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One Stop Meta Tag Mania

January 8th, 2010 David Anttony No comments

There is only one meta tag that most search engines use – the description tag. It is not ordinarily used for SEO ranking purposes, but it is ordinarily used (including by Google) as the text on the search results listing.

Google by and large uses the description meta tag as the text to present when it displays your website in the search results. We find that it will use this about 70-80% of the time. The rest of the time it will select random text from your home page but commonly it picks up the first 156 characters of text on the page if it does not use the description tag. Make sure your description tags are always 156 characters or less.

So when you use a good description and a search engine uses it then it will help your click through rate. If your description is attractive people will click though more.

All meta tags should be at the start of the page inside the head tags.

Google is a little scallywag when it comes to using or not using the meta description tag. When it does use it you can have full control of what is exposed to potential visitors but it will often vary what it uses at will with sometimes it just plucking a piece of text from your page.

To make sure you have more control over what Google selects as the text in the search results as well as setting the description tag carefully also make sure that the first 156 characters of text on your page says what you would like to see in Google.

If you have a flash site or just use pictures with a little text, you have a problem! We have seen Google pick up the alt text from an image and exhibit this when it didn’t choose to use our description tag. This will tell you to ALWAYS have some text on your page even if it is only 156 carefully chosen characters (including spaces).

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Why SEO Is So Essential And How To Go About It

December 22nd, 2009 Remus Lim No comments

The technique of SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization, aids in boosting the number of visitors to your website from search engines by optimizing the website for specific keywords. With the arrival of the internet and its growing popularity and complexity, people are more and more relying on seeking information through a fast internet search. This has given search engines a major role to play in sending visitors to various websites and therefore the focus on SEO is important.

As the number of websites is constantly increasing on the internet, the reliance of users on search engines has risen even more. All top websites receive over 50% of their traffic through search engines, which indicates how important SEO is for fetching visitors. The bottom line is that now to be able to have any online success, you should have an effective SEO strategy.

The first and foremost thing to keep in mind in SEO is content optimization of your website. The insertion of relevant keywords at an appropriate frequency in your website’s content goes a long way in making the website search engine optimized and helps in raising the search rankings of your web site.

Link building is the next essential feature of SEO. Incoming links from external web pages show to the search engines how well known your website is which is then displayed in their results. While creating links, it is essential that you pick sites that belong to the same area as your website does. Choosing unrelated sites can pose difficulties for you, particularly if search engines think that you are falsely building these links.

Always remember that SEO is not a one time exercise but a continuing process. Your task does not end at merely developing a website and optimizing it just one time for search engines. Do remember to constantly reassess the website’s content, what ranks search engines have given to the important web pages of your site for specific keywords, and if the inbound links are still active. You must constantly adopt ways to enhance your website’s search engine ranking in order to guarantee steadily increasing traffic.

SEO training can be of great help, given the importance SEO has for your website. It can help you to both understand and implement the finer aspects. A lot of firms today provide SEO training for you to develop a search engine optimized and successful website. There is nothing that matches up to specialized training when it comes to becoming an expert in this vital skill.

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Selecting A Good SEO Company Is Key To A Successful SEO Campaign

December 19th, 2009 Kim Lee No comments

With the growing popularity of the internet, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become a vital technique for promoting products or services. The trend has prompted the growth of several companies that provide SEO services at affordable rates. Although, these services are very valuable, the process of engaging an SEO company must always include a careful consideration of your requirements and their expertise.

The primary thing to check for in any SEO company should be the way it operates and whether it is ethical or not. Although an unethical technique might be able to give you results quickly, it can easily lead to search engine fines, and might even create a bad impression on potential customers. The only way to have sustainable web traffic to your website is to use time-honoured strategies and provide the visitors a good experience. Developing keyword centric content, link building, and appropriate use of Meta tags are all regarded as fair SEO techniques.

The content of the website must be unique with proper keywords density and any good SEO company will attach due importance to that. These two factors are very important when it comes to improving the position of your web pages on search results. Moreover, as content sharing plays an important role in SEO nowadays, the company must be able to effectively use publicity material like articles and videos for free circulation.

The SEO company has to be updated with the latest technological developments and be able to provide end-to-end SEO services to you. That can be accomplished by having an understanding of the company, followed by listing keyword that are well known among consumers, and then finally putting strategies in place to augment traffic to the website.

