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Author: Leif
• Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Google Personalized SearchGoogle has come up with some new changes in their search engine where they have tried to personalize the search engine results which may take the web-surfing to new levels.

The new Google Personalized Search Engine system is designed to help the viewers to find that they are looking for in easy and specialized way.The new system of Google basically works in this way, if someone is searching for some answer and clicks on a website that they often visit that has that answers, then that site will rank higher than others the next time they go to search for the same query. If you like the answers in wiki answers than some other website, Wikipedia will rank higher on the list because Google knows that you like that site more than other websites.

To take the advantage of Google’s new personalized search, you don’t need to keep signed-in to Google account nor you need a Google account. It is available in 40 languages worldwide. The Google personalized search also works with less specific keyword terms. If you type in a general term like “new phones” and frequently check for the relates websites from search engine, then the websites that you usually prefer to visit, will rank higher than other websites for “new phones”. In this way, google will help you to get the information you would normally like to check out first.

So what if you are looking for some more general search? If the new general search doesn’t impress you, you can simply turn off the customization setting that is found under “view customizations” on Google. Google only keep the customized search information records for 180 days and it is completely different from a users Google account and web history.

Google’s new personalized search tool makes users feel more comfortable in their search and makes it more easier for them to get that they are looking for. It’s giving the internet more of a personal touch, making it simple for those who are new to the web and more helpful for regular web surfers.

Author: Leif
• Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

seo logo2 Does Search Engine Optimisation(Optimization) Works With Search Engine Spiders?Search engine optimisation (optimization) is very important for a website. To get the process work well, it will be good to combine search engine spiders with this process. You can use these spiders for your SEO needs.

It is good to know first what a search engine spider is. It is a procedure that monitors the Internet to index sites. It monitors things like how frequently a site is updated, links to a main page and references on other pages. When a spider finds more things it will be pretty much easier for a site to be listed at a good ranking on a search engine.

The most beneficial thing that can be pretty much helpful for your SEO needs is to keep a link to all the key pages on every page of your site. These key page include things like your main page or other type of pages including important things like categories of your site. It doesn’t matter at all what the links look like. As much as they are included, they will be useful.  This will help the main page to get onto the search engine and  at a better position.

Sometimes the web hosting company that is providing you the hosting services can make an impact on your search engine results. A web hosting company in UK can help you a lot with getting more respect from search engine spiders. This can be the case if that hosting company is related to a search engine. A hosting organization linked to a web search engine can help. This is for the reason that your site will be easier to find on a typical engine.

Getting links for your site from other websites can also help. Submitting your site to lots of  directories is one of the best example of this. Directories can work with listing information on websites relating to various categories. Not only you will be able to get your site listed for more people to find but you will also get it to work with search engine spiders.

You should observe these things with UK search engine. These features deal with things like getting links set around your site to your front page or other key pages.

Search Engine Spiders

Author: Leif
• Monday, October 05th, 2009

Google SEOGoogle SEO is optimization of websites which is done by website owners for getting top page ranking in the ruler of search engines that everyone is familiar with, It is Google. This is a fact that everyone knows and everyone will agree with this, that a majority of internet users are using Google for having an answer on their search terms.

It doesn’t matter when it comes to the user, it may be a blog reader or customer, will type a query which is called KEYWORD in the search column and waits for a very short period of time to see the search engine results that appear for the query. This is the reason where you should think about building your website that is Google search Engine Optimization. It is pretty important that you optimize your business website or your blog, so that it helps you in achieving most of the benefits like better page ranks and targeted traffic from search engines. Indeed, this is one remarkable concept that will help you in having a good business.

As like any other business, you will need to do some investment in the beginning of you Online Business too.  The initial investment is going to be spent for hiring a good SEO agency that will work on optimizing your website. There are plenty of things that need to be targeted when you are into this optimization procedure.

