Choose Company That Offers More Than Just Affordable SEO

There are plenty of companies that offer SEO services to small and medium sized businesses. As with most buyers, businesses are on the lookout for unique cost savings services to benefit their online presence. They choose companies that offer more affordable SEO over those that offer the same service with a higher price.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO can be very tricky. It requires intensive knowledge about how search engines work and what people search for. For this reason, it can be sometimes costly. However, you can still get affordable SEO from among many competing companies in the industry.

As soon as you find out about the affordability of the SEO services, your next concern should be the effectiveness of the services. You should see how the affordable SEO company effectively boosts your site's traffic and ranking. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to your web site from search engines via "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier (or higher) your site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. You need to ensure that you get such results from the affordable SEO company that you choose.

So how would you know that the company gives effective SEO services? You need to look at the following:

• Ethical practice. You need to know if the company is using ethical techniques in their affordable SEO services. This way, you can ensure that the result can last longer as opposed to having instant result that only lasts for a while due to your site being penalized for employing unethical SEO practices.

• Targets market niche for high traffic and sales. You should look at the online marketing strategy of the company. The affordable SEO firm should precisely target your customers to increase traffic to your website and eventually increase your revenue.

• Experience. You should deal with a company that has substantial experience and comprehensive knowledge in affordable SEO. Choose a trusted provider in the industry. As much as possible, the company that you deal with should be transparent and sincerely ensures that you get what you really want.

Before signing any contract, read a review or know the background of the company that offers affordable SEO. Don't just settle for the affordability of its service. Get the most value for your money by knowing the company you are dealing with and ensuring that you get the results that you need for your online business.

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Content Writing Makes Higher Ranking In Search Engines

There are infinite SEO professionals all around but the count for exceptional content writers is very few. Websites earn revenues by selling authentic information to customers. Google and Yahoo are widely used by folks all over the world. A single appearance of one's link in these search engines would draw the attention of thousands of visitors.

Website content writing is an evolving new genre of profession, which has a wider and important role to play in the arena of Internet marketing. The profession is already playing an indispensable role over the Internet, and is a boon for online business marketers. It is done by content writers and such genres of content churners especially write for spiders and not for their own good. The main aim is to keep the crawlers satiated and going.

This is the soul purpose of content writing. You have to comprehend the basic fact that the content of your website will be read by different people from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds and therefore, it has to be unique and should shun difficult words, technical jargons, circumlocutions, euphemisms etc as far as possible for seizing the attention of the readers.

Keywords play a most important role particularly for superior rankings in the search engines and also to boost the traffic of the website. Specialized content writers realize the significance of keywords in the given content and will for that reason edge them in a web page or article.

A good article normally maintains utmost objectivity in tonality. An objective piece of writing will not be clouded by the writer's personal views. To give an example, the writer may well be a teetotaler, yet his article on different types of wines in the market will not express his dislike for wine in any way.

The best way to go about proofreading is to make sure that there is someone to proofread everything you publish to ensure that your site has professional, organized web content. Experts feel that all web content .

SEO is essentially a part of the online marketing strategies. The technique, when properly implemented by a professional link building services, would direct the traffic from search engines. Writing website content SEO is beneficial for your business. Here you can employ a few strategies while being careful about certain factors. In a scenario where numerous websites exist with the same theme, the content makes the site stand out from the rest.

Outside the world of the internet also creates opportunity for these services. Initially it may seem that article writing services are unnecessary, but if you work in the corporate world then you may need professional content writing services. The other side of the coin is if you are selling your writing services, you need clients.

There are many offering web site content writing services from India. One area in which the Internet has proven especially invaluable is in turning people's dreams into reality through various writing services available on the Web.

Content writing is getting its big wave in the call center industry. If the account caters to website development and marketing tools, writing articles about your website is an effective way of promoting your website in the Internet.

This enables existing employees in the field of IT itself to shift their career interests to technical writing. Thus, online texting is very dynamic field where industry analysis has shown this field to have an increased growth rate.

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Happy Day With New Wordpress Theme

Last three days ago, I was able to finish my last SEO contest in third position. Although it’s not an extra ordinary achievement, yet I can’t pretend that I’m so happy with that. Thus, during two days, I took a break just to give my brain freshness. For what? If there is no delay, there will be announced new SEO contest oganized by PJ forum again. And of course, I am still interested to take a part inside because the prize and the rules for the next competition are more interesting than the previous one which allowed anyone to use the targeted key phrase in the main domain name. According to its moderator, the next one won’t let this happen again.

Anyway, since it’s still a happy day for me, now I am trying to change my blog theme with new wordpress theme. Although it’s not a newest version, yet I love it so much considering that I have tried in my dummy blog for a couple of time. Beside, now my free blog is gone again, that’s why I prefer to use this Glossy them in this blog instead of ignore it at all. However, I don’t know whether it passes W3 school rules because a few moment ago, I edited to ensure that all pages are SEO friendly for search engine robots. Yet, that’s not the important one. I can still make any changing later on.

Well, this is still in trial use, if you found some errors here, please let me know it. For the last words, I hope you will also have a happy day with something like this new wordpress theme or whatever… Bye.. happy holiday and have a nice weekend.

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MMA Pound For Pound SEO Contest!

