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Over the last few years, search engine optimization (SEO) has been
needed and used more and more, although it has been around for much
longer than most people think. With new development tools being used to
create websites that are heavy on Java, Flash and images, it's
important to have...
It is estimated that at least 340 million people use search engines to
find products and services every day. That's a lot of people. The top
search engines use link popularity to decide which sights come up first
when you do a search. Wouldn't it be nice if your website came up at
the top...
If you were writing a textbook on search engine optimization linking around 2001, you would have included a chapter on web directories. They used
to be the primary way of actively acquiring one-way inbound links,
before content syndication, blogs, or the paid link market really took...
Before going any further, you have to know what the
difference between a search engine and directory is. Here is a brief definition. (More)
One of the most powerful aspects of Search Engine Optimization is link
building. Proper link building for the purpose of rankings uses targeting links. Targeting links are one of the most effective
approaches, as the links pass PageRank, and are already proven to rank
your competitors. The...
Tough question, "What is SEO?". As with pretty much all
internet-related terms, concepts and notions, that of "SEO" does not
have a unique definition and it is a blurry concept in most people's
mind. (More)
Blogging is fun and easy to do, and you may be interested in learning
how blogging can help you with SEO. You don’t have to be a programming
genius to set up and maintain a blog. You don’t even need to know
HTML. If you are new to blogs, websites, and online business in
general, start by...
Over the years there has been lots of discussion in the SEO community regarding building links to a web site. The debate is particularly heated at the moment, as Google rolls out its "Jagger" upgrade. (More)
Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines? Later in this article I’ll show you a real case scenario and the design and SEO approach used. (More)
Building reciprocal Links is an important tool for building links
popularity. Reciprocal links are the mutual links exchanged by you and
the other website(s) to index the respective links on the each other’s
websites. You will post the other site’s links on your websites and
they will index...
It’s no secret that one of the best ways to get traffic online is to
trade links with other related websites. Not only does this help you
get targeted traffic, but it helps with your search engine optimization
as well. (More)
'More than 80% of the traffic comes from the top ten search engines'. You have probably read this statement many times and it's true at least for the majority of websites. (More)
There are many ways to market your business on the Internet, and using
search engine optimized articles has to be one of the "keeper"
strategies for getting pre-qualified 'natural' search engine traffic to
your web site. (More)
Companies and small businesses need to optimize their websites for search engine marketing (organic
listings, general advertising and pay per click) to acquire more
customers or members, sell more online and for many other reasons.
There are nearly 1 billion people with Internet access...
If you are a small business owner with a website , chances are you have
wondered how best to promote it. You might wonder if people are going
to be able to navigate to it or if it will be popular. Of course,
you’ve heard you need to submit to search engines, but which ones? How
many? The...
It is a fact that few web search surfers will click beyond the first
two to three pages of search results looking for what they need. If
they do not find it within the first few pages of search results they
will either search again using a different search engine or they will
search on...
A content-rich site is one that has lots of informative articles up at
it, usually centered around a theme. Most websites can not quite pull off
being WikiPedia, so they specialize. For instance, you could do a site
for dog owners.
Possible articles on that site would cover: (More)
What is the Google Sandbox?
It’s the mysterious, possibly non-existent web purgatory where millions
of websites languish without rankings, visibility, or traffic. (More)
In this day and age of online marketing , content has been heralded as
king, and for good reasons. People flock to sites not because of the
flashy graphics nor the astounding features nor the witty domain name
of the said pages, but because of the information contained therein
that would...
For many websites , search engines, especially Google, bring more than 80 percent of their new visitors. According to a recent survey conducted by Marketingsherpa, 59 percent of B2B marketers have
disclosed that they plan to increase their search engine optimization
budgets for next year....
Have you ever tried to submit your website to the search engines to get your website listed, spidered and indexed? (More)
If you are building new websites, you better read this. It could save you a lot of time and frustration. (More)
Yes, since January, there are massive movements in search engine results (SERPs) on the Google search engine. However, do you know how much is changing in February? the SEO forums are blazing with speculation as to what's going on. Read on to find a tool to prove to yourself what is going...
Since I've been on the topic of search engine optimization as it pertains to building your website, I thought I'd pass along a little tip about checking "future" rankings of your website. How do you do that? (More)
The forums are now buzzing about Google's motives for becoming a domain registrat. In this article, 8 days ago, I answered that. (More)
Sounds like a fun little time, doesn't it? But unfortunately, it's not. (More)
Yes, the mighty G continues to surprise.... (More)
Yes, today I feel naked here being online..... (More)
Do you ever wonder how search engines work? Have a look under the covers..... (More)
In a very forthright and open blog piece today, Cory Kleinschmidt of Traffick , puts forth a very telling "prediction" about Google. I happen to agree.... (More)
Naw...tell me it isn't so.... (More)
Today, a senior Microsoft MSN program manager announced in his blog that they are switching over MSN search results to the MSN beta version from time to time to "test scalability". (More)
There is a heated dialog going on with one of the search engine optimization discussion lists I belong to..... (More)
As in any community, the search engine optimizers (SEO's), the professionals who are paid fees to get their client websites ranked highly among "free" search engine rankings, have their bitter disputes. In one corner, the blistering attacks continue..... (More)
It's that time of the year. It's what I call the "search engine suicide watch". Usually, twice a year, Google does a major update to their algorithm, databases, search engine rankings and PageRank. (More)
Copyright (C) 2004 F. Terrence Markle Link popularity is simply the total number of web pages that link to your web page. Link popularity is an extremely important factor that is used by most of the major search engines to rank web pages and web sites. In general, the major search engines...