Yesterday we talked about some of the basics of link building in the form of using directories. Today, as promised, are some of the better locales for making submissions and the approved Gypsy list ;0)
While there are thousands of directories out there, I decided to list the more important (powerful) ones that you can look at; we’ll start with the paid…. I will list some of the ‘FREE’ ones following this list. The reason we look at paid directories is that search engines tend to value them more (as they do with human edited). It is always advisable to have some of these in a balanced link profile.
Top Paid Directories
http://Dir.Yahoo.com ($299 per year)
http://Ezilon.com/ (free / $69)
http://DirJournal.com/ ($59.95 / $99.95)
http://JoeAnt.com/ ($39.99)
http://Directory.v7n.com ($49.95)
Second tier paid directories
http://Elib.org/ (60 Euro -150 Euro)
http://Gimpsy.com/ ($40)
http://Romow.com/ ($45 / $90)
http://Botw.org/ ($80 /yr or $240)
http://HomeSalez.com/Directory/ ($50 /yr)
http://Iwebtool.com/directory/ ($10 /yr)
http://AvivaDirectory.com/ ($50 - $75 /yr)
http://BlazeMp.com/dir/ (bid min $50)
http://Skaffe.com/ ($50)
http://CityStar.com/ ($30)
http://Dmegs.com/ (free - $10 /yr)
http://Enquira.com/ ($30)
http://Kahuki.com/ ($20- $49.95 /yr)
http://MaxLinks.org/ ($13 / $50)
http://ProlinkDirectory.com/ (free - $9 for 3 months)
http://LoboLinks.com/ $23 / $37 /yr)
Other paid directories
http://MyGreenCorner.com/ (free - $25 /yr)
http://Rakcha.com ($30)
http://WebWorldIndex.com/ ($25)
http://Zorg-Directory.com/ ($15 - $60)
http://AuthorityDirectory.com ($5 - $20 /yr)
http://Global-WebLinks.com/ (free - $40 /yr)
http://Idk.in/ ($15 - $50 /yr)
http://Index-It.net/ ($25)
http://AllInfoDir.com/ ($27 - $70)
http://AnthonyParsons.com/ ($10 - $30)
http://Emillie.net/ ($25 - $40 /yr)
http://Cascandra.com/ ($12 - $30 /yr)
http://OnlineWide.com/ ($35 / $70 /yr)
http://Ventedoy.com/ (bid; min $5)
http://Abilogic.com/ ($10 / $40 /yr)
http://Browse8.com/ ($35)
http://MassiveLinks.com/ ($25 / $60)
Vertical paid directories
http://123kidzarea.com/ (n/a) – Kids
http://FamilyFriendlySites.com/ ($9.95 / $49.95 per year) - family
http://Business.com/ ($300 /yr) – Biz
http://UkSmallBusinessDirectory.co.uk/ (50 -100 pounds) – UK Biz
http://BusinessSeek.biz/ ($10 / $20 /yr) - Biz
http://Ebusiness-Directory.com/ (unknown) - Biz
Free Directories
Ok, since these are the freebies…. I have listed them by PageRank as of the time of writing. Not that PR is the greatest judge of value, but it is a metric worth being a starting point for the moment. Here are some to get you started;
http://dmoz.org - PR9
http://www.lii.org/ - PR7
http://2rss.com - PR6
http://Bizweb.com - PR6
http://Greenstalk.com - PR6
http://www.ezilon.com/ - PR6
http://www.buzzle.com/ - PR6
http://www.accoona.com/ - PR6
http://www.surfsafely.com/ - PR6
http://BestCatalog.net - PR5
http://aigam.com - PR5
http://Chiff.com - PR5
http://IllumiRate.com - PR5
http://Re-Quest.net - PR5
http://Clickey.com - PR5
http://turnpike.net/directory.html - PR5
http://Re-quest.net - PR5
http://prolinkdirectory.com - PR5
http://cgbee.com - PR5
http://www.turnpike.net/directory.html - PR5
http://www.info-listings.com/ - PR5
http://www.geniusfind.com/ - PR5
http://www.information.com/ - PR5
http://www.information.com/ - PR5
http://www.spheri.com/d/ - PR5
http://searchsight.com/ - PR5
http://www.searchwiz.com/ - PR4
http://www.skoobe.biz/ - PR4
http://MavicaNet.com - PR4
http://Earthstation9.com - PR4
http://ExactSeek.com - PR4
http://Jayde.com - PR4
http://Gimpsy.com - PR4
http://Haaba.com - PR4
http://Web-Beacon.com - PR4
http://Emfind.com - PR4
http://Websavvy.cc - PR4
http://cantufind.com - PR4
http://Webs-Best-Directory.com - PR4
http://charolabap.com - PR4
http://www.netinsert.com/ - PR4
http://WebWorldIndex.com - PR3
http://Americasbest.com - PR3
http://SoMuch.com - PR3
http://iMarvel.com - PR3
http://CyberWebSearch.com - PR3
http://Yeandi.com - PR3
http://SmartLinks.org - PR3
http://www.mygreencorner.com/ -PR3
http://www.businessseek.biz/ - PR3
http://www.abilogic.com/ - PR3
Still want more directories? Then try these…
http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=seo-friendly-a.php http://www.onewaytextlink.com/links.php?type=free
http://www.directorycritic.com
Verticals
It is always a good idea to search out specific vertical directories for your given niche/market. I will add some as I come across them, but you really should search out some yourself as part of the directory submission plan with your programs. I have listed a few with links to more lists;0)
Kids
http://kids.yahoo.com/submissions/suggest_site - PR7
Canada
http://SuperPages.ca - PR6
http://Canadopedia.com - PR6
http://ProudlyCanadian.net - PR5
http://www.canlinks.net/ - PR5
Health
http://Patient.co.uk - PR6
http://PsychNet-UK.com - PR6
Productshttp://BooksMusicVideo.com - PR6
http://www.epooch.com/ - PR3
And here are some industry specific niche directories lists ;
http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=niche.php
http://www.directorycritic.com/niche-directories.html
Blog Directories
If you have a blog on your site, then submitting to various directories is also a great idea. Here is a fairly comprehensive list to get you going;
http://www.2rss.com/index.php
http://www.addyourblog.com/submit.php
http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
http://www.blogbunch.com/suggest/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
http://www.blog-collector.comhttp://www.blog-directory.org/
http://www.bloggernow.com
http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/
http://www.blogflux.com/add.php
http://www.bloggapedia.com/
http://www.bloglines.com
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html
http://www.blogscholar.com/
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
http://www.diarist.net/
http://www.feedage.com/submit.php
http://www.feedboy.com/addfeed.html?catid=
http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
http://www.gobignetwork.com/entrepreneur-blogs/
http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://www.pressradar.com/suggest
http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
http://www.search4rss.com
http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs
http://strategicboard.com/?s=h:addblog
http://www.tailrank.com/import
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.today.com/submit-blog
http://www.wingee.com/
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission
Paid Blog Directories
http://Bloggeries.com
http://BlogAnnounce.info
http://Blogtagstic.com http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php
http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php
http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php
http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx
http://www.romow.com/submit.php
http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory/add.html
http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit
And there you have it… plenty to keep you busy for quite a while; be sure to have a structured approach to you submission strategy and read yesterday’s post; Using directories of link building - Next week we’ll be looking at more foundational link building with Article Marketing tactics and resources.
Until next time… play safe!!
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Yahoo’s Desperation
The bomb dropped late wednesday night – Yahoo, in an attempt to show that there are other suitors besides Microsoft, announced that they were running a joint advertising experiment with Google.
In a nutshell, Google will be serving up 3% of the paid ads on the Yahoo search engine (in the United States only) for the next two weeks. Assuming the joint venture is successful, (which presumably means that the Google ads perform better than the Yahoo ads) Yahoo would join operations with the sliding AOL, which already uses Google technology for paid advertising (further complicating the picture, Google owns a 5% stake in AOL). Time Warner would take a 20% interest in the venture, paying in cash. Then, Yahoo would use that money to buy back its own shares in the $35 to $40 range to raise the stock price, a significant premium over the existing Microsoft offer which hovers just below $30 per share.
Sound convoluted? You bet. It’s almost as if Yahoo is trying to throw out as many big names as possible (Google, Time Warner, AOL) in order to send a message to shareholders (and Microsoft) that plenty of other studs want to take them to the prom.
There’s only one problem – it won’t happen. At least not in the way it is currently being presented.
If Google and Yahoo were to combine advertising platforms, which is the logical conclusion when Yahoo is measuring Google’s ad serving technology against their own, the advertising alliance would control over 80% of online advertising in the U.S. Analysts are already proclaiming that this would not pass regulatory scrutiny, which would leave Yahoo right back where it started. Microsoft has already pointed this out, but they are still seen as the evil interloper in all of this, so apparently they don’t count.
I can’t tell you what’s going to happen – but I can tell you that beneath all of Yahoo’s name-dropping and exciting potential alliances I detect the underlying stench of desperation.
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In a nutshell, Google will be serving up 3% of the paid ads on the Yahoo search engine (in the United States only) for the next two weeks. Assuming the joint venture is successful, (which presumably means that the Google ads perform better than the Yahoo ads) Yahoo would join operations with the sliding AOL, which already uses Google technology for paid advertising (further complicating the picture, Google owns a 5% stake in AOL). Time Warner would take a 20% interest in the venture, paying in cash. Then, Yahoo would use that money to buy back its own shares in the $35 to $40 range to raise the stock price, a significant premium over the existing Microsoft offer which hovers just below $30 per share.
Sound convoluted? You bet. It’s almost as if Yahoo is trying to throw out as many big names as possible (Google, Time Warner, AOL) in order to send a message to shareholders (and Microsoft) that plenty of other studs want to take them to the prom.
There’s only one problem – it won’t happen. At least not in the way it is currently being presented.
If Google and Yahoo were to combine advertising platforms, which is the logical conclusion when Yahoo is measuring Google’s ad serving technology against their own, the advertising alliance would control over 80% of online advertising in the U.S. Analysts are already proclaiming that this would not pass regulatory scrutiny, which would leave Yahoo right back where it started. Microsoft has already pointed this out, but they are still seen as the evil interloper in all of this, so apparently they don’t count.
I can’t tell you what’s going to happen – but I can tell you that beneath all of Yahoo’s name-dropping and exciting potential alliances I detect the underlying stench of desperation.
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Yahoo and Microsoft at it Again?
After publicly claiming that they were through dealing with Yahoo! and had pulled all deals off the table, Microsoft would neither confirm nor deny that they had started talking to them again. This is tantamount to admitting that they are, since the ‘no comment’ stance is different than the ‘we’re through, period’ stance.
In the convoluted mess that this whole saga has become, I suppose nothing should surprise us. So eager was Yahoo! to ward off stockholder revolts and stay independent of Microsoft that they signed on with Google to use Google’s search advertising platform. This is stunning for two reasons:
The likelihood of this passing regulatory scrutiny is low (unless they know something that I don’t), since together Yahoo! and Google combined would control over 80% of the online advertising market.
Yahoo is basically admitting that their $1.63 billion purchase of Overture in 2003 (and all the subsequent R&D dollars that have gone into the ad-serving platform since then) were all for naught.
Item #2 is particularly interesting, since Overture, and subsequently Yahoo, had a huge head start in the paid search space. Adwords Select, the first pay-per-click model from Google, launched in 2002, while GoTo (the former name of Overture) launched four years earlier. What a message for Yahoo! to send to the world – we just aren’t as bright as those Google guys, and we’ve given up trying to be.
I wouldn’t want to be in Jerry Yang’s shoes right now…
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In the convoluted mess that this whole saga has become, I suppose nothing should surprise us. So eager was Yahoo! to ward off stockholder revolts and stay independent of Microsoft that they signed on with Google to use Google’s search advertising platform. This is stunning for two reasons:
The likelihood of this passing regulatory scrutiny is low (unless they know something that I don’t), since together Yahoo! and Google combined would control over 80% of the online advertising market.
Yahoo is basically admitting that their $1.63 billion purchase of Overture in 2003 (and all the subsequent R&D dollars that have gone into the ad-serving platform since then) were all for naught.
Item #2 is particularly interesting, since Overture, and subsequently Yahoo, had a huge head start in the paid search space. Adwords Select, the first pay-per-click model from Google, launched in 2002, while GoTo (the former name of Overture) launched four years earlier. What a message for Yahoo! to send to the world – we just aren’t as bright as those Google guys, and we’ve given up trying to be.
I wouldn’t want to be in Jerry Yang’s shoes right now…
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Keywords For SEO
When I take on a new site, I like to place a lot of the keyword myself into the different areas such as Title Tags, META Keyword Tags (although not used by search engines so much these days), META Description, ALT Tags, H1 text and also keywords in inner page names.
Once place in which I am not so happy about placing keywords is in the actual content of the page. I like to ask the client to help me when creating text for the web pages. I always tell a client that they are going to be better at writing the copy for their own site as they will understand their industry a lot better than myself. I normally suggest that keywords are placed 5 times in the content of a page and one of these occurrences is in the H1 text, which leaves the client to try and find 4 places where they have to place each keyword. It can be hard work and may not read as well as they would like, and if so, I normally suggest adding more text to the site to try and fit the keywords in.
