Watch
below
as Peter demonstrates
version 5.11
of Evo 2 and the software’s wizard function. |
You
only need
to create these accounts just ONCE.
Once they are created EVO II
uses them to spread
your content all over the internet providing you
a
TON of very powerful backlinks, that will give
you rankings like
you’ve never seen before! |
best search engine optimization
Resources
to help
you
with all
of your Seo Needs Below
!!
Best Search Engine
Optimization
best search engine
optimization
web
site search engine optimization
On EVO II software 1. You have the ability to create all accounts on
the web 2 sites in the software. e.g for
rss, article dirs, social bookmarking sites, video sites.
www.bruteforceseoevolution.com |
Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide
Welcome to Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. ... Search engine optimization is about putting your site's best foot forward when ...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf |
Best Search Engine Optimization
Do your research first to make sure you get the best search engine optimization for your web site
http://www.bestsearchengineoptimization.com/index.php?Query=2USvGqi1seSBfZGUirixkr0yrgB%2FAjCxLpmMLz8xEn1g%2FDA1NLUyNXhkepZC%2Bw%3D%3D |
Emotional Motivators in Landing Page Optimization - Search ...
Visitors will arrive at your Web site with their own needs, perspectives, and emotions. ... Motivators in Landing Page Optimization. By Tim Ash, Search Engine Watch, Dec 23, 2009 ...
http://searchenginewatch.com/3635911?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sew+(Search+Engine+Watch) |
Guaranteed Search Engine Optimization Service India
We offer guaranteed search engine optimization and pay per click management service. ... Search Engine Optimization Service. Free traffic from organic search results is the best ...
http://www.searchengineoptimizationpromotion.com/index.html |
Google: World's Best Search Engine?
Google: World's Best Search Engine? ... unaware of the best and the fastest search engine, Google. It's incredibly fast, showing search results with detailed information ...
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Google-Worlds-Best-Search-Engine/ |
How to Get Listed in Google, Yahoo and MSN
Tips on how to list, monitor, and improve your position in the major search engines. ... This is often called SEO or search engine optimization. To this day, the marjority of my ...
http://www.2createawebsite.com/traffic/search-engine-traffic.html |
NOTE: I list these places because I
thought that they would be good references.
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AFFILIATE
Breaking
News
EVO
II SOFTWARE
$PRICING$ has Been SET! |
THE
FIRST OPTION IS:
PAY
Full Price - $157 per month
With
this option, you can sign up for a free trial of BFSEO Evo II for 7
days, and then
continue
at $157 per month if you are happy with what the software can do.
THE
SECOND OPTION IS:
Customers
can choose the Upsell Offer of Two Full
Years
at only $997... Saving you an Incredible $2,771.00
THAT
BREAKS DOWN TO $41.54 per month
When
you sign up for Evo II here, instead of
paying
a monthly fee,
or
You
can choose the Option of One Full Year at only $797 - Saving
you
$1,087.00
THAT
BREAKS DOWN TO $67.00 per month
If
you have the money on hand, (sometimes you do and sometimes you don't)
then get it out of the way and get the 2 year subscription and not have
to pay for another two years. Upgrades are free and Pete gives you
everything. The best show in town.
So
here is the deal
I'd
say try it out for a while and at least sign up for the 7 day free
trial and then make your decision.
Now
if you are a veteran and you have some cash on hand, then I'd say
initially
just join for $1.00 and then get two years all in one shot
before the price goes up.
If
you have been following Pete from the old WSO days then you know he has
always launched his products with a $1.00 affordable trial. This is the
first time that he has offered such power in a software product for
free, which sounds even better than the old $1.00 days. Picture all of
his software and
experience going into one fully automatic product. If you want you
can set the software up on your computer and let it work totally
automated. This is not a Beta test software. This is not a test
software I
mean. This software is REAL And Extremely Powerful with your name on
it.
It is extremely massive.
Pete
and myself say that once you join,you will
have
an opportunity to take the year's subscription which was $997 or $797,
at a later time.
So
either way it's easy on you and your pocket and it works into your
schedule
if you later change your mind.
About
Brute force seo EVO II
Going
overseas with my family now for 2 weeks for a nice break, while Im away
I
thought I'd let everyone know about our latest generation Brute force
seo
EVOLUTION
II
see
below
Firstly
we threw out the old design..
now
its a streamlin and very simple operation.
1.
ability to create all accounts on the web 2 sites in the software. e.g
for
rss,
article dirs, social bookmarking sites, video sites.
Click
on the accounts button, the software goes out and creates an account on
each
of
these sites, auto answers the confirmation emails. then presents you
with a
list
of account URL's and RSS URL's for all accounts creat. These account
names
are
all enter into the settings of the software. So the software is then
ready to use
very
easily. There is also the option to import/export sav account groups.
This
is very useful for those customers who use the software to promote other
companies
websites. with the ability to now create new accounts instantly to suit
new
seo clients as they come on board for our customers.
2.
New Wizard style operation.
Once
accounts are creat, the software is ready to use. Click on the wizard
button,
enter the site you are promoting, the main keyword phrase you want
it
to rank for, its relat semantic keyword phrases or tags, (explain
in the PDF)
this
sites RSS fe. a youtube video , click next, add new articles to
promote
your
site, or let the software find them for you, or add PLR articles and use
the
D.A.R.E Feature to make them unique in the eyes of google ,
Click
Next button in the Wizard.
now
the fun part starts, check the boxe's beside the web 2 platforms
you
wish to create new sites on bas on your article content.
or
by default it is Select ALL… (from approx 10)
Then
check the boxes beside the High Page Rank Sites where
you
want your links to appear. This defaults to "All" from currently
60,
though this will be growing in size each month.
click
on next, and the software starts, its going out to create your new sites
on
the web 2 properties , strategically linking these sites together,
creating
a
content relat linking group, which in and of itself will rank well in
the
search
engines while at the same time providing you very strong backlinks
with
semantically relat links pointing back to your money site.
Once
these new sites are creat, their RSS fe, plus your money sites
RSS
Fe, are distribut to the many RSS Aggregators in our software, these
RSS
aggregators display the contents of your money sites fe and the new
content
relat group of web 2 properties fes on their own websites, giving
"Your"
new web 2 content group of properties a lot of links from authority
websites
helping
them and your money site to index and rank very well in google.
If
you have suppli new articles in the software, the software then goes
out
and publishes these articles to the article directories, giving your
money
site
even more link juice.
The
software then goes out and places links to your money sites on the
Social
bookmarking sites in the software giving your money site even
more
link love.
Once
this is complet, the software then goes out and places links
to
your money sites and different variations of your main keyword
phrase
though semantically relat to over 60 very High page Rank
websites.
During
the above, to submit this content, most of these sites require
that
you enter a capture , a series of numbers and letters to prove
that
you are human, this is a very good system to prove that, though
with
EVO II the software can figure out these letters and numbers suppli
by
these sites, and will do this automatically for you. So you can leave
the
computer and let the software do its job entirely in the background.
Additionally,
these sites when creating new accounts require that you
click
on a confirmation email sent to you to once again proove your
authenticity
, the New EVO II also takes care of this for you. confirming
these
emails silently in the background. once again, so you do not have
to
and can focus on other important duties, while the software does
your
SEO work for you in the background.
So
its really as easy as 1, 2 ,3 using the new EVO II wizard, takes
any
thinking out of the equation, just enter your sites data and
proce
through the wizard, and sit back in amazement as the
software
goes out and performs its magic, you can view this
in
the preview window, or shrink it down. watching the software
figure
out the captures present by these sites is a thing
of
beauty. No longer having to confirm a LOT of emails sent
from
the massive amount of powerful sites in this software is
just
a dream , If you would like the Wizard to do in a few hours
totally
in the background, what it would take you over 1 week
to
organise by hand, then this software is for you. If you have
SEO
clients or looking to start your own SEO business, remember
thats
1 week of work you can bill out at. and let the software
do
it for you seemlessly in the background. OR, start the
Wizard,
charge out a week of your time, then start another
wizard
and have up to 3 running simultaneously in the back
ground.
Does
it work in the search engines?
[insert
images from LL sales page]
These
massive results are achiev with only 1 module
in
this pretty amazing software.
