Feb 27 2009

Dig into Your Search Referrals for Content Ideas and SEO

Today's tip has something to do with my tip on increasing your search ranking by exploring your current positions and search referrals and then interlinking potentially powerful pages. Friday SEO tip is provided by Alexander Villamizar of Latam SEO. Keep an eye on keywords people are using to get to your site.  When I check that list for my site, I might find that there are some visits for a keyword that is not on the first page on Google (for example page 3 or 4). What I do next, if the competition for that keyword is not that high, is to create a new entry at my blog based on that keyword, so that it could rank higher. When...

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Read SEO Blogs and Participate in Forums

Today's tip is going to be short, sweet and open ended. To really dig into SEO, get your hands dirty, and ultimately understand the working of organic search engine optimization; you must read SEO blogs and participate in forums for at least 1 hour per day. My favorite SEO blogs are (I'm only gonna name four cause I want people to add their fav's in the comments): Search Engine Roundtable Small Business SEM SEO Book SEO...

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Are You Making the Most of Your Page H1 Tag?

Despite the fact that it is still unconfirmed and unclear how much heading tags affect the actual search algorithm, H1 tag is most likely to matter a lot (I believe many SEOs will testify for that relying on their experience). Therefore it is really essential to use it correctly. So today I am offering an essential checklist for you to proofread your global H1 tag usage: H1 tag should be present on each page: heading...

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Change Hosts or IPs Without Losing SEO Ranking

Today's Daily SEO Tip is a step by step guide to keeping a site organic ranking when changing IP address due to moving hosting or in order to obtain a country specific IP address. Today's tip was contributed by Ran at Conversion Counts. Enjoy :) One of my clients recently had to change their website's IP address after 6 years [sweating icon]. The client rightfully was concerned what will happen to their organic ranking in...

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How to Control Your Site External Anchor Text

That's a frequent question I get from my clients. Really, apart from taking care of internal anchor text and adding links with proper text yourself, is there any way to control the anchor text of naturally acquired external in-links? Let's find a few ways together: Get a domain name containing your keyword: Putting aside all debates about whether domain name plays any direct role in the search ranking algorithm, there's no denying the fact that most people...

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Website Usability Equals Better SEO

Today's SEO tip is very short but it is a really good reminder for us, SEOs, that website success is not primarily about search bots - make it for people in the first place. The SEO tip is provided by Scott of Usable.co.nz Make your website as easy-to-use as possible for humans. For example: use a simple navigation menu located in a conventional position (e.g. top left); avoid jargon except when you know your audience will...

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6 Useful Wordpress SEO Plugins

Today's post was contributed in part by Mr. I from Blogging With Success. The best thing about WordPress is that it's open source and can be extended with the help of plugins, which are made by creative third party developers. In this post, we have listed 6 best SEO plugins that make managing meta information, links and almost everything related to SEO very easy. Out of the box, Wordpress is already very user friendly and...

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Forget about Keyword Density

I know, this is a well-discussed topic but believe it or not I have to deal with this misconception daily. People still try to repeat the keyword phrase a set number of times to make sure a search bot will understand it. Here's the news, search engines have become much smarter now - they don't need that much effort from your part to understand you. Why is the concept of keyword density so dangerous? First of all,...

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Blog Directory Links : List Your Blog

Launching a new blog is a lot of fun, and so is building links to it. I have written about blog directories in the past, and used to own one, and honestly have been very shocked about how bad the quality has gotten with some of the blogosphere's first directories. That being said, here is a round up of some of the top resources to submit site to. Submitting your blog to an established human...

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How to Use Google Wildcard Operator for Link Building and Baiting

Google treats a wildcard * as a placeholder for one or more words. Although rarely used, this search operator offers a goldmine of great opportunities. This short SEO tip will showcase how you can use Google's wildcard operator to search for backlink opportunities and link baiting inspiration: Link Building Wildcard Search Queries: One of the first things you do when starting a link building campaign is adding your link to relevant resources that accept link...

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