January 18th, 2010 by Michael Fleischner
I’ve been focused on helping web sites rank in the number one position for nearly a decade. As a result I’ve read and seen a lot of information published on SEO that is either totally inaccurate or validated with actual research. The good news is that I’ve sorted through a lot of this information to help you identify the best SEO strategies.
Having worked directly with hundreds of web sites I have discovered techniques for optimizing web sites that actually work. I often get question about SEO such as, “what is the one technique that works better than all others?” A difficult question to answer because I have found a number of techniques that are truly effective.
The first search engine ranking factor has to do with the anchor text of all inbound links to your website. Google and other search engines use the anchor text from other sites linking in to determine what your site is about and what it should rank well for. If websites link in only using a URL, and not your keywords in the anchor text, email them and ask them to update your link. The link should always appear with your most important keywords.
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November 12th, 2009 by Mitch Larson
Someone once said, “Let information be freely available in digital form for humanity to peruse as it needs and wants,” and behold, the Internet was born. The Internet was born over the course of many months instead of seven days, but it remains a most miraculous source of information, with it being easy to search and navigate and giving millions opportunities to learn things that they may otherwise never know. The Internet, however, was not always so easy to use, and before search engines made everything really easy to find there was another method of finding information on the web. This method involved the use of something called web directories, which still exist in force today.
While there were several directories back in these good old days, there were two that stood out and became the largest and most used directories of the Internet at the time: the Yahoo Directory and the Open Directory Project. Yahoo shortly afterward released a “search engine” service, but it was another face of the same service: this “search engine” (and other engines of this time) only searched through the directory for results, so any website that had not yet been manually added to the directory didn’t exist as far as the engine was concerned
For several years directories enjoyed the status of the “go to guys” of the web. This was not to last, sadly, as some forward thinkers saw the potential limits of directories and how these would become more apparent as the Internet grew exponentially over the years. These forward thinkers happened to work at a small company called Google, and they developed what would become the most widely used search engine on the planet. Other search engines appeared following Google’s lead, and it seemed that directories would soon become a thing of the past. Directories have managed to hang on, however.
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July 13th, 2009 by Alex Paxton
by Alex Paxton
Social bookmarking software is a dream come true for busy webmasters and writers as the number of social bookmark sites that have emerged in the last few years have added a new dimension to interactive communities online and the ability to share articles and important news.
Social Bookmarking software does offer some good incentives to those who are cash rich and time poor. For example: you too can discover the secrets to Social Bookmarking, the software is all automated and completed in minutes, support to generate profits and targeted traffic and create a high number of Backlinks to one’s website, the future has now arrived in the present, get high page rank with Google and other search engines, reap in the profits and you’ll see the difference in your bank balance.
I love this part. Bookmarking Demon will even automate the process of joining all the new bookmarking sites you are not already a member of. This feature is a huge time saver.
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