If you’re serious about search engine optimization and prepared to invest some money into keyword analysis, you can open an account with a keyword research Web site like Wordtracker. Simply go to the Wordtracker home page and click the Sign Up link (see below). Wordtracker offers a wide variety of tools and reports to help [...]
The Slashdot slogan says it all: “News for nerds and stuff that matters.” Slashdot (shown below) has a reputation for being an outstanding social bookmarking site for people looking to find and share content related to technology, science, or science fiction. Slashdot works slightly differently from other social bookmarking sites in that submissions are reviewed [...]
Diigo (see below) is a unique social bookmarking site because it lets users save, for later access, a copy of any page online as it appears at that moment. Each member can store as much as 5 gigabytes of data. Users can also search and share saved pages with each other. Share and Enjoy:
Link popularity is the number of relevant quality inbound links pointing to your website. Most major search engines use link popularity as part of their algorithm which helps to determine the relevance of your website. If you don’t have inbound links, you won’t rank well for competitive keywords. Ways to build link popularity Link exchange [...]
6. Keyword Proximity – some engines, such as Google, use the concept of “keyword proximity” as part of their ranking formulas. As suggested by the name, “keyword proximity” means the how close keywords are to each other. Put your keywords as close together as possible and make sure your sentences are clear. Here’s an example: [...]
1. Title Tag The title tag is one of the most important factors in achieving high rankings. A title tag is essentially an HTML code that creates the words that appear in the top bar of your Web browser. Usually, the Title Tag is the first element in the <Head> area of your site, followed [...]
How to improve articles In this step by step article you will learn how to transform dry, unformatted articles into more attractive and readable text. Step 1: The wrong way to format articles In this sample page you can see an article without any formatting. This article was copied and pasted into an html code. [...]
Starting at the top of your index/home page something like this: A heading tag that includes a keyword(s) or keyword phrases. A heading tag is bigger and bolder text than normal body text, so a search engine places more importance on it because you emphasize it. Heading sizes range from h1 – h6 with h1 [...]
Search engine optimization can seem daunting, but you can take a number of simple actions to boost your rankings. Try the suggestions described in the following list on your own blog and start driving search traffic to your posts: ✓ Use your keyword or keyword phrase in your blog post titles. Search engines weigh titles [...]
Another critical component to search engine optimization success is link building — particularly, attracting incoming links from popular Web sites. Search engines rank sites with many incoming links higher than those with few incoming links. The reason is that search engines are programmed to assume that sites with many incoming links contain useful content that [...]
Many bloggers use keyword analysis tools to determine which keywords to focus on in their blog posts in order to boost search engine traffic to their blogs. An easy and free way to determine the popularity of keywords is to create a Google AdWords account and pretend that you’re an advertiser. AdWords pay-per-click advertisers have [...]
To find information they’re interested in, people enter keywords and keyword phrases into search engine query fields. The search engine returns relevant results and ranks them for users to scroll through and select results that appeal to them. Most people don’t look beyond the first few pages of search results, which typically place ten results [...]
The vast majority of search engine-related blog traffic comes from Google and Yahoo! followed by MSN, AOL, and Ask. Google and Yahoo control more than 50 percent of the online search market, so it’s safe to say that in the beginning stages of your SEO efforts, focusing on those two search engines is a less [...]
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of creating or modifying your Web pages to increase their rankings in search engine queries. You might think of it this way: If you write a blog about search engine optimization, for example, would people find your blog if they type the word search engine optimization into their [...]
