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Ethical website promotion by WoodyRoundUp

Description: This article discusses the correct and ethical steps to follow in order to improve your traffic and ranking.

Every web page owner wants to register a higher traffic and a higher ranking as possible. What makes the difference between different web site owners is the manners in which they choose to carry out this action.

Normally, there are three objectives that people tend to want to accomplish in relation to their url address: top ranking in the search engine display of results for a search performed for a particular keyword, guaranteed high traffic and an increase of the total amount of sales. All these three objectives are met once four processes are kept in mind and correctly dealt with.

The first one is represented by the serious performance of the keyword research analysis in order to track the most likely words chosen by potential clients when they search business or services similar to what you have to offer. Once you are aware of these keywords you can concentrate on the second step, which is the web optimization procedure. Coordinating the design and mostly the content of your web page so that it meets the requirements imposed by the search engines is a crucial action.

Once the second step is done you need to submit your url registration and correct address to the search engines. Keep in mind that the submission for certain engines can be performed in an automated manner, but that, however, the important search engines request a so called manual subscription, by filling in some info, in order to recognize the existence of your website.

The last part, which is in fact one of the things that web page owners forget to keep in mind, is the promotion and maintenance of your page. It is crucial in this field to always try to stay on top of all the news and new procedures that are available, simply because new efficient techniques appear everyday and you definitely need to keep track of them all in order to maintain you good ranking.

SEO Success Story Competition by WoodyRoundUp

Before I post more articles on this blog, I would like to have a SEO Success Story Competition.

Three best written entry will be rewarded with a honorary place in my Link List.

Just tell the world, how you have done your SEO, how much have you spent, and how success it is or when is your expected succesful date. It does not have to be a long story, probably one or two paragraphs will be enough, as long as they cover the questions.

This competition will finish by the end of the month (April 2006).

Good luck…….

SEO Tips to Follow by WoodyRoundUp

Description: This article presents some efficient tips and techniques that always work when it comes to SEO.

There are many things to take into consideration when intending to have as result the increase of traffic and a good ranking of your page, as far as search engines are concerned. The important thing is to keep in mind that all these factors need to be combined and synchronized in order to deliver the expected results.

Thus, the meta tags of your web site will not be able to provide the high ranking in search engine listings if they are expected to work on their own. However, if you combine them efficiently with titles and good quality content you are likely to obtain the result you hoped for. On the other hand, although you might have great keywords, if they are not placed properly on your page they will not bring you top ranking.

Obviously, to have good content you need to fist work on the keywords. In order to determine them you should think about the most common phrases or words that people would type in to get the sort of services or information similar to the one posted on your web page. Once you discovered them, make sure you include them in your titles, meta description, meta keyword list and the ALT tags, in the case of using images.

On the other hand it will be really useful for you to keep in mind that excessively repeating the keywords might cause you problems, as you might end up by being considered spam by certain search engine. Moreover you might also get penalized and receive a very low ranking, for trying to use unfair methods to promote your web page.

In order to avoid such issues it is recommended to combine the keywords throughout the page, trying to place it in different context, instead of using it to a degree that would annoy the user. Another tip to consider is placing the most important keywords very close to the BODY tag.