It
gets better, this is just the Grunt work of the software,
one
you become a full member with access to the
SEO
Fight Club Forum, you learn the strategies to utilise
these
sites in such a way, that makes your life in the
search
engines and thus your income from them
get
better and better over time. Enjoying the same
benefits
my existing long term loyal customers benefit
from
right now. With over 400 existing members from the
original
release over 12 months ago, we must be, as a group
doing
something very right. ( I might add the affiliates who
help
me gain these initial members are loving the long
term
income generat by them also )
Brute
Force SEO is a living breathing entity that continues
to
grow from customer feback and changes in the
market
place. So you are assur of having the most
cutting
ge SEO Software on the market at all Times.
This
software is
Smart,
so you don't have to be, though
Flexible
enough for seo pros to use it with confidence.
Simple
enough so your Virtual Assistants can run it
for
you easily. (One licence per VA.)
With
all this automation suppli by the new EVO II
its
as close as we can get to Auto everything!!
Niche
research with our new and improv Gold Digger
niche
research assistant, in one place shows
you
your search volume per month as suppli
by
google itself and the search engine competition for these terms
conveniently
list directly beside it, this also is a work
in
progress largely driven by our members and my
developer
who you can speak with in the forum.
Stuck
on what niches to target? the Gold Digger supplies
many
product sites with their products rank by most
popular
which gives you an insight to what people
are
"buying" right now
|
A
PRIMER ON
SEO
A Search Engine Optimization Primer describes for the layman the
various methods and requirements to make a Web site “search
engine friendly.”
What is the point in spending time and money building a Web site if no
one can find it doing a simple search using Google, Yahoo!, MSN, or any
number of other search engines?
With Internet searches quickly replacing traditional methods of
locating products and services (like the Yellow Pages), companies today
have to ensure that their Web store front is as visible as possible to
potential customers or users.
Read on to find out how you can make sure that your Web site is
optimized for today’s search engines!
A Definition
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a complex topic with a fairly
simple definition: SEO is the science and art of designing a Web site
and its content in such a way as to give each Web site page the best
chance of being listed and highly ranked by search engines. I describe
it as both a science and an art.
The Science of SEO
Like a science, specific, known design techniques can be used (or not)
by Web designers to improve a search engine’s ability to
“read” the content of a Web site and its
pages. Wonderful and complex Web sites can easily be created
without using any SEO techniques, or by using techniques that directly
interfere with a search engine’s ability to
“read” the content of a site. If you want to
determine whether your Web site has a fighting chance of being highly
listed by a search engine, you need to be aware of these known and
non-mysterious techniques.
The Art of SEO
Like an art, scientific techniques have to be employed in reference to
a Web site’s purpose, audience, message, aesthetics, and
contents. The “look and feel” of a Web site can be
critical, and a balance must sometimes be struck between the artistic
qualities of the Web site and its adherence to search engine
requirements. Many “artistic” design elements
actually interfere with or prohibit a search engine from reading a
site. For example, a popular design element used today, Flash movies,
is invisible to search engines. If your Web site is created with Flash,
you can forget about getting noticed by search engines for the simple
reason that Flash is not textual content, and search engines feed off
of content, not graphics, photographs, or Flash movies. It is important
to know that any words contained within a Flash move, photograph, or
graphic is invisible to search engines. Just because you can see words
displayed on your Web site doesn’t mean that a search engine
can.
The Flash movie that serves as my Web site’s banner provides
a good example of “invisible words.” Although the
site visitor sees the following in the banner,
GRDavis
Media Services
******
Web Site Development
Technical Writing
Sales and Marketing Collateral
the search engine sees none of these words. Why? Because the words are
actually part of a Flash movie. If you are to look at the underlying
Web page code, you will not find this particular collection of words;
you will only find a reference to the Flash movie that projects the
words on the Flash movie screen. It’s the projection of the
words that is visible to you and me. Since search engines cannot see
what movies, graphics or photographs contain, any words they contain
are invisible. This is an important lesson to learn and understand.
The Importance of Textual Content
Rich, pertinent, textual content is red meat to a search engine.
Period. If your Web site does not contain good, solid text describing
your products, services or offerings, then your hope of receiving a
natural high listing – for important search terms –
within the most important search engines is nil. Textual content is the
foundation upon which all other Web design techniques must build if you
want a good chance to naturally be listed high by search engines like
Google, Yahoo! or MSN. That is, unless you want to pay for page 1 or
page 2 listings through potentially expensive pay-per-click ads or
sponsorships.
Textual Content Defined
Let me be clear by what I mean by textual content. Textual content
means letters, words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs that can be
“read” by a search engine’s robot program
called a “spider.” It is the search
engine’s spider that “reads” your Web
pages. If the spider cannot see something, it doesn’t exist
as far as the search engine is concerned. Search engine
readable text may not be visible to you, but it is visible to search
engines if the text is included as part of the Web page’s
underlying code. More about that later.
Search engine spiders do not “see” what you see
when viewing a Web site. You may see pretty pictures, graphics, text,
movies, and animations. The spider may see – nothing!
– at least nothing that it can search and index.
Search engines see the special code behind the Web site, not what is
displayed in your browser window. To see what a search engine sees,
display your favorite Web site. Then, with your mouse, perform a
“right click” on the Web site page to pop
up a menu. If you are using Internet Explorer, look for “View
Source” on the menu and click on it (for Netscape, look for
“View Page Source”). (If you don’t see
“View Source” as one of the options in the menu,
then click again on another part of the Web site. Stay away from menus,
flash movies, graphics, photos and the like.) The resulting window
displays what the search engine sees, which, of course, looks like a
bunch of code to you and me.
How to Make Sure Textual Content Works for You
The best way to make sure textual content is usable by search engines
is to focus on the effective use of keywords or keyphrases within
well-written text. A keyword or phrase is any search engine readable
text that indicates the focus or topics covered by a Web
page. Keywords and phrases work best when they are repeated
several times in different ways on a page. For example, the
key-word “doo-hickie” can be repeated in several
different places within the underlying page code:
Domain name. Ideally, your Web site’s domain name should
contain your most important keyword. For example, if you are in the
business of selling doo-hickies, a great domain name would be
“www.doo-hickies.com.” Unfortunately, most keywords
are already employed in someone else’s domain name.
If possible, use your most critical keyword or phrase in your domain
name. If that is not possible, see URL names, below.
“Title” meta-tag. Ex.: “Doo-Hickies Are
Our Specialty at We-Sell-Stuff.com”
“Description” meta-tag. Ex.: “If
Doo-Hickies are your passion as they are ours, you will find a complete
selection of Doo-Hickies here. Contact us for more Doo-Hickie
information.”
“Keywords” meta-tag. Although Google pays little
notice to keywords in this meta-tag, Yahoo! and MSN use it to identify
keywords to index. Use variations of the keyword to represent different
ways someone may search for information about it. For
example: “Doo-Hickies, Doo-Hickie, Doo-Hicky, accessories,
testimonials”. However, keywords or phrases within this
meta-tag should also be present within the page’s searchable
text. Keywords within the meta-tag that are not actually present on the
page can serve to penalize the Web site’s listing.
URL names. Page URLs that contain a keyword or phrase are rated higher
than URLs that do not. If you cannot use a keyword in your domain name,
you can include it within the URL:
“http://www.we-sell-stuff.com/html/doo-hickies.html”
is rated higher for the key phrase “doo-hickies”
than is the URL
“http://www.we-sell-stuff.com/html/doohick.html.”
“ALT” tags (for graphics and photos).
Ex.: “We sell a variety of Doo-Hickies and
accessories.” “ALT” text is always
visible to the search engine, but is only displayed to the Web visitor
when the mouse is moved over the graphic or photo for which the
“ALT” text has been created.
“H1,” “H2,” etc. Search engines
pay more attention to text that is emphasized with heading, bold
“B,” underline “U,” or italic
“I” tags. An “H1” heading may
look like this on a Web page:
Doo-Hickies Accessories
The search engine will see something like this:
“H1”Doo-Hickies Accessories”/H1”
Links. Search engines rate text contained in links as more important
than regular text. For search engines, Example A below is more
important than Example B, even though both contain the same keywords
and point to the same Web page (the bolding serves to illustrate links:
Example A: Read about my Doo-Hickies testimonials.
Example B: Read about my Doo-Hickies testimonials here.