Although I am not the first one who found this news, yet I think it’s still okay to publish MMA Pound For Pound SEO contest announcement in this blog. As I said yesterday, this was supposed to be announced in December 18, but in our time zone, it’s already 19. Well, it doesn’t matter whether it’s delayed or not. The most important thing is that this seo contest is already begun. To know the rules and any requirement for competition which probably to promote mixed martial arts pound for pound videos, game and news, please come to the promo junkie official forum or in their seo contest page. Otherwise, just read here, I will inform you as complete as I can both with the main faq.

* MMA Pound For Pound SEO Contest News:

The challenge has been started from today and will end up next March 18 (12.00 AM GMT+7)
* MMA Pound For Pound SEO Contest Rules
* No keyword domain allowed. Sub domain is no problem and the main domain that contains some part of the keywords seems that allowed. However, let’s wait for further explanation by the MMA Forum moderators.
* MMA Pound For Pound SEO Contest Prize

First winner will deserve $1000, then $300 for second place, and $200 for third. Yet it’s not fixed at all since I heard from some people who active in the forum talk that the amount can be bigger.
* MMA Pound For Pound SEO Contest Registration

To enter this great battle, you should be the PJ’s member first then you can register your blog or entry in the official form.

Well, I believe this simple news already cover any questionable thing from this SEO contest. Now, it’s all up to you whether to participate MMA pound for pound or not. Before I go, I just need to say that never hesitate to leave a feed back through the comment form below whenever you have something that not clear. Good luck!

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Why Should You SEO?

As SEO enters the mainstream of business marketing strategies you would think that less time would have to be spent educating people on why SEO is so very important. But the fact of the matter is, many people still just don't understand SEO or the benefits it can bring. Worse, many companies haven't yet grasped the fact that SEO is crucial to long-term online success, especially for small companies without big brand names or budget.

Jake Matthews put together a great post at 10e20 obtaining why search engine optimization is crucial for small businesses. He discusses a handful of benefits that a good SEO can bring to any online business, small or large.

* Obtain Increased and Higher Quality Sales
Just as you begin to optimize your website, long tail search volumes will improve. Over the long term, with a lot of hard work, you can achieve significant positions on the major search engines leading to positive, bottom line results.
* Increased Search Engine Visibility
When a searcher finds you, they have INTENT. They pulled themselves right to you for a reason; they are looking for what you have.
* Brand Recognition
Strong niche oriented organic search results can lead to your brand being associated with that niche over time. Your brand awareness and brand recall strength will increase as time goes on.
* Enhanced Credibility and Legitimacy
Search Engine’s organic / natural results are viewed as authority referrals.
* Investment in your Domain Name
Your investment in SEO is an investment in the value of your domain name and your website as a whole.
* Competitive Edge and Research Advantage
Competitors who see you succeed and beat them out in major search, may in turn bow down to you and want to strike deal with you in any number of business negotiations. Or, you may one day say – hey, I have too much new business coming to me on the web, can you handle my overflow for me and I’ll take a cut????
* Ad Spend predictability and High Return on Investment (ROI)
Optimization has more predictable long term costs and ROI metrics as compared to other components of marketing strategies.
* Passive Business Development
Organic rankings help build traffic from other long-tail (more specific) terms and you site gains more and more momentum.

Expanding on each of these points in greater detail, Jake provides some outstanding reasons why all small businesses should be engaging in SEO. The overall benefit received is substantial, provided the person or company doing your SEO really knows their stuff. While many suggest that good SEO is expensive, like ignorance, not doing SEO properly can be even more expensive.

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Outfox, Outsmart and Outgrow Your Big-Business Competition

I believe that one of the key things that keep small businesses small is that the owners maintain a small business mindset. For many, being small is just fine. They don't ever want to be anything more than a mom and pop operation. But others dream big and want to see big goal accomplished but continue to struggle to "make it big." They can't ever seem to get over that hump that propels them out of small-time territory.

If you don't want to be a mom and pop operation, or you want to be more than the small business you are, then it's time to start thinking not like the small business you are but like the bigger business you want to be.

The first place to start is with your online marketing campaigns.

With a few exceptions, online marketing has leveled the playing field significantly for the small business. However, as more companies make the move into online marketing the playing field is becoming slanted again. Bigger companies with larger budgets, better recognized name brands, and a larger team of people to manage multiple online marketing campaigns are gaining an advantage. It's becoming increasingly difficult for small businesses to make headway into competitive fields against this onslaught.

But that's not to say it can't be done. There are still plenty of opportunities for small businesses to succeed, even against well-financed competitors. But to do so it requires some clever thinking and swift moving; two things which big businesses are generally not too good at.

Think smarter than a big business

Online Marketing and SEO success is not always about achieving number one rankings. Over the years I've learned to quickly determine which of those businesses that come to us are serious about their success. Those who "want to be #1" are looking for a quick fix. Those that want to build visibility and improve conversions and sales are looking at the bigger picture. Rankings are a means to an end, not the end itself.

Are #1 rankings still possible? Sure. Are they wise? Depends on the phrase, the targeted traffic it draws, the conversion rates it achieves, and the amount of time and money it takes to get it there. There are a lot of great #1 rankings that can be achieved that will do wonders for your company, yet many business owners focus on getting #1 rankings for the keywords that don't give them a good return on their investment.

Even if you already own the top positions, so long as you have the small business mindset you're going to find yourself disappointed. You can only hang on to the tops spots so long with a budget of a few thousand a year, when some upstart comes along and throws tens of thousands of dollars a month at their online marketing campaigns. Enjoy the success while you can, but don't expect to hold onto that forever. Rankings change.