You can ask yourself whether if it possible for you to do SEO on your own for yourself. It is definitely not a hard task to do. It is not going to ask for anything else rather than proper dedication towards work and a fair amount of your time. You will also need to learn a lot of things related to Google SEO concept before you start working on this. As stated before, this task is pretty time consuming, so spending some money and getting it done from professionals is a nice solution and side by side you can learn with your own, so once you are familiar with the concept, you will be able to do with your own.

There are a lot of companies that provide SEO services and solutions but it is pretty important that you find a genuine company that counts worth for your investments. Here again, you will need to search for finding a proper company that will help you in better way. Here again, cost is definitely a concern. Going for a cheap solution will be waste of time, money and it will not be good for you and your company. I’ll advise you to go for a company that will charge you a nominal fee and also make sure that you will get satisfactory results for your investments. You can verify their previous experience and most important their license and make sure that they will be able to provide Google friendly solutions for your website. Once you finish up with a company, your Google SEO website is nearly ready to go for Google Search Engine!!

Author: Leif
• Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Long-Tail KeywordsA long tailed keyword is all in all an extension of a generic, core and high volume keyword or phrase. Mostly, it includes the alternative combination of the keywords along with other relevant phrases. However, the sphere of these keywords is that they are not meaningful when used separately. But, when they are taken as a whole, they make significant contribution to drive relevant traffic to the site.

Preferably, a long tail keyword can not surpass the searches if the brand is already well established. Then again it is still a question how these words and phrases can increase the traffic. Technically, the long tail refers to a statistical distribution where the high frequency population is followed by the low frequency population that ultimately tails off.

As a result, the keywords can be classified in two broad categories – short keywords and long tail keywords. They are also called broad and narrow keywords individually. Originally, the named long tail was invented by Chris Anderson and it is targeted at the less competitive niche market. Accordingly the long tail keyword can be expressed as ‘facebook account disbled‘ while the short tail keyword can be ‘facebook disabled‘.

As the examples show, the word facebook disabled is pretty competitive and there will be lots of web sites that deal with this keyword. Then again, the phrase ‘facebook account disabled’ will have less competitors. On the other hand, the last phrase is more specific and therefore, it will have less popularity. However for people looking at specific searches this will be a relevant keyword; hence it will drive quality traffic to the site.

Now, you would be thinking, why you would use long tailed keywords in your website. The reason is obvious here — you do not have a lot of competition when you are dealing with the long tailed keywords and in general, you have the chance of ranking the first position at the search result of  search engines. So, the rules are not much complicated, as much as you use the long tail keywords, the easier it will be for you to get traffic from search engines. After all, it is easier to rank higher with these keywords.

Plus point with the long tail keywords is that the visitors coming through these have pretty high percentage of buyers. In addition, they will click on ads for their search query. This is for the reason that the traffic of the long tail keywords is more specific and they are getting what exactly they were looking at. Statistically, the common keyword bring back $5 for every 1000 impression. At a same time, the long tail keywords can earn $100 in the same number of impressions. Logically, they are effective and worth being used in your site.

Now, if you are thinking to use the long tailed keywords, it is very important that you do proper research in this regard. There are lots of keyword research tools like Google AdWords and WordTracker that can help you in your research. Just remember that both short and long tailed keywords should be used in a balanced proportion, so that you get optimum web traffic.

Author: Leif
• Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Page RankLots of webmasters are either clicking their heels or kicking their LCDs. Google’s Pagerank Update is sweeping world wide and apparently, a lot of people lost overhyped pagerank than gained. That’s where all the heat’s blowing from.

I myself lost ranking at my two sites (dropped to PR4, PR1), gained at two (accelerated to PR5), and the rest stayed idle.

For those who lost, don’t worry It isn’t the day of a judgment. PR drop doesn’t certainly mean SERP drop. I know. I’ve seen PR drop before and my SERP stayed the same or in reality increased.

