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SEO how to tutorial

January 24th, 2010 by admin

Here’s an interesting Google seo (search engine optimization) tutorial for you by Hobo SEO Glasgow.

The aim of SEO is to maximise targeted types of valuable traffic to a web site from search engines by improving the visibility of said web site in Google organic or unpaid search engine results pages. Traditionally, this has meant aiming for no1, or prime ten positions in Google however Search Engine Optimization has evolved and currently a SEO wants to be more of a marketer than just a tech geek.

A seo needs to be concerned, not just with high positions in Google for valuable keywords & keyphrases, but with analysing opposition, traffic and analytics, and changing traffic to leads and sales.

I wish to draw a line between SEO and link building. One (SEO) is on-page (on-site), the opposite, off-site (Linkbuilding).

1. Continuously Think about Google’s Recommendations 2. Google Webmaster Guidelines! change from time to time – keep up to date with them! 3. When it involves onsite seo, keep it straightforward stupid! 4. Don’t hide text or links, do not keyword stuff 5. Don’t Game Google too much, Give it what it needs! 6. You’re not smart enough to Game Google. 7. Keep in mind every algorithm was an plan 1st 8. Google engineers are trying to make the most effective search engine engine within the world. Attempt and assume like one – work with them, not against them! 9. Google Recommendations can be interpreted differently however ignore search engine SEO guidelines at your own peril

10. You do not would like to pay money to anyone to induce listed in Google – it’s very free to get listed 11. To get into free Google listings, all you require is a link from one other website (that is itself in Google) to yours 12. Google desires to perceive it’s a full link to include you in it’s database (index) of internet sites 13. You’ll submit your website to Google, but I suppose it’s pointless – I’ve got never used this technique 14. Some seo firms charge for ’submission’ to Google and different search engines – I would not bother 15. Be cautious – SEO will be a mysterious business – ensure you are doing not get scammed by unethical seo companies 16. Domain authority is among the foremost important ranking factors in SEO 17. To rank in Google for a keyword your web site needs to have online business or domain authority.

Hobo is a Scottish based SEO company. A builder of Joomla and Wordpress content websites and with a specialist team centered on Google search engine optimisation, Hobo also has one amongst the foremost well-liked SEO recommendation blogs within the UK, with over 50 thousand visitors a month and over seven and a half thousand regular subscribers reading the near daily advice on how to push your website online.

Visitors who subscribe to the hobo seo blog additionally get a bonus – 2 free ebooks – Google Search Engine Optimisation for beginners and a Linkbuilding guide for idiots. There is plenty of advice from Hobo on their website – do visit. Keep your optimization efforts simple and within time you can reap the rewards.

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Tread Towards A Successful “Internet Research”

January 10th, 2010 by admin

Internet is a terrific resource containing billions of web pages dedicated to thousands of topics. Since the amount of information available on the Internet is so vast and mind baffling you may feel lost.

Your expectations from “The Information Superhighway” will crash if you proceed with the general view that exaggerates the ease of Internet usage. What is required is a moderate, balanced approach keeping one’s head on shoulders. Approaching the net should be similar to any other research endeavor i.e. by adopting a formal strategy to maximize results. “Motivation” is the key word here. If you do not have a serious research goal, you cannot dig far.

To make the search a more meaningful exercise and profitable too, you should know where to search and how to search. Be clear about what you are looking for? Be specific in the identification and use of keywords. Being an advanced Internet researcher, you should always use the advanced services when available on a search engine or a directory or a look-up. Have a list of Boolean search strings ready before proceeding on for advanced search in a search engine. For preparing Boolean expressions the following may be used as required:

“AND” is used to tell the search engine to find both terms on the same page.

“OR” is used to find one term or the other. Looking for one term is very useful when the same term may appear in two different ways.

“NOT” tells the search engine to look for web pages with the first term but not the second.

“NEAR” instructs the search engine, only to return the web pages in which the terms are near each other.

Categories of Search Tools available are:

Search Engines – They use keywords or phrases to search the Internet. Many of them allow you to enter questions rather than simply a few search terms. Most search engines have catalogues that sort a limited number of sites on the topic. Some frequently used search engines are:

  • Alta Vista

  • AOL

  • Excite

  • Google

  • Hotbot

  • Lycos

  • MSN Search

  • Northern Light

  • Overture

  • Web Crawler

Meta Search Engines – They quickly and superficially search several individual search engines at once and return results compiled into a convenient format. They only catch about 10% of search results in any of the search engines they visit. Some examples of Meta S.Es are:

  • Ask Jeeves

  • Copernic

  • Meta Crawler

Subject Directories – They are the collection of web sites picked by editors (sometimes experts in a subject) and organized into hierarchical subject categories. They are often carefully evaluated and kept up to date. Some widely used directories are:

  • About.com

  • BigHub

  • DMOZ

  • Invisible Web

  • Yahoo

Search engines are wonderful but the problem is that none of them has indexed even half of the Internet. Each search engine indexes the web differently, searches the web differently and thus has very different results. This means if you enter a search into Altavista and get zero results, this may not be the case if you go to Northernlight or Google. A good web researcher must search a few search engines before exhausting the search.

What is MUST before setting out for search is a glance at the FAQs. As each search engine is different from each other, it is essential to set your doubts at rest before you proceed.

X-raying the websites – At times you will not be allowed to access a particular page on the website as it may not be linked with any of the pages on that URL. A good researcher knows that just because you are not allowed access to a page, does not mean you can’t still get in. If you can’t get in from front door of the website, then try the back door of the server by using the advanced function on a search engine. Even if a page is not linked, the search engines might have indexed it. All you need to do is go to the advanced search function on Altavista and type in host:XYZ.com AND the words you expect to find on your page.

Flip Searching – Flipping is a technique in which you look for pages containing links to specified URLs. Use linkdomain:ABC.com to tell the search engine to locate all the pages that are linked to “ABC URL”.

Every great researcher should have an organized library of resources. Whether this comes in the form of organized bookmarks and favorites or a notebook, it is imperative to track your research.

The Internet is like an ever-changing medium. What worked yesterday, may not work today. Therefore, a good researcher should always have “Ever Onwards” as the motto and should not surrender the search easily. With over billions of pages on the Internet you can turn all odds in your favor and succeed in finding what you are looking for.

About The Author

Jagmohan Saluja is a Virtual Professional providing support services to small businesses. To know more about him visit http://www.internet-researcher.com.

indianva@internet-researcher.com

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Australian Article Directory

June 5th, 2009 by admin

One of the most principal facets of any web campaign is how do I come through in the major search engines. How do I have my site to rank substantially in Google or Yahoo?

One of the most pivotal facets in doing well in the search engines (forgetting the basic principle like excellent content are already set up) is finding links aimed at your site. You can generate this a few different ways, some viewed positively by the search engines and some not so positively.

One of the honest methods, that the search engine engineers think is alright is link building with articles.

Basically this involves writing a great article, preferably around something from your business, and then publishing it to a free article directory.

You really shouldn’t lowball the crucial nature of link building. If there is one indicator that takes precedence to the search engines, by and large, it is links. Fine, there are piles of other signals, e.g the domain name, but you are misguided if you guess you are going to be listed well, and easily heard, if you do not gain any links.

Building links with articles is easy. It is something the search engines say is okay. And, it adds value to the web, by providing valuable content that might be interesting or useful to users. The real question is what are you waiting for?

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