What is the Google Dance?

By Jakob Jellingwww.sitetube.comAs with any good web developer, the ability to time the changes Google will update your website and refresh the content for better SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is in your favor. Welcome to the world of “Google Dance”. The Google Dance is simply that the predetermination of when the actual update will commence.What really happens is Google sends out spiders to crawl the Internet, usually done to DNS (Domain Name Servers), upon spidering all of the available . . .

Optimise your Site for the Search Engines Pt 2

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 relevant to that page and your site? We've just scored again ;-) Eg exercise-equipment-reviews.htm is our reviews page. Note the hyphen again always try to avoid using spaces when naming your files or pages. You will get a horrible looking 20% ap. . .

Understanding Search Engine Robots

If there is one thing I have learned about robots, it is that there is absolutely no pattern to them. Most robots are stupid and wander randomly. For example, 50% of robot hits to my sites, ask for the robots.txt page and then go away never asking for anything else. Then they come back a week later, ask for the same thing and then go away, again. This happens over and over again for months. I have never figured it out. What are they doing? If they wanted to see if the website was really a web. . .

Pay-Per-Clicks . . . One Way to Boost Traffic to Your Web...

One of the ways to boost traffic to your Web site is bypurchasing keywords from one of the pay-per-click search enginesor directories. But with literally hundreds of choices, how do you pick the pay-per-click engine with the best visibility that has the potentialof giving you a higher return on your investment? And, just as important, what are some strategies for working withthe pay-per-click engines, and how do they operate? How do Pay-Per-Click Engines Operate? With pay-per-click engines, y. . .

Website ranking with an internet marketing specialist

On the internet, competition is stronger than ever. There was a time where paying a few bucks to get in Yahoo was enough to generate substantial traffic but marketing websites on the internet got much more complex since. Google is now a major player in the search engine industry and any serious internet marketing specialist and seo expert knows how important it is to get a good website ranking in that popular search engine. Understanding Google's algorythm along with having good html and writ. . .

4 Simple Steps To Search Engine Optimization

What is search engine optimization? Well, just what it sounds like, it's the process of optimizing your website for search engines. There are thousands of companies out there that "specialize" in SEO. For a fee (usually a LOT) they will optimize your website for you. If you're paying one of these companies, you're throwing away money! Don't believe me? Go to your favorite search engine and search for "firefighter". Why firefighter? Because that is the one keyword that we feel is most importan. . .

A Cost Effective Way to Advertise Online. . . A Permissio...

Search engine optimizers often forget who our true audiencereally is. We get so wrapped up in trying to please the searchengines that we forget to focus on our target audience: ourusers. What we've got to do is forget about the search engines andconcentrate totally on our customers. I call it . . . Optimization without optimization . . . focus on your targetaudience and forget the search engines! Fact #1: On-page factors have made a come back, and I'm thrilled. If we'veplayed our cards right . . .

Why Articles Are Not The Route To High Search Engine Rank...

Copyright 2004 Priya Shahhttp://www.PriyaShah.comIf you have any interest in getting high search engine rankings for your website (and who doesn't) you've probably been sold the idea that writing and publishing your own articles will do it for you.Here's why that's not entirely true. Imagine the following scenario...You write an article around a keyword or keyphrase you want to rank well for. You submit that article to all the article submission sites and directories and ezines you can find.Y. . .

New MSN Search May Be a Google Killer!

The Second Look at MSN's Search technology is available forpublic beta testing. I've given it a spin myself and must saythat I'm impressed. Although they have no ads on the SERP'sof the preview site, I'm sure they will load it up with the15 or more Overture "sponsored sites" which clutter the resultspages on the current search results by the time the new publicbeta reaches its official launch. Take a look for yourself:http://techpreview.search.msn.com/I've publicly complained about the lack o. . .

Rebuild Website or Perform SEO?

Rebuild Website or Perform SEO... which should you do first? A lot of website owners are interested in rebuilding their website and in performing search engine optimization (SEO), but can't. Budget constraints won't allow for both and so they struggle with which one to do first. Rebuilding a website is a great idea. Performing SEO is better. The Internet is vast...truly vast. It is comprised of, at last count, over 8-billion web pages and that number increases daily. People need a map to char. . .

