Articles tagged with: SEO


May 26, 201117

7 Link Building Tips That Won’t Kill Your Keyword Rankings or Get Your Site Banned

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips
7 Link Building Tips That Won’t Kill Your Keyword Rankings or Get Your Site Banned
You are the owner of a well-designed, flawlessly developed website stocked with relevant, well-written content.  All your tags have proper keyword usage, you have developed SEO-friendly permalink structure, and you have followed all the best practices for optimization.  All of your on-page SEO tactics are on point.  Your next step is to practice solid link building strategies to get your page seen by searchers and to get it ranking highly for your keywords.Link building has a reputation as being a difficult and time-consuming process.  The reason for this is that it is difficult to know exactly how Google will value each of your backlinks.  As a general rule, the juiciest backlinks are dofollow text links acquired from popular, high-ranking, well-visited websites.The challenge in acquiring such an ideal link, not to mention hundreds more just like it, often leads frustrated website owners to consider less desirable alternatives.  These “alternatives” include building a high-volume of low quality links on questionable websites, and even buying links.  You must understand that these actions carry a high probability of causing your website to be penalized or even banned from Google.  Simply said, Google is aware of SEOs gaming the search engines and just rolled out ...
May 23, 20116

Creating Content to Attract Links

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips
Creating Content to Attract Links
We all know the old song and dance about how content is king, but what does it mean? Does it mean Google just loves content? Well yes but largely because they rely on great content to attract links naturally, giving honest, trustworthy signals of value. So obviously you want some of those signals to say that your site is the man. Not to mention having link worthy content is something every site wants for the traffic, for the ranking benefits and for the credibility. All of these things help make a site stand apart from the competition. So what exactly are the secrets of creating content that attracts links? Research The first step to figuring out what you can do that might get links is to see what’s out there that already IS getting them. There are a few key places to look in your quest:Competitors - Find the best performing content on your competitors’ sites. Some of it may be impossible to replicate, but other efforts may inspire you with strategies you can use on your own site.Top Bloggers and Information Sites - When you find relevant blogs or popular resource sites you can look at all of the posts, questions and other ...
Mar 29, 201150

Blog Commenting Strategy to Improve Search Engine Ranking

Categories: Blog Setup, SEO
Blog Commenting Strategy to Improve Search Engine Ranking
A blog commenting strategy focuses on getting constant backlinks from other blogs and websites. This post is concentrated on giving you specific instructions and detailed strategies that you can instantly apply to your daily method in any given niche. You have to know from which sources and also HOW MANY backlinks you require to achieve HIGH rankings with a particular keyword. This is the very first point that a person has to know before he or she can even move on to building these highly targeted backlinks from other people's websites.How can you start with your own blog commenting strategy and from where and which sources can you get links fast? It is all about the search parameter you use to find niche targeted, relevant and trusted blogs in Google. Here are some sites where you can leave a comment. Make sure to look at the search strategy that is effective for both sites and keywords.site:flickr.com “your keyword” site:blogspot.com “your keyword” site:hubpages.com “your keyword” “powered by wordpress” your keywordThese are just four sites from which you can get immediate links within a few seconds or minutes. The first thing you have to write into Google's search is the site, then your keyword or ...
Jan 24, 201127

6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic

Categories: SEO, Site Optimization Tips
6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic
Developing SEO strategies that can drive an immense amount of traffic to your site within a month is not an easy task, especially if you want your site’s visitors to convert into profits. Generating highly targeted traffic or visitors that have the intent of availing the services or products that you are offering is the best way to really earn from your website.The good news is that there are many ways that you can do to hasten the process of having your site noticed by people who are in need of the information, services or products that you provide. Here are some of the ways that you can do to generate specifically targeted online visitors in under a month.1. Target easy to rank long-tail keywords through blog postsIf your site has no blog section yet, then you better start including one. Blogs can benefit your business in so many ways, and consistently driving traffic to your site is one of them. Using long-tail keywords in your blog posts’ titles (eg. How to learn SEO), can extremely help your site’s performance in terms of traffic generation, seeing as this strategy can very much take your blog posts on top of SERPs ...
Apr 13, 201015

Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search

Categories: Site Optimization Tips, Web development
Site Speed is Now a Search Ranking Factor for Google Search
Google has officially made site speed one of the factors for search rank (there are over 200 ranking factors). So now is a good time to read the WordPress site optimization tips post and put some plan of action in place.Now, you have no reason to go into a panic mode just yet. Optimizing your site for better performance is always a good thing from a usability point of view but Google has indicated that only about 1% of search queries and even fewer search results will be affected from this change at this stage.There are several research statistics that show that decreasing your site load time on pages leads to an increase in sales which we all want. There are three things to take away from what Google is doing.Speeding up your website is a good general practice. Think about how many times you have waited for a site to load. When the site takes too long you usually end up closing the browser and moving on. This change will have a small impact on most sites, so don't panic. Small constructive changes can have a direct impact on improving your site and user experience. Instead of wasting time where it ...
Jan 19, 200985

Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques I Forget to do

Categories: Featured, SEO
Top 15 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques I Forget to do
Search Engine Optimization is a very hot topic in the World Wide Web. After all, everybody wants to rank higher and come up on the first page of Google search and get more traffic. I have identified and made a list of top 15 SEO practices that I tend to forget quite often. These simple SEO techniques if practiced properly can make a significant difference as to how my pages are ranked in the Search Engine Queries.Use rel="nofollow" tag on low value links to not pass the page rank juice. For example 'Read the rest of the entry', 'About', 'Contact' etc. Use proper anchor text for interlinks. Don’t use 'here' or 'there'. Optimize the images, always create alt tags and write description in the alt tag. Use search engine friendly permalinks. Make sure the URLs do not have '&', '?', '!' etc characters. Use hyphens (-) between words to improve readability. Do not use underscores (_), use hyphens (-) instead. Do not use session id in URLs. Use sticky posts. Use tag clouds. Have a category description paragraph. Let the visitors subscribe to category specific RSS feed. (Use category specific RSS plugin for WordPress) Use internal linking when possible and appropriate. Use sub-directories rather than sub-domains when possible. Sub-domains do not share ...

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