SEO Articles

Importance of backlinks

Peter — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:30:16 +0000

Backlinks play a major role in increasing the traffic to a web hosting site. As part of a search engine optimization strategy you should aim to build backlinks up over time. Backlinks not only increase the number of visitors but also helps in gaining a strong position in search engine result pages for your chosen keywords.These are some ways to buid backlinks

Directory Submissions
Article Submission
Press Release
Forum sigs
Blogging
RSS & Feeds

If you do all of the above you will slowly build up a huge network of backlinks. Take part in the conversation and build a good reputation at the same time as you build backlinks.

Search Engine Optimization

Peter — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:28:48 +0000

In recent years the most important step for a Web Site owner to ensure large number of hits for his website is to design his it in such a way that it is listed in search engine results on the top. This is a fast growing business now days.(SEO) Search Engine Optimization uses a combination of techniques, tools, and technical know-how to get results. SEO is a set of methodologies aimed at improving the visibility of a Web Site in search engine listing. SEO involves the careful designing of corporate Web Site to increase their chances of visibility in the major search engines for e.g. Google, Yahoo, Alta-Vista etc. The higher a ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that that site will be visited by a user.

• Meta Tags

Meta Tags are very important for your Web Site’s visibility. Many search engines read them from your site when you submit it to them .Major Meta tags that you can use:

Meta Title the only resource type that is currently in use is “documenting” This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes.

Meta Description Depending on the search engine, this will be displayed along with the title of your page in an index. “Content” could be a word, sentence or even paragraph to describe your page. Keep this reasonably short, concise and to the point.

Meta Keywords Choose whatever keywords you think are appropriate, separated by commas.

Navigational links:

At the right or at the bottom but not on the left of the page. When the search engines “read” your site, they read from the top left to the bottom right. Search engines place an emphasis on the first 100 words or text on the site. You do not want these words to be navigational links or JavaScript. Ideally, you want to have your heading tags with your keywords in the beginning of your page. This being said, placing your links/JavaScript on the right or bottom of your page ensures the search engine spiders get to the text first, giving more weight to what’s important on your page.

Rich Content:

Keep your site very content rich. The more content you have on your site the more likely someone is to find what they’re looking. Have a lot of pages. Update the site as many times as possible in a day if you have the time. Updating your site does not mean that you copy paste content from other web hosting sites. That will only push your rankings further down. Don’t have any duplicate content. At the same time, dont spam multiple content across the same website. A search engine constantly views or reviews a website or at least every few months, it looks for specific characteristics found in the content of website pages.
On More tips on Search Engine Optimization please visit.
http://www.googleseostar.org

Google Zeitgeist

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:39:07 +0000

Google Zeitgeist : What’s exactly ? Popular or Most Frequently Searched ?

Google’s annual Zeitgeist, which generally used to list “the most popular and fastest-rising global search terms” .

Google has changed the language describing the Zeitgeist to reflect its focus as a comparison of search terms’ popularity between last year and this year. Instead of listing off boring top search terms , they looked for those searches that were very popular in 2006 but were not as popular in 2005.

Important factors that make a website TOP in SERP

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:08:04 +0000

1. Internet Marketing ( Presence and Self Dynamics )
2. Interactive Content ( Constructivity and uniqueness )
3. Usability ( Structure and User interface )
4. Web Design ( Detailed and Readable )
5. Online Behavior ( Ethics )

these are the Important factors that make a website TOP in SERP .

Search Engine Users

Steven — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:43:06 +0000

Search engines have become an increasingly important part of the online experience of American Internet users. The recent updates from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys and consumer behavior trends the survey shows that about 80 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day and its growing day by day.

Importance of Search Engine

Steven — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:10:29 +0000

Today search engines are just as important as ever. Every on like to have a relevant searches on there wesite. Google is now the most dominant search technology, followed at a distance by Yahoo! And soon MSN. Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Go.com and Excite have all been relegated to tier 2 status as their market share has been stripped by an overwhelming Google onslaught.

