Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Web Development For Higher Visitor Traffic

Web design is an indispensable part of the construction of a website. Successful web design requires constant efforts on the part of the web designer. Web development is strongly influenced by the web designers understanding of the psychology of the visitors. A quality web design can have a positive impact on the visitors who seek information from your website. Web design influences the visitor's website behavior. The time span for which the visitor stays on your website, navigates across web pages, etc depends on the patronization of web design by the visitor. Hence, web development must be user-centric and user specific. Web development is an interesting process as well as a challenging task. However, if done well, your web design can yield positive results. High traffic will automatically generate high profits and your website will be successful.

A good web design has certain quintessential properties that differentiate it from other web designs'.

1. Content is the king

Web development stage requires quality content to be posted on the website. You must offer what the customers are looking for. You need to be innovative. Use highlighting, bullets and numbering for better presentation. The content of on web pages must be highly qualitative. The information needs to be apt and refreshing. Your content must reflect your services. Your products must be advertised strategically. Information regarding pricing and particulars must be present for the customers to see. Feedback from users would make a good testimonial reference on your website. A newsletter would be advantageous as it caters to a large audience base. Potential customers must feel glued to your website in order to enjoy high conversion rate.


2. SEO web design
Websites with high traffic employ various search engine optimization tools for their web pages to be visited. This may involve the use of web analytics, catchy advertisements, effective link building, keyword placing, etc. These tools help your website to rank higher on the search engines. Placing some search words in your website content can help your website to perform better on the search engine. SEO is effectively utilized on well known websites. Strategic marketing is also carried out and web design is structured keeping into mind the SEO requirements. An SEO web design enhances visitor quality on your website.

3. Web design is superior
Web design in these websites is superior. The links offered on the web pages are in an operating condition. The navigation is easy. The information is apt and sequential. Systematic presentation of content and effective link building help the websites to prosper. Moreover, there is a sitemap provided for easy navigation. Information is highly desirable and available. SEO is used in an effective way so as to attract traffic.

Hence, for any web design to score, presentation matters. The technical aspects need to be sound and working. Moreover, the eye of the visitor must feel lured when your web pages are opened. Only then can web development and web design ensure higher profitability for your business.

Raj Andrews is a senior experienced web developer with Apex Global Solutions specializing in Custom Website design, ECommerce web development LA, Content Management System, Web Site Maintenance, Logo Development, Company Brochure Design, California Marketing Agency Branding Firm, SEO Los Angeles, Multimedia Development.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Why Your Website Design Is Critical In Attracting New Clients

Websites are the first line of communication a business has with potential clients. It is the easiest way for people interested in your services to find your company and research it and assess your company's viability. A custom web site is the easiest way to describe what services your company offers, and more importantly, how to order and purchase your products. In today's market, potential clients have access to hundreds of websites for everything under the sun. Making your company's website stand out is critical in attracting and keeping new customers.
Creative website development and web maintenance is paramount in establishing a sense of confidence in potential clients surfing the web who land on your site. Even the smallest typos, slow links and distracting features such as popup windows or flashing ads can make clients click away from your business to a more user friendly web design. That's why it is more important than ever to design a web platform that conveys the real character of your business, emphasizes the strengths of your company and cleanly and neatly outlines ways for customers to interface with your business. Reaching new clients and securing new revenue is easier with a stable, well-structured, secure site.
Professional website design can make the difference between attracting clients and Keeping them. On a site that is easy to navigate, the viewer can move quickly and efficiently through different pages while always having an easy link back to the homepage. A site that is customer friendly subconsciously reflects a business that is well-designed and customer oriented. Keeping information on each page current and clearly organized creates a sense of trust and confidence in the viewer that extends to their interaction with your business. If they feel they can trust your website, they will trust your business as well. Keeping them on your page helps ensure their business.
More than ever, companies need to focus on website maintenance and website trends. Creating easy and secure checkouts is critical to finalizing a transaction. And in today's fast-paced virtual economy, keeping your business's website easy and quick to use is critical when there are limitless options available to potential customers. Finding a reliable company to design, maintain and improve your company's website can make the difference in growing your revenue. The best way to increase your business is to invest in a web platform that supports your company's standards and invites new clients to stay and use your services, rather than those of your competitor.
Apex Global Solution is web marketing and website Design services Provider; we have highly qualified web developer, designer and SEO Experts. AGS is Best Web Development Company and Internet Marketing Company in California. Email us at: info[at]apexglobalsolutions.com Or Call 213 624 2600
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Why SEO Comes First

I’ve been an SEO for many years and during that time I’ve worked with all sorts of web developers – each with their own mix of talents and enthusiasm. For all their hard work, good intentions and passion, generally speaking they’ve all been a massive dud when it comes to one particular aspect of online marketing: search engine optimisation.

It’s not the fact that web designers tend to be bad at SEO that’s the problem – in fact I’m glad they are otherwise there would be no work for people like me. The problem starts when they claim that they do understand it, partly in order to secure the work.

And for the record, whilst I wholeheartedly appreciate that there is a distinction between designers and developers, I have found each are guilty protagonists, so I apologize if I use these terms interchangeably. If pushed I would also say that your average Mac user knows far less about SEO than your average PC user (and take from that what you wish), but as I am about to explain, having a little knowledge could well be worse than having none at all.

Web Designers’ Views on SEO

Generally, when you ask a web designer what he or she knows about SEO – if their sun-starved faces don’t completely go blank – they may talk about title tags, pretty URLs and maybe even a sitemap.

What’s for certain is that they won’t discuss anything other than the on-site technical aspects of their websites.

