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What SEOs Expect From Their Clients

By Kalena Jordan 24 March 2003 I've seen a lot of articles around lately about how to pick and choose a search engine optimization company. That's fine and dandy, but it often works the other way around in this industry. The most successful SEOs pick and choose their own clients. Good SEOs can. . .

Strategic RSS Positioning...How to Hotwire Your Site to Google!

There's no denying it, the Internet has changed. The change was so subtle most people missed it. It was no great momentous event, just a slight sideways flex in how information is exchanged on the web. However, this slight shift has significant ramifications for anyone trying to achieve top ranki. . .

How to Control Search Engine Robots

How to Control Search Engine RobotsWouldn't it be nice to be able to leave some code in your web site to tell the search engine spider crawlers to make your site number one? Unfortunately a robots.txt file or robots meta tag won't do that, but they can help the crawlers to index your site better . . .

Frames and Search Engines

Frames and Search Enginesr /By Sumantra Royr /r /When it comes to framed sites and the effect that the use of frames by a site has on its search engine ranking, there are two schools of thought. Some people say that framed sites, if done properly, have no problems in getting good rankings in the . . .

The 'Matrix' Help For Keyphrase Analysis

Keyword analysis is a major part of search engine marketing.Choose the right key phrase,check the market and calculate the ROI in terms of time and money.I am just trying to redefine "The Boston Matrix" in terms ofkeypharse analysis, hoping that it will help in your investments.There are three st. . .

You are Being Lied About Reciprocal Links!

© 2004 Vishal P. RaoExchanging links has been an important part of generatingtraffic since the concept of Internet marketing was firstestablished, but at least 90% of people looking to tradelinks don't understand the real benefits and, therefore,fail to make the most of them.The vast majority of . . .

Sitemaps 101 - Back To SEO School

Sitemaps are without doubt one of the most often ignored and undervalued aspects of search engine optimization. You've probably spent a huge amount of time working on pages of original content, keyword density and getting incoming links but never once spared a thought for a sitemap for your new. . .

The Value of Brainstorming

by Christine Churchill Conducting a good keyword analysis is the first step in an effective search engine marketing campaign. If you don't chose good keywords, all efforts to boost your ranking will be wasted. And the very first step within your keyword analysis is brainstorming. Before you begin. . .

Basic SEO Article - Focusing on Quick Optimization techniques for the newbie

Basic On-Page SEOOn-page optimization is often ignored by the top sites on Google - after all, who cares about a few percentage points when you can literally buy your way to the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) with a bucket-load of inbound links? Today I’ll discuss a bit about why, . . .

Google Patent Application – Highlights

The recent patent application filed by Google details numerous items the search engine uses to rank web pages. The specific application is summarized as: “A method for scoring a document, comprising: identifying a document; obtaining one or more types of history data associated with the document;. . .

Do Not Ever Link to a Site Without Doing This First!

Links are a crucial part of attaining high search rankings, but you must be very careful about to whom you link. I'm going to help you develop a simple link strategy for your website that will help you decide which sites to link to so you're making your way up the search engine rankings and not . . .

How To Shop For A Search Engine Friendly

So you've finally realized that the best shopping cart solution,currently being utilized by your website doesn't answer animportant question. How to attract the masses searching forrelated products on Google to your store?The era for first generation of shopping carts is almost over.Where the bas. . .

How Google Indexes Content From Your Web Directory

In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the way Google indexes content from web directories. Excluding your template, the most important line of code is the first title you add to your main body. / / Search through Google and see for yourself! / / Try searching for "something". . .

Cache in the Bank: Understanding Google's Advanced Operators

Cache in the Bank: Understanding Google's Advanced Operators Copyright 2005 Log Cabin RusticsIf you would like to know when your site was last indexedby Google, you can find out easily by using the Googlecache command. By typing “cache:www.logcabinrustics.com”into the Google search engine, I le. . .

Paying for Inclusion in Directories and Search Engines

Paying for Inclusion in Directories and Search Enginesby Jill Whalen (The Web Whiz)Re-written May 1, 2002It seems that everywhere we turn these days, we are constantly hearing the phrases pay-per-inclusion (PPI) and pay-per-click (PPC). There are now a number of ways that the search engines and d. . .

ExactSeek Explained (Part 1 - Revised)

ExactSeek Explained (Part 1 - Revised)By Mel Strocen (c) 2005This article takes an in-depth look at some of the innovations introduced at ExactSeek.com (http://www.exactseek.com), including, most recently, the implementation of a unique paid inclusion program that offers webmasters unprecedented . . .