I would recommend having at least 300 words in a web page before you add the keywords to it. Search engines love text, but they hate non-unique text, so make sure you don't cut and paste - this is the worst thing you can do.
One final point to mention when adding keywords is to try and group your keywords together as closely as possible, so if you have the keywords 'Keywords for SEO' to try and place into the document as many times as possible, it would be better to group these together rather than using a sentence like this.... 'If you want to get you sites keywords higher by using natural search engine listing techniques (SEO) then this is for you' A better way to get the keywords in would be 'Adding keywords for SEO is a good way to help your natural search engine rankings.'
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SEO Company Manchester
Once place in which I am not so happy about placing keywords is in the actual content of the page. I like to ask the client to help me when creating text for the web pages. I always tell a client that they are going to be better at writing the copy for their own site as they will understand their industry a lot better than myself. I normally suggest that keywords are placed 5 times in the content of a page and one of these occurrences is in the H1 text, which leaves the client to try and find 4 places where they have to place each keyword. It can be hard work and may not read as well as they would like, and if so, I normally suggest adding more text to the site to try and fit the keywords in.
I would recommend having at least 300 words in a web page before you add the keywords to it. Search engines love text, but they hate non-unique text, so make sure you don't cut and paste - this is the worst thing you can do.
One final point to mention when adding keywords is to try and group your keywords together as closely as possible, so if you have the keywords 'Keywords for SEO' to try and place into the document as many times as possible, it would be better to group these together rather than using a sentence like this.... 'If you want to get you sites keywords higher by using natural search engine listing techniques (SEO) then this is for you' A better way to get the keywords in would be 'Adding keywords for SEO is a good way to help your natural search engine rankings.'
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An SEO Expert That's Right For You!
Having been in the business of Internet marketing and SEO in Mumbai for the past few years, I have often been asked if SEO or search optimization is applicable and realistic for small businesses, home businesses and budding entrepreneurs.
Whether it's applicable for a garage enterprise, a local business or a large corporate is not the real question to be answered. The real question here is - Can the prospect of targeting billions of Internet users world-wide searching daily for news, entertainment, businesses, products and services be avoided by any smart businessmen?
Answering this part was easy, but what gets tricky is how to go about choosing a SEO expert and building an Internet marketing strategy that's right for your business.
The issue is that even businesses that are aware of the benefits of SEO and Internet marketing are not sure which way is the right way to go. And I don't blame them. After all there are so many misleading guarantees flying around, SEO gurus and experts who claim they have found the secret key to driving traffic and business, and the stories of websites who claim to be generating thousands of hits without raising a finger does not lessen the pressure to get it right.
So in this confusing marketplace, how is one to go about choosing a SEO professional right for your business?
There are no shortcuts in life. It's the same way if you want to hire a SEO professional and come up with a winning SEO strategy that works for you, then its best that you understand whatsoever you can about the ground realities of search engine optimization.
No I am not asking you to all to become SEO experts and spend your days and (probably) nights identifying the right keywords, optimizing the pages, creating compelling content, building quality links, checking and tweaking for rankings, analyzing analytics reports, analyzing competitors strategies, keeping up with search engine algorithms, and promoting your website across social networking and social bookmarking sites, blogs, RSS feeds and article submission sites. After all then I would be out of business.
There are many things the SEO expert, or a SEO company will not tell you. It's not that they are liars; they just don't feel you will be able to understand if told the naked truth. After all no one wants to be a wet blanket and destroy your dreams of achieving top rankings, and making your millions.
I hope to shed light on some of the blocks in your mind, before you go ahead and identify a SEO expert that's right for you.
SEO is for technology buffs, I am from marketing and sales.
I know my business, product and service better than anyone else. Why do I need a SEO
expert to identify winning keywords?
I boast a list of 200 keywords all listed on my home page, how can I miss?
I have read an article or two about SEO, and I know what works best.
I have applied the right keywords, and meta tags to all pages, now all I have to do is wait
for the magic to begin.
I have built links for 2 months, now I can rest.
The more links I build the better will be my rankings, quantity is the only factor.
As long as I apply the best SEO strategies, I do not need to create interesting content.
In two months my site will be optimized, I can then reap the benefits for years to come.
I have a serious business - social networking and bookmarking sites are for kids.
I am ranked number one, now I can rest.
Note that each of the above statements is partially false, and if we tell you the whole truth, you will feel we are the liars. So choosing the right SEO expert for your company is not so much about finding a good vendor (all good companies know how to do that), but about clearing the misconceptions about SEO in your mind, so that when the right SEO guy walks in through that door, grab him and don't let go.
PS: In case I have missed out anything in my list above, please add to my comments.
Nevil Darukhanawala, SEO Expert Mumbai, SEO Services Mumbai
http://www.seo-optimization-experts.com/seoblog.html
Whether it's applicable for a garage enterprise, a local business or a large corporate is not the real question to be answered. The real question here is - Can the prospect of targeting billions of Internet users world-wide searching daily for news, entertainment, businesses, products and services be avoided by any smart businessmen?
Answering this part was easy, but what gets tricky is how to go about choosing a SEO expert and building an Internet marketing strategy that's right for your business.
The issue is that even businesses that are aware of the benefits of SEO and Internet marketing are not sure which way is the right way to go. And I don't blame them. After all there are so many misleading guarantees flying around, SEO gurus and experts who claim they have found the secret key to driving traffic and business, and the stories of websites who claim to be generating thousands of hits without raising a finger does not lessen the pressure to get it right.
So in this confusing marketplace, how is one to go about choosing a SEO professional right for your business?
There are no shortcuts in life. It's the same way if you want to hire a SEO professional and come up with a winning SEO strategy that works for you, then its best that you understand whatsoever you can about the ground realities of search engine optimization.
No I am not asking you to all to become SEO experts and spend your days and (probably) nights identifying the right keywords, optimizing the pages, creating compelling content, building quality links, checking and tweaking for rankings, analyzing analytics reports, analyzing competitors strategies, keeping up with search engine algorithms, and promoting your website across social networking and social bookmarking sites, blogs, RSS feeds and article submission sites. After all then I would be out of business.
There are many things the SEO expert, or a SEO company will not tell you. It's not that they are liars; they just don't feel you will be able to understand if told the naked truth. After all no one wants to be a wet blanket and destroy your dreams of achieving top rankings, and making your millions.
I hope to shed light on some of the blocks in your mind, before you go ahead and identify a SEO expert that's right for you.
SEO is for technology buffs, I am from marketing and sales.
I know my business, product and service better than anyone else. Why do I need a SEO
expert to identify winning keywords?
I boast a list of 200 keywords all listed on my home page, how can I miss?
I have read an article or two about SEO, and I know what works best.
I have applied the right keywords, and meta tags to all pages, now all I have to do is wait
for the magic to begin.
I have built links for 2 months, now I can rest.
The more links I build the better will be my rankings, quantity is the only factor.
As long as I apply the best SEO strategies, I do not need to create interesting content.
In two months my site will be optimized, I can then reap the benefits for years to come.
I have a serious business - social networking and bookmarking sites are for kids.
I am ranked number one, now I can rest.
Note that each of the above statements is partially false, and if we tell you the whole truth, you will feel we are the liars. So choosing the right SEO expert for your company is not so much about finding a good vendor (all good companies know how to do that), but about clearing the misconceptions about SEO in your mind, so that when the right SEO guy walks in through that door, grab him and don't let go.
PS: In case I have missed out anything in my list above, please add to my comments.
Nevil Darukhanawala, SEO Expert Mumbai, SEO Services Mumbai
http://www.seo-optimization-experts.com/seoblog.html
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Reverse Yahoo Email Address Lookup & Directory
Yahoo! is a well-known and well-liked search directory, second only to search engine giant, Google, in terms of popularity. Many Internet users enjoy everything Yahoo! has to offer, including its email services. Therefore, even if you do not have a Yahoo! e-mail account yourself, it is likely that many of the people who send you electronic mail do.
Since Yahoo! mail is well recognized, it may have never occurred to you not to trust every e-mail you receive that contains Yahoo! as its email host name. You cannot make the mistake of assuming that simply because a web mail provider is popular, that every one who creates an email account with this provider is trustworthy, or will not engage in spamming activities.
Therefore, if you receive an email from an address that features a Yahoo! subdomain, but you don't recognize the name of the sender, or the message itself appears suspicious, you should find out the identity of the sender.
Why? It could turn out the sender is a spammer, scammer, or someone trying to abuse the system. In this case, the individual along with the email you received should be reported to Yahoo! so they can deal with the troublemaker accordingly. On the other hand, you may discover that the sender is your friend who switched email addresses but didn't bother to tell you.
How can you find out information on the email owner through their address? The most convenient and quickest way is to either search the Yahoo! directory for the address, or use different general reverse email lookups provided by other websites that include the Yahoo sub domain in their directories.
Essentially, what you will find is the more reverse searches you can perform on the mystery e-mail, the better. This is because you will quickly discover that the vast majority of free reverse email traces are limited due to web mail providers allowing their clients the choice of opting information in or out of their directories. Thus, finding useful or any results is not typical.
Therefore, if you really want to learn the unknown email sender's information, you will need to consider paying a nominal fee for a Yahoo email address lookup. You will have more luck at finding the details you seek with a pay search, because the technology tools this service uses is more high-tech than free lookups.
Lindsay has been writing about web applications for 4 years and is tracking the latest trends in web development. You can check out her latest project at http://www.reverseemaildetective.com
Since Yahoo! mail is well recognized, it may have never occurred to you not to trust every e-mail you receive that contains Yahoo! as its email host name. You cannot make the mistake of assuming that simply because a web mail provider is popular, that every one who creates an email account with this provider is trustworthy, or will not engage in spamming activities.
Therefore, if you receive an email from an address that features a Yahoo! subdomain, but you don't recognize the name of the sender, or the message itself appears suspicious, you should find out the identity of the sender.
Why? It could turn out the sender is a spammer, scammer, or someone trying to abuse the system. In this case, the individual along with the email you received should be reported to Yahoo! so they can deal with the troublemaker accordingly. On the other hand, you may discover that the sender is your friend who switched email addresses but didn't bother to tell you.
How can you find out information on the email owner through their address? The most convenient and quickest way is to either search the Yahoo! directory for the address, or use different general reverse email lookups provided by other websites that include the Yahoo sub domain in their directories.
Essentially, what you will find is the more reverse searches you can perform on the mystery e-mail, the better. This is because you will quickly discover that the vast majority of free reverse email traces are limited due to web mail providers allowing their clients the choice of opting information in or out of their directories. Thus, finding useful or any results is not typical.
Therefore, if you really want to learn the unknown email sender's information, you will need to consider paying a nominal fee for a Yahoo email address lookup. You will have more luck at finding the details you seek with a pay search, because the technology tools this service uses is more high-tech than free lookups.
Lindsay has been writing about web applications for 4 years and is tracking the latest trends in web development. You can check out her latest project at http://www.reverseemaildetective.com
Profit From Domain Parking
In the beginning of 2008 year I read a book! I got it from my wife as a Christmas present, but I started reading only few weeks later. It was very good book - Bodo Schafer's "The Road to Financial Freedom".
It was like a light at the end of tunnel :) I started looking for ways how to generate passive income. I attended rapid reading courses, tried to work on self training to get to higher level. All my effort's took my minds to this mind:
I want to work for myself when I want and I want to feel free not to work, enjoy myself being with my family! Recently I read an article how anyone can make ROI (revenue on investment) at about 1000% in a month on domain parking. To start you need only 10$ (to buy a domain).
It looked great, but too great. That's why I did my own calculations on domain profit form domain parking.
Let's say we buy a domain for average price 10 $ (as Moniker.com offers .com domain for ~ 10$, .net domain for ~ 6$, .org domain for 11$ and .info domain for ~ 5$). We park it at Sedo.com or Parked.com (I prefer Parked.com, cause it is based by Yahoo, and most of my domains have many Yahoo links). I could calculate for a maximum revenue, but i would calculate for minimum revenue. Because I want to show you, that YOU can do this as your secondary way of income and after some time, when you'll fell confident to work only for yourself, it will become you first income way. Usually we won't get much from parking on first month, let it be 4$. After first month our domain's keywords and look would be optimized and Click rate would be greater. But I won't tell you - "from now on you'll be a millionaire". Of course we can be, but a little bit later. It depends on how hard you'll try to do this, and how many bucks you going to put in.
So let's start calculating ..
First we buy domain research services (there are many vendors and later I'll write some reviews) for 37$ per month. We buy a number of domains (let it be 30 for the start). First month you should get average 4$. And for other months we'll do calculations. We count on average unique visitors - 600 per month (it will be 20 visitors per day, 1 visitor per 1,2 hours). If average click rate is 10%, which is low rate, usually it is at about 20-25%, and average pay per click rate 0,10 $, which usually is at 0.25-0.5$ - we get 6$ from one domain per month. Remember you bought a domain for 10 $, and you get revenue of 10 $ in 2 months.
