Aug 10

A big part of the agency-client relationship when it comes to SEO involves expectations. This is because we need to make sure that our clients understand that search optimization requires a certain level of commitment and action that may not be found in other advertising initiatives.

For example, someone who wants to design a print ad or direct mail piece often will spend time on approving the final product, which is created with the agency’s software and machinery. For SEO, the process is a bit different, given the client’s need to make sure changes happen on their end, which may require the involvement of a third-party web designer.

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Jul 28
Search Engine optimization for Bing
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How to optimize my website for Bing search engine? Do I need to optimize my website for Bing? Will my website lose SERP in Google after Bing optimization ?  All these questions you may have before optimized your website for Bing. Optimizing your web pages for Bing is not much different from optimizing your web pages for

Google. Just like Google, Bing requires optimized web pages and good inbound links if you want to see your website on the first search result page. The difference is the weight that Bing puts in the different ranking factors. Things that work well with Google might not have the same effect on Bing and vice-versa.

Here are some tips that will help you to get the best possible results for your website:

  1. Optimize some pages of your website for Google and other pages of your site for Bing. By targeting the exact algorithm of a search engine, you increase your changes of getting listed on the first result page.
  2. Do not optimize the same page for more than one keyphrase. It is much better that a web page is highly relevant to one keyphrase than somewhat relevant to many keyphrases.
  3. If possible, optimize each page of your website for a dedicated search engine/keyword combination. The more targeted the optimization, the more likely it is that the web page will be listed in the top results.
Jul 22
Where should you post your articles…
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It depends on your personal goal or goal you have setup for your business. If you want to build an expert name and reputation, then you need to publish our articles in popular newsletters and on topic-relevant highly-trafficked sites makes more sense.

In addition, you can get a good link from such a site to your site which is a good link-building tactic. However, if you are more interested in promoting your own site or blog, a better idea would be to post a full article on your own resource and place a short teaser (with a link to your article) in social networks and communities who share your interests.

Jul 21
How to get better Sitelinks in Google
icon1 admin | icon2 Google, SEO Tips | icon4 07 21st, 2010| icon3Comments Off

Google generates the Sitelinks for your website based on your website navigation and based on the links that point to your website. If Google shows the wrong Sitelinks or no Sitelinks at all for your website then you should work on your website navigation:

  1. Avoid JavaScript and Flash navigation and try to use regular <a href> links as often as possible.
  2. If you use images for your website navigation, make sure that the images contain alternative texts that allow Google to categorize your links.

If your website has a clear navigation, it will be much easier to get Sitelinks for your website. Do not use too many navigation links and make it easy for web surfers and search engines to find out which pages of your website are the most important pages. The better a web page is linked, the more likely it is that it will appear in the Sitelinks.

Jul 15
Google recommendation in link building
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Google recommends that you do the following to get more links to your website:

  • Get involved in the community around your topic
    You should interact and contribute on forums and blogs that are related to your website. Building a good reputation can drive people to your website. If these people like your website, they will link to it.
  • Offer long-lasting, unique and compelling content
    This is a no-brainer. The more compelling your website is, the more people will link to it. In addition to unique articles, you can offer useful tools on your website.
  • Solve the problems of your target group
    If your website offers solutions to common problems of your target group, your website visitors are likely to link to your site. Publish tutorials or videos on your website or offer practical tools. Surveys and original research can also attract links. According to Google, both methods grow your credibility in the community and increase visibility.
  • Humor can help
    Entertaining content is shared more than ever before. If your website offers something funny (a humorous downtime message, amusing content, etc.), chances are that people will link to your site. However, these short-lived link-bait tactics usually wear off quickly and they do not contribute much to a long-term linking strategy.
  • Directories help you to get links
    According to Google, there are great, topical directories that add value to the Internet. However, there are also a lot of low quality directories. When you submit your website to a directory, make sure it’s on topic, moderated, and well structured. Do not bulk-submit your website and make sure that your website will be added to the right category.
  • Avoid spamming methods
    Any legitimate link building strategy is a long-term effort. There are those who advocate for short-lived, often spammy methods, but these are not advisable if you care for your site’s reputation.

