Showing posts with label SEO Tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO Tricks. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

What To Look For In A Reliable SEO Company

Things to Look For In A Reliable SEO Company

I alwasy wish that my websites rate in top 10 in Google Search Engine Ranking for most of the keywords. I know I am not the only one, everyone who has a website always dreams to get to the top! However I do search engine optimization of my sites myself, that may not be the case for you, you may not have time, or inclination or the skill to do most of the work and thus need to engage a third party to do SEO for your website.

So what are the things you should bear in mind before you pay some $$$ on your marketing and SEO efforts? Here are few of the things that could help you choose between an effective and a waste of time and money SEO company.

First
You must check if a company has successfully completed SEO related projects. Ask for the statistics and data on successful campaigns. This will give you a clue about their capability, potential and their knowledge.

Second
A reliable SEO company will always work according to the right rules of search engine optimization. This is also known as “white-hat" practices of advertising. This is the practice where companies go with right authentic techniques instead of going with spamming and other notorious advertising tricks. Make sure the company explains what are the draw backs with your current site, what is it that they would like to do, and finally how would they do it. You may show up in top 10 in Google for a week, only to regret the decision to select a company that has got you banned in Google forever!

Third
A reliable company will help you through out the project. Consider this like any other business, if I have a rusted car door, if someone is just willing to apply a fresh coat of paint to cover the rust - is just not worth considering. You are looking for a permanent solution, not a 15 days on top of Google effort.

Fourth
No two businesses are the same and that is why there should be different techniques of marketing for different businesses. A reliable SEO company will always deal with your requirements as a unique site with unique challenges and more unique solutions.

Fifth
A number of software tools will automatically generates keywords for your site. A reliable SEO will always perform research based on your industry, target location and target market segment to find out the right keywords for your type of business. Don't just listen to SEO company showing you a list of keywords that can turn your fortunes around just by using a particular keyword all over the place. Keywords used wisely would definitely help, just using keywords in bulk will not!

Got any experience with SEO yourself or with a company? I would love to hear from you, what do you do and what is your story on SEO? Do drop in your comments, I would really love to hear from you!!!

cheers,
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Text Gets Attention! Not Flash & Images

Effective SEO Is Based On Text
I have often come across Internet users who want a website to be done. They are small startup company, just setting up their shop & store, have no clue about internet traffic, search engines and the likes, but sure they do have a list of what they want:

The most common requirements are
  1. Lots of Images
  2. Fancy Flash to Attract Potential Buyers
  3. Little General Information
  4. Good traffic
  5. Copy of somesite (sometimes...)
  6. Search Engine Optimized
I am sure you would say that most of the above requirements are fine. I too agree that these requirements are general requirements of any website, however, I do not like point 1 and 2 in the list at all.
Balthaser.com has been a great site to visit if you want to look at what all you can do in animation and flash. Their core business is to design and create animations and it is perfectly OK to have a site in pure flash, since most of the users visit their site by typing in the URL directly. I don't search for balthaser.com(since 2000) - and those who ever visit the site, remember the name to type it. Thus Balthaser doesn't depend upon search engine, now or in the past. But why would someone who is selling cosmetices or modular kitchen components insist on a flash only site? :) Cuz their friend has suggested that is the only way to go.
If you have such friends, my humble suggestion - please do not pay heed to what your friends say, they no nothing about internet and at times, just to have a wonderful site with 2 -3 visits to site is not what they or you ever anticipated.

Similarly they want a lot many pictures. Avoid text, let pictures convey the message. Haven't you heard that a picture is worth thousand words! I couldn't agree with you less, however, poor search engine doesn't have eyes to decipher the pictures. At the most the name you have for the picture may be registered but a bot doesn't care if your pic contains a nude or a child. Only it's name can get indexed -- Sad isn't it!!!

What most of the time majority fail to understand is that the purpose of any website is to serve humans - not bots, and if you create a site or a blog that caters to humans, trust me, bots would follow and so would your visitors.

We make avoidable SEO errors and end up losing visitor loyalty and revenue earning potential because we didn't get things done as they should be, but because someone suggested this and that, and someone else has done good with pictures and flash. You don't take a pill when your friend does, no reason your site should be like your friends or what is suggested by your friends. Follow your instincts and believe me you would succeed with the right focus and attention.

Cheers,
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Friday, September 5, 2008

SEO - Daily Activity

EveryDay SEO
Phase 2 of SEO Experiment - More posts collected from the web using Google Alerts and Wait and Watch for traffic, keywords and comments.

What are your views - would this generate enough traffic to justify moving on to a dedicated server?

