April 2010

SEO Tips # 202 – Blogging

For most Blogs, daily updates are probably best, but weekly or even monthly updates might work just as well, depending on your topic and subject matter. In either case, stick to a schedule. If you usually post daily but sometimes let weeks go by without posting any new content, you’ll lose many of your readers. […]

SEO Tips # 201 – Adding the new content

Remember the ultimate way to add new content, articles and focused information is on a regular, consistent basis. For example rather than dumping 8 new articles on your site all at once, try to publish them in cycles of one new article each week or even one new article every two or three days. Make

A Wordtracker keyword research question….

QUESTION: Why do you recommend that people use Wordtracker with the “” quotes turned on? I think I can find more words with the quotes turned off. ANSWER: Your objective in research for organic optimization is not to collect thousands of keywords. When you leave the quotes in Wordtracker turned on, it forces the keywords

Quotes of The Day

…in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.  – John Ruskin It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom

SEO Tips # 200 – Absolute Linking

Are you using a measure of “absolute linking” within your Web site? Remember that for maximum benefit with this influence, you want to always have a “plan” or a strategy. You can pass benefit on to your important pages but stay focused on the pages you want to be found. Pages such as you “policies

SEO Tips # 199 – Optimizing Secondary Keywords

Optimizing for secondary supporting keywords can be a golden mine because when everybody else is optimizing for the most popular keywords, there will be far less competition (and probably more hits) for pages that are focused on the minor words or synonyms. For example, “real estate in Tamilnadu” might have much less action than “real

SEO Tips # 198 – Reciprocal Links???

Today, we don’t really encourage a lot of reciprocal linking but in cases where people are linking to you, you might want to check to see if other Web sites linking to you are using a “no follow” tag or not. If they are, the search engine will and can follow the link but it

SEO Tips # 197 – Google Page Rank

Google PR is important primarily for in-coming links. The Google PR of the page itself does not have as much influence as it once had to for help in ranking for specific key phrases. However, the PR of an in-coming key word phrase-relevant link does help with ranking for that specific key phrase.

SEO Tips # 196 – Free Link Checker Tools

Here is a 5 star rated link checking program that you can download for absolutely free. The program Xenu displays an updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A full report can be produced at any time. One of the best free link checker tools out there! Grab it here at:

How to Share Your Blog or Web Site to Google Buzz

If you want to add Google Buzz buttons to your web site, just follow the instructions below, 1. Go to buzz.google.com/stuff, 2. Configure your buttons with a couple clicks 3. copy a few lines of JavaScript. 4. Paste this code where you’d like the Buzz buttons to appear and you’re all set. And if you’d

SEO Tips # 195 – Natural Language Processing or NLP

Natural Language Processing or NLP for short, is an extremely powerful influence to relevancy. Just remember that it does not ever replace good basic optimization factors, but it is something that you can study and apply to specific pages for those occasions where you have very low KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index) phrases, that are highly

Artificial Intelligence is built in to Google

Did you know that when it comes to semantics and how word one word relates to another word, that Google is pretty good at understanding context and word relationships. This is thanks to the artificial intelligence that is built in to Google. Just remember that a search engine does not have true intelligence but it

Page Site Speed Effect in Google Website Ranking

Site speed is included a new signal in Google search ranking algorithms. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site

Download some free SEO white papers

Download some free SEO white papers on: Online Reputation Management Local Search Engine Marketing Professional Website Usability Statistics for the Travel & Tourism Industry Search Engine Optimization: Images & Videos Travel Maps for Hotel, Resort & Vacation Rental Websites They are all free! Courtesy of

what type of content that works best for SEO?

7 important Tips about what type of content that works best for SEO: -Create content that serves your customer’s needs FIRST and your own needs second. -Create content that will meet your visitor’s exact search query and satisfy it. -Create content your visitor will be GLAD that they found – something of true merit. -Create

SEO Tips # 194 – Consistent Updates on Website

Remember that there is real value in performing “consistent” updates to your Web site. Adding freshly-written, original content on a weekly consistent basis will improve the number of times Google comes to visit and crawl your site. Content freshness factors are much more effective than many people realize. Take advantage and make the extra effort

SEO Tips # 193 – Time is your Friend

If you are in the midst of creating a new article or content for your Web site, remember that time is your friend. Don’t be in a rush but take your time to release your finished work over at least 48 hours or longer. Our thoughts creatively continue as the old expression suggests… as we

SEO Tips # 192 – Benefit that your content is offering

Have a look at the most recent page you are working on. Can you identify just one single benefit that your content is offering? Whether it might be a “special low cost” or perhaps the product you sell is a “time saver.” Think about how you can possibly move whatever the benefit is, right up

SEO Tips # 191 – Keyword Research

When doing new keyword research, do you know there are differences between the written word and spoken dialogue? Instead of researching common descriptive terms, try exploring natural sounding “dialogue.” Try to remember to explore “words” based on dialogue, not just on written copy. Your customers often will say things to you in their dialogue that

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