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		<title>Your Online Business Can Grow With SEO</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling and marketing a product or service in today’s realm does not only reserve itself to actual store presence and sales. In these days, setting up an online storefront is an innovative add-on to and actual store presence, and probably less expensive and more valuable than ever, as more and more people get relaxed shopping [...]]]></description>
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Selling and marketing a product or service in today’s realm does not only reserve itself to actual store presence and sales. In these days, setting up an online storefront is an innovative add-on to and actual store presence, and probably less expensive and more valuable than ever, as more and more people get relaxed shopping online</p>
<p>Putting up an online storefront is an innovative method of starting a business or generating sales by expanding the reach of your current business, and whether you are opening your shop online for the first time or have already started down the path, you can boost your online sales through techniques that are helping today’s online businesses thrive. Any or all, or some of these strategies can be integrated to help increase traffic, and drive more people to your site and make it more attractive to prospective customers. </p>
<p>As a marketing strategy for increasing a site&#8217;s relevance, An SEO considers how search algorithms work and know what people are lookingfor. An SEO’s efforts may involve a site&#8217;s coding, presentation, and structure, as well as fixing problems that could stop search engine indexing programs from fully spidering a site. Other, more helpful stuff may include adding unique content to a site,and making sure that the content is easily indexed by search engine robots, enabling the site to look more appealing to users.</p>
<p>SEO’s Can Help Generate More Sales </p>
<p>An SEO may help generate a return on investment. However, search engines are not paid for organic search traffic, so their algorithms may change, and there would be no guarantees of continued referrals. However, due to this portent for the lack of guarantees and certainty, a company that relies much on search engine traffic could suffer major losses if the search engines stop sending or attracting web visitors. According to notable web analysts, operators should liberate themselves from dependence on search engine traffic. A top ranked SEO blog, Seomoz.org, has analyzed that &#8220;Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines.&#8221; Instead, their main sources of traffic are links from other websites. </p>
<p>Keywords Are Crucial In The Web</p>
<p>Search terms are important. Even one’s most frequent and loyal customers are likely to discover your site by searching. Having relevant keywords in your page titles, product titles and links could make all the difference when one tries to lead customers to your site. For those with established sites, it is imperative not to t forget that keeping your keywords current and relevant is an everyday thing. Ensure that you check your Web logs regularly to see what visitors search for on your site, and identify pages and products appropriately.</p>
<p>Relevant Content Matters</p>
<p>Adding as much relevant content as you can to your site improves your customers’ appreciation an experience, as well as the positioning of your site on the search engines. The important term here is relevant. Content that isn’t related to your products could work against you, as it may confuse the potential customers and gives search bots the impression that you’re tricking them. A better method to add relevant content to your site is to add descriptive paragraphs about each of your products, which are placed next to your photos. Use as much detail as possible and necessary, and be sure to use the terms people are most likely to enter when searching.</p>
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		<title>Why Give a Lot of Thought on Search Engine Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you own a web business you have to be aware that a strong web presence and high brand respect means higher sales and increased profits. But if your website ranks beyond the top twenty positions in the search engine listings you have a small hope of getting people to check out your site. No [...]]]></description>
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<p>When you own a web business you have to be aware that a strong web presence and high brand respect means higher sales and increased profits. But if your website ranks beyond the top twenty positions in the search engine listings you have a small hope of getting people to check out your site. No matter how good your products are and how exciting and stunning your pages are, you won’t still be able to get the required traffic. </p>
<p>There are essentially three ways for a customer to get to your site. First is for the customer to type your website address. The only problem with this is that people have to actually know your web address in order to use it. The second way is for people to link to your site from other website. Again, the problem with this is that the other sites must grant you permission to post a link on their site. The third method is for a customer to find your site through a search engine. And this is how you plunge into the world of search engine optimization. </p>
<p>Consider this situation: if you get a visitor to your site from a search engine, chances are the person is interested in your products. Although there are instances that some high school kid happen to stumble on your site because he was writing an essay on candle making. Just the same there is a possibility that he also wants to buy candles from you. You just simply have to convert this visit into a sale. </p>
