Search engine optimization - SEO, website traffic

Most of us would have heard of SEO companies talking highly of their efforts but there are only a few who make sense. it’s understandable that many take the bait and start paying for “top results and submission to everything”. After all, who doesn’t want their site to be highly ranked by search engines? There is no way anyone can guarantee that your site is the number one result unless they actually control the search engine results, or if the top ranking is for a word or phrase that only exists on your site, of course. If you contact someone regarding optimising your site, ask them what they will do for your site. If they suggest any kinds of shady methods, be very careful. They might get you penalised or even banned from search engine indexes.

Results do not come overnight. If you’re working on improving the search engine positioning of a client’s site, you should probably explain this to them early on. Whatever your site is about, the content needs to be unique and/or specific enough to appeal to people. More specifically, it needs to be useful to the people you want to find your site. Often, the client wants to write their own copy, which is fine if they’re good at it and keep adding new content. In my experience, that is rarely the case. If at all possible, try to make the client realise that they should hire someone to help them write, or at least get someone to help them edit what they have written.

Whatever you do, don’t use the same title text for all documents. Doing so will make it much harder for search engines, people browsing through search results, and site visitors to quickly find out what the document is about. Use search engine friendly, human readable URLs. This will help both your ranking and your users. I’ve seen incredible improvements in search engine results from just changing the URL scheme of a site. Also incidently in my experience incoming links are less important the more specific and unique your content is. Remember, Google is blind, so even if you don’t care about blind people using your site (which you should), you’ll still want it to be accessible. This means that you should use real headings, paragraphs, and lists, and avoid using anything that may interfere with search engine spiders. Some search engines use the contents of the meta description element to describe your site in their search result listings, so if possible, make its contents unique and descriptive for every document.

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Search engine optimization is quite an important aspect of search engine marketing. Now a day even the guy running a shop in local market has a website, to either keep in touch with friends or contact their customers and promote their products or services. 

Web site development today is less expensive and is effective form of advertising. Internet has broadened our horizons, now we can forge alliance with a guy far away from our house. 

Any website professional today should be well versed with search engine optimization or SEO techniques. 

Since search engines are going to give you maximum hits and visitors, it is important to understand their style of functioning to survive in the deeply competitive market of internet. 

In short, it is important to rank well on search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL etc. 

Here are some of tips that might help you in your efforts to get instant traffic and earn quick money. 

1. if you haven’t already purchased a domain name, first purchase a domain name of yours for your website, as it will help your website rank well on search engines.
2. Understand your business most profitable keywords and design your website marketing strategy around them.
3. Be creative, find most useful free online resources or develop your own, if you have the expertise, try to be within your website area of interest.

If applied properly these strategies alone can provide you ample traffic to turn your business profitable.

Simplest 7 ways to the Top Search Engine Optimization Rankings

1.      Keywords are vital to any website, so choose them carefully before submitting your website to search engines.

2.      Understand your business and find a niche market.

3.      Unethical but you go to view source code of your competitor to understand what your website might be lacking.

4.      Check to see if your keywords are properly positioned at important places like title of your site, heading etc.

5.      Do not stuff your page with keywords as this will hurt your search engine ranking.

6.      Avoid search engine spamming. Search engines are now taking spamming very seriously and you might get banned, if you don’t pay attention to this.

7.      Hire a professional SEO, optimizing website can be daunting task and can take lot of time. If you relies on internet sales then consider hiring someone for the job.

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Worldwide web is place where every body feels like “Oh, It’s easy, I can do it. I can create a website.”.

 Yes you can create a website, but is that all you need.

There is over a billion website and number is as huge as population of the world today.

Any body who wants to establish here, like any other field, needs to workout his goals like :

• What kind of website do you want to create?
• Who you think will like your work?
• Is there space for one more website?
• How will you market?
• How many visitors you need to break even?
• and most important! what is the moto of your website?

Only after you get answers to these question, you should move forward towards development and marketing of website.

I was cruising around today looking for ways to help you and me get more traffic to our blogs. I ran across Seth Godin’s blog. He has posted 54 ways to get traffic to your blog. Seth Godin is a master, I know, but it seems his list contradicts itself every other number. For example he says don’t blog about your kids, then a couple items down the list he says blog about your kid.

Makes me wonder, again, if it really comes down to just blogging about whatever makes you feel good. I think there is a huge amount of Law of Attraction in blogging. The other day I posted about Weaning a high needs toddler, it’s something I’m currently dealing with, and didn’t know where I should even begin. Later that very same day I searched over at mothering.com and instead of searching that site it searched google. There was my post, #2. I didn’t look for good keywords, or do any of the other technical stuff I usually do, and there it was within a couple hours, top of Google.

I’m not saying not to do all the keyword searching, and making sure you are relevant, but what Seth’s post told me, is it’s kind of a crap shoot. Do this, don’t do this, it all works if you work it.

I don’t know if that’s right, but it’s what it said to me. What do you think? I’d love to hear what you think of Seth Godin’s list of how to get more traffic.

This post is taken from blog by jackie lee

Apart from the basic things needed on blogging mentioned in my previous post on online marketing, you need to have knowledge on following things as well to set you apart from other bloggers.

1. Knowledge of HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark up Language. This is very basic language that defines the web page. All browsers understand this language and define formatting of text, image, alignment, font type, image placement, image URL and many more. There is lot more what browser does but widely used HTML tags will help you place your custom images, basic alignment and formatting of text.