Bruce Hardie Chooses Working The Magic to Provide SEO Services for ...
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,Bulgaria
In addition the company provides ongoing consulting to clients on their web strategies through one-on-one communication with our SEO Specialists and ...
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RankPay Revolution Takes SEO Industry By Storm
PowerHomeBiz.com (press release) - USA
Although all SEO companies generate results in essentially the same way, using the same methods, the way they charge clients is the one important ...
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Norwich Accountants Back Office Solutions Appoint SEO Firm
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
Kes Phelps SEO Consultancy will work closely with Back Office Solutions to achieve their aims. Back Office Solutions has been established with the core ...
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WordPress SEO - The Basics
By Jeff Chandler
WordPress is known by many to provide SEO qualities right out of the box. Thanks to the clean code base, search engine spiders have an easy time crawling your archives, categories, and pages. However, thats not to say that the SEO ...
Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers... - http://performancing.com

SEO Consulting
By Eric
SEO is an abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. Why it is so important? According to data analysis, more than 90% users use search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN, most of them are from page 1 position. ...
Blogging Secret - http://www.blogging-secret.com

SEO, Search Engine Optimization
Get end-to-end SEO solutions for higher Search engine rankings and top placements in major Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask and Live Search by India's top leading SEO company, Neuro SEO.
Digg / news / upcoming - http://digg.com/

Getting 404 errors.
By drraman007
Hi, I am getting the 404 errors whenever i click on any forum or post. I've done what you mentioned in troubleshooting about 'RewriteBase',but still the same errors. The .htaccess file is - ...
vBulletin SEO Forums - http://www.vbseo.com

Latest Trends in SEO - Rankings Made Easy Or Competitive?
Not easy yet not too difficult if you're smart and active enough in your SEO strategy. Of course, having an attractive, full-fledged feature rich website is not sufficient; you need to have a website that attracts m.
Digg / upcoming - http://digg.com/

cheers,
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Experiment in SEO

My Experiments With SEO Truths
Not sure how long would I continue with this, but this is an experiment I am doing to check if I get increased traffic with posts that are collected via Google Alert and thus are organically keyword rich - and would this drive more traffic to my site? .. What are your views - would this work?

Do let me know, and yes, the blog post is below .. and you know the source it has come from...

AUTO DEALER ALERT: Is your SEO Company ripping you off?
The Open Press (press release) - USA
Serious questions are now being ask about the validity of ongoing SEO contracts, and many dealers are not liking the answers they are getting from their SEO ...
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Dynamic SEO’s Launched Expert
NewDesignWorld (press release) - Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK
Many Seo experts joined their hands along with The SEO Traffic to help those people who are fighting for the search engine positioning. ...
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Let Your Business Grow With The Assistance Of Competent Seo New York
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
SEO New York is one of the best places to contact for increasing the traffic on your website, as they are the people with vast experience and highly ...
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Bruce Hardie Chooses Working The Magic to Provide SEO Services for ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... that Bruce Hardie, Keller Williams Mega Agent from Spokane has selected Working The Magic to provide web and SEO services for the website http://www. ...
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SEO Becomes Point of Contention for Diamondgeezer.com
Diamonds.net - New York,NY,USA
Follow the show, a blogger at e-consultancy.com basically tore apart diamondgeezer.com for a number of design issues -- foremost was poor SEO, or search ...
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Internet marketing gets good viewing by tweens
Business Feet - London,England,UK
Stuart Larkins, senior vice-president of search at DoubleClick Performics, suggests that search engine marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO) in ...
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Silly SEO, Guarantee Your Work
Promotion World (press release) - San Diego,CA,USA
I feel this is an SEO argument that will last as long as the “content is king” and “links are where it’s at” war. The truth is, there are two types of ...
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SEO 'an underused PR resource'
DirectNews - London,England,UK
Natural search engine optimisation (SEO) is a massive and underused resource for the PR industry, an expert suggests. Eric Schwartzman, founder of ...
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SEO tips offered for new websites
Digital Response Media - Watford,UK
Businesses looking to get their new websites off to a flying start when it comes to search engine optimisation (SEO) have been offered advice on how to do ...
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NEMedia Revamps RankSense(TM) Strategic Partnership Program ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
The initiative will provide a streamlined channel sales program designed to position RankSense(TM) at the forefront of SEO software solutions for the small ...
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SEO By SEO Gurus - Mr. Anderson Interview
By jon
I recently began interviewing the illuminaires of search engine marketing, SEO (search engine optimization) and Social Media Marketing. In fact, you will see more detailed interviews over the coming weeks and leading up to the search ...
SeoWorld - http://seoworld.entrepreneur.com

Cebu SEO Contest
In relation to Pinoy blogger: Cebu Seo Contest by Lhurey of http://phblogger.net, this would be my new entry for this contest.The “Pinoy blogger: Cebu Seo Contest” is open to all Visayas bloggers, Mindanao bloggers and Luzon bloggers.
Digg / upcoming - http://digg.com/

Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 2
By Tom Pick(Tom Pick)
Again, there have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written on SEO already this year that I'm trying to get a jump on 2009. So here are several more of the best SEO-related pieces from 2008 thus far. ...
The WebMarketCentral Blog - http://webmarketcentral.blogspot.com/

SEO Mistakes
By iGraphiX
Too many query strings - this is a common bugbear of the professional SEO, where complicated database selections create deep levels of pages, but with seven or eight &id= type strings. Additionally, some bad development methodology can ...
iGraphiX Blog - http://blog.igraphix.eu

Could SEO Devalue News Releases Even More?
By Dave Fleet
My problem with this, as with many SEO principles in general, is that people will take it to an extreme. They’ll follow the advice like sheep and will force inappropriate keywords (read: jargon) into their writing, and their products ...
davefleet.com - http://davefleet.com