That’s fine – these are important parts of optimization and many designers don’t even get that far. I’ll go further and say thank goodness that the days of frames are long gone whilst the irony of not a single Flash website showing up in Google for the phrase “Flash website” isn’t lost on an SEO.

So, let’s consider a typical scenario. Along comes your average relatively clueless client to a web designer studio and they (or their sales team) go through the sales process, show them how great their existing clients’ websites look and demonstrate their excellent hosting plans as the client nods along enthusiastically to the sales patter.

Five minutes before the sales meeting closes, the clients ask about this SEO they’ve read so much about. The design team issues a final gush about how all their sites are search engine friendly and will easily be found by the spiders and what’s more, they even install Google analytics for free! And so the deal is done.

Six months down the line and sales on the client’s site are lackluster, traffic is low and the return on investment is negligible. Along comes an SEO, and before he can even say “Your site has canonicalization problems and no call to action”, the client’s defences are up. He’s already “had SEO done” and it didn’t’ work – anyway, he’s now spending his marketing budget on Yell.com and an advert in the local press.

Thank you, Mr Web Designer – another potential client gone, another website without a marketing plan and another detractor of SEO as a profession.

SEOs’ Views on Web Design
Let’s flip this around and ask an SEO about Web Design and – if they even find the time away from their ridiculous workload to answer – they may talk about HTML, headers, bodies and footers and maybe a bit about PHP or CSS. Ask them if they can also provide a website and they would have no hesitation in referring you to someone else who knows better – probably someone they are connected to through a LinkedIn account.

In the same way a car mechanic might be a dab hand at making a vehicle go faster, he wouldn’t for one second assume he’s also best suited to then race it. Web designers have to detach what they do from anything to do with what a contemporary SEO would do.

Web designers are hurting the search marketing industry at the very source. When clients whose understanding is only as good as the person who is telling them think that SEO is what web designers do, we’re at the bottom of a big uphill battle.

This is the fundamental problem – web designers are the gatekeepers. They are client’s first port of call and because their work is what the client sees and understands, it is they who influence the site’s design and functionality.

It’s generally up to the SEO to then clean up the mess and rectify the oversights the developers and clients between themselves have left. This is never good news – just as no mother likes to hear that their children are ugly, no web designer likes to be told their site needs changing.

Why SEO Comes First
The following list skims the surface of what a good SEO will do for their client. Immediately, it is clear that our responsibilities go way beyond onsite optimization and whilst the term SEO remains, our role and scope is considerably wider ranging. If there is a web developer out there who considers all of these aspects, then good on you – but I doubt you have time to do all this as well as design websites.
  • Site Accessibility
  • Keyword Research
  • Content Creation/Strategy
  • Link Acquisition
  • Social Media
  • Pay Per Click
  • Search Protocols
  • Community Involvement
  • Local Search
Putting the Cart Before the Horse
Two parts of what an SEO provides are largely ignored by web designers, much to the disaffection of their clients: Keyword Research and Traffic Acquisition.

Keyword research should be the starting point of any web build. If you do not know what your prospective customers are looking for, how do you know what words the site should be optimised for? Formula One designers consider the tracks their cars are going to go around before they build the cars. Fisherman consider what fish they are after before they choose the nets they use. Why wouldn’t a website be built and optimized for the words they need to target?

The second and most important part of SEO which web designers fail to recognise is how the site is going to generate traffic. How and why should the site you are building get traffic and make sales? Pretty images and compliant code doesn’t get you very far.

Web developers rarely consider the strategy of how to make this happen: whether the solution is ultimately through content marketing via a blog, attracting inbound links through link bait or integrating a solid social media strategy, making these decisions before the site is built makes a huge difference to any website’s ROI.

Separation of Responsibility
Each party cannot be expert across the other’s discipline. It is important that each party has an understanding of the other.

What Web Designers need to concede and explain to clients is that whilst their sites may be search engine friendly, they are not offering SEO.

To claim anything else undermines our fledgling profession and misleads clients. We have enough bad SEOs doing that already!

Source by: :http://www.sitepoint.com/why-seo-comes-first/

Sunday, November 13, 2011

4 Graphics to Help Illustrate On-Page SEO by Rand Fishkin

For many SEO professionals, on-page optimization is back to basics. But sadly, there seem to be a lot of us who still make some very basic mistakes. In this post, I'll try to add on to my previous writing on perfecting on-page optimization by sharing some visuals that can hopefully help to hammer key points of the practice home.

#1: The Value of Optimization and the Danger of Overdoing It

I generally abide by the 80/20 rule when it comes to keyword use. 80% of the value to be had comes from 20% of the effort. Nail the title, the headline and make sure the phrase is on the page (and the page is actually on the subject of the keyword) and you've done your job. The additional impact on rankings to be gained from perfectly calculating the number of repetitions or ensuring every paragraph fits into the "theme" of the keyword and document is likely to be a waste of time better spent on other priorities. That's what this graph tries to illustrate:


Nothing in the on-page world is going to provide exceptional ranking influence, but getting perfect is often only marginally better than just nailing the title and headline. If you're spending a ton of bandwidth on the last 80% of work (providing 20% of value), I might re-consider your to-do list.

#2: On-Page SEO is More than Keywords

When I first got into SEO in the early 2000's, the search engines seemed to have a fairly naive algorithm for content analysis, which led to SEOs adopting equally naive tactics for on-page optimization. Years later, these tendencies, sadly, still persist.

