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		<title>Website Search Engine Optimization Secrets To Boost Your Rankings By More Than 300 Positions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are a small business looking for affordable, economical and effective SEO strategies and techniques to get a high ranking in the search engines then you will be pleased to know that there are a few very simple things you can do to boost your search engine ranking by more than 350 positions on Google.  That could mean the difference between appearing 20 pages deep to appearing in one of the top 3 spots.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s great news for small business owners who are starting a new business online and just don&#8217;t have the funds to pay the kind of fees that some search engine optimization services and SEO consultants charge for search engine optimization. </p>
<p>We will start with creating the right title for your webpage.  It&#8217;s absolutely critical that your webpage title contains ONLY your main keywords and as few keywords as possible.  For example, millions of webpages actually have the word &#8220;welcome&#8221; and &#8220;home page&#8221; included in their title.  Wrong!  That&#8217;s one <br />
perfect way to guarantee a very low ranking in the search engines and be doomed to failure.</p>
<p>As I have said, it is absolutely critical that your page title includes only your main keywords.  Also it&#8217;s important that your title contains as few words as possible.  It is possible to overlap keywords in your title.  For example, home made low fat dog treats targets people looking for home made dog treats and low fat dog treats.  Also instaed of using &#8220;and&#8221; in <br />
between your chosen keyword phrases use the symbol | with one space around it.  So, for example, instead of Home Made Dog Treats And Low Fat Dog Food it looks like Home Made Dog Treats | Low Fat Dog Food.  Combining keywords is a great way to boost the strength of each of your individual keywords.  </p>
<p>Now this search engine optimization technique is ignored by many internet marketers, which is unfortunate for them because search engine robots read these tags and give them a lot of weight when listing your webpages.  It is important to add header tags to your website, at the very least a heading 1 tag.  It is also important to add your most important keyword <br />
into the h1 header tag.   It is also advisable that your h1 tag be as far towards the top left of your webpage as search engines actually read your web page like most people read any page – from top left to bottom right of the page.  So it is important that your h1 header tag appears at the very top of the page.  </p>
<p>To create a heading 1 header tag you have the HTML coding for h1 at the very beginning of your headling and h1 at the very end of it. If you have multiple keywords in your title it is also advisable to use only the main keywrod that your page is targeting for.  With some HTML editors like Dreamweaver and <br />
Microsoft Frontpage you simply highlight the phrase and then select heading 1 in the drop down menu.  With some other editors you may have to insert the HTML coding itself.</p>
<p>If possible also include a heading 2 header tag which has exactly the same HTML coding as h1 except you replace the 1 with a 2.  You can use your heading 2 tag as a sub heading if you like.  Using my earlier example I could use the keyword phrase Low Fat Home Made Dog Treats.  So as a recap your main keyword is in your h1 tag and your second main keyword is in your h2 tag.</p>
<p>Once you have done this it&#8217;s time to work on the content of your webpage.  It&#8217;s recommended that you have at least 250 words on your page because the fact of the matter is that search engines don&#8217;t read your whole page.  If they don&#8217;t see much information early on on your webpage they&#8217;re not going to stick around to find out where it is.  The bottom line is the shorter your page the less important search engines are going to think it is and you will be penalized for it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s recommended that you have at least 500 words or long if possible.  It is critical that your webpage content links in with your page title and keywords used in the meta tags.  For example, since the example I have used is about home made dog treats if I started talking about dog kennels or dog boarders while it&#8217;s on the same topic it&#8217;s not really relevant to my title or keywords.  </p>
<p>As I have stated earlier, search engine robots do not read your whole page so it&#8217;s important that you place your main keywords at the top of your page content and repeat it throughout.  Of course, they must make sense.  Search engines are not stupid.  They know when a webmaster is just trying to include the phrase as many times as possible.  </p>
<p>The wrong way to incorporate your keyword or phrase in your webpage is by writing home made dog treats and more home made dog treats, everything about home made dog treats, did I mention my site is about home made dog treats yet?  It&#8217;s important to understand that you can actually change the order of your keywords too.  Here&#8217;s an example of the right way to use your keywords in your writing:</p>
<p>&#8220;Dog owners are saying no to commercial dog food and are looking for delicious ways to make their own home made dog treats in the comfort of their own home.   My dog loves the treats I make for him at home.  In fact, unless it&#8217;s home made he won&#8217;t even touch it anymore.&#8221;</p>
<p>As you can see from the example I have given above, I have included the keywords in a natural way that makes sense to the human reader of the page.  Try to include your main keyword phrase at least once every 1-2 paragraphs in your web copy, provided it makes sense.</p>
