Oct 07 2010

5 Ways to Pick the Right Keywords for Your SEO Campaign

Keyword research is the crucial step in website development and SEO process. There are some basic points to stick to while doing keyword research for your SEO campaign. Research Your Target Market The product/service you offer might be suitable for a particular age group, or you may be targeting a particular geographic region, or a particular industry. It is important to understand who is actually searching for your products or service - so that you can understand the behavioral pattern of your prospective customers and streamline your keyword selection strategies accordingly. Example: if you are targeting UK market for [lawyer], you should choose a more commonly-used term ‘solicitor’, instead of ‘lawyer’ which is widely used in the United...

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Things To Consider Before Splitting Your Site Into Micro-sites

It is quite common for many website owners to consider splitting an existing website into various smaller sites, which are often called as Micro-sites. However, the advantages and disadvantages of such a decision are numerous and careful thought is required before making any decision. Besides, before making any decision a great deal of market research needs to be carried out because what you would like to primarily avoid is losing your existing market share and...

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Multilingual Websites and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Things to consider The internet has truly opened the doors to international trade, allowing us to reach a global audience like never before. English is often cited as the language of the internet. However, consider this: 75% of the world’s population do not speak English. A multilingual approach is therefore important if your company is targeting international clients and consumers. But equally important is optimising your site so that it is search engine friendly. Below is...

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Seasonality SEO and Fluctuations!

Working with SEO all year round will help you to create some pretty stable results, especially if you are targeting the same pages each day.  In order for SEO to work properly you need to spend a lot of time on a site or page in order for it to rank.  However there are some rarer cases, where SEO can be deployed in a fast and effective manner for a...

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Are You Staying on Topic – or Losing Traffic?

What's your niche? If you've been writing your blog for any more than a couple of weeks then you should hopefully be able to answer that question pretty easily. But how many times have you actually stopped to review your work? As you blog, you will naturally learn new things and grow. Like-wise your blog will continuously evolve; this is perfectly normal, and it's certainly not a bad thing. The problem comes when you start to...

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Getting Started with PPC

Broadly, Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising is an effective method of promoting your business online to a targeted audience. But more specifically, the great benefit of PPC is that it allows you to advertise in a market where people are already searching for what you are offering, and you only pay when visitors actually click on your URL. Although the setup of a PPC campaign may seem simple, there are key elements that can greatly...

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Use Google AdWords to Inform Your SEO Campaigns

Do you struggle to find keywords for your SEO campaigns that actually make you money? There's not a lot of point becoming number 1 for a keyword and then realising that actually people seeking that keyword don't convert into buyers. If this is the situation you find yourself in, consider using Google AdWords temporarily to identify the best keywords to optimise your website for. The best keywords will be those that resulted...

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5 Cool Tips to Help Google Penalize You

Most of Bloggers who are into SEO and blogging for a while know about Google penalty and Google slap. This usually happens in the form of decrease in page rank, removal of pages from Google search index, low Search engine ranking. There are a few things which you should avoid to get Google penalty, but if you are determined to get Google penalty, here are few...

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Google Instant and SEO: What Will Change?

The first thing to bear in mind wrt. Google instant is that, currently, it isn’t the default behavior  from Google.co.uk. Users must be logged in to their Google accounts, if they have them. However, it is the default behavior in Google.com which requires that users disable instant if they don’t want the suggestions. Will Google Instant become the default behavior from Google.co.uk? It is fair to assume that this will be the case sooner or later. Whether the...

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The New Website Checklist

There are many things that developers and marketers must keep in mind when they are about to launch a brand new website, but you may not necessarily have an actual checklist of to-do items. For this reason, this new website checklist has been compiled for your convenience. It may not be definitive, but it will help you get the fundamentals of your site right so that your website start's life with its best foot forward. 1....

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