Yes, it's essential to effectively target your keywords in your page titles, headlines (or early in the body copy), URLs, etc. But content analysis has become far more sophisticated with engines "reading" pages almost the way humans do and pattern-matching good content, design, layout and usability. There may even be some elements of on-page analysis that look at the authenticity and passion of the written word (or something that approximates it).

In the graphics below, I've tried to illustrate this:


I'm not suggesting one shouldn't optimize for keywords or that using terms and phrases that stay relevant and on-topic won't help. I'm merely noting that optimizing for the experience real, human users have and the value they derive from your work can produce outsized returns to simple, classic on-page optimization.

#3: How Search Engines Can Measure a Page's Value

This one's less of an illustration and more of a text-based diagram. I wanted to help explain all the signals Google can measure from their many sources of information, and how this can potentially affect SEO:

Google's tremendous reach across the Internet, measuring nearly everything and every way people interact with web pages brings with it powerful data. That data is likely used to improve the quality of search results by helping the stuff that appears authentic, editorial and high quality to rise up while the junk falls to the bottom (at least when the data+algorithms work properly).

For on-page optimization, this means we can't merely focus on keyword targeting. We need truly great content.

#4: Consolidation vs. Multi-Page Targeting

The question of whether to target two keyword terms/phrases on the same page or build individual pages for each seems to be a consistent struggle for SEOs. I field a question like this almost every week, and in 9/10 cases, the following flowchart would provide the right answer:


It's not complex - and that's the beauty. When targeting similar phrases or phrases that can work together and target the same intent for most users, a single page should suffice. When the phrases cannot logically work together in a title/headline or when the intents don't have a high likelihood for overlap, it's time to build different pages and target the keywords separately.

Feel free to use these in your presentations, websites and internal/client documents (though a source credit is much appreciated). And best of luck with your keyword targeting + on-page efforts!

Twitter Finds – 11/11/11

The recap this week is going to be a small one because I created a massive one for #pubcon. However, I did see the following articles and they had some great information.
Pubcon Massive List
Blogging
SEO
News
Social Media
Google
Google May Penalize Ad Heavy Pages – Search Engine Land
PPC

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hire SEO Expert

Do you have an online business targeting the Canadian market? Or are you residing or doing business in Canada? If you are, then for sure you have been looking for different methods to boost up sales and yet you have failed to succeed.
This is where hiring an expert takes into the picture. Have you heard about SEO? To give a brief overview about SEO, it is called search engine optimization which is a process that involves the using of different techniques and strategies in order to drive more traffic to your website and eventually convert such traffic to paying customers. How's that sound? Interesting, right?
However, SEO is something that you do not learn overnight. It requires thorough research, understanding and application before you can say you got it.
Always remember, in business time is money. You do not want to waste every second of your day reading and analyzing what SEO is. You could have use all those hours and days or even weeks to negotiate with investors, gain more customers and etc. As they say, leave this one to the expert.
This is where an SEO expert takes into the picture. He or she is the right person to call. First, such person obtained good knowledge about the Canadian market and the purchasing power of the public.
Second, he or she has an in depth knowledge of what strategies and techniques to use in order to increase traffic which in return bring in more sales for business.
Third, this person does have the qualification to do the job well compared to others since he or she has been an SEO expert for quite some time now.
If you want to hire the best in the business to do the job for you, prepare to pay a hefty professional fee. Some would require you to pay a couple of thousands of dollars in order to hire them to do the job. However, if you are on tight budget there are some experts out there who can offer their services at relatively cheap price. But you should be very careful not to be deceived by their price tags. Just because they are expensive it does not mean they can deliver quality services and not because they are cheap it does not mean that they offer crap services.
You must weigh your options first and compare your chosen SEO experts that you have gathered around through online research. Analyze, if you want you can go ask further inquiries in order to test how well-verse are they in their field of expertise and to check if they are talking for real or it is more sales talk at the end of the day.
Remember, your future business success is at stake here, you only want the best and for sure you will reap good fruits in the years to come.
Theseoexperts.info is professional SEO Expert which offers complete SEO, SEM, Web Designing, Internet marketing, PPC and more.
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What is PPC?

Pay per click, or PPC, is an advertising technique used on websites, especially search engines. Pay per click advertisements are usually text ads placed near search results; when a site visitor clicks on the advertisement, the advertiser is charged a small amount. Variants include pay for placement and pay for ranking. Pay per click is also sometimes known as Cost per click or CPC.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Professional Search Engine Optimization Services

Search engine optimization or SEO is all about achieving website popularity and maximum visibility in the leading search engines. Professional search engine optimization services include copywriting, website design, keyword optimization and more. These services are expected to maximize the potential of your website.

Advantages of SEO Services

With a large number of websites being uploaded day by day, there is stiff competition in the field. SEO service is ideal to generate more traffic to your businesses. This service will enhance your online presence and brand recognition in top search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, AltaVista and others. It is not necessary that a company seeking this service should be a well-established one; even a small business firm can create a high ranking website and attract more customers to its business.

Search Engine Optimization Process

To optimize the sites in the search engines, prime focus is given for the keywords. Understanding the requirements of the clients and their business, keyword rich content should be written. Utilizing internet based tools and techniques, the most relevant and appropriate keywords are researched and given to the copywriters. To make a website search engine friendly, the processes include modifying and creating meta tags, title tags, site maps, flash content, editing duplicate contents and so on. After ideally completing the optimization process, the websites are submitted in the major search engines.

