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Article by Donovan Baldwin

This article, as the name implies, deals with search engine optimization in general, and links in particular. In previous articles, I have dealt with related search engine optimization topics such as choosing the right domain name for your website and creating the title, meta tags, and content for your website.

This article is not intended to be a definitive work on search engine optimization, particularly as many search engines keep changing the rules. It, and previous articles are intended, however to give the internet marketing beginner some insight into the subject.

Search engine optimization is not magic, and it does tend to incorporate a few basic tenets. When followed, these steps, methods, or actions CAN increase the visibility and ranking of a website in a search engine’s returns. It is popularly, and fairly accurately, stated that most people will pick a site from those listed on the first page of a search’s results. However, that is not the final spot that everyone picks from, nor is every site in exact competition with yours nor attractive to search engines for the same reasons, or keywords, or content as yours.

In most cases, when someone requests a search on a word or phrase, one of the first acts of many search engines will be to take a look at the titles of the websites it has indexed and see if anything seems to match. It will then scan the first few lines of text on the page to see if that search term is there, and how often it appears. It cannot be stated that every search engine follows this exact pattern, and, even if they do, most tend to then refine the initial results by viewing other data.

In fact, one reason that search engine optimization IS more an art than a science is due to the variables looked at by each search engine and how they are weighted by that site. It is possible to optimize a site for one search engine and injure its ranking in another!

One way that many search engines can be induced to raise the ranking or placement of a site is accomplished thru linking. When speaking of “linking” most people are going to be speaking of external links leading to the site from other websites. I am going to include some internal linking discussion, so we will be covering:

1. External Links

2. Internal Links

3. Sitemaps

LINKS FROM OTHER SITES:

As in many other considerations, the quality of the links leading to your site may be of more importance than the quantity of links. It should also be a consideration that sites that you try to have link to your site be relevant as a willy-nilly bundle of sites can actually lower your ranking in some search engines.

One linking tactic is to find the front runners in searches on keywords and subjects relevant to your site. Then, you would communicate with the site owners or webmasters in hopes of getting them to link to your site. In some cases, a reciprocal link may be requested, but, despite some accounts to the negative, having a link from a valuable site will increase the value of your site, even with the reciprocal link.

Why would someone link to YOUR site? Hopefully, your site is relevant and of a quality that would encourage the attentions of a webmaster hoping to elevate the value of his or her site by providing quality information to their visitors. If you are a fishing guide, the website of a rod and reel manufacturer may want to include a link to your site, for example.

To take this a step further, if the first sites you see are valuable, take a look at the sites that link to them! It is a good chance that THEY help contribute to the rank of the first sites you saw, and would therefore possibly be of importance to you.

LINKS WITHIN YOUR SITE:

While not normally included in discussions of search engine optimization, the internal links of your site can be of importance. Once you have a visitor to your site, providing them with an easy means of navigation can encourage them to stay and wander around. All the search engine optimization in the world won’t do much good if they leave and go elsewhere after reading one or two sentences.

However, internal linking can be an important part of search engine optimization, particularly when you realize that Google and some other search engines treat each page of your site separately. There seems to be some indication that links from other pages within your site can be used as part of the evaluation process of the search engine. Additionally, providing a complete listing of site pages in a logical manner makes it easier for search engine spiders to find, crawl, and index all the pages of your site. This thought brings us to…

SITEMAPS:

In its simplest form, a sitemap is a logically (thank you Mr. Spock) designed, er well…map…of the pages of the site. It is usually a page in itself, provides links to, and sometimes descriptions or titles of, the pages within the site. Once the search engine has found this page, it is a piece of cake for it to crawl and index every page on your site. If you have been doing SEO to all your pages, you have just raised an eyebrow or two on the search engine spider.

COMMENTS:

In all I have learned or encountered in the areas of search engines and search engine optimization, two points seem to come through: make sure everything you do adds quality and value to your site, and don’t count on what worked yesterday to work today. Search engines are continually evolving to meet the needs of THEIR customers while providing quality service and they expect the same from you.

