Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Articles

You can easily get confused by all the search engine optimization companies and SEO experts that offer SEO services. It's hard to know who to trust or what should be included in a SEO proposal. I will endeavor to clarify some of these points for ...

Part I of this article discussed some of the points that should be included in a search engine optimization proposal. Visit the resources section at the bottom of the page if you wish to get a copy of the whole article. Part 2 will discuss the fol...

There are a lot of operators (commands you can enter in the Google search box to return specific results) you can plug into Google in order to find what you want. For webmasters and website owners, however, a few particular operators can be especiall...

Achieving a top ranking position in Google is every webmasters dream. Unfortunately very few ever make it high enough for it to make a big difference on their traffic volume. If you are one of the few to make it onto the Top 10 list, you have probab...

Achieving a top ranking position in Google is every webmasters dream. Unfortunately very few ever make it high enough for it to make a big difference on their traffic volume. If you are one of the few to make it onto the Top 10 list, you have probab...

What does all this SEO jargon mean. Have you ever been left scratching your head, wondering what the Search Engine Optimizers SEO's or Gurus are talking about. You are not the only one. There are so many terms used on the Internet that you almost ...

Generating high traffic to your web site can be costly, or not, depending on time and effort you commit to the business. One of the easiest, least expensive and most effective ways to get visitors is via a concept called 'Keyword Density'. Mini Site ...

Webmasters always anxiously wait for a search engine update. Those who rank well want to see their sites get even better. Those who didn't do well expect a major boost. Those whose sites get de-indexed anticipate a major comeback. Those who just star...

Source code optimization. {title}...{/title} This tag is to be a winner. This is a primary spot to include our keywords for SE spiders, bots or crawlers ("spider" hereafter). {title} tags are the best "dainty dish" for SE spiders. They eat them as ca...

SEO or search engine optimization strategy now becomes widely popular among online business operators. Nothing strange about it as it allows to substantially increase your gross income, as a result of growing traffic or visitors flow. That is why one...

To see each and every page during 10 seconds would take 694 days 24/24. The leading search engines fight to be the first that oversteps this level. In the meantime the key word "sex" has been typed about 20'000'000 times on the entire web and Google ...

Like all things, theft is theft, misery loves company, negative people are everywhere, business is sometimes bad, things go up and others go down. If those are all true then knowledge is power right? Wrong, knowledge is only power if applied. So why ...

After Google latest update nicknamed "Florida", many webmasters discovered that their traffic plummeted. What happened? More importantly what can you do about it? And what will Google do next? What happened was that Google made an algorithm change on...

I knew things were bad at DMOZ. But I guess I didn't realize how bad, until I started eavesdropping on a few forums, and reading the avalanche of e-mails I received on the subject. When it takes up to two years to get a web site listed, there's a ser...

There are four basic types of Search Engines: Free Search Engines Pay-For-Inclusion Search Engines Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Search Engines Directories Because each type does things a little differently, you need to adapt your strategy to take advantage ...

There's an old saying that goes, "God takes care of babies and idiots." Truly this statement applies to me, because when it comes to my search engine optimization skills, I'm on the idiot side of scale. But that's okay because idiots are loved, and c...

Like many folks, I have been using KEI for some time now to determine what keywords I should target with my web site. And this has led me to becoming concerned with the results KEI provides and the keywords it suggests. I need to say here that my con...

Selecting the right keyword phrases is the key to a successful search engine marketing campaign. Industry statistics indicate that as many as 85% of all initial Website visits begin with a search engine query, and according to researchers NPD Group, ...

Google is quickly changing... With the big buzz of Novembers fall within Google comes a newly indexed data-base... Did Google do something bad to our great placements? No I don't think so and here's why. While people are screaming for help and wonder...

Alexa toolbar also useful to Browse expired websites database. Many times when we visit any website we got error message that website is not available. We have to simply click The Wayback Machine button on Alexa toolbar and we can see the old data of...

Having your website rank well in the major search engines is crucial to a successful Internet business. However, the information on doing so, which abounds on the Internet, can be perceived as complex and contradictive. Many website owners end up ove...

In part I of our series of how to make your website more successful we already showed you some important tricks to build a more successful website. This time we are going to expand the scope a little to further improve your website and to make it wor...

There are a lot of things in Search Engine Optimization when done to your site that can increase you rankings. But one aspect that always comes up and that always affects your rankings in a huge way is altering the title tag. The title tag is perhaps...

Watching a recent football game, I imagined two very different teams: one called “The Horders” and the other, “The Hunters”. In the game, it takes planning and skill to carry a football a few yards. There’s interference...

MSN finally unleashed its new search technology to the world on Monday. The official announcement coming from Bill Gates introduced the New MSN Search engine, ending with a personal invitation to visit www.msn.com and “type in your question.â...

I had an email "conversation" this last week which I feel others may benefit from "listening in" on. Here it is in summary: "Andy Why is it that xxxxxxx ranks so well on Google for the phrase xxxxxx xxxxxx when it has a PR of 0. The other top resul...

Definition: A doorway page is content created specifically for the purpose of garnering high placements in the search engines. Issue: Google makes the following specific recommendation: Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines or other "...

A higher search ranking is what many website owners dream of. What they don't realise is that by optimising their site for the search engines, if done correctly, they can also optimise it for their site visitors. Ultimately this means more people fin...

Good keywords are frequently searched for (high demand) but not being targeted by many other websites (low competition). There are a number of tools out there that can help you find them. Wordtracker The best tool out there, Wordtracker is one of the...

Unfortunately, not many Search Engine Optimization companies know what this involves. You may see a "one size fits all" package, link popularity development in the form of submitting to link farms, or even the dreaded "Submit Your Site to 1000's o...