Search Engine Optimization 101 - How to Optimize Your Web Site for High Search Engine Results Copyright © Notice of rights All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Notice of Liability The information in this book is distributed on an “As Is” basis without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the author nor the publisher shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the products described in it. Trademarks Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. 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As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. This book is a must for anyone getting ready to launch a new site or anyone wanting to drive more traffic to their already built site. Even if you think you know a lot about keywords and SEO, this is an excellent buy. The over 100 expert's advice can do for you what a company specializing in SEO does for consulting fees. By reading this book, you will learn how to do it yourself and will know how to tweak your site. The best money you'll spent on SEO/SEM Strategies - If you've spent thousands of dollars staying up-todate with the latest strategies for search engine optimization and attended big-name conferences, this $20 book is the best investment you'll make in SEO. The authors do a phenomenal job of covering every phase of the process. From web programming, keyword research, copywriting to focussing on link building strategies. There's stuff in here from which everybody can benefit. Many SEO books focus on keyword optimization, but this little number is a veritable compendium of techniques. If you applied half of what you'll find in here, your site would be more optimized than you can even imagine. This covers everything from content to links to blogs to micro-blogs to forums to reviews to directories and communities and ad copy and keyword bidding. No other books come even close to the variety of options that this book has. You'll learn more about variations of SEO techniques from this book than any other source. So start here. Table of Contents Search Engine Optimization............................................................... 13 Search Engine Optimization Services - What To Expect? .............. 14 Search Engine Optimization - What You Need For a Successful Implementation .................................................................................... 16 Writers and Authors - What You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization - Part 2.............................................................. 18 Search Engine Optimization - 4 Steps to Excel At Search Engine Optimization......................................................................................... 22 Web Design Means More to Search Engine Optimization Than it is Given Credit For .................................................................................. 23 Search Engine Optimization Help Can Make Your Website Popular .................................................................................................. 25 Tips For Organic SEO and Search Engine Optimization ............... 27 The #1 Search Engine Optimization Technique You Don't Know 29 Why SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Services is Important For All Website Owners ............................................................................. 31 What Search Engine Optimization Can Do For Your Business .... 32 Top 10 Tools for Search Engine Optimization ................................. 35 Search Engine Optimization - How the Search Engines Decide Rankings ................................................................................................ 39 7 Search Engine Optimization Strategies That Work! .................... 40 Search Engine Optimization - Advantages and Disadvantages ....43 SEO Secrets Revealed - How to Employ Search Engine Optimization With a Deadly Effect ....................................................44 Searching the Engine Room - How Important is Search Engine Optimization?........................................................................................46 Search Engine Optimization Rules - 5 Rules ....................................48 5 Benefits Of Google Analytics In A Search Engine Optimization Campaign ...............................................................................................50 Search Engine Optimization: Understanding Miami ......................52 The Top 4 Biggest Myths About Search Engine Optimization ......55 Search Engine Optimization - Effectively Using Keywords And Title Tags To Improve Rankings ........................................................58 Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Versus Google Pay Per Click (PPC) ......................................................................................60 Search Engine Optimization – Introduction to Search Engine Optimization .........................................................................................62 The Ultimate Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Marketing Guide .................................................................................................................64 Introduction to SEO - Search Engine Optimization ........................66 Search Engine Optimization For Business ........................................68 Search Engine Optimization - Being the Spider's Best Catch .........70 Search Engine Optimization SEO Rule 1 ..........................................72 Get to Google First Page and Stay There With Search Engine Optimization .........................................................................................73 Search Engine Optimization Rules - Three Rules to Help You Top the Search Engine Rankings ............................................................... 