Service Providers
Professional search engine optimization service providers usually perform an all in all function. For website optimization, there will be web programmers and developers well-versed in ASP, PHP, JSP, and all types of website technologies. Their services include SEO web design, SEO copywriting, link building, and web hosting among others. There will be talented SEO professionals providing services to businesses dealing with real estate, E-commerce, medicine, education and more. All these services are made available at affordable rates, these days. Before opting for such services, it is important to find the right service providers who have long term experience in the field. You should choose providers who can successfully meet your requirements.

Professional Search Engine Optimization - Viral SEO Services, being a professional SEO company in Sydney, Australia, specializes in offering affordable search engine optimization services for the clients.


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Thursday, April 14, 2011

How Search Engine Works

The term "search engine" is often used generically to describe both crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways.



Crawler-Based Search Engines
Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They "crawl" or "spider" the web, then people search through what they have found.

If you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other elements all play a role.

Human-Powered Directories
A human-powered directory, such as the Open Directory, depends on humans for its listings. You submit a short description to the directory for your entire site, or editors write one for sites they review. A search looks for matches only in the descriptions submitted.

Changing your web pages has no effect on your listing. Things that are useful for improving a listing with a search engine have nothing to do with improving a listing in a directory. The only xception is that a good site, with good content, might be more likely to get reviewed for free than a poor site.



"Hybrid Search Engines" Or Mixed Results
In the web's early days, it used to be that a search engine either presented crawler-based results or human-powered listings. Today, it extremely common for both types of results to be resented. Usually, a hybrid search engine will favor one type of listings over another. For example, MSN Search is more likely to present human-powered listings from LookSmart. However, it does also resent crawler-based results (as provided by Inktomi), especially for more obscure queries.

The Parts Of A Crawler-Based Search Engine
Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. First is the spider, also called the crawler. The spider visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site. his is what it means when someone refers to a site being "spidered" or "crawled." The spider returns to the site on a regular basis, such as every month or two, to look for changes.

Everything the spider finds goes into the second part of the search engine, the index. The index, sometimes called the catalog, is like a giant book containing a copy of every web page that the spider finds. If a web page changes, then this book is updated with new information.

Sometimes it can take a while for new pages or changes that the spider finds to be added to the index. Thus, a web page may have been "spidered" but not yet "indexed." Until it is indexed -- added to the index -- it is not available to those searching with the search engine.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Best SEO Company Sydney For Growing your Business

Heard regarding SEO Companies?

Do you know what are the advantages and benefits you can get from a professional SEO Company?

Yes, you are maybe confused about these SEO Companies, or with SEO itself. You can have heard it many things but you do not know exactly how it works and what are the benefits of it. So don't worry, this article will give you better understand about SEO and the benefits you can get from it, so read on.

Search engine optimization or SEO can provide internet users an easy access to your business website. Definitely, your business means a lot to you, this is the main source of income that you have right now, so you can't easily give your trust to SEO Company, to do the work for you.

It may not be that easy to rely on a SEO Company for your business achievement. There are still a lot of questions that bothers you at the moment. Well, in order to help you out, this article will give you some benefits you can get from a professional SEO Company.

In Sydney, Professional SEO Company can be trusted. They will definitely give you the declaration that they can help you to have a Growing your Business. They will eager to let you know the responsibilities that they have with your business as soon as you work with them. As well, they can't be called professional, if they do not deserve to be called as one.

SEO Company will aid you to be on the top rank of the search engines results. They have the proficiency and know how tools in order for you to be on that situation.

You definitely know that most people use the internet for information, services and products, through the search engines. So you will be having a lot of chances to have plenty of visitors and in turn to be your customers.

Professional SEO Company can help you track and monitor the record of your success, with the help of their years of experience with search engine marketing. They are great in identifying the right keywords that can generate traffic and can ensure speedy results. The expertise that they have includes internal and external expertise. So they have the capability to give you performance feedback.

SEO Company can provide with keyword rich contents that can be useful to users and to the search engines which can lead to traffic and visibility. So these users can be your customers. With the aid of the SEO Company, you win the battle with your competitors. For sure you have a lot of competitors, but with this internet marketing that SEO Company can provide, you will be ahead of them all.

Wondering how to find the best SEO Company?

That's simple. Just type in the topic or subject of your business website on the search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing then open the websites that are on the top rank, and look for the SEO Company Sydney who made them on that position then contact them for Growing your Business.


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Top Tips For On Page Optimization

Actually SEO services divided into three parts. The First one is known as advance SEO suggestion. In this particular SEO industry several SEO analysts are using this part before choosing the domain name of a site. They usually put the targeted market or most targeted key phrase into the domain name.

But if the client is not influenced by this advance SEO suggestion and if they are keener to put their brand name into the domain then the remaining two parts are available for SEO analyst. The first one is on page optimization and off page optimization.

You can define the off page optimization as the entire web promotion of a site. The total SEO work done on the back end of a site is also known as off page optimization and entire SEO Work done into the front end of a site which is viewed by visitors and crawlers is known as on page optimization.

The cumulative effect of off page optimization reflects to the growth of keyword placement into the search engines through on page optimization. Thus it is know as the basement or you can say the soul of any SEO services. This part of optimization is done very carefully, smartly and should be done after a strong internet research for that site.

