Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Articles

SEO companies come in all shapes and sizes. You've got your solo SEOs that either a) do everything themselves and/or b) sub-contract out many aspects of each campaign while maintaining a tight control on the quality and results of the project. Then y...

Search engine optimization this and search engine optimization that. You read and hear about it all day, but what about your site? While there are plenty of articles providing useful information, this article shows you how a real world example met wi...

I hear this all the time. "I can get you listed on 100,000 websites for $29.95" and..."I can get you 100,000 hits on your website for the same price". Avoid these like the plague. First off you don't need a 100,000 visitors to your site. What you nee...

Have you heard of website optimization ? If you are building a website or have a new one and you have never heard of it, then you had better take note, because if you want to climb the ladder on the search engines it is something you need to learn a...

Google does not accept payment for inclusion in their main index - so anyone that's at the top is there through hard work and perseverance, or through paying a company such as NikkiPilkington.com to do the hard work for you. Below I show you 7 grea...

Its a matter of here today, gone tomorrow at the moment with Google so don't get complacent if you are on the first few pages of the searches. Its great, you are making money and think now you can relax and forget about it for a while. No chance, K...

As soon as you register your domain name, submit it to Google! Even if you haven't built your site, or written an copy, or even thought about your content, submit your domain name to Google. In fact, even if you haven't fully articulated your busine...

All the great efforts made for making your own site, goes in vain when your site doesn't bring you business. The reasons can be anything right from less traffic, to less page-per-views, or lesser PageRank. Upon serendipity of elaborating all of the ...

As you are building your site or getting your site built, you need to do as much as you can to ensure higher rankings in the search engines. There are a variety of little tips and techniques you can use to do this. Meta tags & keywords - Meta tags a...

6: The hidden benefits to having the right links. Every site online has an index or default file as its home page file. But outside of that rule you can name the other pages whatever you like. So why not cram the names with keywords and/or keyphrases...

In this three part article, you'll find many tools that any webmaster can use to monitor your site's search engine position, and use to increase the visibility of your site in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. URL Trends http://www.url...

The first months my website was online, I was constantly checking the search engines to see if my site was listed under the keywords that I was targeting. And always with the same negative results. The truth is that the keywords that you are targetin...

If you spend much time reading the various webmaster forums, you're no doubt well aware of the grief that many webmasters experience after seeing a Google algorithm change send their web pages sinking like a stone in the search results. But there are...

Email marketing once proved to be immensely effective, but the greedy and idiotic polluted the well by spamming the planet with everything from weight-loss products to sexual enhancement drugs and beyond. Because of the stench, filters and laws have ...

Most people do not think of SEO as a game. Let me take 5 minutes of your time and explain how SEO is simply a game of Chess. I remember as a teenager learning how to play Chess for the first time. Man it was complicated. Each piece moved different wa...

According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), advertisers spent $4 billion in 2004 on search marketing programs and are expected to spend 39% more than that this year. Search engine marketing appears to be a great way to...

Welcome to part seven in this ten-part search engine positioning series. Last week we discussed the importance of human testing. In part seven we will cover the best practices of website submissions, where to submit your website to, and how to do so....

Reciprocal links are an important step in your overall plan to get site visitors. What are they? Reciprocal links are mutual links you and some other web site owner agree to post on your respective sites. Why are they so important? It goes back to th...

Google this, Google that, Google Google Google....... My name is Debbie and I am a Google PR Junkie. I have to laugh at myself as I say that. Because to me I was a Google PR junkie. I had to know what my PR was everyday! Sometimes more than once a da...

The days of basing a successful link building strategy on link quantity and anchor text alone may be numbered. The link popularity theories behind PageRank and Hilltop remain important, but major search engines are continually adding new elements to ...

Use a keyword density of about 1 to 2%. Use to be that you could rank high with 5% to 15%, but not any more. Google will call that "over optimizing" and penalize you. Don't use more than 83 characters (including spaces) in your meta title tag. That u...

Your title tag is the most important 3 to 12 words on your Web page. It accounts for up to 80% of your rankings on search engines. Here's why: Search Engines look for "searched for" words first in title tags. The title tag is one of the main places s...

Not many web master take the time to use a robots.txt file for their website. For search engine spiders that use the robots.txt to see what directories to search through, the robots.txt file can be very helpful in keeping the spiders indexing your ac...

Whether you want to start a business and sell on the Internet or you're an old pro and want more Internet sales, here's the easy way to do it. To get the most sales on the Internet you need to have a high PageRank on Google. One of the common techniq...

It is official, the search engine wars are in full swing. On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 MSN officially rolled out its new search solution to all of its websites, including MSN.com. This comes on the heels of growing speculation that Google plans to l...

Below are what I call the "10 Commandments" for Keywords. To start with select "keyword phrases" NOT keywords. This is very important. After all, the keyword itself is included in the keyword phrase. Consider select different endings for your keyword...

OK, you published your site, now you just sit by the phone with a notepad as the orders pour in, right? Well, weeks go by and nothing happens. What's wrong? Oops, you forgot to submit to search engines. No problem, you go onto Google, Yahoo, MSN, per...

When shopping online for Link Management Software that can help create and automate your links directory, some important features that you should look for are as follows: The software should, Create the links page based on your own template. Al...

If you've been feeling like Tom Cruise climbing up the side of some remote jagged mountain in the blazing hot sun and concerned you're facing "mission impossible", chances are you own a web site. Adding to the intense thrill of web site ownership are...

If you are confused about terms like "search engine optimization" or having a "search engine friendly" site, then listen up! I am here to help. Depending on how long you have had, or considered having, a website online, you have heard terms thrown a...