75 Directing Traffic to Your Website Through the Search Engine Optimization Scorecard ...................................................................... 78 Comments: Mortgage Website SEO and You - A Beginner's Guide to Advanced Search Engine Optimization Strategies..................... 80 Importance of HTML Tags in Search Engine Optimization .......... 80 Tools For Choosing Keywords For Search Engine Optimization . 82 Search Engine Optimization - How to get on TOP in Google What is SEO and Why Would I Need It? ......................................... 86 Search Engine Optimization Basics - Getting the Content Right .. 89 Free Search Engine Optimization Tips - Why Your Website Needs Backlinks and How to Get Them ....................................................... 91 Search Engine Optimization Web Site Submission ........................ 93 Search Engine Optimization - Getting Out Of Google Sandbox... 95 Review - Search Engine Optimization and How it Helps You ..... 96 Fast Article Marketing - Successful Search Engine Optimization 98 How to Target the Best Internet Advertising Search Engine Optimization Handbook? ................................................................. 100 Internet Marketing Tip - You MUST Use Keywords in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) .............................................................. 104 SEO - Search Engine Optimization II .............................................. 107 Search Engine Optimization Tips - 5 Best Search Engine Optimization Tips For Success......................................................... 109 Search Engine Optimization Certification Considerations ..........110 W3C Websites and Search Engine Optimization ...........................113 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Here's Why You Need to Hire a Search Engine Optimization Firm .................................................115 Common Search Engine Optimization Mistakes ...........................117 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – An Overview ......................119 The Strengths and Weaknesses of Search Engine Optimization .121 Search Engine Optimization-All You Need to Know About OnPage Optimization ..............................................................................123 Advantages of Search Engine Optimization ..................................124 Do Follow Link List And Search Engine Optimization ................126 Search Engine Optimization - 4 Fundamental Rules for Quality SEO .......................................................................................................128 Golden Rules of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ....................129 Building Search Engine Optimization Using Links .......................131 Search Engine Optimization – Easy Steps to Get High Rankings ...............................................................................................................134 Search Engine Optimization-Link Management Services ............136 Organic (Natural) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) .................138 Search Engine Optimization and SEO Services .............................141 Economical Search Engine Optimization ........................................142 The Importance of Search Engine Optimization ............................144 Learn Search Engine Optimization Rules .......................................145 Search Engine Optimization - How to Use SEO to Get Listed.....148 Typo Search Engine Optimization - Can Your Visitors Spell? .... 150 What is Search Engine Optimization? Searching For Success .... 152 Search Engine Optimization 301 - How to Optimize Your Web Site for High Search Engine Results ....................................................... 154 Don't Sabotage Your Search Engine Optimization Company .... 155 How to Improve Search Engine Optimization .............................. 159 Step by Step Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guide .............. 161 Why is Search Engine Optimization Potentially the Lifeblood of Your Online Business? ...................................................................... 168 Using Search Engine Optimization To Successfully Promote Your Products............................................................................................... 169 Article Search Engine Optimization................................................ 170 Search Engine Optimization – Off-Page Optimization ................ 173 3 Steps to Search Engine Optimization Success ............................ 175 Selecting a Search Engine Optimization Company ...................... 177 Free Report About Links & Search Engine Optimization............ 182 Search Engine Optimization and You - Reindexing ..................... 184 Search Engine Optimization Services Program - What You Need to Know ............................................................................................... 189 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Whys and Hows ................ 191 Search Engine Optimization – How to Outrank the Top Ten I... 193 How to Properly Use Search Engine Optimization to Improve Your Business ..................................................................................... 