20 Tips which to be maintained when you done any on page optimization.
  1. Title tag of every page should be unique and keyword infusion into the tile tag should be done smartly.
  2. Meta descriptions of all pages should be written uniquely and also a well measured knack of keyword alteration into the description should be their.
  3. Try to avoid image links or flash links or Java script links for inter linking of you site.
  4. Optimize the images of your site with "Alt Tag" because crawlers are unable to read images. Thus put some effective sentence into the "Alt tag" which is containing your selected key phrases as well.
  5. Ensure "search engine bots" with adaptation notification are placed at all of the pages.
  6. Do not forget to check whether any broken links exist on your site or not.
  7. In case of internal linking of your website, you should use text links and try to alternate your keywords into those texts.
  8. Remember you should use targeted keywords as text in case of cross linking between your own pages.
  9. Do not forget to infuse your selected keywords into your web content for every page and those keywords should be relevant with the page content or topic.
  10. Try to spread text links for important web pages from your main page (index page) of your website.
  11. If the site is older but newly come to you then check whether their any black hat techniques are used or not, if so then remove them quickly.
  12. Remember links of your all web pages should be short and easily accessible by search engine crawlers. Change unwontedly long links if exist.
  13. Do not forget crawlers are unable to read image contents. So try to avoid images for placing your content and place contents within the text part of your web page.
  14. Make sure that robot . txt of your site should be placed with appropriate instructions.
  15. If your site has enormous pages then situate a site map at your website for visitors.
  16. Canonical issue should be solved before starting off page optimization.
  17. Try to place a common header and footer text within H2 tag. Here you can alternate your keywords for increasing keyword density.
  18. Do not forget to situate a XML feed or a ROR site map at your site and the link of that feed should exist as a link at the index page of your website.
  19. Ensure the important links of your website should be static. Try to avoid dynamic links for your important business pages.
  20. W3C Validate is mostly required for SEO which ensures conformity of your site with all kind of browsers.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1098762

Friday, March 25, 2011

Top 10 SEO Tips By Steve Wiideman

Website Optimization is a complex issue, but should be known by every entrepreneur who wants to succeed on the Internet.

According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, optimize is finding the best way to perform an activity. Therefore, optimization of your website would make it comply with the best possible with each of its functions.

Some of Top 10 SEO Tips

  1. Find the Best Keywords
  2. Discover What Your Competitors are Doing
  3. Write Very Linkable & Sharable Content
  4. Optimize Your Title and Meta Tags
    1. Optimizing Your Homepage Title
    2. Optimizing Your Homepage Meta Description
    3. Optimizing Subpage Titles and Meta Tags
  5. Optimizing Your Headings and Subheadings
  6. Use Title and ALT Attributes
  7. Optimizing File Nomenclatures
  8. Tell the Search Engines What to Index
    1. Optimizing Your robots.txt File
    2. Redirecting Duplicate Content
  9. Feed Search Engines Static and XML Site Maps
    1. Optimizing Your Static Site Map
    2. Using XML Site Maps
  10. Use Checklists and Validators
About the Steve Wiideman who gives us These SEO Tips

Steve Wiideman, is the author of many popular online publications, including his Free SEO eBook, SEO in a Day. His prior work included The Four Layers of the SEO Model: How to Rank Higher in the Search Engines. Wiideman holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in E-Business Management and was one of five students to win the Career College Association's GREAT Award in 2006 (Graduate Recognition for Excellence, Achievement, and Talent). He has also earned Congressional recognition for representing California as one of 5 national winners of the award and for the work he has done helping entrepreneurs transition to the Internet. Wiideman still plays a major role in helping students understand ecommerce and internet marketing best practices.

Over the last decade, Wiideman has written dozens of articles, eBooks, and online publications. He has been featured as an SEO Expert in many popular magazines and has worked with an enormous portfolio of large, medium and small business clients.


Resource: http://www.top10seotips.com

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

SEO Strategy That Supercharges your Website Revenues

For most people new to the home based Google Adsense web business, the thought of producing it large, so quickly, seams to overwhelm them, given the hype that circulates day-to-day in the world wide web advertising field. Most of information passed all more than the world wide web about Adsense income is shrounded in half truths and does not reflect the basics of Search Engine Optimization Method, that any inexperienced webmaster should fully grasp with ease and effectively outdo any competitors.

Initial, like any offline business, 1 can’t overlook the value of development more than a Extended period of time in all elements connected to your internet site growth and deveopment. There are two major growth parameters in any website The On Page Search Engine Optimization Technique and The Off Page Search Engine Optimization Technique. Each of these Search Engine Optimization strategy are so associated that none can survive with no the other.

The On Page Search Engine Optimization Technique involve The structure of the Title Tags on your web page, The Keywords and phrases, The Description Tag, The Robot Text file, The Keyword density, The keyword Positioning, The Alt Image Text, The h1, h2, h3 Tags and The positioning of the Navigational Hyperlinks, While the Off Page Search Engine Optimization Methods is solely dependent on The quantity of Reciprocal hyperlinks on your webpage, Non Reciprocal Links to your webpage The quantity of fresh content material on your webpage. Please, kindly note the use of the word “webpage”. Webpage, given that this is the fundamental unit of ranking used by practically all search engines.

The Search Engine Robots are such intelligent that they are in a position to decipher, from the content of your webpage, the Keywords and phrases and the Keyword Density the moment they pass by means of your internet site. The robots will also take the initial 20-25 words of the most related sentence on your content which you notice on the description of your webpage as soon as they have indexed it. For this reason one might feel that On Page Search Engine Optimization Strategy may not be as important, but for the purpose of Off Page Optimization, The h1, h2, h3 tags and the webpage content material are the fundamental reason for any webmaster to want to link to your site.

The competitors for targeted guests is Immense. This implies that its crucial to incorporate all these elements on your webpage because fundamental reasoning will prevail even though ranking is done by the search engines. A Webpage which has accomplished On Page Optimization will rank much better than that which has not, even though it may have good content material.