<p>Another effective method for getting a higher search engine ranking is after completing your web page copy going back and highlighting by either bold, underline or italics your keyword phrase once in the copy.  Also having your main keyword in a bullet list also helps.  </p>
<p>What I have discussed above are only onpage optimization methods to improve your search engine rankings.  It&#8217;s critical that you follow these search engine optimization techniques and strategies to improve your search engine rankings.  However, if you really want to outrank your competitors and dominate the search engines you need to focus on offpage optimization techniques as this is what will ultimately get you top search engine rankings on Google.</p>
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		<title>The Benefits Of Hiring An SEO Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You open your internet browser and enter: SEO into the search box. In a nano-second you are provided with thousands of results for SEO. SEO tools, SEO books, SEO software programs, SEO consulting firms, and so on. Your head begins spinning with so many choices before you to make. Especially considering that the success of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You open your internet browser and enter: SEO into the search box. In a nano-second you are provided with thousands of results for SEO. SEO tools, SEO books, SEO software programs, SEO consulting firms, and so on. Your head begins spinning with so many choices before you to make. Especially considering that the success of your business is largely dependant upon your choosing the correct SEO procedures for your website. </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
At first glance SEO and all of its strategies might seem to be nothing more than just common sense, and how hard could that be, but in actuality, many of the strategies involved in search engine optimization can be difficult to implement. It is for this reason that you might need help with the SEO of your website.</p>
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Choosing to work SEO on your own or with someone who isn&#8217;t an expert in that field could mean that your website may be overlooked by the search engines, leading to lackluster amounts of traffic. It is easy for those who are inexperienced with search engine optimization to make a mistake that costs their website the high ranking it needs to generate traffic crucial to high sales, or worse, get their website expelled from search engines. </p>
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Someone with comprehensive knowledge about how search engines work and what exactly a website needs to meet the requirements for listing and positioning among the search engines can ensure your website is meeting those requirements. These experts also know what to do to beef up a website with straight-forward SEO, for websites that would otherwise fall short of the requirements of the search engines.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
Search Engine Optimization experts have their ears tuned into the industry pipeline and are among the first to become aware of search engine rule changes, and how those changes could affect the optimization of your web pages. They are usually among the first to hear about the success of new SEO techniques and to learn how these can best benefit you.</p>
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The knowledge you can glean from these experts can save you countless hours of searching for the answers you need about search engine optimization and from wasted dollars on materials that are not necessary.</p>
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Investing in SEO programs and software can be costly, especially if you are not sure of what you need and don&#8217;t need. SEO experts know the best SEO programs that are available on the market today and that means avoiding spending money on programs you don&#8217;t need or that simply don&#8217;t work.</p>
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An SEO expert has the knowledge and expertise to evaluate your website&#8217;s content and design, spotting areas that need sprucing up and areas that need additions in order to raise the probability of being picked up by search engines.</p>
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Most webmasters are busy enough with making sure the warehouse is properly stocked with product and fulfilling orders, without the added burden of finding the time to properly monitor all of the things that are involved in the SEO of a website. The last thing you want as a webmaster is to get buried under the avalanche of reports that are produced from using various SEO strategies so that you&#8217;re unable to use that information to improve sales. </p>
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Having someone help keep you on track by organizing, and monitoring the results reported, pays a big dividend in the headaches and missed opportunities to increase sales and profit that won&#8217;t happen because you have competent help on your side.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
The question you should be asking yourself at this moment isn&#8217;t why you might need SEO help, but when are you going to get the SEO help you and your business deserve? You can find reputable SEO consultants and firms to help you with optimizing your website online. Ask them to give you a complete proposal of how they can help you with the SEO of your website. Make sure they can show you success stories from other clients and go with the ones who have had the best results with search engine optimization.</p>