We bought 30 domains first month, so we would get 30*10 = 300 $ in 2 months. What it should be for 12 months ? After optimization your domain's click rate should go high. As working on minimum case, we count on 2% profit increase. But it can as high as 20 %. But let's stay on minimum case. After 12 months we will have ~ 2310 $. Remember we started from 337$. So we have ROI (revenue on investment) equal to 685%.
Imagine if you would buy domains next month and then next month? What should you get after that?
http://workforprofit.net
It was like a light at the end of tunnel :) I started looking for ways how to generate passive income. I attended rapid reading courses, tried to work on self training to get to higher level. All my effort's took my minds to this mind:
I want to work for myself when I want and I want to feel free not to work, enjoy myself being with my family! Recently I read an article how anyone can make ROI (revenue on investment) at about 1000% in a month on domain parking. To start you need only 10$ (to buy a domain).
It looked great, but too great. That's why I did my own calculations on domain profit form domain parking.
Let's say we buy a domain for average price 10 $ (as Moniker.com offers .com domain for ~ 10$, .net domain for ~ 6$, .org domain for 11$ and .info domain for ~ 5$). We park it at Sedo.com or Parked.com (I prefer Parked.com, cause it is based by Yahoo, and most of my domains have many Yahoo links). I could calculate for a maximum revenue, but i would calculate for minimum revenue. Because I want to show you, that YOU can do this as your secondary way of income and after some time, when you'll fell confident to work only for yourself, it will become you first income way. Usually we won't get much from parking on first month, let it be 4$. After first month our domain's keywords and look would be optimized and Click rate would be greater. But I won't tell you - "from now on you'll be a millionaire". Of course we can be, but a little bit later. It depends on how hard you'll try to do this, and how many bucks you going to put in.
So let's start calculating ..
First we buy domain research services (there are many vendors and later I'll write some reviews) for 37$ per month. We buy a number of domains (let it be 30 for the start). First month you should get average 4$. And for other months we'll do calculations. We count on average unique visitors - 600 per month (it will be 20 visitors per day, 1 visitor per 1,2 hours). If average click rate is 10%, which is low rate, usually it is at about 20-25%, and average pay per click rate 0,10 $, which usually is at 0.25-0.5$ - we get 6$ from one domain per month. Remember you bought a domain for 10 $, and you get revenue of 10 $ in 2 months.
We bought 30 domains first month, so we would get 30*10 = 300 $ in 2 months. What it should be for 12 months ? After optimization your domain's click rate should go high. As working on minimum case, we count on 2% profit increase. But it can as high as 20 %. But let's stay on minimum case. After 12 months we will have ~ 2310 $. Remember we started from 337$. So we have ROI (revenue on investment) equal to 685%.
Imagine if you would buy domains next month and then next month? What should you get after that?
http://workforprofit.net
SEO 20-20 Vision
Do you have SEO 20/20 vision? Charles does. I'm catching on partly because of Charles Heflin but he is not the only one helping me. What if he's a little too difficult at first? What should you do? Well hang in there with Charles and add one more teacher...
His name is Mike. I can truly recommend Mike because I am just a few months out from adding Mike to my list of people to help me and guess what? I'm finally getting traffic and free targeted leads every single day. I even had to send an email to the people on my list that haven't taken my advice to say "Friends, I'm swamped with leads all of a sudden and if it lasts, the only ones receiving my coaching emails from now on are those that learn from Mike with me." Or something like that.
The point is, I can now, after studying with Charles Heflin, Mike Dillard and Ann Sieg, just to name a few. I can now with experience say that I know what it's like to wake up every morning with at least one and often two new targeted leads every day because of one Mike - Mike Klingler.
Have you heard of him? He is the founder of Renegade University. He's the one with SEO 20/20 vision. All my other teachers have been great. Those I named above and many that I haven't named. But I can now say without a doubt, that if I had found Mike Klingler first and just learned from him and him only, I'd be wealthy by now.
Does that sound like hype? OK, then, let me rephrase it a little. Enrolling in Renegade University and following the video tutorials step by step, click by click, provided daily traffic and daily leads mainly because Mike Klingler got me into massive action.
I was the study wrong action crowd. There is also a massive action no study crowd. Neither creates wealth. You have to study, act, then study,act, etc. In that order OR (and here's a big clue) OR you can study and act simultaneously and cut in have the time it takes to get extra income and eventually create wealth.
Learning with Mike Klingler you see one, do one. See one click, do one click. The really awesome thing is that people learning with Mike Klingler click by click start getting targeted traffic and free leads without getting it. People who haven't ever heard of SEO, do it click by click with Mike and guess what? Money, extra money.
People who have never heard of monetization start learning internet marketing from Mike Klingler and guess what? Money, extra money. I could go on and on. Of course, sooner, not later, Mike Klingler's students do not just get their checks, they also get SEO.
Learn SEO techniques and much more at Renegade University.
Terri Stallcop enjoys Web 2.0 Marketing, building much of her MLM business online. She teaches others to do the same, 15 minutes at a time. For your first 15 minute free consult, call (918) 830-6900. For email consulting, write terri@InternetMLMnow.ws
His name is Mike. I can truly recommend Mike because I am just a few months out from adding Mike to my list of people to help me and guess what? I'm finally getting traffic and free targeted leads every single day. I even had to send an email to the people on my list that haven't taken my advice to say "Friends, I'm swamped with leads all of a sudden and if it lasts, the only ones receiving my coaching emails from now on are those that learn from Mike with me." Or something like that.
The point is, I can now, after studying with Charles Heflin, Mike Dillard and Ann Sieg, just to name a few. I can now with experience say that I know what it's like to wake up every morning with at least one and often two new targeted leads every day because of one Mike - Mike Klingler.
Have you heard of him? He is the founder of Renegade University. He's the one with SEO 20/20 vision. All my other teachers have been great. Those I named above and many that I haven't named. But I can now say without a doubt, that if I had found Mike Klingler first and just learned from him and him only, I'd be wealthy by now.
Does that sound like hype? OK, then, let me rephrase it a little. Enrolling in Renegade University and following the video tutorials step by step, click by click, provided daily traffic and daily leads mainly because Mike Klingler got me into massive action.
I was the study wrong action crowd. There is also a massive action no study crowd. Neither creates wealth. You have to study, act, then study,act, etc. In that order OR (and here's a big clue) OR you can study and act simultaneously and cut in have the time it takes to get extra income and eventually create wealth.
Learning with Mike Klingler you see one, do one. See one click, do one click. The really awesome thing is that people learning with Mike Klingler click by click start getting targeted traffic and free leads without getting it. People who haven't ever heard of SEO, do it click by click with Mike and guess what? Money, extra money.
People who have never heard of monetization start learning internet marketing from Mike Klingler and guess what? Money, extra money. I could go on and on. Of course, sooner, not later, Mike Klingler's students do not just get their checks, they also get SEO.
Learn SEO techniques and much more at Renegade University.
Terri Stallcop enjoys Web 2.0 Marketing, building much of her MLM business online. She teaches others to do the same, 15 minutes at a time. For your first 15 minute free consult, call (918) 830-6900. For email consulting, write terri@InternetMLMnow.ws
Friday, September 12, 2008
Why Need to Hire A SEO Consultant [By Vikash Singh]
You make a website to promote your online business. You want generate more leads or sales through online marketing. Finally you spend lots of money to design a website to attract more online visitors and also for invest money on website development. Now ready to float it over the internet and start receiving visitors.
First thing that comes in your mind is ‘How can improve the amount of online visitors on your website’. May be you think about offline promotion or invest money in other advertising methods. But the fact is- around 80% traffic come by top search engine ranking. According to various studies, most people prefer to click on organic search results rather than sponsored results, by a very wide margin. You need to get a high ranking if you intend to make business and a high ranking is achieved only by SEO. SEO is a process of increase the number of visitors to a Website by ranking high in search engines results. There are lots of lots of marketing techniques are utilized to optimize and maintain search engine ranking. SEO is a constantly evolving field which requires constant up gradation by the professionals. There are lots of companies offer SEO services. But they will charge you a high amount for SEO. But if you hire a SEO Consultant you can save your money.
A SEO consultant provides seo services to clients who own websites and would like to achieve a beneficial ranking in the search engines. A good SEO consultant will not only know the tricks of the trade but also how to use them best. SEO Consultant can optimize your site to achieve high ranking in major search engines like Google, yahoo and msn, using right methods.
A professional SEO consultant knows how to make use of the right keywords to attract the right target audience to visit your website from the search engines. SEO consultant also helps you to choose right keywords for your online business website and give you some really solid ideas and tips to gain high ranking of your website in major search engines. An SEO consultant will offer seo services at suitable price. Major benefits of hiring a SEO consultant is you can save your time. You don’t need to pay high amount. A SEO consultant will charge you an affordable price. You will get 100% results because SEO consultant will optimize your site for search engines properly.
Thank SEO Consultant at http://getrankingbyseo.blogspot.com/
First thing that comes in your mind is ‘How can improve the amount of online visitors on your website’. May be you think about offline promotion or invest money in other advertising methods. But the fact is- around 80% traffic come by top search engine ranking. According to various studies, most people prefer to click on organic search results rather than sponsored results, by a very wide margin. You need to get a high ranking if you intend to make business and a high ranking is achieved only by SEO. SEO is a process of increase the number of visitors to a Website by ranking high in search engines results. There are lots of lots of marketing techniques are utilized to optimize and maintain search engine ranking. SEO is a constantly evolving field which requires constant up gradation by the professionals. There are lots of companies offer SEO services. But they will charge you a high amount for SEO. But if you hire a SEO Consultant you can save your money.
A SEO consultant provides seo services to clients who own websites and would like to achieve a beneficial ranking in the search engines. A good SEO consultant will not only know the tricks of the trade but also how to use them best. SEO Consultant can optimize your site to achieve high ranking in major search engines like Google, yahoo and msn, using right methods.
A professional SEO consultant knows how to make use of the right keywords to attract the right target audience to visit your website from the search engines. SEO consultant also helps you to choose right keywords for your online business website and give you some really solid ideas and tips to gain high ranking of your website in major search engines. An SEO consultant will offer seo services at suitable price. Major benefits of hiring a SEO consultant is you can save your time. You don’t need to pay high amount. A SEO consultant will charge you an affordable price. You will get 100% results because SEO consultant will optimize your site for search engines properly.
Thank SEO Consultant at http://getrankingbyseo.blogspot.com/
Friday, September 5, 2008
SEO Tips For Higher Adsense Earnings
Anyone who has been using Google's AdSense on their pages obviously feel the need to somehow generate more traffic for their website. This would in turn translate into more AdSense clicks and a higher income.
The question that arises then is, how do you do it? The best way to get visitors to visit your website apart from using AdWords, is to use techniques that will increase your search engine ranking for searches relating to your topics of interest. This in turn will lead to more traffic to come to your website.
This technique is known as search-engine optimization or simply SEO and will increase your search engine ranking substantially. So here are a bunch of tips that come in handy for every amateur or professional optimizer.
The first thing you need to take care of is the source code and layout of your page. You must try and keep this as simple as possible. If you have a complex layout the search engines as well as Adsense will have trouble in extracting the most relevant keywords from your site.
The second thing is to try and have each one of your pages target only one specific topic. This way it is a lot easier for them to get indexed properly and for the AdSense ads to be consistent with the content of the site itself.
You should also try not to include too many hyperlinks in your page. This also means you should try not to use too many AdSense ads on your page either.
If you want to target certain keywords make sure the word you wish to target is present in the title, in the first paragraphs as well as in the name of the file. While you're at it you might want also want to ensure the word springs up in the page's last paragraphs.
And of course, it's very important that your content is original and compelling. How do you do this? Well the easiest way to do it is to find something you're really passionate about. That way, providing you give it a lot of effort you're bound to have a great page quite fast.
If the content you are using in your website is in the public domain (which is highly discouraged) at least make sure that you give it an original title, and add an opening and a closing paragraph of your own.
This takes a little while, but if, after waiting, you still can't find your page near the top, you should try rewriting your title and your first and last paragraphs. It doesn't take much, often just changing a few words but will give you the right results.
There is also the use of keyword tools that may aid you in finding some good keywords to include on your page that will drive visitors to your site more and more.
So those are the basic techniques in search engine optimization. You can find a lot of computer tools to aid you in doing this, and of course, Google is a great place to search for this.
In the end, you'll find that SEO is a complex topic, with entire books having been written on it. You might find that you need to do a lot of optimization in order to get more and more visitors to your site and clicking those precious AdSense banners.
Jimmy Roos
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
PPC and SEO: Two sides of the Coin
By Marcus Anderson PPC search engine advertising or Pay per click search engine can help you immediately begin to receive traffic. PPC search engine advertising can provide you with the traffic you have to run and own successful online business. This is the most cost effective way of promoting your business online today. How you can get start to your campaign? There are many ways to start with a PPC search engine and advertising in a few minutes, first find the right company to suit your needs as an advertiser. Common questions: What should be the minimum bid for expected keywords or phrase? Is there a limit on the number of keywords, I can offer? Last but not least, it is kind of premium for me to become a member? Almost all PPC search engines will all this information on their website.
