community (with gladness).

Look for opportunities to help others who genuinely need help and avoid those who are only after your talents to exploit them. (Trust me, when your SEO talents and success stories increase, you'll have strangers coming out of the woodwork to take you to dinner and wine you and dine you and pick your brain). Proceed with wisdom.

Tip 11. You must be willing to change and take action!

Performing the way you perform now has delivered a certain result. Maybe you're happy with that result. If you're happy with this result, carry on exactly the same way and you should get very similar results. However, if you are NOT happy with your results now, then you must change the way you do things.

Some people go all their life complaining that they would like a better career or a better position in life and yet they continue taking the same actions and getting the same results year after year.

Think of it like this...

Same action = same result
Different action = new results

Tip 12. Surround yourself with the high quailty people!

Without a doubt, your SEO interests and abilities will make way for many new working relationships. Be sure to carefully choose the people you want to work with. Look for those with whom you can share synergies and be very observant of the skills and abilities within the others that surround you. No single person can operate as effectively as a group of people that work as a team. Learn to choose the right people to work with and recognize the latent strengths and talents that will sometimes be present but initially hidden within the group. Build to your ultimate potential by choosing wisely, encouraging one another and recognizing the talent in one another.

Is a career in SEO right for you? Start by creating a plan of action and as you proceed forward, set yourself apart from the crowd by keeping some of these tips in mind. Here's wishing you the best of success in your new venture!

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successful Google badrank chasing SEO Techniques

2008-06-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

10 thoughts that can help you chasing a successful Google badrank

1. Thinking Google has implemented a secret algorithm called "Customer Care Search" taking note of your AdWords investment and paying it back with a little boost on the organic placement.
2. Thinking Keyword Stuffing still works, you only have to stuff more intensely.

3. Thinking Google doesn't care if you don't care. Google simply hates car dealership commercial sites that are completely non-informative. Even huge Companies now feel the need for a Corporate blog where they can simulate they care their Customer/Market.

4. Thinking everyone will be so pleased to digg your special car sale "if you buy a new car - you get the engine free".

5. Thinking if your website is young, Google would appreciate your freshness and vitality. Google loves old, savvy websites, you'll have an hard time outranking your competitor 1960's website.

6. Thinking wearing a White Hat is the cleanest fashion solution - try a grey one, it works better.

7. Thinking do-it-yourself-SEO really exists: SEO is like plastic surgery, you can't know "approximately" how to do it.

8. Thinking 1 trusted link is valued 100 decent ones. Google doesn't care if CNN has linked you and no one else does: probably your cousin is currently working for CNN.

9. Thinking you own Google and it's your reliable unique marketing instrument. Google is passionate and moody, make sure you're listed also elsewhere.

10. Thinking that web marketing social forums / blogs can help you rank better. It's called User Generated Content: even if you don't know absolutely nothing about SEO, now you can comfortably put on the table your 2 fallacious cents of knowledge. Like I'm doing right now.

Bloggers of the World, unite and please give your unrelated link love to this florence hotel - It's absolutely free and I don't want to badrank.

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IBP method top ranking search engine SEO Tips

2008-05-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

IBP uses a proven method that works

A search engine optimization method that really works is to analyze the web pages that currently have a high ranking for your important keyword. Since these pages have a top 10 ranking, the pages must have all the best settings.

With IBP, analyzing the top ranked web pages is as easy as 1-2-3. IBP analyzes the web pages that currently have a top 10 ranking in the search engine of your choice and compares them with your page.

IBP tells you how the pages have achieved that ranking and how you must change your web pages and the links to your website to obtain a similar ranking. Improving your website has never been so easy. IBP helps you get more customers and more sales with increased search engine rankings.

How to optimize your website for Google
IBP's Top 10 Ranking report demystifies Google's ranking algorithm and tells you in easy-to-understand words how to optimize and prepare your website specifically for better results in Google.

Suppose you want to know how to get a top 10 ranking for the search term "outdoor equipment" in Google. IBP will tell you how to optimize your website for exactly that search term in Google.

IBP's advice is based on in-depth analysis of current, up-to-the-minute top 10 results in Google for that search term and it is specifically for that search term and specifically for Google..

IBP's high quality analysis results are always up-to-date, specific, and accurate. You won't get that level of search engine optimization accuracy with any other tool.

IBP also works with Yahoo's latest search engine ranking algorithm, with MSN Search and all other major search engines. IBP helps you get the rankings you deserve.

Posted by: SEO Technical Analyst

Meta Tag SEO Tips Search Engine Optimization

2008-05-21T01:43:00.000-07:00

some useful SEO tips related to the Meta Tags of a web page

SEO for Wordpress 2.5 Blogs : New eBook

2008-05-19T18:38:00.000-07:00

May 19th, 2008 by Phil Butler

Since early in my humble blogging career I have been down on three things; SEO, Google and hyped but useless web services. Down on SEO because it was and sometimes is about “gaming” the system, Google because it could be great but is resigned to being good enough and worthless sites for obvious reasons.

SEO done as it should be is a very helpful tool for developers. I recently reviewed an SEO primer in the form of an eBook that is superlatively helpful and most of all honest. Search engine optimization, at least the honest and professional version, helps not only site developers and users but the search engines themselves obviously. Though content is still king, if no one sees it, it is nothing.

SEO Book for Wordpress 2.5 Blogs

This latest free eBook (in PDF) by Mihaela Lica – online PR and SEO – is particularly helpful to people just getting into the game. Bloggers in particular will benefit from this iteration as it is iterated around the popular WordPress V 2.5 platform. Everyone, even old hands like me, can benefit from a few honest tips from top professionals, and this primer is a must for new bloggers.