Real text, not graphical text. Real text is any text that can be read
by a search engine because the text is contained within the underlying
Web page code. Graphical text is any text that is contained within an
image, graphic or Flash movie, and is not actually present within the
underlying Web page code. Keywords that are contained within
well-written, contextually appropriate sentences, paragraphs or lists
are rewarded with higher ratings by search engines.
Page placement. Keywords place higher on the page rate higher than
keywords buried within the text further down on the page.
How to Make Sure Keywords DON’T Work for You
The use of keywords on a page should be natural but purposeful, not
forced or overdone. Your Web page should not resort to
“tricks” to put keywords in the Web
page’s search engine readable text. Here are some guaranteed
ways to get penalized, banned or ignored by search engines:
Stuff your page with keywords. On some Web pages you will see some
works repeated over and over and over, assuming that this will force a
search engine into giving the keyword a higher value. The opposite
actually happens. Search engines identify the over-use of keywords as
“spamming,” and can actually ban your Web site from
their index for this practice.
Use invisible keywords. Invisible keywords are invisible only to you,
not to the search engine. Web site creators can make words invisible by
simply making them the same color as the background. If the
underlying code for a Web page contains invisible keywords, it will be
penalized, or even banned, by search engines.
Use extremely tiny fonts. If your Web creator uses an extremely tiny
font (less than 6pt) size to hide key words, search engines may
penalize your site.
Use keywords in your <Keywords> meta-tag that
aren’t actually on the page. Search engines that still use
the <Keywords> meta-tag fully expect to find the keywords
within the readable text on the page itself. If they don’t,
they may penalize or ban your Web site.
Use graphical keywords. Graphical keywords are words contained within a
graphic, photograph or Flash movie. They may look good to you, but
search engines take no notice of them.
Other Considerations to Improve Search Engine Listings
Although “content is king” when it comes to search
engine optimization, Web site builders can employ other techniques to
improve search engine listings. Here is a sampling of things that can
be done or should be avoided:
Do These Things
Robots.txt. Include this file in your root directory. It can contain
instructions for search engine robots regarding which directories and
files it should spider.
Sitemaps. Create a Sitemap. A Sitemap.html page can be created that
contains links to each Web page that needs to be spidered. If a link is
created on the Home page to the Sitemap.html page, then the spider will
follow the link to the Sitemap.html page where it will, in turn, follow
all the links on the Sitemap.html page. This helps search engine
spiders know which Web pages to index.
Google Sitemap and Validation file. Create a Google Sitemap.xml file
and validation file. These files are also located in the root
directory. Google enables you to create a special Sitemap that is
particular to Google robots. The Sitemap.xml file requires a specific
Google format to work, and forces Google to spider all the Web pages
contained in the Sitemap.xml file. For this to work, Google also
requires a validation file to be created.
Info.txt File. Create this file and place it in your Web
site’s root directory. Some search engines use an info.txt
file that contains specially formatted information about the Web site,
including the site URL, site name and descriptive text.
Links from “Like” Sites. Google especially values
links from other like, quality sites that already have a high page rank
within Google. For example if your company has partners or customers
that are willing to put a link from their Web sites back to yours (with
appropriate keywords in the link text, of course), then Google will use
those links to improve your own Web site’s Google PageRank.
Local Listings in Search Engines. Google, Yahoo! and MSN enable you to
list your business information, including the Web site URL, in a
special section called Local Listings. Take advantage of this to help
increase your page rank and page listing.
The Use of Smaller Search Engines. Google, Yahoo! and MSN
aren’t the only important search engines. There are a number
of smaller search engines which can contribute to improved listings and
Google PageRank. Also, some smaller search engines are specialized
search engines that someone may reach through a Google search anyway,
so it would be good to be listed in such specialized search engines.
Article Submission Sites. Another way to increase your Web
site’s visibility and listing is to publish quality articles
and documents on the various document submission sites. These sites
will publish your (approved) document on their own site, and it will
usually be picked up by other sites or blogs looking for good content.
The result is that a number of links are created from those sites back
to your Web site. Below is a partial list of smaller search
engines and article submission links:
Smaller Search Engine Links
http://www.SearchWarp.com
SearchWarp.com
http://www.SitesOnDisplay.com
SitesOnDisplay.com
http://www.SearchRamp.com
SearchRamp.com
http://www.Mixcat.com
Mixcat.com
http://www.ExactSeek.com
ExactSeek.com
http://www.Aesop.com
Aesop.com
http://www.WebSquash.com
WebSquash.com
http://www.AllTheWebSites.org
AllTheWebSites.org
Article Submission Links (#=Google PageRank as of this writing)
http://www.ArticleCity.com
ArticleCity.com
(6)
http://www.zapcontent.com
ZapContent.com (6)
http://www.EzineArticles.com
EzineArticles.com (6)
http://www.Businessknowhow.com
BusinessKnowHow.com (6)
http://www.Buzzle.com
Buzzle.com (6)
http://www.Web-Source.net
Web-Source.net (6)
http://www.ArticleAlley.com
ArticleAlley.com (5)
http://www.Constant-Content.com
Constant-Content.com (5)
http://www.SearchWarp.com
SearchWarp.com (4)
http://www.ArticleDepot.co.uk
ArticleDepot.co.uk (0)
Avoid These Things
Dynamic Web Pages. Don’t use them unless you absolutely have
to. Search engines have difficulty reading dynamic pages, so any
keyword optimization you may have included on the page will be for
naught. Dynamic Web pages are created “on the fly”
as a visitor navigates from page to page. The content of dynamic Web
pages is usually stored in a database, and is not loaded for
presentation until the content is requested. Dynamic Web pages are
usually identified by punctuation characters in the page URL:
http://www.cpaforyou.com/Default.aspx?tabid=29.
In this case the dynamic Web page is identified by the
“?” in the last portion of the URL. Another obvious
disadvantage to dynamic Web pages is the inability to use a keyword in
the page name and URL. Dynamic pages can make Web site maintenance
easier but it may mean forsaking a search engine-visible Web site.
Frames. Again, don’t use them unless you have a compelling
need to do so. Any content contained within a Web page’s
Content frame is often invisible to search engines. Frames involve one
Web page file (the Master frame) loading content from some other Web
file into another frame (the Content frame). All the search engine sees
is what is contained in the Master frame, which is usually just the
meta-tags, a banner file name, and navigation elements. Any of the
stuff in the Content frame isn’t seen because it’s
not really part of the Master frame and its underlying code; the
content file is just referenced by the Master frame. By the bye, any
keyword or SEO work you’ve done goes to waste.
Broken Links. Make sure that all links on your Web pages work properly.
Search engines do not like broken links. A broken link is simply a link
that displays a “Page Not Available” or some other
such message. Your listing rank will be lowered if search engine
spiders find broken links on your page.
Link Farms. Do not use link farms or link sharing schemes. Search
engines very much value links from like-site to like-site; they do not
like links from unrelated site to unrelated site. Your listing rank may
be lowered if your Web site is part of a link farm. Here’s
what Google says:
Linking schemes will often do a site more harm than good. Many sites
that advertise link-sharing programs not only offer little value, but
will distribute your email address without your permission, resulting
in an increased volume of unwanted mail.
The Aesthetics of Search Engine Optimization
Do Search Engines care about, reward or penalize the visual or
aesthetic appeal of your Web site? In a word, No. Ugly Web sites can be
ranked as high or higher as visually appealing or highly creative Web
sites. In fact, the design techniques, tools, utilities, components,
and gimmicks many visually stunning Web sites use actually often
prevent those Web sites from being effectively spidered, indexed or
listed. So how much attention should you give to your Web
site’s visual appeal? It depends. If your Web site
illustrates your artistic capabilities, such as for an artist,
musician, or photographer, then you should make sure that your site is
highly aesthetic, and you will likely have to make some compromises
between aesthetics and search engine optimization. If your Web site is
an e-commerce Web site, then it can actually be quite ugly and still be
effective both in regards to search engine optimization and user
interaction. Most of us, I think, just want a good looking, appealing
Web site that search engines like, too.
Claims of Which to Be Wary
Some search engine optimization companies will make strong claims
regarding their ability to get your Web site a high listing. For
example, they may claim, “We Get Your Website to Page
One’. Here’s what Google says:
No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.
Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special
relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google.
There is no priority submit for Google.