2. Image editing

Blog post with Images makes a lot of difference. A picture is worth thousand words, which not only describe lot more and better then a paragraph. Little knowledge on photo editing gives you an extra edge, as on number of occasions you just might want to lower the size of image or crop, resize, edit color, resolution or make your own out of it. There are many image editing software for novice users to professionals like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Image Ready.

3. Search engine and SEO

Search engine is utmost important and primary source for directing readers to your blog. Your blog should be user friendly for major search engines to analyze and sort your post contents. Your blog should be optimized for search engine.

Search Engine Optimization is a big jargon and in-depth subject. There are tons of Search Engine optimization techniques to learn and implement. Often search engine algorithms get changed and reflect in different Page Rank of websites and blogs.

To begin with make your self clear about categories and tags you can insert with your blog posts. Tags are major keywords which describes your blog post is all about. In later stage I will describe each technique in detail to help you take your blog to higher page view level.

4. Online Marketing methods

There are number of ways you can market your blog depending on type, stage and size of your blog. I have listed some of widely used methods to jump start page hits.

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There are many more and lot of innovative methods come up all the time to promote your blog. Later I will explain each marketing methods in-depth with examples. Keep reading this blog.

There are ways you can monetize your blog with these online marketing methods and there are good sites who offer handsome money depending on your blog status and performance data.

5. Your blog platform

If you are planning for blogging seriously and ready to spend little money better have your own domain and web-space. This will give you your own authority and less dependability on other free blog platform providers like Blogger or Wordpress.com

Or you may start with these free platform providers initially and sooner move to your own domain. There are losses associated with this movement but you are not spending anything initially.

6. Your blog content

The single most important factor which differentiates blogs is its original content. Its contents, contents and contents which will create your loyal reader base and will set you apart from your competition.

It is a mildly risky but potentially brilliant counterstrike against Facebook’s rising popularity.  Myspace will announce shortly that they are joining the Open Social movement spearheaded by Google and which is now officially a social juggernaut of global proportions.    TechCrunch seems to have the latest on this breaking story.

If Facebook was worth 15 billion yesterday I’d suggest it just dropped by more than 50% in value.   Why?   Without Myspace’s hundreds of millions of users Open Social looked like it would be a third player in the field, struggling to catch up with the user bases of Myspace and Facebook and keep up with Facebook development.   But  not any more.  With Myspace, Open Social instantly becomes the key social network, dwarfing Facebook by any reasonable measure of prominence.   Can new Facebook partner Microsoft help sway onliners and developers to stick with Facebook’s “partly open” architecture instead of defecting to what appears to be a very open Google architecture?   No way.

The demand for SEO companies is increasing. Almost every website requires the help of one and because of this there has been an emergence of SEO companies. Site owners are now trying to find the best SEO Company that they could deal with. Since they are still new into the field, not all of them know how to choose the best possible SEO Company. Some are too overwhelmed that they just grab the first one that offers them services.

To start with, if you are looking for a SEO company, do not be overwhelmed by the things that they offer. You must consider that there are several characteristics or requirements that you should look for in your providing firm. These requirements will not only help you in choosing the search engine optimization services company but you will also be happier with the output that they will provide you.

The first thing to consider is the approach of the SEO Company. There are several approaches that SEO companies use in order to achieve the traffic that they require for a site. One of which is ‘doorway’ or ‘bridge’ approach wherein they use keywords that are not found in the site. This approach makes you gain rankings for a short period of time but it is also not accepted in major search engines. Another approach is ‘cloaking’ wherein the server provides unique contents when it perceives a search engine visiting the site. It shows contents with the keywords that are high in rank. Once Google finds this out, it automatically remove the website from their list. SEO Company that use these techniques are engaging in Black Hat SEO and you must avoid them like the plague as they will get your site banned.

Another requirement to consider is the results that it can give you. This will have to deal with the search engines that the SEO Company had created popular searches with. Major search engines are better than smaller ones. You should also consider the key phrases that the SEO companies use in your website. There are sites as well as programs in the Internet where you can check if the keywords being used have high search volume. The higher search volume means that it has greater potential to bring your site a lot of traffic once higher rankings are achieved. Aside from these, the output for the whole site and the rank that it maintained should be taken into consideration. Check the output made by the SEO Company on previous projects. The website as a whole should be attractive for the possible audience. It should also maintain ranking for sometime. Lastly, make sure that the site that the Search Engine Optimization Company is showing you is really their work. Look for their logo to confirm their work on it. Do not be fooled because other SEO companies claim higher rank websites to be their own when in fact they haven’t worked with it yet.

The third requirement that you should consider is the support and the reports that the SEO Company gives to their client. Look for a SEO Company that is able to show reports on the ranks from the major search engines. You should be given detailed individual and overall report as well as the overview of the previous and present outputs. Aside from these, the SEO company should also be responsible in giving you recommendations on the steps that they need to do in order to maintain or further improve the ranking of the website. The work of the SEO company does not end, instead they continually provide help and monitoring on your website to be able to produce the traffic that you aim.

Aside from these, you should also consider the price that you will pay for the services of the SEO Company. If you prefer to go with known and reliable SEO Company, be prepared to pay for higher fees. You can also find a new incoming SEO Company that promises to provide the same output. In cases like this, you should consider that there is a risk that you should take.
Lastly, consider the references that the SEO Company worked with. They should be able to give you a list of their past clients who were satisfied with their services.

As a whole, in order to find the SEO Company for your site, you must be satisfied with the results that they made for their other clients. They must communicate with you well and will work on your request. There must be a good communication between the two of you. SEO companies are almost everywhere, choose wisely and choose well.