Now for those who dropped, here are a few strategies to keep up and improve the traffic you still ask for:

  • Roll out the Classified ads- Maintain posting classifieds online and offline. Adsense, Turn over and yeah- bumper stickers will drive paying customers to your site. Just verify you got great stuff to keep your site sticky.
  • RSS submission -Even as content is a king, RSS is queen in a world of info excess. Most people  fire up their feedburners, snarfers and aggregators daily. Take care that you’re ahead on the RSS train.
  • Article submission- I snagged lots of backlinks to my NLP , SEO Consulting and Executive Coaching sites by submitting on a regular basis to Article Directories. These backlinks continue to multiply when lots of people copy the articles to their blogs and webs. Think of it as a safetynet of votes to your site even though primary link partners go belly up.
  • Press release submission- Submitting pr to associated newswebs can bring reporters writing you up in the dailies, not just online. This brings new life into the dead electrons of your web.
  • Forums signatures- For sure, they don’t get you PR juice. But who is concerned? If people like what you post, they’ll follow your signature and spend time on your site.
  • Blog Submission- Look at Connected Internet’s wide readership and considerable revenues.
  • Directory submission- We all know directories have lost PR weight. Fact is, paid directories have either dropped in ranking or been deindexed. However, there’s still marginal usefulness to getting your links on the directories: you catch up the random visitor.
  • Ebook submission- Submitting free ebooks to a few software repository sites got me numerous backlinks when grinning freeloaders started posting them on their webs. You’ll improve ranking faster than you can say “pagerank” a lot of times.
  • Pad file submission- Quickly fetch the attention to your blog by releasing killer apps to download.com. Adobe.com got its PR9 by releasing free software- the adobe acrobat reader. With lots of copies floating the web, it’s no surprise that their PR soars. with good reasons.
  • Video upload- A few of mine still creep around Youtube and lassoo hardly stayed  into the ole corral.
  • Social bookmarking- Technorati. Digg. Newsvine.  Web 2.0 technologies make it likely to launch viral marketing campaigns and not even need to take much effort.

Go Ahead!!!

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Author: Leif
• Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Everyone can make their website achieve better in searches if they are just ready to put some effort in.

There are quite a lot of necessary things everyone should do to ensure their website’s success.

1. Make sure it is well written
Avoid needless code, utilize style sheets, make sure you check your coding with W3C, include alt text for every image and make sure every link uses appropriate descriptions ie a good keyword description that describes where the link is going NO “click here”s.

2. What are keywords? Use them.
Work out your keywords then make sure you use them in everything…. Your meta tags, alt tags, link text and consistently in the textual content of your pages. Every page has unlike keywords – use them well.

3. A flat, non-dynamic structure.
Do not include surplus Flash or dynamic menus unless there is a full HTML equivalent available, or else the search engines will not read anything and you will not be indexed and your search result position will go through. Plus if potential customers or search engines have to dig too far they will “bounce” away to a clearer and easier to navigate site.

Some other actions you must consider are;

1. Submit Your Site
Don’t just expect that Google and the other search engines locate you … make them!! Submit your website to the most important search engines, there are lots of sites where you can do this for free.

2. Do Not Ignore Sitemaps
You would not know how to stumble on a strange place without a map so don’t wait for a search engine to do it! With Google Webmaster Tools you can submit the sitemap for your website. Make it simple for the search engines to find your pages, facilitate them with a sitemap.

3. Have one of your keywords, at least, within your domain name
An easy way but so frequently unnoticed but one of the most important things.

4. Meta tags-title
Lots of people say to overlook meta tags – it is a questionable point – but one thing is for sure, confirm that the keywords for your page are included within each page’s title, this is one of the most important SEO tips.

5. “Site under construction
Never PUT this! Would you click all the way through a website that listed this under their title in the search results? NO, so don’t ever put this, even though your site IS under construction. Put on the first page some keyword rich description as to who you are plus a method of contacting you.

6. Don’t ignore the Meta Description
This is what is occasionally written under your website’s page title when it is listed in search results. If you do not describe this within your meta tags then the search engine will choose anything it feels suitable out of your entire page. But this possibly will not represent you as you choose, it may not entice people to click through to your website, think it through carefully – put in your meta tag description just what you want the search engines to list in the results.