<p>When it comes to online marketing, search engine optimization is the key to obtaining visitors at very little cost. To increase your website’s traffic, it should rank within the top positions in the results of the major search engines. You also have to make sure that your site keeps its ranking over along period of time.  </p>
<p>However, search engines consider dozens of aspects to rank sites. For instance, Google says they have more than a hundred standards in their ranking system. Basically, the search engine has to be convinced that your site contains the information that the browser is looking for. For this purpose you need a lot of keyword rich content. If you have lots of articles with information on candles but you have not used the keyword candles often enough, you may lose the battle. Apart from keywords, you can boost your search engine rankings by using links on your site. This convinces the search engine that yours is an important site therefore more likely to have useful information.</p>
<p>Search engine optimization is, thus, one of the important marketing tools available today. So what are you waiting for? Work on those rankings to get the customer that you need. Remember that for every second that you waste you could be losing out on those all-important visitors that could translate into customers for your business.</p>
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		<title>Your Guide to Top Search Engine Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it seem like no matter what you do your website just won&#8217;t climb up in the search engine rankings? If so, your web site may not be optimized well enough for the search engines to increase your rankings. There are some very important factors that determine where web sites are ranked. These factors are [...]]]></description>
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<p>Does it seem like no matter what you do your website just won&#8217;t climb up in the search engine rankings? If so, your web site may not be optimized well enough for the search engines to increase your rankings. There are some very important factors that determine where web sites are ranked. These factors are referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and they can make all the difference in your sites rankings.</p>
<p>Here are some of the most important factors that the search engines use in determining your rankings:  </p>
<p>1. Web Site Content </p>
<p>Content on your site is one of the most important factors for successful search engine optimization. Your web site should provide valuable information on specific subjects relevant to your web site. Furthermore, your content should be updated regularly. It&#8217;s not enough to just put up a few content pages full of information on your site and then never add to it. This is a continuous process that will help your search engine rankings if done correctly.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also important that you don&#8217;t try to trick the search engines by flooding them with multiple versions of the same page, repeating the same content over and over. Doing that will not help your rankings and will eventually lead to your site getting banned from the search engines. </p>
<p>2. Link Popularity </p>
<p>Inbound links are very important for achieving high search engine rankings. Most of the search engines today regard link popularity as one of the most significant determinants of your website&#8217;s rankings.</p>
<p>Here are some of the best ways to get inbound links:</p>
<p>* Articles &#8211; Writing and submitting articles to website&#8217;s and article directories is a very good way to get inbound links.</p>
<p>* Content &#8211; Not only will adding quality content help in your rankings by itself, it will also help you with your link popularity. Other webmaster&#8217;s will want to link to your site because it is valuable to them and their own visitors.</p>
<p>* Directories &#8211; Submitting your site to online directories will help you gain inbound links.</p>
<p>* Blogs &#8211; Start a blog that you update frequently with information related to your website&#8217;s niche. Then, link to your site from the blog. You can also submit your blog to various blog directories to get even more inbound links.</p>
<p>* Link Exchanges &#8211; Simply find other quality sites related to yours and ask them to link to you in exchange for a link back to them. This is not as effective as it used to be but it is still a pretty good way to get inbound links.</p>
<p>When trying to increase your link popularity remember that the more inbound links you get the better, but quality is always better than quantity. Stay away from low quality sites, FFA&#8217;s, and sites unrelated to yours.</p>
<p>The next things that should be considered when doing SEO for your web site are the on-site and the off-site elements. Some of the on-site elements are the title tag, Meta tags, heading tags, ALT tags and highlighting of the text using the bold tag. The Link text is an important off-site element. </p>
<p>On-Site Elements:</p>
<p>3. Title Tag and Meta Tags </p>
<p>Meta tags help describe the page where they are placed. Though today the Meta tags are not nearly as important as they once were and are definitely not the only things the search engines look for when indexing your site, they are still somewhat important in deciding the relevancy of the page for a keyword search. </p>
<p>Search engines focus on three primary tags to help them determine the relevance of a website for a particular search phrase. The Title Tag, Meta Keywords and the Meta Description&#8230; </p>