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Donovan Baldwin is a Dallas area writer and network marketing professional. He is a graduate of the University of West Florida, a member of Mensa and is retired from the U. S. Army. Learn how to get your own domain name and create an internet business at http://donsdomains.ws.

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Article by Brian Wynn

In this report, we will look at what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is, and the ways in which it can be used. Through this report, we will provide you with the basics on using Search Engine Optimization in order to improve traffic flow to your site.

Search Engine Optimization is a marketing strategy which can often generate a good return for the site.

But what must be remembered is that search engines are not actually paid for the traffic they send to a site from a natural (organic) search.

Plus, they will regularly change the <u>algorithms</u> that they use for these searches to be carried in an effort to improve the results for people using their search engine. In fact, there is no guarantee that using this system is successful in either the long or short term for any website.

However, even if you do find you have increased traffic to your site because of SEO, if your site is unprepared for this increased traffic, it may in fact be detrimental to your site, as visitors will go away feeling dissatisfied and will not return.

Unfortunately, with <u>SEO</u>, there are no shortcuts, and if you are looking for a way to get quick and easy results, then this isn’t it. But instead, you will need to carry out some hard work, especially in relation to the actual content of your site.

Also, you will need to have plenty of patience, as results <u>do not happen overnight</u>. So if you are looking to improve the search engine position of your site, you should consider this very early on when looking at using SEO.

However, what are important are the following points:-

Good Content:

This is probably the single most important point you should remember when doing SEO, especially if you want your site to be found on the web. Although your site may be technically perfect so that the search engine robots find it, you will find that it will not help if the actual content of your site is not good.

For the content of your site to be good, it should be factually, as well as grammatically correct. But this is not really necessary for every site that is on the web today. However, what is important is that whatever your site is about, the content actually needs to be unique and specific so that it will appeal to people. Moreover, it in fact needs to be particularly appealing to those people looking for information or who want to find your site.

By having good content on your site, visitors will return and eventually these visitors who return are more likely to link to your site. Having lots of inbound links is not only great for your site, but for search engine rankings also. It is even better if those links are from more highly ranked sites than your own.

Also, not only do you need to have good content on your site, you also need to have fresh content also. If you add new content to your site on a regular basis, you are giving your visitors more reasons for returning to it. Because of this, search engine robots will also visit your site more often as soon as they notice that you are updating it regularly. So what this means is that any new content you add, will then be indexed much quicker in the future.

Check your Spellings

If your site is written in English, then you are probably aware of the differences in spelling between American and British English. Where in the UK they will write “colour”, in the USA it is written as “color”, and the same can be said of “optimization” and “optimization”.

So if you can, why not set up your machine so that the spell checker is set up as USA English rather than British English. Unfortunately, there are many words between these two languages that are often misspelled, and in fact, the same can be said for many other languages around the world.

Make sure your Page Titles are Descriptive

If you make your page titles as simple, descriptive and relevant as possible, it will make it easier for the search engines to know what each page of your site is about. This will then allow people to scan through the search results they get, and are able to quickly determine if your document contains what they are actually looking for. Also, it should be remembered that the page title is also what is used in order to link to your site from the results provided by the search engines.

As a result of this, it is important to ensure that the title on the page is one of your most important elements of your site. In fact, some people will argue that this the most important part of any site above all other things.

Use of Real Headings

This is where you need to use h1-h6 (header tags) elements for your headings. By using graphics for your headings you are able to use any typeface you want (but search engines will not pay much attention to this). Even if you do use the alt attribute to specify an alternate text for heading images, this is not anywhere near as important as using real text in a heading element.

But if you are unable to use real text, then look at the various image or flash replacement techniques that are available instead. However, be aware that there may be some risk involved in doing this. As image replacement involves hiding text, it is quite possible that you may be penalized by search engines for doing this. But at present, this kind of risk seems pretty slim.