SEOs Are Editors

In Mihaela’s opinion professional SEO is not about gaming the system, but about editing a site to prepare it for the public. She compares the work of an SEO with that of a book editor. SEO is about structure, navigability but most importantly it is about quality. An SEO’s moral obligation is to ensure that the site adheres to these principles. Although most of the tips in this book are technical; like installing SEO plugins, optimizing permalinks, pinging and etc., many basic SEO techniques are made drop-dead-simple (they had to be or I would never figure them out).

Beyond SEO

Lastly, the book is replete with illustration to guide the “would be” Blogger/SEO through the steps described. It is also a rather extraordinary –yet simple – guide for other helpful conjunctive information like: journalistic techniques, keyword integration, and an effective blogging primer as well. Not sounding my own horn, but my site’s page rank reached level 4 in 5 months, and it wasn’t because of my “Hemmingway” writing skills or a zillion links. Put bluntly, it is there because Mihaela Lica made the site and taught me the SEO techniques in this book. Check it out, it is free and it will help.

seomoz.org questions for online seo exam

2008-05-14T07:32:00.000-07:00

Today by surfing on internet, u found a site seomoz.org
it's informative site for seo and also there is online examination.
i have given exam and i am posting SEOMOZ exam questions for all blog readers.

#1 Which of the following is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?

Correct Answer: Meta Keywords

The meta keywords tag is least important among these because search engines do not consider it in ranking calculations and it's never seen by visitors or searchers (unlike the meta description tag, which displays beneath listings in the SERPs).
#2 Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?

Correct Answer: www.wildlifeonline.com/animals/crocodile

The best choice would be www.wildlifeonline.com/animals/crocodile - it provides the most semantic information, the best description of the content on the page and contains no parameters or subdomains that could cause issues at the engines. For more on URL structuring, see this post on SEOmoz.
#3 When linking to external websites, a good strategy to move up in the rankings is to use the keywords you're attempting to rank for on that page as the anchor text of the external-pointing links. For example, if you were attempting to rank a page for the phrase "hulk smash" you would want to use that phrase, "hulk smash" as the anchor text of a link pointing to a web page on another domain.

Correct Answer: False

The biggest problem with linking out to other websites with your targeted keyword phrases in the anchor text is that it creates additional competition for your page in the search results, as you give relevance through anchor text and link juice to a competing page on a competing site. Thus, FALSE is the correct answer.
#4 Which of the following is the best way to maximize the frequency with which your site/page is crawled by the search engines?

Correct Answer: Frequently add new content

Adding new content on a regular basis is the only one of the methods listed that will promote more frequent spidering and indexing. Tags like crawl delay have never been shown to be effective (and aren't even supported by many of the major engines). The other "partially" correct answer would be to turn up crawl frequency inside Webmaster Central at Google, but this only works if Google wants to crawl your site more actively and is restricted from doing so.
#5 Which of the following is a legitimate technique to improve rankings & traffic from search engines?

Correct Answer: Re-writing title tags on your pages to reflect high search volume, relevant keywords

Of the choices, only the option to change title tags to reflect better keywords is a legitimate and effective SEO technique.
#6 Danny Sullivan is best known (in the field of web search) as:

Correct Answer: A journalist and pundit who covers the field of web search

Although there's an answer we'd love to choose :), the correct answer is that Danny's a journalist and pundit on web search who currently operates the SearchEngineLand blog and runs the SearchMarketingExpo event series.
#7 Which of the following is the WORST criterion for estimating the value of a link to your page/site?

Correct Answer: The popularity of the domain on which the page is hosted according to Alexa

Since Alexa data is typically less useful than monkey's throwing darts at a laptop, that's the obvious choice for worst metric. The others can all contribute at least some valuable insight into the value a link might pass.
#8 How can Meta Description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?

Correct Answer: They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on your listing

The correct answer is that they serve as the copy in the SERPs and are thus valuable for influencing click-through rates.
#9 Which of the following content types is most easily crawled by the major web search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live & Ask.com)?

Correct Answer: XHTML

XHTML is the obvious choice as the other file types all create problems for search engine spiders.
#10 Which of the following sources is considered to be the best for acquiring competitive link data?

Correct Answer: Yahoo!

Since Yahoo! is the only engine still providing in-depth, comprehensive link data for both sites and pages, it's the obvious choice. Link commands have been disabled at MSN, throttled at Google, never existed at Ask.com and provide only a tiny subset of data at Alexa.
#11 Which of the following site architecture issues MOST impedes the ability of search engine spiders to crawl a site?

Correct Answer: Pages that require form submission to reach database content

Since search engines will assume a site is crawlable if it has no robots.txt file, doesn't have any crawl-specific issues with paid links, can read iFrames perfectly well and is able to spider and index plenty of pages with multiple URL parameters, the correct answer is clear. Pages that require form submission effectively block spiders, as automated bots will not complete form submissions to attempt to discover web content.
#12 What is the generally accepted difference between SEO and SEM?

Correct Answer: SEO focuses on organic/natural search rankings, SEM encompasses all aspects of search marketing

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - refers to the practice of ranking pages in the organic results at the search engines. SEM - Search Engine Marketing - refers to all practices that leverage search engines for traffic, branding, advertising & marketing.
#13 Which of these is NOT generally considered to be a highly important factor for ranking for a particular search term?