<p>Ideally the title tags should contain less than 64 characters with your most important keywords in them and should definitely be relevant to the content on the page. Do not stuff keywords in to the title tag! </p>
<p>The Meta description tag is a summary of the page and its contents. This Meta tag should be 200 characters or less and should contain keywords and phrases you hope to be found for, but it should also read like an introductory lead-in for the page and be appealing to the reader. The description you provide for your page has to convince the visitor that they have found exactly what they were looking for. </p>
<p>Probably the least important Meta tag to search engines is the keyword tag. However, it shouldn&#8217;t be ignored. Keyword tags should be less than 1000 characters. This tag should include important keywords and phrases consistent with the body text, title, and content of the page. Be specific and accurate with the keywords and key phrases in this tag. Again, do not stuff keywords here&#8230; they should only be those that are actually on the page and do not repeat any word more than 3 times. </p>
<p>4. Heading Tags </p>
<p>The heading tags are given more weight than the ordinary text. The higher the H tag the more weight it carries. You should make use of the heading tags to highlight the important keywords and headings of your page as well as the paragraph headers. </p>
<p>5. Bold Text </p>
<p>Bold text is given a little more weight than ordinary text but not as much as heading tags. Make sure to enclose some of your keywords in bold tags when they appear on the page. </p>
<p>6. Alt Text </p>
<p>The alt tag provides alternative text when images cannot be displayed&#8230; This might happen if the users have set the browsers only to download the text and not the graphics, or if the images are too heavy to download for the user’s internet connection. Only include important keywords relevant to your site and the image and do not stuff keywords in them. </p>
<p>Off-site elements:</p>
<p>7. Link Text </p>
<p>This is a very important factor in search engine optimization to gain higher rankings. The link text can be on pages within your site or what other web sites use to link to you. Either way, it is important. If possible the target page&#8217;s main search term should be included in the link text instead of just the URL. Do not use identical link text for every link, but do include the target page&#8217;s main keywords in the link text. Links carry more weight when the text around them is relevant to the target page&#8217;s keywords and phrases. </p>
<p>Following the above SEO information will help tremendously in your search engine rankings. Remember that the search engines are advancing all the time. Don&#8217;t try to trick them because they will eventually catch on and that could mean the end of your web site. Stick to the basic techniques above and you will increase your search engine rankings without fear of being banned or dropped.</p>
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		<title>Why and how to track traffic of your website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Traffic analysis&#8211;why you should analyze traffic of your website?</p>
<p>[1] You can decide what you need to change in your site.<br />
[2] You will able to know how visitors coming on your site<br />
[3] You will Calculate your ROI if you are advertising with any PPC sites<br />
[4] You will be able to know Path of visitors and most preferred path of<br />
visitors.<br />
[5] You will decide which Keywords can work better for you and drive more<br />
targeted traffic for your site<br />
[6] You will be able to know Percentage of visitors country wise<br />
[7] You will be able to know top referral links<br />
[8] You will know page load per visitors and Visitor to sales ratio and may<br />
improve it by changing appropriate changes in your site. changes in<br />
Title, Description etc..<br />
[9] Most popular pages.<br />
[10] According to feature of every tools you will analyze like Size of file loaded in a day, no of Error pages etc..</p>
<p>How to analyze traffic?</p>
<p>There are various tools available for traffic analysis. various services like<br />
Stacounter,google-analytics,webstats4u,ritecounter etc&#8230;available for free<br />
to analyze your traffic </p>
<p>[1]Stacounter:-http://www.statcounter.com/</p>
<p>Stacounter is one of the most popular counter. it is invisible! its alexa traffic rank is 122 this itself shows how popular it is. the service is totally free if your page load per month is 3,00,000 other vise you have to improve log size, initially its log size is 100 and you can upgrade your logsize..</p>
<p>[2]Webstats4u:- http://www.webstats4u.com/</p>
<p>webstats4u is another popular counter but it is not invisible. everyone can view your stats. however they have added some nice features recently.</p>
<p>[3]Google-analytics:-www.google.com/analytics/<br />
recently Google launched its site tracking service named google-analytics.it is really nice service and free. I have no more experience but people says it is really nice accept its low speed! you have to first register your site with them using your Google account. then you have to paste a code on pages you want to alalyze.there are certain limitation for placing codes like you have to place the code immediately after the metatags and before Body!. Then it will analyze your traffic. it is in Beta(Launched in Last December)</p>
<p>Rite counter:-ritecounter.com/<br />
i have little experience with ritecounter.but I sometime shows<br />
weird results. Some visits can&#8217;t track.however they provide large log size.this is biggest binifit for this site</p>
<p>There are other lots of Site tracking services. you can choose. </p>
<p>Webalizer:-<br />
you can Download it from-http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/<br />
