What makes a good SEO? Is it just about having knowledge of search engine algorithms, being able to tweak code for the biggest ranking impact, or inserting keywords into a page to give it a better keyword focus? Is SEO all about search engine rankings or is there more to this than meets the eye? Several years ago I wrote, "Gone are they days when SEO focused exclusively on top search engine rankings." I wish I was right about that, but...
Step one Find A Niche Find something that you know about a little bit better than your neighbour down the street. You do not have to be a genius and you do not have to know everything about it. Step 2 Keyword Research This is one of the most over looked step that a webmaster needs to do. Keyword research is a very big key to earning a place on the front page of Google. So you need to choose your niche and then research your...
Today I am going to give you 4 simple strategies for SEO that you can implement right now. 1. Keywords Keywords are very important, there is a debate going on right now on whether or not Google still uses keywords to rank sites. Search engines still use keywords to rank sites, keywords are not the be all and end all, you do have to use more SEO strategies other than keywords. What are key words exactly? You use keywords when you are...
If you have a small business and you are planning to write a blog because you believe that it will drive traffic to your website and improve your sales. Blog or web log is one of the best ways to make your business recognized. Blogging is considered as an effective marketing tool and public relations. Businesses know that they have to connect with their current, as well as prospective customers. The secret to an effective blog relies on...
I bet you gasped when you read the title of this post. The reason why you probably gasped is because you’ve heard everywhere that content is king. But I’m going to share with you today the reason why content is not King per say. As we all know already that Google doesn’t only just use seo when it comes to ranking a piece of content. There are many other factors that Google uses such as backlinks, content quality, outbound links etc. ...
Basic SEO practices for Beginners (h1 tag) SEO is a very important ingredient that needs to be added to every website that you decide to build. But there is one thing you need to understand from the outset and it is that SEO is not the only thing that makes a successful website. SEO is not a proven science because search engines are forever changing their Algorithms and to add to that each search engine uses different ones. All you can...
Google updated its algorithm earlier this year with some devastating result for many internet marketers. But the devastation did not just stop or end with internet marketers, some website that were not even it the making money online niche saw massive changes to their rankings over night. There have been some real horror stories over the past few months of websites that were ranking well in Google that just disappeared over night. The...
The Google Panda update has taught a lot of site owners and SEO professionals’ two very important lessons. The first has been summed as ‘content is king’, which I disagree with. Content is not king, the person who handles the SEO campaign is king and the content is just another soldier in their SEO Battalion. Those sites who were punished purely based on poor quality content were just living on borrowed time and should have known it. In...
Since the launch of Google+ in late June, it has managed to corral in over 20 million users within a matter of just under half a year. Google+ has had an impressive adoption rate, no doubt, and this has left users and businesses considering the potential for rising to the ranks of Facebook within a reasonable amount of time. Of course, Google+ has intuitively picked many features that Twitter and Facebook never shared, and fused them together...
Web pages, videos, articles, podcasts, blog posts—content is everywhere and with Google’s latest algorithm changes, valuable content is more important than ever. Here’s the problem: Most businesses put out content without ever seeing a return on time and investment. While there are some tricks and tips you can apply to your content, if you don’t have the following basic rules down, the best tips will not make a difference. Here...