Success is always relative. A small business does not have to spend $10,000 per month in order to do well online. Most small businesses, even if they had such a budget, are not set up to handle the same kind of success as large businesses. You have to grow into that. But every small business owner investing in online marketing needs to keep their expectations in line with what can be done and what kind of success they can handle. Budget doesn't always make or break success, but it does play a role in it. The key is to find the areas where your budget will see the most return.

Organize time like a big business

As a small business owner, you need to determine how your own time is best spent. Do you have time to do it all yourself? Or is it time to think outside the small business box and hire someone to handle certain jobs that you don't need to be doing?

Most small businesses hire help as needed but when it comes to their online marketing they want to "save money" by doing it on their own. Why is the marketing any different from the other jobs you hire for? Would you try to do everything yourself? And if you did, would you be able to grow your business as you want? The answer is likely "no."

Part of thinking like a bigger business is being willing to not do everything yourself and put it in the hands of those who can really bring you the most success. Let skilled people do the jobs they are good at so you can focus on the job you're good at.

Move more swiftly than a big business

While the small business can't always hire everybody it wants for every job there is, they do have one advantage over the big business that can work in their favor. That advantage is adaptability. Big businesses often move too slow, but as a small business you have the luxury of being able to adapt and move fast.

You can have a big business mindset but take advantage of your small business position. Moving swiftly into new areas of marketing can reap huge rewards as you invest in areas your competition is overspending and underperforming, without having to go through layers of approval and red tape.

This is where outside consulting can come in handy. Having someone take a strategic look at your online marketing efforts and help you identify your own and your competitor's weaknesses can really open up your eyes to new opportunities. Of course, you then have to be willing to do what it takes to invest in those opportunities.

Small businesses have to stop letting the small business mindset keep them from performing big. You don't have to be a big business to win in the online marketing game, but you do need to get out of the mom and pop rut.

Be willing to take risks, but do so wisely and well-informed. And like big businesses, be willing to fail a little here and there if it teaches you how to succeed bigger later. You don't have to spend like a big business, but you won't go far so long as you keep thinking like a small business.

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5 Worries That Can Kill Your SEO Campaign

Small businesses are often seen fumbling around in the dark when it comes to figuring out which SEO strategies really work and which don't. There is an onslaught of information freely available online, much of it contradictory or confusing. Small business owners who attempt to perform SEO for themselves don't often know which strategies are more important than others, which are worthwhile and which are worthless, or how do you tell the difference.

Slogging through SEO forums, blogs and article sites can provide a great deal of good information, but it can also leave the small business owner confused on what--or what not--to do.

Those that choose to hire an SEO provider can push some of their SEO decision-making burdens off onto someone else, but some then open the door to a whole new set of worries that can circumvent their online success, even with a successful SEO working for them.

Spending nights worrying about your SEO campaign can eat up a lot of energy that is better applied to other, more important matters. While every business owner needs to be fully aware of the progress being made by their SEO's efforts, they also need to trust that the SEO knows what is needed for them to succeed. For that to happen, here are a few things the business owner need to stop worry about. Failure to do so can kill an SEO campaign in its tracks.

1) Worrying about making page edits

Without changes there is no SEO. You can focus on link building, social media, ad campaigns, etc, which can bring you limited success on their own. However, if you want your site really perform for your targeted keyword phrases, you have to be willing to make keyword focused and other architectural edits.

All too often site owners don't want to make necessary changes to their site's because they are afraid of losing customer focus. This is a legitimate concern but also one that is often misplaced. Site improvements designed for search engines often align with site improvements for your visitors. If searchers are using specific phrases in their search, it makes sense that your visitors will be served seeing those very same specific phrases on your site.

Don't be afraid of making changes to your site. The goal of any good SEO is not to just improve your search engine rankings, but help you increase your business.

2) Worrying about shifting rankings

It's a simple fact of life that search engine rankings change. New sites are always going online, old sites are disappearing, new information is added to the web, and new competition with fresh marketing dollars emerges. Add to that the fact that search engines are always tweaking and adjusting their algorithms and you've got a search engine ranking roller coaster.

That doesn't mean that you ignore keyword rankings completely, but if you're compelled to monitor your rankings, don't do it on a day to day basis. Most search engine ranking changes are insignificant and just part of the normal fluctuations that occur.

What you do need to be concerned about is overall trends. If you do start seeing a month to month trend of a loss in rankings dropping that's when you need to start looking at things more closely. Don't sweat the small stuff, but instead look at the bigger picture.

Another problem worrying about small shifts in rankings is people often get concerned about the wrong keywords and the wrong engines. Google drives the most traffic, but isn't always the best at converting. Improvements in other engines that may convert better may be worth a sacrifice of lower rankings in Google. Again, it's about the big picture.

3) Worrying about trying new things

Good optimization and marketing isn't a linear process. Every site is different as are the site's needs. Many changes recommended will be standard fare while some will seemingly come way out of left field. Give all proper consideration, and don't be afraid about doing something different.

One thing to keep in mind is that success comes through trial and trial produces error and failures. We've all heard the story that when Thomas Jefferson failed thousands of times for every success he ever made. Hopefully you won't have to fail that often in your website marketing, but be prepared for some things not to work.

Fear of failure is not a reason not to try. We tell the same to our kids and we need to take that to heart in our businesses. Step out, and be willing to try something new.

