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On Page optimization errors for search engines

July 10, 2008

Frequent errors in the optimization for search engines

The most usual errors in web optimization refer to the following aspects Ignore of ‘Title’ tags

It is one of the most frequent errors committed, with a direct negative effect upon the positioning of your site in a search engine. Most of search engines consider the ‘title’ tag very important because the information entered here is the one that is presented. Therefore try to enter in the title the keywords which you consider to have the biggest relevance for your site.

Irrelevant keywords

A certain category of webmasters use irrelevant keywords which are meant to increase the traffic on site. If you want to develop an on-line business, the key words that you use must be representative for the domain of of your activity.

Spamming

This is a method deprived of ethics through which the same keywords are repeatedly used in the “title” tag, the meta tags and in the content. This method is used in order to improve the position of a site in an artificial way, but the search engines detect these techniques and diminish the ranking of those sites. Therefore, do not use too many keywords.

Text and invisible links

This is a method through which it is tried the misleading of the search engines. Web pages are loaded by links and keywords which are hidden to the user but visible for search engines. The problem is that these have now the capacity to detect this technique and its utilization leads without any exception to the exclusion of your site.

Links to and from useless sites

It is known the fact that a high number of links that lead to your site increase its importance for search engines. Though, not every link that leads to your site helps you. Try always to obtain links only from sites that have a good ranking.

Errors as a part of the HTML code

If your site presents errors in the html code it will not be well ranked by the search engines even if it has an optimized content .The loading speed will be small and there will be incompatibilities with certain internet browsers. The best way to avoid this situation is the html code validation before subscribing the site in search engines.

The utilization of un-canonical URLs

During the optimization process make sure that every URL of the page that follows is canonic. This will have a positive influence upon the visibility of your site in a search engine.

The excessive graphic in a page

The way through which search engines are reading your site resembles with that of a text browser. A huge amount of graphic does not lead to a good site positioning. It will negatively influence the download speed of the site and will not attract the visitors. Try to use content with many key words instead of a great number of images. Also, use ALT text in order to describe the used images.

Re-Posted By SEO Consultant India

Search Engine Optimization and Writing Tools

June 19, 2008

Traffic. Everyone wants free traffic, and what better way to get it than optimizing your site?

There are some very simple things that you can do to optimize your site. If you want to get more from your website, then implement these strategies, use these tools, and make your website spider food for the search engines.

Below are some of the best sites I have found for optimizing my sites.

1. Check your site.
Before you start tweaking your site, you need to make sure that it’s either in Google or not banned by Google.

The truth is, you want to optimize your site for Google, which is now the number one search engine in the world.

It won’t do you any good to optimize your site if Google won’t accept it.

Use this tool to check your site.

Google Banned – http://www.googlebanned.com

2. Toolkits
If you can find the tools you need in a collection, this will save you a lot of time, as well as frustration because you will know exactly what you need to do to properly optimize your site.

You’ll want to check different aspects of your site like page rank, metatag information, and links. Nothing will drive your potential customers away faster than broken links.

This site, in addition to offering a forum on search engine optimization, also offers a nice collection of tools for helping you optimize your site.

SEO Chat – http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools

These two sites also offer search engine optimization tools. It’s really a matter of preference, as well as what tools you need to optimize your site.

Add Me – http://www.addme.com
Evrsoft – http://www.evrsoft.com

3. SEO Software
You can also use software to help you optimize your site. Where software will help you the most is to actually help you optimize your site for the keywords you are trying to target. It’s a waste of time to optimize your site if you haven’t optimized for the right keywords.

This is the software I use, and it’s free. It works for both MAC and PC, and it has some of the best documentation I’ve ever seen on search engine optimization because it’s written for the average person. It also includes a basic search engine optimization training course, a 50 page manual, and excellent, step by step directions for preparing your website for the search engines.

Web CEO – http://www.webceo.com

4. ROR Generator/Robots Text Generator
A what?

ROR is similar to a robots.txt file in that it gives information about your site. The difference is that an ROR file is in XML format.

You can use this generator to create an ROR file for your site, and then paste a button to the main page of your website. When the search engines spider your site, they’ll spider this file and have a better description of what your site is about.

