The following articles offer further insight into the practice of Search Engine Optimization and how it can benefit your website:
Why should one use Search Engine Optimization?
By: Razvan Marian Jr
It's morning and John wakes up, same as he does everyday. He starts the computer and begins checking his email and reviewing his website's stats. " $15 in Adsense and 1 sale .. good, good... but still I'd wish those were $500 and 10 sales ". He closes the stats and goes to work in order to get the payment that helps him live a good life.
Mark is also waking up, making a cup of coffee and then sitting comfortably at his laptop. He opens his website's stats and his heart starts beating a bit faster while he reads on the screen " $399 in Adsense and 5 sales last night... good, but I WANT IT BETTER" ". He closes the stats, eats a quick breakfast and then sits back again at his laptop and starts working on his websites in order to improve the stats. He doesn't need to go to work as his websites bring enough income to help him live very well.
Now the question is simple: who would you prefer to be? John or Mark? Do you like to go and work for your boss and help him make money so you can earn your living ? Or do you want to be your own boss and have your own business? Because yes, these days, having a good site IS a business. If your answer is "John" then you'd better stop reading this article and get to more serious things. But if instead you would prefer to be Mark then it may be useful to continue reading. Ok, ok but what does "having a good site" mean? I have a great design, I have great online support, great products and offers, great site functionality... but still I don't get the expected income? If you ask yourself this than take 2 minutes to think about: "Who am I receiving money from? The design? The functionality of the site? No, what really brings the money is, in fact, the traffic, the people who visit the site and order the services/products or who simply click on the Google ads."
Now that we found out that the traffic is what makes the webmaster happy, we should ask ourselves how we can get this traffic to our sites. Well, there are several methods of doing this, but nowadays, search engine optimization (SEO) is the method that brings the best targeted traffic.
If you want to build a strong business which could provide you more than a decent income, than you should use SEO.
To succeed with a SEO campaign, one must follow three major steps: keywords analysis, on page SEO and off page SEO. The keywords analysis part has to be done in order to assure that you have picked the best keywords ( the ones that will get you the highest number of visitors in the shortest time ).
On page SEO is the step where changes are done directly on your site by modifying it's files. You have to sort out the titles, metatags, images, text, page structure, internal linking, proper tags and much more things related to your site. In all this process you will use the keywords you found during the keywords analysis part. This will ensure you'll have a well optimized site focused on those keywords.
Last but not least, off page SEO - considered by all the great SEO specialists out there the most important part of a SEO campaign - related to the external links you can point toward your site. As each link toward your site is considered "a vote" the more votes you have the more "powerful" your site will become.
If you do all these correctly then your site will end up in the tops of the search engines and start getting the best-targeted organic traffic that exists at the moment.
So what are you waiting for? Go out there and start doing SEO... . Because SEO it's the future.
A guide to good Search Engine Optimisation - SEO tips
By: Craig Bucknall
Getting your website listed in Search Engines (SE) can sometime be a monumental task in itself, here are my top ten tips to get you started.
1. Page Title
Forget using 'Welcome to my website' as your page title, if you really want to attract target media specify your keywords and list your product keywords separated by an | (hold Shift + backslash key) symbol (eg: Digital Cameras | Video Cameras) will boost the strength of your chosen keywords, in this case Digital and Video Cameras.
2. Page Filenames
Still naming your page filenames as products.htm or aboutus.php, why not add some weight to your website and help the SE distinguish from the multitude of pages with generic names and again utilise your keywords into your filenames (eg: paper_back_novels.htm) for a Book selling site with this link to the list of Paper Back Novels.
3. ALT Tags
Again keywords play a huge part in the design of your site and another area to include these words is in your image 'ALT" tags.
4. Header Tags
Getting back to your Page Title, there is no point in making the heading text "Welcome to my Website" especially if you are selling Garden Tools. Using , and tags to emphasize your Products and Services in order of importance, lets the SE's.
5. Bold Text
Got something to say?, say it in Bold Text, this tells the SE that this text is important and relates strongly to your content and keywords and should be taken notice of.
6. Keywords
Some say they aren't that important anymore to getting results in the SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages) but using them correctly can add to your sites overall effectiveness. Concentrate on 3 - 4 keyword phrases (eg: "custom website design" or "web site design" for web site designers) and make sure they are used in the first and last paragraphs of your home page content.
7. Google Toolbar
Not only a search tool the Google Toolbar displays each sites Page Rank according to Google on it popularity and web presence.
8. Alexa Toolbar
Download the Alexa Toolbar from Amazon and sign up to their affiliate program, the toolbar is an essential tool in gauging the popularity and hit results of how your website ranks in the www..
9. RSS Feeds
Want to increase traffic? well consider starting a RSS Feed on your website with important news items relating to your business and your chosen profession then link these to your articles.
10. Article Writing
Article writing is another way to cross promote your site with helpful information for others and with links back to your site.
For any further questions:- Please contact Expand SEO.
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