2009-11-12 Increase Your Search Engine Ranking There are methods to increase your search engine rankings which may seem like rocket science to you, so you have probably avoided dealing with this issue. I did once upon a time until I realised its not so bad after all! I am here to tell you - the time has come to face your website! A high search engine ranking as you can manage for your website is essential to get any free visitors rather...
2009-11-12 The 7 Points of Do-It-Yourself SEO Ever felt intimidated at the convoluted, jargon-ridden information about Internet marketing for small businesses available on the Net? Ever been horrified by the huge fees the experts charge, putting search engine optimization beyond your own means? Ever thought: What exactly is search engine optimization anyway, and can I do it myself? The answer is: Yes, you can! The basics of search engine...
2009-11-12 Effective Search Engine Use The Internet is a wonderful place full of resources that can be really helpful for us. The best way for finding information is through a virtual search engine. A search engine explores the resources on the Internet and gives results relating to your queries. Search engines allow keyword searches and use crawlers to locate sites or pages that match requests. However, finding the information...
2009-11-12 Can Invisible Text in CSSs Slip Under Search Engine Radar? I'm literally inundated with questions on the subject of invisible text & hosting so in I thought I'd debunk some myths and give you the facts straight up. What is invisible text? Invisible text is the body text that's the same or similar color to the background. You know, the stuff you can very easily see on a page if you press Ctrl-A or highlight everything on the page with your...
2009-11-12 The Best and Easiest Google-Friendly Change to Your Web Site No matter who you are or how much you pay for web site advertising, free search engine traffic is probably responsible for a big part of your business. So why make your web site so hard for search engines to figure out? Luckily, it seems like in the recent years people have paid attention to SEO, moved their sites over to CSS, abolished "table" and "font" HTML tags, started using the H1 tag...
2009-11-12 Forget SEO - It's All About Conversion! Which SEO hat do you wear? Is it white or black? Or perhaps it's a subtle shade of gray. Well, wherever you are on this spectrum, if you are like 99% of the SEO-fixated webmasters out there, you are doing all you can to get visitors to your site. Where you used to optimize your keywords meta tags, you now worry about anchor text and XML site maps. So, you finesse your site, schmooze the...
2009-11-12 Search Engine Copywriting: Focus on One Topic Perhaps the simplest of all the lessons I have learned about writing for search engines is to keep my pages simple. That is to say, whether I am thinking about my readers or about Google, there is a huge advantage to keeping most of your pages confined to a single topic. There are three approaches I take to the creation of a page, and each has a significant impact on how high the listing for...
2009-11-12 How To Write Effective And Unique Articles That Are Optimized for the Search Engines It is a well known fact that writing, distributing and posting articles to various location on the web is an extremely effective way to generate targeted traffic and establish yourself as an experienced marketer in your field. Unique articles that help solve the reader's problems, assists the reader in advancing their marketing acumen, or otherwise generally inform tend to stay posted on...
2009-11-12 Monitor Your Visibility in Google, MSN, and Yahoo with these DIY SEO Tools This is the second part of an article series in which you'll find many tools that you can use to monitor your site's search engine position and see how your do-it-yourself search engine optimization efforts are coming along. The following tools are for monitoring your search results in the three major search engines. It isn't an all-inclusive list, but rather a highlight of some...
2009-11-12 SEO Basics - 8 Key Strategies For Online Business Success The world of search engine optimization (SEO) can be a big scary place for newbies. Most SEO professional companies charge astronomical prices that may or may not guarantee success. The search engines are forever changing the way they rank websites and what is important to achieve a higher ranking. Even with these everchanging factors, there are 8 important points that you must use with your...
2009-11-12 The Biggest SEO Scam of All While there are many ethical SEO firms serving Internet users today, a few notorious practitioners also exist. One of them called me just the other day. "We can get your site to be number one in the search engines for the top 20 search terms you choose," promised the telemarketer. I don't usually give telemarketers the time of day, but somehow found this fellow to be...
2009-11-12 Has Google Indexed Your Site ? So has Google found your site yet? Over the last 12 months Google has undergone manychanges to the way it looks at and lists your site. This week sees another upgrade in Google. As any search engine or member of the public willtell you, Google or any other search engine MUSTprovide the most relevant listings for a search query. One of the major changes that Google is implementingis that it...
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