Seo Melbourne, Search Engine Optimisation Services

By Alka Dalal

We are all aware of the big name search engines like Google and Yahoo. We know how to use it to find any information. We say, “Just Google it” and we have tons of information at our finger tips.

Through search engine marketing you are reaching your buyers directly. There are vertical market search engines which are specific to the industry. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an art and also a science. It uses words or phrases from your article, blogs or newsletter and allows search engines to find you. Once you are found, you are given the highest ranking by the search engines.

Search engine advertising is when marketers pay to have advertising appear in search engines when someone types that word or a phrase. The other word for it is Google AdWords. There is lot to learn about these AdWords and how to use it for your marketing. This is a paid service.

Getting good rankings in any search engine is very important to your success and the success of your business. Therefore, you need to pay close attention to this and get good rankings.

Using these search engines for your research and browsing the internet can teach you lot.

1. Make sure that your home or landing page is short, graphics load easy and it communicates well to your readers.
2. Think and write from the prospects point of view.
3. A testimonial from users and happy customers adds value to your page.
4. Make it clear and easy to read.
5. Use multiple calls to action.
6. Only ask for necessary information.
7. You must follow up.

About the Author
Alka Dalal, MA. , MS., (New York University and Rutgers University) with 25 years of corporate experience, founded i-Speak Consulting to enable individuals to take a pro-active approach in being effective at Internet Marketing and be very successful. She draws upon her vast experience to provide valuable tips on how to succeed in today’s economy using great tool called Internet Marketing

Please visit http://www.AlkaSpeaks.com for lots of free information
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By Louise Collins

Website search engine optimization is a pretty intimidating term. A lot of small online start ups, run by people like you, with far too many new things to learn already, all too quickly walk away from SEO. And that’s a problem, because not only do you need to learn about it, the truth is that it’s really not all that hard.

So let’s start by stripping away a little bit of the smoke that’s floating around SEO for small business websites. After all, SEO is really nothing more than a series of steps that will help you to put your website in front of your potential customers. And that’s the real magic it’s a series of many steps. In fact, there are so many different steps you can make and different things that you can do, to make an impact on where your site appears on a search, it’s hard to know where to start.

Because there are so many steps you can take to help your search engine rankings, a huge industry has been built up around SEO services. Naturally every company that calls to offer you their services will offer the single most important service to vault you to the top of the rankings. At least that’s what they’ll tell you. With every pitch you hear, it becomes harder and harder to figure out what to do.

So start with keywords. And by that, I mean understand what keywords or keyword phrases people who are looking to buy what you have to sell will use to find you. In other words, “What would you type into a search engine query if you were looking to buy your own product on the internet?” (and don’t for one short second think that they’re going to type in the name of your company or site – at least not for a long, long time.) Hopefully, you already considered this before you started your website and you are already sure that there actually ARE people on the internet looking to buy what you have to sell.

Now – different pages on your site will be relying on different keywords to attract traffic. For example – if you’re selling pet supplies, you’ll probably have your site organized either by pets (a main dog page/ cat page/ bird page/ etc) or by products (a food page/bed page/ toy page) and likely it will be a combination of both words (dog beds, bird toys, etc.). If you’re a business consultant then you’ll probably have you site organized by either, the verticals or the business types you serve and/or the services you offer.

Each one of these main category pages will have 3-5 keywords or keyword phrases of its own. So, your first step is to determine what your category page keywords will be – not your home page keywords, your category page keywords. Too many new start ups put all their emphasis on driving traffic to the home page and that’s a mistake. By definition, your category pages will be more focused on a single subject. Each will be more relevant to that subject, with more content on that subject and these are important factors in helping your page do well in the search results. Identify 3-5 keywords or keyword phrases that will work for each of your main category pages. From now on, change your thinking from what you’re going to do to get your site to rank well on a search, to what you’re going to do to get one page on your site to rank well. You’ll be found on the internet, one page at a time.

