Utilizing the most sophisticated and in-depth SEO methods is absolutely useless if you aren’t using the right keywords. While this may seem obvious to those of us in the industry, I believe there are many who are still using the wrong words and failing at SEO attempts.If you think like your consumer and select the words they are most likely to be searching (even if it’s not what you want to call your product or service), you will find achieve ranking success.I had a client who offered psychic services. This particular client...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
removing a ban from google
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Banned from Google? Ouch. Anyone who’s been banned from Google before knows that it’s not a fun ordeal. As of June 22, 2009, a report shows that google.com is used for around 90% of all searches done on the internet (worldwide). And with the next closest search engines in the running being 85 points away (yahoo.com at 5.5% and the new bing.com at about 4.5%) that’s a pretty big chunk of your traffic being cut out when Google decides to ban your site.How to Know if you are Banned from GoogleSometimes it’s not so easy to know...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
rangking well in baidu search engine
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Getting good rankings in the Baidu search engine is not an easy task if you are accustomed to working with Western search engines such as Google US. The Chinese search engine spiders sites much the same as other spiders. It follows links from one site to another and also follows links that are submitted to it manually. However, there are a few differences in the way the websites are ranked. For instance, Baidu places more emphasis on the number of incoming links and meta descriptions, while Google is concerned with quality of...
Friday, June 12, 2009
hypens or underscores in urls
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In my last post, I wrote about using keywords in your domain. If you have already chosen a domain, you can still benefit by naming your deeper pages with keywords.When placing keywords in the URL you can use hypens or underscores. In the past, the hyphen has been recommended, but opinions vary on which is the best practice for URLs. Earlier this year, Matt Cutts posted a video in which he stated if you are using underscores and they are working for you, don’t worry about changing them. In other words, if you are using underscores,...
Sunday, June 7, 2009
keyword-density-frequency-prominence-proximity
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tips seo
On site optimization is an important factor affecting search engine rankings. It involves all of the changes and tweaks made to the code and content of a website, and tells Google exactly what the site is about.This sounds like a no brainer, huh? Just a simple tweak here and there, and your site is search engine friendly and optimized. Well, it might not be that easy. In fact, there is significant strategy involved.I would like to discuss a particular strategy that can make a big difference when it comes to showing up for your...
Monday, June 1, 2009
seo-questions-and-site-reviews
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Got a question about SEO? Wish someone would tell you if your site is properly optimized for the search engines? We’re launching two new features here on the SEO.com blog: SEO Question/Answer and SEO site reviews. The way the Question/Answer part works is you ask a question about any topic related to online marketing, SEO, SEM, social media, etc. We probably won’t be able to answer every single question, but we’ll do our best to get most of them and at least respond even if we’re not able to post your question to the blog.The...
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