you will be able to analyze your log file i am Happy with Their analysis. they says that &#8220;over 10,000 records can be processed in one second, through webalizer Please visit their page as i shown above. you Have to create a directory and install this program(source code). Installation Guide is written on their home page.</p>
<p>Awstats:-<br />
Like webalizer awstats is also a log file analyzer which you can install for your traffic analysis,There are some unique features are available which you will find only on Awstats. you can Download it from here>http://awstats.sourceforge.net/</p>
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		<title>Website Optimization: Bring  More Traffic To Your Site The Right Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Search engine optimization is not difficult to understand. You don’t have to be a mathematical wizard to get the basic idea. Website optimization is simply the art and science of building web pages that provide the most relevant answers to the various queries that people make when they use a search engine. </p>
<p>The person who is making a query wants an answer to her question, and the search engine is trying to provide the best answer. Your job, as a website manager, is to provide web pages that will satisfy the person making the query and the search engine as well. Search engine optimization is not about tricking the search engines. You can get away with a trick for a short time, but if you are in business for the long run it is better to base your success on solid procedures. Here is what you can do to satisfy the end users and the search engines. </p>
<p>1. Find out how your would-be customers use a search engine. </p>
<p>What terms do they use when they are searching for your products? This is the $64,000 question. If you target the right words you will get the kind of traffic you want, the people who will buy your product or service. If you target the wrong words you may not get any traffic at all. This part of Internet optimization is known as keyword research. Find out all the different combinations that people use when they look for a website such as yours. The overture.com search term suggestion tool will provide some help or you can use the paid service at www.wordtracker.com </p>
<p>2. Build Web pages based on your keywords and Key Phrases. </p>
<p>It is a mistake to think that you can just sprinkle your keywords in the meta tags of any old web page and then get a high position in the search engines. If your page is only tangentially related to the query it will not get a high ranking in the search engines. However if you have written a web page that provides solid information directly related to the search term, then any surfer who ends up there will be satisfied. And, if you present your information properly, this is the kind of page that the search engines want to deliver to their users. </p>
<p>3. The last step in optimization is to present your material properly. </p>
<p>The best website promotion tip that anyone can give you is not to cheat in this process. Don’t stuff your keywords into your copy unnaturally or write them in invisible text on the bottom of your web page. If your copy is really about a particular keyword or key phrase, then simply place it in the title tag, the description tag , the headlines on the page and in text link on the page. You can use a keyword density checker to see if you have used your keyword enough. You can also just read your copy aloud to see how you are doing. If it doesn’t sound right, you may have overdone it. </p>
<p>If you do your web page optimization in this three-step way everyone will end up satisfied: the web visitor, the search engines and you.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Like any investment, your website must start turning a profit as early as possible, and pulling the search engines is a critical component. There are several tools your site can use to get these rankings:</p>
<p>	1.Search-engine optimized text<br />
	2.Fresh content frequently<br />
	3.Links to your site from high-profile websites<br />
	4.Traffic to and from your site</p>
<p>The first two are all about how you put your web site together and subsequently work with it. The last one – quality inbound links– has nothing at all to do with your site, and if you work it properly, can give you both great rankings and pull in a surprising amount of traffic from sites other than search engines.</p>
<p>Once you start building up your traffic, your search engine ratings will stabilize, and your site will slowly grow. It&#8217;s a lot like starting a car – it takes a lot of energy to get it going, but once it&#8217;s running it only takes maintenance energy.</p>
<p><b>Article Submissions Services: Getting Those Inbound Links</b></p>
<p>Most people don&#8217;t know where to start with inbound links. Do you just email webmasters and ask? Buy advertising? Or do you offer your own site up as a link farm, encouraging your hard-won customers to visit someone else?</p>
<p>None of these are the best bet (though emailing webmasters, over time, is a good additional strategy). The best way you can get great inbound links is by using an article submission service.</p>
<p>These services use article directories, large online repositories of articles donated by webmasters like you, to build backlinks to your site. Each article you donate contains a resource box that points back to your website, in whatever format you desire. And you can donate the same article to hundreds of article directories.</p>
<p>You can do this yourself. But article submissions services know how to find the best directories, and have specialists who can enter your information in the often-tedious and time-consuming directories forms. It may be a better expenditure of your time to focus on that great content and building your business in other ways, while leaving the submissions to experts who can do it cheaply, efficiently, and properly.</p>