195 Search Engine Optimization - How it Benefits You...................... 197 The Advertising Pull of Search Engine Optimization ...................199 Increase Sales & Profit by Getting Right Search Engine Optimization Campaigns ..................................................................200 10 Ways to Build Search Engine Optimization ..............................202 So Why You Need Search Engine Optimization............................205 On-Page Optimization - The Very Heart of Successful Search Engine Optimization ..........................................................................207 How to Eat the Very Large Elephant of Search Engine Optimization through 7 Tips of Wisdom ........................................209 Search Engine Optimization - How to Keep from Being Banned by the Search Engines ..............................................................................211 Why You Must Use Search Engine Optimization..........................213 Search Engine Optimization Foundations ......................................216 Search Engine Optimization 1101 – How to Optimize a Squeeze Page.......................................................................................................217 Search Engine Optimization 401- How Important is On-Page Optimization?......................................................................................218 Search Engine Optimization - 3 Best Ways to Get Backlinks .......220 Search Engine Optimization And Marketing Analyst With Good Copywriting Approach......................................................................221 Search Engine Optimization - Article Marketing for Inbound Links .....................................................................................................224 Search Engine Optimization: What Style Suits You Best? ............225 Search Engine Optimization - Understanding the Basics .............227 13 Search Engine Optimization The current internet marketing trend nowadays is search engine optimization. The concept of search engine optimization is that the more people are visiting one's website, the greater are the chances of having a high search engine ranking. Search engine rankings are determined by search engines and these rankings have a bearing on the search result page that would display as certain keywords are searched for in the internet. In other words, SEO is directing traffic towards one's website. In SEO, there are various statistical and linking tools that can be applied in order to have a successful SEO. However, it is very important that web owners would be able to identify credible webmasters that would aid them in their search engine optimization. In order to ensure that these webmasters are credible, it is advisable to check on their backgrounds and their track records. Some of the services that are offered by webmasters are: review of the site and structure; content development; and keyword research. The site and the web structure is an important consideration in SEO. The site is basically responsible for attracting visitors into the site itself, while the web structure basically provides the basic information about the website contents. Therefore, reviewing the site and the structure is one important function of search engine optimizers as these would dictate the marketability of the website. On the other hand, content development is another important factor in SEO. Any website could only establish its value by the credibility and the relevance of its contents. 14 The contents of websites must be developed in such a way that it would be able to represent what the entire website is all about. There are some websites with good structure but poor contents that did not make it to the search engine ranking. One should take note that one of the tools of the search engines in their ranking is determining the strength of the keywords of certain websites. In this context, it is therefore necessary to provide one's website with highly informative contents. The next type of service that is offered by webmasters is keyword research. Keyword research can definitely boost up SEO because the keywords are practically responsible for directing traffic into the website. Keyword research includes the determination of keywords that will be most likely researched on in the internet. Once these keywords are identified, these keywords can now be incorporated into the contents of the website or into articles that would link to the website. Article writing is also very important in SEO. In fact, this is one of the most important factors in SEO. These articles would contain the keywords that will practically direct traffic into the specific website. This Article is related to the subject of SEO . If you are looking for information and services of SEO then http://www.micrositez.co.uk/ is the greatest place for you. Ems Aleks Search Engine Optimization Services - What To Expect? 15 For search engine optimization services offered by search engine optimization companies, there are couples of things that you need to expect from their services. Let me just share with you here: 1. Using ethical search engine optimization methods. Make sure that the companies are using white-hat optimization techniques so as to prevent your website from being blacklisted by major search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. 2. Offering keywords with search volume. There are companies which offer keywords that have no search volume to their clients, just because they are easy to optimize. Search engine optimization only makes sense when the keywords that you are optimizing have people searching for them. There are companies showing optimized long-tail keywords as their portfolio whereby those keywords do not bring in any traffic at all. 3. Offering a money-back guarantee. When dealing with new search engine optimization companies, make sure that you have a money back guarantee. This will ensure that in case they fail to deliver, you are able to get back the money. 