Archive for the ‘Search Engine Optimization’ Category
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
I have heard from a few different sources now including an interview with Matt Cutts that web page load speed may factor into Google ranking in the near future. The consensus is that it will factor in this year (2010).
Google has released a Firefox plugin called “Google Page Speed” , you need to have the firebug plugin in order for it work. Essentially it analyzes the load speed of all the elements on a web page such as images, CSS, Javascript, etc and then makes recommendations on how to decrease load time.
An interesting development to be sure as Google has traditionally focused only on website content and link popularity. Now it seems they are branching off into web page usability as a factor in ranking. I guess it makes sense as Google’s goal is to provide the most relevant content for a particular search and the speed at which that content can be accessed is an integral part of that equation.
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
If you are a website owner, whether or not your website is used to sell goods or services, you may be concerned with the amount of traffic that you are receiving. If you rely on your website for income, the traffic your website receives can have a positive or negative effect on your finances. If you are interested in getting the most out of your website, you are encouraged to learn more about website marketing.
The main purpose of website marketing is to bring traffic to your site. There are an unlimited number of websites currently operating over the internet. While some of these websites may be unique, most contain similar information or products. To make your website stand above the rest you will need to market it the proper way.
While marketing your website may sound easy, to some it isn’t. Website marketing simply doesn’t entail letting a few people know that your site exists. Instead, you will want to target the whole world of internet users. Unfortunately, this can be a long and difficult task. If you are unable to find the time to market your own website you can easily obtain the services of a professional website marketing specialist.
Website Marketing: What You Need To Know
Whether you decide to handle the marketing of your own website or you obtain the services of a professional, there are some important things you need to know. To start a successful marketing campaign, you will need to familiarize yourself with website marketing and everything that it includes.
Even if you plan on using the services of a professional marketer, you still need to familiarize yourself with website marketing. This will give you an idea as to what you should expect from a professional.
Perhaps the easiest way to market your website is to make sure that your website is picked up by the most popular search engines.
SEO: Keywords, Links, And More
It is ideal that your website appears on the first or second pages of search results. To increase your search engine ranking, you may want to create informational articles or have a professional create them for you. Basing your articles around a particular keyword is the best way to increase your website’s search engine ranking.
Link integration is another effective way that you or a professional website marketing specialist could help to increase the page views that your website see. This is most often done by trading links with another individual who has a website with information or products that is somehow related to yours. If are implementing your own website marketing strategy, you will want to contact other website owners. By offering to display a link to their website, if they provide one to yours, you may see a dramatic increase in traffic.
Search engine optimization and link exchanges are just a few of the many ways that you or a professional website marketing specialist can market your website. Additional website marketing methods may include email marketing, pay per click advertising, and much more. Even if you do not use these website marketing methods, you are encouraged to at least examine them. You may be surprised just how easy it is to increase your website’s traffic.
Tags: Charles Preston, SEM, SEO, small business growth, Website Marketing
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
SEO, or search engine optimization, is how search engines are used to maximize the chances of getting a high ranking. As most Internet users know, you have to have a high ranking among the search engines if you want to get visitors.
Anyone who is searching for something online isn’t going to waste a lot of time by going through several pages of results before they give up and try a different search. That second search may not even locate your web site, and your potential visitor becomes a lost visitor.
Boost Your Search Engine Rankings with SEO
So, search engine optimization is used to boost page rankings with the search engines. Search engines look for sites and rate them upon the number of the keywords searched appear within content on pages on the site. They also look for lots of links.
The desire to have a high ranking with the search engines is great. As everyone knows, you have to have a high ranking if you want to get visitors. And let’s face it, the whole point of having a web site is to get visitors! If you aren’t getting visitors, you aren’t improving business and you aren’t getting customers. And your web site is totally worthless if no one is looking at it. Search engine optimization becomes very, very important when you think about it and everything that it means.
Avoiding Unethical, or, *Black Hat* SEO
Some may be so determined to get those high rankings that they do unethical things with their web sites in order to boost rankings. These unethical practices are best avoided. These practices can be changed, these unethical motives turned into ethical ones, and you can boost your site’s rankings the way you’re supposed to. First, identify the wrong things that you might be doing.
Using your keywords improperly
Search engines are very clever, but they aren’t so smart that they can’t be tricked. Search engines do search sites for content, but they can’t exactly read the content the way that human beings can. Some web sites bury their keywords around a bunch of other words, in text that has no form and makes no sense. Long strings of text with random words like “boating fishing hunting outdoor adventure fish boat hunting the great outdoors forestry fishing rock climbing boating water onboard Alaska” come up all the time. Search engines may only be looking for the words “fish” and “fishing” and since those keywords appear within what seems to be content, a false ranking is given. But don’t do this! Customers don’t like this, and in the end “tricking” a search engine is never a good idea. Your keywords should appear within real content on your web site. Then you will get a genuinely high ranking.
Improper use of META tags
META tags are part of the html code that is used to create a web page. The META tags are what you use to tell search engines what keywords are on your web site, what keywords you want potential visitors to use when searching for your piece of the Internet. Some may use META tags to try and “trick” search engines in a similar way as described above. This won’t work long, however, and search engines do not look by META tags alone. Search engines always search content.