<p>Article submissions services understand the search engines and how they examine links, and can use this knowledge to benefit you. And because you can expect the search engines to change their methodology about every four to six months, with major changes every year and a half to a year, these services will always have the most up-to-date information on the best way to use links to enhance your placement.</p>
<p>While you may be able to build your website ranking yourself, it&#8217;s often better to seek help from people who have done it for years, at least the first few times you submit a site. Article submission services are your perfect ally when you&#8217;re chasing search engine rankings.</p>
<p><b>Appropriate Linking</b></p>
<p>There are only so many directories you can submit to, of course. Once you have maxed out your directory submission, you can start looking for webmasters to trade links with. There are a few things you should seek out in this case. Your link partners should be suitable for you, and you should be right for them as well. You should trade up as much as you can; look for pages with good rankings themselves. Don&#8217;t trade with a competitor; if you sell similar merchandise or if you&#8217;re both close together using the same keyword phrase, you should trade with someone else.</p>
<p>But link trading only works once your site has been built up in the search engines. Few webmasters are willing to trade links with a low-ranking site (would you?). For the quickest rankings boost, and for a great foundation that you can really start to work from, use mass articles submissions. It will set you apart and above your competition.</p>
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		<title>Unethical SEO Practices to Avoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>SEO, or search engine optimization, is how search engines are used to maximize the chances of getting a high ranking.  As most Internet users know, you have to have a high ranking among the search engines if you want to get visitors.  Anyone who is searching for something online isn’t going to waste a lot of time by going through several pages of results before they give up and try a different search.  That second search may not even locate your web site, and your potential visitor becomes a lost visitor.</p>
<p>So, search engine optimization is used to boost page rankings with the search engines.  Search engines look for sites and rate them upon the number of the keywords searched appear within content on pages on the site.  They also look for lots of links.  </p>
<p>The desire to have a high ranking with the search engines is great.  As everyone knows, you have to have a high ranking if you want to get visitors.  And let’s face it, the whole point of having a web site is to get visitors!  If you aren’t getting visitors, you aren’t improving business and you aren’t getting customers.  And your web site is totally worthless if no one is looking at it.  Search engine optimization becomes very, very important when you think about it and everything that it means.</p>
<p>Some may be so determined to get those high rankings that they do unethical things with their web sites in order to boost rankings.  These unethical practices are best avoided.  These practices can be changed, these unethical motives turned into ethical ones, and you can boost your site’s rankings the way you’re supposed to.  First, identify the wrong things that you might be doing.</p>
<p>-	Using your keywords improperly<br />
Search engines are very clever, but they aren’t so smart that they can’t be tricked.  Search engines do search sites for content, but they can’t exactly read the content the way that human beings can.  Some web sites bury their keywords around a bunch of other words, in text that has no form and makes no sense.  Long strings of text with random words like “boating fishing hunting outdoor adventure fish boat hunting the great outdoors forestry fishing rock climbing boating water onboard Alaska” come up all the time.  Search engines may only be looking for the words “fish” and “fishing” and since those keywords appear within what seems to be content, a false ranking is given.  But don’t do this!  Customers don’t like this, and in the end “tricking” a search engine is never a good idea.  Your keywords should appear within real content on your web site.  Then you will get a genuinely high ranking.</p>
<p>-	Improper use of META tags<br />
META tags are part of the html code that is used to create a web page.  The META tags are what you use to tell search engines what keywords are on your web site, what keywords you want potential visitors to use when searching for your piece of the Internet.  Some may use META tags to try and “trick” search engines in a similar way as described above.  This won’t work long, however, and search engines do not look by META tags alone.  Search engines always search content.</p>
<p>-	Having false content<br />
“False” content are long strings of text that make no sense, that are only on the site to make use of keywords for search engines.  While it’s important to impress the search engines and get that high ranking that’s so valuable, it’s more important to impress your visitors.  Visitors like great content, too, and they’re going to be put off by a bunch of text that doesn’t make sense and isn’t a good read.  While it’s true that most of the content on web sites is only skimmed over briefly by viewers, you still want that content to make a little bit of sense to them.  Have good content, at least real content, and make the most out of your keywords using that content.  That’s how to get a truly high ranking with a search engine, ethically.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO- Search Engine Optimisation. Over the last ten years SE&#8217;s (Search Engines) have become an ever increasing important factor in business promotion. The four major SE&#8217;s generate in excess of 700 million search queries a day, an outstanding fact that really emphasises the importance of utilising the potential reach of the Search Engine. Over 75% [...]]]></description>
