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According to research 80% of people searching website using search engine, therefore search engine still the best way for you to generate traffic. You need to put your website into search engine. ne of the great advantages of search engine for your internet business, it can bring you a large amount of targeted traffic to your website. Some of them will not cost you a cent, but some of them will cost you a dollar. It is depend on what search engine do you use. Search engine will become very powerful for your business if you can put your website in the top 50, but it will be useless if your website listed further down. Because people will not see the result more than 50 result. In this article, I want to explain about 4 different search engines that you can use to generate traffic for your website. They are?1. Directory 2. Crawler search engine 3. PPC search engine 4. Meta search engine Directory sometimes called a category database. This directory will list all website inside category. This kind of search engine will edited by human, it means there are some directory admin will check your submission to this directory. They may accept or reject your website if they feel your website is not appropriate to the category that directory has. When you submit your website to directory, you just need to enter your title, description and keywords. Some of directories will not ask you to enter keywords. You also need to select category you want it. The example of directory is yahoo. Crawler search engine also known as spider or robots. This search engine use small software that will jump between websites called as crawler. This crawler will look for new website 24 hour a day, 7 days a week. For crawler search engine, you do not need to submit your title, description and keywords. This crawler will index your website automatically. You just need to submit your URL and crawler will come to your site and index every thing they need. PPC search engine stand for pay per click search engine. This kind of search engine will ask you to pay them to use it. Mostly, they will cost you minimum 1 cent until 5 cent. However PPC search engine will list your website depend on how much you want to pay them in particular keywords. If you want to pay them more than other competitor that use the same keywords, you will be listed on the top.

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1. Submitting a XML sitemap to search engines. The xml sitemap includes links to every page of your own website. It is a file that you can submit to search engines to get your pages indexed. Through submitting your xml sitemap, you will notify the search engines about your website and index every page of it. You can upload your sitemap to Google by creating a free Google Webmaster account.

2. Create a HTML sitemap page on your website. A HTML sitemap is different from a xml sitemap file. A HTML sitemap is a page on your website which is visible to your visitors. It will list down all the links to every page of your site. This allows visitors to navigate your website easily and allow search engine spiders to follow the links and discover all pages.

3. Lay HTML text links on your website. Search engine spiders follow HTML text links to find other pages of your website. Then,you have to ensure that you use HTML text links for simple navigation menu so that search engine spiders can follow. Also, you need to hyperlink keywords within your content and point them to other pages of your website. This is a good way to tell search engines what pages are important.

4. Directory submission. Submit your website URL to SEO friendly directory. DMOZ, Yahoo Directory and BOTW are important directories that you must submit your website to. It is, however, not all directory submission is free. Some may require you to pay a small fee for your website submission.

5. Article marketing. Write articles and lay your website URL in the Author Resource Box. Then submit your articles to some popular article directories. Once your articles are approved and published, your URL will be live online and this allows search engine spiders to follow the link to discover your website.

6. Using social websites. Social media websites are usually indexed regularly by search engines. So through placing your website URL on social websites, search engines spiders can discover your URL very quickly and index your new website.

Before a website can rank high and get organic search engine traffic, it should be indexed first. Search engine spiders are seeking for new websites and pages every day. Through getting a link on websites that get indexed regularly, it will ensure that your new website get indexed quickly.

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Rob Kerry from Ayima – Gambling / Gaming SEO

The gaming world is probably the most competitive niche in SEO – esp poker and casinos.

There is no secret sauce as there used to be e.g. with old link networks being burned.  Rob shows a graph of search volume and est clickthrough

888 vs William Hill – #1 and #4 respectively. Both are fairly similar in optimisation terms, but what separates them is their backlinks.  Rob uses a similar process to Dave Naylor to rank links according to anchor text, class C IPs and other metrics like PR.

Once you’ve dominated a market – eg casino in UK, what about branching out to other countries -eg France. Use backlink comparisons to check out a few of the top ranked sites in France. The main conclusion is that you should always use a subfolder and not a subdomain because with a subdomain you are starting from scratch.  You can register a subfolder to a different country within Google Webmaster Tools – so do that.  Rob expanded on this more in the Q&A – it is much easier, quicker and cheaper to use a subfolder on a generic TLD to rank for really competitive keyphrases in different countries, compared with building up authority from scratch on different (sub)domains.