7. Change your content!
Websites that stay the same do not get indexed as much by the search engines. Google etc feel affection for excellent changing content. Add a news page, a blog, even a trial offer item, anything! If your web designer does not provide that move to one who does.  These services are easily implemented now and you should not require to wait quite a few months for your web designer to update your site – this should be within your hands and your control.

8. FAQs
Who would have thought that such a basic part of websites would become so essential? Though there has been an increase in people asking questions of search engines as opposed to them just entering key words, so if your website has the saying that someone may enter into a search engine you stand a far improved possibility of coming up higher on the search results.  Have an FAQ page and phrase the questions in the way searchers would put into Google.

9. BAD SEO
Do not ever fall for the “buy ……… and we will give you so many unbelievable links”. The search engines are wise to this and it will now only work against you.  Organic, ie honestly earned, links must be the only ones that matter to you if you do not want to fall out of the index.

Author: Leif
• Saturday, June 27th, 2009

search engine logos main How Do Search Engines Work?Basically there are two types of search engines. The first one is robots which are called crawlers or spiders. Search Engines is making use of spiders to index websites. As soon as you submit your website pages to a search engine by implementing their necessary submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program specifically run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites too. Some spiders will simply index a specific number of pages on your site, so don’t create a site with 500 pages!

The spider will frequently come back to the sites to test out for any information that has changed. The rate of recurrence with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.

A spider is nearly like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may possibly index up to a million pages a day.

Example:  Google, Excite, Lycos and AltaVista

How Do Search Engines Work? Web Crawlers

At the time when you ask a search engine to find information, it is essentially searching throughout the index which it has created and not truly searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings for the reason that not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the index.

One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the occurrence and position of keywords on a web page, but it can moreover identify artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By glance how pages link to each other, an engine can both verify what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are related to the keywords on the original page.

Author: Leif
• Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Google vs. BingFrom the time when Microsoft launched its Bing search engine, it has drawn a great number of attention (and gossip) from the SEO community. On one hand, this is pretty logical for the reason that Bing is planned to be an additional strong player and it is likely to cut some share from Google search engine. On the other hand, this is almost the first time a new strong player comes to the ring, so possibly the expectations that Bing will put an end to Google’s monopoly are baseless. At rest, Bing is quite special (in a optimistic way) from the other search engines and this is its most important strength.

What’s different with bing?

The first feeling you find when you go to Bing.com is that it is special – the background makes it attractive but in no doubt, there have been a lot of other cases of search engines with plenty of graphical add-ons to mask their irrelevant search algorithms. Though, when you type a search query, the results you get are a pleasant surprise because they are relevant.

It is this relevance of search results that fears SEO experts. The results you get when you search with Bing are relevant, yet they are extremely different from Google’s. In fact, no issue if you search with Google or with Bing (or if you go to Bing, you can compare the result sets side by side), you search out relevant results and the two sets are very different from one another.

One of the most essential things SEO experts are interested to know about Bing is its algorithm. Obviously, Bing’s algorithm is dissimilar from Google’s for the reason that when the search term is the same but the set of results is different, a difference in the algorithm is the clear answer. In fact, the question is closely what is different between the two algorithms and if the difference is so drastic that it makes it compulsory to reoptimize a site for Bing.

What to do for now?

Wait. This is the initial thing you have to do. At present it is too early to say what steps (if any) are necessary in turn to optimize your site for Bing.

Moreover, despite of how hopeful Bing looks, it is still untimely to predict if it will turn into a real competitor to Google or if it will become one more unsuccessful attempt to triumph over Google. Let’s see how users respond – will they start Binging more or will they support Google. When it becomes clear that Bing will be able to make it, then it will make sense to optimize for it as well. So for now the best you can do is wait.

What will help you out to be in the best position on bing?

As you probably guess, the proper algorithm of Bing is not openly available and because of that there is a lot of gossip about what weighs more for Bing (in comparison to Google) and what weighs less. A lot of SEO experts test different search queries, analyze the results, and based on that try to understand what of the known SEO strategy works with Bing.