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<p>SEO- Search Engine Optimisation. Over the last ten years SE&#8217;s (Search Engines) have become an ever increasing important factor in business promotion. The four major SE&#8217;s generate in excess of 700 million search queries a day, an outstanding fact that really emphasises the importance of utilising the potential reach of the Search Engine.</p>
<p>Over 75% of people now use the internet when looking to buy a product or service. Websites in the top 3 pages of the major search engines gain 90% of search engine traffic. Basically, if you have a website you need to be on the first few pages of the SERP&#8217;s (Search Engine Results Pages) to get the traffic.so how do you do this?&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Its not quite as simple as many people believe. I am constantly being asked &#8221; I have just had a website built but do not appear on Google.&#8221; Well firstly type in the URL (web address) of your website, if you still do not come up then your site has not been indexed. If your website does appear then previously when you said &#8220;I do not appear in Google&#8221; what you meant is- you typed in a keyword (a word related to your product/service) and your website did not appear in the top few pages. To be honest, this is very unlikely to happen. Unless you are selling a very unique product with very little competition then your website is likely to be on page 23 or worse!</p>
<p>Everybody with a website would love to be #1 on google for their main keyword, but it takes time and effort. You need to optimise your website for the best chances of achieving this. </p>
<p>After crawling the internet using robots called &#8220;spiders&#8221;, the SE&#8217;s use a complex mathematical formula to &#8220;rank&#8221; websites on importance and relevance to certain keywords. These formulas are known as &#8220;algorithms&#8221;. SEO describes the techniques that use a knowledge of how SE&#8217;s rank websites, to make alterations to a site so that it better &#8220;adheres&#8221; to the &#8220;algorithms&#8221;. </p>
<p>There are to main phases to the optimisation process- &#8220;on page&#8221; and &#8220;off page&#8221;. On page is the alterations that are made to the physical content of a website and the code that makes up each webpage. This includes intergrating keywords into areas of the site that the SE&#8217;s deem important. Off page optimisation is the process of building links to a website&#8230;&#8230; what this means is getting as many websites to have a link somewhere on their site to the site you are optimising. This is very important because a major part of SE&#8217;s &#8220;algorithms&#8221; is link popularity- the more websites that link to another, the more important it is considered by the SE&#8217;s and the higher up it appears in the SERP&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Of course there are many more technical issues involved with Search Engine Optimisation but i wont discuss these in this article.. One thing that you should remeber though when thinking about SEO is that it certainly is not instant. Due to the way search engines work it may be several months before the friuts of your labour are seen, in the form of higher rankings.Google currently indexes over 8 billion web pages and the ever increasing size of the internet means that the SE&#8217;s certainly have their work cut out. </p>
<p>Many companies manage their own SEO in house, this can work fine but be willing to put in the time to learn the technicalities. The &#8220;nity gritty&#8221; of it can be slighly overwhelming as it is quite a specialist, technical field.</p>
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		<title>Top Five Tips for Successful Link Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Good search engine optimizers (SEO´s)  understand the importance of building a network of incoming links to their page in order to improve ranking results in the major search engines,  but in their scuffle to push their web pages to the top, some of them are forgetting the old adage “work smarter, not harder” and they end up wasting countless hours getting links that do little &#8211; if anything at all – to help. </p>
<p>Here are five shortcuts that will help anyone engaged in a link building campaign to get better results, faster.</p>
<p>1)	Remember The “Link Building Exponential”</p>
<p>Google has many ways of telling when a webmaster is creating an artificial network of links to a page, but savvy SEO´s will avoid trouble by considering the  “link building exponential”. This is a measurement based on the premise that incoming links to a page should increase more or less at the same rate as the popularity of the page.  In other words, adding too many links too fast to a page that does not seem to merit them blow-up in your face.  Avoid this setback by taking your time and get quality links. </p>
<p>2)	Get Links From Pages That Are Closely Related To Your Own</p>
<p> My experience has shown me that some of the most valuable links you can possibly get are from web pages that use not only the same key words that you do, but which have  links from the same pages that link to you.  Get links from these “perfectly related” pages and the effect on your rankings will seem almost magical.</p>