Louise Collins is the Author of START UP MISTAKES, a report created to help people starting a small business avoid some of the expensive mistakes that can doom a new business. It’s easy to overspend on marketing services to increase site traffic, but with patience and effort, many small businesses can do some good marketing all on their own

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By: Daniel C Smith

A Google Webmaster Help thread asks if there is a limit on the number of Sitemap files you can have under a single Google account. Currently, there is no documentation on the limit but there is a 500 limit per Webmaster Tools account. Google’s, JohnMu said, “As it is, the current limit is 500 Sitemap files per account.” But John added a way to get around this limit. John said:

“You can get around this limit by including your Sitemap files in Sitemap Index files (with 500 websites/account, you could use a single Sitemap Index file per site to cover all of them), by submitting Sitemap files via HTTP ping or by submitting them via robots.txt files. If you decide to use Sitemap Index files, you should still be able to drill down to the individual Sitemap files through Webmaster Tools, so that you can get feedback on them separately.“

Verifying success in search engine optimization can be done by adding four components together

Indexation + Backlink +  Rankings +  Traffic and Revenue = Seo Success

Indexation
will determine if a search engine has properly identified all of your site’s pages. Indexation is the first critical step to natural search performance. Pages that aren’t indexed have zero chance of ranking in the search engines

Backlink
will show the number of internal and external links that point to your site as a whole.  Generally, the more external links that point to your site, the higher your site will rank in natural search results.

Rankings
will show where in the natural search results your site appears for given search words or phrases.

Traffic and revenue
will show the keywords used to find your site, revenue generated per keyword, the percentage of visitors that purchased products or services and so forth.

There is no evidence that search engines notice when you use CSS to define your page layout. In fact, adjusting your page’s visual look with CSS won’t be defined as spamming unless you try to use “display:none“, “visibility:hidden” or similar definitions to hide sections stuffed with keywords. Such actions are definitely spamming and are not recommended.

But still CSS layout techniques should be used cautiously. If we examine closely the <div> tag it should be said that search engines don’t like to index hidden context. Try to avoid the excessive use of this tag as your intentions are most likely going to be interpreted as spam.

One more crucial thing – use HTML tags for their intended purpose. E.g., you shouldn’t use CSS to change the function of the tag if you don’t use it. There are classes instead.

The usage of CSS reduces to a minimum the size of the HTML code and provides the best opportunity to effectively use keywords in important HTML heading tags (h1, h2, etc.). But  remember – the time when CSS was invisible to search engines has gone by. Today’s engines can easily read cascading style sheets and thus they are aware of what they once were not!

Search engine optimisation tips by seodeals.com.au

Optimizing web pages for search engines does not mean creating special pages for search engines. Optimizing web pages for search engines is often the same as optimizing web pages for web surfers. If you do it correctly, your website will be attractive to both web surfers and search engine spiders. The following list shows 6 factors that can improve the usability of your website as well as your search engine rankings.

1. You should have fast loading web pages
2. Your web pages should be easy to read
3. The contents of your web pages should be clearly arranged
4. Your web page images should use the IMG ALT attribute
5. You should use custom 404 not found error pages
6. Your website should be easy to navigate

No.  The biggest concern for search engine companies like Google and Yahoo is finding content that will bring them more traffic ( and thus more advertising revenue). In other words, their result must be relevant. Relevant result makes for a good search engine; irrelavant result makes for a short-lived search engine.

Most search engines these days return two types of results whenever you click Search:

Natural/Organic – The ‘real’ search results. The results that most users are looking for and which take up most of the window. For most searches, the search engine displays a long list of links to sites with content which is related to the word you searched for. These results are ranked according to how relevant and important they are.

Paid – Pure advertising. This is how the search engines make their money. Advertisers pay the search engines to display their ad whenever someone searches for a word which is related to their product or service. These ads look similar to the natural search results, but are normally labeled “Sponsored Links”, and normally take up a smaller portion of the window.

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Google is able to detect unnatural linking patterns. That is why the following type of links don’t work:

1. Link farms and automated linking systems
Some online services promise hundreds of links in a short time with no work involved. All you have to do is to put some code on your website or to join a system that will help you to get links from other sites quickly and easily. These automated linking systems don’t work and Google can detect them. Actually, Google thinks that you’re spamming if you participate in such a system and they might penalize your website by lowering its position in the search results.

2. Paid links
Google’s anti-spam guru Matt Cutts has made clear that Google considers paid links spam. If you don’t want to lose your rankings on Google, you should be very careful when buying links.

How to get the best links to your website ? If your website is only a collection of affiliate links then you cannot expect that other websites will link to your site. Create a website with good content. The more interesting your web pages are, the easier it is to get links from other websites.