I would also recommend that you create a robots.txt file because this will tell the search engines what not to spider on your site. If you own a members’ area, or you sell anything, you don’t want the search engines spidering your download pages.

ROR Generator – http://www.rorweb.com/rorgenerator.php

Robots Text Generator – http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/robots-text-creator/simple-robots-creator.php

5. Site Map
A site map is not only a great tool for letting your customers know where everything is located on your site, it can also help you with the search engines.

By creating a site map, you will have an index of all the pages on your website. When the search engines spider your site, they’ll find all of the pages. This will help you with your rankings.

Creating a site map, especially if you have hundreds, or even thousands of pages on your site, can be very time consuming. This generator will speed up the process.

Spider Map Creator – http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/spider-map/creator.php

6. XML Site Generator
Google is now offering webmasters a chance to submit an XML site map.

An XML sitemap is a search engine friendly sitemap of your site. This isn’t written for your visitors though. It’s written for the search engines so that they can find all of the pages on your website.

Even if you include a sitemap on your site for your visitors, I would still recommend that you use an XML sitemap. This can speed the process of getting your site indexed by Google. This is an easy way to make sure that all of your pages get indexed.

Creating a sitemap is easy. You can use the generator listed below. Once you’ve created your sitemap, submit it to Google.

XML Site Maps – http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/index.php

Submit your sitemap to Google – https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

7. Linking
There’s been a lot of talk about linking because linking is one of the most important strategies for getting high ranking in the search engines.

The more links you have pointing back to your site, the higher the page rank you will get, as well as creating a way for others to find you. You can use this strategy to get referrals from other sites, which is free traffic. It’s targeted, and you are being recommended by another site.

Before building your linking strategy though, you should check your popularity. See who you are linked to first.

Link Popularity Checker – http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/default.htm

Once you have checked your link popularity, begin by building links back to your site. Below are two sites that offer directories you can submit your site to.

Directory Manager – http://www.123promotion.co.uk/directorymanager/

Free directories that don’t require a link back – http://www.directoriezsubmission.com/free-web-directories.htm

Linking can drive a lot of traffic to your site. The more backlinks you have pointing back to your site, the more popular it will be. You’ll also get a lot more traffic.

Free effective keyword research tool

May 20, 2008

Keyword research software and services promise tremendous results, but they’ll cost you. Is keyword research worth the cost and effort? This article will show you a few ways to research keywords with no cash outlay, so you can see the power for yourself.

You’ve heard of keyword research, and you’ve heard that it is crucial to getting a higher search engine rank for your Web site, but you’re not so sure it’s worth the cost. Some services charge you hundreds of dollars a year, and there is no guarantee that you’ll get that money back in increased traffic on your Web site.

So how can you be sure? Is there a way to test whether keyword research even does any good as part of your internet marketing strategy without first laying out your hard-earned money?

Yes, there is!

But before you get too excited about this, remember that you get what you pay for. I’m not saying that these no-cost keyword research tools and techniques enable you to ignore the paid services. I’m saying that you should use the no-cost techniques to prove to yourself that keyword research is indeed valuable. Once you see the value, you can decide for yourself whether it’s worth paying for.

Just keep the limitations of the free tools in mind. You wouldn’t make a pinwheel and decide there’s no future in wind power because a pinwheel can’t power your toaster. Use the free keyword research tools to see that there is value in well-researched keywords, and then decide whether a faster, more comprehensive, easier research tool would provide enough additional value that it’s worth paying for.

Now, where can you do keyword research without paying for it, and how? Two main places:

1. Many of the best professional keyword research tools offer a free version with limited functionality.
2. The major search engines offer some free keyword research tools in their advertising services.

First, let’s talk about free versions of professional keyword research tools. Why would they give it away for free when they obviously want you to pay for their full product? They’re betting that once you see the power and value of the free version, you’ll want the full power of the paid version.

(Incidentally, that’s pretty much the point of this article, because I believe it, too: Once you see what a little bit of keyword research done the hard way can do for you, you’ll want a lot of keyword research, and you’ll want to do it the fast, easy way.)

So go to the Web sites of the major keyword research vendorsWordtracker, The Dowser, and others that you can find on Google – and you’ll almost certainly find a “free trial” version. Use it to find keywords that you can use right away, and use them!