<p>3)	Identify Directories That Are Relevant To The Content Of Your Page</p>
<p>There must be tens of thousands of directories on the web and that number will only continue to grow.  Some SEO´s waste their time by registering their web page in any directory that will accept the listing, but I have found that it is worth spending the extra time to register the directories that have a direct relationship to the web page I am trying to place.  I do not get as many links, but the links I do get have a much stronger effect on my rankings. </p>
<p>Finding the directories that are a good fit for the page you want to place is easy if you use two of Google´s operators:  INURL and INTITLE. </p>
<p>Say, for example, that you are trying to position a web site dedicated to graphic design, logically you would want to find all the directories that have a “Graphic Design” category and see them ordered by relevancy: </p>
<p>INURL: “phrase” – returns all of the pages that contain “phrase” within its URL.</p>
<p>The search in Google would be:</p>
<p>INURL: “web design” + “add url”, or, INURL: “web design” “add url”, or, INURL: “web design” + “add your site”</p>
<p>Another option to find directories relevant to your web page is to use the operator “INTITLE” which shows all the pages that have the keywords in the title. </p>
<p>In this case the search would be:<br />
INTITLE. “phrase” , which returns all the pages that contain “phrase” in its title.</p>
<p>The search in Google would be:<br />
INTITLE: “directory” + web design</p>
<p>These simple steps can save countless hours in finding the right directories, and the links you can build from these focused sources will give your page more weight.  </p>
<p>4)	Position For Certain Regions Or Countries </p>
<p>Google determines the location of a page by the extension of its domain (ex. .uk, .es, .com.ar, etc). In the case that the domain has a generic suffix, (such as .com, .biz, .net, .org, etc.), Google will assume that the country of origin is the same as the country where the page is being hosted. </p>
<p>Depending on the content of the page I am working on, I will sometimes want to position the page in international AND country specific search engines.  If this sounds like a strategy that would help you, simply concentrate your efforts on obtaining links from pages and directories which, in the eyes of Google, “reside” in the country you want to target.  </p>
<p>5)	Vary Your Anchor Text</p>
<p>Too many SEO´s use only their main keywords in the anchor text that links to their page. I have found this to be bad practice, since search engines interpret these links to be “unnatural” when they find too many of them.     </p>
<p>Get around this by switching the order of the key words in your anchor text to create new variations. For example, say you want to build links to a web page that specializes in link building, your anchor texts could read: “link building service”; “cheap link building”; “effective link building”, or “link building company”. Get 500 links using these four different descriptors, and you will get more than twice the effect as 1000 links using only “link building”. This strategy has worked for me, and it should work for you, too.</p>
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<p>Tip 1: Search Engine Optimization</p>
<p>Search Engine Optimization or SEO is either taken very lightly or taken so consciously that the results are undesirable. Give around 30% of your time to understand what exactly is your business requirements or on what products/services would you get more business. What exactly are you planning to target and what is your Audience? Conduct a market analysis of it and filter our 10 key phrases that best suit your business. If your website is fresh and /or you have just started with your online business, target light-weight (less-researched) key phrases. Go for targeting more of long-tailed key-phrases rather than single key-words. Give proper Title and Meta, appropriate Alt tags. Check your content in relative to your Meta you have kept and see that your page gets easily downloaded.</p>
<p>Tip 2: Link Building</p>
<p>Once you are done with On-page optimization, put your best of efforts to gain as much inbound links you can. There are multiple ways that you can work on to achieve a golden value for your website. At the outset, submit your website URL to 100+ Search Engines and 500+ Quality online directories that give you quality link-backs. Write good relevant articles and submit them into quality Article sites. You may also submit your Press-notes into quality Press-release directories. Put your Ads into free classified directories. You may also go for link-exchange campaigns but Google has stopped giving much weightage to these links.</p>
<p>Tip 3: Social Media</p>
<p>Make a list of quality social networking sites where in you can go and bookmark your important web-pages into these social sites. You may also create your blogs (relevant to your services), post good content on these and make them more interactive for more visitors to visit them. One such good social marketing is posting comments into good blogs or forums and thereby creating a rich link-base. You are sure to get high traction through social media marketing. It may go as high as getting 2000 hits in just 5 days on one single comment posted with a link to our website. It really makes a lot of difference!</p>
<p>Buyers rely heavily upon search and social media for researching products and services.<br />
It is therefore critical that you not only have relevant and detailed content on your website, but you must be showing up where they are searching for you. To do so you must undertake an integrated and comprehensive search and social media marketing effort.</p>
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