Off Page Optimization SEO Technique is the cradle of ranking by the search engines. The more related internet pages that have linked to you, the far better for your web site. There is some basic understanding that, the anchor text used in linking really should be comparable to the content material on your webpage, but any significant webmaster will inform you that not withstanding the anchor text, the content from each WebPages linking to every single other should be closely associated. If your webpage content is about Acne, linking to a webpage about health with Acne anchor text will hurt your ranking.


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Friday, March 11, 2011

Requirements for Site Optimization

Remember that one of the minimum requirements to put into practice the techniques of search engine optimization is to comply with international rules of the W3C HTML HyperText Markup Language and XHTML .

Sites built with modern technology (Web 2.0) that are in accordance with international rules can help a lot in relation to Search Engines, in many respects. In many cases, the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XHTML to build the layout and content pages can make the difference due to the factor of how search engines work to make the indexing of sites across the internet. Pages with excessive use of tables can be a risk factor during the visit of a Google Robot for example.

Some professional Search Engine Optimization (SEOs) divided the methods and techniques used in two categories as white hat SEO 'and' black hat SEO .

White Hat techniques methods generally approved by the Search Engines in the application of SEO techniques, such as building content and improving site quality.

Black Hat techniques tricks such as cloaking (cloaking the actual content of the page) the 'filling' and 'repetition of key words, usually in excess, and the practice of spamdexing to try to apply the techniques of SEO. The term' spamdexing (originated from the fusion of spamming and indexing) refers to the practice of spam directed at Search Engines.

Using the techniques of SEO or Search Engine Optimization always try to adopt the posture most honest, ethical, consistent and rational, which is exactly the 'building content clearly an issue’ to the subject or theme of your web site. Simply just put yourself in the position of a person who performs a search on Search Engines and receives between results pages links to a site with misleading content, which does not correspond to reality and which used the keywords searched only with the intention to increase the flow of visitations to the site.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

SEO Companies Sydney, Outsourcing SEO Business

Seo that is Search Engine Optimization is one particular of most crucial methods to boost the traffic on the internet. The approach of editing internet contents according to the criteria of the search engine is called Search Engine Optimization (Seo). Right after the construction of website which is associated to Australia, your subsequent step need to be the optimization of the search engine. You ought to preferably outsource the Seo function to Sydney search engine optimization businesses due to different factors.

Sydney search engine optimization businesses are uniquely qualified for the job of keeping day-to-day watch at changing nature of Seo Sydney and modifying site style Sydney on day-to-day basis in a bid to improve visitors on your internet site. Seo Sydney has a excellent team which does lot of analysis, when they are given a internet site to enhance the targeted traffic. They constantly function with internet site style Sydney and the website owners to come up with the fabulous concepts to get maximum traffic to the site. The Sydney Search engine optimization businesses can devote its complete concentration to the Seo work as opposed to the internet site owners who also have to concentrate on core organization. You can also save up to 100% costs of search marketing and advertising expenditures as this work would be completed by the Search engine optimization Sydney.


By outsourcing Seo Sydney, you can make the transition from effort based campaign to result based efforts as the campaign will be fully target-based. By outsourcing your Seo Sydney, you can lower your costs and get a lot more worth in service. By outsourcing the Seo function to Sydney search engine optimization organizations, you can concentrate on your core strategies and outsource the tough function to the outsourcing businesses. Seo Sydney helps you to drive increased site visitors to your site at a lower cost.

Seo Sydney also maintains day-to-day site visitors reading and statistical analysis so that they can modify the core strategy of securing the best rankings of the web site on the search engine at the net. As per the information analysis received everyday, the team decides the modifications in the strategy employed for finding the leading ranking and escalating the site visitors and converting the sales of the company.

If you do Search engine optimization perform in-house, the time and effort expenses you much more than if you outsource Seo work to Sydney search engine optimization corporations. You will get all the expertise and services with regards to internet site in reasonable prices. So, when you should outsource Seo function to Sydney search engine optimization corporations.


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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Expect From a SEO Consultant

Australians have weathered the financial storm for years now since the global economic recession hit. Many had to tighten their belts, so to speak, as they taken hits in their jobs, professional services, and businesses. People lost their jobs, took pay cuts and even declared bankruptcy. Nowadays, things are looking up financially and Australians are starting to pick up the pieces and make their money move again.

What is a good way to build up a successful business from almost nothing and have fun doing it? If you will ask a SEO consultant in Sydney, selling good products or services over the Internet may be one of the best answers. Not only does it require little financial investment to start with, but it offers the satisfaction and accomplishment of working with clients from all over the world. However, it also entails one important thing: online marketing knowledge. People or even established companies which have engaged in online business and transactions should have an excellent website. A business website must have several elements such as a good web design and search engine optimisation (SEO) plan in place.

Successful business websites that have lots of website traffic and maximise it by converting browsers into consumers, are all search engine friendly. Unfortunately, people who are business savvy are not automatically SEO experts. What they need to do is get the best SEO consultants in Sydney, Brisbane, or in any place they can find one near their locality. An SEO professional possesses certain characteristics that a small business owner or a company boss should know before hiring one. Talented search engine marketing consultants must know more than just link building and internal linking techniques. They know by heart the tasks and responsibilities of starting a search marketing campaign from the ground up and initially, this includes an implementation of a good SEO strategy. SEO consultants have a top level knowledge of search engine optimisation counting indexing skills, ranking methods, online sector categorisation, competitor analysis, and various link building strategies.