4. Avoid companies which guarantee top ranking always. These search engine optimization companies are not Google, Yahoo! or MSN. They do not control the databases. There will be time when the search engine just removes a particular listing for a website and we can't control it. But there are still unethical companies who guarantee clients top listing always just to bring in sales. These are just some of the points to take note of when you are considering taking up search engine optimization services for your businesses. Search engine optimization is a definitely a great way to drive targeted traffic and all businesses should always include it as an online marketing channel in their plans. Cheow Yu Yuan is the co-founder of OOM, an online marketing agency which provides Singapore SEO services. 16 Check out more about http://www.optimalonlinemarketing.com SEO at Cheow Yu Yuan Search Engine Optimization - What You Need For a Successful Implementation Experts say that everyone has the capability to successfully implement Search Engine Optimization. Let's face it, every site owner or Webmaster needs to promote their respective pages to achieve popularity in the online setting, so the knowledge of Search Engine Optimization should come in very handy to give your website the coverage it needs in the online world to make it accessible to every individuals to surf the Web everyday. Beginners would surely ask on what they need in order to successfully implement Search Engine Optimization and achieve a near-perfect online coverage. Experts share their knowledge for your benefit. 1. The Right Keywords Search Engines is all about keywords; you make use of words or phrases to look for information on the World Wide Web. But if you are the ones implementing Search Engine Optimization then you better make use of search terms that is commonly used 17 by the online public if you want to achieve a high traffic value on your site. Such is the case; it is important that you first delve into keyword research before you implement SEO. There are plenty of tools online, like Google that offers tons of features to determine which keywords are commonly used by the online masses. You can also do it slowly by checking out some sites, like those on the upper ranks of search engines, and try to find out what keywords they used to achieve a high placement on result pages. 2. Tons Of Links Link building is an essential part of SEO and is one way of giving your site the coverage and presence it needs on the World Wide Web. Imagine if you have your link on the top visited websites online? That will surely drive traffic to your page -- and quite a lot of them if you offer quality information that the online public needs. There are plenty of ways to start with link building. You can make a blog and fill it up with informative posts with the link of your main site on specific terms embedded into the content. Social bookmarking also works, as well. Register to social bookmarking communities and start saving links after links of your page to make it accessible to everyone who is looking for the right information to use to their benefit. And if the rest of the community likes your bookmarks, then they will surely add it to theirs as well. Keep in mind, however, that good keywords and tons of links doesn't mean that you will achieve a good online coverage and traffic in a week's time. Continuous and stringent implementation of Search Engine Optimization may yield your expected results after a month or two. You need patience and determination if you want to see a popularity site to help boost your online presence and use it to your benefit. William W. Teho, Jr from Jump2Top - SEO Company William Teho 18 Writers and Authors - What You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization Part 2 Part one of this article gave an overview and definition of Search Engine Optimization. In this second article, we're going to talk about the easy things you can do to optimize your writing or author's Website for the search engines to send more traffic to your site. In this article, we're going to go into the the importance of Meta Tags, Page Titles, Descriptions and Keywords have in SEO for your Website if you're a writer or author. What Happens When A Search Engine Visits Your Website When a search engine comes to visit your Website (called a spider), the first thing it's going to do is look at your Page Title, Description, and Keyword Meta Tags. These are all elements in the "code" of your page. If you didn't design your page yourself, you can usually find them and see what's written if you look at the top of your browser bar and look for the word "view". Click that, and scroll down till you see "Page Source" - click it to see what your Website looks like in html or other "technical" language. Just scroll down 'til you see the "Page Title," "Description," and keyword "Meta Tags." 19 If you have a blog, you can find these things in "settings" on your dashboard. The SEO Steps You Need to Take Before Submitting Your Website to the Search Engines Meta Tags Before submitting your website to the search engines, make sure that your Meta Tags for each page accurately describe each page's content. In other words, don't use the same keywords on all pages, and don't fill the Meta Tags with every single keyword you can think of. Right now, less is more. Focus on the one to three keywords that accurately describe the content visitors will find on your Website or Blog. Page Title Make sure the page title describes what the visitor is going to find - and include your most important keyword or keyword phrase. Remember, you can always add lots of subtitles, to keep visitors moving through your content, but each page title should give them the big overview. In most cases, it's best to keep titles to under 10 words. Description You want the description (this