4) Worrying about making large-scale changes

Before a site can be optimized for your targeted keywords, it needs to be optimized for search engines. I call this having a "search engine friendly" website. A lot of sites are build by developers that don't know much about SEO beyond meta tags. The sites they build may look good but won't perform well in the search engines because the site architecture isn't search engine friendly.

The last thing you want to do is to pay a lot of money on an expensive optimization campaign if your site isn't in a position to be optimized. That's just putting SEO frosting on a website dung pile. Big changes need to be made before you can really start focusing on the actual on-page keyword targeting. In many cases you have to be willing to burn the site to the ground. Other times it's less severe but many structural changes will need to be made before any SEO can be effective.

Failure to make these big changes will ultimately result in poor performance of any optimization campaign you implement. Don't be afraid to make the big changes necessary for your small SEO changes to succeed.

5) Worrying about investing in long-term SEO

SEO is a long-term investment, not a one-time expense. The changes you need to make to optimize your site will cost you both time and money.

All too often businesses looking for an immediate boost turn to SEO as if it's some sort of magic bus ride to the top of the search engine rankings. They don't want to spend much money but they have very high expectations. Unfortunately, SEO isn't like building a fence. There is much more to it than having a bit of knowledge and a few tools to work with.

Those who are afraid to spend what it takes for their SEO campaign to succeed rarely ever do succeed. They limp along with sites that under perform and ultimately cost more to market than if the money was spent sooner to make the changes requires.

Worry tend to cause bad decisions. When we worry, we tend to make decisions based on how we feel at the moment rather than basing our decisions on facts and evidence. When you turn your SEO campaign over to another person, or even do it yourself, there is enough to worry about without adding to it.

As business owners you have enough on your plate. Make wise SEO decisions but leave the worries over superficial matters behind. By focusing on the wrong things you can sink your SEO campaign before it even has a chance to get off the ground.

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4 Basic seo step for wordpress blog

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the steps taken to increase visitors to a website or blog through search engines (search engines) like Google. The steps in the process of SEO is very much at all and there are a variety of ways.

For wordpress blog that use self hosted (like this blog), particularly the new blog, SEO is a step we can do to increase the number of visitors. WordPress is already very SEO Friendly, but we still need to do several steps to optimize SEO on wordpress blog and get the best results on the SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Here are the basic steps SEO we need to do :

1. Permalink Setting

The default setting of permalink structure (URLs for each post) on wordpress is not good for SEO. Basically the search engines is not have any problem with the permalink like that (the default) but it would be much better by using “clean url”. For best results in the SERP, use the permalink “%postname%” only. Go to your Dashboard and open the Settings menu, then select the Permalink menu.
2. All In One SEO Pack Plugin

For SEO on wordpress, All In One SEO Pack plugin is absolutely you need to install. With this plugin, you will be very helpful in the affairs of SEO your blog. Plugins All In One SEO Pack will handle the problem rewrite tittle, meta keywords, meta description, and others.
3. Related Post Plugin

One important plugins that need to be used on wordpress blog is Related Post Plugin. This plugin also benefit visitors and search engines. Related Post plugin automatically displays the related post (related article) under each post that we make, usually based on the tag of each post. Your blog visitors will be very helpful to find links to articles related to the post which he read.
4. Update Services

Update services is a tool we can use to make other people know we are updating our blog with a List of Ping Sites. This list can be found here, then copy and paste on your blog Update Services. Please open the Dashboard, then click Settings and open the menu Writing. Update Services are usually located at the bottom of this page.

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long keyword

I know my title is long and ridiculous, but it does help emphasize what long tail is all about. “Long tail” keywords are a string of three or more words that make up a phrase. The concept of long tail is pretty simple: Tap into the large amounts of search traffic using longer keyword phrases. Like traditional (one or two word) short tail keywords, long tail keywords define what is on the web page and what the website wants to be located under in search engines and on SERPs.
Search engine algorithms’ are getting more and more complex. When a website gets crawled by search engines, they are taking into account the keywords and phrases found in the indexable text of the web site. All indexable words on the page factor into which keywords and phrases the page ranks for. Of course, the frequency and placement of consecutive words are the biggest factors into which keywords and phrases rank the best.
Because of this fact, long tail keywords serve a dual purpose. They can refine search terms to a web page, as well as assist a searcher in locating something very specific. For example: if a consumer is looking to purchase “pink furry strawberry slippers” it makes more sense to search on the entire phrase than to put in “furry slippers,” “furry strawberries,” or “strawberry slippers” and attempt to filter through irrelevent search results.
Another big difference between short and long tail keyword phrases are the search results. If you were to search the keyword “counseling” in Google, you will receive 55,200,000 results. Then, if you look up the short tail keyword phrase “counseling jobs” in Google, it returns 10,900,000 results. Finally, if you enter the long tail keyword phrase “drug counseling jobs” in Google, it provides 323,000 results. Although the long tail keyword phrase is searched less than the shorter keyword phrases, there is much less SERP competition.
Using long tail keywords to corner a smaller market has just as much potential, if not more, than using short tail keywords in a larger, more exposed market. Some sites may discover that the long tail isn’t quite as rich in their market, while other sites will do far better by targeting the long tail. Either way, using long tail keywords where you can, will definitely give you the advantage over your competitors.

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what does alexa with seo?