Developing an effective campaign requires knowledge of all the SEO techniques and an ability to apply them to good effect. Established SEO firms have a dedicated team of specialists who are qualified in these tools and practices and understand what works and what does not work in a specific situation.

Finally, it is vital to understand that SEO is not a one-time task and a firm that promises superior SEO services must provide support on an ongoing basis. To deal with the changes in the algorithms used by search engines, you must always keep optimizing and realigning your site to remain above the competition and that’s where an SEO company plays a vital role.

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SEO Trainer Selection Tips

November 3rd, 2009 David Anttony No comments

SEO is a very differentiated field of net marketing. It’s a combination of so many skill arenas. A great SEO company will have a extended range of SEO skills within its team so that it can undertake the numerous issues that they will face in ranking a site on Google and other search engines.

However, training is very distinct. Someone that is great at creating results may not be effective at communicating to others how they can get results.

Many SEO trainers are hands on SEO optimizers and they do not have a professional IT training background.

Here are five tips to take note of when selecting a great SEO training company.

ONE:

Ask the SEO company if their trainers are SEO professional people as well as experienced IT trainers. Do they have the ability, know-how and skill to deal with individuals in a classroom situation so that the trainees can fully gain from their SEO skills?

TWO:

Does the SEO trainer have working hands-on experience of ranking numerous unique types of websites on Google, Yahoo and MSN – can they show you the results! Or is the trainer a book teacher – they learnt from a book all the hypotheses but have not learnt the hard cold facts about SEO in the SEO ‘jungle’. Will they be able to bring to the table the help skills to solve YOUR problems on YOUR website? It’s a simple matter of asking.

THREE:

What commercial backdrop does your SEO trainer have? Have they a comprehensive web development background so that they can cover all the core areas that they need to help you rank and learn about ranking your website. A top flight SEO expert teacher should have 2+ years’ web development skills in both HTML and programming languages combines as a minimum.

FOUR:

Does the training come with any followup support? Like all training – on the day everything is easy – after the course when you get back the story is different! What after training support is offered by the SEO training company in writing so that you know you will be able to integrate your training effectively.

FIVE:

What is the company’s current ranking on Google? Have you checked what their current ranking is for keywords like SEO, SEO training, SEO services etc? If they are not on the 1st page or the top of the second page in the local Google site then maybe they are doing training too early before they have established themselves properly. So go check their rankings right away or just ask them!

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Super-Charge WordPress Out-Of-The-Box For Search Engine Optimisation

October 25th, 2009 David Anttony No comments

Wordpress out of the box allows fundamental management of the fundamental SEO meta information. To extend the functionality we add our own super-charged version of the All-In-One-SEO Pack. The SEO pack makes it simple to change the page title and page meta description.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack is a great WordPress plugin that completes the SEO aspects for WordPress. For some reason WordPress still has not got the SEO fixed out of the box.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack allows you you to change the most significant page components – page title and page description. It also permits you to change the page keywords, but as we all know, search engines no longer take note of these because they have been spammed too much in the past. Google ended using the keywords for page ranking in the early 2000’s.

Page Titles

This is the No1 SEO element to control. Always make sure that you control the page title. The page title appears in the browser window at the very top of the screen. Search engines use this in the listings and show it in their search results.

Always try to make the page title only carry the keywords you want the page to rank for. Try to limit them to 2 or 3 maximum.

Just like with a book the page title of an HTML page is the most important factor. Never leave this element to chance. Make sure you use keywords in the title.

If your page needs to stretch to cover two or three keywords we have learned that you can still get good rankings from adding multiple keywords to the title. But do remember that the closer the page title is to the keyword you want to rank for the better.

If you are a larger branded company you will probably want to add your company or brand name into the page title considering this is displayed on Google. Keep it short and simple though. Do not add your brand statement just your brand or company name.

Page Description Meta Tags

This element is NOT used by search engines for ranking purposes. However, most search engines will utilize this in their search results so it is important. Google does not use the description all the time but we find that it uses it about 80-90% of the time. The rest of the time it will pick up the first piece of text on the page.

By having a good description it will increase your click through rates because the text will be more engaging to people. Ensure that you use a maximum of 156 characters. If you use any more characters Google will cut short the rest. If you can keep your descriptions to 140 characters or less this is even better seeing Google sometimes adds a date to the start of the description which is part of the 156 characters it displays.