Ensure that your URL’s are search engine friendly

It is important to use search engine friendly URL’s, as opposed to dynamically generated ones that have a query string (which lets the server know which data to fetch from a database). Unfortunately, there are many search engine robots which have difficulties with this kind of URL and they may well stop at the question mark, and so not actually look at the query string.

By using a search engine friendly URL; you are helping both your ranking and users of your site. Many sites have seen an incredible improvement just because they have changed the URL scheme on it. However, the modification and rewriting of a site’s URL can be a little tricky.

Getting Linked

There is no easy or sustainable way in order to solve this but for one. The really only good way to ensure that your site gets linked is to ensure that it contains good content. For any site on the web, incoming links are very important, especially for Search Engine Optimization. In fact, you may find that this is the hardest part of SEO for you to implement.

But many people have found that incoming links are less important, especially where you have more specific and unique content on your site.

Make it Accessible to All

This is as important as all things previously mentioned. It is important that you make your site accessible to those who are visually impaired, as this will help search engine robots find their way around it also. It is important to remember that Google is blind, so even if you are not bothered whether blind people use your site or not (which we all should be in today’s world); you still need for it to be accessible. What this means is that you should use real headings, paragraphs and lists, and avoid using anything which may interfere with the search engines spiders.

Be Careful when making a Submission

Although this is often overrated, submitting your site to directories and search engines can actually be useful. This is especially important if the site happens to be new and has not as yet been picked up by Google and many of the other search engines that are around.

But if you do want to look at submitting it to some directories, you may want to consider using Yahoo Directory and Open Directory Project and some directories specific to your topic (for example, if you have a blog, try submitting to http://www.blog-search.info). But you will need patience, as it can take several weeks for any submissions to be processed unless you pay for it to be listed.

Do not try to fool the Search Engines

Never use such methods as cloaking, link farms, keyword stuffing, alt text spamming or any other dubious ways. Although they may work for a short time, you not only risk getting your site penalized, but it could actually be banned from search engines altogether.

As search engines like their results to be accurate, they just do not take kindly to people trying to trick them.

Avoid the use of Frames

Although it is possible to provide workarounds that will allow a search engine robot to crawl frame based sites, these will still cause problems for any visitors who find that site through a search engine.

What happens is that when someone follows a link from a search result to a frame based site, they will end up on an orphaned document. This will, in most cases, create confusion for the user, as in many cases, vital parts of the site will be lost, such as navigational links.

Browser Detection – Be Careful

If you have to use some kind of browser detection, then make sure that it does not break when a search engine spider or any other unknown agent comes along. Unfortunately, if the spiders can not get in, then your site will not be found.

Do not waste your time with Meta Tags

You will find that most search engines do not place a great deal of value on the content contained within Meta Tags today. This is because they have been used too

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Article by vandi endest

Read this article on Search engine optimization basics that could benefit any website owner regardless of location, service or product sold on the web-site, in enhancing the website’s prominence on all significant search engines for higher traffic building.

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This post aims at simplifying Seo basics that any site owner can use for saving time, energy and funds for traffic building by helping them get a clear image of Search engine optimization writing.

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Essentially the most vital Search engine optimization tip I can provide you with based on my experience, as a skilled Search engine optimization write-up writer is that the rule for standard original writing applies to making Seo content too. This indicates, concentrate on making excellent content.

What makes beneficial content material, you could ask?

Nicely, basically place, content that is certainly useful, fresh, informative and gets you efficient Seo results including new and repeat web page traffic that’s relevant to your product or service, which helps you attain your Net Marketing goals for greater sales conversions and improves your search engine rankings is superior content.

As an internet site owner, you need to comprehend how search engines function so as to run an powerful Search engine optimization campaign that drives top quality, relevant traffic to your website, enhancing its efficiency and building your on the net reputation.

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5. Combine all of the above Seo recommendations for traffic building that provides you lengthy term outcomes employing Search engine optimization basics that can improve web site prominence for you personally devoid of a lot expense. To recap:

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