Having false content
“False” content are long strings of text that make no sense, that are only on the site to make use of keywords for search engines. While it’s important to impress the search engines and get that high ranking that’s so valuable, it’s more important to impress your visitors. Visitors like great content, too, and they’re going to be put off by a bunch of text that doesn’t make sense and isn’t a good read. While it’s true that most of the content on web sites is only skimmed over briefly by viewers, you still want that content to make a little bit of sense to them. Have good content, at least real content, and make the most out of your keywords using that content. That’s how to get a truly high ranking with a search engine, ethically.
Tags: black hat SEO, Charles Preston, Search Engine Optimization, SEO
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
How do you get the most out of your web site? Setting up and maintaining your web site isn’t at all difficult, and if there is anything you need to learn you can find out everything you need to know on the Internet. Without too much effort and a lot of time, you can create a beautiful web site, filled with images and great content.
So…how do you get people to visit your site?
Just because you know that your web site is great, it doesn’t mean that everyone else does. There are thousands upon thousands of web sites floating around out there in cyberspace, and everyone has a piece of the pie. For everything there is, there exists a web site. Every single type of business that you could name has its own web site on the Internet.
How are you supposed to get yours to stand out above so many others that are out there? Here are some SEO tips to help you.
How do you get traffic?
Internet users know that search engines are your key to finding what you want. Search engines are a friendly little Internet tool that does the work for us. All we have to do is think about what we’re looking for in the vaguest of terms. For instance, you’re doing a research paper on the wives and daughters of King Henry the eighth of England. So, you go to a search engine and type in the keywords, “Henry VIII and wives.” Just like magic, the search engine instantly presents you with a list of web sites filled with information about King Henry and his many wives.
As most everyone knows, those sites that appear at the top of the list get visited most often. The top of the list is definitely where you want to be, so that potential visitors will see your web site proudly displayed among the best. But, in order to appear at the top of list, you need to know something about search engine optimization.
Which leads to the burning questions: what is search engine optimization? It sounds sinister, but really search engine optimization is simple and easy. The following is a list of tips that will help you with search engine optimization. Using these tips, your web site will appear closer to the top of that list, and you’ll get more traffic on your site:
Simple, easy to spell keywords
Internet users don’t want to take a lot of time – with anything. They aren’t going to spend a lot of time looking at the bottom of a search engine list, and they aren’t going to be that specific or exacting (at least not in the first search) with the keywords that they use. Keep your keywords as simple as possible. Commonly misspelled keywords should be featured on your site under all possible spellings, to maximize the possibilities of getting hits to your site. Long, complex, and hard to spell words don’t get searched out very often, so be sure to use as many short, simple keywords as possible.
Lots of links
Search engines love links, so include as many as possible on your site. Both internal links, links that link to pages within your own site, and external links are good. The more links you have, the better your chances with the search engines.
Lots of content
The more content you have means the more possible keywords you’ll have on your site. Search engines look at sites for content and their rankings are based upon that content, so you’ll want to have plenty of it. Keywords without content is nothing, and search engines don’t give good rankings to sites that have lots of keywords but very little content. Even if you content isn’t the greatest, it won’t hurt your chances with the search engines.
Tags: Charles Preston, search engine optimization tips, SEM, SEO, SEO tips
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
As every Internet user knows, search engine optimization, or SEO, is incredibly important. You can’t get visitors without a high ranking with the search engines, and this is where search engine optimization –SEO- comes in. You have a web site because you want to have visitors, and without visitors there’s really no reason to have a web site at all – right? If you want your site to work, you have to know how to make search engines work for you.
But search engines can be a tricky thing, and not everyone knows how to really use them. A lot of Internet users go to a search engine first, no matter what they might be looking for online. The thousands and thousands of sites that the search engine doesn’t find simply don’t get visited, because no one knows that they exist. Anyone who has ever had a web site knows a little something about SEO, but not everyone knows exactly how to make the most out of it. Search engine optimization can be used to get you more visitors than you ever dreamed, and that’s the whole point of the Internet.
Your web site consists of many different pages, and every single one of these pages can be maximized for search engine optimization. Using your search engine techniques on every page will definitely increase you web traffic and your ranking with the search engines. The tips below will help you turn your site into a number one:
Internal links
First of all, search engines like sites that have lots of links. Put links on every single page of your site. Internal links are the best, because these links will keep your visitors within your site no matter how much they click around and choose different links. Internal links can even link to different places on the same page of the site. Putting your links within content on the page will also help increase your ranking with the search engines. Placing lots of internal links on your site is a great way to optimize your site for the search engines.
External links
You definitely want to have fewer externals than internal links. External links will only lead visitors away from you site, and you don’t want that. However, search engines give higher rankings to sites that have both kinds of links – so be sure to include some within the pages of your site. These links can be buried at the margins or at the bottom of the page, if you wish, but they should still be present.
Keywords
Naturally, your keywords are the most important part of your web site. Each and every single page of your site should be optimized for keywords. Whatever your keywords are, you want them to appear at least four times per page of your site. Keywords must always appear within content, meaning with other text, on the site. Search engines, while they can’t read, can scan text. The more content you have, the better, and you want your keywords to appear frequently within that text on your pages. Optimize every page for keywords, and you’ll get a much higher ranking with the search engines.
Everyone with a web site knows how important search engine optimization is. Search engines will bring in visitors, and a web site must have lots of visitors to thrive. By optimizing every page of your site, you’ll increase your chances of getting a high ranking. High ranking with search engines means more visitors. More visitors mean more profits and more business for you. That’s why SEO is so important, and that’s why it’s something that you absolutely have to do!
Tags: Charles Preston, on page optimization, on page SEO tips, SEO, SEO tips
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