Archive for the 'Search Engine Optimization' Category
by Aiden O’Neill
Have you have ever checked to see how much of your site Google has indexed by using the site:www.domain.com command? If so you may have been puzzled to see results that said ‘Supplemental Result’ after the website URL.
What is a Supplemental Result? Well, briefly it is an index of web pages that Google has determined do not belong in the regular search index. Wait a minute, not showing in the regular Google search results? That is a lot of potential visitors to your site just lost because your pages are no longer showing up in regular Google searches. What can be done to get yourself out of Supplemental Hell? Continue Reading »
What is Google’s Supplemental Search Result and How to Deal with It.
By Matt Jackson
Your link profile is potentially the most powerful aspect of your SEO efforts, especially in the eyes of Google. Quality counts over quantity, but it is important to get a good list of well-balanced links pointing to your site. Diversification really is the key. Try not to concentrate all of your efforts on gaining links from one source, and similarly try not to gain them using a single method. A number of tactics should be avoided wherever possible because they either offer you no benefit whatsoever or your page may be penalized. Continue Reading »
SEO Basics - Good Link, Bad Link
By Jinger Jarrett
Although the internet is bombarded with articles, how many of those articles really get read?
It’s not enough to write what you think is a good article, you have to want to write articles others want to read. Continue Reading »
4 SEO Mistakes That Cost Your Articles Rankings
By Carolyn Clayton
Have you paid lots of money for a cool website design? Is your site looking all flashy and professional? Has it got cool a cool flash intro with lots of images? Have you spent lots of money developing a new site only to realise that you’re not getting any extra hits or business. It is hardly surprising with the amount of websites on the internet; this number could be in the region of 300 billion. So it is hardly surprising when you do a search on Google for something and you get thousands of results and you spend ages looking through the sites. Continue Reading »
Nice Website, Shame No-One Can Find It!
Copyright 2006 Christopher Robinson
Search engine optimization (SEO) can be a time consuming and tiresome task, even for the experienced guru. Outsourcing this to a company is a good thing and will save you a lot of time and problems. However what you do need to know is that among the good companies out there are some companies who will employ “black hat” SEO tactics that will get you into a lot of trouble with the search engines not to mention all the lost sales that will occur. Continue Reading »
How To Avoid Being Cheated By Your SEO Company
By Joe Borges
There was a time when online website owners optimized their websites based soley on keyword density. Keyword density used to be the standard by which all websites were measured by the search engines. Now the trend has changed. The search engines take into account several different factors when judging the value of a website and deciding how and where it should (or shouldn’t) be ranked. Now things have changed. There are the ever- changing algorithms, the PageRank system (Google) and an increasing importance is being placed on off-page ranking factors. Continue Reading »
Keywords 101
By Marsha Maung
SEO writing is very different from content writing, article writing, story writing and news writing. When I first realized my innate talent for writing stuff and putting thoughts into words, I was still reading Mills and Boons, and it was during this time that my romance storybooks were confiscated by my classroom teacher because I was reading in class. Continue Reading »
SEO Article Writing 101
By Kathryn Lively
You have created your website - uploaded content and images to create a pleasing online environment for your information - and are ready to launch. Continue Reading »
Optimize Your Website for Search
By Andrew Williams
Would you like a checklist of the important steps to take in optimizing a web site? Well, here it is: Continue Reading »
An SEO Checklist
