2009-11-12 RSS Feeds - a Website Owners Friend in Disguise We've all heard about it-it seems like all the buzz right now in the search engine marketing industry is RSS. If you're a website owner, than there are two ways your website can benefit from using RSS on your website-you can provide an RSS feed or, for the not-so-technically-inclined folks like me, you can use an RSS feed to keep your site's content fresh. RSS is a way to...
2009-11-12 Search Engine Optimization Tips For 2005 - Part Two Welcome to the second part of our series of articles on search engine optimization. In the previous article we discussed keywords, domain names, content and keyword density issues. This article moves past that to the nitty gritty of improving your web pages and website for better search engine rankings. Page Title It's truly amazing how many people don't realize how critical the TITLE...
2009-11-12 How and Why to Avoid the SEO Mania The Why But what is the reality of reaching a number 1 position on any of the big three search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - and staying there? Somewhere between a remote possibility to impossible. Why? Because there are well over 16 million websites battling for the number 1 position on "any" given day. Talk about too much competition for one, unique goal. You'd have...
2009-11-12 DIY SEO Part 1. Wordtracker for keywords. A problem for all new webmasters has always been SEO or search engine optimisation. The problem starts with the age-old question of how do I design my website so people can find it? Lets assume that you have an idea for a website that will enable you to make a bit of extra cash, you have a product of your own or you have an affiliation you believe in and...
2009-11-12 The 3 Essential Components of a Search Engine Optimization Campaign Everyday, the Search Engines average 300 MILLION searches. In a recent Forrester Research report 81% of consumers on the Internet find products and services by using the Search Engines. Search Engine Optimization allows you to achievetop search engine placement and a tap into a new source of qualified visitors who are actively searching for products and services on the Internet....
2009-11-12 Should You Be Linking for Traffic or Rankings? Just for a change, rather than a technical article, I would like to tell you a story. To begin, imagine your website is a little country bar, now let's go back to when the internet began, and reciprocal linking was being done properly. Now just sit back and picture the following..... There you are running your bar, it's a fairly busy little bar with plenty of regular customers. You...
2009-11-12 What is PageRank? Chances are you have been on the Internet and have been surfing in and out of websites looking for valuable information pertaining to a favorite topic or researching a subject for school or work. As you type in keyword(s) you match the information you are searching for on Google, you come up with 10,000 pages of information. It's virtually impossible to go through every one, so you refine...
2009-11-12 Your Top Search Rankings at Yahoo & MSN Search are Worthless It seems I now do this rant every single year when traffic statistics are discussed in web industry news. Last week I posted to my Reality SEO blog that referred traffic numbers are the only statistic that webmasters should be concerned about when looking at their search engine rank. I wrote about this last year after ComScore Media Metrics statistics were relased discussing Search Engine...
2009-11-12 The Power of Search Engine Friendly URLs I recently invested quite some time into generating search engine friendly URLs for several of my websites to increase my ranking and to have more pages indexed. I can highly recommend to look into this if your own website does not have se-friendly URLs. Especially Google (the most important search engine nowadays) can be very picky in regards to URLs that are not se-friendly. Example (the 2...
2009-11-12 Choosing a good domain name isnt always so simple. So you need a domain name for your brand new internet business. You may even have some cool ideas for a new domain name combination that will really impress your friends. Question is, is your new domain name going to help your business or hurt it? What could be simpler than choosing a domain name right? Wrong. There are a number of things you need to consider and research before you...
2009-11-12 7 Search Engine Optimization Mistakes and Solutions To many websites, webmasters discover that major sources of website traffic come from search engines. Therefore, they are all keen on gaining top search engine placements through search engine optimization. Based on our several years of SEO experience, we point out some common mistakes and shed some lights to correct it. 1. Cannot Get Indexed by Search Engines, Really? A garment ERP...
2009-11-12 Article Marketing: Fox in the Competitor Hen House or Chicken Little? I recently was asked by an author to remove a free contentarticle from a client web site where we had posted it (withseveral others from different authors) to increase topicalrelevancy at a site that fit the article perfectly. This article was submitted to free web content list archiveswhich I'd found online. A search turned up dozens ofadditional uses across the web. I began to believe...
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