After choosing a solid company and want to launch a PPC search engines advertising campaign, you must choose your keywords and phrases. The second task is very important; you can choose any keyword you want for your PPC search engines advertising campaign with targeted traffic in mind. Bidding only on twice of non targeted keywords it is a waste of money if you get all cliental products is not interested in you.
Take a prospect of spelling and how they can help you gain a cheap off traffic PPC search engine advertising, ex. You sell Caps and say 100 people per month search on the keyword Caps. Just because their fate can not does not mean they can not by a Caps. Now, all you have to do besides sit and relax, you must adjust your daily spending limit. I normally start at $ 10 per day as a test which corresponds to 1000 visitors to my site if I only offer $ 0.01 per keyword or phrase. To find out how much you can afford to pay the keyword is to run simple tests. Want to know how many people it takes to sell an item? Saying the 1000 people have already come to your website and 10 people you have purchased products at a cost of $ 10 each. Thus, it took 100 people to make a sale you then exchanged for $ 10 $ 90 would be an indication that you can set you up all day higher. There are many ways to advertise online and PPC search engine advertising has been one of the most powerful tools for my websites. It's fast and easy traffic, and when you can combine other methods of advertising. You will find PPC Search Engine Advertise much batter then any
Marcus is a senior PPC Search Engine Advertising Consultant with "Thagodz" a Columbia based PPC Search Engine marketing company specializing in PPC Search Engine advertising .
After choosing a solid company and want to launch a PPC search engines advertising campaign, you must choose your keywords and phrases. The second task is very important; you can choose any keyword you want for your PPC search engines advertising campaign with targeted traffic in mind. Bidding only on twice of non targeted keywords it is a waste of money if you get all cliental products is not interested in you.
Take a prospect of spelling and how they can help you gain a cheap off traffic PPC search engine advertising, ex. You sell Caps and say 100 people per month search on the keyword Caps. Just because their fate can not does not mean they can not by a Caps. Now, all you have to do besides sit and relax, you must adjust your daily spending limit. I normally start at $ 10 per day as a test which corresponds to 1000 visitors to my site if I only offer $ 0.01 per keyword or phrase. To find out how much you can afford to pay the keyword is to run simple tests. Want to know how many people it takes to sell an item? Saying the 1000 people have already come to your website and 10 people you have purchased products at a cost of $ 10 each. Thus, it took 100 people to make a sale you then exchanged for $ 10 $ 90 would be an indication that you can set you up all day higher. There are many ways to advertise online and PPC search engine advertising has been one of the most powerful tools for my websites. It's fast and easy traffic, and when you can combine other methods of advertising. You will find PPC Search Engine Advertise much batter then any
Marcus is a senior PPC Search Engine Advertising Consultant with "Thagodz" a Columbia based PPC Search Engine marketing company specializing in PPC Search Engine advertising .
Saturday, August 23, 2008
SEO Tools Reviewed - Keyword Helpers
There are a couple of tried and tested SEO tools in the market. Take a look at a few of them that are known to actually work!
If you’re concerned about search engine optimization (and you should be), then you know that keywords are important to your site’s success. However, choosing those keywords can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are SEO tools available that can make the task easier.
SEO Tools : Wordze
If you’re looking for SEO tools to help you conduct keyword research, then Wordze has a number of features you might want to look for in such a tool. When you’re doing a manual search for keywords on your own, you may end up not catching all of the possible words that might help boost your traffic. That’s less likely to happen when you’re using SEO tools like Wordze because you can actually search for words and find deeper levels of related words that might also attract visitors. These are generally words that won’t appear in free keyword tools and that you probably won’t brainstorm on your own.
Besides the keyword research, it also allows you to see your specific competition for a particular keyword or phrase. For example, if you’re looking at a phrase like "English tutoring" you can immediately see which other top sites are using the same phrase.
Effective SEO tools do need to have a lot of features to give them an advantage over free services. With Wordze, you’ll be able to look at which of your specific keywords are bringing in different percentages of your traffic. That will help you refine your marketing efforts. You can also find common misspellings of your keywords so that you can lock onto those potential customers as well.
SEO Tools: Keyword Spy
If you’re interested in doing a different of keyword research then SEO tools like Keyword Spy might actually be useful to you. Unlike Wordze which focuses on the keywords you can use to boost your traffic, Keyword Spy actually helps you see what your competition is specifically doing so you can try to top them and beat them in the search engine rankings.
To do this, you only have to type in a web site address into the tool. The tool will display all of the keywords the site is currently targeting. You can arrange them in a convenient spreadsheet and even add them directly into your campaigns through major search engines.
Another great benefit of SEO tools like this one is it can give you some ideas on which words to target if you’re not experienced in this area yet. New Internet marketers often struggle with selecting the correct keywords for their efforts. With this tool, you can find out which words are working for similar sites. That can give you a great advantage.
These are only two of dozens of SEO tools you’ll find on the Internet to help you with your search engine optimization efforts. The important thing when you’re looking at these tools is to take them for a test drive. Most SEO tools do offer a free trial period before you have to pay a dime. Use that period wisely before making a commitment.
If you’re concerned about search engine optimization (and you should be), then you know that keywords are important to your site’s success. However, choosing those keywords can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are SEO tools available that can make the task easier.
SEO Tools : Wordze
If you’re looking for SEO tools to help you conduct keyword research, then Wordze has a number of features you might want to look for in such a tool. When you’re doing a manual search for keywords on your own, you may end up not catching all of the possible words that might help boost your traffic. That’s less likely to happen when you’re using SEO tools like Wordze because you can actually search for words and find deeper levels of related words that might also attract visitors. These are generally words that won’t appear in free keyword tools and that you probably won’t brainstorm on your own.
Besides the keyword research, it also allows you to see your specific competition for a particular keyword or phrase. For example, if you’re looking at a phrase like "English tutoring" you can immediately see which other top sites are using the same phrase.
Effective SEO tools do need to have a lot of features to give them an advantage over free services. With Wordze, you’ll be able to look at which of your specific keywords are bringing in different percentages of your traffic. That will help you refine your marketing efforts. You can also find common misspellings of your keywords so that you can lock onto those potential customers as well.
SEO Tools: Keyword Spy
If you’re interested in doing a different of keyword research then SEO tools like Keyword Spy might actually be useful to you. Unlike Wordze which focuses on the keywords you can use to boost your traffic, Keyword Spy actually helps you see what your competition is specifically doing so you can try to top them and beat them in the search engine rankings.
To do this, you only have to type in a web site address into the tool. The tool will display all of the keywords the site is currently targeting. You can arrange them in a convenient spreadsheet and even add them directly into your campaigns through major search engines.
Another great benefit of SEO tools like this one is it can give you some ideas on which words to target if you’re not experienced in this area yet. New Internet marketers often struggle with selecting the correct keywords for their efforts. With this tool, you can find out which words are working for similar sites. That can give you a great advantage.
These are only two of dozens of SEO tools you’ll find on the Internet to help you with your search engine optimization efforts. The important thing when you’re looking at these tools is to take them for a test drive. Most SEO tools do offer a free trial period before you have to pay a dime. Use that period wisely before making a commitment.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Web Site Submission - How To Increase Your Revenue Results
Once you have created a web site for your business or organization, the next step is to use it to increase your sales. Web site submission is a fast and economical way to do so.
Web site submission arranges for your URL address to be indexed on the major search engines which help to define who you are and what type of business you conduct on the internet. Once the search engine has the information from you to begin the indexing process, you can often be ranked with the big search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo fairly quickly. This brings targeted customers to your web site and increases the revenue that results from visitors. Simple mathematics tells you that the more people that view your web site, the more likely you are that sales will result.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is a beginning step in web site submission to increase your revenue results. SEO can be done by hiring a professional skilled in the procedures and methods of making your web site most effective. SEO can also be done by learning about the process either through a good tutorial or by taking advantage of some of the great software packages. Be sure to review the software reviews so you know what you are getting and what specialties might limit the software for your particular industry. Either way you refine and polish your web site, you will improve your chances of being indexed with a good score.
Page Ranking
The page ranking is a somewhat arbitrary assignment of quality done by some of the search engines along with indexing the web site. Web site submission depends on review and ranking of the information on the web site in order to determine how and where to index the information included. A high page ranking means your web site is more likely to be seen by searchers, while a low page ranking means your information will be too far down the list for most people to even get to that point on the search engine results page (SERP).
Human readers
Regardless of how creative you are with the search engine optimization techniques and how high your page ranking for the web page you have created it is important to remember that the real reason for web pages and for web site submission is for the human readers who will be viewing the pages. Search engine optimization can't measure creativity. Page ranking doesn't have an 'interesting' index. Even human readers will vary in their responses to a web page. But, it is the humans who make the decision to purchase your product or service and it is the human readers whose attention must be captured.
Page revisions
It is important to keep your web site current and fresh, or visitors will have little or no reason to return. Your web site submission only needs to be done once, though, for the search engine spider to return on a regular basis in order to check for revisions or updates to the page. It is not necessary to resubmit each time you make a change to your web site. However, if you do a major overhaul to your site, you may also want to consider requesting another visit from the search engine robots.
Web site submission arranges for your URL address to be indexed on the major search engines which help to define who you are and what type of business you conduct on the internet. Once the search engine has the information from you to begin the indexing process, you can often be ranked with the big search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo fairly quickly. This brings targeted customers to your web site and increases the revenue that results from visitors. Simple mathematics tells you that the more people that view your web site, the more likely you are that sales will result.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is a beginning step in web site submission to increase your revenue results. SEO can be done by hiring a professional skilled in the procedures and methods of making your web site most effective. SEO can also be done by learning about the process either through a good tutorial or by taking advantage of some of the great software packages. Be sure to review the software reviews so you know what you are getting and what specialties might limit the software for your particular industry. Either way you refine and polish your web site, you will improve your chances of being indexed with a good score.
Page Ranking
The page ranking is a somewhat arbitrary assignment of quality done by some of the search engines along with indexing the web site. Web site submission depends on review and ranking of the information on the web site in order to determine how and where to index the information included. A high page ranking means your web site is more likely to be seen by searchers, while a low page ranking means your information will be too far down the list for most people to even get to that point on the search engine results page (SERP).
Human readers
Regardless of how creative you are with the search engine optimization techniques and how high your page ranking for the web page you have created it is important to remember that the real reason for web pages and for web site submission is for the human readers who will be viewing the pages. Search engine optimization can't measure creativity. Page ranking doesn't have an 'interesting' index. Even human readers will vary in their responses to a web page. But, it is the humans who make the decision to purchase your product or service and it is the human readers whose attention must be captured.
Page revisions
It is important to keep your web site current and fresh, or visitors will have little or no reason to return. Your web site submission only needs to be done once, though, for the search engine spider to return on a regular basis in order to check for revisions or updates to the page. It is not necessary to resubmit each time you make a change to your web site. However, if you do a major overhaul to your site, you may also want to consider requesting another visit from the search engine robots.
New Technologies Detect Black Hat SEO Methods
There are two categories of SEO methods. Black hat SEO and white hat SEO. Either one of the methods can help you gain a higher ranking status on some of the most popular search engines. But, one is more likely to get your website banned from search engines entirely, and according to recent information, your website may not be safe for long. If you haven’t guessed it, the potential bad seed in this batch is the black hat SEO.
Black hat SEO is the method that tries to trick the search engines by means of unsavory ways gain higher search engine rankings. Some of the methods used in black hat SEO methods include cloaking, hidden texts and doorway pages. Search engines such as Google have announced that they will penalize websites who use these methods when detected.
White hat SEO is not going to trick the search engines. When you use white hat SEO methods, you can ensure that you are in fact playing by the rules and should be safe from trouble with your website. Websites that use white hat SEO tend to be very helpful to users, search engines and webmasters themselves.
Black hat SEO is the method that tries to trick the search engines by means of unsavory ways gain higher search engine rankings. Some of the methods used in black hat SEO methods include cloaking, hidden texts and doorway pages. Search engines such as Google have announced that they will penalize websites who use these methods when detected.You may be wondering why black hat SEO methods are blocked if they work so well to get higher rankings, right? Well, they may work well initially, but in the long run most of the black hat SEO methods are being detected and punished by search engines. These methods have not been approved by Google and other search engines, and they can be frustrating to those who are relying on Google and search engines to provide them with good, relevant search results.
You may get away with black hat SEO methods for a while, but chances are good that you will get caught and when you do, it will not be pretty. Even if you think you know people who have used these methods, or continue to use them on their websites and have nothing but good results, you should remind them that it is only a matter of time before they are banned from search engines.
What might be effective right away to gain good rankings on search engines, will cost you a lot more in the end if you end up getting your website banned from Google entirely. Black hat SEO methods are similar to those of cheating in school. You may get away with it for a while with good results, but eventually you will get caught and then all of the hard work that went into building your online business and website will be wasted.
Using white hat SEO methods may be more time consuming and expensive right away, but if you are diligent and determined, your website can be effectively ranked on Google and other search engines. If you are unsure what methods may be considered black hat SEO, you might want to seek out a professional before you attempt to use them.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
SEO - How Early SEO Corrupted The Search Engines
The practice of search engine optimization first came into being in the mid 1990s when the first search engines began cataloguing the contents of the Internet. Initially the entire procedure was fairly honest and a fair reflection of what content there was on the web. Sites were submitted to the search engines and a spider crawled the content and then stored the collected data in a database that could be accessed by individuals performing a search.
