How to create SEO-Friendly Web Design

Posted on Tuesday 8 July 2008

It is very important to design a site that is search engine friendly as it’s the best way to attract loads of free traffic towards the site. The first step is to research and choose highly targeted keywords using a good keyword search tool.

Next, create a list of about 100 keywords/phrases that you want to include in your website content. For each web page, allot space at the top to hold a paragraph of 250 – 500 words with these keywords carefully laced in. The most important meta tags are the title tag and the description tag. Include your keywords in both these tags. The title tag should be a short sentence relevant to the content of your site.

Use the description tag to advertise the best feature of your site. Next, include heading tags, the best sizes to use are H1-H3. Use these tags to separate each section of your page with sub-headings. And finally, use the alt tag to write a short description of your images.

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nicola @ 9:10 am
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SEO using Keyword Research Tools

Posted on Monday 7 July 2008

Choosing the right keywords and phrases is the most important step in SEO. All other optimization techniques build on top of the relevant keywords and phrases that you choose to populate your web pages with.

At first, the only option was to perform a search for a certain phrase in a lot of search engines and based on the results that it turned up, it was rejected or selected. But now, to help you in this endeavor to find the perfect keywords for your site, you can take the help of various keyword search tools available online.

You need to input all the keywords that you can think of into your keyword research tool. The tool will give instant information on how many actual searches are being carried out for that keyword each day and how many of those searches actually get converted and various another analytical data.

Some tools will also suggest keywords based on your input or synonyms for the keywords that you entered. There are a lot of great tools out there and you can choose the ones that suit you best.

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nicola @ 8:10 am
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How do Search Engines work?

Posted on Friday 4 July 2008

Search engines are a special free web tool that’s created to help internet users find information stored in the millions of websites that exist on the web. The most popular of them are Google Search, Yahoo Search and MSN Live Search.

Each search engine has it own logic by which it works, but all search engines perform three basic tasks. First, they use keywords, a set of important words to search and select pieces of the internet. The next task is to index these words and also the websites, where they are found.

The final part is enabling a user to the search engine, to look for words or combinations of words found in that index and visit the corresponding website. Each search engine will hold an index of hundreds of thousands of web pages.

A top search engine like Google will have millions of pages in its index and will typically respond to tens of millions of search queries from all over the word each day.

For search engine marketing tips, please contact us!

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nicola @ 11:58 am
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Keep Track of Google’s Algorithm Changes

Posted on Thursday 3 July 2008

If your websites are not updated to suit Google algorithm changes, then a Google algorithm change may send your website sinking like a stone in the search results. Keep track of the changes to keep your website ranking at least partially unaffected.

Each month, the search positioning ranks change as a result of the latest Google algorithm updates. Essentially, there are two main parts to the algorithm that Google uses. The text matching system is the first one whereby Google tries to find pages appropriate to what the searcher has entered in the search box.

The second and equally important part of the algorithm is the Google patented Page Rank system. Google gives a lot of importance to the title tag while searching for keywords. So be careful to change the title tag according to algorithm change. For page ranking, Google uses different algorithms periodically; it is advised to keep a sharp eye on inbound and outbound links to your website.

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nicola @ 11:58 am
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Website Popularity - Tips and Tricks

Posted on Wednesday 2 July 2008

Website Popularity is the best and simplest way to see how your website ranks on the entire top search engines of the Internet. Popularity of a site is measured based on the number of links that point to that site or any page in that site from other websites.

The best way to perk up your web site popularity is to exchange links with other related web sites and also add a link to them in return. Another important tactic that you should follow is submitting your website to the relevant web directories. Some sites now sell links.

With the help of these sites you can buy a text link for your site in other popular websites. But apart from this, keep a few more things in mind; website popularity measure will differ from search engine to search engine because each engine indexes different sites and different pages. Some give higher ranking based upon the traffic your site produces (hits) and others based upon how many (relevant) websites have links to your site.

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nicola @ 11:58 am
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A Simple Guide to SEO

Posted on Tuesday 1 July 2008

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a set of techniques that will help to optimize a website to get a higher Search Engine Results Page (SERP) position. In order to fine tune your web pages and keep them user and search engine friendly, the architecture of the website is very significant. Let us enumerate few SEO techniques.

Domain name and file name have a primary role in bringing your website to the top of the search engine results, so always chose a site domain name that contains words from your primary keyword phrase. It is also advised to use keyword phrases as your file name and page name. Another pertinent factor for SEO is keyword phrases and their density.

