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The Nemesis of Search Engine Optimization

February 9, 2009

There are man things money can buy; such as the services of a good SEO agency. However there are some things which not only transcend the power of money but also dilute the impact of the services that have already been undertaken. These are the inherent constrains in a website that are overlooked at the time of developed as design agencies do not always keep in mind your search engine optimisation plans when developing a website. This results in unwarranted disputes and numerous delays always resulting in additional costs. These can be easily overcome if at the time of developed a few factors are kept in mind. Typically there are 2 kinds of websites that we come across regularly.

Static website that are developed in HTML and Dynamic website that are a lot more complex and use data bases and server side scripting languages to display results. Optimisation of static website is relatively straightforward where through the FTP most SEO can be implemented. The trouble comes with dynamic websites where often the facilities do not exist to make the basic changes. As part of most search engine optimisation (SEO) strategies the following are a list of activities that are routinely carried out. 1. Meta tag optimisation 2. Addition of static content to dynamic pages 3. Optimisation of internal links 4. Conversion of dynamic URL’s to static URL’s 5. Modification of site maps 1. Meta tag optimisation There are 3 key parts to Meta tags. These Meta title, Meta description and Meta keywords. In many websites these are dynamically generated based on certain pre-defined rules where the information is picked up from certain parts of a page.
Although their relevance has been consistently debated there is no denying that having well optimised and relevant Meta tags are part of best practices and can also influence your click through ratios. The design agency should provide the facility where, depending your SEO strategy you should be able to easily overwrite the dynamic Meta tags making them as relevant as possible. 2. Addition of static content to dynamic pages With a large number of e-commerce websites there are enough tools that provide cleaver facility to mange products, cross selling and other functionality. As most of these pages are dynamically generated many of these do not really exist. Hence most searches will result in either the home pages or top level pages appearing on search results which can loose a lot of your visitors.
The website should have the provision where the products can be dynamically generated but at the same time have content that is static. 3. Optimisation of internal links While most focus on developing backlinks from external websites, one of the most effective search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques is to effectively interlink pages within your website. If you see a Wikipedia page it is full of anchor texts that link to relevant content within the website. A website’s content management should have the functionality where content can be easily hyperlinked. 4. URL modification Dynamic websites often have URL that have long query strings consisting on numerous characters that mean very little to user and even less to search engines. There are tools available that can be installed on the server such as mod_rewrite ISAPI-rewrite depending on the servers that you are using. These can dramatically alter the long complicated ulr’s into addresses that are meaningful giving a boost to your SEO rankings and user experience. 5. Modification of Sitemaps Each successful website evolves overtime in its technology, products and marketing strategy. With the growth comes a colossal amount of information which at times gets lost in the website or otherwise looses a user. A site map is a blueprint of website which should allow the webmaster to dynamically keep it up to date with the growing demands of the website There are many website that maintain it diligently during the initial states only to overlook it when other things take priority.
By equipping your website with the functionality to make the above changes, you will be giving your SEO agency the best possible chances for collaborating with the web design agency and in implementing changes.

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Ethical Search Engine Optimisation UK

February 7, 2009

Search Engine Optimisation is carried out to gain higher rankings for a website. To do this, the site’s existing pages are modified so that they match search engine’s ranking algorithm. SEO is a time intensive and a long term procedure and takes time in delivering concrete results.

Ethical search engine optimisation is following SEO practices that are acceptable to the search engines. Unethical practices include creating link farms, building doorway or cloaking pages, purchasing links, using multiple domains with similar content, and using automated software to trick the search engines. These unethical practices produce contrary results and harm the website in the long run.

When SEO is carried out while working with the search engines and by abiding by the search engine rules, these practices are termed as ethical SEO practices. Semantic SEO is also one of the ethical SEO techniques that are recognized by the search engines.

Semantic based Search Engine Optimisation or Latent Semantic Indexing is a technique where first the content is carefully analyzed to sort out a list of keywords that are used for SEO purposes instead of focusing on a single keyword. This is done to ensure the relevancy of the content when it is displayed in the browser. As all the major search engines recognize semantic SEO, it helps to rank the website naturally in the search engines. It is a safer technique to use and much preferred than the Spam techniques, which can get your website penalised.

If you are serious about online marketing of your site, products and services in World Wide Web then Search engine optimisation is a must. Search Logic is a SEO company in UK, offering search engine optimisation in UK. The SEO services include activities such as Keyword research, Competition Analysis, Optimisation of the website content, Meta Tags and other html tags creation, Sub domain creation, creating additional website content relevant to the chosen keywords, and link building.

Search Logic has a team of online marketing experts who are equipped with the necessary knowledge & skills to offer relevant online solutions for your website. Besides semantic SEO we also offer you Pay per click bid management services, link building services, pay per click software and affiliate marketing services. You can choose from a wide array of solutions and packages specially designed considering the varied client needs. Pick according to your requirements and preferences and see the positive effects of the techniques.