Disappointed? Yeah. Threw me into my low-mid-life crisis. We should have held a memorial for baseball as we knew it.
I remember the years when baseball was a man’s sport, not a cheaters sport. I loved it. I couldn’t miss a Mariner’s game rain or shine…more rain than shine, but the King Dome ruled. I was there to watch Griffey’s rookie season, the Jr. and Sr. tandem, his first Grand Slam and A-Rod’s inaugural homerun. Jay Buhner, Pete O’Brien, Dave Valle, Harold Reynolds, Tino Martinez, Omar Vizquel, The Big Unit…all ancient memories now. We’re talking stone-age ancient, or so it seems.
When the recent news came out about Alex Rodriguez, I was broken for a day. Extremely disappointed. Literally every last one of my hopes for baseball’s future was finally strung out to fade in the sun on an unreachable limb of shame.
How does baseball bounce back from having its icon player completely, publicly wamboozled? Who knows. Alas, we’re not here to talk about the MLB and roids. Thankfully.
Something Profound Amidst the Muck
And what else is there to do than apply the A-Fraud stuff to SEO? Yup, we can apply what A-Rod is going through to SEO. It’s brilliant, check it out.
A-Fraud broke the cardinal rule of SEO, and, well, of life too. Though steroids weren’t in the day to day conversation back then, he marginalized his personal brand integrity and partook of ‘grey area’ stuff when the consequences of taking it weren’t even considered. Steroids was part of the ‘loosey goosey’ era in baseball where players, coaches and trainers just looked the other way and let it happen (I would have considered it flat out cheating, but, to be fair, it actually was a grey area back then. It baffles me as to why but that’s just how it was).
Every day at magic-seo.blogspot.com we come across webmasters that have doomed their business to SEO failure. They’re doing the exact same thing that A-Rod did, but to their businesses. They marginalize their site’s integrity by partaking in grey area, loosey-goosey stuff without concern for future consequences. They pump the juice to get some cool short term results without a thought for future ailments that may come of it. Bad idea. Very bad idea.
When you have an all-seeing and omniscient powerhouse like Google looming over you, as a webmaster, you can’t hide under ‘ignorance’ like A-Rod did for so many years. Google doesn’t care who you are. They know everyone and are everywhere, watching you. Kinda creepy. More creepy knowing they control your web business, at least the free traffic part of it. So you HAVE to make them happy. You have no choice. They are no respecter of persons [or websites]. They will find you and they will dump your site as if it didn’t even exist. And search engine placement resurrection is a difficult, lengthy process.
Avoid Grey-ness Like You Would Steroids
Using A-Rod as an example of what happens when you go the grey hat route, you get hammered when the sun exposes the true colors or when the market/boss changes expectations. In other words, once Google finds out or changes policies (and they will) you get hammered. Once the U.S. found out about her golden boy baller’s ugly, old, stale grey stuff, golden boy got hammered. Wouldn’t A-Rod have been better to steer clear of anything that could be considered cheating? Duh. Your business is no different.
For your main site, things that are considered ‘grey hat’ should be avoided completely. It’s not worth the long term repercussions. It just isn’t. Build your site right the first time. Keep as far from the ledge as possible and you’ll be loved by Google and you’ll find a place in your niche’s Google hall of fame. Good luck A-Rod.
For long term sustainability, steady and white hat will win the race. Don’t go for the ‘quick’ score.
What is Grey Hat?
Here’s the legit definition so bookmark this page or tweet it to your friends because this is good:
Grey hat SEO is the employment of techniques that are not technically against Google’s policies but that don’t provide value and are done solely for SEO purposes without regard for user experience.
Here’s the kicker. Pay attention. Grey hat today can literally become black hat tomorrow.
I’ve seen grey turn to black too many times. Here’s an example: Remember when blog commenting was the craze about 18 months ago? Everyone came out with their own software to almost automate blog spamming because it was cool. An immediate billion anchor text links!
All of a sudden, Google laid the smack down and it hurt. Blog spamming will kill you now. That’s not to say you can’t comment on a blog and point to your site, but you have to actually make a real comment and join the conversation.
***Don’t risk sandboxing your brand for the latest SEO craze. Be real all the time***
What Are Grey Hat Techniques?

Before we lay out the common grey hat mojo, know that there are literally unlimited grey hat areas. When building SEO focus on adding value and user experience and you will win, always. Period. Limit the things that you do that are ONLY for SEO purposes. Remember, grey hat today can be black hat tomorrow morning so pick your battles wisely. Don’t blow it like A-Rod did.
These are a few grey-hat tactics that could be just as bad for your site in the long run as steroids were to A-Rod:
• Stuffing keywords in alt tags, link titles and image titles.
• Linking to sites that have nothing to do with your niche or industry.
• Obtaining inbound links that have nothing to do with your niche or industry.
• Purchasing links under the guise of ‘advertising’ or ‘traffic purposes’ when they are really for SEO.
• Social media spam.
• Blog comment spamming is now black hat.
Have you committed the grey hat A-Rod steroid sin? Repent. Do you have anything to add to the grey hat areas that we’ve gone over?
Bling.