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SEO experts are your #1 resource for information about the newest SEO strategies, services, and software programs coming in to use in the marketing industry, so why not take advantage of that valuable tool for the profitability of your website. The promoting of your business through a website is one of the most time and money consuming activities of a successful business. SEO is critical to getting the most out of your financial and time investments. </p>
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Why not let an SEO expert worry about the details of just how to attract the most traffic to your website. Leaving you to concentrate on the very important detail of connecting with your online customers for their increased loyalty to you and your company, and increased buying of what it is you are selling.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization: Benefits &amp; Methodology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Search Engine Optimization is the process of modifying and marketing a website for higher rankings in search engine results. Search engines generate nearly 90% of all Internet traffic and are responsible for 55% of all e-commerce transactions. </p>
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Consequently, Search Engine Promotion has shown to deliver the highest ROI, compared to any other type of online or offline marketing. Search engines bring motivated buyers to you and hence contribute to increased sales conversions.</p>
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Search Engine Optimization offers an affordable entry point for marketing your website and an effective way to promote your business online. Apart from ensuring relevant, sustained free traffic to your site, <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.expertSEOgroup.blogspot.com">Expert Search Engine Optimisers (SEO)</a> also substantially contributes towards building a strong brand presence.</p>
<p><b>Search Engine Optimization Methodology</b></p>
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The essential objective of each search engine is to provide the most relevant and specific data possible. Working with SEOs, uses its expertise and proven set of techniques to provide focused, optimized online content, navigation, code etc to make it more search engine friendly, and improve search engine ranking. </p>
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SEO efforts focus on predicting the changes and trends in the search engine industry and leveraging the findings to provide optimal service to our customers. SEO stringent adherence to ethical practices coupled with its expertise in SEO, Link Building, Copywriting and Keyword optimization enables us to give you the best value for your marketing dollars. </p>
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You can ask your any query or questions related to <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.expertSEOgroup.blogspot.com">search engine optimization (SEO)</a>. Just write down an email at mr.expertSEO@gmail.com and get an instant solution and become tension free.</p>
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		<title>What You Need To Know About Texas Seo Firms &#8211; Part Ii</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part II &#13;2. Does their services include content creation, or just optimization of the site as-is? &#13;Content creation refers simply the content on your site including images and graphics. Content can be optimized by being enriched with keywords and tags added to images, etc. &#13;Any Austin Texas SEO firm can do a better job for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Part II</p>
<p>&#13;2. Does their services include content creation, or just optimization of the site as-is?</p>
<p>&#13;Content creation refers simply the content on your site including images and graphics.  Content can be optimized by being enriched with keywords and tags added to images, etc. </p>
<p>&#13;Any Austin Texas SEO firm can do a better job for you with optimized content on your site.  Without optimized content, you&#8217;re basically throwing free money into the pocket of your internet marketing consultant.  </p>
<p>&#13;3.Do they guarantee results?</p>
<p>&#13;Like I said earlier, no Austin SEO firm can&#8217;t guarantee top rankings. What results do they guarantee? Can you get your money back if they don&#8217;t live up to it?</p>
<p>&#13;4. Do they use a standard method of SEO or do they approach each site individually?</p>
<p>&#13;Cookie cutter approaches to SEO work, but a good Austin SEO firm will look at your site and determine what methods will work best for it. You&#8217;re a paying customer. You want your site to get the treatment it deserves and not put on an assembly line.  </p>
<p>&#13;Of course, if your internet marketing consultant&#8217;s cookie cutter approaches with other sites impress you, then I can&#8217;t tell you not to do it?</p>
<p>&#13;5. How long until you see results?</p>
<p>&#13;Listen up! Results do not happen overnight unless the Texas SEO firm either owns a magic wand or starts PPC campaigns for your site.  With just organic SEO, it can take months to see results. </p>
<p>&#13;Any legitimate internet marketing consultant will tell you this. PPC campaigns give immediate results. Everything else?  It&#8217;s going to take a month or so before the Austin SEO firm&#8217;s work produces any noticeable results.</p>
<p>&#13;6. Will they just analyze and provide a report on your site or will they perform the SEO work as well?</p>
<p>&#13;Some Texas SEO firms analyze your site and provide you with a detailed description of what needs done.  They don&#8217;t do it for you.  If you want an internet marketing consultant, this becomes one of the most important questions you can ask.</p>
<p>&#13;7. Ask the Austin SEO firm to tell you, as precisely as possible, what they will do to and for your site.</p>