is what humans read when your site shows up on a Search Engine Results Page [SERP]) - to be interesting and enticing enough that a searcher clicks on your link to get more information. Keywords 20 Your keywords need to be in your meta tags, in the description and in the page title. Use it in the first sentence, or at least in the first paragraph. Make sure you're not just repeating your main keyword phrase. Why? Because search engines have gotten a lot smarter. If all you're doing is using your keyword over and over again, you're going to get penalized for what is known as "keyword stuffing" which is a practice of lazy Webmasters (or Webmasters who can't write real content) of using their main keywords in the hopes of getting people to click the link to their page. The problem is - while this used to work for the search engines (and it doesn't any more) - it has a tendency to tick off the human visitors to a site - and rather than clicking another link to try and find the information they need - these days people just click the back button and look elsewhere. Instead, think about what information your visitor really wants... What questions or problems do they have and what kind of information can you give them that helps them find the answers? Are Meta Tags Still Important? You may have heard that meta tags aren't important anymore when it comes to optimizing your Website for the Search Engines. There is some truth to this, because in the old days, as I said, you could just slap up a whole bunch of keywords in the meta tags, and you were guaranteed to get listed in the search engines. These days, it's not so easy. For one thing, you've got a whole lot more competition than in the old days. For example, while researching this article, I found 4,170,000 Websites for the keyword "copywriter." And for the keyword phrase "How do I make money from a writing business" Google shows 143,000,000 results. Which is 21 why you have to use a different SEO strategy when it comes to using Meta Tags on your Website or Blog. How Writers and Authors Can Use Meta Tags Effectively for SEO Optimization So what's the most effective SEO strategy for writers or authors when it comes to meta tags? Make sure that each page includes only the most important and relevant keywords listed in the meta tags. Don't go overboard. Keep it simple. Choose one or two at most. You also want to put that same keyword or keyword phrase in the content. The search engines give your keyword or keyword phrase more importance when they find it in the beginning of your content. (And doesn't that make sense? After all, if I called you on the phone and told you that I had to tell you about this new restaurant I found, and then start talking to you about my new pair of walking shoes... You're going to be a little confused.) So that means to make your SEO strategy for getting the most out of Meta Tags today goes - include your main keyword or keyword phrase in the headline and in the first paragraph of your content. Just Remember: You need to make sure that all your keywords or keyword phrases are included in the content on each Web or Blog page. But now I want to give you another piece of advice about optimizing your Website or Blog for the search engines: Don't obsess about it. Because the other thing you need to remember is that as important as your SEO strategies are - at the same time you're writing for people - real people who are trying to find the answer to a specific question or problem. 22 Getting someone to your Website or Blog because of your keyword strategy is really only half the battle. Now that you've got them there, you've got to keep them on your site. And that's where content and structure come in. If you want to know exactly why high-quality content and your Website's structure are so vital, read the third and final article in this series. Cheryl Antier is the director of the Writer's Business Academy - an online academy for writers and authors who want to learn more about the business side of a writing business. To get your copy of DIY SEO for Writers and Authors, visit the Writer's Business Academy today. Cheryl Antier Search Engine Optimization - 4 Steps to Excel At Search Engine Optimization Looking to generate more traffic for your website or online business? Want to do so without a lot of hassle or without spending a bundle? Try these four steps to excel at Search Engine Optimization: 1. Add Lists. Lists make your site easier to link to, and the amount of incoming links to your site can often determine its ranking on search engines. 23 2. Use Articles. Write small articles on various topics that target the audience you are marketing towards, and distribute them throughout the web. 3. Make use of Keywords. Don‟t overdo it, but make sure that keywords relating to your sites topic are used frequently on every page of yours site. This helps boost your rating for many search engines. 