Some SEOs may try to sell you the ability to type keywords directly
into the browser address bar.
Most such proposals require users to install extra software, and very
few users do so. Evaluate such proposals with extreme care and be
skeptical about the self-reported number of users who have downloaded
the required applications.
Keep in mind that millions of Web sites exist, and for any particular
search term tens of thousands of Web sites may be listed. Most search
engines only display 10 listings per page, so a guarantee of your
site’s naturally being in the top 10 or 20 listings for an
important search term cannot be made. What if the companies already
listed in the top 20 paid an SEO company to guarantee a top 20
placement? Where would that leave you? Having said that, all is not
lost. For example, an Arlington, Texas-based accounting firm may not be
able to appear in the top 20 listings for the search term
“accounting firm,” but it may have a good shot at
appearing in the top ten for the search term “Texas
accounting firm,” or “Arlington accounting
firm,” or “DFW accounting firm” or
“church accounting firm.”
Others may claim “Guaranteed Search Engine
Listings.” Understand that this is a claim that even the
search engines will not make without forking over some loot. No search
engine that I know of guarantees that your Web site will be listed
(except for those accepting payment for listing), so how can an SEO
company make that claim? They can’t. However, most Web sites
are eventually listed by search engines for free. The questions are:
How long does it take? Where in the listing does your Web site appear?
and For what search terms? It really doesn’t make any
difference if your Web site is listed number one for some obscure
search term that may rarely or never be used.
In my own experience, most search engines pick up a well-designed,
search-engine-optimized Web site within 72 hours of a free submission.
It may not be listed highly at first, but it is listed.
So What Can an SEO Company Really Claim to Do for You?
They can evaluate an existing Web site based on known SEO practices,
standards and techniques that are search-engine approved, and advise
you on how to improve your Web site’s SEO content.
They can create Web sites based on known SEO practices, standards and
techniques that are search-engine approved.
They can provide services for you like keyword research, code
optimization, domain registration, search engine submission, article
submission, Google Sitemap creation, etc.
They can help you create pay-per-click (PPC) adword campaigns that will
get you listed on the first, second or third page of listings for
specific search terms. Just keep in mind that for highly popular
keywords and phrases, even PPC can get quite expensive. For example, to
get Google Page 1 listing for the adword “technical
writing,” you could expect to pay $3.30 per click. Based on
an estimate of 23-29 clicks per day, that’s up to $100.00 a
day just for people clicking on your Google ad.
Summary Advice
Establish realistic expectations for your Web site, but commit yourself
to using good, solid, proven practices, techniques and standards to
improve your Web site’s search engine optimization
effectiveness.
If you already have a Web site, it is not too late to make it SEO
compliant. It may take some work, but the potential rewards could be
great, especially if you need to use your Web site as a lead generation
or sales tool.
Having said all of this, not every Web site needs to be optimized. Some
Web sites are meant primarily to serve existing customers, and are not
designed to be electronic brochures or sales tools. Or, the business is
structured such that sufficient new business comes from referrals
rather than via marketing or a Web presence. In such cases, owners
should count themselves lucky.
If your business could benefit from SEO, don’t put it off.
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If
you have just put up a website, you probably all ready have heard words
like: keywords, Google Adwords, Google Adsense, SEO. Adwords, Adsense,
SEO have one thing in common – Keywords. How important are
keywords? Very Important.
Google Adwords
Adwords, be it through Google, Miva, or any pay-per-click
search engines, you need keywords. With Adwords,
you create a three-line ad – 25 word title, with two 35 word
lines of ad copy – then you create your keywords. To get the
hits, you have to brainstorm for different keywords, that are different
but relevant to your target audience. Sound easy?
It’s not. It takes time, patience, constant
tweaking, and hoping that the product you are selling is not already
saturated -- to much competition, makes it a little more difficult for
the novice to make a profit.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is an advertising program created by Google, and which
is beginning to be explored by other search engines, such as Yahoo and
MSN – that allows you to put targeted ads on your
website. If someone clicks on the ad, you earn a small amount
of money. These ads are keyword driven and are relevant to your webpage
or website.
Sounds simple? Well, not really. There is more too
it than just putting an ad on your website and expecting someone to
click on it. What’s involved? Let’s see
– color, position, style, to name just a few.
SEO
Search engine optimization – this for me has been a
time-consuming process – since I am still learning.
SEO is keyword driven – the search engines pull the keywords
from your web copy – not, to my surprise,
from the meta keywords tag. Granted, I still use the meta
keywords tag, but maybe in the near future, I will slowly eliminate the
tag from my webpages…
The search engines do, however, pull information from Meta Description,
Meta Title, and the content of your webpages. Thus, content
does reign supreme.
Since content reigns supreme, each page should contain useful content
and most importantly, your most relevant keywords that you want to
emphasize. Secondly, it is best to try and base your keywords around a
central theme. I have found that when the keywords diverts away from
the main theme – that sends a red flag to search
engines. So, if you want to look at your keywords and the
density of the keywords on your webpage or webpages – You can
get a quick rundown at: http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
. It’s a free
tool, and very helpful.
To conclude, keywords is one of the main ingredients that leads people
to your website, product, service and/or ad. …AND, keywords
based around your quality content will help with your positioning on
your website. |
While
good SEO skills will get your page noticed by search engines by
themselves there other tricks to help increase their effectiveness.
Affiliate programs can be a good way to increase your
website’s own SEO attributes. There are different types of
affiliate programs. An older one would be the old banner concept which
predates pay-per-click. Google’s Adwords is a modern
incarnation of this where by people can profit from Google’s
pay-per-click business. Let’s look at some of these.
Not all affiliate programs have to be for profit. There are many people
who are just looking to get traffic to their sites by cooperating with
other sites. Just as a strong page on your website can help increase
the rankings of your other pages rankings on affiliates’
sites can do the same. Don’t confuse affiliates with guest
books or link pages. An affiliate is working with some kind of service
or business to make a profit so it is a function of commerce. This will
help with the search engines’ rankings. Search engines look
for link pages and don’t give them a very high ranking so
they wouldn’t help you very much. However since affiliate
pages are used for commerce they are going to have a much stronger
ranking. Affiliates can act as a team just like the pages on your site.
Another point to consider is that pages that are involved with
affiliate programs are going to be set up well in order to profit from
them. So this is analogous to strong members of a team making a
colossal team effort. Enough strong pages driving traffic to your site
is lie diverting a river to a drought stricken town.
Fortunately affiliate programs are easy to find so just keep in mind
what kind you would be willing to do for your site. Don’t
give yourself more work than you need to.
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This
article covers a much discussed topic in the SEO community. Also,
clients and often site owners come up with questions about what links
to get, and how to get them. Note that I will not consider reciprocal
links here, because of better alternatives, and because their
effectiveness only applies to a small number of sites, who use them
under 10% of their overall link ratio. I will review the main types you
want to get for your site.
The natural one-way links.
This one is solely based in good content and resources. This is the
safest method of link building available as far as search engines,
which look at the “intent” of links. But it is also
the slowest. If your site is new, then as part of its launch, submit it
to niche web directories. Start with a few highly trusted directories,
but do not have more than 10-15% of your overall links coming from
them. Don't overlook industry-specific directories that may be paid or
unpaid. These usually send highly qualified traffic and can be a real
bargain. Directories will get you site many natural one-way links, at a
natural speed of growth. This combination of type and speed is very
beneficial. Look for sites that would benefit from offering users your
content.
Linkbaiting, or link bait.
This one is not easy, and involves creativity. But it is worth every
effort. Linkbaiting refers to content, videos, images or anything on
your site that is created with the intention of increasing links to it.
It is highly effective in getting links, probably the cheapest too,
based on the cost of the “bait” you use, has no
negative effects from the search engines, at least not for the moment,
since all links generated look natural. When complemented by social
bookmarking, the networks associated with these links will add even
more value to them.
Paying for links, or paid links.
These links can have great short-term search benefits. These are good
mainly for sites that have tons of pages with content, and have been
well established online for years. In addition, these sites also have
tons of natural links to them, again because they had been well
established online for years. These are not recommended for new sites.
Look for sites that are highly on topic with yours, and in
complementary niches. A very important factor in the evaluation of
these links, like any other, is age. And the latest “Google
Slap” effect were sites fall pass the top 30 in the listings,
is affecting primarily those which do heavy link buying.