Other than the technical skills required for the job, business owners and company bosses could also look for other characteristics in a potential SEO consultant. Of course a SEO consultant is an internet marketing expert too. SEO professionals must show their marketing prowess through their robust client portfolio. They are honed in the insights and response to market needs and behavior of browsers so they can translate this knowledge into a success SEO marketing campaign for their client.

An excellent SEO consultant in Sydney recommends Australian entrepreneurs to leverage the power of local online marketing to expand their reach beyond traditional offline tri-media marketing. The internet is fun and robust to beat the financial crisis and everyone has an equal opportunity. If you have a business whether it is a home based business or a medium scale one, talking to a good SEO consultant in an hour will definitely open your eyes to opportunities you've never imagined before.

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Monday, February 28, 2011

Off Page Search Engine Optimisation

SEO experts have suggested that a greater percentage of search engine optimization has to be done off the page because several search engines such as Google determine the importance of website based on the number of links that come from external websites.

On-page optimization is now considered easier and hence, many webmasters use on-page optimization exhaustively. To improve search engine results, search engines now emphasize on off-page factors. Google has its own patented page rank algorithm which concentrates more on off-page factors while determining page rank of a website. However, this off-page optimization has been in discussion from 1994.

Off-page optimization of website is achieved using sources outside the website. To improve search engine indexing for certain keywords, webmasters should try to relate their website from external pages.

Increasing page rank by improving search engine indexing can be done using search engine optimization. Off-page optimization technique involves link building strategy. Any webmaster interested in showing his website in the top pages of Google search engine should look for off-page optimization to increase search engine ranking.

To get your website included in long term search engine profile, you need to perform off page optimization. Every website owner is looking for a place in search engine result pages. Search engines determine your website ranking for specific keywords depending on authority. Authority is determined by search engines not only by the contents present in your website. Inbound links and outbound links related to links to and from your website are also considered while determining your website's authority. Moreover, authority of websites to which your website is affiliated is also calculated to establish authority of your website.

Off-page search engine optimization in the present world wants you to spread words about your website as much as possible. This means that your website content has to be socialized. This can be done by providing your site contents through RSS feeds. Establishing your website by means of news and media also brings more links to your website. As your website content is available in several places like news, aggregators, blogs, and media companies, it will get more links from the outside. Authority of website also develops because of the availability of website in many places.

Social bookmarking websites are considered very important for off-page SEO. Many social bookmarking websites such as Digg, del.icio.ous, Stumble Upon, etc are very popular. These websites have high authority established by search engines. As you can easily post your website content on the social bookmarking website using blog posts, you can get quality back links to your website effectively. To get deep inbound links, your website viewers can be encouraged to use bookmarking websites throughout your website. Inturn, you get your contents added to their bookmark, which is beneficial for off page SEO.

You must try to include your links to leading directories in your niche. Search engine algorithms consider the source of links to your website. Just by increasing the number of links to your website, you cannot expect great results. The links should come from those places that are relevant to your own website. Search engines can identify the difference between relevant and irrelevant links. When links come form websites with keywords similar to your niche, they are valued high by the search engines. On the other hand, if you get so many links from other websites that are not related to your website, they are not well acknowledged by search engines.

Using all off page SEO techniques, you will develop a circle of profiles that improves authority which inturn increases profile ranking, generating more authority and the process continues. Various off page SEO tactics such as peer-to-peer promotion, link building, advertising, and internet marketing have to be followed all together to achieve desired results.

When you are taking efforts to achieve off page SEO, you have to concentrate more on relevance. You should match SEO techniques with the requirements of your website viewers. With usage of optimization techniques, your search engine ranking will improve. This will definitely bring more visitors to your website. If you don't exploit increased traffic to your website, you end up with wasting your efforts. Internet users will not be satisfied if they don't get what they want from your website.

Your optimization techniques should aim at exhibiting the relevance of your website with keywords. The website must contain high quality content and information that fascinates people interested in your niche. A professionally designed website will only benefit from professionally planned and executed off page SEO.

Your website must contain internal links and the anchor text used is very important. Don't waste this space by providing irrelevant text like click here or go here. Use keywords and key phrases as anchor text. The text you use at different places must be different. Alternatively, you can also use contextual qualifiers that are related to your website. While trying to include keyword phrases, take care that you avoid explicit repetitions that disrupt the flow of the contents.

Following is a short and useful list of sources that you can exploit for increasing number of inbound links:

Themed portals – Article directories such as ezine and discussion forums related to your website niche.

Press releases – Many news websites like BBC allow external websites to post content and links. You can exploit this feature to include new and fresh information related to your website. As these media websites have many readers, your website will be visited by more number of people. Further, search engines will crawl popular websites very often.

Organization websites – Several nonprofit organization websites encourage many people to become a member and promote their website. You can join as many websites as possible as long as they are related to your website content.

Discussion forums – The discussion forums are places that get more traffic everyday. In the signature, you can include your website link and participate in interesting discussions.

Affiliate program – If you have a profitable business, start an affiliate program for your website, and invite many affiliates to join hands with you. This way, you can quickly increase website authority, as the affiliates will happily promote your website if you provide them rewards.

RSS feeds – Internet users will be interested in subscribing to your RSS feeds if you present information in the format they like.

Advertising – Many popular internet directories allow you to publish your links at a fixed cost.

PPC campaigns – To establish relevance of your website with keywords, participate in PPC campaigns to publish your website links in several blogs and websites that are unreachable otherwise.


