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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...
Thanks to John Casiello for providing today's SEO Tip
Google delivers the best search results based on content relevancy and information freshness. Spiders are very busy as they regularly crawl our sites looking for information keep Google's database full of fresh information.
However, because of the vast amount of data available, spiders have become very strategic in their crawling, visiting more frequently those sites with fresher information. If you feed the spiders more frequently, they’ll...
Today's Daily SEO Tip was contributed by Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury. Enjoy!
404 Errors are probably one of the most commonly found error pages in any website and the typical reaction is that your visitors would bounce off the page as soon as they see the 404 error message. Now why do we let them go and give them alternative options ?
A custom 404 page can be extremely useful and at times even lower the user's...
Tonight's SEO Tip has been provided by Kalai Ganesan of The Picky and may be useful for first time publishers and newbies. Enjoy :)
Improving your search engine rankings is the first step to get traffic, the more traffic better profits. Optimizing your website for SEO is important. Search engine optimization simple is how you organize your site content more useful in a particular category.
Here are some important steps for site to get notified by...
Fresh and relevant content is becoming more and more important to SEO and establishing rankings, both for money terms and in the long tail. It may be easy to tell people "generate fresh content on a daily basis," but in the long run, writing an article or blog post everyday can be tiring and troublesome, especially when an SEO manager has multiple things to do and reports to digest.
Some of us turn to copywriters to...
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...
After launching Daily SEO Tip, I wrote an article about how to turn your site into a link magnet, which makes it easier to not only attract links - but also will boost the response return on your push oriented link building strategies.
Today I would like to follow up with a very simple networking tip, and apply it to SEO and link building. Whether your website is a business oriented site or a vertical...
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...
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...
Online videos are 53 times more likely to appear on the front page of search results than regular pages, according to Business Week and a study of the front page rankings of 40 of the most popular keywords in Google (thanks to Monica Wright for this stat).
Google Universal loves videos, and not only from YouTube, but also from DailyMotion, Truveo and MetaCafe. So be sure to optimize your video files and upload...