My summary:

This was an excellent session as expected with such top class speakers, all so experienced that if you let them talk for any amount of time there’s going to be valuable stuff for anybody who is into Search Engine Optimisation to soak up. The major problem is that with the timescale the speakers are receiving, they have to cram a shedload of great ideas into a few bullet points. It’s so easy to get lost with all this information and for it to go in one ear and out the other! Needless to say I’ll be checking out the slides when they’re released and chatting to the speakers in the pub if possible!

I’m not sure what the next big conference will be about, hopefully they will have one dedicated solely to Web Design in the not too distant future.

 

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Richard Baxter from SEOGadget – Travel SEO

How people search for flights in the UK

There are 6 main categories of keywords in terms of flights:

- generic (flights, cheap flights)

- destination (eg “flights to new york”)

- routes – v important (eg “flights from london to new york”) look at all the different variations eg “london to paris” is different to “paris to london”. Less competitive route based keywords are of course easier to target, mainly because not many people optimise for them.

- Brand (”easyjet flights”)

- Departure (eg “flights  from manchester”)

 

Take your keyword lists and put all variations into Google Keyword tool – over a large scale of iterations you end up with a huge target long tail graph.

Then you can play around with new longtail variations of different types of keywords eg “cheap easyjet flights from Gatwick to Malaga”

How this translates into site architecture

You can map each ‘type’ of keyword against different levels of your sitemap architecture – eg hompage -> generic,

Site indexation issues

The problem with mapping out this kind of country based architecture is that you end up siloing pagerank down through your main destinations but there are ‘neighbour’ countries/categories that dont have much juice. The way around this is by using crosslinking (similar/most popular/nearby/recently reviewed suggestions) and use the trick of flattening your site design.  Also learn from bloggers – use tagging as a way to spread internal juice to pages that don’t traditionally get power.

Analysing competitiveness and competitor linkbuilding strategies

Richard pimped out Open Site Explorer to show how you can look at competitor backlinks. As a great example Kayak tools such as Top Pages on Domain are really useful for finding out about things they have had success with.

Phew! That was amazing – years of experience at CheapFlights condensed down into less than 20 minutes!

Make sure your Search Engine Optimisation is set up correctly. Any Web Design company worth their salt will advise you on the best methods

 

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Watch out for duplicate content issues – e.g. is a search result page pointing to the same content as a static page.

If blank pages show up it would be great to set up a script to detect these and straight away send an email to the relevant team asking them add content to the page.  I like this idea.
Use JS/CSS # solution for paginated pages – all pages are loaded as one page, avoids duplicate content cannibalisation for page 2,3,4 etc.

Make sure you use microformats on vacancy pages and ensure your listings stand out, specifically aimed at rucruitment is H-Resume microformat which is currently in beta.

David Fairhurst from Intelligent Retail – Retail SEO

David begins his pitch by explaining how important it is for your visitors when planning your ecommerce navigational structure as most of the time users don’t want to be routed around the website, but get straight to the product they are looking at.  The traditional model of a complex tree structure with 4-5 branches / categories before you get to the products are not actually the best way to do things. To SEO this kind of structure you need to spend a lot of time injecting unique content onto each of these pages – a big time drain.  This also creates a “content vacuum” where you have pages that just have links to other pages.These are minimal value pages to search engines, especially when you consider that Google track individual bounce rates.  These funnelling pages also don’t allow much cross-selling – high dropout rate, even up to 90%, and in the worst cases people start using internal Search instead – one step away from going elsewhere.

Instead – give visitors immediate access to exactly where they want to go – e.g. mega menus with loads of categories in the dropdown – sites like diy.com (B&Q) have switched to this.  This gives you content heavy categories as standard and better opportunities for cross selling, but still options for refinements.  Bottom line: less clicks = less abandonment.

Of course if you choose the right company for your web design, they will always advise you on the best methods for your particular website

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You would certainly want people to come at you website if you have one. You will find millions of websites online. Certainly you would want people to come to your website. If you do not take any efforts to attract people, no one would visit your site link. In order to start an online business, initial step is to create a site. A very vital step is to carry out search engine marketing to market your site. SEO can also be very helpful in driving higher number of prospects to your websites making use of search engines.

