Nowadays blogging have become a popular hobby for many. It is not necessary to be a tech guy to have a blog. There are even some pretty popular house wife blogs out there. Anyone can blog.
Benefits of having a blog
Have you asked yourself why people spend so much time in this? There are some good reasons behind. Of course, there are some sole bloggers, writing only for the idea out there. But blogging is a great way to promote, market and SEO website or service.
Both people and search engines are interested in fresh content and regularly updated blogs have it. Blogs often get fast indexed and on the top for hard keywords. Also blogging for your service, website or product will boost their popularity.
In other hand if you manage to create interesting and popular blog, you will get some regular visitors. People that like your blog will recommend it to their friends and will share your URL in popular forums and social networks. So you will have many visitors and some new and cool natural backlinks.
So what do you need to have a fancy blog? Is it expensive?
No. There are many free blogging services. Most popular of them are blogger and wordpress, but there are also many others. Almost all of these services give the opportunity for customization. You can have your unique style and there is no need for paying.
Jun 25, 2008
Jun 3, 2008
Fast SEO tip: Use keywords in the page titles
Why to pay attention to the title?
The title tag has great value in a SEO campaign. Most of the search engines pay a lot of attention to the page title.
So what to use in the title tag?
The worst possible idea is the website URL or name only.
The best title tag must contain a good selection of keywords, set in a human readable manner.
Don’t use very long title tags because search engines like Google will consider that for spam. Use short and explaining title with the strongest of your keywords.
If your website has multiple pages use different, describing titles for any of them.
Blogs
One of the best tactics for search engine optimization for blogs is to use the post titles for page titles.
Forums – often webmasters use only the forum’s name in the title. Better approach is to use the topics name for this. It will help the forum to be easily targeted in the searches.
The title tag has great value in a SEO campaign. Most of the search engines pay a lot of attention to the page title.
So what to use in the title tag?
The worst possible idea is the website URL or name only.
The best title tag must contain a good selection of keywords, set in a human readable manner.
Don’t use very long title tags because search engines like Google will consider that for spam. Use short and explaining title with the strongest of your keywords.
If your website has multiple pages use different, describing titles for any of them.
Blogs
One of the best tactics for search engine optimization for blogs is to use the post titles for page titles.
Forums – often webmasters use only the forum’s name in the title. Better approach is to use the topics name for this. It will help the forum to be easily targeted in the searches.
May 31, 2008
More traffic with Google Friend Connect
Social networks become more and more part of an everyday life. People are making valuable friends in networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn. Social networks communities also are great way for advertising a site. It is natural to share your favorite websites with your best friends.
Google are launching new service that will allows people to be more social. Here is an announcement titled Becoming Social. If it is not clear enough you can visit Google Code Blog post about Friend Connect.
Google are launching new service that will allows people to be more social. Here is an announcement titled Becoming Social. If it is not clear enough you can visit Google Code Blog post about Friend Connect.
May 28, 2008
How to choose the right SEO expert or company?
Choosing the right search engine optimization consultant is a hard and responsible task for your business. Be careful to provide enough time and effort for it. If you are not familiar with the SEO theory consider reading the basics.
Why SEO
Your page maybe great in its niche but no one would know that without proper marketing. People must discover your existence. The role of SEO service is to promote your website through search engines. There is no big profit from ranking last at the search pages. Contrary everyone wants to rank on the top for a given set of keywords.
In other hand choosing an inappropriate SEO service can lead to many problems. One of the worst from them is dropping from the biggest search engines results page and lots of time and efforts are needed to return back.
Rules
First thing to keep in mind is that ranking in search engines is not certain thing. No one can guarantee ranking on the top on search engines like Google and Yahoo. And don’t trust people that promise to do that.
Be aware if an expert or company refuses to explain what they are going to do. You must have clear idea what are they doing and where your money go. If they don't explain every step in details to you, it is most likely that they are going to use shady methods for promotions.
Also keep in mind that link popularity schemes don’t work. The search engines have approved a lot and this kind of activity can even harm your ranking in the most popular search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Know the search engine optimization services market. Research large number of experts and companies and choose careful. A trustful SEO company must have good references.
A reliable SEO firm won’t try to exploit search engine algorithm vulnerabilities to get easy ranking, because this can lead to fast drop or even ban from the SERP. The best way for one SEO campaign is to target the long term results and use only white hat SEO methodology.
Be careful with SEO experts that promise to submit your page to thousands of search engines. You don't need this service, there are not so much search engines.
Don’t trust SEO firms that send you spam emails, this is most likely a scam.
SEO is a large and dynamic field. SEO expert from few years ago is not necessary an expert now. Search engines are constantly developing and improving for a better service and search engine optimization services must go with them. Old fashioned methods like repeating the keywords with invisible font won't work and can even harm a lot. Make sure that your expert is up to date with the theory.
Why SEO
Your page maybe great in its niche but no one would know that without proper marketing. People must discover your existence. The role of SEO service is to promote your website through search engines. There is no big profit from ranking last at the search pages. Contrary everyone wants to rank on the top for a given set of keywords.
In other hand choosing an inappropriate SEO service can lead to many problems. One of the worst from them is dropping from the biggest search engines results page and lots of time and efforts are needed to return back.
Rules
First thing to keep in mind is that ranking in search engines is not certain thing. No one can guarantee ranking on the top on search engines like Google and Yahoo. And don’t trust people that promise to do that.
Be aware if an expert or company refuses to explain what they are going to do. You must have clear idea what are they doing and where your money go. If they don't explain every step in details to you, it is most likely that they are going to use shady methods for promotions.
Also keep in mind that link popularity schemes don’t work. The search engines have approved a lot and this kind of activity can even harm your ranking in the most popular search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Know the search engine optimization services market. Research large number of experts and companies and choose careful. A trustful SEO company must have good references.
A reliable SEO firm won’t try to exploit search engine algorithm vulnerabilities to get easy ranking, because this can lead to fast drop or even ban from the SERP. The best way for one SEO campaign is to target the long term results and use only white hat SEO methodology.
Be careful with SEO experts that promise to submit your page to thousands of search engines. You don't need this service, there are not so much search engines.
Don’t trust SEO firms that send you spam emails, this is most likely a scam.
SEO is a large and dynamic field. SEO expert from few years ago is not necessary an expert now. Search engines are constantly developing and improving for a better service and search engine optimization services must go with them. Old fashioned methods like repeating the keywords with invisible font won't work and can even harm a lot. Make sure that your expert is up to date with the theory.
May 25, 2008
Free directories list
List of relatively good free directories with easy submission and high accept rate. I personally don’t like registration or reciprocals. If you want your directory here just leave a comment with url. Also if some of these directories change the rules and don’t accept free submission, please leave a comment and I’ll check it. Thanks!
The list:
- info-listings.com
- londovor.com
- miriblack.com
- prolinkdirectory.com
- squidlink.com
- cgbee.com
- soveb.org
- cafioca.com
- esearchresearch.info
- abc-directory.com
- artmam.net
- creativeagency.eu
- turnpike.net
- oswd.us
- nonar.com
- a1webdirectory.org
- linkaddurl.com
- 000directory.com.ar
- addsitelink.com
- directory.allaboutadtips.com
- achx.com
- bluepearl-links.com/
- joopita.com/
- blfree.com/
- west2002.org
- sanewebdirectory.com
- ondir.com/
- xdstl.net
- t3b.net
- valioso.biz
- cmsweblinks.com
- newdesignworld.com
- instantadsenseempire.org
- biowatchmed.net
- abcdirectory.org
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