Correct Answer: HTML Validation (according to W3C standards) of a page

As this document would indicate, W3C validation is clearly the odd man out in this bunch.
#14 When creating a "flat architecture" for a site, you attempt to minimize what?

Correct Answer: The number of links a search engine must follow to reach content pages

Flat site architecture refers to the link structure of the site, and thus, the only answer is "the number of links a search engine must follow to reach content pages."
#15 In the search marketing industry, what is traditionally represented by this graph?

Correct Answer: The "long tail" theory of keyword demand

The graph shown represents the long tail concept, which is most frequently applied to keyword demand in the search marketing world. The theory is explained in detail here.
#16 Which of the following is NOT a "best practice" for creating high quality title tags?

Correct Answer: Include an exhaustive list of keywords

Since all the rest are very good ideas for title tag optimization (see this post for more), the outlier is to include an exhaustive list of keywords. Title tags are meant to describe the content on the page and to target 1-2 keyword phrases in the search engines, and thus, it would be terribly unwise to stuff many terms/phrases into the tag.
#17 Which of the following character limits is the best choice to use when limiting the length of title tags (assuming you want those tags to fully display in the search results at the major engines)?

Correct Answer: 65

As Google & Yahoo! both display between 62-68 characters (there appears to be some various depending on both the country of origin of the search and the exact query), and MSN/Live hovers between 65-69, the best answer is... 65!
#18 PageRank is so named because it was created by Larry Page, not because it ranks pages.

Correct Answer: TRUE

As you can read on Google's fun facts page, PageRank was named for its co-creator, Larry.
#19 A page on your site that serves as a "sitemap," linking to other pages on your domain in an organized, list format, is important because...

Correct Answer: It may help search engine crawlers to easily access many pages on your site

As none of the others are remotely true, the only correct answer is that a sitemap page may help search engine crawlers easily access many pages on your site, particularly if your link structure is otherwise problematic.
#20 Which of the following search engines patented the concept of "TrustRank" as a methodology for ranking web sites & pages?

Correct Answer: Yahoo!

The correct answer comes via the patent guru himself, Bill Slawski, who notes:

The citation that I’ve seen most commonly pointed at regarding trustrank is this paper - Combating Web Spam with TrustRank (pdf).

The authors listed on that paper are the named inventors on this Yahoo patent application:

1 Link-based spam detection (20060095416)

The remaining four describe an expansion of the trustrank process, referred to as dual trustrank, which adds elements of the social graph to the use of trustrank.

2 Using community annotations as anchortext (20060294085)

3 Realtime indexing and search in large, rapidly changing document collections (20060294086)

4 Trust propagation through both explicit and implicit social networks (20060294134)

5 Search engine with augmented relevance ranking by community participation (20070112761)
#21 Why are absolute (http://www.mysite.com/my-category)URLs better than relative ("/my-category") URLs for on-page internal linking?

Correct Answer: When scraped and copied on other domains, they provide a link back to the website

None of the answers makes sense, except that which refers to scrapers, who often copy pages without changing links and will thus link back to your site, helping to reduce duplicate content issues, and potentially provide some link value as well.
#22 How can you avoid the duplicate content problems that often accompany temporal pagination issues (where content moves down a page and from page to page, as is often seen in lists of articles, multi-page articles and blogs)?

Correct Answer: Add a meta robots tag with "noindex, follow" to the paginated pages

The only method listed in the answers that's effective is to use "noindex, follow" on the paginated, non-canonical pages.
#23 If you update your site's URL structure to create new versions of your pages, what should you do with the old URLs?

Correct Answer: 301 redirect them to the new URLs

The correct move is to 301 the pages so they pass link juice and visitors to the new, proper locations.
#24 When you have multiple-pages targeting the same keywords on a domain, which of the following is the best way to avoid keyword cannibalization?

Correct Answer: Place links on all the secondary pages back to the page you most want ranking for the term/phrase using the primary keywords as the anchor text of those links

As this blog post explains, it's best to "place links on all the secondary pages back to the page you most want ranking for the term/phrase using the primary keywords as the anchor text of those links."
#25 The de-facto version of a page located on the primary URL you want associated with the content is known as:

Correct Answer: Canonical Version

The only answer that is generally accepted in the search community is "canonical version."
#26 Which domain extensions are more often associated with greater trust and authority in the search engines?

Correct Answer: .edu, .mil and .gov

Although the search engines themselves have said there are no specific algorithmic elements that make domains from .gov, .edu and .mil more trustworthy or authoritative, these sites, due to the restriction of the TLD licensing, certainly have an association with more trust in webmaster's eyes (and, very often, the search results).
#27 High quality links to a site's homepage will help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same domain.

Correct Answer: TRUE

The answer is "TRUE" as the properties of PageRank, domain trust, authority and many other search ranking factors will cause internal pages on a well-linked-to domain to rank more highly.
#28 The practice of showing one version of content on a URL to search engines, and another, different version to human visitors of the same URL is known as?

Correct Answer: Cloaking

As WebmasterWorld notes, this practice is called cloaking.
#29 Which HTTP server response code indicates a file/folder that no longer exists?

Correct Answer: 404

The W3C standards for HTTP status codes tells us that 404 is the correct answer.
#30 Spammy sites or blogs begin linking to your site. What effect is this likely to have on your search engine rankings?