<p>&#13;If they don&#8217;t know the answer to this question after looking at your site, then move on to  the next Austin, Texas SEO firm!   </p>
<p>&#13;Now, don&#8217;t expect them to go into detail because that would tell you how to do their job (and saving you money), but you do want to know as much of their intended strategy as possible.   </p>
<p>&#13;8. What search engines will they target?</p>
<p>&#13;Plenty of little, no-name search engines exist, and your site could achieve top rankings with them. But let me ask you this. </p>
<p>&#13;Who uses them? Get the names of the search engines the Texas SEO firm will target. Better yet, get those names in the contract!</p>
<p>&#13;9. PPC or paid inclusion listings with the search engines?  </p>
<p>&#13;PPC gives you immediate results. Paid inclusion doesn&#8217;t guarantee top ranking, but it does guarantee ranking.  However, the results the Austin SEO firm gets with these methods will stop when your contract ends or you stop paying them.  </p>
<p>&#13;If this entails all the only SEO that they&#8217;re doing for you, just keep in mind that the SEO work lasts only as long as you fork out money to the Austin, Texas SEO firm.  If that&#8217;s what you want from your internet marketing consultant, then go for it.</p>
<p>&#13;10. How many hours will they put into working on your site?</p>
<p>&#13;I think that&#8217;s clear enough of a question. Any internet marketing consultant or Texas SEO firm should put some initial time into kicking off the SEO campaign. After that, your site will require regular maintenance to retain its ranking. </p>
<p>&#13;These questions make up a few that you will want to ask all Austin SEO firms that you contact. Of course, I encourage you to come up with questions of your own and to request, then explore, a contract with any Texas SEO firm you decide to hire.   </p>
<p>&#13;Top notch SEO provides you with a successful and profitable website.  Hiring a knowledgeable, experienced Austin SEO firm spells out the difference between being an Ohio-like business and a Texas one.  Everything comes bigger (and better) in Texas, you know.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization Strategies and Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You could spend thousands of dollars getting the most outstanding web site created, but if no one is able to find it you&#8217;ve wasted your time and money! Likewise, if you get thousands of visitors per day who could care less about the topic of your web site, you may as well be getting no visitors to your site as far as revenue is concerned. The point of optimizing your web site is to get more of your target market to find your site through their web surfing. More visits from your target market will result in an increase in revenue.</p>
<p>Additionally, a common mistake of individuals optimizing their web page is to believe it all has to do with specific keyword densities and the placement of the keywords within the page.  There is much more to effectively optimizing a web site for search engines than keyword density, and this article will describe a few strategies and tips to help increase the number of visitors to your site.</p>
<p>Your first step to effective search engine optimization strategy is to understand exactly who your target market is. If you don&#8217;t understand the people who would buy from your website or want the information you provide on your site, you can&#8217;t optimize a page to increase your revenue. You should know whether your site targets other businesses, or whether you are targeting consumers as this will determine the tone of the site.</p>
<p>To effectively optimize a web site with your target market in mind, start by creating an extremely detailed list of who your target consumer would be. Provide their age range, gender, income range, and any other specifics that make up your potential customers. You should even consider writing down overly specific attributes to help you get a picture of your target market. For instance, a web site selling upscale baby clothes could describe their target consumer as: working mothers with an income of $60,000 or more annually, who drive a mini-van and have a live-in nanny.</p>
<p>Once you have a clear image of the people who are most likely to want the items you sell or the service you provide, you can then select keywords and phrases that these people might type into Google and other search engines in order to find your web site.</p>
<p>Make a list of related words and phrases, something you know your site is about. In the example above, you could say &#8220;baby clothes&#8221;. You might want to use a keyword-picking tool such as Yahoo&#8217;s to help you, or Google&#8217;s Adwords Tool.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve developed a list of keywords and key phrases that your target market might use when searching for information on the internet, use a service like Wordtracker or an SEO firm to check popularity and competitive factors for your phrases.</p>
<p>Armed with your target market information and a list of useable keywords, you can write (or re-write) the content for your web site in order to optimize it both for search engines and for the site audience. A good rule of thumb is to use pages that are between 400 and 500 words in length, and have 2 or 3 keywords in the text. Use each keyword one or two times throughout the text and you should have a decent keyword density. Make sure the pages read normally, however, there is nothing more sure to lose potential customers than having site visitors show up only to close your site when the information presented doesn&#8217;t make any sense!</p>
<p>After your pages are written, you can use the meta tags of your page&#8217;s source code to further optimize for search engines:</p>
