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Efficient SEO tricks

WoodyRoundUp — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:40:04 +0000

In what follows we are going to present some efficient strategies and procedures for the SEO process.

More and more web site owners have become familiar with the common procedures to be applied in order to acquire better ranking in the search engine’s lists. For that reason it might be really useful to analyze more in depth the manners in which you can proceed, so that you either improve or maintain the current position of your website in the search engines’ listings.

An efficient manner to attract the attention of the search engines is to include the main keywords in the heading, in the title and especially in the first part of your body text. However, you have to be careful how you include them so that you do not exaggerate and end up being treated as spam. It is important to keep a balance about the use of key phrases, but to somehow manage to incline this balance in your favor. Generally, one to three times repetition in a 100 words text is considered reasonably.

Meta tags represent a subject that is approached in different manners by different search engines. Their importance has varied so much that nowadays they are completely not used anymore by some of the engines, while others still consider them of great importance. Among the ones that totally neglect the use of meta tags there are some really important engines like Google for example. The same happened to the keyword tag which has become of no importance. The only one that is still being used pretty frequently is the description tag.

It is very relevant to our discussion to approach the off line page criteria, which in fact represents an important part of the SEO work. The point to start when intending to improve you off page criteria is to build a good web site. This way you will attract more links, which will contribute to an increase of your popularity. Once your popularity increases, the number of visitors goes up as well, which is an issue that the search engines that use click popularity will carefully take into consideration.

SEO Suggestions

WoodyRoundUp — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:15:37 +0000

The requirements and the rules followed by the search engines are not that hard to apply to the content of a web page, once you become aware of them.

First of all you have to understand to what crucial extent the content and the display of content will affect you ranking in the list provided by the search engine as a result of a query. For that reason you have to focus on rendering a structure that will be considered friendly and explicit by the search engines.

As surprisingly as it might sound, the title of the page is probably the most significant part of your web site from the search optimization process point of view. Thus, it is highly recommended not only to make sure that your pages have titles, but also that the main keyword is placed as close to the beginning of the title as possible. As a general rule, the search engines tend to prefer titles that do not exceed six words, so make sure you keep your titles short.

Moreover, do not loose sight of the fact that the design and content of the page has to be not only robot friendly, but especially user and visitor friendly. In other words, it is a good idea to try to come up with relevant titles that attract and are able maintain the attention of the visitors. Otherwise, you might end up having a top ranking page, but hardly any visitors at all.

Headings are very important as well and kind of hard to deal with because of their large size. However, the most important at all is the body text. One of the most common and wise suggestions is to include the keyword at least several times in the text. The top of the page is where the search engines make their prime analysis of the content, so make sure to include the keyword in there more often.

Search Engine Requirements

WoodyRoundUp — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:33:22 +0000

Once you got your web page up and running you are mostly interested in getting it to be recognized by the search engines and to increase the traffic, by getting more visitors to your url address.

There are general conditions required by search engines in general and which are not difficult to follow once you dedicate some time to studying them. They are mainly related to the content of the page and to the manner you need to submit the page in order for the search engines to be able to post it in response of queries.

However, you should be aware of the fact that apart from the common characteristics and requirements that search engines share, there are more specific ones that you need to consider if you want to submit you page to them, as well. Make sure you are well informed of the procedures you need to follow before you take any action.

As a general rule, most of the search engines tend to be interested in the titles posted on your page, which should be included on every page and should be original. Some of them even suggest that you include the main keywords of the page in the titles.

Keyword density is an issue that search engines approach differently: some of them require a certain density per page and moreover give strict suggestion on how they should be arranged, while others do not seem to mind this aspect at all. Most of them however encourage web pages to have external links to other sites.

The opinions vary as well when it comes to Meta Tags: some of the important engines tend to stress their importance, while the others don’t find them really important, but however do encourage their use. Anyways, what all these search engines reported as favorable is click popularity procedures and concise and accurate descriptions and keywords.

Text content for SEO purposes

WoodyRoundUp — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:22:34 +0000

It is not sufficient for a webpage to simply contain a certain density of keywords in order to obtain a certain ranking, it is also relevant to have those key phrases/keywords displayed in a certain manner that we are going to approach in this article.

When trying to either create a website or renovating it in order to make it search engine friendly, there are a variety of things that you have to keep in mind. However, the more attention you pay to the website optimization rule at the beginning, the less trouble you will have when getting them running or when trying to fix the problems.

Keep in mind that both the design of the web page and its content are relevant for a good ranking. Thus, it is advisable to use as much text as possible on you webpage. Although the techniques used by the search engines in analyzing the content of a page have evolved greatly, many general-purpose engine still have trouble to read and tend to ignore everything on the page that is not text. As a consequence, it is advisable not to necessarily exclude all the images but to try to try to concentrate more on text, because from the search engine point of view images, sounds or flash animations do not exist.

Now that you have an idea on what percentage of the content of a page should be dedicated to images and what percentage to text, let us focus on how to display the information so that it delivers the purpose expected by you.