Constantly add keyword synonyms to your content and put them in the title and h1 tags. Smart SEO in the end helps everyone; the Webmaster, the search engine, and ultimately, the visitor. The true values of optimization are clear content, coherent navigation, wide reputation for quality and high visibility in search engines.

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nicola @ 11:58 am
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Online Marketing Tips

Posted on Monday 30 June 2008

Market survey reveals that searching is the second largest activity on the Internet, which conforms the importance of ranking of your website in the SERP. Desperation for the top position in the SERP has given birth to the mind-boggling concept of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), in which several techniques are applied to get a higher up on the ladder.

Any online marketing tip unhesitatingly becomes useless without the application of the SEO techniques to the website. Once the website is optimized then only you can think of various other ways to propel to victory.

Several methods have been discovered and applied as a part of constant passion for innovation. Let us take the example of community orientation as the first step. You can make an attempt of populating your website in several social media using your own network. Social Bookmarking, forum posting, commenting in other blogs/ articles have been proved to be useful in several stages.

Advertising has always proved to be the most effective way for marketing and the web world is no way an exception. You can advertise in several websites in different forms based on your need and budget.

The impact of banner advertisements has always been very useful and glamorous advertisements also reveal your wealth and prestige. Several ways for online marketing have been evolved in the recent past for you to select the most suitable one.

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nicola @ 8:28 am
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Social Bookmarking

Posted on Friday 27 June 2008

Social bookmarking is the first step towards community orientation of the website for the ultimate effort of using the social network for popularizing your brand/product and services.

Propeller.com, Digg.com, Fark.com, Del.icio.us, Technorati.com, Slashdot.org are a few popular social bookmarking sites, which helps in popularizing your blogs/ articles.

The commonly used CMS/ Blog software like Joomla, Mambo, and Word Press provide options for bookmarking your blogs/ articles in various such websites. Several templates of Word Press/ Joomla keep provisions for the readers in submitting the interested portion to these social bookmarking sites.

The advantage is social bookmarking always ensures a one-way link to your own website without any financial or link exchange stipulations. This is an Online Marketing method used by many SEO experts. Say, your blog has been posted in any of the above websites; it draws the attention of a huge number of readers/ visitors.

If the content attracts them, then you get a sure positive vote, as the inquisitive mind will always be keen about the complete posting and moreover about the creator.

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nicola @ 8:28 am
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What are RSS feeds?

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2008

Software gets updated waiting for newer technology to replace it erasing its shortcomings. XML has been the in thing in the SEO scenario for quite a while now. However RSS feeds are a relatively newer version brought out towards the purpose of sharing information. A title or description or links are ideal examples of RSS feeds, a condensed form of XML.

RSS feeds are to incorporate content from other sites to keep your own site alive. Google crawlers are always on the lookout for periodically changed enriched and relevant content to award them higher ranking. Other than specific SEO techniques and complete webpage optimization inbound traffic can be enhanced by both consistent blog entries and RSS feeds.

These feeds enable posting of the latest topics from specifically selected web pages to be added on to your site thus bringing it into the limelight. The feeds also provide an added security which is in built. Having a RSS feed and subsequently a blog will place your site into the whole tagging process. Each category created will become a tag to be drawn in by tagging sites. Lastly but not the least your RSS feeds will get your content distributed across the web.

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nicola @ 4:14 pm
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Benefits of having a business Blog

Posted on Wednesday 25 June 2008

Blogs, after its initial gestation period, has reached its zenith of popularity in the recent past. Their enormous growth in number with its cascading effect in last couple of years clearly signifies recognition of its phenomenal advantages that build up the foundation for a systematic SEO approach to the future.

A Blog allows you to clearly state your opinion/ experience about any subject on earth in a most informal way. Blog is the medium, by which you can not only propagate your thoughts but also share your products and services in an indirect way to a much larger segment of people. The common psychology of a human being is that they want to speak of and value the people who respect their opinion. In case of Blogs, you not only invite comments from others, but also publish their comments in an organized manner so that others can also gain knowledge or share their opinions with you. The entire cyclic process draws a magical crowd to your website.

You can utilize the blogs in various ways like if you want to do a survey, you can get the peoples’ opinion through your blogs or you can even get a direct feedback of your products and services.

A Blog is a very flexible tool, to give a shape to your business goals and objectives. You need only to know, how to use it!

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