Bad links and their effects.
Outbound links play a big role in the way search engines determine who
your “neighborhood” is. Bad neighborhoods will
affect your search engine rankings. Things like FFA (Free For All) link
pages, links farms, etc, fall in this category. Note that this has
nothing to do with your pages going into the supplemental index. That
is not the kind of penalty these links cause for your site. And the
amount of bad links considered is a big one. A small amount of them
would not trigger a penalty, but make sure that your site is not
related in any way to those link patterns.
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Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) has become an essential weapon in the arsenal
of every online business. Unfortunately, for most business owners and
marketing managers (and even many webmasters), it's also somewhat of an
enigma. This is partly due to the fact that it's such a new and rapidly
changing field, and partly due to the fact that SEO practitioners tend
to speak in a language all of their own which, without translation, is
virtually impenetrable to the layperson. This glossary seeks to remedy
that situation, explaining specialist SEO terms in plain English...
AdWords
See ‘Sponsored Links’.
algorithm
A complex mathematical formula used by search engines to assess the
relevance and importance of websites and rank them accordingly in their
search results. These algorithms are kept tightly under wraps as they
are the key to the objectivity of search engines (i.e. the algorithm
ensures relevant results, and relevant results bring more users, which
in turn brings more advertising revenue).
article PR
The submitting of free reprint articles to many article submission
sites and article distribution lists in order to increase your
website's search engine ranking and Google PageRank. (In this sense,
the "PR" stands for PageRank.) Like traditional public relations,
article PR also conveys a sense of authority because your articles are
widely published. And because you're proving your expertise and freely
dispensing knowledge, your readers will trust you and will be more
likely to remain loyal to you. (In this sense, the "PR" stands for
Public Relations.)
article distribution lists
User groups (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Google, Smartgroups, and Topica groups)
which accept email submissions of articles in text format, and then
distribute these articles via email to all of the members of the group.
See also 'article PR'.
article submission sites
Websites which act as repositories of free reprint articles. Authors
visit these sites to submit their articles free of charge, and
webmasters visit to find articles to use on their websites free of
charge. Article submission sites generate revenue by selling
advertising space on their websites. See also 'article PR'.
backlink
A text link to your website from another website. See also
‘link’.
copy
The words used on your website.
copywriter
A professional writer who specializes in the writing of advertising
copy (compelling, engaging words promoting a particular product or
service). See also ‘SEO copywriter’ and
‘web copywriter’.
crawl
Google finds pages on the World Wide Web and records their details in
its index by sending out ‘spiders’ or
‘robots’. These spiders make their way from page to
page and site to site by following text links. To a spider, a text link
is like a door.
domain name
The virtual address of your website (normally in the form
www.yourbusinessname.com). This is what people will type when they want
to visit your site. It is also what you will use as the address in any
text links back to your site.
ezine
An electronic magazine. Most publishers of ezines are desperate for
content and gladly publish well written, helpful articles and give you
full credit as author, including a link to your website.
Flash
A technology used to create animated web pages (and page elements).
free reprint article
An article written by you and made freely available to other webmasters
to publish on their websites. See also 'article PR'.
Google
The search engine with the greatest coverage of the World Wide Web, and
which is responsible for most search engine-referred traffic. Of
approximately 11.5 billion pages on the World Wide Web, it is estimated
that Google has indexed around 8.8 billion. This is one reason why it
takes so long to increase your ranking!
Google AdWords
See ‘Sponsored Links’.
Google PageRank
How Google scores a website’s importance. It gives all sites
a mark out of 10. By downloading the Google Toolbar (from
http://toolbar.google.com), you can view the PR of any site you visit.
Google Toolbar
A free tool you can download. It becomes part of your browser toolbar.
It’s most useful features are it’s PageRank display
(which allows you to view the PR of any site you visit) and
it’s AutoFill function (when you’re filling out an
online form, you can click AutoFill, and it enters all the standard
information automatically, including Name, Address, Zip code/Postcode,
Phone Number, Email Address, Business Name, Credit Card Number
(password protected), etc.) Once you’ve downloaded and
installed the toolbar, you may need to set up how you’d like
it to look and work by clicking Options (setup is very easy). NOTE:
Google does record some information (mostly regarding sites visited).
HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the coding language used to create
much of the information on the World Wide Web. Web browsers read the
HTML code and display the page that code describes.
Internet
An interconnected network of computers around the world.
JavaScript
A programming language used to create dynamic website pages (e.g.
interactivity).
keyword
A word which your customers search for and which you use frequently on
your site in order to be relevant to those searches. This use known as
targeting a keyword. Most websites actually target ‘keyword
phrases’ because single keywords are too generic and it is
very difficult to rank highly for them.
keyword density
A measure of the frequency of your keyword in relation to the total
wordcount of the page. So if your page has 200 words, and your keyword
phrase appears 10 times, its density is 5%.
keyword phrase
A phrase which your customers search for and which you use frequently
on your site in order to be relevant to those searches.
link
A word or image on a web page which the reader can click to visit
another page. There are normally visual cues to indicate to the reader
that the word or image is a link.
link path
Using text links to connect a series of page (i.e. page 1 connects to
page 2, page 2 connects to page 3, page 3 connects to page 4, and so
on). Search engine ‘spiders’ and
‘robots’ use text links to jump from page to page
as they gather information about it, so it’s a good idea to
allow them traverse your entire site via text links. (See
‘Link paths’ on p.21. for further information.)
link partner
A webmaster who is willing to put a link to your website on their
website. Quite often link partners engage in reciprocal linking.
link popularity
The number of links to your website. Link popularity is the single most
important factor in a high search engine ranking. Webmasters use a
number of methods to increase their site's link popularity including
article PR, link exchange (link partners / reciprocal linking), link
buying, and link directories.
link text
The part of a text link that is visible to the reader. When generating
links to your own site, they are most effective (in terms of ranking)
if they include your keyword.
meta tag
A short note within the header of the HTML of your web page which
describes some aspect of that page. These meta tags are read by the
search engines and used to help assess the relevance of a site to a
particular search.
natural search results
The ‘real’ search results. The results that most
users are looking for and which take up most of the window. For most
searches, the search engine displays a long list of links to sites with
content which is related to the word you searched for. These results
are ranked according to how relevant and important they are.
organic search results
See ‘natural search results’.
PPC (Pay-Per-Click advertising)
See ‘Sponsored Links’.
PageRank
See ‘Google PageRank’.
rank
Your position in the search results that display when someone searches
for a particular word at a search engine.
reciprocal link
A mutual agreement between two webmasters to exchange links (i.e. they
both add a link to the other’s website on their own website).
Most search engines (certainly Google) are sophisticated enough to
detect reciprocal linking and they don’t view it very
favorably because it is clearly a manufactured method of generating
links. Websites with reciprocal links risk being penalized.
robot
See ‘Spider’.
robots.txt file
A file which is used to inform the search engine spider which pages on
a site should not be indexed. This file sits in your site’s
root directory on the web server. (Alternatively, you can do a similar
thing by placing tags in the header section of your HTML for search
engine robots/spiders to read. See ‘Optimizing your web
’ on p.22. for more information.)
Sandbox
Many SEO experts believe that Google ‘sandboxes’
new websites. Whenever it detects a new website, it withholds its
rightful ranking for a period while it determines whether your site is
a genuine, credible, long term site. It does this to discourage the
creation of SPAM websites (sites which serve no useful purpose other
than to boost the ranking of some other site). Likewise, if Google
detects a sudden increase (i.e. many hundreds or thousands) in the
number of links back to your site, it may sandbox them for a period (or
in fact penalize you by lowering your ranking or blacklisting your site
altogether).
SEO
Search Engine Optimization. The art of making your website relevant and
important so that it ranks high in the search results for a particular
word.
SEO copywriter
A ‘copywriter’ who is not only proficient at web
copy, but also experienced in writing copy which is optimized for
search engines (and will therefore help you achieve a better search
engine ranking for your website).
search engine
A search engine is an online tool which allows you to search for
websites which contain a particular word or phrase. The most well known
search engines are Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
site map
A single page which contains a list of text links to every page in the
site (and every page contains a text link back to the site map). Think
of your site map as being at the center of a spider-web.
