For people who are just new to the business, they usually think of a way by which their website can get noticed and would naturally want a gimmick which would help them take off with a big bang, and this can usually be achieved through website startups. The advantage of website startups cannot be gauged overnight as these things simply take time to work. These are actually similar to “Soft openings” being conducted by business owners when they open a new store or a new branch and see if things are running smoothly and if general public is warmly receiving it. If it yields positive results and leaves no room for improvement, then chances are the business owner will spend no time and immediately scheduled for the grand launching. However, if there are the things that still need to be polished out, then the business owner still has time to … Read More
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SEO – Three Actions that May Improve Your Rankings
Want to market your business more effectively online? Consider these three website design changes that may immediately improve your search enginge rankings:
Flash
1. If you have a 100% Flash website, consider changing it. Do not get me wrong, Flash is nice. The problem is that search engines do not like Flash … at least not sites that are 100% Flash. Flash handles text differently than a standard HTML page, so most search engines have a hard time properly indexing 100% Flash. Think about it … when was the last time you did a Google search and the # 1 ranked site you found was a Flash site?
If search engine rankings are a goal, reconsider your 100% Flash site. Try a hybrid site instead. Make your pages HTML, or ASP based. Include great content, appropriate meta tags, anchor text, structured headings, and then embed your cool Flash elements into … Read More
How To Make Your First Website From Nothing
So you finally decided that its time for you or your business to get a website. Now the question that comes to mind is where should I begin? If you are like most people, you will have the following thoughts and ideas in your head pretty much right off the bat.
1. Should I hire a coder.
2. Should I do it my self.
3. Should I get that kid in our family who is always in his territory by himself.
Maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit with the third one but honestly, coming up with a good website can be challenging.
For a guy like me, I only make sites that work – what I mean by that is I'm strictly an internet marketer so I do not really care that much about the looks. As long as it does the job and has a very decent conversion ratio, … Read More
A Short Article on Technology
The world has undergone enormous changes over the past decade. We now live in a world where communication is paramount. It seems that everyone and everything is connected in some way.
For school students this has made things much more efficient. Research papers that used to involve hours of laborious effort, can now be researched and documented without ever touching a card catalog or a periodical index. Worlds of information are now available at the click of a mouse.
Questions that people pondered without any answer previously can now simply be typed into any convenient search engine and answered almost immediately. There are countless sites filled with informative short articles all over the Internet. Videos and music can now be seen on demand and news from across the world can be delivered in an instant.
There are some people who worry that the technological revolution and evolution we are experiencing … Read More
How to Write Blogs to Improve SEO
Writing content for a website can often feel like a bit of a chore but it is an absolute necessity to ensure that your website promotes your company in the correct manner. From a search engine optimisation point of view though, there are other elements that need to be addressed when creating and posting blogs to improve your SEO. Below are a few tips on creating the best possible blogs to improve your Search Engine Optimisation.
Compelling Title
The blog titles must be smart, relevant and descriptive as well as making sure that one of the keyword phrases appears in the title. Having a non descriptive title that a user would never search for and the search engines wouldn’t understand is pointless so keyword rich titles will add relevancy.
Relevant Meta Description
Google will only pick up on the first part of a meta description so make sure that the … Read More
Professional Search Engine Optimization Techniques – Taking it to the Next Level
There are several ways to approach optimizing and promoting your SEO website. Professional search engine optimization includes quality and low keyword density content with a side of organic promotion. Both what is offered on your website along with how it is promoted outside of your actual domain need to work for you as opposed to against you.
An SEO marketer can pick the most lucrative niche available and still fail, and many have done just that. Websites with poorly optimized on-site and off-site promotional content always end up with little to no profit. Professional search engine optimization includes working with high traffic niches, creating optimized and quality content, and properly promoting said content on other websites to generate links and general interest.
A combination of quality content all-around is what gets many new SEO marketers. Many will settle for low-quality on-site website content, through the roof keyword densities, poor off-site … Read More
Natural Search Engine Optimization – Do not “Game the System” Or You Will Get Banned!
When focusing on natural search engine optimization, it is important that you keep the process "white hat." You see, when it comes to SEO you have three schools of thought: White hat, Gray hat, and Black hat. As you can probably infer, white hat is following the rules, gray hat is a little in between, and black hat is going against parameters that Google and other major search platforms have set for ethical SEO practices.
So why should you avoid black and gray hat tactics? In many cases they involve illegal activities that can get you or your company in major trouble. In addition, websites that are using black and gray hat SEO tactics will often times get bounced from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.
So, with that said, what are some natural search engine optimization techniques that can keep your website "White hat" and increase your rankings at the same … Read More
10 Digital Products That You Can Create For Your Customers To Buy
Digital products are the easiest way to create a new product in order to boost sales. You create it once and can sell it again and again. There is no waiting around for your customer to receive it as they can download it instantly after purchase.
There are a number of popular digital products you can sell online directly from your site, or from a third party such as Amazon. Here are 10 digital product ideas.
1. eBooks
EBooks are simple to produce and sell. You can sell eBooks directly from your WordPress website using a plugin like WooCommerce, or you can also leverage the marketing power of Amazon by uploading your eBook to their Kindle program. It will convert your word processing document into a digital file that can be read on any device with the help of their free apps.
2. PDFs of Useful Content
These days, you … Read More
What to Look for in a Real Seearch Engine Optimization Consultant
As a SEO professional whose experience comes back to the year 2000 in optimizing Websites, I get this question in many different varieties. Sometimes it's presented within the context of a presentation I'm giving. Other times it's presented within stealth 'Pick your brain for free "conversation I may have the displeasure of participating in (Smile).
The first thing I'd like to point out is that SEO currently is probably the least professionally skilled that someone can obfuscate or dissemble about. For those who prefer more direct language, it's the hardest job today that you can not tell the truth about what you've done. Why do I say that? Search Engine Optimization is about getting your customers Websites ranked in the Search Engines. Anyone in the world with an internet connection and a computer can see if you really know what you're doing; they just have to type in the appropriate … Read More
SEO Basic Tips
Keywords
Keywords are basically words and phrases that can describe your website and different pages. To achieve a good placement, on search engines, you must have the appropriate positioning and density of keywords or phrases you chose. Keep keywords on topic and they will greatly help your site when ranked on search engines.
URLs
Page URLs are the first thing that search engines see when they crawl your site. A very easy SEO tip is to include keywords in your URL titles. This will provide even more keys words for the search engines. Your URLs should also be easy for search engines to read.
Meta Tags
Meta tags are information tags that are placed in a web page that are not seen by users. They are intended for search engines and other applications. These are getting less and less important but keywords placed as meta tags will always help.
Title … Read More