When a search engine spider detects new content on the Internet it downloads a page where it is stored on the engine’s own server. Once on the server a second program, known as indexer extract information about the page as well as all of the links it contains. This page is then placed into a depository of pages to be crawled at a later date.
At first, the information that ended up on these early search engines came from the webmasters who were trusted to be honest. Early versions of search algorithms relied on webmaster-provided information such as the keyword meta tag, or index files in engines like ALIWEB. Meta-tags provided a guide to each page's content. However the corruption of this system began when webmasters abused meta tags by including keywords that had nothing to do with the content of their pages, to artificially increase page impressions for their Website. This of course also increased their ad revenue from pay per clicks and costs per impressions. Greed soon led to inaccurate, incomplete cataloguing of web pages and too many people being led to pages without content or with misleading content when they conducted a web search. Search engines responded by developing more complex ranking algorithms with the result that understanding SEO has become much more complicated then it ever has been before and will continue to become more complicated.
When a search engine spider detects new content on the Internet it downloads a page where it is stored on the engine’s own server. Once on the server a second program, known as indexer extract information about the page as well as all of the links it contains. This page is then placed into a depository of pages to be crawled at a later date.
At first, the information that ended up on these early search engines came from the webmasters who were trusted to be honest. Early versions of search algorithms relied on webmaster-provided information such as the keyword meta tag, or index files in engines like ALIWEB. Meta-tags provided a guide to each page's content. However the corruption of this system began when webmasters abused meta tags by including keywords that had nothing to do with the content of their pages, to artificially increase page impressions for their Website. This of course also increased their ad revenue from pay per clicks and costs per impressions. Greed soon led to inaccurate, incomplete cataloguing of web pages and too many people being led to pages without content or with misleading content when they conducted a web search. Search engines responded by developing more complex ranking algorithms with the result that understanding SEO has become much more complicated then it ever has been before and will continue to become more complicated.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Using Blog PR To Promote Your Site
The recent trend of using the press release to promote an online business has emerged with good reason – good press costs very little and can do more for a business than thousands of dollars of marketing. Most businesses use press distribution services like PR Web or PRFree to get the word out about their news. While distribution services certainly can be effective, they tend to miss out on arguably the most influential group of the press – bloggers.
Bloggers mold and shape the opinions of their readers, who are normally the most important in their particular industry, many of whom are also bloggers. Not long after a post from an influential blogger, your news has been picked up by several other bloggers and within days you are all over the blogsphere. Before you know it your site is getting more attention than it would if a story ran in the local newspaper! So how do you get the influential bloggers in your industry to run a story about your business?
Why Would Anyone Do a Story About Your Business?
Are you a new company? Did you just launch a new product that they could review? Did your business win an award? Are you a group of college kids who started a company on savings from your summer jobs? You get the idea. There needs to be a reason that someone would want to read about you. Bloggers take pride in the content they feed their readers. You don't stand a chance of getting a blogger to write about you if you don't have a story that their readers will be interested in.
Research Bloggers in Your Industry
More is less when it comes to contacting bloggers. Buy a list of 1,000 bloggers and send out a generic email to all of them and you'll likely get no response. But send a small amount of personalized emails to the appropriate bloggers and you'll be shocked at how many positive responses you get.
The first step is to make a list of the bloggers that would be interested in your story. You can generally get a feel for whether or not a blogger would be interested in your story by reading a couple of posts and checking out their bio. If they've done a few similar stories in the past or they are heavily involved in your industry, there is a good chance they'll want to hear your story. If not, leave them off your list and move on.
The single best method that I have found to research blogs is the Technorati Blog Directory http://www.technorati.com/blogs/. You can peruse blogs in your industry in order of “authority” - how important Technorati thinks a blog is. This is extremely useful. For example, if you are in the travel industry, you can view a list of the most influential blogs in the world of travel.
Another great way to find the right bloggers is to search through your competitors press sections on their websites to see what blogs have mentioned them. You can also find out who has mentioned your competitors by looking at the sites that have linked to them (type in “links:www.theirsite.com” on Yahoo!). There's a good chance that if they found your competitors story interesting, they'll find your story interesting as well.
Compose Your Email
The best way to contact bloggers is by email. The good news is that most bloggers make themselves easy to access and provide their email addresses on their blogs. The bad news is that most people don't know what to do with said email address once they get it. Use the following outline for your email and you'll see amazing results:
- Have a simple subject. You probably won't get many responses by treating your email like a press release and writing RELEASE in the subject line. Try something simple like “fan of your blog” or “comment about your blog.” You want to make sure they actually read your email and don't mentally mark it as SPAM when they see the subject.
- Start by complementing them. Since you've read their blog and learned about them from their bio, you know quite a bit about them. Use it to your advantage. Complement them on your favorite post, or how cool it is that they worked for XYZ company.
- Request them to post about you (be direct). In three sentences or less, tell them your story, why you think it would be of interest to them and their readers, and respectfully ask that they write a post about it. Be direct and to the point. They will respect that.
- Offer something in return. You have something that could help them. Maybe it's a link back to their blog from your personal blog, or maybe you could provide them with a free product or service that could help them or their business. One way or another, there's something you have to offer them in return for the time spent on a post about you.
- Close with something nice. Thank them for their time and wish them luck with their blog and/or business ventures.
Notice that of the five components of the email, only one is about your story. The rest of the email is spent complimenting them and offering them something. Your chances of getting a positive response have just gone through the roof. Every blogger, no matter how large, likes to hear that people are enjoying their posts.
Respond Promptly and Respectfully
Not everyone is going to agree to run your story. Some will say that they don't do that type of thing or that they don't have time. Since you have been so nice as to compliment them, they will still usually reply either way. Regardless of the response, be sure to thank them for their time and wish them luck with their ventures. You never know when they will encounter someone who needs your product or service in the future (remember, they are in your industry) and if they have a positive image of you and your company they will undoubtedly give you a good recommendation.
Sit Back and Watch the Traffic Roll In
Over the course of the next few weeks you will see post after post appear about your business. Be sure to send another thank you email to the blogger after the post and also be sure to promptly provide whatever you offered them in return. At this point you have developed a mutually beneficial relationship with someone important in your industry that can become invaluable over time.
That wasn't that hard was it? With a little research and a carefully crafted email, any business can effectively use blog PR to drive traffic to their site.
Bloggers mold and shape the opinions of their readers, who are normally the most important in their particular industry, many of whom are also bloggers. Not long after a post from an influential blogger, your news has been picked up by several other bloggers and within days you are all over the blogsphere. Before you know it your site is getting more attention than it would if a story ran in the local newspaper! So how do you get the influential bloggers in your industry to run a story about your business?
Why Would Anyone Do a Story About Your Business?
Are you a new company? Did you just launch a new product that they could review? Did your business win an award? Are you a group of college kids who started a company on savings from your summer jobs? You get the idea. There needs to be a reason that someone would want to read about you. Bloggers take pride in the content they feed their readers. You don't stand a chance of getting a blogger to write about you if you don't have a story that their readers will be interested in.
Research Bloggers in Your Industry
More is less when it comes to contacting bloggers. Buy a list of 1,000 bloggers and send out a generic email to all of them and you'll likely get no response. But send a small amount of personalized emails to the appropriate bloggers and you'll be shocked at how many positive responses you get.
The first step is to make a list of the bloggers that would be interested in your story. You can generally get a feel for whether or not a blogger would be interested in your story by reading a couple of posts and checking out their bio. If they've done a few similar stories in the past or they are heavily involved in your industry, there is a good chance they'll want to hear your story. If not, leave them off your list and move on.
The single best method that I have found to research blogs is the Technorati Blog Directory http://www.technorati.com/blogs/. You can peruse blogs in your industry in order of “authority” - how important Technorati thinks a blog is. This is extremely useful. For example, if you are in the travel industry, you can view a list of the most influential blogs in the world of travel.
Another great way to find the right bloggers is to search through your competitors press sections on their websites to see what blogs have mentioned them. You can also find out who has mentioned your competitors by looking at the sites that have linked to them (type in “links:www.theirsite.com” on Yahoo!). There's a good chance that if they found your competitors story interesting, they'll find your story interesting as well.
Compose Your Email
The best way to contact bloggers is by email. The good news is that most bloggers make themselves easy to access and provide their email addresses on their blogs. The bad news is that most people don't know what to do with said email address once they get it. Use the following outline for your email and you'll see amazing results:
- Have a simple subject. You probably won't get many responses by treating your email like a press release and writing RELEASE in the subject line. Try something simple like “fan of your blog” or “comment about your blog.” You want to make sure they actually read your email and don't mentally mark it as SPAM when they see the subject.
- Start by complementing them. Since you've read their blog and learned about them from their bio, you know quite a bit about them. Use it to your advantage. Complement them on your favorite post, or how cool it is that they worked for XYZ company.
- Request them to post about you (be direct). In three sentences or less, tell them your story, why you think it would be of interest to them and their readers, and respectfully ask that they write a post about it. Be direct and to the point. They will respect that.
- Offer something in return. You have something that could help them. Maybe it's a link back to their blog from your personal blog, or maybe you could provide them with a free product or service that could help them or their business. One way or another, there's something you have to offer them in return for the time spent on a post about you.
- Close with something nice. Thank them for their time and wish them luck with their blog and/or business ventures.
Notice that of the five components of the email, only one is about your story. The rest of the email is spent complimenting them and offering them something. Your chances of getting a positive response have just gone through the roof. Every blogger, no matter how large, likes to hear that people are enjoying their posts.
Respond Promptly and Respectfully
Not everyone is going to agree to run your story. Some will say that they don't do that type of thing or that they don't have time. Since you have been so nice as to compliment them, they will still usually reply either way. Regardless of the response, be sure to thank them for their time and wish them luck with their ventures. You never know when they will encounter someone who needs your product or service in the future (remember, they are in your industry) and if they have a positive image of you and your company they will undoubtedly give you a good recommendation.
Sit Back and Watch the Traffic Roll In
Over the course of the next few weeks you will see post after post appear about your business. Be sure to send another thank you email to the blogger after the post and also be sure to promptly provide whatever you offered them in return. At this point you have developed a mutually beneficial relationship with someone important in your industry that can become invaluable over time.
That wasn't that hard was it? With a little research and a carefully crafted email, any business can effectively use blog PR to drive traffic to their site.
SEO - Tips For Making SEO Copy More Personal
The problem with SEO copy (search engine optimized) is that often reads very robotic, repetitive and cold. However so many marketing experts say that you need to make an emotional connection with your reader in order to make sales. This means that you need to find the fine balance between making your copy sound personal and pleasing the search engine spiders and robots.
First of all never pose yourself an expert or a guru if you are not one. People can usually tell that you aren’t within the first paragraph or so of an article, especially if it is peppered with keywords and not much quality content. This type of content is easily identifiable as it is based on old-fashioned direct sales marketing techniques. Once people see those long sales letters on sites, they know it’s snake oil salesman time. It is better to connect with them on a one to one basis rather than in an imitation of some hotshot copywriter from the 1970s.
Never use the royal "we". Stay away from phrases like "We here at Search Engine City promises to deliver you the best copy” instead make it more personal by using the "you or your" form as in: "You are certain to find a keyword analyzer that is perfect for that special someone at here at Search Engine City.”
Another tip is to try and identify with your audience in some way. For instance if your audience is a bunch of affiliate marketers, refer to the practice of creating blogs with affiliate links as bum marketing which is the nickname for it. Try to write in the niche language that they are used to. Of course if you truly are an expert in your niche then writing this type of SEO enriched, yet user-friendly copy will not be difficult for you at all!
First of all never pose yourself an expert or a guru if you are not one. People can usually tell that you aren’t within the first paragraph or so of an article, especially if it is peppered with keywords and not much quality content. This type of content is easily identifiable as it is based on old-fashioned direct sales marketing techniques. Once people see those long sales letters on sites, they know it’s snake oil salesman time. It is better to connect with them on a one to one basis rather than in an imitation of some hotshot copywriter from the 1970s.
Never use the royal "we". Stay away from phrases like "We here at Search Engine City promises to deliver you the best copy” instead make it more personal by using the "you or your" form as in: "You are certain to find a keyword analyzer that is perfect for that special someone at here at Search Engine City.”
Another tip is to try and identify with your audience in some way. For instance if your audience is a bunch of affiliate marketers, refer to the practice of creating blogs with affiliate links as bum marketing which is the nickname for it. Try to write in the niche language that they are used to. Of course if you truly are an expert in your niche then writing this type of SEO enriched, yet user-friendly copy will not be difficult for you at all!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Understanding Organic SEO
In the old days of the Internet, there were no SEO Consultants, automated systems, or all that high technology stuff. A few years ago, in fact, the term "Search Engine Optimization" did not even exist! Website owners struggled with ways and means to get the much-needed hits to their website (never mind if it was not targeted) to hopefully generate the needed revenues. Those were the days of IBM (or "It’s Best done Manually) and Organic SEO.