Search Engine Optimization for Beginners

Copyright © 2005 Jack Humphrey If you are confused about terms like "search engine optimization" or having a "search engine friendly" site, then listen up! I am here to help. Depending on how long you have had, or considered having, a website online, you have heard terms thrown around like the ab. . .

Why Google Indexing requires a complex blend of skills

If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. Getting a company’s name and products, or services, onto the first page of a genuine Google search isn’t a trivial piece of work. In fact, there are four distinct skills that a search engine optimiser needs to possess. Most people possess one or may. . .

Why You Need Outbound Links

Just in case you've forgotten, an outbound link is a url that you have on your site that points to another website.In today's Google PR obsessed Internet world, everyone is completely focusing on getting in bound links to your site. While you should always be on a mission to get more sites to lin. . .

Google News - Just another article announcer?

Google News - Just another article announcer? By: Martin Lemieux - July 9th, 2005 In Google's recent battle towards becoming an international news center, I've come to notice that the results delivered from Google News seems like nothing more than the articles we publish everyday. So I ask, doe. . .

When you get an e-mail from SEO Company

When you get an e-mail from SEO Company with content similar to this:"We submit your site on X00.000 search engines and directories…"Stay far away from companies which offer you to submit your site on thousands of directories and search engines. Why? What they do is: they use submission software . . .

LookSmart Not Small Business Friendly

LookSmart Not Small Business Friendly There is a firestorm of negative press regarding LookSmart's recent marketing stumbles via numerous discussion groups, including two of the oldest and most influential, I-Search and I-Advertising Digests. Most of the critiques center on LookSmart's inability. . .

7 Steps to success

7 Steps to successBy Clare LawrenceEvery webmaster wants a successful site, if you follow this step by step guide you’ll do well.Step 1Search engines such as Google return web pages, based on keyword or keyphrase searches. Your first step therefore is to decide which keywords you want to target.. . .

Buzzwords vs Effective SEO Keywords

Ever see a website that seems to speak a foreign language...in English? We encounter many SEO client websites that rely on buzzwords in the page copy to get the word out about their product. The problem lies with visitors who may not be familiar with those terms. This means optimizing with buzzwo. . .

A Beginners Guide to Robots.txt

Search engines use robots to crawl or spider web pages on the web, these robots or crawlers are nothing else but special programs written for reading web page information including text, links, graphics, headings etc. These crawlers or robots tend to follow a special specification file known as t. . .

Why SEMPO does Not Work

Why SEMPO does Not Work29 July 2004What is SEMPO?SEMPO is the search engine marketing professionals organization. What is the Goal of SEMPO?"SEMPO is a non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide."The Problem with Se. . .

How to Use Your Google API Key as Your Secret Weapon

Copyright © 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul Just over a year ago, Google.com began to provide access to its' web search API to programmers and developers. This provided them with a way to utilize the optimum resources of Google's database of listings. At first, there were few practical applications that wo. . .

Straight Talk on Search Engine Optimization

"Straight Talk on Search Engine Optimization"The complete article including helpful links can also be found at GetYouPaid.com*This article contains no advertising. Any links are to useful, non-affiliated websites or GetYouPaid.com.To get your website listed well in the major search engines, you h. . .

How to Increase Web Site Visitors For Relevant Terms

Copyright © 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul Completely by accident and through no effort of my own, besides the effort to get my site spidered by Yahoo's Slurp Search Engine Spider and Google's Googlebot Search Engine spider, I've seen an accidental increase in the visitors to my web site. Suddenly, I was . . .

Page optimisation guidelines

Beside working on bringing the traffic to your website, you will also need to do some on page optimisation. In this article you will find information about the usage of title, meta, h1 tags, and after reading it you should get much cleared picture about their importance, allowing you to use their. . .

Free Search Engine Advertising: 10 Secret Ways To Indirectly Race To The Top Of Search ...

Do you have a website that has little or no rankings inthe major Search Engines: Yahoo. Msn, Aol, Netscape,Alltheweb and Google?Are you making little or no sales because you’re gettinglittle or no traffics?Welcome to the club.You’re not alone. There are about 500 millions websites trying to get l. . .

Link Popularity - Your Key to a Page #1 Listing

Link Popularity - Your Key to a Page #1 Listing by Michael Southon Last week I was doing a search in Google under'ezine advertising' and was amazed to find one of myown websites on the first page of results (position #4out of 271,000).So then I went to Yahoo and got another shock - there itwas ag. . .

Google has an Achilles Heal - Will their competitors notice?

Even though Google Revenues continue to soar, the hidden problem that may stifle growth and may even allow Yahoo or MSN to overtake the paid search market in the future lies in two critical phrases: Customer Support, and Customer Training Approximately 40% of the small businesses we have surveyed. . .

