Tag: Search Engine Rankings

Specialty or Niche Directory Submissions

Posted on Jul.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

You are an attorney or other service or product provider. You have built an excellent web site, it looks good, it is well optimized and it tells your clients and prospective clients or customers everything they need to know in order to do business with you or purchase your product. You have submitted your site to the major and many minor search engines. Now all you need to do is sit back and wait for clients or customers to come [...]


Google Ban – How Not To Get Banned By Google!

Posted on Jul.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Given that Google now provides over 75% of all Internet search traffic, the last possible thing any site owner would want is to be banned from the Google index!
With countless search engine marketing techniques being employed these days, and contrasting advice available all over the web, it is well worth ensuring that you do not ‘over optimise’ your site or use any techniques which will result in Google penalising your site.
Although the main rule would be to create a site [...]


Getting Honest With The Search Engines

Posted on Jul.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Getting Honest With The Search Engines
I spend a lot of time reading newsletters and forum postings about Search Engine Marketing. More often than not, people are asking about methods used to improve Search Engine rankings: what works, what doesn’t, and what will get you in trouble.
Search Engine*:
A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
Algorithm*:
A formula or set of steps for solving a particular problem.
Frankly, no one can predict [...]


How Web Design Can Affect Search Engine Rankings

Posted on Jul.17, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Uniquely built web sites can create unique issues when being promoted on the search engines. From a basic 3 page brochure site to a corporate site with hundreds of dynamically generated pages, every web site needs to have certain design aspects in order to achieve the full effects of an SEO campaign. Below are a few points to take into consideration when building or updating your web site.
1. Size Matters.
The size of a web site can have a huge impact [...]


Search Engine Rankings for Beginners

Posted on Jul.16, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Search engine optimization is best left in the mystical land of the Intenet Marketing Guru right? Good Search engine rankings are tough to achieve. Understanding search engine marketing takes years of studying and only people with true insider knowledge and secret tools rank well in Google right? WRONG. Pure crap as a matter of fact.
Ranking well in the search engines is not difficult. In fact search engine optimization is relatively easy. What stops most people from ranking well in search [...]


5 Simple Steps to Great Search Engine Rankings

Posted on Jul.15, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

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 overwhelmed by all the data and simply quit and move on to other areas of promotion. By following the handful of steps presented in this article you will be well on your way to solid rankings.
Primer
Each webpage is its [...]


How Google Indexes Content From Your Web Directory

Posted on Jul.14, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the way Google indexes content from web directories. Excluding your template, the most important line of code is the first title you add to your main body.
Search through Google and see for yourself!
Try searching for “something” in “yourcity”,”province/state” and look for a web business directory that you recognize. Once you find a directory, take a good look at the description of that particular listing (not the title). It may be [...]


SEO Training – Avoid Making this Costly Mistake!

Posted on Jul.12, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

SEO training can be overwhelming. There are literally hundreds of factors that go into search engine ranking on today’s major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. When designing a web site or a web page for high search engine ranking,avoid making this one mistake that alone could prevent you from achieving a top ten ranking on your target keywords. What is this one costly mistake? Read on to find out.
Build your site on a good foundation
Your web site structure [...]


9 Steps to Getting Better Search Engine Rankings

Posted on Jul.11, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

You finally have a website and you are ready to sit back and let the visitors start rolling in. How does that saying go? "If you build it they will come." This may be true in Hollywood but certainly not true in the case of your website. You need to constantly work at improving your site to ensure that your website achieves a decent search engine ranking. This is a process that doesn’t happen over night but with some concentrated [...]


Googles Trap, DMOZs Nap, And Yahoo!s Crap

Posted on Jul.11, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

On November 16th, 2003, Google commenced an update (the Florida update) which had a catastrophic effect for a very large number of websites and, in the process, turned search engine optimization upside down. It is common to give alphabetical names to Google’s updates in the very same way that names are given to hurricanes, and this one became known as “Florida”.
In a nutshell, a vast number of pages, many of which had ranked at or near the top of the [...]