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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.

My thoughts after one week of traffic battling by WoodyRoundUp

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 by WoodyRoundUp

Description: In this article we will discuss some simple strategies that can make a difference as far as increasing traffic

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 by WoodyRoundUp

Description: The purpose of this article is to offer an idea on what are the most common SEO services and how precisely do companies in this field deal with your SEO request.

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.

Search Engine Submissions by WoodyRoundUp

Description: This article is meant to give a short overview on search engine submission procedures and on their significance.

Search Engine Submission procedures will make it possible for your web page to get listed by different search engines. It is important to clearly understand the distinction between search engine submissions and search engine optimization. Although the two phrases are pretty similar they define different activities.

Thus, the search engine submission simply refers to the act itself of getting your web page listed by different search engines. A good synonym for this term, which is in fact pretty commonly utilized, is “search engine registration”. Nevertheless, it is crucial to understand that this type of registration will not increase or improve your ranking as far as searches are concerned, but it will simply “inform” a specific search engine of the fact that your web page actually exists.

While the act of submission or registration is most of the times associated with purchasing a lottery ticket – this action will not ensure you any winnings -, the second process, the search engine optimization techniques will be the one capable of improving your chance of profit. What a process like this is able to do, if correctly put into practice, is to improve your positioning within a listing of websites that results after somebody runs a keyword search on a search engine.

Normally, specialists or companies dealing with submission of web pages charge a certain amount for each of the search engine you specify you want your url address to be recognized. Nevertheless, you can usually obtain discounts if you opt to send the submission to consistent number of search engine or if you have multiple web addresses for them to work with.

You should also know that there are two types of submissions: the automated one, which can be easily sent to an impressive number of search engine, link pages, directories etc and the manually submissions, requested mainly by the major search engines like: Yahoo, Google, AOL etc.

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

SEO Insights by WoodyRoundUp

Description: This article describes what SEO refers to in different contexts and why it is relevant for the web site owners to be aware of SEO techniques.

Internet marketing has become an undeniable reality that we have to deal with and which can sometimes be much more competitive and challenging than the marketing campaigns in the real world.

By using the term SEO we define two different, but however very much related concepts. Fist of all we describe a series of methods and processes that once correctly implemented will lead to improving the ranking that your web page registers within the major search engine lists.

The same term – “search engine optimization” – is also utilized to refer to the group of consultants who are able to perform optimization projects for the web pages their clients hire them to do. Within the large group of consultants that carry out web optimization procedure one can distinguish the so called “white hat SEO” and the “black hat SEO”. The main difference between the two groups is the methods they tend to select for carrying out this process and also their objectives.

Among the search engine optimization tools the spamdexing is always one of the most frequently used techniques. This procedure uses different deceptive ways in attempt to manipulate the search engine and to obtain higher rankings. On the other hand the legitimate SEO procedures that are legally utilized and applied to url addresses have as prior concern to built better and more qualitative sites, by means of using honest methods of promotion. However, it is also worth mentioning that so far it is not clear what an ethical or honest technique really signifies.

Among the listings that the search engines display on the result page one can normally find pay-per-click advertisements, organic search results, paid inclusion lists, etc. Taking all this data in consideration, SEO’s main goal is to improve both the number and the position of the so called “organic search results” for as many keywords as possible.

Thus, it has become generally admitted that efficient SEO strategies, applied correctly, will lead to increasing the number of visitors, while at the same time improving the ranking of the url address.

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