Showing posts with label SEO tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEO tips. 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,
pubdomains.com - complete web services

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,
pubdomains.com - Domain Registration & Web Hosting Services

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/

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Monday, September 1, 2008

SEO - Needs Sincere Effort

Search Engine Optimization Collection of News and Blogs

SEO, Search engine optimization collection of news and blogs from around the globe for you. Hope you find meaningful information on SEO tricks and tips in this collection and it benefits you in your link building and SEO efforts. Keywords, Adwords, Adsense... don't make sense unless your content is excellent


SEO Services for PR From iPressroom Deliver ROI Through Clicks ...
MarketWatch - USA
Our SEO services for PR are a practical solution for PR practitioners to get their press releases search engine optimized before they send them out. ...
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SEO: OMG SEO & Usability Are Like Totally BFF! Dr. Naveel Examines ...
SearchViews - New York,NY,USA
I once worked with a client (major magazine) that had a very difficult website to navigate and understand. When I brought this to their attention they ...
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Keywords 'vital for SEO'
ihotdesk - IT News - London,UK
... for e-consultancy, said that when businesses are starting up they should employ an expert to take care of search engine optimisation (SEO) for them. ...
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Going organic
Multichannel Merchant - Stamford,CT,USA
Search success requires a broad understanding of the art and science of SEO. You must also know how to use the analytical tools that will help you decipher ...
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Is SEO the Real Google Killer?
Search Engine Watch - USA
This morning the Guardian UK published a scathing analysis of Google, SEO and the launch of Cuil. In his article, Chris Williams claimed that the greatest ...
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How Do You Tell Your Client about the SEO Work You're Doing?
Search Engine Roundtable - USA
How does one who may sell SEO services in the future give away information without giving away too much information (and fearing that the client will run ...
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How to Write an SEO Friendly Article
Promotion World (press release) - San Diego,CA,USA
A link to your site is more then just a way to get someone to get to your site, remember this is about SEO and links to someone else's page is not good for ...
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Spammers, Cuil, and the rescue from planet Google
Register - London,England,UK
But the only threat to Google is itself and, in a roundabout way, the legion of spammers and "search engine optimisation" (SEO) consultants that buttress ...
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Web Content Writers and SEO Consultants Launch New Marketing Firm
Press Release 365 (press release) - Miami,FL,USA
SILICON VALLEY -- After years of individual success, notable web content writers and SEO consultants have founded and launched searchengineoptics.com, ...
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Outside SEO help 'can be beneficial'
Digital Response Media - Watford,UK
Businesses unsure of what to do when it comes to search engine optimisation (SEO) may benefit from outside expertise. This is according to advice given by ...
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Big Bang welcomes Seo Taiji’s Comeback!
By foreverpetal
Big Bang has always looked up to Seo Taiji as a seonbae singer with respect, with Seo Taiji’s impending comeback, they said, “Seo Taiji is a respected senior and his return to the music scene is both an exciting and honourable thing.” ...
Lovely_Bishōnens╰☆ - http://justineluvsuju.wordpress.com

Julie Joyce Vomits on Banal SEO Blogging
"I'm not bored with what I DO every day, actually, nor am I bored with the industry in general. I am simply bored with writing about it, because the online space is becoming incredibly cluttered with people who seem to know absolutely ...
Sphinn / Hot Today - http://sphinn.com

Online community SEO: User-generated versus editorial content
By kevin
Anyone who performs search engine optimization knows that content is one of the most important components of a SEO strategy. This is true from a user engagement perspective, for branding purposes and specifically for the opportunity to ...
iNET Interactive » Blog - http://www.inetinteractive.com

(Michigan SEO) Scam or Not
By rss@dailymotion.com (timengdahl)
(Michigan SEO) web design services by (Michigan SEO) consultants ... SEO web design services in Michigan Metro Detroit area and the US specializing in website design & search engine optimization (SEO services) by Peak Web . ...
Dailymotion - most recent videos - http://dailymotion.alice.it/

SEO Landing Pages
By Damien
In the early days of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) landing pages were commonly used to achieve high rankings within the SERP’s (Search Engine Results Page’s). These landing pages were more often than not spammed to death. ...
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)... - http://www.positiongoldltd.com/SEO-Feed

Friday, August 29, 2008

SEO needs consistent efforts

Not really able to devote time to write anything authentic - is this the writers block? Not sure .. however here are some collection of blogs / news articles on SEO from the web, hope you find them useful

