Search Engine Optimization Articles

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 4:35 PM

The more the better as a general guideline. Again it depends how you are going to use the articles. For article submission or for your website, in any case write articles related to your website. Start with that first, only then move to writing articles closely related to your niche. If I have an anti spyware software, I first write everything I can about spyware, adware, trojans and slowly start moving to related topics like spam, scams, popups, buying online safe and so on. more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 4:34 PM

So you know something about meta tags. Here\'s how to use them properly. First of all if you have a very big site, you cannot have unique meta tags for each page. Or get a webmaster to do it for you. If your website pages have unique meta tags, it\'s better. Specifically meta title and description, not the keyword tag or other info like robots tags. If you have a small site, this will be easier to do. Second thing is don\'t make use of stop words in meta tags. These ... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 4:32 PM

There are many reasons which I shall identify. One is that, the particular keyword may seem competitive for you, but it\'s not, so few backlinks are going to make the \"trick\". You just found a gem maybe. Did you make the search with quotes? You will not see the top competitors when using quotes with your keyword. Visitors nowadays do not use quotes to search. When entering keyword in search box to see the competitors do not use quotes. The other answer may be ... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 4:28 PM

You should get your website links, at first it really does not matter the quantity. Just do not exaggerate like 1000 links in a day. The faster you get high pagerank links from authority sites like the top directories the better. It\'s an advantage because Google considers the age of links. But top directories are not free, so it\'s optional so to speak. But your goal is 70% related and 30% unrelated link exchanges, I don\'t mind getting a lot of them fast at first. ... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 1:39 PM

Although I am exaggerating a bit, there are mistakes that can get your website banned, or penalties. Most common things webmaster do may be all well for your visitors, with good intentions but remember spiders are computers. They are not perfect though. Some of these things that spiders are programmed to detect and put a penalty to the website include the following list. Keyword stuffing in meta tags, on content, in anchor text of internal links or backlinks, the use of redirect... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 12:17 PM

If your website homepage is totally in flash, it\'s like there\'s no content for spiders. They cannot read content in images or flash. So if you have an intro video before, that visitors have to click skip to go to homepage - that\'s not going to help rankings. Your option to use to get rankings for long tail keywords (because high competitive you probably need content - it will be difficult without)... is to obviously make use of one way links or link exchanges, in ... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Christine OKelly @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 12:13 PM

There are several reasons for actively pursuing article marketing: to establish yourself as an industry expert, to increase awareness of your products and services, and to build backlinks to your website. In this article, we will focus on the third purpose, building backlinks to your website. It is possible to engage in article marketing and yet achieve absolutely no linking benefit to your website or weak linking benefit to your website - and its amazing how many people are doing just t... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By John Hubert @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 2:35 AM

When we attempt to rank a website within a major search engine, be it Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other, there are a number of search engine optimization techniques that we can use in order to ensure that our website gets the best ranking it possibly can. One of these techniques is known as increasing inbound links which works due to offpage optimization. Of course there are a variety of other techniques that are important as well, such as the age of a site, its page rank, and various other... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Amy Nutt @ Sunday, 30th November 2008 @ 5:18 PM

Over the years, I\'ve learned a large number of things about the strengths and weaknesses of search as a medium. I\'ve learned things like: * search should not be thought of as a stand alone marketing medium * PPC (Paid Search) is better for accomplishing some goals than SEO is * SEO is better for accomplishing some goals than PPC is * content is KING * content is KING (did I say that already?) Perhaps one of the most powerful of these lessons however, is... more...

Internet Marketing » Search Engine Optimization | By Karl Sultana @ Wednesday, 26th November 2008 @ 6:50 PM

Well first of all remember that Google Sandbox is a term or a description. It\'s not a location or a place! When your website is no longer useful according to Google, your rankings won\'t increase! When that happen, some refer to it as being Sandboxed. You sort of get stuck and it seems stuck for life. So how to get out? Well, answer is super easy, if you have been reading what Google wants. That\'s quality websites. So is your website quality? Do you k... more...