May 2010

Importance of Link Popularity and Link Reputation

Link popularity and link reputation is important. But don’t be so obsessed with linking that you build your entire strategy only around link building. Use all of the basic principles to carry your Web site and you may want to do some linking based on what will make sense to your visitors. You are not only just trying […]

SEO Tips # 214 – Blogging Contents

One of the most misunderstood points of Blogging is concerning your “content freshness” factors. Content freshness: Write lots of good interesting content and post to your Blog consistently. How often? The more often the better. Just remember that you are writing for your readers who are pinged when you post a new update. But you are also driving the

Should Blog comments be enabled or not?

Should Blog comments be enabled or not? It all depends on the purpose of the Blog. Most Bloggers have a need to express their opinions and exchange thoughts. A blog with comments enabled will allow your readers to post their comments. Most Blogs allow you to adjust the settings so that you can approve them before the world sees them.

SEO Tips # 213 – Content Freshness

Remember that content freshness work two ways: Your content needs to be fresh for your visitors or you’re not giving them a reason to come back. Your content also needs to be fresh for the search engines. If the search engines see that you’re refreshing your content every day or several times a week, the

SEO Tips # 211 – How big is your site getting to be?

How big is your site getting to be? If you have more than 200 pages on your site, consider getting an onsite search engine. Not only will you be making it easy for your visitors to find what they’re looking for, but the stats you’ll get with the onsite search engine will be extremely beneficial

Adding Images to XML Sitemaps

Sitemap is very important SEO factor to crawl the website by Search Engines. We can add images to xml sitemap is easy.. Refer the following example, <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″ xmlns:image=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1″> <url> <loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc> <image:image> <image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc> </image:image> </url> </urlset> You can follow the Google webmaster instruction for more effectively to add images in sitemaps

SEO Tips # 208 – Compare to your Competitors

Conduct some searches for your keyword phrase. Study your title and description and compare it to your competitors. Get the opinion of a few other people as well. How does your listing stack up to your competitors in terms of titles/descriptions that grab the searcher’s attention and pull them into your site. Remember that your

SEO Tips # 207 – Link Text and Image

Tips # 1 : Go through your site and look for links where the link text is useless to your site. For example, are you using the phrase “More Info”? Or, “Click here”? Try adding your keyword phrase to those short sentences in this manner: “More info on <keyword phrase>.” This will help build your

SEO Tips for Affiliate Marketers

In case you are not familiar with affiliate marketing, that is when an SEO creates high quality informational sites on specific topics and then earns money by including related products through an affiliate program like or http://www.CJ.com etc. The SEO earns a percentage for each sale and has a check sent out ever month or

Google Site Links – Observations and Tips

What are Google Sitelinks? Some times when you do a search on Google for a phrase, you’ll occasionally notice a collection of links which will appear below the result of a website. For example: if you search for the phrase “ilearnsmart” on Google, what you see displayed in the SERPs is: TITLE Learning Resources |

Comprehensive Research for Keyword Analysis

Here is a tip you can use with Wordtrackers powerful right and left hand word stemming functionality. Try using “comprehensive search” to reveal how any given term is being used within an exact phrase as a whole. TIP: By exploring the plain ordinary everyday terms that may even sound flat and even boring, you may

SEO Tips # 206 – Logical Keyword Research

Do you ever find yourself struggling with keyword research in certain areas. When exploring Wordtracker data, you need to stop putting your research up against the clock and stop feeling like you need to be so extremely “logical.” Release yourself from stress and treat it more like a “mission of exploration” rather than hunting for

SEO Tips # 205 – Eye Tracking Studies

Did you know based on eye tracking studies: – Initial eye movement focuses on the upper left corner of the page. – Large blocks of text are avoided. – Lists tend to hold reader attention longer. – Navigation tools work better when placed at the top of the page. – and shorter paragraphs perform better

SEO Tips # 204 – 5 in 1

Today SEO Tips #1: Purchase domain names for at least two years. If you only purchase domain names for one year, Google could consider the domains to be “throw away” domains. SEO Tips # 2 : One of the benefits of a Blog is that you’ll often get found under numerous highly competitive keyword phrases

SEO Tips # 203 – Continue Updates on Blog

Blogs that are continually being updated on a steady consistent basis will get much more activity and interactivity than a Blog that only gets updated once a month. It will get spidered more often and more deeply just based on being frequently updated. What other ideas can you come up with for improving readership and

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