Exclusive advertising has all but disappeared, and in its place has emerged a relatively egalitarian free-market system based on the highest bidder for each search result. These advertisements take the form of text ads which adhere to a strict set of character limits and editorial guidelines. The rates are not CPM based, but metered out on a pay-per-click basis. Each click is a billable charge - with little or even no emphasis placed on the number of impressions required to get the click. Many of the wesites are dependent on the serach engines and get good customers.

PageRank 10 sites

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:15:28 +0000

List of PageRank 10 sites

1. Adobe.com - Adobe Systems, software company
2. Apple.com - Apple Computer, also houses the iTunes Music Store
3. Blogger.com - Blogger, a weblog publishing tool
4. CSAIL - MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (*)
5. Energy.gov - United States Department of Energy
6. ERCIM.org - European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (*)
7. FirstGov.gov - U.S. government portal
8. Google.com - Google, search engine that assigns PageRank
9. Keio.ac.jp - Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (*)
10. Macromedia.com - Macromedia, software company
11. NASA.gov - NASA, U.S. government agency for the space program and aerospace research
12. NSF.gov - National Science Foundation, U.S. government agency for scientific research
13. NYTimes.com New York Times, news site
14. Real.com - RealPlayer, music, video, games
15. StatCounter.com - tracking service
16. W3.org - World Wide Web Consortium
17. WebStandards.org - Web Standards Project
18. Whitehouse.gov - The White House

Rate your Site

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:54:45 +0000

Greetings ,

You can Rate your site fully by using http://www.rackspace.co.uk/rateyoursite/ .

I tried and found it pretty good to find out backlogs of site.

Meaning of common Error Pages

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:50:36 +0000

200 : OK - The request has succeeded. The information returned with the response is dependent on the method used in the request.
301 : Moved Permanently - The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource should use one of the returned URIs.
302 : Found - The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client should continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.
304 : Not Modified - If the client has performed a conditional GET request and access is allowed, but the document has not been modified, the server should respond with this status code.
307 : Temporary Redirect - The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection MAY be altered on occasion, the client should continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.
400 : Bad Request - The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client should NOT repeat the request without modifications.
401 : Unauthorized - The request requires user authentication. The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource.
403 : Forbidden - The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request should NOT be repeated.
404 : Not Found - The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.
410 : Gone - The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known. This condition is expected to be considered permanent.
500 : Internal Server Error - The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
501 : Not Implemented - The server does not support the functionality required to fulfill the request. This is the appropriate response when the server does not recognize the request method and is not capable of supporting it for any resource.

Types of Links in SEO terms

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:49:00 +0000

Types of Links in SEO terms

1. Hyperlink (Link ) : It’s the core concept/technology that allows the web to operate. A hyperlink connects a webpage to either another document (webpage or file), or a different part of the same document.
2. Internal links: (On-site links) Links on the site, pointing to other parts of the site.
3. Outbound links: Links on the site, pointing to other sites than the one the link is on.
4. Inbound links: Links on other sites, pointing to the site in question or to separate pages within the site.
5. Off-line links: Links to this or other sites printed on ie. business cards, advertising, product fact sheets, user guides, contracts, physical products, or legal documents etc.
6. Back Link : Backlinks are the incoming links to a website or web page. Also called inbound links or IBLs.
7. Reciprocal Link : A reciprocal link is where website [A] links to website [B], which in turn links to website [A].
8. Dead Link - A link to a URL that no longer exists.
9. Absolute link : An absolute link is created when the href value is a fully qualified URL, including: “http://domain-name ” . An absolute href value must be specified to create a link between pages on different websites
10. Relative link : A relative link can only be used when linking between locations within a website (under a single domain). A relative link is created when the destination href value is relative to the location of the current webpage or source anchor.
11. Deep-linking :Help to gauge the relevance of the link to current activity; provide a summary of the linked page’s content.Confirm that they have reached the right destination; use the title of the destination page as the link text. Deep-linking is linking directly to a sub-page of a site (rather than the homepage).
12. Root-relative link ( Root link ) : A root-relative link can only be used when linking locations within a website (under a single domain). A root-relative link is created when the href value is relative to the website root.
13. Link Farm : A set of web pages that have been built for the sole purpose of increasing the number of incoming links to a web site. This is done in order to increase link popularity and search engine rankings. These types of pages are penalized by almost all search engines.