Correct Answer: A very slight positive effect is most likely, as search engines are not perfectly able to discount the link value of all spammy sites

The correct answer is that a very slight positive effect is most likely. This is because search engines do NOT want to penalize for the acquisition of spammy links, as this would simply encourage sites to point low quality links at their competition in order to knock them out of the results. The slight positive effect is typical because not all engines are 100% perfect at removing the link value from spam.
#31 A link from a PageRank "3" page (according to the Google toolbar) hosted on a very strong, trusted domain can be more valuable than a link from a PageRank "4" page hosted on a weaker domain.

Correct Answer: TRUE

Since PageRank is not nearly the overwhelmingly strong factor influencing search rankings at Google these days, the answer is definitely "TRUE."
#32 What's the largest page size that Google's spider will crawl?

Correct Answer: No set limit exists - Google may crawl very large pages if it believes them to be worthwhile

As evidenced by many of the 500-100K+ pages in Google's index, there is no set limit, and the search engine may spider unusually large documents if it feels the effort is warranted (particularly if many important links point to a page).
#33 Is it generally considered acceptable to have the same content resolve on both www and non-www URLs of a website?

Correct Answer: No, this may cause negative indexing/ranking issues

This is generally considered a bad idea, and may have negative effects if the search engines do not properly count links to both versions (the most common issue) or even view the two as duplicate, competing content (unlikely, though possible).
#34 Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that has been temporarily relocated and links to the old location will not pass influence to the new location?

Correct Answer: 302

The W3C standards for HTTP status codes tells us that 302 is the correct answer.
#35 Which of these is least likely to have difficulty ranking for its targeted terms/phrases in Google?

Correct Answer: A new domain that has received significant buzz and attention in the online and offline media, along with tens of thousands of natural links

This is a tough question, and the answer is even somewhat debatable. However, as phrased, the MOST correct answer is almost certainly - "A new domain that has received significant buzz and attention in the online and offline media, along with tens of thousands of natural links" - as each of the other situations have many examples of having very difficult times ranking well.
#36 What is the advantage of putting all of your important keywords in the Meta Keywords tag?

Correct Answer: There is no specific advantage for search engines

The answer is that no advantage is conferred upon sites who include their terms in the meta keywords tag. For more on the subject, read Danny Sullivan's excellent post.
#37 Which of the following link building tactics do search engines tacitly endorse?

Correct Answer: Viral content creation & promotion

As representatives from each of the major engines have acknowledged publicly, viral content creation and promotion is viewed as a legitimate and preferred tactic for link acquisition.
#38 Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that has been permanently relocated and all links to the old page will pass their influence to the new page location?

Correct Answer: 301

The W3C standards for HTTP status codes tells us that 301 is the correct answer.
#39 Which of the following factors is considered when search engines assign value to links?

Correct Answer: The date/time the link was created and the temporal relationship between that link's appearance and other time-sensitive criteria

The only one of these that search engines would consider (and have mentioned in patent applications like this one) is the temporal data.
#40 There is no apparent search engine rankings benefit to having a keyword-matched domain name (eg www.example.com for keyword "example").

Correct Answer: FALSE

This is "FALSE," as many examples of keyword-targeted domains have been shown to have a phenomenal amount of ranking success in the engines, despite other factors not being nearly as strong as the competition.
#41 If you want a page to pass value through its links, but stay out of the search engines' indices, which of the following tags should you place in the header?

Correct Answer: Use meta robots="noindex, follow"

As Google tells us here, the proper format would be to use meta robots="noindex, follow"
#42 Which of these factors is LEAST likely to decrease the value of a link?

Correct Answer: The linked-to domain has a link somewhere that points at the linking domain (each domain link to pages on the other's site)

The right answer is "a link from the domain being linked to pointing at the linking site already exists (each domain link to pages on the other's site)." This is because despite the fact that these links are technically "reciprocal," they don't fit any pattern of penalization for such links (such as being listed on link list style pages). The search engines are least likely to devalue these because of all the natural patterns in which such linking occurs (blogrolls, news sites, forums, hobbyists, schools, etc.)
#43 Which of the following is a requirement for getting in the Google Local listings?

Correct Answer: A physical mail address in your claimed location

The only one that's a must-have is the physical mailing address.
#44 Which of the following engines offers paid inclusion services for their main web index (not advertising):

Correct Answer: Yahoo!

Currently, only Yahoo! offers paid inclusion through their search submit program.
#45 When is it advisable to leave the meta description off of a page?

Correct Answer: When a large amount of pages exist and the options are between using a single meta description for all of the pages vs. leaving them with none at all

The correct answer is "When a large amount of pages exist and the options are between using a single meta description for all of the pages vs. leaving them with none at all." Duplicate meta description tags aren't the worst thing in the world, but they're certainly not providing any value and may have downsides from a duplicate content perspective (particularly if page content is very similar). Besides that, the other answers simply don't make sense :)
#46 A domain will not be hurt by having a penalized site or page 301'd to it.

Correct Answer: TRUE

This is "TRUE," and has been tested by many a black hat. The danger here is that, once again, crafty spammers could use this technique to hurt their competitors if the search engines did penalize the receiving domain.
#47 Which of the following strategies is the best way to lift a page out of Google's supplemental index?

Correct Answer: Link to it internally from strong pages

As "supplemental" has been defined by engineers at Google as being a page with very little PageRank, the best way to lift it out, from the options given, is to link to it internally from strong pages.
#48 Which of the following is NOT speculated to be a contributing factor in achieving "breakout" site results in Google?

A sample of "breakout" results for the query, Comedy Central, at Google

Correct Answer: Having an active AdWords campaign

The only one that doesn't fit is the use of an AdWords campaign, which Google has said has no impact on organic listings.
#49 Which of the following is the best method to insure that a page does not get crawled or indexed by a search engine?

