Off-site SEO is essentially the process of getting backlinks for your website. This is a very simple definition indeed, and obviously there is a little more to it. In this article, we are going to give you many tips for you to understand this process. Off-site SEO covers a lot of ground. First off, you need to know a lot of about the niche of your website. For instance, if your website is in the “Internet marketing” niche, then you need to...
There are so many reasons to make your website faster: Higher conversion rates, lower bandwidth costs and yes, higher rankings in organic search. Frankly, I’m stunned how often web teams resist doing it. Here’s a list from easy to not-so-easy, of 29 ways you can get things running faster on your website: Put your images on a separate domain. Services like Amazon S3 make this very easy. Open an S3 account. Point a subdomain like...
Choosing keywords for your web site is an important step in search engine optimization (SEO). One method often used to help choose keywords is to consult and rely upon the Keyword Effectiveness Index or KEI. As an “automatic” way to pick keywords the KEI leaves something to be desired, but that could be said about any way to use an automatic method for keyword selection. As a tool to help YOU pick keywords, it can be useful, as long as you...
By definition, the main functions of a search engine entail allowing users to find the most accurate locations able to offer information relevant to their queries and sending them to various websites where they can find further info or products to purchase. Given the rumors about Microsoft future plans to launch a new search engine and the attention Wolfram Alpha’s SE has received lately, it is only natural to ask yourself if this means the...
There is no stopping Google at the moment. The brand has gone from a powerful search engine to a vast online empire and shows no signs of stopping. Google now offers numerous great tools and apps for web users. The latest addition is the Face Recognition software for Google +. Google + Features: Google+ has recently received several key upgrades. This new sociable Google has proven popular and has increased the effectiveness of online data...
Although it's not a new concept, over the past eighteen months, the impact of guest blogging has significantly increased. While it used to be notable when a blogger published a guest post, there are now a substantial number of blogs that are run almost exclusively through the publication of guest posts. It's not hard to see why many bloggers have made guest posts a core part of their publishing strategy. Instead of spending hours coming up with...
As we all know, Yahoo! Site Explorer is gone and is gone for good. Strangely enough, most SEO’s have taken it for granted for so long that now many of them don’t really know what to do (desperate hand splash). SEO blogs and forums are abuzz with questions like “How do I see competitors’ backlinks?”, “Where do I get backlink data from?”, “Is there another free backlink checker like Y!SE?” and similar. Some typical...
Guest blogging is one the best ways of securing backlinks naturally and organically. Blogging about a subject you love or niche then providing your links is a great way of boosting your sites seo. Blogging requires a lot of research and planning so that a blogger can contribute the most relevant topics at a given time as people will only allow you to guest post if the content is of high quality. Search engines such as Google use an algorithm...
Link building is an important part of SEO, but it’s one that’s often misunderstood. If you want to improve your search engine rankings, you’ll need to build some high quality links from reputable websites, and that takes a lot of work. If you’re willing to put in the time and effort, however, the results can be impressive. Try these tips to improve your next link-building campaign. Claim your name: Make a list of all of the big...
As we know, from the ethical point of view, there are several ways to promote a website in the SERPs. Some folks do it by putting in their blood, sweat and tears into the job, while others try to game the system and get some really crappy sites ranked in the top 10. The former are known as SEO white hats, while the latter are referred to as the black hats. Every experienced SEO knows that black-hat ways may pay off faster, but, eventually,...