SEO and Backlink Building

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Ranking well in the search engines for highly competitive phrases takes more than just on-page SEO tactics. It takes backlinks, and lots of them.

Backlinks are links from other websites or blogs that link to your website. Some good backlinks will do more than anything you do on your own site.

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Tags: affiliates, Article Marketing, Articles, Home Business, online marketing, SEO
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What is Social Marketing?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Social marketing is a new form of advertising that is just starting to become popular. Often social marketing is a favorite of small businesses because it is virtually free although in order to use it to drive traffic to a website the company still needs to use traditional search engine marketing and search engine optimization techniques. It is build around the idea of link strategies and using personal networking to drive website traffic. (more…)

Tags: SEO, social networking
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Designing A website? Here Are Some Tips

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

When you come across the headquarters of an off-line company, what you see gives you an impression of the company, good or bad. Your website is just the same. This makes it very important to practice good design principals. Your website need to reach the maximum number of people so that you can make the most sales possible. (more…)

Tags: Web Design, Website Design
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Search Engine Marketing: Timing of SEO in the Web Design Process

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

If you’re just starting to build your website now is the best time to start planning your search engine optimization and search engine marketing strategy. The best time to introduce the SEO planning of a website is when the site design is ready and the site is ready to be launched but there is no content yet for the site. Just before the site launches is the time to bring in an SEO consultant to provide some SEO services. After the design of the website is done an SEO consultant can give you suggestions about what keywords and key phrases you need to add into the site HTML as Meta tags and where those tags should go. Once the site is tagged and the design and navigation has been tested it’s time to add in content. Having SEO content on your site from the start will give your web site a big advantage over older websites that might already have a bit of a following but haven’t had any SEO services by a professional SEO consultant. (more…)

Tags: SEO, Web Design, Website Promotion
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Search Engine Marketing: How Search Engines Rank Web Pages

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Getting your webpage ranked as high as possible on a search engine results page is one of the goals of search engine marketing and using search engine optimization on your website. But do you know how the search engine actually ranks and indexes web pages? Most search engines use a complicated process to index and rank the web pages that the search engine spiders find when they are scanning the web. Using search engine optimization and putting articles written with search engine marketing in mind will get the search engine spiders to your site but once the search engine spiders find your site they have to index your site and then assign your site a ranking within the thousands of other sites that contain information on the same topic that your site has. (more…)

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