<p>Meta Description Tag: Should provide a brief description of what the page is about, and ideally be under 150 words.  Use one or two of your keywords if possible.</p>
<p>Meta Keywords Tag: This tag is actually rarely used by the largest search engines, but if you can gain visitors from any of the smaller search engines that do make use of this particular tag, you may as well make use of it.  List the keywords your site is optimized for here, separated by a comma.</p>
<p>Title Tag: Likely the most important aspect of optimizing the source code of your page is the Title Tag. This is the phrase that is displayed in the search engine results as the link people can click to come to your site. See what your competitors are using, and try to make your title tag more compelling than theirs! Whenever possible, place your keyword at the end of your title. Google will make it bold and since most everyone else uses their keyword at the front of the title, yours will stand out in the search engine results!</p>
<p>Using these tips and strategies for search engine optimization will increase the number of targeted web site visitors you have, therefore increasing your web site revenue.</p>
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		<title>SEO Outsourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing simply means handing over the work that you do to a third party. Every business these days is being dominated by this and search engine optimization or SEO is no exception. Among the many destinations for outsourcing, SEO outsourcing in India has emerged as the most illustrious destinations in the world. True there are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outsourcing simply means handing over the work that you do to a third party. Every business these days is being dominated by this and search engine optimization or SEO is no exception. Among the many</p>
<p>destinations for outsourcing, SEO outsourcing in India has emerged as the most illustrious destinations in the world. True there are several countries in the world, that provide SEO outsourcing, but due to certain advantages India has emerged as the hottest destination for SEO outsourcing.</p>
<p>There are several advantages of SEO outsourcing from India. Among the countries that are in the outsourcing work, India has the highest number of English speaking professionals. Proper knowledge of the language is a huge bonus as this helps in proper interaction with clients. After all if professionals working for SEO outsourcing are just not able to understand what their client wants, there will be chaos all around and needless to say that the work will not at all be done in a proper manner.</p>
<p>SEO is all about undertaking various strategies that will help an online site to rank at the top of search engine find results. One of the strategies for SEO is writing lots of articles and content and distributing them on the web. So to write good articles one needs proper knowledge of English and also knowledge about the subject on</p>
<p>which they are writing. This along with several other advantages has enabled Indian professionals to do excellent work for SEO for businesses that are operating outside.</p>
<p>India also has a huge number of professionals who are very highly qualified in the technical field. Technical qualification of professionals is one of the benchmark for successfully doing SEO for any online business site. Another great advantage of doing SEO outsourcing from India is that you will end up saving huge amounts of</p>
<p>money. This is the one aspect that is driving more and more companies towards undertaking outsourcing SEO for their business.</p>
<p>Imagine if you can hire someone who can do the work for you in less then half the rate that you used to pay, then it surely is a huge advantage to you. Suppose you used to pay eight dollars to get certain SEO work done, you will now have to pay less then half say about three dollars if you outsource the same work. That is not all the SEO work for you will be done by highly qualified professionals, so you will also get top quality work done from them.</p>
<p>Many companies have earned huge profit by undertaking <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.seo4india.co.in">SEO outsourcing India</a>, when there are so many advantages, and one can earn only profit from this. There is absolutely  no chance of incurring losses of any kind if you work with the right people.So just make sure that you are working </p>
<p>with the right kind of people to get your SEO outsourcing in India done in just the perfect way. After all you are undertaking this task for the progress of your business and you will undoubtedly want the best for your business.</p>
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		<title>Do It Yourself SEO: Ten Search Engine Optimization Tips (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>detourinteractive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a professional search engine optimization service can sometimes be expensive. However, if your budget is tight and you have a basic understanding of web page construction it is possible to optimize your own website without hiring an SEO specialist. For those who would like to give it a try, here are ten &#8220;Do it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using a professional search engine optimization service can sometimes be expensive. However, if your budget is tight and you have a basic understanding of web page construction it is possible to optimize your own website without hiring an SEO specialist. For those who would like to give it a try, here are ten &#8220;Do it yourself&#8221; search engine optimization tips:</p>
<p>&#13;1. Think about SEO right from the start</p>