When CMS Met SEO - Using the Power of Content Management ...

Search Engine Optimization revolves around providing useful, unique content on your website and making sure that search engines can find and understand it easily. 'Organic SEO' as it is called, puts emphasis on optimizing hundreds of keyword rich content pages as 'spider-bait' for search engines, with Google being the most popular target.While organic SEO in itself boils down to a few simple techniques and a lot of hard work, the most tedious of those is always adding and managing content. I. . .

Google Tops Fifty Billion Market Cap With Innovation

Google Tops Fifty Billion Market Cap With InnovationYahoo See, Yahoo Buy Strategy Makes Them Number Twoby Mike Banks Valentine © October 26, 2004Google market value has topped $50B, so now they're worth more in dollar value than Yahoo. That goes right in linewith being worth more in search value and relevance. (CBS MarketWatch)I've written before that Yahoo has their fingers in so manypies that they don't have the necessary attention on searchthat Google does. Google only buys companies. . .

Increase Online Traffic

Everybody wants it … everybody needs it. Traffic. In essence your business can't survive online without it. This let's everyone searching for the best ways to increase website traffic as quickly and painlessly as possible. In the following I'll share some little tricks to help increase traffic. Link ExchangeExchange links with other sites that relate to yours. Look for other sites that could be of interest to your visitors. Avoid one of the most common mistakes of naming the filename of your . . .

Get Better Search Engine Rankings with RSS

RSS is the latest craze in online publishing. But what exactly is RSS?RSS or Rich Site Syndication is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood.RSS allows publishers to "syndicate" their content through the distribution of lists of hyperlinks.It has actually been around for a while, but with the advent of spam filters and online blogging, it is fast becoming the choice of ezine publishers w. . .

SEO Tips for People Who Aren’t Dummies!

TIP ONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF KEY WORDSIn the world of marketing online, one topic comes up over and over with great frequency: site rankings. It can sometimes seem to be the 'holy grail' in the highly competitive world of online marketing, where search engines rule supreme. The reality is that unless you have deep pockets indeed, SEO optimization in the long run will be more affordable than simply buying placement with click campaigns and advertisements. This is the good news. The bad news is . . .

Optimizing Your Web Site for the Search Engines Using CSS...

Two of the greatest techniques to come along for web site refinement are cascading style sheets (CSS) and javascript navigational menus. In this article, I want to show you how to use both of these to ease the strain of site maintenance while defending against at least two problems with using javascript menus. CSS can make web site maintenance much easier by consolidating a site's style and appearance attributes into one central file which can be edited alone and yet affect the look of the e. . .

.com Not Listed in Regional Yahoo? Don’t Despair!

.com Not Listed in Regional Yahoo? Don’t Despair!By Glenn Murray *If you’re a non-American business with a .com web address, and your regional Yahoo ranking is important to you, then my story might interest you. Recently my copywriting website dropped out of Yahoo’s Australian rankings. For quite a while, it had been at number 1 for my primary keywords “advertising copywriter”, “copywriter”, and “website copywriter”. But then it suddenly disappeared. I clicked through about 10 pages of resul. . .

10 Ways to Instantly Promote your Blog for Free

1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed. Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse these sites to find something new.2. Submit your blog address . . .

Get More Website Traffic Within the Next Hour

What if I told you that your website could show up on the first page of results on a major search engine...today?Let me prove it to you. One of the fastest ways to get targetted traffic is to pay for it. How? Use a pay-per-click search engine. A search engine is great because you know that people who come to your website were searching for what you sell. Right now, the hands-down top place to go for pay-per-clicks is Google, http://www.google.com . Go to google.com now. What would your potent. . .

Internet Branding

Internet Brandingby H. Vanoy Barton In the beginning there was traffic. It was easy to come by in 1993. Publish a web site and the entire web world would know about it and visit within a month. In fact in the days of yore one could visit every site on the Web. I know. I've done it several times. And the offline saw that traffic was good and they came - by the millions. Thereafter publish a web site and you would be lucky to have any hits other than your own development hits within a month. . . .