Correct Answer: Restrict the page using robots.txt

The clear best method above, and the one prescribed by the engines, is to use the robots.txt file to restrict access.
#50 If you want to rank for a country specific TLD/Top-Level-Domain extension (such as Yahoo.jp or Google.ca) which of the following is NOT important?

Correct Answer: Linking out only to other sites with the targeted TLD extension

Linking out only to other sites with the targeted TLD extension is certainly not a requirement nor a suggested method for inclusion into a country-specific search engine's results. See this recent video for more.
#51 Which of the following CANNOT get you penalized at the major search engines?

Correct Answer: Using "nofollow" internally on your site to control the flow of link juice

As Matt Cutts has noted recently, using "nofollow" to sculpt the flow of link juice is perfectly acceptable.
#52 Which of the following directories had its ability to pass link value removed?

Correct Answer: www.bluefind.org - The Bluefind Web Directory

Only BlueFind suffered this penalty - having had its ability to pass link value removed by Google, ostensibly for "selling PageRank."
#53 Which of the following is an acceptable way to show HTML text to search engines while creating a graphical image to display to users?

Correct Answer: CSS image replacement - create a rule in the CSS file that replaces the text with an image based on a given class

The only method that's approved by search engines is to use CSS image replacement with the exact copy in both the image and the HTML text.
#54 For high-volume search phrases, the Search Engines usually will not differentiate between singular and plural versions of a term (eg "cell phone" vs. "cell phones" or "bird feeder" vs. "bird feeders").

Correct Answer: FALSE

As we can see from searches on the various phrases - cell phone vs. cell phones and bird feeder vs. bird feeders - this is FALSE. There are clear differentiations.
#55 If your site is ranked in the #1 organic position for a given query, advertising in the top paid position for that search result will generally not produce an additional volume of search traffic.

Correct Answer: FALSE

Research from several sources, including this eye-tracking research report from MarketingSherpa, indicates that the correct answer is FALSE. You get more traffic and click-throughs with both the top paid and organic results than either individually.
#56 What's likely to happen if multiple accounts on a single IP address vote up a story at Digg in a short time period?

Correct Answer: Your accounts will be suspended

The most likely result, particularly if this is done multiple times, is to have the accounts suspended.
#57 Let's assume that you're running SEO for an auction website with many listings, sorted by categories and subcategories. To achieve the maximum search engine traffic benefit, what should you do with individual product/auction pages after the auction has expired and the product is no longer available?

Correct Answer: 301 redirect them to the most appropriate category page associated with the product

The "best" answer of the choices given is to 301 redirect the pages to the most appropriate category page associated with the product - this ensures that link value won't be lost, and visitors who come to the old page will get the best user experience as well.
#58 Which factor is most likely to decrease the ranking value of a link?

Correct Answer: Comes from a page with many reciprocal and paid links

All of the answers can provide significant link value except "comes from a page with many reciprocal and paid links," which is very likely to have a strong negative affect on the value of the link.
#59 Which of the following search engine and country combination does not represent the most popular search engine in that country?

Correct Answer: Japan / Yahoo

All of the above are correct, except Japan, where Google appears to now have a dominant search market share, despite Yahoo! getting more web traffic and visits. See also this piece from Multilingual-Search.com.
#60 Where do search engines consider content inside an iFrame to be located?

Correct Answer: On the source page the iFrame pulls from

Engines judge iframe content the same way browsers do, and consider them to be part of the source page the iFrame pulls from (not the URL displaying the iFrame content).
#61 If the company you buy links from gets "busted" (discovered and penalized) by a search engine, the links you have from them will:

Correct Answer: Stop passing link value

Since search engines don't want to give webmasters the ability to knock their competitors out with paid links, they will simply devalue the links they discover to be part of paid networks, such that they no longer pass value.
#62 Which of these queries would not have an "Instant Answer" or "Onebox Result" on Google?

Correct Answer: Best Chinese Restaurant in San Francisco

No surprisingly, the only correct answer is "Best Chinese Restaurant in San Francisco."
#63 Which major search engine serves advertising listings (paid search results) from the PPC program of one of the other major engines?

Correct Answer: Ask.com

Ask.com is the only major engine that shows ad results from another engine - specifically, Google.
#64 Duplicate content is primarily an off-site issue, created through content licensing deals and copyright violations of scraped and re-published content, rather than a site-internal problem.

Correct Answer: FALSE

The answer is FALSE, as on-site duplicate content issues can be serious and cause plenty of problems in the search engines.
#65 Links from 'noindex, follow' pages are treated exactly the same as links from default ('index, follow') pages.

Correct Answer: TRUE

This is TRUE - according to Matt Cutts in a comment here, links on pages with "noindex, follow" are treated exactly the same as links from default ("index, follow") pages.
#66 Which metric is NOT used by the major search engines to measure relevance or popularity in their ranking algorithms?

Correct Answer: Keyword density in text on the page

Keyword density is the outlier here. Dr. Garcia explains why search engines don't use the metric here.
#67 If they have the same content, the Search Engines will consider example.com/avocado and example.com/avocado/ to be the same page.

Correct Answer: TRUE

The answer is TRUE, as engines don't consider the trailing slash to create a different page (examples here and here).
#68 Which Search Engines currently allow the 'nocontent' attribute?

Correct Answer: Yahoo!

To date, only Yahoo! has implemented the nocontent parameter.
#69 In which of the following countries does Ask.com have the most significant percentage of search engine market share?

