Posts Tagged ‘Search Engine Optimization’
Google SEO and Website Speed
We recently wrote an article about how in the very near future, website speed will become a factor. We had quite a bit of feedback on this article so we are choosing to expand the topic. Most of you may think that website speed is purely determined by how fast your website hosting company computer [...]
Nofollow and Noindex on Robots.txt and Meta Tags
I know a lot of you are wondering what’s the difference between the “nofollow” and “noindex” in the robots.txt file and the ones declared on the meta tags. Some search engine optimization specialists claims that there’s no difference while others believe that one method is less valuable than the other.
You can ask it out on [...]
What are Keywords?
Keywords are the words and phrases that describe a page. Keywords are also the words that search engine users to find the pages they want. Search engines, in essence, retrieve information related to the user’s keyword based on the keywords in web pages. If a user types the words “digital camera” into a search engine, [...]
What is Search Engine Marketing
Search engine marketing, or SEM, is the whole range of marketing and advertising techniques a website will use to improve their ranking within search engines. This is not one practice or set of steps, but can include several different marketing techniques. The most important element of any website’s SEM is effective SEO. Other techniques within [...]
What are the Issues of SEO?
The advantage of SEO is increased page rank and more visitors to a site. The issues that are associated with SEO are generally related to unscrupulous businesses that aim to take people’s money and promise much more in return than they can actually offer.
One challenge with SEO is the fine line between search engine optimization [...]
Using Keywords: Effective Writing
One of the most basic but difficult writing tasks is writing with keywords in mind. The writer will be using these keywords over and over again, so his or her first task becomes to pick the keywords. There are several criteria which websites can use to pick keywords.
• First, what is the general subject of [...]
Hiring SEO Consultants
Not everyone has the time or hands-on experience to carry out an effective SEO plan. Some webmasters are do-it-yourself oriented and would love to try out SEO techniques on their own. The rest, however, don’t have the time or knowledge to do this. These types may consider hiring an SEO consultant.
SEO consultants are businesses or [...]
Effective Writing
Many websites will skip this important step when creating a site using SEO. They often forget that the content of the site matters just as much as keyword usage or linking. Today’s search engine spiders take language and writing into account. Search engines have begun to examine whole language rather than just words and will [...]
Why is Page Rank Important?
The importance of search engines cannot be emphasized enough. Search engines offer websites an opportunity to reach a large, global audience. Without search engines, any webmaster might find getting more visitors difficult. If search engines only directed a small amount of web traffic, though, search engine marketing might be less important, but search engines direct [...]
Relevancy and Usability
These elements are generally most important to the human visitor to a page, but benefitting the user is a great way to gain more visitors and more rank. Being constantly accessible and easy to understand can only benefit a site through loyalty from current customers and increased numbers of new customers.
The relevancy of a site [...]