Buying PageRank-passing links or randomly exchanging links are the worst ways of attempting to gather links and they’re likely to have no positive impact on your site’s performance over time.

If your site’s visibility in the Google index is important to you it’s best to avoid them!

Jul 15
Be realistic in your search engine optimisation
icon1 admin | icon2 Google, SEO Tips | icon4 07 15th, 2010| icon3Comments Off

Getting on the first result page for a highly competitive keyword such as “real estate” is possible but your competitors will be old and established websites with a lot of backlinks. It is very difficult to outrank these pages.

If you have a website with just a few pages and your competitors have large websites with forums, communities, blogs, etc. then you must improve your website if you want to compete. Search engines want to show the best sites on the result pages.

If you absolutely want to get high rankings for a term such as “real estate”, start with less competitive keywords and then proceed to the more competitive terms. Search engines must trust your website before they give you high rankings for very competitive keywords.

Jul 14

To find out what Google thinks about your website, perform a “similar” search for your domain. Enter the following in Google’s search box:

related:www.domain.com/ ~domain.com

Replace domain.com with your own domain name and make sure that there is no spacer after the colon. On the result page, Google will show you websites that it finds related to your site. If the websites on the search result page are related to your website then everything is okay. If the websites are about totally different topics, then you have a problem and Google probably won’t display your website in the search results for the right keywords.

Jul 8

If you want to get high rankings for certain keywords, then these keywords must appear on your web pages. It is possible to get high rankings for a keyword that is not listed on your website if lots of other websites link to your website with that keyword. That’s the exception, though. In general, the keywords for which you want to be found must appear on your web pages and they must appear in the right elements on your web pages. For that reason, you have to change the HTML code of your web pages to make it as easy as possible for search engine spiders to parse your site.

Jul 8
Links are the key to high rankings
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Good backlinks are the key to high rankings on Google. Automatically created backlinks usually won’t help your rankings and they even might get you banned from Google’s index. As a general rule, the easier it is to get a link, the less is its influence on the position of your website on Google.

The links to your website should be from related websites and they should contain your keywords in the link text. The more attractive your website is, the easier it will be to get good links. Your website should offer link worthy content that other people can talk about.

May 20
Optimise Meta Description - how to
icon1 admin | icon2 SEO Tips | icon4 05 20th, 2010| icon3Comments Off

The Meta Description on your page is not a direct ranking factor. It used to be, back in the day when Google felt as though it could extend some trust to webmasters, but much like the keyword tag it has declined in important over the years - you now derive no SEO benefit from optimising a Meta Description. Does this mean you shouldn’t pay any attention to your Description? No, of course not!

You can find your Meta Description in the head section of an HTML document. It will be incorporated within a Meta tag. To add a Meta Description, just insert some text within this tag. Once the page is indexed in a major search engine, and providing your have optimised the description correctly, you will see it display beneath your result in the SERPs.

Your Description is essentially a sales pitch. You can see your Description in the SERPs underneath one of your listings. This is the first point of contact you will have with a prospective visitor and, much like with your Page Title, it’s important to make a good first impression. There has been a great deal of research on this topic and all the evidence suggests that a listing in position number five in Google with a strong Meta Description will receive a great level of click-through rate than a website in position number four with either no Meta Description or one that is poorly optimised.

So what do you need to do to make a good impression? Include a call to action. A call to action like “get”, “buy” or “find” will entice the user to visit your website. Sell your page and make sure the user reading your listing knows what the page is about and exactly what they can achieve from clicking-through. Make sure the description is no more than 200 characters, including whitespace, long, this will prevent any possibility of text being cut from your description when it is displayed in the SERPs.

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