<p>&#13;Many people plan, design and build their websites without giving any thought as to whether their site is search engine friendly or whether it will be capable of attracting traffic in organic search engine results. At the last minute, after most of the site has been built, they try to optimize their site, not realizing that this work should have done throughout the planning and building process.</p>
<p>&#13;It is far better to think about search engine optimization at the very beginning of the process. For example, if it is at all possible, choose a domain name that will allow you to include your most important keyword or search term in your URL. If you are selling bicycles then you would do well have to a domain name like www.xyzbicycles.com . And don&#8217;t stop with the domain name; include your keywords in your file names as well. For example, a sub-page of this hypothetical site might be www.xyzbicycles.com/road-bikes.html</p>
<p>&#13;2. Design your site with both search engines and users in mind</p>
<p>&#13;Your site should be easy for your human readers to understand, but it should also be easy for search engine robots as well. If you want to see what a search engine robot will &#8220;see&#8221; then view your site in a notepad document or use the html view of the popular web editing programs.</p>
<p>&#13;If you have used gif images to render your headlines or other important text, then this text will not be picked up by the search engine robots. In addition, if you have designed a site that is entirely in a flash format, you will not be providing the search engine spiders with much &#8220;food,&#8221; or searchable text.</p>
<p>&#13;Furthermore, if you have long strings of java script and complex style instructions in the head section of your html page it is better to put the java script in an external file and the style instructions in a separate CSS (cascading style sheet) file, in order to give prominence to the actual text of your web page.</p>
<p>&#13;3. Write individual title tags for each and every page of your website</p>
<p>&#13;From the standpoint of search engine optimization, the single most important sentence on any web page is the title tag. The title tag gives the search engine a good indication as to what your page is all about. Incorporate your main keywords or search phrases into your title tag, and keep them at the very front of the sentence. These keywords are more important than your company name (unless it is Coca Cola!). So our XYZ Bicycle Company might have a title tag that looks like this Bicycles: Racing Bikes, Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes, Bicycle Accessories from XYZ Bicycles.</p>
<p>&#13;The title tags of each of the sub-pages of the site should reflect the main content of those pages. Never use the same title tag for all the pages of the site.</p>
<p>&#13;4. Write a concise description tag for each of your web pages</p>
<p>&#13;Just as the title tag is the most important sentence or phrase on any page, the description tag is the most important paragraph on any page. Summarize the gist of your page in two or three pages, again incorporating the keywords and search phrases for which you think people will use when searching for your site. A description tag for the home page of the XYZ Bicycle Company could look like this: &#8220;The EXZ Bicycle Company manufactures mountain bikes, racing bicycles, road bikes and bicycle accessories. Our bicycles are distributed and sold around the world. &#8220;</p>
<p>&#13;5. Put your keywords into headers and headlines on your page</p>
<p>&#13;Your human readers and search engines alike need prominent headlines in order to understand what your page is all about. While a human reader only needs to see the headline in a large bold text, search engines distinguish the headlines, which they regard as important indicators of the page, by noting which phrases are encased in header tags such as , , , etc. H1 is considered most important and your first headline should be labeled with this tag. If the header tags make your copy look too big, then you can change the size of the headers by creating style instructions that will render the headlines into sizes that are consistent with the look and feel of your site.</p>
<p>&#13;In part two of this series I will give the remaining five tips for do-it-yourself search engine optimization.</p>
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		<title>SEO Outsourcing Vs. Employing SEO Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing your SEO activities vis-a-vis having SEO professionals on your payroll – A comparative study Benefits of employing a SEO professional It will let you enjoy the full time dedicated service of the SEO professionals.You could have complete control over the SEO process.You can regularly improve your SEO techniques.Having a SEO professional at your company [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Outsourcing your SEO activities vis-a-vis having SEO professionals on your payroll – A comparative study</b></p>
<p><b>Benefits of employing a SEO professional</b></p>
<p>It will let you enjoy the full time dedicated service of the SEO professionals.<br />You could have complete control over the SEO process.<br />You can regularly improve your SEO techniques.<br />Having a SEO professional at your company will make sure that your SEO campaign is a long term effort to improve the returns from your investment</p>
<p><b>Drawbacks of employing a SEO professional</b><br />It will lack the innovation and freshness that might have been possible with a group of people working on the SEO projects.<br />There will be lack of experience and expertise, if compared with a professional SEO agency.<br />Limited access to recent SEO trends.<br />There will always be a risk of over doing things that might eventually ruin the potentials of your site achieving top search engine ranking.<br />For other search engine related and online marketing efforts, like email marketing, you may have to further recruit other experts in the respective areas.</p>
