web traffic generation
Successful press releases with PRWeb
I wrote an introduction before on using press releases as a way to gain web traffic. Press releases not only give you free ingoing links from high pr web sites. They can also give you free publicity in print media.
Now here are a few practical tips to get the most out of your press [...]
Are you putting Bad content on your site?
When you start a new site you should start to build your content right away. It will always take a while for search engines to find you and see you as a source of information that should be indexed.
Social bookmarking and web 2.0 sites has made it much faster to get pages indexed than [...]
5 new ideas for researching keywords
I have written an introduction to keyword research earlier. If you have not read it before take a few minutes and go back and read that post.
Keyword research is important to make sure there is an audience for what you write about. It is also a tool to find new audiences you did not [...]
Google insight
Another great tool you should know about is Google insight.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
Google insight is a free service from Google that allows you to compare search patterns in categories, in specific regions and over time. It also gives a list of search terms related to your keywords.
Enter one or more search term in the search box.
Next, Filter [...]
Buzz
So today I am going to be short. I am just going to share one site I discovered quite recently, or rather I known about it for a while but started using recently. Point your browser to :
http://buzz.yahoo.com/
This Yahoo site is a really nice to keep on top of what is happening now in the [...]
Concepts Instead of keywords
I have written about the importance of keyword research before and it is important. But, the game is changing. First a short background than I will tell you why this is important to you.
One of the new search engine technologies getting talked about lately is LSI. LSI stands for latent semantic indexing and it is [...]
Off-page search engine optimization
Yesterday I wrote about on-page web page Search engine optimization. On-page optimization is required to get your web page to rank well but it is not enough.
The other big ingredient in getting top ranking in the search engines is called off-page optimization. Off-page optimization is about making other pages help increase your pages ranking. In [...]
On page Search engine optimization
On page SEO is about making it easy for the search engines to index your web page for the right terms. There are a few things you should always do or at least know about when creating a web page.
Use the <title> tag
The title tag is displayed in the title of the web browser. You [...]
Search engine optimization – black and white
Search engine optimization is about trying to improve your position in the search engine for a specific web page for a given search term.
Many people see Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as something bad. As something done to spam search engine, an annoyance.
It can be.
This type of SEO is often called black hat SEO. [...]
Compare yourself to your competition
I am always interested in knowing how I am doing against other similar sites in my area. If they are getting more visitors I want to know and find out why. If I am doing better than the competition that is also valuable to know. Besides, it feels good!
Compete.com is a service that let you [...]