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buzz marketing link

I’ve been trying to come up with a formula for success in creating link bait for our clients. The best thing to do for me has been to read the book “Buzz Marketing” by Mark Hughes. Mark was the former Marketing Director at Half.com, who had the town of Halfway Oregon rename itself to “Half.com” as part of the buzz marketing/link bait campaign.
Although Mark didn’t set out with creating a “link bait formula” when he wrote his book, the principles involved can be used very easily to create link bait.
Principle 1: Be Outrageous
Remember when Al Gore invented the Internet? That’s probably as much as I need to say on that principle. But I’m a small to medium sized business, you say, and I can’t think of anything outrageous about my sock puppets; you’re wrong. You just have to be willing to put up with the negative effects that might ride on the coat tails of some outrageous story.
Principle 2: Use a Celebrity
Britney Spears is a prime example of using celebrity status to further your agenda. But you are a small business, and you’re not famous. What if that sock puppet you make was used by Kid Rock’s nanny when he was growing up? Or maybe that fax service you provide was used to facilitate the negotiations between Russia and Germany in World War 2? (a stretch I know, but you get the idea)
Principle 3: Be Funny
This is the hardest but most profitable as far as risk vs. reward is concerned. The idea is to create a story that is so funny, people will just automatically start telling the story at the water cooler at work, or in the lunch room or on breaks. Like I said, this one is hard, but if you can pull it off, it’s pure gold. Sometimes making fun of yourself is the easiest way to be the funniest.
Principle 4: Do Something No One Else Has Done
This is where you’ve got the most leeway, because there are always lists, widgets, contests, prizes, and much more that no one else has done quite like you could. However, this principle doesn’t pack as much of a punch as you might expect from the other principles, just because you may have created a super de duper list of some kind, but there are already millions of lists, so yours has really got to stand out. I know you can do it though!
Principle 5: Be Controversial
Did TuPac really die, or is he holed up in his L.A. studio creating records still? Does Area 51 really exist? Does Scrapbooking paper really cure Alzheimer’s? (No it doesn’t by the way) Having a good team of lawyers will increase your likelihood of being safe with this one. That guerilla marketing campaign in Boston with the electronic bomb looking thing flipping the bird; Controversial. Your latest product release with New and Improved flavor; Not Controversial.
Principle 6: Be The Underdog
ClearPlay wins the award for best Underdog. The DGA and studios filed a lawsuit in 2002 against ClearPlay and a Colorado video rental store, CleanFlicks, which uses its own software to decode a DVD, alter it for content, then burn a new, edited version, back onto a DVD for rental.
The lawsuit is still pending. ClearPlay contends its software is not illegal because it does not alter the original DVD. But the amount of press that ClearPlay got from that lawsuit couldn’t have been bought in 100 years. They took on one of the biggest entities in their industry and stuck it out and got huge publicity.
Overall, you’ll be the most successful with a linkbait idea that genuinely entertains, inspires, offers something brand new, or gets people talking. If you can combine one or more of the major principles above into your campaign, you are on the road to a successful link bait strategy.

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Google hijackers from crackers; check your HTACCESS

When’s the last time you looked inside your website’s HTACCESS file? It really should become a part of your monthly (ack, weekly? daily?) audit routines. There could be gremlins at play you see…

Ok, here’s the gig, one day a mate comes along as asks me, “You mind Googling Twitter?” and I told him to mind his manners as I didn’t go for that kind of thing. Anyway, obliging him, the mighty Google was consulted and from what I could see, the oracle of the ‘Plex was behaving as normal.

Upon pressing for details as to what exactly he is seeing he sends me this;


As you can see the top results are for an Anti-virus website… NOT for Twitter

Being the curious type, I inquired with a few other folks to see what they were seeing. Sure enough, we were all seeing the proper set of results. Fair enough, it sounds like the hull has been compromised and he’s taking on water.

As we backtracked it seems there was a search result that had a peculiar behavior earlier that day. Upon clicking the top result in Google his AV software had done the jig, (although it may have been the Trojan mimicking to gain access). I went over to the website in question – and nothing.

I then searched the website in Google and clicked on the listing – voila! Sure enough you we’re redirected and a pop-up prompted to do a ‘security scan’ cough cough. This behavior ONLY happened when accessing the site via Google.


The HTACCESS Gremlins

What could this be one wondered. Certainly the mighty Goog’ has not fallen pray to wrong doers have they? After all they say they’ve done it before;

Google serves up malware????



Naw, that couldn’t be it.

Initial suspicions leaned towards the site being hacked, but the site administrator was as confused as a link baiter on truth serum, no hacks could be found. To be on the safe side, a few of those in the know, information retrievers, were consulted and one specializing in rarefied AIR (adversarial information retrieval) had the answer. Check the HTACCESS file; which was an enlightening journey.

You see kind reader, they had gone in and were redirecting ONLY the traffic from Google which then prompted and had caused the computer to be infected. Then, on subsequent searches they were intercepting it and sending back their own (modified) Google results. The sneaky little buggars.


Make it a part of your site audits

You can just imagine the reputation problems that could come from this not to mention its potential for sabotage. While this may not seem like the domain of the SEO, having low search engagement and possibly infecting visitors is sure to have negative effects ultimately. No matter how you look at it, from hacking to put nasty (outbound links) on competitor sites to redirecting incoming SERP requests, this is something SEOs need be aware of.

In the modern world of SEO, close ties with the security and system administrators is key. Everyone needs to be aware of the potential for such attacks and be vigilant. A lot of time and money (into search campaigns) could easily be washed away and replaced with a reputation management problem.

What to watch for - This type of attack is often found when you are using a CMS or WordPress type installation that requires the htaccess to be writable (such as SEF URL creation). To guard against it, be sure to chmod your hataccess so the at it’s not writable until you need to publish something new - then make it writable, create pages and then set it back again.



…. Something to consider…

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Exploiting Longevity For Google Search Results

Here’s an interesting observation I just made to justify how I am writing to the web: Google rewards longevity, and doesn’t care so much about readability. A few months ago I did a revamp on There Is NO Box, and I am continually amazed at the traffic I get for years-old posts which are (frankly) not very good. Some of these are posts with one word titles, or posts that are very short, or just generally lame.