Organic SEO still refers to the processes and strategies that are undertaken to optimize a website so that it gets good relevance ratings based on the keywords that the site is responsive to. The only difference between Organic SEO and the SEO we now know is that Organic SEO is a manual process vs. the current automated processes of page submission and alteration that characterizes “modern” SEO. Organic SEO focuses on promoting websites on the Natural search engine results also known as organic results in contrast with sponsored links (Pay-Per-Click/PPC). Organic SEO, if you really think about is a "purist" approach to website optimization because nothing is a "black box". As an expert in Organic SEO, you know optimization; you don’t just blindly trust it.
Organic SEO is based on a clear understanding of fundamental concepts, including:
• Search engines and how they work
Obviously, you cannot practice Organic SEO if you don’t even know how the first two letters of SEO (i.e., Search Engine) works. A search engine is a web site that provides the visitor a list of recommended websites to go to, based on a specific keyword or keywords. The rank of a website is statistically determined by what is termed as "key word density" or the ratio of keywords to the total number of words of content in a website. Inbound links and their relevance is another factor that determines your rankings. The gatherer of this statistical data is what is called a "spider" or "spider bot", which is a program whose function is to count the number of times a keyword appears in a website through a process called "crawling".
• Search Engine Optimization
You can’t have Organic SEO without the SEO part, which stands what Search Engine Optimization. SEO’s main goal is simple: bring as many visitors to your website as possible by exerting influence on the search engine to position your website as close to the top of the list as possible. As a result of having more visitors, it is hoped that your website will generate business for you. This result is every Organic SEO practitioner’s clear measure of success.
• Viral Marketing
This is an important concept to understand if you are serious about becoming a good Organic SEO expert. Viral Marketing is a strategy to exponentially increase the number of visitors to your website from a small base that you have developed from your initial Organic SEO strategy. An example of Viral Marketing is to offer visitors to your website an opportunity to generate income from their own website by simply putting in your website’s link on theirs so that when people visit their website, then there is a good chance that they will visit yours. This strategy is certainly a handy component of the arsenal of a practitioner of Organic SEO.
• Optimized Domain Names
One of the simplest concepts to understand, yet also one that is not as easy to implement. Getting a keyword-rich domain name is every Organic SEO consultant’s dream because it carries so much weight in the relevance scale. If you domain name is exactly what you are selling, you will be able to smoothly sail on without much of a problem in the rankings. The problem, of course, is that there is a very high likelihood that the “good” domain names already belong to someone, and this makes an Organic SEO specialist life more difficult.
• Keyword Research
This is the first step on the list of to-dos for an Organic SEO practitioner because it plays a major role in determining your optimization strategy. Since it takes months for any optimization strategy to take effect, an Organic SEO expert’s efforts will be wasted if he makes the mistake of optimizing a website based on keywords that are not as popular as he assumed.
Becoming an Organic SEO specialist is not an easy task at all because it requires a deep understanding of the fundamentals that those utilizing automated systems take for granted. There is a major advantage, however, of Organic SEO vs. the “lazy man’s” SEO: A clear understanding of the concepts allows you to analyze SEO situations more accurately and come up with strategies that are more appropriate and responsive to your website’s needs. Understanding Organic SEO by Moe Tamani
Organic SEO still refers to the processes and strategies that are undertaken to optimize a website so that it gets good relevance ratings based on the keywords that the site is responsive to. The only difference between Organic SEO and the SEO we now know is that Organic SEO is a manual process vs. the current automated processes of page submission and alteration that characterizes “modern” SEO. Organic SEO focuses on promoting websites on the Natural search engine results also known as organic results in contrast with sponsored links (Pay-Per-Click/PPC). Organic SEO, if you really think about is a "purist" approach to website optimization because nothing is a "black box". As an expert in Organic SEO, you know optimization; you don’t just blindly trust it.
Organic SEO is based on a clear understanding of fundamental concepts, including:
• Search engines and how they work
Obviously, you cannot practice Organic SEO if you don’t even know how the first two letters of SEO (i.e., Search Engine) works. A search engine is a web site that provides the visitor a list of recommended websites to go to, based on a specific keyword or keywords. The rank of a website is statistically determined by what is termed as "key word density" or the ratio of keywords to the total number of words of content in a website. Inbound links and their relevance is another factor that determines your rankings. The gatherer of this statistical data is what is called a "spider" or "spider bot", which is a program whose function is to count the number of times a keyword appears in a website through a process called "crawling".
• Search Engine Optimization
You can’t have Organic SEO without the SEO part, which stands what Search Engine Optimization. SEO’s main goal is simple: bring as many visitors to your website as possible by exerting influence on the search engine to position your website as close to the top of the list as possible. As a result of having more visitors, it is hoped that your website will generate business for you. This result is every Organic SEO practitioner’s clear measure of success.
• Viral Marketing
This is an important concept to understand if you are serious about becoming a good Organic SEO expert. Viral Marketing is a strategy to exponentially increase the number of visitors to your website from a small base that you have developed from your initial Organic SEO strategy. An example of Viral Marketing is to offer visitors to your website an opportunity to generate income from their own website by simply putting in your website’s link on theirs so that when people visit their website, then there is a good chance that they will visit yours. This strategy is certainly a handy component of the arsenal of a practitioner of Organic SEO.
• Optimized Domain Names
One of the simplest concepts to understand, yet also one that is not as easy to implement. Getting a keyword-rich domain name is every Organic SEO consultant’s dream because it carries so much weight in the relevance scale. If you domain name is exactly what you are selling, you will be able to smoothly sail on without much of a problem in the rankings. The problem, of course, is that there is a very high likelihood that the “good” domain names already belong to someone, and this makes an Organic SEO specialist life more difficult.
• Keyword Research
This is the first step on the list of to-dos for an Organic SEO practitioner because it plays a major role in determining your optimization strategy. Since it takes months for any optimization strategy to take effect, an Organic SEO expert’s efforts will be wasted if he makes the mistake of optimizing a website based on keywords that are not as popular as he assumed.
Becoming an Organic SEO specialist is not an easy task at all because it requires a deep understanding of the fundamentals that those utilizing automated systems take for granted. There is a major advantage, however, of Organic SEO vs. the “lazy man’s” SEO: A clear understanding of the concepts allows you to analyze SEO situations more accurately and come up with strategies that are more appropriate and responsive to your website’s needs. Understanding Organic SEO by Moe Tamani
Monday, August 18, 2008
What a Search Engine Optimization Firm Does
Before going into what a Search Engine Optimization firm does, let us first define what “search engine optimization” or SEO is. In “brick-and-mortar” terms, SEO may be compared to placing an advertisement in a medium that caters largely to a particular market segment, e.g., medical journals, fashion magazines, adult cable channels, etc. so that there is a high probability that whatever products or services you offer is what that particular viewing, reading, or listening market segment needs. The “agent” for this type of advertising is the advertising or marketing firm which, when related to cyberspace is the Search Engine Optimization firm.
SEO is the set of activities and strategies implemented (either by yourself or through a Search Engine Optimization firm) that influences a search engine’s “spiderbot” to give your website a high relevance rating which translates into a high ranking in the list of keyword relevant websites. Since it is a targeted approach, the success rate of an SEO strategy (measured in terms of average business per visitor also known as conversion rate) that a Search Engine Optimization firm implements should be higher than, say, online advertising (which may attract more visitors but will include a big share of “just looking” hits, thus resulting to a lower average business per visitor). This ultimately results to lower cost per sale since the resources required to service the visits (which will go down in terms of quantity but increase in terms of quality) goes down.
What does a Search Engine Optimization firm do in order to achieve its objective of ethically optimizing your website? One Search Engine Optimization firm may apply a different set of SEO strategies versus another Search Engine Optimization firm, but they both focus on one aspect: the search engine keyword or keywords. Essentially, the keyword is the major rating criterion of a relevance rating; i.e., how often it appears in the website or content. Although more sophisticated discernment algorithms are being implemented by the search engine’s “spiderbot” to weed out unethical practices (e.g., embedding keywords in articles or content that do not have any logical connection), the keyword density still the key.
Some of the strategies that a Search Engine Optimization firm employs are as follows:
• Keyword Rich Domain Names
This is the most “no brainer” strategy that a Search Engine Optimization firm could employ, yet is one of the most difficult to implement. The proposition of this strategy is that the best way to get a high ranking for a keyword relevant site is to embed the keyword into the domain name. For example, www.recipes.com will obviously get top ranking when the keyword “recipes” is used in the search box (as a side note, if you are looking for recipes, you might even just skip the search engine altogether and instinctively enter www.recipes.com ). The problem with this strategy, of course, is that these domain names are probably owned by someone else already, in which case, the Search Engine Optimization firm could embed the keyword in a longer domain name like, e.g., www.mothers-recipes.com or www.home-cooked-meal-recipes.com , which, when combined with other SEO strategies could potentially even outrank www.recipes.com .
• Content Optimization
In this strategy, the Search Engine Optimization firm ensures that the content is ethically filled with all the relevant keywords to which the website is responsive to. This is accomplished by framing the advertising copy around the keyword and making it appear as many times as relevancy allows, including the keywords in the text articles, etc. The Search Engine Optimization firm has several ways of determining the possible relevance rank of your website based on the level of content optimization.
• Meta-Tag Optimization
All websites use HTML in several parts of the website’s program. In the body of the HTML program are areas that the programmer uses, among other things, for remarks (e.g., to remind him what the code is all about). The content of these areas (called meta-tags) do not have an impact on how the website looks but is “crawled through” by the search engine’s “spiderbot” all the same. Because these meta-tags play a factor in the website’s relevance, a Search Engine Optimization firm will normally embed as many keywords as ethically allowed to into them.
In selecting the Search Engine Optimization firm that you will use to optimize your website, be sure to put a heavy premium on its experience and reputation. Also, avoid a Search Engine Optimization firm that engages in unethical (and illegal) practices just to increase the number of visitors to your sites. Avoid a Search Engine Optimization firm that is vague about how it is going to optimize your website. If it has nothing to hide, then it should be transparent as to what it is supposed to do. If you heard about a Search Engine Optimization firm through spam mail, do not even consider it. If the Search Engine Optimization firm charges you a low price without any clear specifics as to what it will do, walk away. Finally, make sure to canvass your requirements before selecting the Search Engine Optimization firm you will use. What a Search Engine Optimization firm does by Moe Tamani
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SEO is the set of activities and strategies implemented (either by yourself or through a Search Engine Optimization firm) that influences a search engine’s “spiderbot” to give your website a high relevance rating which translates into a high ranking in the list of keyword relevant websites. Since it is a targeted approach, the success rate of an SEO strategy (measured in terms of average business per visitor also known as conversion rate) that a Search Engine Optimization firm implements should be higher than, say, online advertising (which may attract more visitors but will include a big share of “just looking” hits, thus resulting to a lower average business per visitor). This ultimately results to lower cost per sale since the resources required to service the visits (which will go down in terms of quantity but increase in terms of quality) goes down.
What does a Search Engine Optimization firm do in order to achieve its objective of ethically optimizing your website? One Search Engine Optimization firm may apply a different set of SEO strategies versus another Search Engine Optimization firm, but they both focus on one aspect: the search engine keyword or keywords. Essentially, the keyword is the major rating criterion of a relevance rating; i.e., how often it appears in the website or content. Although more sophisticated discernment algorithms are being implemented by the search engine’s “spiderbot” to weed out unethical practices (e.g., embedding keywords in articles or content that do not have any logical connection), the keyword density still the key.
Some of the strategies that a Search Engine Optimization firm employs are as follows:
• Keyword Rich Domain Names
This is the most “no brainer” strategy that a Search Engine Optimization firm could employ, yet is one of the most difficult to implement. The proposition of this strategy is that the best way to get a high ranking for a keyword relevant site is to embed the keyword into the domain name. For example, www.recipes.com will obviously get top ranking when the keyword “recipes” is used in the search box (as a side note, if you are looking for recipes, you might even just skip the search engine altogether and instinctively enter www.recipes.com ). The problem with this strategy, of course, is that these domain names are probably owned by someone else already, in which case, the Search Engine Optimization firm could embed the keyword in a longer domain name like, e.g., www.mothers-recipes.com or www.home-cooked-meal-recipes.com , which, when combined with other SEO strategies could potentially even outrank www.recipes.com .
• Content Optimization
In this strategy, the Search Engine Optimization firm ensures that the content is ethically filled with all the relevant keywords to which the website is responsive to. This is accomplished by framing the advertising copy around the keyword and making it appear as many times as relevancy allows, including the keywords in the text articles, etc. The Search Engine Optimization firm has several ways of determining the possible relevance rank of your website based on the level of content optimization.
• Meta-Tag Optimization
All websites use HTML in several parts of the website’s program. In the body of the HTML program are areas that the programmer uses, among other things, for remarks (e.g., to remind him what the code is all about). The content of these areas (called meta-tags) do not have an impact on how the website looks but is “crawled through” by the search engine’s “spiderbot” all the same. Because these meta-tags play a factor in the website’s relevance, a Search Engine Optimization firm will normally embed as many keywords as ethically allowed to into them.