These free versions are limited in a few different ways. Common limitations are:

* They return only a limited number of matching keywords rather than the full set.
* They do not provide the full analysis and automated drill-down capabilities of the professional version.

Returning only the top so-many results might not seem like a real limitation. You’re not interested in the bottom results, are you? Well, yes, sometimes you are. The less-used keywords can be valuable to you in at least three ways:

1. Even though a keyword is not used very often in searches, it might be one of those keywords with very low competition, offering you a great opportunity to succeed.
2. Keywords not used often might be the “long tail” keywords used only by people who are ready to buy, and these are also highly valuable.
3. Keywords at the bottom of the list might be the very ones that would stimulate new ideas for you, feeding the brainstorming aspect of keyword research.

The other main limitation – lack of automated analysis and drill-down – might also seem like something you can live without, but be careful. Yes, you can perform the analysis manually, but it will take considerable time to calculate the ratio of use to results for each of dozens of keywords. Yes, you can simply re-enter one of the keywords on the list to begin a new search, but that also costs you time. These burdens of time, which might seem small, add up to a lot of time. Even if you have more time than cash, the real cost of this time is that it takes away the immediacy of keyword research that fuels brainstorming. It gets to be so tedious that the ideas just can’t flow.

But if you keep these limitations in mind, and make proper allowance for them, you will begin to see that keyword research really is valuable in generating ideas for the right words and phrases you need to use.

Now, what about the keyword research offered by the advertising services of the search engines? Services like Google’s AdWords want you to pay them to display your site on a list of ads each time a user searches for a particular keyword. In order to encourage you to bid on these keywords, they show you what keywords people are searching for the most often.

So, look for those keywords, even if you have no intention of paying for the advertising! Of course, you will not get the benefit of having your site listed among the paid results, but your site will still appear fairly high in the natural list if you are making good use of those keywords.

Search on Google for “Google AdWords: Keyword Tool” and you’ll see the tool. Go ahead and enter a few keywords to see what results you get, but you don’t have to enter a bid on those results.

Tools like this are also severely limited, even more so than the free versions of professional keyword research tools. Often, they don’t even give you numerical results, but just a bar graph representation of how often each keyword is used in searches.

Whichever approach you use – and I strongly suggest you use both – take the results and use them. Use these keywords in your domain name(s), if you don’t have one already. Enter these keywords in your Web pages, in the title, descriptionPsychology Articles, and body. Use them in the promotional articles and press releases you produce for your site. Then you will see the real value in improved search engine placement and more visitors to your Web site.

And then maybe you will decide that it’s worth paying for a professional keyword research tool to get even better results even more quickly.

Keywords Title Tag Optimization Web Pages

May 8, 2008

How To Get Higher Rankings By Properly Placing Your Keywords On Your Web Pages

Before creating a web page it would be in your best interests to learn what exactly goes into creating an excellent such page. You should be clear about what the main elements are and how you can use these elements in creating outstanding Web pages. Perhaps the first consideration that you need to actively pay close attention to is the keywords being used in the web page.

Great keywords can become the nucleus of your web page and so you need to first of all know how to create pertinent and effective keywords, and then know how best to place them on your web page. There is no denying the fact that properly chosen keywords will add to the success of your web pages and so you must first of all research them to be sure that you only use the right keywords.

If you wish, you can use software such as Wordtracker or Good Keywords or even NicheBot in order to create the right keywords. Once you have created useful and relevant keywords, you then need to focus on placing them in the most appropriate places within your web pages. Thus, whatever else you do, don’t forget to place the keyword in the web page’s title.

Next, you must ensure that the keyword is included in your web page’s topmost headline and perhaps even in the URL of your website because that will aid the search engines as well as surfers to find your website a lot more quickly.

Remember that the success of your website depends a lot on where you place the keywords in your web pages because it is only through proper placement will you make search engines find your web pages and also identify them as being relevant to searched-for terms.

Thus, the keyword must appear at least one time in the page title to make the web page more relevant for the search engine. After ensuring that the keyword also is placed in the headline, you need to put it at the beginning of a paragraph and also ensure that such paragraph placements are done evenly and not made too repetitive.

Since keywords rule the roost as far as search engines are concerned, properly placed keywords will help get your webpage higher rankings and thus more visibility that in turn should boost your online business further.