Currently on Website In A Weekend, I’m producing out a large number of articles, some of which are more technical (and take more time) than others.

But in all cases, when I feel the article is “good enough,” I pull the trigger and publish to get the permalink into Google’s index. I have read that this strategy is called “Publish, then polish” (watch for an upcoming article explaining publish then polish in detail). It goes against every bit of formal training I’ve ever had as a writer, where “quality” is the only overriding concerning, articles take a long time to produce, and inaccuracy is severely punished. Unfortunately, long, in-depth and technically detailed articles on blogs are punished by the “lack of readers” effect.

Using “publish then polish,” Google is now indexing me everyday, sometimes within hours. My highest traffic post so far published on Website In A Weekend was published the morning WordPress 2.8 was released, and got a couple of dozen hits by the end of the day. It continues to get traction. But there’s good posts on this site which haven’t yet gotten a couple of dozen hits total.

Right now a couple of dozen hits is pretty good, for any post.

Website In A Weekend doesn’t have many other readers yet. Google is probably the most active consumer… although Google sends very few search results this way.

At some point this will change. [Update 7/6/2009: in the three weeks since I wrote and scheduled this article, my daily traffic as roughly doubled!] When I do start getting traffic, I won’t feel compelled to write quite as much, and will concentrate on more refined output.

Until then, cranking out content in bulk seems to be the correct strategy. Long time readers know I’m on a schedule to complete 101 articles on WordPress, which is tentatively complete around August 10, 2009.

Whether the “publish then polish” strategy leads me astray in the long term remains to be seen.

What’s your experience?

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Title Pages for Google and Yahoo

Title Writing Tips pages
Search engines make the title page as one of the important reference relevant in determining whether or not a page. Pages this title is a sarcastic title of a page, so should have a title reflecting the content of the page content.

Some things to note are:

1. Number of characters
From sources that I read your page title optimal if 80 characters is optimized for google and yahoo ranges to 115 characters.
The point is if you exceed the optimal within reasonable limits, do not be bad, but of course taken into account the density of your title, may be better if you use it makssimal 80 characters.
Meanwhile, after I did the experiment, Google is only 65 characters max menampilakan in his SERP, and yahoo about 115 characters with spaces and punctuation.
From here I also found, that the title page after the characters to 65 from google not very helpful, in this case there is a site that terlisting no 1 on google with keywords "I do not call". This site has a title that more than 65, I add keywords to the "in Indonesia" (these keywords in the position after the character to 65). Apparently, this site even defeated by the sites in its pages none keyword "Indonesia".
As a second note the site has a pagerank 4. From this I conclude title after 65 characters to a smaller impact than the inbound link text. (The second site that does not have keywords "Indonesia" in dalamanya probably because it has terlisting inbound text link "Indonesia").

2. Do not use the words in the search engine filters.
For sites that speak "English", words like is, are, etc. should not be included in the title. As for Indonesia language site, it should be influential, as far as I know now, the word "the", "and" etc. are not filtered search engine. (IMHO)

3. Dispose of the words that are not useful
Words such as â € œselamat arrived at the site kamiâ €?? better etc. not included.

4. Reduce the use of separator
If possible do not because it has a long title be added separator, eventually the number of characters exceeds the maximum amount recommended karekter.

In the title selection is also not free from how to choose good keywords. And do not forget in your item has a good density of the title / title you choose.

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Seo “Ilmu pasti” atau “ilmu raba-raba” ?

Lama juga saya berpikir untuk menjawab saat mendengar pertanyaan ini.
Karena menurut saya sendiri, segala proses yang dilakukan search engine menggunkan algoritma dan dan algoritma itu berisi perhitungan-pertitungan matematis. Seperti diungkapkan sergey brin, pendiri salah satu search engine (google). Segala proses dalam index google sebisa mungkin tidak melalui campur tangan manusia, ini berarti segalanya dilakukan dengan mesin (komputer) dengan algoritmanya. Meskipun untuk hal-hal seperti penalty atau halaman yang di banned oleh google melalui proses penelitian dan campur tangan manusia untuk melakukannya. Tapi itu tidak mengganggu algoritmanya tapi lebih kepada variabelnya.

Jika kita membaca artikel-artikel seo, banyak juga saran-saran yang kadang-kadang ada juga yang bersebrangan, yang mana yang benar? kalau seo itu ilmu pasti, tidak mungkin terjadi kemungkinan 2 jawaban. IMHO.
Saya bukan orang matematika, jadi saya juga tidak tau pasti apa mungkin ilmu matematika memiliki beberapa jawaban. :)

Karena itu saya simpulkan menurut pendapat pribadi saja, Seo misalnya untuk pagerank, link popularity dan sebagainya tetap merupakan ilmu pasti, tetapi tidak semua orang tau rumusnya, jadi jawabannya juga tidak semua orang mengetahuinya. Kalau algoritma pagerank misalnya, merupakan kede opensource, tentu lebih mudah menjawab apakah seo untuk pagerank misalnya adalah ilmu pasti atau ilmu raba-raba.
Minta bantuan pendapatnya ya!