SPAM
Generally refers to unwanted and unrequested email sent en-masse to
private email addresses. Also used to refer to websites which appear
high in search results without having any useful content. The creators
of these sites set them up simply to cash in on their high ranking by
selling advertising space, links to other sites, or by linking to other
sites of their own and thereby increasing the ranking of those sites.
The search engines are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and already
have very efficient ways to detect SPAM websites and penalize them.
spider
Google finds pages on the World Wide Web and records their details in
its index by sending out ‘spiders’ or
‘robots’. These spiders make their way from page to
page and site to site by following text links.
Sponsored Links
Paid advertising which displays next to the natural search results.
Customers can click on the ad to visit the advertiser’s
website. This is how the search engines make their money. Advertisers
set their ads up to display whenever someone searches for a word which
is related to their product or service. These ads look similar to the
natural search results, but are normally labeled “Sponsored
Links”, and normally take up a smaller portion of the window.
These ads work on a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) basis (i.e. the advertiser only
pays when someone clicks on their ad).
submit
You can submit your domain name to the search engines so that their
‘spiders’ or ‘robots’ will
crawl your site. You can also submit articles to ‘article
submission sites’ in order to have them published on the
Internet.
text link
A word on a web page which the reader can click to visit another page.
Text links are normally blue and underlined. Text links are what
‘spiders’ or ‘robots’ use to
jump from page to page and website to website.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a particular page published on
the Internet. Normally in the form
http://www.yourbusinessname.com/AWebPage.htm.
web copy
See ‘copy’.
web copywriter
A ‘copywriter’ who understands the unique
requirements of writing for an online medium.
webmaster
A person responsible for the management of a particular website.
wordcount
The number of words on a particular web page.
World Wide Web (WWW)
The vast array of documents published on the Internet. It is estimated
that the World Wide Web now consists of approximately 11.5 billion
pages.
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Optimizing
any web page involves both on-page and off-page optimization. Whereas
on-page optimization emphasizes the use of carefully selected keywords
to write a web page, off-page optimization is all about building links
to the web page from other web pages as well as other websites. The
leading search engines’ ranking algorithms have placed much
importance on links that it is not possible to achieve a high-ranking
based solely on competitive keywords.
Links
There are two basic types of links used in websites. One is the
navigational link which connects pages within a site. The other one is
the hypertext link which offer parenthetical material, footnotes,
digression or parallel themes that can serve to provide relevant
information in relation to the main content of the page. Both types of
links however, can be disruptive or problematic in the overall site
design when not used in its proper context.
Links can distract attention especially if a paragraph or text is
filled up with invitations to readers to proceed to other pages or
sites. This threatens the smooth flow of content as readers jump from
one page or site to another. The context of information can entirely be
altered as readers find themselves in an unrelated territory without
the benefit of any introduction or proper explanation.
The primary purpose of having links is the reinforcement of an
author’s original message by providing a choice of connected
materials. Links should be geared towards pointing to other resources
within the site which uses related texts or visuals. A reader should be
made clearly aware when he/she leaves one website and enters another
through a link.
Good hypertext linking aims to maintain a site’s contact with
its readers. A simple link will usually work within a single browser
window where the original content disappears substituted by the linked
page. This can be avoided by adding the TARGET =
“main” argument to link tags. Through this, the
linked page will appear in a new browser window in front of the
original one which allows the reader to access the new material without
losing visual contact with the original site. The use of frames is
another way to maintain narrative and design context. Frames can be
used to split the browser screen between site navigation and the
material intended to be brought out.
Website navigational links can be provided through plain text links,
JavaScript links, PHP links or graphical links. Plain text links are
the easiest to implement and its use is recommended even if other link
types are being used as a main navigational structure. All search
engines are able to follow them although it can be very difficult to
maintain them for websites that have more than 50 pages. Providing
careful attention to website design can address problems associated
with this. JavaScript navigation is used to build complex drop down
menus for large websites. It offers the advantage of an almost
effortless change procedure once it is implemented but it requires more
knowledge and expertise to implement. However, this type of link is not
followed by search engines hence the pages referenced by the said links
may not be indexed without some other form of navigation provided.
Linking in Relation to Usability
Usability is the ability to successfully and confidently learn or
complete a task with a reasonable amount of comfort provided to the end
user. Usability in the eyes of a website designer or application
developer is being able to design and build websites that can be
understood and easy to use in accomplishing a task. It is essentially
about meeting the needs of customers and anticipating their other needs
to help them reach their goal through a website that is true to its own
goal of providing the right information or at least access to it.
A usable website stands to reap the benefits of conversion and customer
satisfaction. A website should be able to tell the reader what it is
all about, what product or services are being offered and what
procedural steps are being taken that will earn the trust of customers.
Most importantly, it should be able to meet the needs of both humans as
well as search engines. Both are intent on understanding a web page,
knowing how to get to the next relevant page and being able to find
that all important link. The information structure of a website should
be construed in a way that would enhance the speed and understanding of
it.
The priority of SEOs is to get clients’ web pages into search
engines and directories as well as to have them ranked good enough to
be found by end users. Marketing and usability should come hand in hand
so that the site owner does not only have prime spots in search engines
but also customer conversion as well. The ultimate challenge of any
website developer is to be able to ultimately build sites for people
and not for search engines only.
A link has two ends – the source anchor and the destination
anchor. The term link however, usually refers to the source anchor
while the destination anchor is called the link target. The most common
link target is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) used in the World Wide
Web which can refer to a document such as a web page, other resource or
to a position in a web page which is achieved by means of an HTML
element.
Hyperlinks are usually displayed in a web browser by some
distinguishing way such as a different color, font or style. The usage
of a mouse cursor changing into a hand motif may also indicate a link
in a graphical user interface. Links in most graphical web browsers are
displayed as underlined blue text when not cached and underlined purple
text when cached.
Having the right link in the right place at the right time and page is
the dream of any website owner. Most pages have some type of main
navigation to access major categories within the site. Another set of
links pointing to things like a privacy policy may also be seen. Many
sites use secondary navigation on pages within sections of the site. A
different section may provide a different set of links in the secondary
navigation which can be very helpful to users and search engines. The
navigational links are often seen in a content-rich area on a page. It
is very common to see links embedded within the text in the content
area of web pages which is very advantageous from a search engine
optimization point of view. One of the existing dangers of this
practice is when these links are missed due to the reader’s
natural tendency to just scan the pages due to time constraints.
Embedded links should be placed within the content in a way that they
can easily be seen. Having too many can make it very difficult to read
the text on a page. Confine these kinds of links to the most important
and outstanding links. The rest of the links can be placed in other
critical parts of the page.
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sitemap is an aid used in making navigation through a website easier.
It contains the structure of the website along with the included links
to the major parts and subsections of the website.
A website’s sitemap has a practical and essential use. It
makes it easier for visitors to visit through and navigate the website.
The navigational help ensures that they do not get lost and that they
will not have to look futilely for the information or page that they
need. A visitor who immediately finds the information that he needs
quickly in a website has a higher chance of coming back for another
visit.
Many website administrators, designers and webmasters do not fully
exploit the uses and benefits of having a good sitemap. For most of
them, merely providing a list of links that do not really give a good
service to visitors to the website is more than adequate. For them, as
long as spiders can find the pages in their website then they are
content. But wouldn’t it better if you can design a sitemap
page that is not only big help to your visitors but also adds value to
your website?
The characteristic of a good sitemap is that each link has an
accompanying description about the target page for each link. This
helps visitors who go to your site and would rely on it in navigating
through your webpages.
Let’s look at two examples:
Example 1
Link with no description
Rock music
Example 2
Link with description
Rock music, the history of British rock music, From the Beatles to the
Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Duran Duran, U2, The best British bands
and rock acts in history. Trace how rock music in Britain evolved.
There is a definite difference between these two examples. From a mere
cursory look at the two examples it is obviously apparent that the
second example is far more effective in giving the proper information
to visitors. Website visitors are more likely to appreciate the kind of
listing illustrated in Example No. 2. This is because most people are
more at home with a search engine style listing because it is easier to
navigate. No one would like to visit a website and see a sitemap
presented similarly to the first example because there is a complete
lack of information.
There is also an added benefit to making a descriptive sitemap. It
helps in raising your search engine ranking.
