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.

If there is one problem with online business then that is the trouble getting traffic to website. Sometimes we do get the traffic but then it is rather unrelated or uninterested in the website. Getting traffic online is as important as development of a good website these days. Just developing a site is really not enough anymore as there is huge competition in almost all areas of interest.

Getting targeted traffic is the key to success online but how? Unfortunately there is no definite trick to get the traffic instantly, what works for site A might not work for site B.
Below are some of common ways used by developers around the world to boost the traffic.

Write an article for your website and submit it to top article directories like Ezinearticles or Goarticles etc. Then hope some of readers might like what you have written and respond in a positive manner. Writing an article is very common among developers as it can provide long term traffic and it is also free.

Participate in a forum, join any top rated forum and routinely visit their site and submit a post or add a comment related to the article. Try to be appropriate or you might get into trouble. Many webmasters are using this medium alone to generate huge amount of traffic for free.

Last but not the least try pay per click i.e. pay for the traffic. You can get good amount of targeted traffic through this medium but you need to be persistent as building traffic can take a while. There are many contenders in this like Google Adwords , MSN Adcenter or Yahoo Ad Network.

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

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.

After a long period, its working again. Yes! that’s Live(MSN) Search back link command. You can now check your website’s backlinks from Live Search. Its after a submission link correction in November, 2007, its BackLink command which has been fixed up by Live Search with some new commands.

You can use the following commands to check your website backlinks in Live Search -

1. +linkdomain:www.domainname.com - to check the backlinks for a particular domain (website)
2. +link:www.domainename.com/filename - to check backlinks for a particular file or a web page from a domain (website).

You can visit Advanced live search by clicking here - Live Search

The conventional wisdom is that you should rehearse, rehearse and rehearse your presentation. I say: Not so fast! Be very careful that you do not over rehearse your presentation. Remember that your presentation is a conversation with your audience. If you come across as someone who is reciting a speech from memory, you lose that spontaneity and connection with your audience. Smooth is good. Too smooth is not so good. And slick is bad. It is not what you say; it is what your audience hears.

It goes without saying that you should know the topic of your presentation to the point where you do not need to refer to notes to speak. Once you master that, your “conversation” with your audience will be natural and spontaneous and your audience will sense it and accept you right away. It will connect with you. Allow me to make a point: Let’s say someone gives you a set of PowerPoint slides with detail notes on Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. You rehearse it twenty times and now you can recite every word from the notes. Will you be comfortable to go out and present it to a group of theoretical physicists? I hope not.  Use a proper search engine marketing strategy and you will be on your way to success.