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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Types of SEO

There are a few well noted types of SEO services but there is no solid rule to comply with. Some can cost much in a span of a year. While there are some SEO services that are very affordable and considered as effective way to do web promotions. This is where sites are submitted to various leading search engines and directories. This can give you instant promotion since it is a cheap way of doing SEO but it can never be always that effective.

There are also some other companies which offer monthly maintenance SEO services to their clients. They report the details and progress of the site on a monthly basis and the cost charged differed depending on which country the client is coming from. What is rendered are for the needs of the management and the other types of services and reports that the client would need in particular. This type is ideal for those businesses that have just started and in dire need of getting their websites to be pushed for promotion.

The next type of SEO services involves consultancy when you want to upgrade or put into the next level the promotional strategy of your business. With this, you can get the advice of the seo consultants who are known as experts in the field, some of them also offering SEO services. You can easily discuss with them all your questions and problems to be able to have a smooth flow of work and advice for your website. You can pay them for an hourly rate or maybe give a partial pay and the rest of the payment once the project has reached its completion. There are also some others who charge depending on the description of the SEO services you might be requiring them to do or give consultation for; whether it would just be about keywords, navigational structure, page optimizations and other activities for internet marketing.

And of course, who cannot forget outsourcing? This is the last type of SEO services which suggests for you to outsource people who would do your promotions task who are also known to be web experts. The cost differs vastly too in this scenario, especially when it comes to quality and the credibility of the SEO service provider. You can get the service of experts at link building who offer very affordable rates or settle for directory submissions. This last type can also come in a consultancy form.

As you choose your way through this list, the last decision of which to settle for still greatly depends on what will successfully suit or fit your needs and the demands of your business. You can even ask your consultant first to refer to you the kind of promotional activities that he thinks your business would require. Just remember that when you put your investment in SEO, anything can still happen. This is especially true especially when a lot of leading search engines unceasingly change their algorithms and rules every once in a while.

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Five SEO Tips for Driving Search Engine Traffic

There are many misconceptions about search engine optimization (SEO) that have sprung up over the years, says Jill Whalen, CEO and founder of High Rankings, that make it difficult for those in charge of online traffic to know exactly how to optimize their Web sites correctly. Here Whalen shares five on-page tactics that professional SEO companies use to drive the most targeted search engine traffic possible to their clients' Web sites.

Do your keyword research. Keyword research is the cornerstone of everything you do in search marketing. Optimizing for keyword phrases that nobody is searching for is truly a waste of time. With today's numerous keyword research tools at our disposal, there's no excuse for optimizing for the wrong keywords. Try Google's free Keyword Tool for starters; if you have multiple Web sites or product types, paid subscription tools such as  Keyboard Discovery and/or Wordtracker are well worth the price.

Redo your Web site architecture. You'll want to ensure that the most popular areas of your site (ideally the pages you optimize) are featured in the main navigation that's on every page of the site. The search engines rightly assume that the most important stuff on your site is in your main navigation, and therefore give extra weighting to those pages in their ranking formulas.

Think of it this way — the pages contained in your main navigation are linked to from every single page of your site. That's a powerful way of building up the internal link popularity of those pages, which is a key ingredient to SEO success. Use this to your advantage by optimizing them for the most highly searched upon, competitive phrases, and save your deeper pages for the more "long-tail" type phrases.

Choose which keyword phrases belong on which pages. Armed with your researched keyword phrase lists, go through the key pages of your site and choose three to six phrases that apply to each page. Many people believe they should optimize each page for only one keyword phrase, but nothing reads as poorly as a page that has only one keyword phrase as its focus.

Ideally, you'll want to use different sets of keywords for each page, but some overlap is fine. Avoid targeting any one keyword phrase on every page of your site — you gain no advantage in doing so. After all, the search engines will only show two pages at most from your site for any search query, so the idea is to show up for as many different phrases as possible. This works out nicely as no two people search in the same manner. You may use certain words to describe your product, but your prospects may use very different ones.

Use keyword-rich title tags, meta descriptions, marketing copy. Using the keyword phrases you chose for each page, write or re-write the visible marketing copy so that it uses those phrases naturally. This may sound easier said than done, but it's actually quite simple . just think more descriptively when you write.

In other words, instead of using generic phrases such as "our software" or "our company," edit the copy so that you mention what type of software or company (e.g., marketing management software or project management software company). You can almost always work in keyword phrases in a natural manner when you do this. This is so powerful, in fact, that if you do nothing else after reading this article but go back to your current web site copy and make those changes, you may start gaining targeted traffic for those keyword phrases within a few weeks.

Measure success from targeted traffic and conversions. SEOs have traditionally measured success by tracking the rankings in the search engines for various keyword phrases. However, due to numerous factors such as personalized search, geo-targeted search and multiple search engine datacenters, no two searches will show the same results.

In fact, it's common to do a Google search using a particular phrase in the morning, then perform the same search in the afternoon and see different results. Rankings are simply not a good measure of success. All the #1 rankings in the world won't mean a thing if a) you're the only one seeing those rankings b) you're ranked for keyword phrases nobody is searching on or c) the rankings bring Web site traffic, but not from people interested in what you are selling. The fact of the matter is that rankings do not help your bottom line. Today, SEO success is measured by how much targeted traffic is delivered, and more importantly how much of that traffic converts from visitors to buyers.

Following these five tactics will undoubtedly take some time and hard work. SEO is not a quick-fix endeavor. However, this type of investment in your Web site's infrastructure will pay high dividends later as your targeted traffic increases, ultimately leading to additional leads and sales. A professional SEO campaign is a long-term proposition that often provides an extremely high return on investment . so be sure you get it right.

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