Fist of all, it is important to keep in mind that the search engine engines optimization software tends to consider that the text placed on the top part of the page is more important and relevant than the one in the middle. If you think logically you will discover that is it not such an odd idea, since you can determine by reading the info on the top of a page what precisely is the message contained related to.

Another issue concerning the text has to do with the density. It is advisable to repeat the central keywords at the beginning of the text displayed on the page as much as possible, to make it easy for the search engines to determine what your message is all about.

Ethical website promotion

WoodyRoundUp — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:30:11 +0000

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

WoodyRoundUp — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:56:01 +0000

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

WoodyRoundUp — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:53:12 +0000

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.

My thoughts after one week of traffic battling

WoodyRoundUp — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:29:11 +0000

For the past week, I have been trying to get the traffic to my site. These two sites, BlogMad and BlogExplosion have helped me to achieve ranking 17 at the moment for the Internet Marketing/Web Design category in BlogTopSites.

What a great experience.

Let me give you a brief comparison for both.

BlogMad is new. It gives you one point for each surfing, which is very helpful because you don’t need to struggle hard to get even for one point. BlogMad also has a nicer user interface. And the random (Mystery) bonus can be very big. It also has many types of games that you can play to earn more points. There are not many users in the site yet (currently 2040 blogs), because it is new. I am not sure whether you should call this an advantage (because your blog get seen more), or a disadvantage (because you can’t have a lot of unique visits). I was surprised yesterday when their database is totally crashed for a few hours. I believe that’s probably a few hours before it crashed, it was giving away double points, and that have increased the traffic terribly. Hopefully they will be ready when they are flooded by more visitors in the future.

BlogExplosion is a veteran in the Blog Traffic industry. At the time of writing, it has about 38092 blogs listed. What I don’t like from BlogExplosion is the points for surfing. You get only 0.5 points for one site, and for that, you need a longer time to click on the next site. At one point, I get a mystery bonus of 2 points. That was not very big at all, wasn’t it? The best feature in BlogExplosion, in my opinion, is the Battle of the Blogs. Currently I won one battle, and I got 15 points from that. Not bad eh? Oh, you can also rent a space to other people as well. Currently I have got “Rob in China” as my tenant.
Right now, I am trying BlogClicker. This one seems to be hard point as well and there are not many options of earning points, except by paying money.

Hope this will help people in identifying which website is better. I suggest you go for both.

What do you think, all bloggers out there?

Tips on website promotion

WoodyRoundUp — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:39:13 +0000

If you created your own web site or if you gave strict instructions on what your web page to look like, than you are almost sure to be able to handle you website promotion or to closely coordinate somebody to carry out that process for you. Here is an easy to approach and effective guide to follow in order to be successful as far as you website promotion is concerned.Fist of all, you need to make sure you correctly submit your site to search engines. Keep in mind that there are two kinds of submission: the automated one, for the smaller engines and the manual submission requested by the important search engine such as Yahoo and Google. However, before you take this action make sure that your web site is properly search engine optimized.

The second important step to follow once the submission to the search engine is performed is to pass the same kind of information to as many directories as possible. By doing this, you url registration will gain both more hits and will register a significant increase as far as popularity goes. Do not loose sight of the fact that one of the conditions the important search engine impose in order to achieve a good ranking is a large number of links to your web page, which can be easily done by help of directories.

It is true that submitting your url address to directories is not as easy to accomplish as submitting to the search engines, but the procedures are however pretty clear once you look into a tutorial.

A third step to take is the submission of your web address to site to pay-per-click engines. This represents one of the most efficient solutions you are in a hurry to get your web site noticed, but nevertheless it might get a bit costly.

Anyways, a good combination of these techniques is likely to get you on the right track as far as controlling the traffic of your web page goes.

This article is originally published at: SEO Home, where experts meet.

Specific Details on SEO services

WoodyRoundUp — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:20:04 +0000

Although there is huge number of companies and consultants on the market offering high quality SEO services, all of them follow more or less the same procedures, which makes it relatively easy to identify the most likely steps to be taken as far as this type of service is concerned.

Thus, the number one thing to be done will always be an initial analysis of the current status of your website. This has to happen for at least two good reasons: first of all to make sure that the url registration and the url address are functioning properly and there will be no problems of function and secondly, to determine the ranking before the SEO procedures have been applied.

In the initial analysis there is normally a section dedicated to the most specific keywords used by potential clients when searching for businesses or services provided by the web page in question. Once the list becomes consistent, it is passed to specialized writers who will create an original content containing those specific keywords, following certain specific rules as far as word density and location of words in the text is concerned.

Once the text to be posted on you website is ready, specialized technicians will make sure to post it on your web page in such a manner as to ensure an optimal communication with the search engines. Furthermore, there are other aspects related to your web site that need to be redeveloped. They include the graphic-text, the sub-pages, meta tags, alt tags, etc. All these alterations in the content and structure of the web page need to lead to your url location being spider friendly. It is also extremely important to make sure that it meets the search engine algorithms.

Once these first steps are performed, the specialists will proceed with link development and then submission of the website to the most important search engines.

This article is originally published at: SEO Home, where experts meet.