4. Add Media. Adding video, audio, and other media content to your website ensures that more people will link to you, and thus boost your ratings on many search engines even higher. Some people see search engine optimization as a difficult and complex task, but with the right tools, it needn‟t be hard at all. Although there are companies who offer specific SEO services out there, many of them are unreliable, and some even use corrupt practices which can actually end up getting you removed from a search engine, the exact opposite of what you are trying to achieve. So get started today with your own search engine optimization and get on your way towards more traffic to your website or online business! Want to learn more about it? Download the free ebook, Steps to Article Marketing Success . James Krawder Web Design Means More to Search Engine Optimization Than it is Given Credit For 24 Designers say style, search engine optimization specialists say text. The truth? Both sides are right. When marketing your web site online, you could possibly make something so ugly that you get a lot of traffic from a favorable Google ranking, but no clients or conversion. Why is that? Because Cleanliness is next to Googleness. If you would like, take a few moments to search some highly competitive keyphrases in Google. The web sites that are ranked on the first page are normally, professional, well designed web sites. This is not a coincidence. Clean sites rank higher and convert better. So why does the average search engine optimization company pay such little regard to professional design? Because search engine optimization specialists are analytics gurus and designers are artist. In short, it takes two to make it work. When working with a designer, you should ask them what their strategy is for maximizing your search engine exposure. While designers do not have to speak fluent SEO, they do of course need to know what not to do to your web site so that an SEO can come in after them and help increase your search engine ranking. When considering SEO friendly design, think clean. Web sites that have a direct point (call to action) at the top of the page will convert visitors to customers much better than the competition. If you searched for health insurance quotes on Google, you would see a list of natural results. Most of those allow you to start the health insurance quoting process right at the top of the home page. If you work with a guaranteed search engine optimization company, (one that guarantees first page ranking) they may require you to update your design to decrease their risk. Yes, design makes that much of a difference. Search engine's like what people like. Easy to navigate web sites, text that is clear and to the point, and simple vertical layouts. 25 So if high search engine rankings are at the top of your concerns, make sure your designer plays nice with search engine optimization specialists or even better, use a search engine optimization company with a talented on staff designer. This will greatly increase the success of your online presence. Jason Bland is with guaranteed search engine optimization company, Adviatech Corp. Adviatech is one of the leading SEO firms offering results based online marketing solutions. To learn more about guaranteed SEO services, visit Adviatech.com. Jason Bland Search Engine Optimization Help Can Make Your Website Popular In this age of information overload people are desperate to find the most accurate information within the minimum time possible. The internet is one such area where any kind of information is always at your fingertips. The crucial objective is to search through the huge volume of data and arrive at the information that is relevant for you. In these circumstances a business firm may create a website that contains valuable information that would be relevant for a particular topic. However it is difficult to ensure that people visit this particular website whenever they are looking for specific information on that subject. Search engine optimization help is the perfect solution where a carefully formulated strategy will ensure traffic to your website. 26 The main aim for a website owner would be to get a high traffic to his site thereby achieving a good ranking in the search engine list. Search engine optimization help can achieve this desired result with well researched business strategies guaranteed to achieve the target. If the website contains useful and accurate data which is helpful to the user it immediately become popular and ensures repeat visits by that user. Search engine optimization help will ensure that the user is guided to your website the first few times after which the content of your website will ensure that he becomes a regular at your site. The web is a huge bank of information and most internet users would not want to waste their time surfing through the data to arrive at websites that is the most relevant to their search. When a user is searching for particular information, due to shortage of time or patience, he will obviously go to the websites that are listed on the first page. Search engine optimization help will ensure the maximum visibility of your website on the internet. The careful planning and strategies developed to promote your website will make certain that it gets a good ranking and has easy accessibility and visibility. The traffic will thus be guided to your website. The connectivity, links, content available on your website will guarantee that the users who have been guided to your site keep coming back every time they are looking for information that your website offers. Search engine optimization help can work wonders for your business in case you are selling or promoting a product. The high volume of traffic spells success for your business as each visitor to your site is a potential customer. The conversion will depend on how efficiently the product or service has been marketed and whether it satisfies the need of the visitor. Search engine optimization help also lets you purchase advertising space on various popular search engines which charge according to various marketing schemes. Hence it results in a win-win situation for all concerned, business booms for you due to increased traffic while users also get the desired information. As long as you ensure that your website is always updated with the most accurate and latest information, not only promoting your site and products but making the maximum information available to the visitor, search engine
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