<p><b>Benefits of outsourcing SEO work</b></p>
<p>You will get professional service of a SEO company that is equipped with expert SEO professionals who have specialized knowledge of different aspects of the SEO process.<br />As specialized SEO company, it is most likely that they will have the knowledge of the latest happenings in the SEO industry all over the world.<br />You will benefit from the team work that the SEO company will put in for your project.<br />You will get the result without much hassle.<br />You can save on the cost of the SEO campaign.<br />You will be able keep the headcount of your company within limits that will eventually increase the revenue per employee.<br />With professional SEO company at your service, you will most likely get all the search engine related marketing solutions under one roof.</p>
<p><b>Drawbacks of outsourcing SEO work</b></p>
<p>You will have to depend on the SEO agency for making any changes to the <br />&#13;</p>
<p>    site.<br />If you have to be extra cautious about the unethical practices that many SEO companies adopt and something that can damage your potential.<br />You need to make long term contract with the SEO agency to ensure that the search engine rank of your company&#8217;s website is maintained for significantly longer period of time.<br />Your company secrets will be exposed to some extent.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Read related articles at <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.searchengine-optimization-guru.com/seo-whitepapers.html">http://www.searchengine-optimization-guru.com/seo-whitepapers.html</a>           </p>
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		<title>Organic Search Engine Optimization ~ The Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk about organic search engine optimization and how important it is to promoting a web site, some web masters are deluded into thinking that they have no hope of competing without the help of a search engine optimization professional. With no money to spend, these web masters just bemoan their helplessness and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all the talk about organic search engine optimization and how important it is to promoting a web site, some web masters are deluded into thinking that they have no hope of competing without the help of a search engine optimization professional.  With no money to spend, these web masters just bemoan their helplessness and learn to live with the fact that their web sites will always be at the bottom of search engine results.</p>
<p>&#13;While paying an organic search engine optimization professional may indeed give a web site an enormous boost in page ranking, this does not mean that there is no other option left to the web master with no funds to hire one.  There are lots of things in web site building and design that are commonly neglected when these details could have made a big difference in search engine rankings.</p>
<p>&#13;Begin at the basics:  file naming and page title</p>
<p>&#13;The web site is a mine of opportunity to improve page ranking.  A web master may not neglect to include keywords in the meta-tags and in the web content but has due consideration been given to the other elements of the web site?</p>
<p>&#13;One case in point is file naming.  When the web site names the web site&#8217;s home page, for example, it is usually the case that the name chosen is &#8220;home.html.&#8221;  Right there is one opportunity wasted.  This name could have been turned into &#8220;pets-home.html&#8221; instead and thus would have included the keyword &#8220;pets&#8221; which would be more relevant to a web site dedicated to pets.  The web designer could then have incorporated a keyword in the file name of each web page that makes up the whole web site, and the site&#8217;s relevance could have risen with it.</p>
<p>&#13;Another organic search engine optimization opportunity that&#8217;s often wasted is an untitled page.  This is usually a mistake that&#8217;s been committed unwittingly and occurs due to forgetfulness and negligence on the part of the web designer.  It is important to give a title to every page in the web site, and the more the page is relevant to keyword queries then the better the page title is.</p>
<p>&#13;Enhance and improve:  keywords, hyperlinks and images</p>
<p>&#13;Even someone with little training in organic search engine optimization knows that the use of relevant keywords throughout the web pages will improve the overall search engine rank of the web site.  However, some web masters merely include the keywords without trying to maximize their impact.</p>
<p>&#13;Keywords could have been turned into anchor texts that in turn direct the readers to other pages in your web site or to other sections of the same page.  Doing so would have increased the effectiveness of your keywords and could have increased the ranking of your other web pages.</p>
<p>&#13;The navigation bar is also another means to improving page rank when it incorporates text links at the bottom that contain your keywords.  Even navigation bars with images instead of texts should incorporate keyword text links underneath.</p>
<p>&#13;The images on the navigation bar and the graphics for web design purposes themselves could also incorporate alternative text descriptions that are composed of relevant keywords and can be seen by search engines.</p>
<p>&#13;Be accurate:  relevant keywords</p>
<p>&#13;If keywords are important to search engine optimization efforts, then it is even more important to make sure that the keywords that are being emphasized all over the web site are truly and actually relevant.  There is a need to know what keywords most web-surfers use in relation to the web site&#8217;s business or service field.  Being off the mark on this is a certain way to get bottom rank in organic search engine optimization results.</p>