Search Engine Optimization and the Bottom-Line

Search Engine Optimization and the Bottom-Lineby Jill Whalen (The Web Whiz)A question on many Webmaster's minds these days is whether or not they should bother with optimizing their site to rank high in the search engines. We've discussed this in previous articles, and it always seemed to come do. . .

SEO Success: Step One is Good Web Design

Creating a well-designed website is the first step in your internet marketing strategy. Once the website has been created and optimized, there are further techniques to employ that will drive traffic to your website for successful, long-term results. You wouldn't consider opening a retail store i. . .

Google Adwords

Google AdwordsClare Lawrence 24th May 2004Buy Text adverts linked to your keywords using Google’s Adwords programme.Unlike many of the leading search engines, Google has kept away from charging web site owners for a listing. Instead it offers a pay per click services known as Google Adwords, whi. . .

SEO: The True Cost of Doing It Wrong

There is much debate in the general public and in the search engine optimization community as to what amount companies should pay for search engine optimization expertise.* Prices are all over the board, and can be influenced by an SEO firm’s size, reputation (or lack thereof), resources investe. . .

A Back Road Loophole For Getting a Top Google rank

While everybody wants their site to receive a top 10 ranking in Google, it's just not possible for everyone. And this is especially true if you've got a brand new site. New sites that have been crawled by the Googlebot are sometimes given a decent ranking in Google for a few days before they plun. . .

The Five Ways You Should Be Using Keywords

We have all read lots of articles on how to gather keywords, how to compile a huge keyword list, how to make these keywords relevant to our web site. But exactly what do we do with all these keywords once we have them?Knowing where and how you can use your keywords will greatly improve the effici. . .

SEO Success - Step Two is Attracting Search Engine Attention

Once the website has been created and published, many new website owners think that the web development project is finished. But in reality, the real work is just beginning. In order to create a money-making site, traffic must be generated and driven to the website. There are several effective me. . .

Search engine toolbar guide

By David CallanSearch engines, do you use them? Of course you do! Most if not all internet users use them at some stage or another, and why not, they are very easy to use, simply go to the address of the engine be it Google.com, Alltheweb.com or any other engine and enter keywords relating to wha. . .

Submitting to the Spidering Search Engines

Submitting to the Spidering Search Enginesby Jill Whalen (The Web Whiz)Written April 2001 - Updated March 2002I'm often asked how often one should submit or resubmit their site to the spidering search engines. Many people believe they should submit their site on a periodic basis to keep their sit. . .

How to get Visitors to your Website

Many small businesses have a web designer create their site for them and put it on the Internet, and they think that they are done, that the site is complete and all the hard work is done. This couldn't be further from the truth.Your site isn't 'complete' until you have customers happily giving y. . .

Get High Rankings with Other Peoples Popularity

Copyright © 2005 Jack Humphrey There are many "offsite" promotion tactics that work well to get high rankings. But nothing works better in my experience than publishing and syndicating information pieces or articles. Now before you run off thinking you've read about the following tactic before, h. . .

Good Content: The Key To Search Engine Ranking

What drives visitors to your website and keeps them there? Good content. Content is KeyGood content is key to website promotion success. All the bells and whistles in the world will not hold an audience like compelling information. Ask yourself: Why would a visitor stay at my website? What are th. . .

How I reached #1 in Yahoo!

r / By accident, no all that reading and studying r /statistics finally paid off. I started out by reading articles from people with r /opposing views and trying to figure out who was wrong and who was right. To r /find the right person to listen to I didn’t only look at his educati. . .

Non-Reciprocal Link Building

Non-Reciprocal Link Building For Higher Search Engine Positioning /By Dave Davies, Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc. /It's no SEO secret that inbound links to your site are an important part of any complete search engine positioning strategy. You've undoubtedly received numerous emails t. . .

10 Easy Steps to a User Friendly Website

By Kalena Jordan 18 November 2003 As a busy search engine optimization consultant, I don't have a lot of time to manage my website. But recently I learnt the hard way about the fickle nature of website visitors and the damage that having a user- unfriendly site can do to a business. Now I give. . .

Gaining Link Popularity Techniques

Link popularity is very important theses days for all websites since most major search engines look at link popularity has a tool for ranking your site in there search results as well as the quality of your websites content keyword wise. Link popularity is a great way to gaining targeted visitors. . .

The Fatal Attraction of Online Marketers

By David Leonhardt Suppose you were offered 263 links coming into your website from 263 other websites all in one fell swoop. Everybody knows that the more inbound links you have, the higher you will rise in the search engine rankings. Suppose further that these were real links from real websites. . .