Correct Answer: United States

Surprisingly, the answer is the US, where Ask.com has an estimated 5% market share.
#70 For search engine rankings & traffic in Google & Yahoo!, it is generally better to have many, small, single topic focused sites with links spread out between them than one, large, inclusive site with all the links pointing to that single domain.

Correct Answer: FALSE

This is FALSE, primarily because the search engines' current algorithms places a great deal of weight on large, trusted domains, rather than small, niche sites.
#71 The 4 major search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live and Ask serve what approximate percentage of all searches performed in the US?

Correct Answer: ~95%

According to nearly every study reported (including ComScore's), the four major networks, when AOL is included (serving Google results), provide ~95% of all searches in the US.
#72 The linkfromdomain operator displays what information and is available at which search engine(s)?

Correct Answer: Data on what websites are linked-to from a given domain - available at MSN/Live only

As can be seen here, Microsoft/Live is the only engine to provide the command and it shows what pages are linked-to by a given domain.
#73 Which of the following social media websites is the least popular (as measured by active users & visitors)?

Correct Answer: Newsvine

Newsvine is the smallest of the above, both in terms of traffic and users.
#74 Which of the following pieces of information is NOT available from current keyword research sources?

Correct Answer: Cost per click paid by PPC advertisers

Since all of the current search engines have blind bid systems, the cost-per-click paid by advertisers is currently unavailable anywhere.
#75 The use of AJAX presents what common problem for search engines and websites?

Correct Answer: It creates multiple pages with unique content without enabling new, spiderable, linkable URLs

The largest problem for search engines is that AJAX frequently "creates multiple pages with unique content without enabling new, spiderable, linkable URLs."

Internet service providers are blocking traffic

2008-05-13T18:23:00.000-07:00

Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade

More and more Internet service providers are blocking traffic to the peer-to-peer file-sharing service. Find out whether you've been targeted, and learn how to get around the restrictions.

Tom Spring
Monday, May 12, 2008 9:30 PM PDT

I'm a fan of live music and a patron of online communities such as eTree.org, where music junkies swap copyright-free music. So I was stung when I recently tried to download a live recording of a Dave Matthews concert only to discover that my BitTorrent client was dead in the water.

My system and Net connection checked out fine, so paranoia immediately set in: Was my Internet service provider, RCN, blocking BitTorrent? I called RCN and the tech I spoke to confirmed my suspicions, telling me that the ISP had added BitTorrent to its list of prohibited programs because many people use the software to download copyrighted material. The fact that the concert I was trying to download was copyright-free didn't sway him.

Later I called RCN's press department as a reporter, and the story changed. The ISP's spokesperson told me that the customer support rep I had talked to earlier misspoke. RCN has never intentionally blocked peer-to-peer traffic, the spokesperson said, and it supports the principles behind Net neutrality. Within 24 hours, my bandwidth-related problems with BitTorrent vanished.

Of course, most people can't call their ISP and (honestly) identify themselves as professional journalists. But that doesn't mean you have no recourse if your ISP starts blocking your file-sharing activities. A number of tips and tools can help you determine whether you're facing a BitTorrent blockade and, if so, help you get around it.

Vuze, a company that makes peer-to-peer software and uses the platform to distribute content, published a study in April in which it concluded that all U.S. broadband providers--including AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Qwest, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon--disrupt peer-to-peer traffic. Vuze asserted that these ISPs regularly send "false reset" messages to the Vuze software with the aim of slowing file transfers.

AT&T has flatly denied this claim. Subsequently, Vuze has softened its charge against ISPs, stating that "Our data collection was credible and transparent, but not conclusive," in the words of Jay Monahan, Vuze general counsel.

Other ISPs have acknowledged imposing some limitations on peer-to-peer traffic. Comcast first denied but now admits to interrupting access to file-sharing programs such as BitTorrent. Comcast executive vVice president David L. Cohen explained at a Federal Communications Commission hearing last February that disrupting BitTorrent traffic was a reasonable method of traffic management during busy usage periods.

Time Warner Cable spokesperson Alex Dudley says that his company takes reasonable steps to manage its network, including limiting bandwidth to applications such as peer-to-peer software.

Interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt

2008-05-13T18:09:00.000-07:00

The full cnbc interview.

Excerpts on Youtube:

“I don’t think we’ve quite figured out the perfect solution of how to make money, and we’re working on that. That’s our highest priority this year.”

“We believe the best products are coming out this year. And they’re new products. They’re not announced. ”

On where to look for new business:

“Over the next three or four years, there’ll be more than another billion or so mobile phones added. Eventually our numbers indicate that there’ll be five or so billion mobile phones in a world of six billion or so.”

and

“the Internet is growing faster outside the United States than in the United States. Also advertising online growth rates are higher outside the United States than they are in the United States. You’ve got–and of course you have a weak dollar strategy–because the US has a very weak dollar–so that also helps. For all of those reasons, revenue outside of the United States should grow dramatically over the next while”

Why should customers spend more money on search?

“Because we earn it. Because you can measure it.“

seo is not spam for google

2008-05-13T08:27:00.000-07:00

Google+Yahoo=GooHoo-SEO Technical Analyst India

2008-05-10T20:24:00.000-07:00

Google + Yahoo = GooHoo
Posted by Eric Zeman, May 9, 2008 03:55 PM

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin recently said, "We have been talking to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and we are very excited to be working with them." The goal? Tie the two companies into an advertising powerhouse, which I have decided to call GooHoo.