By building your sitemap in such a way that you put all the links to
related pages on each sitemap page, you are making, in effect, a themed
sitemap page. Let us say that you have 7 pages that all relate to
British rock music, by putting it all together you make a British rock
music themepage. This kind of page will have the element a search
engine considers is essential for a high ranking web page: keyword rich
text.
It pays to make a good sitemap. Making a conscious effort to make one
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More
column inches have been written about how to please the search engines
and persuade them to bestow favour on your website than almost any
other internet-related topic. But as far as I know no-one has
previously tried to understand their gender: do they behave more like a
man, or more like a woman? Understand their gender can surely
help us to gain a better insight into how to appeal to them.
MSN is very clear: MSN is a man. Everything about MSN is
straightforward: do the right thing and you will be
recognized. Follow the advice of the experts and
you will surely rank highly on MSN as long as your competitors are less
diligent in this respect than you. Good content, relevant
titles, keyword-related metatags, loads of quality inbound links,
varied keyword anchor-text, a good smattering of deep links and a #1
ranking will be your reward. I have gained #1 positions on
MSN for moderately competitive keywords within a week of
trying. What you see is what you get with MSN: he is a
man.
Is Yahoo a man or a woman? I find it hard to
decide. Perhaps it is a serial transsexual, or maybe just
androgynous. Sometimes Yahoo is as straightforward as a man: do the
right thing, pay your dues and join the club, no
complications. This happens to me on some of my
keywords: I have followed the rules and gained my reward. On
others, apparently no more competitive, and where I am just as
well-optimized, if not better, I am nowhere. For these words,
she is a woman, immune to my blandishments.
On the other hand, Google is surely all woman, with womanly wiles and
deeply imbued with womanly mystery. If you want to
penetrate deep into Google you need to learn the art of
seduction. Is there anything on the planet more frustrating
than trying to optimize your website to rank highly for a competitive
keyword on Google. Sometimes I think not.
She is like a woman that is always just out of reach. She
will not reveal her secrets for even the largest bunch of
flowers. I know that I have the best content in my
category, more quality links, deeper links, more varied anchor text,
more articles and more of everything that is supposed to drive
positioning than any of my competitors. By far. Not
a single one of my 5000 odd backlinks is directly reciprocated, and I
have at least 10 inbound links for every outbound
one. I have never paid for a text link ad, or
joined a link farm. A decent proportion of my inbound links
are voluntary recognition of the value of my site by 3rd
parties. Is this enough? Well, yes and
no. I do have the best positions on all the search engines, measured on
average on all the keywords that I target. But
whereas my positions are undisputedly dominant in MSN, they are only
excellent in Google. I am only 2nd or 3rd on my target
words. I do very well, but I don’t blow
away the competition like I do on the others.
Google has recognized my worth, somewhat, but she has not opened
herself to me entirely.
Like a woman, she has her favourites: sites which appealed to her long
ago, but whose luster has long since dimmed in the eyes of the rational
observer, can still be favoured with a top
position. She is also fickle. I
have been trying to build position for a single keyword for a couple of
years now. (It’s a fairly competitive
category – around 36 million sites feature this word.) When I
started my efforts I was at about 25 (by virtue of this single word
being part of all the other keywords-phrases that I compete
on). I have steadily built anchor text links with this single
word into directories, into articles, into listings on other
sites. Lots of these links are on pages with good
PR. Better than 80% of these links are nicely inserted into
the middle of well-written text.
The outcome: every few weeks I find I have moved up to a respectable
position: say 10th, sometimes even 6th or 7th.
Then, the next day, or even an hour later, I fall back to 14th or even
18th. She likes me, she flirts with me
occasionally, she tolerates my company and sometimes I even manage to
amuse her. But just when I think I could expect a
kiss in return as my lips approach, she turns her cheek away and I am
banished to the outer circle of courtiers. But her appeal is
such that I am drawn again into attempting to understand her
mysteries. But I feel that if I ever make it, and my lips
touch hers, and she longs for me as I long for her, I will never be
sure what it was that I did to merit such bliss.
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There
are very few businesses these days that don't have websites, and as a
home business your website is one of the most powerful tools you have
at your disposal. A good website can really work for you, but you need
to know what you're doing.
Hire Foreign Designers.
Web design really is something that you shouldn't try to do yourself,
unless you really know what you're doing -- I'm sure you've seen what
happens when people try this. Hiring a web designer, though, can be
prohibitively expensive. Luckily for you, the Internet puts you in
touch with designers all over the world, and it's easy to hire one of
them very cheaply to design your website. They don't do any worse of a
job than someone in your country would, it just happens that your few
hundred dollars is worth as much to someone in India as a few thousand
would be to you or I.
Use Search Engine Optimisation.
There are a heck of a lot of websites out there, and search engines
will return everything relevant to a user's search. How can you
possibly get your site above the thousands of others that the search
engine thinks are relevant to your keywords?
The answer is to use basic search engine optimisation techniques. For
example, make sure you often use phrases that you think your target
market will be searching for (your 'keywords'), and make your web
addresses contain them too. For this article, for example,
http://www.website.com/home-business-website would be a much better web
address than http://www.website.com/articles/205. That's just a brief
introduction -- there's a whole SEO industry out there, if you go
looking for it.
Have Lots of Useful Content.
When you have a website, you're not just trying to reach people who
were searching for you -- you're trying to get people to check your
website, read your latest news and offers, and the rest. The best way
of doing this is to have fresh and useful content on there. Write short
articles about the kind of things your customers might be interested
in. If your home business is computer repair, for example, you could
keep track of the latest virus threats on your site and offer help to
anyone affected.
Make It Easy to Update.
You should make sure that whatever software you're using to write your
website makes it easy to post new articles without too many problems.
If you have go to around putting HTML tags into your articles before
you can upload them, then you should think about changing the way your
website works.
Keep a Weblog.
One of the simplest ways to have fresh, useful content on your site is
to keep a weblog (or 'blog'). A blog is a series of entries, like
entries in a diary, that are displayed on your site starting with the
most recent first. It is easy to log in and quickly write a new entry,
and it can be as short or as long as you like.
For your home business' blog, the only rule to stick to is not to post
anything there that isn't related to your industry and your work. It
might be great that you've got a new baby or sad that your cat Mr
Tibbles died, but you should start a personal blog on another website
if you want to post about that kind of thing.
Let People E-Mail You with No Hassle.
One of the worst mistakes people often make when they're starting a
website is to think that it would be a good idea to give their
customers a 'contact form' to fill in. People really, really don't like
filling in forms, and you'll lose a lot of interested customers if you
require them to tell you all sorts of things before you'll even talk to
them over the Internet.
The best thing to do is to simply list your email address on your site,
as a clickable link, and advise customers near the link of the kind of
information it would be useful for them to include in an email. It
might sound strange, but people are far more willing to go to the
trouble of typing things in when it's on their own terms, and not into
an annoying web form. |
Articles
vs. Blog and Ping
I think it’s time for many Affiliate Marketers (AM) to
reconsider their methods for building their web sites Search Engine
position. I have been using Blog and Ping techniques for about a year
now, but blog and ping is slowing loosing its effectiveness because so
many AM’s are using the method.
If you’ve been living on the dark side of the moon, then you
may not know what Blog and Ping is all about. Well, in a nutshell, blog
and ping is a technique for increasing your websites position by
creating blogs and using software that automatically posts to those
blogs along with links back to your main website. The blogs then ping
Blog services to notify them that some new content is available. The
ping services then attract Search Engine spiders and before to long,
you’re website is spidered.
This solution worked like wonders about a year ago (2005), but is
loosing its effectiveness because all the blog and ping tools create
mediocre content that is all based on Search Engine scrapes or RSS
feeds. You end up getting a blog site full of useless information with
links back to your web page. The Search Engines have caught on and they
are able to filter out the bad content. In fact, it may actually be
hurting your website. There’s no proof yet, but I would
expect that all the SE’s will soon start penalizing websites
that are trying to boost their position through blog and ping
techniques.
That brings me to articles. About four months ago, I wrote an article
and posted it to ArticleCity. After I submitted it, I forgot about it.
Just yesterday, during a moment of boredom, I thought about that
article and decided to do some research. Had anyone picked it up? A
quick search on Google showed that the article has been published on
802 different websites! I also noticed that after Google’s
last update, the Page Rank (PR) of my affiliate marketing website went
up nicely from 3 to 5.
