Keyword Optimization Best Practices

Websites that achieve high natural searches are highly dependent on using the best most relevant keywords.  In addition you must optimize each page of your website with keywords that are not too competitive yet generate targeted traffic to your website.

The process of finding these keywords is called keyword optimization.

Why is it important?  [Read more...]

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Effective Link Building Strategies

Website link popularity is used to indicate how many other web pages link to your web page. It is calculated by counting the number of web pages that contain your link, also known as inbound links.

Proper website linking strategies can help you gain inbound links which in turn can greatly improve your search engine ranking. For this reason, it's wise to maintain link popularity strategies as part of your overall search engine optimization efforts.

There are several linking techniques and strategies used to obtain inbound links. Here are a few popular strategies that just may bring you the results you need:  [Read more...]

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Do It Yourself SEO Checklist

Most online businesses appreciate being able to do things themselves …I know I do. It not only saves me money but I learn a few things along the way Wink 

SEO isn't hard; it's just a matter of knowing the key strategies, understanding why they work and putting them into practice.  As soon as you start doing them they'll become second nature to you and pretty soon you'll be doing them without even thinking about it. 

So if you've got a website and want to optimize it without hiring a professional or using expensive tools, here's what you need to do …        [Read more...]

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Your Website Structure Counts

One of the things that's important to the success of your website, but often overlooked, is your website's structure. Today the search engines place fairly hefty weight on how your site is laid out, what components are included and your content.

Let's start with one of the basic components that easily get out of whack for most sites — directory structure…      [Read more...]

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Comment Kahuna — Good Blogging Tool?

I think so; it’s the spammers and the blog bullies that are bad.

As I was reading Dan Thies' comments on 'Comment Kahuna', it got me to thinking about this tool, which I do use on occasion …and it's free Smile 

By the way, I just want to also say that I really like Dan Thies and I hang on his every word, in my opinion he's one of the best SEO guys around, and I love his "SEO Fast Start Guide", amazingly enough it's still free and if you don't have a copy – you're missing out!

Anyway, getting back to Comment Kahuna, I use it mostly because it helps me find relevant blogs that I can not only comment on but it also helps me find out what people are saying and what people are really looking for.  I don't always make comments, occasionally I do but unlike a lot of  'link focused' bloggers, I think that if it's worth my time to make a comment then I should actually try to contribute something, call me crazy!

So I like Comment Kahuna, it helps me find relevant blogs that I can intelligently contribute to. If there are people using it to spam blogs for their own personal gain then it's unfortunate.  Like I think Dan is saying — it's not Comment Kahuna that's bad, it's the people using it inappropriately that are bad.

Yes, Comment Kahuna does look specifically for blogs that use the 'nofollow tag', that may or may not be a bad thing and if your blog isn't using the 'nofollow tag' you are theoretically subject to more spamming, but that's what I have Askismet for and it does a pretty good job of nailing spammy comments.

I'm thinking that if someone takes the time to make a thought provoking useful comment to my blog why not pass them a follow link for their efforts and let Akismet take care of the spammers.

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