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Keywords Research! Hati-hati dengan keywords korban seo

Sebagai tambahan artikel sebelumnya tentang bagaimana memilih keywords yang baik, kali ini saya akan coba mengulas bagaimana sebuah keywords bisa menjadi korban seo. Untuk mempermudah, saya langsung ambil contoh kasus yang saya temukan.
Kemaren sudah dibahas kalau lebih baik memilih keywords yang berhubungan dengan apa produk atau jasa yang dicari orang dan bukan terfokus pada nama usaha anda, tentu saja ini tidak sepenuhnya benar. Bagi yang menginginkan situs web yang dimiliki merupakan sumber pengunjung yang akan menjadi sumber customer dan pendapatan ini sangat disarankan. Tetapi bagi perusahaan yang sudah besar atau pribadi yang sudah terkenal dan sedang membangun coorporate image tentu akan lebih sesuai menggunakan nama perusahaan.

Salah satu keywords yang menarik bagi saya dan sudah dioptimasi oleh sangat banyak situs adalah ; “bali-hotels” dan “bali maps“. Kalau melihat hit-nya di tool-tool keywords research, hitnya sangat tinggi. Dari keywords itu dapat kita lihat dua perbandingan :

* Hotel adalah akomodasi pariwisata yang sangat dibutuhkan orang saat bepergian (kebutuhan primer), sedangkan “maps” atau peta hanya dibutuhkan sebagai panduan untuk yang belum tahu sebuah lokasi.
* Hotel merupakan bisnis yang sangat besar jika dibandingkan dengan sebuah peta.

Dari point satu dapat kita simpulkan bahwa keywords hotel akan lebih banyak dicari pada keywords maps.
Perbandingannya dapat kita lihat dalam gambar.

Sedangkan dari point dua dapat kita simpulkan dalam ruang lingkup seo, keywords hotel akan lebih banyak dioptimasi oleh situs-situs hotel, karena dari situ meraka berharap pesanan kamar dari tamu.

Jika diperhatikan, kedua keywords ini paling banyak dibutuhkan oleh orang asing yang bepergian ke “bali” dengan tujuan wisata yang sudah dapat dipastikan nilai konversi pengunjung situs yang sudah dioptimalkan merupakan pengunjung yang dari luar bali atau luar negeri. Tapi dalam tabel di bawah jumlah hits kedua keywords tersebut terlihat aneh !


Dapat dilihat, kedua keywords “bali hotels” dan “bali maps” sudah menjadi korban seo dan yang lebih parah adalah keywords “bali hotel” disebabkan karena banyak situs yang melakukan optimasi pada situs ini. Hits pada keywords yang besar itu bukan berasal dari para calon customer, pelanggan atau calon pengguna jasa. Tapi tidak lebih dari ratusan kali searching dari para webmaster yang mengecek posisi situs mereka di search engine.
Kita sudah tidak dapat lagi menentukan dengan tool apapun berapa sebenarnya customer potensial dengan pemakaian keywords tersebut. Satu lagi dampak buruknya bagi yang berkantong lebih tipis, biaya traffic anda mungkin bukan dari calon customer potensial, tetapi lebih banyak dari saingan-saingan anda.

Apa yang salah? Jawabnya tidak ada!. Dari contoh kasus ini kita hanya perlu lebih teliti dalam menganalisa jumlah hit keywords-keywords yang populer. Dan inilah salah satu manfaat jika anda lebih mengoptimasi pada keywods yang lebih spesifik seperti contohnya “bali cheap hotel” atau “cheap bali vacation package“. Dan tentunya kasus yang sama mungkin terulang lagi.

Sebelum keduluan, kenapa tidak dicoba sekarang.! :)

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Oes Tsetnoc Buzz Growing In SERP

I don’t really know why this happen lately, yet if you have a time to see it in Google SERP, Oes Tsetnoc buzz is growing. It’s so different compared to last week. As I remember, there were only around 150k results at that time. However, now it’s more than 200k. What’s the matter? Although I can’t answer it surely, but in my opinion, it’s all because the time left for this SEO contest is getting smaller. I think, there will only a month an active time to optimize it. So, whoever, especially thos who join it, will try anything to boost their SERP.

Although Oes Tsetnoc buzz is growing in SERP, but I am still lucky today. My main entry still exist in the big four. Even, once in this morning, I can see it in the third position. Considering that this situation makes an optimization becomes harder than ever, now I must make routine update in every dummies I have. This to ensure Google bot visiting mine regularly. And hopefully, he will take mine as the best page at the moment till the final day come.

Anyway, apart from the simple news about oes tsetnoc buzz that is growing in SERP above, now I am joining another local SEO contest too. It’s entitled kerja keras adalah energi kita. Sadly, it’s stuck in 6th place. So if you have any blogs that are having space to support it, please do that as soon as possible guys. I really need your help today. Will you?

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Black Magic SEO

“Abracadabra.” – Alfred Borden, The Prestige

There is a bit of truth to this Ranked Hard. No, there isn’t any sorcery being performed, but I have had more than a few phone calls from potential clients that have spoken with other SEO companies that have gotten similar responses. We are very forthcoming with how we will achieve better rankings in the search engines and as most reputable SEO firms will admit, it isn’t overly complicated. Good content and solid link building are the foundation of any good SEO campaign.

Unfortunately, many SEO companies will say things like, “It’s too complicated to get into,” or “We can’t share or SEO techniques.” When I hear that I immediately tell the perspective client to be very suspicious. When an SEO company isn’t willing to share their methods, it is usually because they have no methods to share or else they are doing things they wish to hide.

Or, maybe they are practicing Black Magic SEO, who knows?

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