SEO Meta data shown on Google listing

Changing the meta data and page title

At the bottom of every page and post you will find the meta tags plugin details. Update the details appropriately. Note: If you can only use see the title for the plugin and no details, just click the title and the section will expand.

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October 15th, 2009 Ronny Abraham No comments

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Fundamentals Of SEO

October 13th, 2009 Carey Lim No comments

Any query of a popular phrase in a search engine would result in a huge number of results. In such a scenario, how a website gets itself among the topmost results of a query for a particular keyword is known as Search Engine Optimization or SEO. The reason behind the increasing popularity of SEO in past few years is that the appearance of the website in top search results aids in getting more visitors to it, which very often translates into more business.

Black hat and white hat are the two basic categories of SEO techniques. Black hat SEO entails somewhat unethical ways to make a website appear at the top of the search rankings. However, white hat SEO only applies those techniques which are approved of and do not violate the principles of the search engines.

To connect a particular web page to a particular keyword, the search engines earlier utilised the Meta data of the page that has been included in the code of that page. However, these days most search engines make use of highly sophisticated algorithms, involving the use of more than 200 distinct parameters to decide on the results.

SEO professionals have to keep track of all the new developments made by search engines and guess the relative weight of different factors in a search algorithm. This information helps them fine-tune the SEO techniques for their clients so that they stay competitive for selected keywords. For the older algorithms, which utilized just the Meta data and web site content, the optimization method used was to bring the desnity of a keyword on the page to an appropriate level and managing the Meta tags of the page.

Although these aspects are still quite significant, search engines now give much more priority to the popularity of a web page. The number of links referring to a web page indicates the popularity of that web page. This method is democratic in nature, where every link is similar to a vote for the specific web page. Because of this, now SEO has to focus on offsite techniques too, such as offering content for free to receive embedded links and establishing a presence on online hubs for social interaction, such as blogs, forums etc.

You should always keep in mind that SEO is an ongoing and dynamic process. The field is constantly changing and your techniques have to adjust to those changes. That is why it is so important to have an expert SEO consultant help you out.

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3 Seo Tips That Will Tip Your Ranking Balance

October 9th, 2009 David Anttony No comments

Sometimes it’s just the smallest of things that can make a Tremendous difference with SEO ranking results.

Here are three little things that will make a Larger difference if you utilize them all the time.

1. If you are going fishing make sure there are fish and not too many fishing people.

2. Title is everything.

3. Being bold makes you stand out.

If you are going fishing make sure there are fish and not too many fishing people.

If we were going fishing as a professional, we would do one thing before we throw our nets into the water, we would KNOW that there are fish there to be caught! A professional fisher person does not throw their nets into the water BEFORE doing a radar scan to check for fish. If you are smart at SEO you will do the same! You will also not go fishing where everyone else is fishing, this is common sense.

When it comes to a more abstract world like SEO occasionally we forget common sense. So let’s remember!

In the SEO world making sure there are fish is making sure that there is traffic for a word we are opting to rank for. Use tools like Google Traffic Estimator (just Google it) if you are short on funds, and if you have a little bit of money, go get yourself a WordTracker subscription (they also have a free tool as well which is good). These (and many other traffic tools) will tell you that there are ‘fish’ for the keywords that you want to rank for.

The next part of this BIG trick is not to fish were everyone else is fishing. So if you are smart if you are doing a blog for example, you will look for keywords that have good traffic but a LOW number of competing websites. WordTracker will help you with this.

Title is everything.

In the SEO world the page title is the ’secret weapon’ of the top ranker! Here is one thing to remember, make sure that the page title is as close as possible to being 100% the keyword you want to rank for as possible. The page title is like the title of a book. If you wanted to learn about the sex life of a worm then a book title of ‘Sex life of a worm’ will grab your attention and you will know you have the book you want. On the other hand a title of ‘Worms and interesting facts’ will not grab you in the same way. Make your title tags (where ever you can) 100% the keyword/key phrase you want to rank for.

Being bold makes you stand out.

This is a very good onsite optimisation tip if you want to optimise a page/blog entry for a specific keyword, make sure you embolden the keyword in the text 2 or 3 times. Don’t over do it of course.

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