Some SEO experts still believe that Bing is actually Live Search in new clothes (i.e. user interface), although others say that there are visible differences between Live Search and Bing. But there is no doubt that for now Bing is a considerable improvement over Live Search in terms of relevance of search results.

Bing is hardly the first time when there is no agreement in the SEO community about the details of the algorithm but if we can review, here are some factors, which are (or at least are strongly believed to be) of importance when Bing optimization is concerned:

Value of backlinks doesn’t matter: If you judge against the first 10 results in Bing and Google, it is clear that all equal, the winners in Bing have less backlinks than the winners in Google. It is unclear if nofollow matters with Bing.
Anchor text matters more: The amount of value inbound links may be of less importance for Bing but the anchor text surely matters more. In fact, since anchor text is one of the measurements of the quality of inbound links, it isn’t greatly different. Get quality anchor text and you will do well in both Bing and Google.
Could’t helped out with link spaming: Seeing as the quantity of backinks (even if they are of ultimate quality) seems to be of less importance to Bing, link spamming will be even less helpful than with Google.
Onpage factors are more important: This is one of the most controversial points. Lots of SEO experts disagree but many also think that onpage factors matter more with Bing than with Google:  At rest, it has nothing to do with the 90s, when onpage factors were tentative.
Right matters: If this is correct, this is bad news for bloggers and small sites for the reason that it means that search results are unclear in favor of older sites and/or sites of trustworthy organizations. Age of domain is also very essential with Bing – even more than with Google.
Page rank is less important: When you do a search for a competitive keyword and you see a couple of PR2 or even PR1 sites among the top 10 results, this may make you wonder. On Google this is barely possible but on Bing it looks quite normal.
Content is less important: Bing looks a little conservative – or possibly it just can’t index sites that quickly – but it seems that fresh content is not as vital as with Google. This is associated with the age of domain specifics and accordingly you will see ancient pages rank high (but these olden pages are relevant to the search query).
Binging is Flash-friendly: Optimizing a Flash site for Google is somewhat a nightmare for SEO experts. It is too soon to say but it looks like Bing is more Flash-friendly, which is excellent news to all sites where Flash is (still) heavily employed. Websites with very high page rank doesn’t matter a lot to the bing what does in reality matters now for bing is quality of the page.

For the time being it is too early to say which factors are of primary importance with Bing. But the truth that their search results are relevant means that their algorithm is really particular. Well, possibly the relevant results in Bing are because of the fact that web masters were taken by surprise and they haven’t had the time to optimize for Bing. Therefore, the content is genuine; there are no SEO gimmicks and artificial pumping. We’ll see if this will continue with the same in future, when web masters learn how to optimize for Bing additionally!!!

Author: Leif
• Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

black hat seo Black Hat SEO Most Popular TechniquesSEO is considered as one of the most popular form of search engine marketing (SEM) used by webmasters. For the reason of its popularity and effectiveness in bringing traffic to a website, lots of webmasters have come to misuse the effectiveness of SEO by using techniques set to go against search engine strategies. These techniques are called black hat SEO.

Equal to white hat SEO, black hat SEO are forms of techniques used to give quicker result, but may finally be banned moreover temporarily or permanently once the search engines notice what they are doing.

A number of techniques used for black hat SEO have been useless since search engines repeatedly change their algorithm to reduce the use and efficiency of black hat seo technique. But some techniques are still used today. Forms of popular black hat SEO techniques used until today consist of: Hidden text Disguising keywords and phrases by making them the similar color as the background, using a tiny font size, or hiding them within HTML code such as “no frame” sections, ALT attributes, zero-width/height DIVs, and “no script” sections. Though, hidden text is not always spamdexing: it can also be used to improve accessibility.

