. One of the main goals of SEO is to build traffic. Why are so many SEO professionals ignoring directories? Search engines have not abolished directories! Google has simply gotten stricter when it comes to acknowledging specific directories. Despite that, they are still beneficial for PR and traffic gain. There are many different types of directories that can be of great value to your website or blog. Check out the article at Search Engine Journal for a list of directory types and descriptions of each. You will also be able to find a list of recommended directories for submitting quality content. Avoid directories with lots of paid advertising or skammy content. Focus on descriptions and tags when completing submissions Detailed titles and relative tagging...
Social media sites for the most part offer all of their users a profile name and profile page. Take Twitter for example, on Twitter my profile name is @lorenbaker, and my Twitter profile ranks fairly well in Google for my name; Loren Baker. I have a fairly unique name, and there are not very many Loren Baker's out there, so I usually don't have a difficult time securing my profile name across social media...
Sometimes when you're on the prowl looking to acquire links via link trades, buying links or contributing optimized content to a blog in return for a link or two, you can run into some sites which may seem like you've struck link gold .. but these opportunities may prove too good to be true. Case in point, you may find some site owners who are more or less giving away good links on sites with...
One very overlooked part of the entire SEO mix is making sure that your site does not have broken outbound (or internal) links which either link to error pages, or do not work at all. Furthermore, if your site delivers error pages or links to non-existent pages or files on your server, then search engines like Google are going to consider your site as being "under construction", therefore not being useful or relevant to the...
Today's Daily SEO Tip was contributed in part by Gerald Weber. This is a very simple yet effective SEO tip for local businesses & regional brick and mortar stores, especially if you're looking to rebrand or start a business from the ground up. Make sure to make and brand your business name with your main keywords in it if possible. This is important for communicating what your business does along with achieving organic search results...
On Tuesday, the launch day of DailySEOTip.com, I asked various SEO's to send us their SEO tips by twittering about them with a reply back to my Twitter profile. Ask and you shall receive! This fabulous group of Twitter using SEO's replied back with some excellent tips for us to start up our TGIF Tips, where on Fridays DailySEOTip.com turns over our SEO tip of the day to you, the reader. Today's goal is to build...
Attracting links to a site can be a tough job, as link building has become an incredibly important part of the SEO mix, and more of a challenge as search engines are discrediting link brokers. Organic linking still has its place in the SEO mix because the art of building a natural link can be time consuming and at times frustrating. Recently I helped my wife launch a new fitness site, and by doing so I've...
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