In selecting the Search Engine Optimization firm that you will use to optimize your website, be sure to put a heavy premium on its experience and reputation. Also, avoid a Search Engine Optimization firm that engages in unethical (and illegal) practices just to increase the number of visitors to your sites. Avoid a Search Engine Optimization firm that is vague about how it is going to optimize your website. If it has nothing to hide, then it should be transparent as to what it is supposed to do. If you heard about a Search Engine Optimization firm through spam mail, do not even consider it. If the Search Engine Optimization firm charges you a low price without any clear specifics as to what it will do, walk away. Finally, make sure to canvass your requirements before selecting the Search Engine Optimization firm you will use. What a Search Engine Optimization firm does by Moe Tamani
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
What’s Best: Blogging Traffic Or SEO Traffic Generation?
I’ve heard it said, and even seen it written, that blogging is better than SEO for getting traffic. Are blogging traffic or SEO traffic generation techniques better for you, or does it not really matter?
Actually, a lot depends on you and which you like best: blogs or traditional websites, and also what you want the traffic for. I also wonder why the distinction is being made, since anybody serious about internet marketing and getting plenty of traffic, will use both. There is really no need to choose one or the other. However, when I hear such arguments I get the feeling that it is more academic than which provides the more traffic. Feelings, however can be wrong, so it is worth discussion.
When you think about it, the type of traffic you get from a blog could very well have different needs and interests to those that reached your site after carrying a search on Google or Yahoo using specific keywords. OK, you can get to blogs from search engines also, and through the use of keywords, but if you are looking to buy something you wouldn’t normally log onto a blog, would you?
Let’s say you wanted the best price for a gross of Titleist golf balls, you wouldn’t visit a blog site. Similarly if wanted to discuss their benefits, you would go to a blog or a forum. Sometimes it gets difficult to tell the difference these days, since blogs are becoming increasingly more interactive, but you get my general drift. I hope!
With a blog you can advertise whatever you want to, and the same is true of a website. However, you are more likely to make a direct purchase from a website, and to seek information from a blog. Hence, the traffic you get on a blog are information seekers and those on your website may also be looking for info, but might also be wanting to make a purchase. So right away we can kind of separate blog readers from website visitors.
It’s not a well defined separation, but bloggers tend not to be looking for something different to what a search engine user is looking for. If you have a blog on your website, your blog page will be likely to attract prospects that will tend to be more regular visitors than those that are checking out your website. If the latter don’t respond to your opt-in form, you will be unlikely to see them again, but a visitor to your blog page might return frequently.
However, to return to the question: what is better, blog traffic or SEO traffic, as long as each is free it doesn’t really matter I would have thought. I suppose that it could be argued that the SEO traffic is more focussed because they have used your specific keywords to get to the page they landed on ,and blog traffic could come from ezines and other sources that are perhaps not specific to any product you are selling. Me, I would accept any traffic no matter where it came from, and quite frankly once the traffic gets to your webpage it is up to you to convert it to sales.
The difference between the two is that if you don’t make an immediate impact with the SEO visitors, you could be struggling to keep them returning to your website, but you are likely to have more time with the bloggers, since they tend to keep coming back to the blog. The SEO visitors might register with your opt-in page, but that only allows you to keep in contact with them, and you still have to try to induce them to return to your website.
On the other hand, the blog readers need no such inducement, since they visit your site each time you publish a new posting. That is assuming that your blog is on your own website, and not on the blog server as many (perhaps most) are.
Perhaps I am completely on the wrong track, but I will keep tabs on it and report on my website what my findings are regarding blog traffic and SEO traffic, and whether or not one tends to buy more that the other. It is useful to know, since for a website that is designed to sell products it can determine whether or not it is worth having a blog on your site or keep trying to improve your SEO.
That is a big decision to make, and if it could make the difference between success and failure then it should be determines mathematically and scientifically rather than by conjecture and opinion. It is scientific testing that frequently makes the difference between those that are successful in internet marketing and those that fail.
So, is blogging traffic or SEO traffic generation the best? Who knows? I hope to know shortly though, and I will share it with you on my site when I finish my testing. What’s best: Blogging traffic or SEO traffic generation? by Peter Nisbet
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Using A Blog To Promote Your Business
Using a blog to promote your wellness business is a very effective marketing tool. What is great about using blogs is that you can promote your wellness business absolutely free. There are many places on the Internet that you can set up a blog without it costing you a single penny. With a new home business it is important to maximize promotion without spending all your profits on advertising and marketing. Using a blog is one of the methods that you can use to promote your wellness business without it emptying your business budget.
You do not have to be a computer wiz, internet wiz or programmer to set up an attractive blog. There are many places on the Internet that have blogs already set up for you. All that you have to do is create a free account, select the name for you blog and start making blog posts. It’s literally that simple without requiring that you know how to program or pay any type of membership fees or hosting fees. This is why blogging is ideal for promotion because it’s so simple to do.
Once you have your blog selected and your account created, it is time to name your blog. When selecting a name choose something that fits both the wellness industry and compliments the types of products that you will be promoting for your wellness business. For example, if you sell weight loss products you could name your blog something such as Skinny Tips. This would let others know the general theme of the blog.
The blog setup will ask you to create a description for you blog. Take the time to write out several descriptions until you have just the perfect one. The description that you post on the blog will often be what is used when search engines pick up your blog and list it in the pages. For the example of the skinny tips blog you could do a description such as helpful tips and information for weight loss. The description then further explains your blog so that more people are likely to read your posts because they will know what the blog is going to be about before they start reading.
What should you write about for your blog? One of the top things to write about is the general topic of the blog. Blogs with a lot of different topics can get confusing to readers. They are successful but the purpose of this type of business blog is to promote your wellness home business. If for example you had the Skinny Tips blog, you could write short pieces about losing weight, eating well and exercising. You can even write reviews for the different products that you are promoting. In the reviews, you can link directly to the product to encourage visitors to visit your main wellness small home business Internet site.
The primary purpose of blogs is to provide information. Providing a great deal of information is the key to a successful blog for business. You get people that would not normally visit a wellness product site to come and read your blog. After reading your blog on a regular basis, visitors will naturally go and visit your business site. Use the blog as a portal to get traffic to your website and not as a big advertisement. People will stay and read the information if it is informative and entertaining. Using a blog to promote your Business by Zachary Thompson
You do not have to be a computer wiz, internet wiz or programmer to set up an attractive blog. There are many places on the Internet that have blogs already set up for you. All that you have to do is create a free account, select the name for you blog and start making blog posts. It’s literally that simple without requiring that you know how to program or pay any type of membership fees or hosting fees. This is why blogging is ideal for promotion because it’s so simple to do.
Once you have your blog selected and your account created, it is time to name your blog. When selecting a name choose something that fits both the wellness industry and compliments the types of products that you will be promoting for your wellness business. For example, if you sell weight loss products you could name your blog something such as Skinny Tips. This would let others know the general theme of the blog.
The blog setup will ask you to create a description for you blog. Take the time to write out several descriptions until you have just the perfect one. The description that you post on the blog will often be what is used when search engines pick up your blog and list it in the pages. For the example of the skinny tips blog you could do a description such as helpful tips and information for weight loss. The description then further explains your blog so that more people are likely to read your posts because they will know what the blog is going to be about before they start reading.
What should you write about for your blog? One of the top things to write about is the general topic of the blog. Blogs with a lot of different topics can get confusing to readers. They are successful but the purpose of this type of business blog is to promote your wellness home business. If for example you had the Skinny Tips blog, you could write short pieces about losing weight, eating well and exercising. You can even write reviews for the different products that you are promoting. In the reviews, you can link directly to the product to encourage visitors to visit your main wellness small home business Internet site.
The primary purpose of blogs is to provide information. Providing a great deal of information is the key to a successful blog for business. You get people that would not normally visit a wellness product site to come and read your blog. After reading your blog on a regular basis, visitors will naturally go and visit your business site. Use the blog as a portal to get traffic to your website and not as a big advertisement. People will stay and read the information if it is informative and entertaining. Using a blog to promote your Business by Zachary Thompson
Friday, August 15, 2008
How Not To Waste Your Time Submitting To Dead Directories
Every webmaster knows that one of the link building methods is submitting to web directories.
Let's say you spend 1 minute submitting to one directory and you submit to 50 directories. That's 50 minutes. If one quarter of them are dead this equals 12 minutes wasted.
As we all know, time is money and this mean , simply, wasted money.
Web directories numbers are vastly increasing this days and, as many are created every day, a lot of them also die, for various reasons, one of them being that the directory owner got bored of his toy and no longer review the submitted links.
In a couple of months the directory domain expire or, the most common situation, the directory freeze and no new links are added.
Such directories are many and avoid submitting to them must be one of webmasters top things to watch.
How to do that ? Look for websites that keep lists of directories and check them often.
If you use a list and from the first 10 directories you find half that changed submission type or have thousands of links pending (while having hundreds approved) than you can be sure that your list source is not so good.
Try another source for your directory list, submitting to a low number of directories on that list and see how accurate the list is. You will find a good and updated list pretty fast this way, by removing bad sources.
The situation fits even we change directory for article directory, the same problem is still valid when submitting articles to article directory sites.
If you have multiple sites try submitting an article to some article sites and watch their review time.
Sometime submitting to a high pr directory where your link is never reviewed is worse that submitting to a lower pr directory but where your link has a chance to show up in your lifetime. How not to waste your time submitting to dead directories by Enache Vladian
Let's say you spend 1 minute submitting to one directory and you submit to 50 directories. That's 50 minutes. If one quarter of them are dead this equals 12 minutes wasted.
As we all know, time is money and this mean , simply, wasted money.
Web directories numbers are vastly increasing this days and, as many are created every day, a lot of them also die, for various reasons, one of them being that the directory owner got bored of his toy and no longer review the submitted links.
In a couple of months the directory domain expire or, the most common situation, the directory freeze and no new links are added.
Such directories are many and avoid submitting to them must be one of webmasters top things to watch.
How to do that ? Look for websites that keep lists of directories and check them often.
If you use a list and from the first 10 directories you find half that changed submission type or have thousands of links pending (while having hundreds approved) than you can be sure that your list source is not so good.
Try another source for your directory list, submitting to a low number of directories on that list and see how accurate the list is. You will find a good and updated list pretty fast this way, by removing bad sources.
The situation fits even we change directory for article directory, the same problem is still valid when submitting articles to article directory sites.
If you have multiple sites try submitting an article to some article sites and watch their review time.
Sometime submitting to a high pr directory where your link is never reviewed is worse that submitting to a lower pr directory but where your link has a chance to show up in your lifetime. How not to waste your time submitting to dead directories by Enache Vladian
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Top Tips for Web Design
This article takes a look at the top 10 web design tips for users at any level. It will give you 10 complete different points to contemplate when you next begin a site design or when talking to your web design consultant/employee.
Design is never straight forward and web design has the additional unpredictable complication of technology thrown in. This means that you need to consider the consequences of your design decisions and how it will effect the most important people who see your site, the users themselves. The following tips should help you consider this and have a positive effect on your site and its users.
1. Navigation & Functionality
You should never sacrifice overall functionality for artistic extravagance. It is highly unlikely your site will ever achieve its purpose if the people who visit it cannot clearly and easily navigate around it.
Your site should look good but first and foremost consider how someone who knows nothing about the site would think when they landed there.
Something occurring in website frequently these days is Mystery Meat Navigation. This is a term coined by Vincent Flanders and it is used to describe site where navigation structures are so obscure and difficult to process that users cannot identify them at all and end up running there mouse across whole sections of a screen just to identify hyperlinks.
2. Images
People say images are worth a 1000 words and in web design that’s true in 2 ways. Firstly an image can do a lot more than text in some situation but secondly they are much, much bigger files with a higher download time.
It is widely accepted users will click away from a page that takes longer than 5-10 seconds to load and every time you put an image in a page you are increasing the likelihood of this happening. Additionally each image you imbed into a page design activates an additional HTTP request to your server so dividing an image into smaller ones or using lots of small images across a page does not solve the problem.
ALT tags should also be factored into the code of a website. They are a huge help to people who have either images turned off in a browse, mobile broswers that can’t read the images or a random error preventing the image from showing. They also hold a small SEO benefit.
3. Tables
It is advised that you use CSS and not tables to format a document but in some cases tables can be necessary. Remember one thing however, a table cannot be displayed until it has fully loaded. This can potentially cause a huge problem for users as they wait for the page to load, nothing appears then out of nowhere the whole page is done.
Someone is much more likely to click away when nothing is loading than when they can see progress.
4. Fonts
Don’t design sites to use fonts only you have, chances are they will be converted into some dull font and ruin the effect you were trying to achieve. Save special fonts for specific headers and convert them to images. Make the rest of your site in standard fonts so that as many browsers as possible will see it in the way you meant it to be. Recommended fonts for high scale compatibility are Arial, Verdana, Courier, Tahoma and Helvetica.
5. Plug-Ins
Plug-ins hold a lot of potential for both users and designers but it can easily be misused and misguided.
Plug-ins have a many forms and uses, the most popular being Java and Flash Player. I have heard a lot of people say that these plug-ins are “safe” and that everyone has them but this is simply not true. Every plug-in has a stack of different versions and connects differently depending on the browser the user is surfing with.
