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SEO Missed opportunities

May 18, 2010 | Posted in SEO, Tagged , ,

Every day we spot missed opportunities online. Often, many of these problems are simple to remedy. Here the top five missed opportunities we come across on a regular basis:

1. Missing or duplicate meta data – Having no meta data or having it simply repeat the brand is an obvious SEO problem that is easy to fix most of the time. The same goes for duplicate meta data – sometimes the developers will repeat the same meta tags throughout the whole website, which the search engines may read as duplicate content, resulting in a failure to rank.

2. Text as images – Content is king online, so dont lock up your text in Flash or as images, no matter how cool it might look. If you dont give the search engines content to crawl you will have a hard time ranking no matter what else you do.

3. No internal linking – A solid internal linking strategy helps your users navigate through your site and it ensures that the search engines crawl and rank your website. (more…)

Where I Can Upload My Videos ?

January 27, 2010 | Posted in Advertise, SEO, Video, Tagged , , ,

Upload and Share Your Videos

Broadcast Yourself. Thats the tag for the Youtube video sharing social network, a video upload site where people can watch, rate and comment on videos uploaded by other users.

Video upload sites have been around for a while now but they are only getting more and more popular these days and have been one of the catalyst of the new web 2.0 movement where users submit the bulk of a sites web content.

These sites are fun and in many ways informative and addictive. Youtube is among the most visited sites on the internet according to Alexa with millions of people visiting the site each day.

There are lots of other sites like Youtube, some of them standalone and some that are on social networks while others are used for a specific purpose.

Video Upload Sites

  • FunnyOrDie – Will Ferrel’s new funny video site, lol. Life’s tasty…
  • Revver Video Sharing Network – Revver – The first viral video sharing network with original webisodes, animation, comedy, vlogger, gaming videos, and more. (more…)

The Necessity Of Search Engine Optimization

January 26, 2010 | Posted in Advertise, SEO, Search Engines, Tagged , ,

The majority of businesses now understand that search engine optimisation or SEO is becoming an important part of any online business strategy. Today it is only the most backward thinking companies that have dismissed the benefits of search engine optimisation, or have not even heard of it.

The emphasis of search engine optimisation is to increase web traffic to a website through the search medium. The process involves changing various elements of the website so that it is more visible to search engines and easier to operate for users.

Currently the market is saturated with so called SEO specialists who are simply jumping on a band wagon that started rolling over ten years ago. Hence it is imperative to have a detailed research process before entering into a contract with any SEO company. Ideally a company that can prove its worth, prove the success of it methods and its time in the industry should be found.

It is advisable, before employing a SEO company to gain an understanding of how the search engine process is conducted. Fortunately the internet has thousands of websites dedicated to the subject of website optimisation. While the worth of these websites is somewhat questionable, they do at least give an idea of the sorts of strategies the SEO company should be presenting. (more…)

The Importance of One Way Link

December 21, 2009 | Posted in Link Building, SEO, Tagged , , ,

Definitely, the most beneficial link for a website is one way link. The website owner ultimate goal is encourage many visitors come to their website and hope that the visitor will look around and even brings the profit to them. But, the most important thing is, how can the website get visitor? The definitive answer for this is to ranking high in most important search engines.

To rank top in search engine result, there are many things that you can do. One of them is get one way link as many as possible. One way link is a simply a link from other website to your website with keywords anchor text and you don’t have to put their link at your website. This is a nice benefit because it keeps visitor coming to your site through the other website (the website your link is at) and this means you can increased the traffic of your website with minimal efforts.

Why Does One Way Link is Better?
Search engine such as Google mark one way link as a ‘vote’ from other website to your website. It is because if your link is at the other website, that website is certifying the quality of your website and makes your website ranking higher.

How Can I Get One Way Link?
Getting the one way link is the hard part because not many webmaster want to put your link at your website if you just ask. The most important things you can do is produce high quality contents at your website and if the content is related to their website then most likely they can link to your website.

The other thing you can do to get one way link is to do a 3-way link exchange. Most webmaster has more than one website, you can ask them to put your link at their website in exchange you will link to their other website from your website. It’s a win win situation because you have one way link at their website and you give them one way link to their other website.

301 Redirect for Better SEO

December 11, 2009 | Posted in SEO, Websites, Tagged , , ,

You’ve just redesigned some pages of your web site. The pages have high search engine rankings that you don’t want to lose. How can you safely redirect web site traffic from your old pages to the new pages without losing your rankings? You can do this by using a ” 301 redirect “

301-Permanent-RedirectWhat is 301 redirect?

301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web
site. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”. After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is
noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new location or file name. You implement the 301 redirect by creating a .htaccess file.

What is a .htaccess file?

When a visitor/spider requests a web page, your web server checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains specific instructions for certain requests, including security, redirection issues and how to handle certain errors.

How to implement the 301 Redirect

1. To create a .htaccess file, open notepad, name and save the file as .htaccess (there is no extension).

2. If you already have a .htaccess file on your server, download it to your desktop for editing.

3. Place this code in your .htaccess file:
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

4. If the .htaccess file already has lines of code in it, skip a line, then add the above code.

5. Save the .htaccess file

6. Upload this file to the root folder of your server. (more…)