“Beware the Click Without the Conversion”

It is a funny thing with pay-per-click marketing.Marketers spend significant time and money increasing their traffic volume (click-throughs) while focusing less on the website conversion strategies that produce results from the click-throughs. Why is this funny? Because in essence, a “click-through” places money in the pocket of the pay-per-click search engine --- only a “conversion” like a sale or sales lead creates money for the marketer. Under a practical perspective, a “click-through rate. . .

Realtors hit a Home Run with your email marketing

Do you remember the old School girl/boy game of "Around the World", or "Around the Bases"? If you got a kiss you got to First Base. A french Kiss was Second Base. Read further to find out how to hit a Home Run!Are You Trying to Hit a Home Run With Your Prospects Without Asking Them on a Date?Most prospects are only leaving their phone number about 1/3 of the time. So 2/3 are leaving just a name and email. If you don't have a strategy to approach this group, you are losing big time because you. . .

Make The Search Engines Love Your Site

Most webmasters have no idea on how to make a search engine friendly web site. If you are one of them this will all change by following these steps below. 1. Research keywords - Before you start to build your web site you should research your keywords or your site may get hurt in the short term. Use the keyword research tool, use Overture to research the most popular keywords that are related to your site. Overture will show you how much traffic each keyword has got in the past 30 days. 2. C. . .

Free Traffic Course - Day 9

Though each web site is different, it is possible to build a universal plan of actions that will bring you free targeted web site traffic and convert it into more sales.This plan of actions can be split into three stages:(1) Getting Targeted Traffic(2) Growing The Client Base And Getting More Sales(3) Adjusting Web Site To Current Online Market RequirementsSo, let's briefly cover all the stages.START UP - GETTING TARGETED TRAFFICSTEP # 1. Find joint-venture partners and affiliates in your nic. . .

Google for Resellers: Leveling the Resell Playing Field

(This article include full reprint rights as long as you do not change the article and include the byline box.) With so many people trying to make money on the web and so many products being sold with resell and master resell rights, it's a wonder anyone can make any money at all at it! Indeed, most people don't. Why? Sometimes it's because people get in on the tail end of the product being sold and start trying to resell it just as the original creator decides to start giving it away for fre. . .

How to Choose Keywords for Maximum SEO Effectiveness

Choosing the right keywords and phrases for your search engine optimization (SEO) program is critical to its success. The right keywords drive targeted traffic to your website – prospects that are ready to buy. The wrong keywords attract web visitors that are not likely to purchase your products and services – wasting your time and money.By following the simple methods listed below, you will be able to determine the right mix of keywords and phrases that will generate targeted prospects to yo. . .

Keywords – key for all doors

Keyword research is certainly the most important phase in Search Engine Optimization process. Whether you hire a SEO company to do the job or you are doing the SEO process in-house, take your time during this process. You should not be a spectator, but you should be an active part of the decision making process.Try to think as a customerBefore to start the keywords analysis & research process, be sure that you know how you should perform this process. Try to think about your keywords as a cus. . .

When to NOT hire a SEO and why

When you get an e-mail from SEO Company with content similar to this:"We submit your site on X00.000 search engines and directories…"Stay far away from companies which offer you to submit your site on thousands of directories and search engines. Why? What they do is: they use submission software and advanced scripts and they submit your site to different guest books, local search engines, search engines in other languages, post your URL in comments in different Blogs, FFA etc…You will not hav. . .

Free Traffic Course - Day 7

When you work with web site traffic, you must have the tools that show you the real picture about this traffic. You must know for sure how targeted your visitors are, what they want, what offers they like more, what offers cut down their motivation to use your product/service.Only professional URL tracking tools can show you the real picture about your online business. And those who do not want to see real picture, venture their business to a great risk of losing everything. HOW TRACKING WORK. . .

Keyword Density - Are You Getting the Right Result?