This was with just ONE ARTICLE submitted to just ONE ARTICLE SITE that
I put together in :30 minutes. I was floored.
Considering how much time I’ve spent configuring blog and
ping software, how many unneeded domains I’ve purchased to
make traffic all look like it’s coming from different
directions, how hard I’ve worked trying to find content for
the B&P software, etc…. I would have been much
better off just writing good, informative articles.
Another huge reason to go with Articles over Blog and Ping is content
longevity. Your article will be posted onto many websites. Perhaps
hundreds of websites. That content is real and meaty, just like what
Google and the others are looking for. It’s not bogus content
that will get yanked by the SEs. This means that algorithm update after
algorithm update, the articles that point back to your website will
remain within the search engines. This is HUGE.
Over the last few months, Google has made several updates to their
algorithm which resulted in TONS of websites loosing their rankings. My
site, which relied on ONE ARTICLE and no blog and ping actually went up
in the rankings.
So if you’ve been using Blog and Ping to promote your site
and you’ve been unhappy with the results, now is the time to
consider writing articles and publishing them on the Article websites.
Writing an article and posting it to one article submission site is
easy. Writing an article and posting it to hundreds of article sites is
time consuming and difficult. For this reason, I recently purchased
some software called Article Submitter Pro which automates the entire
process. Article Submitter Pro can submit to over 700 article
directories and is a snap to set up. If you want to try articles to
promote your web page and you want to make the process as simple as
possible, then I highly recommend that you check out Article Submitter
Pro to make the whole process as simple as possible.
Here’s to a successful and profitable day! |
Searching
online can not only be fun, but sometimes you need to be downright
inventive.
For those of you who have been searching online for years now, you've
probably adapted ways to find things quickly.
Unfortunately when it comes to promoting your site, nothing out there
is classified as a quick fix. If people do say it's a quick fix, it
probably has a major risk attached to it.
Your ultimate goal should be to receive some of those "Big" search
terms online! For example, "Marketing Tips" or "Marketing" in general.
The only way to ever come close to the Big Dogs is to start small.
Increase the search term and decrease your competition.
Here's an example of this, let's use "Marketing". Wow, what a powerful
search term, but someone has to get it, right?
As of today, June 1st, 2004, if you search for "Marketing" you will get
72,700,000 results found within Google. That's a tough one.
Going further, let's add "Marketing Tips", you get: 7,560,000 results
found.
Going a little further now, let's add "Web Marketing Tips", you'll get
around: 5,760,000 results found.
Let's go beyond that for our final search, let's add "Web Site
Marketing Tips", you'll get: 4,940,000 results found.
Now take a good look at all those search terms, what do you see right
in the middle??? You got it, that oh so powerful term called
"Marketing"!
Are you starting to see the value of targeting larger search terms
(Larger meaning more words attached to it) ? ? ?
Eventually as time goes on, once you've done your due-dilligence and
worked hard at targeting these larger search terms, search engines will
start to reward your site with much smaller and more difficult terms to
acquire.
Another way to accomplish this is to target your local market 1st.
Instead of targeting "Web Site Marketing Tips" as a whole, you can
target "Marketing In Hamilton, Ontario".
By targeting the area you live in, you not only target your local
market 1st, you set your site up for success in the future market,
which ultimately is the rest of the world!
Let's just say I was to remove "Ontario" from that search term, how
many cities are named "Hamilton" ??? Many more than you think!
So in conclusion:
Don't be afraid to work for your key phrases and set your web site up
for success by targeting larger key phrases to increase your chances of
better search engine placements. In the end, you'll receive what you've
been after, more exposure for your enterprise!
I hope you enjoyed the article!
Read more of Martins articles online here:
http://www.smartads.info/newsletter |
A
few weeks ago, I presented myself with a challenge – to do
some Internet sleuthing and get to the bottom of this perplexing
condition that newly search engine optimized websites (that’s
SEO) face known as the Google Sandbox. At times this endeavor
made me empathize with Captain Ahab chasing his white whale, but unlike
Ahab, I’m not going to meet a watery grave today.
ICMediaDirect.com provides SEOs with life jackets – so I got
that going for me, which is good. The obsession to confirm,
pin down, and counteract the effects of this Sandbox is proving as
difficult and elusive as any whale hunt I’ve ever been
on.
Before explaining to the uninitiated just what the Sandbox is exactly,
or what it’s purported to be, it warrants mentioning that
Google officially neither confirms nor denies its existence.
So from the word “go” we wade into
mystery. We’re forced to consider the Sandbox as
either a modern quasi-myth of the Computer Age or an actual no
man’s land created by Google where SEOs are pitted against
the machine. Kinda cool, right? This would be a
limbo, an undesired waiting room for web properties seeking quality
recognition from Google’s Search Engine Results Pages are, as
I like to say, unSERPable. Incidentally, the stakes are very
high, too, since higher rankings mean increased
revenue.
The effects of the Sandbox are not in question. Websites
listing with Google are simply beat down in their rankings for no
apparent rhyme or reason, thus leaving the afflicted with no avenue of
redress but time itself – no magic linking is known to spring
sites out. (Though it’s whispered that influential
friends at Google can pull favors.) New websites and
overhauled existing websites (often reworked, ostensibly, for better
rankings) are its primary “victims”. It
was first noticed or acknowledged in October, 2004. No one
outside of Google knows exactly how or why sites are
Sandboxed.
Here are some Sandbox basics: it only happens to English speaking
websites; it is a “.com”-only phenomenon, no
“.edu”s, “.us”s, or
“.org”s need worry; it could last from weeks to a
year before release into deserving results rankings; its effects are
seen with Google only, so you can rank high on Yahoo and be in the
Sandbox (or even rank poorly – I have little info handy on
poorly optimized websites mired in suspected Sandboxes); the Sandbox is
by no means universal and not automatic. It’s a
crapshoot.
There is a minority of SEOs who think that the Sandbox is the end
result of better algorithms and not and specially created
punishment. Believing, as I do, that Google has the best
search results, this isn’t implausible.
I believe Google intentionally Sandboxes websites because they
can. Google’s search share is largely unrivalled
and growing strongly. What better way for Google to keep
separating itself from the search engine pack than to have websites
jumping through hoops in hopes to conform to Google’s
semi-secretive algorithmic wishes. And what better way to do
this than through the secret sauce of unacknowledged spider
block. Google’s engineers keep the search world
apprehensive and guessing so that SEOs will employ conventional and
anticipated optimization methods in hopes to evade the
Sandbox.
Talk about your Jedi mind tricks: SEOs are now optimizing in a fashion
that suits Google with much less link bombing and more content
emphasis. This aids Google’s indexing efforts
greatly. The Sandbox, being a phenomenon oft-alluded to and
ill-explained, is totally logical when viewed in this light.
Fearing the unknown (and the ire of clients) we optimize humbly, to
start.
And I love this. “No one knows” is what
most SEOs will say about various Sandbox details. Someone
knows. Someone besides in-the-know Google engineers always
knows, but isn’t saying. SEOs will have you believe
they’re giving away everything but their gym locker
combination; to the point where you’d think that there are no
secrets in this business. Well, as in any other business,
information is the most valuable commodity and there will be nothing
that you will get for free; nothing of a proprietary nature will be
shared that will not provide its source with either direct or back-end
value.
It’s tough to declare this, but I must: no SEO has enough
data or access to solve the Sandbox. It’s not even
worth trying and the best thing we can do is compare notes.
Pretty sad, but it’s all we got. (Or is
it?)
It is widely believed that Matt Cutts, an engineering guru at Google,
acknowledged the existence of the Sandbox at SES NYC in March,
2005. That’s bunk. He didn’t
acknowledge anything, but he did answer his questions carefully
supposing there was a Sandbox. He played with words and said
some algorithms “might” affect
“certain” websites in “some”
circumstances that would, in effect, ape Sandbox-like
results. Well, gee. Thanks, Matt. You
didn’t say anything, but legions of SEOs rushed to the
messageboards with their confirm reports like they’d just
filmed Sasquatch. No free lunches, no free secrets.
Mr. Cutts just stoked the fires- that’s all. Good
job, Matt, but I’ll get you yet.
Cheers.
Joseph Pratt
Media Analyst
ICMediaDirect.com
http://www.icmediadirect.com
e: joseph@icmediadirect.com
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