Mashing up the words Google and Yahoo is too much fun. There's Yahoogle, GooHoo, Yoogle, Gahoogle, Gahoo, you get the idea. Even though Microsoft decided to walk away from its attempted acquisition of Yahoo, it appears as though Yahoo is still pursuing the defensive strategy of teaming up with Google.

The good news for Yahoo is, Google appears to be a willing partner. "We share a lot of values with [Yahoo]," said Brin.

The two companies have been negotiating a deal, but neither has disclosed how far along the deal is. Google and Yahoo tested an advertising program last month that lasted two weeks. Google's software did a better job than Yahoo's at placing profitable text ads alongside search results, and Yahoo is considering its options. Using Google's software, rather than its own, could bolster Yahoo's earnings and stave off another acquisition attempt from Microsoft. In fact, part of the reason Microsoft dropped its bid for Yahoo was because Yahoo was so quick to sidle up to its largest competitor and get all comfy.

But GooHoo would raise a lot of issues. Would any combined entity or services fall under the term monopoly? What antitrust concerns would there be? Google said it already is considering its options to defend against such accusations. "If there were a deal [with Yahoo], we would anticipate structuring the deal to address the antitrust concerns that have been widely discussed," said CEO Eric Schmidt.

I suppose we'll see about that.

In the meantime, we have to sit back and wait to see what develops between the two online portals.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/05/google_yahoo_go.html

Google Maps-YouTube Your Sprint Handset

2008-05-07T08:58:00.000-07:00

Google Maps and YouTube on Your Sprint Handset

- A new collaboration between the companies has been announced

By: Traian Teglet, Technology News Editor

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The American company Sprint has announced today that it would expand its collaboration with the Mountain View giant, Google. Sprint is a wireless and wireline communications service provider that offers its products to both mainstream and business users. Google and Sprint have joined forces for the development of another project that was also announced today.

The new agreement will allow Sprint users to access some of Google's most popular products. As part of its efforts to improve users' dynamic mobile experience, Sprint will start providing easier access to Google Maps for mobile, YouTube and many others. The new tools provided to the Sprint clients are meant to lure more consumers, mostly with the help of the continuously increasing popularity belonging to Google's products.

Providing a fast and easy way to access the Google mobile search engine from their own Sprint handsets will most certainly allow users to better appreciate Sprint's services. Doug Garland, vice president of product management at Google declared that "Google and Sprint have a lot in common when it comes to our vision for the mobile web". He also added that "we both believe in openness and providing compelling, easy-to-use mobile services that consumers can use every day. We look forward to working together to deliver a great experience."

The collaboration between the two companies dates back to November 2006, when Google's Gmail was made available from Sprint's portal.

Google's interest in the world of mobile handsets has long been speculated. There were a number of rumors over the release of a potential G-Phone developed by Google but until now they were only simple speculations. The only thing that Google released, which comes close to a G-Phone, is the Android. The Linux-based operating system was unveiled in November 2007, as a joint venture between Google and the Open Handset Alliance.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Maps-and-YouTube-on-Your-Sprint-Handset-85006.shtml

Basic SEO Glossary - SEO Technical Analyst

2008-05-07T08:36:00.000-07:00

Basic Latest SEO Glossary by SEO Technical Analyst

Authority - Adjective. A document (page) pointed to by several hubs (experts). An authority page is assumed to have a lot of content relevant to a primary topic.

Body links - Noun phrase. Hypertext links placed within the main content of a Web page.

Conversion - Noun. A conversion is any desired action that is taken as a result of visiting a Web page. Conversions are used in many Web marketing metrics.

Content-rich doorway - Noun phrase. A doorway page dressed up with graphics, navigation, and linked to from a site map so that it looks like a normal part of a Web site. The copy is written to rank for a single keyword expression.

Crawl Page - Noun phrase. A document consisting of links to other pages, provided for the sole purpose of giving crawlers (robots) links to follow. Spammers used to submit these puppies to the search engines en masse. Maybe they still do.

Doorway - Noun. A document with a small amount of text (usually coherent but sometimes gibberish) intended to rank well specifically for one targeted expression. In the old days, people created as many doorways as they had targeted keywords and search engines to work with.

Expert (page or document) - Adjective. In Jon Kleinberg’s HITS algorithm (as well as the CLEVER, ExpertRank, and Edison algorithms) an expert is a document about a specific topic for which hubs exist, such that the expert document is pointed to by many hubs. Cf. Hub.

Frogblog - Noun. Technically, other people coined the expression for blogs devoted to all things French. But I adopted the term to refer to a network of blogs that a spammer (or really active blogger) hops around, posting brief (often useless drivel) entries for the sake of being active. Frogblogs usually have a lot of Javascript ads in the margins. All six margins.

Gizmo - Noun. Now often called “widgets” (by mistake, I think, as “widgets” tend to be more under-the-hood type things), gizmos were useful mini-apps or functions used to spiff up otherwise boring pages. Hit counters are gizmos. Event countdown calendars are gizmos. Any Javascript whizbang plug-in for a page is a gizmo.

Hallway - Adjective/Noun. A crawl page that only links to doorway pages. Usually called “hallway page”, sometimes shortened to “hallway”.

Hub - Noun. A document that links out to many other documents devoted to a single topic. Think of any category page in a major directory like Yahoo! or DMOZ. All the documents linked to are assumed to be authorities (sort of a circular logic). In Jon Kleinberg’s HITS algorithm (as well as the CLEVER, ExpertRank, and Edison algorithms) a hub is a document about a specific topic that links to many experts in the topic. Cf. Expert.