When checking keyword density, would it shock you to know the results from using different analyzer's can differ by over 150%.I used 5 analyzer's and rarely got close to the same keyword count or word count with any of them.If you're using an analyzer to optimize web pages for keyword density and you should, it's important to measure keyword density to see if the right figure's achieved. When using a keyword density analyzer how do you know if the analyzer's giving the right density & what's. . .

Site Submission Refresher Checklist

Let’s talk about why search engine placement is important and to help you evaluate how well your website is actually doing based on your previous submissions. First of all, site submission is the process of implementing your site to a search engine or a number of search engines. Generally there is a form that you complete telling the search engine’s spider to visit and index the site you are submitting. Submitting your site to various search engines greatly improves the likelihood that it wil. . .

"How To Write Effective And Unique Articles That Are Opti...

It is a well known fact that writing,distributing and posting articles tovarious location on the web is anextremely effective way to generatetargeted traffic and establishyourself as an experienced marketer inyour field. Unique articles that helpsolve the reader's problems, assiststhe reader in advancing theirmarketing acumen, or otherwisegenerally inform tend to stay postedon many web sites throughout theInternet and usually generate targetedtraffic for the writer.In order to further maximi. . .

All About Links -- Interview with link building expert , ...

Julia: Welcome Bob. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions about link building. I'm going to jump right in ask you why Web sites need links?Bob: There are a number of reasons to have links pointing to your site. But let’s start with the reason they were created in the first place. The original purpose of the Internet was to enable the sharing of information. For example, if a scholarly paper existed on a server at the University of California, and a professor at Oxford wanted t. . .

Search Engine Optimization: What Is It?

Search Engine Optimization is the creation of a web page, purposely designed to rank well with the Search Engines.If you want traffic to your website then you must Optimize your website for the Search Engines.Search Engine Optimization is a necessity if you want a huge amount of traffic flowing to your website.Traffic from the Search Engines is one of the best (And most abundant) forms of traffic. Most people use Search Engines to find what they are looking for. I do and I bet you do too.You . . .

Search Engine Optimization For Google

A group of Google employees have recently filed a patent application (#20050071741) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office which gives insight into how to optimize one’s website to do well in the Google rankings. The filing of the patent gives verification that Google uses or intends to use historical data in its ranking algorithm. This patent also gives credence to the Google Sandbox Theory for new websites.Under the Google Sandbox Theory, new websites are placed in a sort of hol. . .

Along Came a Spider (Part One)

So, your Web site is up and running. It looks great and on its first day you're excited about getting your first order. But your excitement soon turns to weariness as that one order is the only one that comes in for a whole month. And worse, your Web site statistics show a disappointing hit rate. So much for the perception that “if you build it, they'll come.”Every Web site owner wants people to visit their site, but very few understand the role search engines play in getting those people th. . .

Smartpages - Legitimate SEO Or Spam?

Smartpages are highly optimized pages which draw stampeded of search engine traffic to your website....or so the sales blurb goes. The fantasy is that smartpages are the push-button answer to online success. The reality is quite far removed from that. In the world of online marketing everybody is striving to gain any advantage over the competition. To that end some people are willing to go to any lengths to gain a foothold online. When smartpages first appeared they seemed the answer to ever. . .

The Importance of Title Tags on a Web Page

This is a crucial point many times neglected by webmasters. Are the Title of a web page really that important, and if so, how would one optimize a title tag of a page for the search engines ? Google and most other important search engines place a relatively high value on the "title tag" of a web page, as this normally gives a pointer or indication of what one can expect to find in the contents of that page. It is therefore very important to spend some time deciding on the best possible title . . .

Do Not Build A Website Until You Have Researched Your Key...

Imagine that you have a $25,000 marketing budget foryour online weight loss herbal supplement business.Should you invest it in trying to build a site to rank #1in Google for "weight loss?" NO.What would be the point? To get tons of traffic? Maybe.But people searching on "weight loss" could be lookingfor everything from weight loss diet books... to weight lossprescription drugs... to scientific studies on weight lossin middle aged men... to weight loss as a symptom of a rareblood disease. Do . . .