Visit the site www.searchlogic.com to get more information about the SEO UK services offered at the site.

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Creating Your Own High Profit Niche Pay Per Click Search Engines

February 6, 2009

Today’s article is all about setting up niche pay per click search engines. If you thought that this was beyond the scope of the individual internet entrepreneur then you would be dead wrong. There are literally thousands of niche markets that are just begging for a specialty search engine - these are thriving industries with thousands of vendors looking for targeted advertising sources such as PPC engines.

What Are Niche Pay Per Click Search Engines?

Google is a search engine. It also has a pay per click element (Adwords) where all types of businesses deposit cash to Googles account in return for advertising space. Each time someone clicks on one of the adverts, the advertiser pays Google a determined amount. It could be 5 cents or as much as a hundred dollars per click.

Now if you have any doubts at all about the potential or profitability of this type of model then just take a look at Googles stock price - it’s worth hundreds of dollars per share. And it’s all thanks to the same basic search engine business model that you’re about to discover.

You see, Pay Per Click traffic is one of the most cost effective, targeted, profitable and popular ways to drive traffic to a website. Almost every single internet marketer or small business uses PPC advertising to drive highly targeted leads to their website. So there is no shortage of people waiting to pay for highly targeted traffic…which is good news for you.

But Google has a massive weakness that’s going to be your strength - Google tries to be a search engine in every niche topic in existence. When you set-up a niche search engine your aim is to focus on ONE TIGHT & SPECIFIC NICHE.

When you do this, you’ll attract the attention of everyone who has an interest in that niche. Set up a niche on hotels in England for example and you have just tapped into the following:

- The huge number of tourists & travellers who look for hotels in the UK. Per year that can mean a potential market in the millions.

- The tens of thousands of hotels, bed & breakfasts and guest-houses.

But why would anyone opt for your specific niche engine ahead of Google? Simply, it has a lot of junk inside its listings. It’s not optimised. Someone searching for a hotel to stay in within the UK would probably prefer to look in a search engine that is dedicated to just that.

Multiple Ways To Profit From Your Niche PPC Search Engine

The good thing about setting up a niche PPC search engine is that you can build multiple sources of profit from it. Essentially, you’ll be getting paid every time someone clicks on an advert. But there are some additional income streams that you can build into your search engine:

You’ll be getting a lot of TARGETED traffic. This is an ideal opportunity to offer additional affiliated products for additional profits.

It’s an opportunity to build a highly targeted opt in list - this can mean significant back-end income if harnessed effectively.

This is important - but once your search engine is operational you can sell it and create a massive pay-day for yourself.

How To Pick A Dynamic, High Profit Niche To Set-Up Your PPC Search Engine

We looked at the UK hotels niche as a good tightly focused niche. What makes it this a good niche, and how can you identify literally hundreds of additional niches with outstanding potential?

When picking a niche, here are a few things that you should consider:

Your niche should have a thriving market. Of course the amounts per click that you can charge are a factor, but so are the potential of prospects in the niche. For speciality niches where you can charge say $20 per click you may be able to get away with a small target market. However, if you’re only charging $0.05 per click then you’ll need a large volume of prospects.

Look for niche markets that are proven to be highly popular. If you can do this then you’ll almost certainly succeed.

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Update: Microsoft Live Search

February 6, 2009

What are the main changes?

Microsoft has made improvements to the search functionality of Live Search and added more personalized elements, focusing on social networks. New features have been added such as Windows Live translator. They also want to change the way results are brought to the consumers, also delivering multimedia results like its biggest competitor Google does .

Marc Bressel, regional sales director for EMEA at Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, said “We want to bring a totally different search results experience to what we have in the market”.

These innovations are following the launch of AdCenter in the UK last summer. A paid search platform to compete with Google Adwords but Microsoft didn’t achieve to be a serious thread to the market leader just yet. To be successful in this market Microsoft needs to win back its slice of the search engine market share in order to make the AdCenter platform work, one step to reach this goal is to bring more users to Live Search with their new version of Live Search .

But will it work? Time will tell …. so watch out for more news.

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Search Engine Optimization SEO Tutorial — WebBizIdeas

February 1, 2009




Search Engine Optimization SEO Tutorial by WebBizIdeas is for beginners. We will cover SEO techniques that you can use TODAY that will increase your search engine rankings. We will go over the definition of search engine optimization, organic results, PPC, keyword research, competition research, competition analysis, on page & off page optimization, Meta tags, header tags, keyword density, URLs, site maps, xml site maps, google webmaster tools, link development, directory submission, local directories, online yellow pages, one-way links, two-way links, three-way links, article submission, rss feed distribution, blog submission, and online press release optimization.

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