Think if your users will really want to browse to other sites to download a plug-in, restart the browser then navigate back. If the answer is no use other tricks at your disposal to make your page unique and save the big guns that are Flash and Java for times where it is essential.
6. Tags
The “tags” I am referring to hear are meta keywords and description, title, alt and h1 tags. Together these tags help manage your sites search engine optimisation (SEO) potential and this is defiantly something not to overlook. Helping people find your site will bring more traffic in and more conversion if you are a retail site.
The higher search engines rank you the more traffic will filter down and the more successful your site will be. Try to keep a constant theme running through all your tags but do so in a subtle way. Splashing the same word 1000 times on your page will only have negative effects so make sure you strike the correct balance between informative and spammy.
7. Browsers
In a perfect world everyone would use the same browser and your website would look the same on everyone’s screen but unfortunately this is not the case. Every browser has its own specific functions and styles and learning to make you code cooperate with both can present some serious problems.
The three you really need to concern yourself with are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. These make up a good 95% of the browser market at the very least and while there are some additional popular browser I would not recommend you spend time optimising code for the rest.
The only thing you can do is do your best and stay away from browser specific functions, you’ll never make someone get a new browser.
8. Pop Ups
Something that is very important to remember is that the user should be in control of their browser and desktop. Do not place unnecessary pop ups and window opening links everywhere and the user will feel they have lost control of the site, become annoyed and close the windows.
There are some exceptions to using the (_blank) attribute but I would steer clear whenever possible.
9. Text Layout
Text is part of your design to and positioning it correctly on the page is very important. Try to get all the copy you need as early in the design process as possible. This means you will be able to design around the copy instead of trying to cram it into smaller spaces because someone wrote twice as much copy as they said they were going to.
Use the right alignment for the right situation, remember 99% of people will prefer left align and while justified look aesthetically better it can be very difficult to read in longer bouts.
10. Site Search
In this day and age finding what you want on a website in paramount. After you have followed the first tip on navigation you should also provide a search bar on your site so that a visitor who cannot immediately see what they are looking for can search. Many internet studies have seen the success of these smaller additions to your site and free ones are available from Google and many other SE operators.
Conclusion
Taking these 10 tips into account will help you design a more user-friendly and successful website, sometime it may seem like they are hindering your grand design but failing to take notice may result in your site being a very pretty stop sign for browsers. Just because you can find your way around your Flash menu system that takes 6 minutes to load doesn’t mean Mrs Smith who needs the product can. Top Tips for Web Design by Frank Woodford
Design is never straight forward and web design has the additional unpredictable complication of technology thrown in. This means that you need to consider the consequences of your design decisions and how it will effect the most important people who see your site, the users themselves. The following tips should help you consider this and have a positive effect on your site and its users.
1. Navigation & Functionality
You should never sacrifice overall functionality for artistic extravagance. It is highly unlikely your site will ever achieve its purpose if the people who visit it cannot clearly and easily navigate around it.
Your site should look good but first and foremost consider how someone who knows nothing about the site would think when they landed there.
Something occurring in website frequently these days is Mystery Meat Navigation. This is a term coined by Vincent Flanders and it is used to describe site where navigation structures are so obscure and difficult to process that users cannot identify them at all and end up running there mouse across whole sections of a screen just to identify hyperlinks.
2. Images
People say images are worth a 1000 words and in web design that’s true in 2 ways. Firstly an image can do a lot more than text in some situation but secondly they are much, much bigger files with a higher download time.
It is widely accepted users will click away from a page that takes longer than 5-10 seconds to load and every time you put an image in a page you are increasing the likelihood of this happening. Additionally each image you imbed into a page design activates an additional HTTP request to your server so dividing an image into smaller ones or using lots of small images across a page does not solve the problem.
ALT tags should also be factored into the code of a website. They are a huge help to people who have either images turned off in a browse, mobile broswers that can’t read the images or a random error preventing the image from showing. They also hold a small SEO benefit.
3. Tables
It is advised that you use CSS and not tables to format a document but in some cases tables can be necessary. Remember one thing however, a table cannot be displayed until it has fully loaded. This can potentially cause a huge problem for users as they wait for the page to load, nothing appears then out of nowhere the whole page is done.
Someone is much more likely to click away when nothing is loading than when they can see progress.
4. Fonts
Don’t design sites to use fonts only you have, chances are they will be converted into some dull font and ruin the effect you were trying to achieve. Save special fonts for specific headers and convert them to images. Make the rest of your site in standard fonts so that as many browsers as possible will see it in the way you meant it to be. Recommended fonts for high scale compatibility are Arial, Verdana, Courier, Tahoma and Helvetica.
5. Plug-Ins
Plug-ins hold a lot of potential for both users and designers but it can easily be misused and misguided.
Plug-ins have a many forms and uses, the most popular being Java and Flash Player. I have heard a lot of people say that these plug-ins are “safe” and that everyone has them but this is simply not true. Every plug-in has a stack of different versions and connects differently depending on the browser the user is surfing with.
Think if your users will really want to browse to other sites to download a plug-in, restart the browser then navigate back. If the answer is no use other tricks at your disposal to make your page unique and save the big guns that are Flash and Java for times where it is essential.
6. Tags
The “tags” I am referring to hear are meta keywords and description, title, alt and h1 tags. Together these tags help manage your sites search engine optimisation (SEO) potential and this is defiantly something not to overlook. Helping people find your site will bring more traffic in and more conversion if you are a retail site.
The higher search engines rank you the more traffic will filter down and the more successful your site will be. Try to keep a constant theme running through all your tags but do so in a subtle way. Splashing the same word 1000 times on your page will only have negative effects so make sure you strike the correct balance between informative and spammy.
7. Browsers
In a perfect world everyone would use the same browser and your website would look the same on everyone’s screen but unfortunately this is not the case. Every browser has its own specific functions and styles and learning to make you code cooperate with both can present some serious problems.
The three you really need to concern yourself with are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. These make up a good 95% of the browser market at the very least and while there are some additional popular browser I would not recommend you spend time optimising code for the rest.
The only thing you can do is do your best and stay away from browser specific functions, you’ll never make someone get a new browser.
8. Pop Ups
Something that is very important to remember is that the user should be in control of their browser and desktop. Do not place unnecessary pop ups and window opening links everywhere and the user will feel they have lost control of the site, become annoyed and close the windows.
There are some exceptions to using the (_blank) attribute but I would steer clear whenever possible.
9. Text Layout
Text is part of your design to and positioning it correctly on the page is very important. Try to get all the copy you need as early in the design process as possible. This means you will be able to design around the copy instead of trying to cram it into smaller spaces because someone wrote twice as much copy as they said they were going to.
Use the right alignment for the right situation, remember 99% of people will prefer left align and while justified look aesthetically better it can be very difficult to read in longer bouts.
10. Site Search
In this day and age finding what you want on a website in paramount. After you have followed the first tip on navigation you should also provide a search bar on your site so that a visitor who cannot immediately see what they are looking for can search. Many internet studies have seen the success of these smaller additions to your site and free ones are available from Google and many other SE operators.
Conclusion
Taking these 10 tips into account will help you design a more user-friendly and successful website, sometime it may seem like they are hindering your grand design but failing to take notice may result in your site being a very pretty stop sign for browsers. Just because you can find your way around your Flash menu system that takes 6 minutes to load doesn’t mean Mrs Smith who needs the product can. Top Tips for Web Design by Frank Woodford
MySpace Website Traffic Generation: Drive Massive Traffic Using MySpace
One of the most popular social networking site on the web is MySpace.
MySpace is a place that attracts massive traffic from search engines and repeat traffic from millions of visitors from their member base.
If you are not trying to direct some traffic to your website using MySpace you are leaving huge piles of targeted website traffic right on the table.
Having millions of members makes it an excellent place for us to focus to drive massive website traffic.
Here are 5 killer tactics to drive traffic using myspace...
1. Customize your MySpace page.
Design your own page, this will help you to bring out your personality. Make it beneficial by including your video, audio, graphics and content that will be valued by the visitors in your niche.
To drive traffic to your site donot forget to embed your websites url out there.
2. MySpace Blog.
Make sure to create your myspace blog.
Blog with myspace, this will help you to create your credibility as an expert in your niche.
Post your articles and inlude your website link out there. This will make sure that you provide valuable information to your visitors and in turn this will also help to boost your website traffic. This will make sure that members consider you as an expert in your niche and this will boost your credibility and they will start trusting you.
3. Classified Ad Section.
Drive traffic using the classified ad section of your myspace.
Make sure that your ads in the classified ads section are keyword rich.
This will be useful in increasing your click through rates.
4. Increase Your Network.
Constantly keep looking for members who might be interested in your niche.
Invite them and make sure that you make them your friends.
Ask them their needs and wants. Help them to solve their problems. And then strategically introduce themt to your products and services.
5. Keep Your Profile Updated.
Give them new valuable information on your page every time.
Post new informative articles, photos or just keep updating your blog with valuable keyword riche content. MySpace Website Traffic Generation Drive Massive Traffic Using MySpace by Murtuza Abbas
Sunday, August 3, 2008
6 Secret Traffic Strategies
Building a website is not all you need to do. Once you have a site you need to know how to drive traffic to the site. The following are 6 traffic strategies that you can apply to immediately drive targeted traffic to your website. Learn how to transform your site quickly and easily.
The key to succeeding in any internet related business is traffic. So then, how do you get visitors to flow to your site? Driving customers, clients, or readers to make your website a place that they regularly visit is really not hard to do. Driving traffic does not just happen on its own. You need to plan and execute the plan to make it happen.
1. Consider visiting other sites that are similar to yours. Visit the blog or forum of these sites and post a message with a back link to your site. A back link is simply the URL (address) or your site. Needless to say you need to put the back link in the context of a short sentence or message. If the site allows you to have a signature, then add a link to your site in your signature.
2. Create a blog with a RSS feed that notifies subscribers whenever you have updated information. Then create new content in your blog regularly. You will find that others will begin to link to you from their own pages and list you as a valuable source of information.
3. Start with Free traffic techniques and then graduate to paid traffic. Makes sense? Common sense will make you successful sooner! Traffic exchanges can quickly bring in a lot of traffic. There are plenty of good free traffic resources. Consider using Traffic Swarm. Open a free account or sign up as a pro. I started with a free account then graduated to pro. Pro will allow you to gain more points sooner and benefit from your downline.
4. SEO mean Search Engine Optimization and is one of the best things you can do for your business. SEO will help you generate targeted traffic for your website. Targeted traffic means that the people that visit your website will actually be looking for what you have to offer! Techniques like keyword density within paragraphs as well as keyword placement within the title of the webpage, Meta tags and the bolding, underline and italicizing of keywords within the webpage are a few of the SEO techniques that will impact traffic to your site. You may learn more about this at enlightenedsource.org
5. Use safe linking practices. Set up linking arrangements that appear natural. You only want to link to site related to your keywords and target market. Just having links is not what you want to do. In fact you will be penalized for just having links. It is not the number of links that matter. What matters is if the sites you link to be related to your site and that those site you link to have a rank of 3 or higher.
6. Good site content is very important. Search engines love content, and so do your visitors! Fresh content will keep your visitors coming back to your website at their own will and you’ll naturally get higher results at search engines
The key to succeeding in any internet related business is traffic. So then, how do you get visitors to flow to your site? Driving customers, clients, or readers to make your website a place that they regularly visit is really not hard to do. Driving traffic does not just happen on its own. You need to plan and execute the plan to make it happen.
1. Consider visiting other sites that are similar to yours. Visit the blog or forum of these sites and post a message with a back link to your site. A back link is simply the URL (address) or your site. Needless to say you need to put the back link in the context of a short sentence or message. If the site allows you to have a signature, then add a link to your site in your signature.
2. Create a blog with a RSS feed that notifies subscribers whenever you have updated information. Then create new content in your blog regularly. You will find that others will begin to link to you from their own pages and list you as a valuable source of information.
3. Start with Free traffic techniques and then graduate to paid traffic. Makes sense? Common sense will make you successful sooner! Traffic exchanges can quickly bring in a lot of traffic. There are plenty of good free traffic resources. Consider using Traffic Swarm. Open a free account or sign up as a pro. I started with a free account then graduated to pro. Pro will allow you to gain more points sooner and benefit from your downline.
4. SEO mean Search Engine Optimization and is one of the best things you can do for your business. SEO will help you generate targeted traffic for your website. Targeted traffic means that the people that visit your website will actually be looking for what you have to offer! Techniques like keyword density within paragraphs as well as keyword placement within the title of the webpage, Meta tags and the bolding, underline and italicizing of keywords within the webpage are a few of the SEO techniques that will impact traffic to your site. You may learn more about this at enlightenedsource.org
5. Use safe linking practices. Set up linking arrangements that appear natural. You only want to link to site related to your keywords and target market. Just having links is not what you want to do. In fact you will be penalized for just having links. It is not the number of links that matter. What matters is if the sites you link to be related to your site and that those site you link to have a rank of 3 or higher.
6. Good site content is very important. Search engines love content, and so do your visitors! Fresh content will keep your visitors coming back to your website at their own will and you’ll naturally get higher results at search engines
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