Landing page - Noun phrase. A content-rich doorway most often used to receive PPC traffic. Copy is written for the visitor, not the search engine, making a sales pitch (usually — I’ve seen a few that meandered pointlessly with fake testimonials).

Link baiting - Noun phrase. The practice of creating attention-grabbing headlines and seeding links to articles on social media sites for the purpose of generating thousands of links on blogs, forums, and other sites in a very brief period of time. It is assumed that the content is link-worthy, but this is a subjective point.

Link building - Noun phrase. A mindless activity that some people mistake for true search engine optimization. (Yes, I build links, too. Now stop feeling insulted. Sheesh!)

Link farm - Noun phrase. Any group of Web sites where every member site in the group links to every other member site in the group.

Link flow - Noun phrase. An expression used by many people to describe PageRank. In SEO Theory, link flow is the link pathway users and search engines may use to get from one page to another.

Mashup - Noun. A page made up from gizmos (or mostly from gizmos). The gizmos could be RSS feeds, Javascript feeds, etc. Any content pushed by free content distribution sites. Google maps is a great gizmo.

MFA - Acronym. Made For Advertising (page). A broad class of pages, in my opinion, as some of them actually have sensible content (like cheap directories, article abstract pages, article reprint pages, press release reprints, etc.). The real purpose of the pages, of course, is to draw traffic in the hope people will click on the Javascript ads from Yahoo!, Google, or whomever.

Mushblog - Noun. An automated blog consisting entirely of randomly generated content, usually in the form of ellipsis (…) impregnated text fragments intended to look like fair use citations. Mushblogs host Javascript ads from Yahoo! and Google. No human fingers touch those posts. Some really cool Mushblogs actually have trails of autogenerated comments (which is the only cool thing about them, in my opinion) on some of the posts.

Navigational links - Noun phrase. The (usually uniformly used) internal links a Web site uses to provide visitors with clear pathways between pages.

Search engine optimization - Noun phrase. The art of designing or modifying Web pages to rank well in search engines. Now mostly superceded by link building and/or link baiting.

Search visibility - Noun phrase. The extent to which a Web site can be found in search engine results across all queries. A Web page has limited search visibility, whereas a Web site has full search visibility.

Site map - Noun phrase. Alsp spelled “sitemap”. An on-site directory of important (or all) pages. Sitemaps have been divided into XML Sitemaps which are used by search engines and HTML Sitemaps which are used by visitors for quick navigation to deep content.

Signpost page - Noun phrase. A goofy advertising page. The entire page might be one advertisement built around a picture of a business or it might be a table filled with small ads from many businesses. Signposts are revenue-generating pages hosted by real Web sites with actual traffic that somehow induce their visitors to browse the signpost pages. Sort of like, “Visit our sponsors because they paid us outrageous fees to put their print-ad style advertisements on one of our Web pages.” A few sites actually consist of nothing but signpost pages, but I don’t see many of them any more. These are not classified ad sites. These are not business directories. They are random collecion of advertisements plastered on Web pages.

SpamAd page - Noun. An MFA page, but it’s spammy gibberish. Useless junk that no one in their right mind (and maybe not in their unright mind) would want to read. Just loaded with scraped content and/or gibberish in the hope it ranks well for something and that all visitors will click on the Javascript ads.

TSETSB - Acronym. The Search Engine That Spam Built. A pejorative name for Google which became immensely popular with the SEO community after people realized the link farms they developed for Inktomi worked better on Google. Sometimes revived when people discuss the MFA/SpamAd issues and the click fraud controversy.

YouTube Search Suggest suggestion on the video

2008-05-07T07:54:00.000-07:00

YouTube Launches Search Suggest - Get search suggestion on the video sharing service
By: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

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Since YouTube belongs to Google and this is the best search engine on the web, it's obvious that the video sharing service must have pretty advanced search functions, most of them coming from the parent company. Although no one inside Googleplex announced such an update, blogger Ionut Alex Chitu has discovered that the international versions of YouTube now provide search suggestions for the search function of the main page.

The search suggestions "are obtained from the other YouTube users," Ionut Alex Chitu wrote so in case you're looking for a popular video, the chances to type the matching search query are quite big.

As you know, the search suggestions have been tested by the Mountain View-based company for some time now but it always remained a testing function and never migrated to the main Google Search page.

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"Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers," Google explains in a FAQ published on the Google Suggest page. "By suggesting more refined searches up front, Google Suggest can make your searches more convenient and efficient by keeping you from having to reformulate your query. Google Suggest might offer suggestions that you will find novel or intriguing."

As far as I can see, YouTube's search suggest feature works pretty fine and provides quite relevant queries. In case you can't see it, don't forget you have to load an international version of YouTube, no matter if you choose YouTube UK, YouTube France, YouTube Italy or YouTube Germany. Clicking on the Settings link placed near the search button on the main page lets you disable and enable the suggestions.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/YouTube-Launches-Search-Suggest-84313.shtml

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#1 Which of the following is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?

#2 Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?

#4 Which of the following is the best way to maximize the frequency with which your site/page is crawled by the search engines?

#5 Which of the following is a legitimate technique to improve rankings & traffic from search engines?

#6 Danny Sullivan is best known (in the field of web search) as:

#7 Which of the following is the WORST criterion for estimating the value of a link to your page/site?

#8 How can Meta Description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?

#48 Which of the following is NOT speculated to be a contributing factor in achieving "breakout" site results in Google?

A sample of "breakout" results for the query, Comedy Central, at Google