Number of websites are connected with the search engines. The users can reach the appropriate website only when they enter the keyword in area provided by the search engines. Hence one needs to take care while deciding on any keyword. Keyword plays an important role in attracting more customers. It is very necessary for you to know the important key terms that are highly searched by the web users on the search engines. If the keywords does not match with yours then the search engine will not show your link on the web page. People will not visit you site. Eventually you will lose sale.

The fact is that search engines give importance to pages that have most commonly appearing keywords. More than that at the time of selecting the keywords you may also have to write plurals in place of singulars as users usually tend to use plurals. Many a times users search for ‘cars’ in place of ‘car’. A small difference like that of singular or plural can also have a great impact as there are chances of you losing the visitor as they do not get the link to your site. You must make use of different keywords together rather than a single keyword. At the time you make use of mixture of keywords it proves to be highly beneficial for you. It is very necessary that you must be confident about your keywords. Keywords used by you must be very clear and concise.

Lots of people of avoiding regular updates of their site thus making the look of the website very old and unattractive. Your site will be ignored if the information is very old. It is a common tendency of people that they do not find any reason to visit such a website which does not have any new thing in it. Hence you will have to be regular in updating you website. If daily update is not possible do it weekly or fortnightly. Regular updates will attract more customers. Finally you have to decide your preference. A good way is to add latest data to your website if you have no clue on about the updating procedure. Articles should be attractive and of readers’ interest. You would get amazing result!

Make sure that you update your site on a regular term. People don’t visit dull site again and again. Bring in interesting and latest information to your website. If not new data make sure that you give them interesting articles. You will hence have more profits with you by generating higher sales.

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You can find thousands of online investments designed to earn you cash by creating a business and making all of your financial dreams come true. This is good and bad as well. The benefit lies in the various options you have to create a career online. It’s also bad due to the fact with so many options you have to pick from, you don’t even know where you should start. However, if you want to have an online business you can rely on, without a lot of start up expense, take a look at affiliate marketing. You could have a full time online business, giving you income 24/7, just selling other folk’s products. There are numerous marketing companies online that are extremely lucrative with just this one avenue of the business. It wouldn’t take much for you to join those ranks. Being an affiliate marketer brings all sorts of benefits, and it beats a lot of other more traditional jobs. This article will help you to understand just what these benefits are.

One of the most important steps towards succeeding online is to direct all your efforts on quality marketing. Affiliate marketing is accompanied by the additional benefit of allowing you to spend your energy and resources marketing these products, as opposed to wading through customer issues, refunds, and the delivery process. All of these aspects of business tend to eat up time. However, by delegating them to someone else, you can fully concentrate on advertising. This will also give you the freedom to switch from one product to another in case it’s not converting. So there’s a lot of room for testing with various products when you’re doing affiliate marketing. And with thousands of products to choose from, you’re not restricted to one niche. When you decide you want to try out a new type of product you can – there are no limits on you.

One main benefit to affiliate marketing is that you can choose the products you sell, and you will still be able to hang with other, larger companies. Almost every successful website on the Internet that sells products/services has its own affiliate program. Companies like Amazon and eBay have their own affiliate programs in place that people have been using to make thousands of dollars. So you have the ability to choose whatever program that goes along with the niche you’ve decided to target. As an illustration, if your interest lies in health, you could decide to go with an affiliate that offers items like diet products or ebooks related to weight loss. You will find that there is a great number of affiliate marketing programs available to you. Your task is to select the one that you can turn into a flourishing business. I have found that selling GBPBOT or other forex robots as an affiliate  can be extremely profitable. But remember that not all forex robots are good. Some are complete failures while others for example Forex Torpedo can make you ricg almost overnight.

In conclusion, you can not only make a living out of affiliate marketing but turn it into a full blown business. How far you go with it is entirely your choice. You’ll need to invest some of yourself into starting your business, of course. Once you’ve done that, you’ll never have to look back. IThis I have learnt myself when building my forex review site.

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Gossips can rapidly twist out of control as well as spoil a reputation, and when adequate individuals discover out about that, it initiate to take on a life of its own.

Your online reputation could unexpectedly turn out to be spoiled, cause an image setback and also upset your bottom line. Devoid of proactively supervising your online standing, brand name and copyrighted material, you are open to the elements to a rats’ nest of harmful public relations and unsuitable utilization of your business’s trade name. Being conscious of unenthusiastic information about your selling brand and how you hold it, creates an enormous difference on the result it has.

