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Search Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Optimization, SEO, is the most price effective means to campaign a net site on-line. Full Stop. SEO is half scientific discipline, half experience and gut impression, so if you are strategic about SEO, employ an SEO companion to do the process.

There are at the least four steps needed in Search Engine Optimization:

The starting step is the technical substantiation of your web site; does it load fast? Are you using the proper META tags? Etc.

The 2nd step is content and circumstance. You will require correct search optimized copy writing, image optimisation, video optimization, search term reporting, competitor analysis, marketplace reporting, etc.

The third stage is having incoming links. Links count as votes, the more ties you get, the better, and the better the link referrer is, the greater the link. You can get links by submitting your website to directories, article publishers, posting blog remarks, meeting place engagement, guest posting,

The 4th phase is tracking and analysis. Trailing and dissecting what is happening, on your website, is essential for further maturation and reinforced SEO efforts.

Every now and again, you have to start over with step one and proceed to better your web sites profile performance and thus the rise in visitants in your online store

In a broader sentience, SEO is piece of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) which includes SEO, Pay per Click (PPC) and other types of on-line marketing and advertizing. SEO is oftentimes referred to as organic optimisation and relates to the results on the left position of the search engine results page (SERP) as opposed to the paid Adwords solutions.

You can do yourself a big favor by start studying the basic principles of SEO. This will help you pick up a good and sincere SEO office and the kinetics in thought switch with the office is really priceless. You will get a greater performance by your bureau and the SEO company gets an interesting and interested customer, that’s what we name a win-win position. If you don’t have the budget for an SEO professional, there are lot’s of content on the cyberspace to help you to do it yourself SEO, just do a search on Google for “do it yourself SEO” and you’ll see lot’s of serious places to aid you become an SEO Ninja.

You can leverage your list building techniques efforts by establishing joint ventures, or partnerships with other publishers. This is a great way to also network by recommending each others lists to your respective client base. Another variation of this option is to use third party systems that list various links across a network of sites. You will carry these services on your web site. There are many sites like this to choose from. A simply search on the internet will return a broad list to choose from. Narrow your selection to sites that are not in direct competition with yours.

There are a few list building software tools for internet marketing that you can use to strengthen your chances of revenue increase. The Autoresponse Plus software is considered on of the premier ways to increase your customer base. With Autoresponse Plus, you are able to keep track of your prospects by polling them for their name and email addresses. The list you build will be form people who gave you permission in advance to contact them. Autoresponse keep the potential customers’ information private and confidential. Also, the contact system is fully automated so you do not have to spend a lot of time and energy sending out emails.

There are several reasons why online advertising, specifically search engine marketing, out performs traditional advertising such as T.V., radio, direct mail, billboards, and periodicals. The major benefits of a strong online advertising campaign versus traditional media are as follows:

1. Online advertising is based on a pay-per-performance model
2. Online advertising can be tracked and historical data can be analyzed
3. Specific geographical locations can be targeted accurately
4. Push versus pull model of obtaining and marketing to new clients

Pay-Per-Click or Pay-Me-First

Search engines have developed an advertising tool that has revolutionized the marketing and advertising industry. Traditionally, if you were looking to increase the volume of your business most entrepreneurs would turn to pricey media agencies to manage and develop a marketing campaign utilizing T.V. commercials, radio ads, direct mail, billboards, and/or periodicals. The majority of small to medium business owners were unable to afford such high price points and larger business had to provide the finances to obtain these services upfront with unknown expectations. Not only were these advertising services expensive and time consuming, but they were unreliable, difficult to track, and extremely competitive.

On the other hand, search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask determined that this model was ineffective and overly expensive for your average small business owner. As a result, the creation of the pay-per-click or pay-per-performance model was introduced. Business owners of any size were now able to determine their own budget, track the results, target specific markets, and only be charged for this lead generating tool if their website was getting traffic. Rather than throwing marketing dollars into the wind and hoping for a return, now advertisers could compete with larger competitors and only pay a small fee for each visitor to their website.

Welcome to the second part of our series of articles on search engine optimization. In the previous article we discussed keywords, domain names, content and keyword density issues. This article moves past that to the nitty gritty of improving your web pages and website for better search engine rankings.

Page Title

It’s truly amazing how many people don’t realize how critical the TITLE tag can be to the success or failure of your website. Your TITLE tag needs to have your most important keyword for that page included in it. This is for the benefit of the search engines.

From a visitors point of view it also needs to entice them to click on your title tag when they see it in the search engine results. If your page is about PDA Accessories don’t just use that phrase in the TITLE tag.

Dress it up a bit. For example “PDA Accessories For The Busy Geek” or “Need Accessories for Your PDA? Come right in!” Those examples took me 10 seconds to come up with. You can do far better with a little more time and effort.

META Keyword Tag

Anybody still using the Meta Keyword tag as their sole search engine optimization method please leave the room. Go on get out and don’t come back.

The Meta Keyword tag is all but dead to the search engines. When building your pages it’s still worth including but simply put in the top 3 or 4 keywords that are relevant to your business and leave it at that. Do not spend hours coming up with hundreds of keywords to stuff into the Meta Keyword tag. It’s a total waste of time and anybody who tells you different has no idea what they’re talking about.

META Description Tag

This still has some limited value for your SEO work. When Google or other search engines display search results they display the contents of the TITLE tag and your Meta Description tag (if present) or a random selection of text from the page. Your Meta Description tag will take priority if present.

The Meta Description tag is still worth using. Your most important keyword should be in there and again you need to work this keyword into an eye catching phrase or sentence. Don’t just copy and paste the main keyword in there.

If the Meta Description tag is used well, in conjunction with the TITLE tag, then it can make your displayed search result more inviting to the potential visitor. Again don’t spend more than a few minutes on your Meta Description tag but do make sure that you include it on each page. One final note - make the Meta Description for each page different; don’t just recycle the same one over and over.

RSS

Stands for Really Simple Syndication and is probably something you’ve heard a lot about over the last few months. RSS allows you to display the news items and/or content from other sites on your website as part of a “news feed”. This adds a huge amount of value to your site from a vistors point of view - they don’t need to leave your site to get the latest news on a given topic. The other benefit is that search engines love seeing fresh content on websites.

At the moment there’s a huge upsurge in the use of RSS for search engine optimization. The question is does it work? Yes it does. Using RSS can most definitely encourage the search engines to come back to visit your site more often. How does it work? Well again that goes beyond the scope of this article so please refer to our site for more information.

Blogs

Also called Web Logs are basically online diaries. For a long time these were used solely by… well…. geeks to record their thoughts and as a way of sharing information on Star Trek. Seriously though initially blogs were never seen as anything more than a curiousity.

Recently with the increased visibility of RSS blogs have also seen their profile rise. Why? Well because many RSS feeds feature blog content. Which means what exactly? It means your blog could be included on and linked to from thousands of websites all over the world. Are you seeing the possiblities? There are some other nuances to consider but to mention them here would give the game away completely and certain ebook authors would put a price on my head for giving away their secrets.

(c) Niall Roche - All Rights Reserved

- continued in Part 3

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