How to get your site a top ranking in Google

It's the new American dream. Your website appears in a top spot on Google for your chosen keyword. Next thing you know, orders start coming in faster than you can handle, and you are rolling in the money. If only it were so easy, right?Well,It can be done. I've done it many times in many different industries. There is no secret, but rather, it's just knowing what to do. I've made just about every mistake one can make with a website, but I learned from every setback. If you were only allowed t. . .

The Search Engine Showdown

f you're anything like me, you have a favourite search engine and you're loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research difficult for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-all and you even go so far as to deny any shortcomings it may have. But is your search engine truly the best? Inspired by a great article at the BBC News (BBC News: Search Wars), we decided to compare the major search engines. Here's what we found.We chose the search term "real estate fiji" becau. . .

Design A Spider Friendly Site

To be successful in the search engines it's important to design your web site with the spiders in mind. Using the latest in web page design is not generally the best way to go. Spiders don't view web pages like humans do, they must read the HTML in the page to see what it's about. Below you will find tips on how to best design your web site with search engines in mind.Do not use frames at all. Some search engines cannot spider web pages with frames at all. For the other search engines that ca. . .

Increase Web Site Sales with a SEO Proposal - Part 2

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 following topics:Creation of Meta Information Site Map Creation Link Popularity Building Web Site Load Time and HTML Validation Downloading and Uploading of Web PagesBrowser Search Engine and Directory SubmissionsCompatibility and Resolution CheckingCrea. . .

Link popularity improvement tutorial

Introduction:Improving your link popularity is a big part of optimizing your website for search engines. Many webmasters ignore this very rewarding process. The most common reason for this is the time it takes. Many webmasters just don’t have the time. There are services out there that will do this for you, but if you have the time to do this yourself, I highly recommend you to do this! Please take some time to read through this article and learn how you can get the most out of improving your. . .

Google's AdSense Soon To Have New Rival?

A large part of Google's multi-billion dollar annual turnover comes from its nifty AdSense advertising program. The software enables website owners to drop in a piece of code to their pages that then serves advertisements provided by Google.How Does Google AdSense Work?It all works dynamically and the adverts that are displayed based on the content of the page. So if a website owner places the Google AdSense code on a page about holidays then holiday ads are delivered onto the page automatica. . .

Increase Web Site Sales with a SEO Proposal - Part 1

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 you in this article, so that you can make the best choice when looking for SEO services. I don't profess to be a search engine optimization expert but have attained top rankings for my own site plus someof my web site design clients.What a SEO proposa. . .

Importance of Keywords - Wrong Keywords Means No Traffic!

If your new to the internet marketing world, you might not understand how vitally important choosing the right keywords for your website is. Most people who put up a website (designers included) don't realize that the right keywords on your website will improve your search engine rankability.When a person goes to a search engine like Google or others, they type in a word or phrase that they want information on. This is what we call a keyword. For instance if the person was looking to buy a ne. . .

What to look for when shopping for a SEO specialist.

When, shopping for a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company/specialist you need to be aware of a few things. If someone offers you fast results they may be pulling your leg. If you aren’t listed on search engines the average time to be index takes around 4 weeks. Someone offering submissions in less then that is coning you. Websites that are already listed and are just being updated will have a faster result. A guarantee isn’t always reinsurance. Just because a site states they can get y. . .

Website Promotion: 10 Search Engine Optimization Blunders...

If you want to develop a successful search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, go out of your way to avoid blunders that limit search engine rankings.Here are 10 to keep in mind:1. Don't use frames.Why would you want to use frames if SEO is important? Don't risk confusing the search engine spiders, which happens often with frameset sites. Sure, you can write scripts or adjust the content to work within frames, but you probably have better things to do with that time and energy.2. Don't use F. . .

SEO Basics - 8 Key Strategies For Online Business Success

The world of search engine optimization (SEO) can be a big scary place for newbies. Most SEO professional companies charge astronomical prices that may or may not guarantee success.The search engines are forever changing the way they rank websites and what is important to achieve a higher ranking. Even with these everchanging factors, there are 8 important points that you must use with your website that are not likely to change any time soon.1. Domain NameIt is better to register a domain wit. . .

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