Desperately Seeking Google Juice? Learn How To Craft Web Friendly ...
MarketWatch - USA
... in August with a new how-to session that promises to focus on the searching (SEO) and sharing (social media) that help press releases get seen. ...
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Prominent Search Authorities Tee'd Up for Full-Day Search Training ...
MarketWatch - USA
This day of intensive training in search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEM/SEO) includes six highly informative sessions at the San Jose ...
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Expert urges SEO for press releases
Business Feet - London,England,UK
Companies should aim to target the public as well as journalists by using search engine optimisation (SEO) in their press releases, one expert has claimed. ...
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Keyword insertion 'important aspect of SEO'
Brafton - Boston,MA,USA
Inserting appropriate keywords into a website is essential for search engine optimization (SEO), an expert argues. Graham Charlton, a researcher for the ...
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SEO Terminology: Orphan and Dead-End Pages
Search Engine Journal - USA
The worst thing about orphan pages is that they are useless for SEO as they can’t be seen by a search bot. A dead-end page is the one that has no outgoing ...
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'Use professional SEO agencies'
DirectNews - London,England,UK
He explained that successful SEO was not just achievable through one change, adding that it depends on a number of different factors. ...
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Five Steps To Successful Site Architecture For B2B SEO
Search Engine Land - Redding,CT,USA
Keyword strategy in B2B SEO is downright difficult. I talked about many of the reasons why in a previous Search Engine Land article about navigating B2B ...
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Michigan SEO Consultants & Search Engine Optimization Experts ...
Press Release 365 (press release) - Miami,FL,USA
SILICON VALLEY -- With deep family ties and roots in the Midwest, our Michigan SEO consultants & search engine optimization experts at ...
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Poor accessibility 'could be bad for SEO'
Epiphany Search News - Leeds,England,UK
Failing to build a website that is accessible to all web users could result in lower search rankings, according to one expert. With 8.5 million disabled ...
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Firms urged to combine press releases with SEO
Epiphany Search News - Leeds,England,UK
Mark Jackson of Search Engine Watch explained that many firms still do not use press releases as part of their search engine optimisation (SEO) campaigns ...
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How Cuil Is The SEO Industry?
By Barry Schwartz
Philipp Lenssen's The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry, to pictures. Danny Sullivan's Wikipedia article, but showing a picture of ...
Search Engine Land: News About... - http://searchengineland.com/

PPC or SEO: Which Should You Invest Into First?
By manoj@enquiro.com
SEO and PPC are both extremely measureable marketing communication tools and it is vitally important to be able to measure ROI on both. ROI can be a sales-based metric or even a more loosely applied value-based metric based on ...
ASK Enquiro - SEM News - http://ask.enquiro.com

Elements of SEO Update
By Drew Stauffer
Elements of SEO 1.1 now has some exciting new features, including:. Gravatar support; Tag support. While I was making these edits I also decided to fix the widget bullets that were appearing. Ordinarily, if you downloaded the theme, ...
Website Promotion and Online... - http://www.alibiproductions.com

Free ebook: My SEO e-Guide
By domuskv
Would you like to know more about how to succeed in SEO and make your site #1? Just click on the link below and download the ‘My SEO e-Guide’ free ebook by OneSmartCart. Download the free ebook ‘My SEO e-Guide’ by OneSmartCart ...
Best really paying PTC and PTR... - http://ptcsitesthatpay.wordpress.com

Cuil vs. Google Israel SEO Search Comparison
When I search for SEO Israel, the first spot is our company choir singing a funny SEO song on Metacafe. What is really funny is that they linked to the Hebrew version instead of the English SEO song.What I really love about Cuil is that ...
Digg / Tech Industry News / upcoming - http://digg.com/tech_news

Monday, August 25, 2008

Simple SEO Technique

Simple SEO Technique for your website

Everyone wants that their site should rank in first 10 on Google (and yahoo, live etc as well -- predominantly though, search engine effort is made for Google only). Here are some simple steps that you should adopt for your site if you wish to increase your site visibility in search engines.

Assuming I would like to promote my web hosting services, so I have to make sure that I use the keyword "Web Hosting" at most of the places in my site which are valued by search engines.

What are those Key Value Places?
This has oft been said, but here is a small list
1. Page Name
2. Title Tag
3. First Sentence in your text content
4. Images named with keywords
5. Using keyword in ALT tag
6. Good distribution of the keyword in rest of the content

Do you have an example? I know you would like to see this in action as well, so review how it should be done on the site. As I mentioned, I wish to promote my Web Hosting Services and thus the keyword I intend to promote is Web Hosting. So here is how I would create a page as mentioned in Key Value Places.

1. Page Name: Pubwebhost-Web-Hosting-Services.html

2. Title Tag: Web Hosting - For your personal or business use.

3. First Sentence in your text content: Pubwebhost.com offers Free Web Hosting with PHP5 & MySQL5 database

4. Images named with keywords: Pubwebhost-Web-Hosting-logo.jpg

5. Using keyword in ALT tag: Pubwebhost for Free Web Hosting with PHP5 & MySQL5

6. Good distribution of the keyword in rest of the content :
We are specialists in free web hosting services using clustered technology powered by a one of the largest web hosting orgainisations on the internet. You can sign up here for fast free PHP5 & MySQL5 web hosting including a free sub domain. A powerful Vista Panel control panel is provided to manage your website on our web hosting service, packed with hundreds of great features including Email, FTP add-on domain and much more...

As you can see above, Web Hosting has been used at almost all the places and thus giving reasons for Google to consider the page relevant to the term Web Hosting. This in due course of time with proper link building and additional content should certainly boost your ranking in Google Search Engine.

Hope you benefit from this post and do let me know if this works for you!!!

Cheers,
pubdomains.com - domain registration & web hosting services