People viewing websites for a search-engine company may momentarily or permanently block an complete website for having hidden text on some webpages. According to SEO experts, Google has taken steps to avoid this by parsing the colour of text as it indexes it and checking to see if it is similar to or the same colour as the background, giving those pages much lower rankings. Using Scraper Sites, a scraper site is a website that copies all of its content from other websites using web scraping. No part of a scraper site is unique. A search engine is not a scraper site in any way: sites like Yahoo and Google gather content from other websites and index it in order that the index can be searched with keywords. Search engines subsequently display snippets of the original site content in response to a user’s search. In the last few years, and because of the advent of the Google Adsense web advertising program, scraper sites have proliferated at a remarkable rate for spamming search engines.

Open content sites like Wikipedia are a general source of material for scraper sites. Scrapers have a tendency to be associated with link farms and are at times perceived as the similar thing, when multiple scrapers link to the same target site. A frequent target victim site may be accused of link-farm participation, because of the artificial pattern of incoming links to a victim website, linked from multiple scraper sites. Spam Blogs or Splogs Spam blogs, occasionally referred on the way to by the neologism splogs, are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The reason of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. Spam blogs are generally a type of scraper site, where content is frequently either inauthentic text or simply stolen from other websites. According to SEO experts, these blogs usually contain a high number of links to sites linked with the splog creator which are often disreputable or else useless websites.

There is common misunderstanding among the terms “splog” and “spam in blogs“. Splogs are blogs where the articles are fake, and are only created for search engine spamming. Blog Spamming Blog spamming or spam in blogs is a form of spamdexing. It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards. Any web application that accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors may be a target. Adding links that point to the spammer’s web site artificially increases the site’s search engine ranking. An increased ranking often results in the spammer’s commercial site being listed ahead of other sites for certain searches, increasing the number of potential visitors and paying customers.

Cookie stuffing or dropping take place as soon as viewer visits a website, and in turn from that visit receives a third-party cookie from a totally dissimilar website. It involves placing an affiliate tracking cookie on a website visitor’s computer without their awareness, which will then produce revenue for the person doing the cookie stuffing. As said by the SEO experts, income is generated when the affected user visits the target affiliate site and either creates an account or makes a purchase, depending on the terms of the affiliate agreement. This not only generates fraudulent affiliate sales, but in addition it has the potential to overwrite legitimate affiliates’ cookies, basically stealing their legally earned commissions.

Author: Leif
• Friday, June 12th, 2009

Organic SeoI am a big fan of Free and Organic Traffic. I have been trying to get free traffic and it works. I will confess that free traffic cannot beat the paid traffic generation but the free traffic surly works. I utilize article submission, directory submission, social bookmarking, and comment on blogs to get traffic.

handpen How To Generate Backlinks For Free?Article Submission: Writing articles of quality content with valuable resources for the readers can make your blog show up from others. When you write a blog post and it is just a little bit improved than the usual post you write you should think about submitting this into an article directory.This means that you can build backlinks and the backlinks means indexed pages in the search engines. Formerly your pages are indexed in the search engines, traffic will flow to your blog.

directory submissionsDirectory Submission: This is too one of the best ways to generate some good traffic. For the reason that there are still people searching your blog all the way through directories it is good to submit your blog into directories. Once the links back to your blog increase through the directory submission you can make your blogs visible in the search engines. The algorithms are written to pick up the links back to your blog. More backlinks you have to your blog higher your page rank will be.

social bookmark How To Generate Backlinks For Free?Social bookmarking: This is a great technique to get traffic and backlinks. Once you bookmark your preferred posts in the social bookmarking sites. The other members will come up to your blog to have a look at your blog. Once they begin to trust you as a blogger who gives valuable tips they will come back. This is what getting traffic is about from the social bookmarking sites and building backlinks to increase the visibility.

blog comment How To Generate Backlinks For Free?Comment On Blogs: This is also the best ways to generate traffic. This means that you can involve yourself with the blogger by adding up on to the post the blogger has written and by this approach you can build backlinks that will make your blog’s rank increase.

In this way you can generate traffic from the other blogs once you have comment. When you comment Do not Spam. Interrelate with the blogger all the way through offering your opinion about the post. Ask the blogger questions regarding somewhat you like to know.