Must care for the Reputation

Depressing info about your corp hidden on page 200 of a search engine query has a negligible affect, although a lead ten rank will decidedly have spotlight. Search engines are the favored beginning for information assembling regarding anything and they are used commonly by anyone by process of the Internet. The difficulty is that the superior, the terrible and the unattractive shows up in research engine rankings. It’s all produced by detailed search prices and proprietary algorithms in utilize by the research engines to rank substance. It can be good and it could also be unpleasant.

Yet as high-quality is superior, let us center detail from where the content spoiling the reputation come.Discussions, web logs, hatred sites, advertising and customer web sites, objection sites, sites from discontented employees, amalgamation, job connections and not surprisingly, internet sites developed by some law firms in class accomplish litigation. With several optimized matter a abundant of terrible reputation damaging subject can effortlessly display up on the first page of search results for numerous keyword phrases associated to your establishment. In the issue of Google, it is the important ten results citizens will be vigilant about.

Blogs could be laid up in min, they are almost altogether idiot proof, they are with no charge or extremely inexpensive and with RSS, live feeds and the use of newsreaders, they possess the imitate based, regularly modernized content that the search engine wanderers tweetomatic profiteer.

Deficiency of reputation management exposes a business hazard

Your condition is an central division of your business. If your USP is special customer service, information that clash that claim can be very detrimental. No matter if the condition risk is self stimulated by awful operation or fashioned by false or deceptive info, it can have a biting effect on your bottom line.

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What’s my Google Page Rank

Saturday, March 13, 2010

For the mathematicians among us, Page Rank used by Google is an algorithmic process, named after a man called Larry Page. For everyone else, it’s a way of measuring how much support a web page has from the number of hyperlinks, and so on, to it. It’s like a ballot for web pages.

Google describes Page Rank (which is a patented name) as:

Page Rank is just one process out there for measuring the importance of a web page. Others have followed.

From hereon in, it gains more and more complicated behind the scenes but the above gives you an overview of what it is.

So how could website owners improve their own page ranks? Here are just a few suggestions:

* Include useful high-quality information on your site * Submit your website to various web directories and reference sites * Publicize your site to everyone with whom you communicate * Write a newsletter and send it out * Provide an RSS feed * Ask other high-quality websites to link to your website * Check out a site before you link back * Tell the press about your site * Keep your website up and running * Translate your website into foreign languages * Search Google for your website * Avoid devious tactics to improve your ranking – Google doesn’t like it!

Your site has to be in the Google Directory already so you will need to have added it. You can be notified by email alerts as to when your Page Rank changes as well. There is also some doubt as to the actual usefulness or accuracy of these checkers but they are there.

Above all else, when considering your Page Rank, remember to concentrate on your SEO techniques and inter-twine them all. The more types of SEO you use, the better chance you have of having your web pages ranked highly.If you need a free directory to submit your website to,click on the links in this article.

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Directory resubmission is an integral part of search engine optimization (SEO). Directories are how people find your site. Directories are akin to search engines in that they also perform search within the directory. Major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo, are akin to directories, as they find, then direct you or the searcher, to the website.

Direct resubmission is up there with optimized websites, website maps, keywords and meta-tags, all of which are integral to your website or blog getting noticed amongst the millions of websites on the web.

A major S.E.O. tactic is to submit your website to as many search engines and directories as possible. There is no doubt that every website should be submitted immediately to the big search engine directories, if the owner of the site does not want to be buried in the worldwide woodpile of lost and hard to find websites.

Often when a new site is put up on the web, the webmaster is focusing on so many aspects of search engine optimization, that they can easily forget about the other hundreds of directories that are out there. These directories different in size and in value, but “a link is a link”, and one that directs a ready buyer to your site is a good one, and of great value.

With directories your link websits quietly working for you in a few ways you may not be aware of. The first is actually linking that ready buyer to you. The second is creating a back link which pleases the search engine spiders. Spiders eat back links, and the more back links you have, the more relevant your site is, and the better the ranking will be.

Submitting your URL to as many directory submission sites as you possibly can is a fabulous long-term S.E.O. strategy.

Many directory submission sites are free, and some have small one-time only, or recurring fees. You’ll be surprised how many free ones do exist.

Use them all, spend a week or two steadily submitting your URL to all of them. In some months you may start to see a steady traffic increase and a major page rank benefit.If you need a free directory to submit your website to,click on the links in this article.

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