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		<title>SEO for Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO for keywords and content is relatively easy. Choose your keyword. Write content around that keyword. Use an SEO optimizer program to make sure you have done it right. &#13; Long gone are the days of writing unrelated content, and then typing &#8220;Britney Spears&#8221; 100 times at the end of the article. Today&#8217;s search engine [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SEO for keywords and content is relatively easy.  Choose your keyword.  Write content around that keyword.  Use an SEO optimizer program to make sure you have done it right.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Long gone are the days of writing unrelated content, and then typing &#8220;Britney Spears&#8221; 100 times at the end of the article.  Today&#8217;s search engine spiders can spot the &#8220;Black Hat&#8221; SEO techniques a mile away, and your site can be banned for life.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Here are a few tips for SEO optimization:</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Be focussed in your meta keywords &#8211; 1 to 3 SEO optimized keywords is enough <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Put your keyword at the beginning of you page title tag. <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Make sure you title tag is the first tag in the head section <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Make sure your keyword appears in the alt tag for images and in link text, but no more than 3 times <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Put your keyword in bold <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Put your keyword in the H1 section of your page, and H2 if you can <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Have a keyword weigh in your article between 3-6% (higher is &#8220;keyword spamming&#8221;) <br />&#13;</p>
<p>SEO for domain names<br />&#13;</p>
<p>Going back to the Nike.com example from my &#8220;SEO for Google&#8221; article.  Since the keyword weight is 0%, how does nike.com get to billing when you search for them?  Easy, Google gives a rank weight to domain names.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Make sure your primary domain name reflects the main purpose of your site (domain SEO).  This site, for example, is all about my desire to &#8220;retire with millions&#8221;.  The site is subdivided in to many SEO optimized sub-domains each with a URL that denotes the sections.  For example, all my SEO articles are in a sub-directory called ../seo. </p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Many articles have been written about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Google.  Google is the largest search engine (for now) and getting your SEO right for the Googlebot can make your site top ten site getting millions of hits a day.  On the other hand, poor SEO and your site may never be ranked and your campaigns for Adsence will never net you any real money.  Even worse, bad SEO might mean that your cutting edge product is un-finable by your customers.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Google page rank is determined by a number of factors:</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>SEO keywords <br />&#13;</p>
<p>SEO content <br />&#13;</p>
<p>SEO domain name <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Originality of content <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Number of links from external sites <br />&#13;</p>
<p>SEO keywords and SEO content will be dealt with in another article, lets focus on the other 2 for now.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Original Content<br />&#13;</p>
<p>Having original content on your site is a no-brainer.  It is the &#8220;why&#8221; that escapes many SEO web content developers.  We have all seen the ads promising &#8220;150000 Adsense and SEO optimized pages&#8221;.  If it were this easy, all of us would be multi-millionaires by now.  The reality is, Googlebot applies a penalty for non-original content, no mater how SEO you might think the page is.  Think about it &#8211; why does &#8220;Nike.com&#8221; come up number 1 when you type Nike into Google?  You or I could probably write a better SEO page about Nike than Nike.com.  In fact, Nike.com keyword density for &#8220;Nike&#8221; is 0%!!!</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Links from External Sites<br />&#13;</p>
<p>Google take into account the number of links you have from external sites.  Each link is like a &#8220;vote&#8221; for your site.  Before you go and sign up for a link exchange program, consider this, some links do not count, in fact, being a &#8220;link spammer&#8221; can kill your ranking, no matter how good your SEO.</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>There are ways to generate quality back links:</p>
<p>&#13;</p>
<p>Create a blog on blogspot.com (a Google Site) and write about your web page &#8211; include properly formatted links <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Join blogs on respected sites and comment on articles, putting your URL in your signature <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Write &#8220;press releases&#8221; when you update your site and post them on the free press release sites around the web <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Take out classified ads in respected on-line newspapers <br />&#13;</p>
<p>Make small donations to charity sites that keep a &#8220;Thank You&#8221; page and include your web site with your name <br />&#13;</p>
<p>These are just some tips to compliment your SEO work to get a good Google ranking.</p>
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