| 451 | KEI Concerns and CID Alternative Preview: KEI Concerns and CID Alternative Like many folks, I have been using KEI for some time now to determine what keywords I should target with my web site. And this has led me to becoming concerned with the results KEI provides and the keywords it suggests. I need to say here that my concern is very subjective as many folks are happily using KEI ... (more) Published By: Serge M Botans Submitted: 17 February,2005 |
| 452 | Search Engine Optimization Research Findings: A Client Perspective Preview: This research attempts to obtain business firms' views on search engine marketing. It gives valuable implications to both business and search engine marketing firms. The research collects findings from 121 Hong Kong trading firms involving in foreign trade through telephone interview. Also, a separate focus group was held with 8 marketing manage... (more) Published By: Jimsun Lui Submitted: 17 February,2005 |
| 453 | Creating Robots.txt File and its Importance Preview: If you are thinking you have developed a truly great keyword-rich-unique-content fully optimized website for the search engines and an attracting site for the visitors - that's fine, but do you know you are missing something? A robots.txt file. Did you include it? By the way do you know what's the importance of a robots.txt file? Success of big c... (more) Published By: San Christopher Submitted: 17 February,2005 |
| 454 | Determining the Value of Links from Link Renting Preview: What is Link Renting? Link renting is a means to ‘rent’ the popularity and traffic flow of another site – you pay a monthly fee in return for a text link pointing to your site. In doing so, you can directly and indirectly drive more targeted traffic toward your website. Many industries such as travel, pharmacy, pornography, and gaming have search... (more) Published By: Aaron Wall Submitted: 18 February,2005 |
| 455 | You are only as good as your PR!! Preview: You are only as good as your PR!! Imagine a situation where you have started a great site with exceptional design and high quality content. Your pagerank of course is zero and you alexa traffic rank is somewhere in the 18th lack or perhaps more. You want to bring visitors to your site and hence want it included in the search results but the sear... (more) Published By: Mark Thrope Submitted: 19 February,2005 |
| 456 | Search Engine Optimization Tips (part 1) Preview: Search engine optimization (seo) can be a freighting and daunting experience. We have put together some tips to make this task much more pleasant. We are going to go over some tips to help your search engine rankings. Here is what we are going to cover in this article. 1)Design and Setup Problems 2)Selecting the correct keywords 3)The Title Tag 4... (more) Published By: Jimmy Whisenhunt Submitted: 22 February,2005 |
| 457 | The Changing Face of Search Engine Optimization Preview: ... (more) Published By: Bobby Heard Submitted: 23 February,2005 |
| 458 | Keep Your Web Site Content Relevant Preview: Visitors and search engines love content-rich web sites, but just having a lot of content on your web site is not enough. It all has to be relevant to a main topic with each page or section of the web site having a specific theme (And yes, this includes any resource or links pages the site may have). Each page should have its own topic and content... (more) Published By: John Metzler Submitted: 23 February,2005 |
| 459 | The 7 Points of Do-It-Yourself SEO Preview: Ever felt intimidated at the convoluted, jargon-ridden information about Internet marketing for small businesses available on the Net? Ever been horrified by the huge fees the experts charge, putting search engine optimization beyond your own means? Ever thought: What exactly is search engine optimization anyway, and can I do it myself? The answe... (more) Published By: Gordon Goodfellow Submitted: 24 February,2005 |
| 460 | Would You Let A Dog Or A Butler Market Your Website? Preview: The latest news to hit the Internet's 'water cooler' is that Lycos and Ask Jeeves are to begin their own SEO services.. Search engine optimisation (or SEO) is any practice related to the end goal of improving your website’s positioning in the search engines. The brief history of SEO is that it first started out solely as the remit of the develop... (more) Published By: Michael Cheney Submitted: 24 February,2005 |
| 461 | Search Engine Optimization that Works in the Long-Term Preview: Search engines are constantly tweaking their ranking algorithms and when that happens some pages lose their top ranking positions. One such event was the infamous Florida Update. Many pages were practically kicked-out of the top 1000 pages for competitive keywords. With recent updates, webmasters have been thinking that Google does not use PageRa... (more) Published By: Hristo Hristov Submitted: 25 February,2005 |
| 462 | Why valid HTML code is crucial to SEO Preview: Valid HTML code is crucial to search engine optimization Valid HTML code is crucial to search engine optimization Copyright 2005 Marketing Defined. All Rights Reserved Why valid HTML code is crucial to your web site's search engine optimization efforts and subsequent high rankings: Many webmasters and newcomers to web page design overl... (more) Published By: Roseanne van Langenberg Submitted: 27 February,2005 |
| 463 | Google's New SEO Rules Preview: Google has recently made some pretty significant changes in its ranking algorithm. The latest update, dubbed by Google forum users as "Allegra", has left some web sites in the dust and catapulted others to top positions. Major updates like this can happen a few times a year at Google, which is why picking the right search engine optimization compa... (more) Published By: John Metzler Submitted: 28 February,2005 |
| 464 | Do the Search Engines Know Your Website? Preview: Are you considering a search engine promotion campaign to improve your website's search engine visibility? To aid in your decision, have you checked your website to determine its search engine awareness? Perhaps you may be thinking why do I need to check my website? Do you remember going to the doctor for an illness? Hopefully, your doctor perfor... (more) Published By: Chet Childers Submitted: 01 March,2005 |
| 465 | Keywords Finalization Methodology Preview: To arrive at the set of keywords that: Describe business correctly (are relevant) Attract traffic (are popular & are searched for) Have less competition (are relatively un-optimized for ) Steps Step I: Lets start by saying that the for the keyword finalization of a web site the first step is to device the theme of the web site. The keywords... (more) Published By: Vikas Malhotra Submitted: 02 March,2005 |
| 466 | Types Of Keywords Preview: Keyword can be classified into three categories : -Single word Keyword -Multiple word Keyword -Keywords based on Theme Keyword(s) are basic raw material used in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Keyword selection must be done using Keyword Research where we use special tools to find out a list of Keywords (search terms) searched by targeted ... (more) Published By: Vikas Malhotra Submitted: 02 March,2005 |
| 467 | Keyword Targeting Strategy In Your Site Preview: Once the keywords have been decided for the site one has to come up with a strategy to target those keywords across the site. Here is a primer on that. Keywords Targeting Strategy for Keyword of Single word: ------------------------------------------------------- Keyword of Single word is useful to attract general audience and helps in getting h... (more) Published By: Vikas Malhotra Submitted: 02 March,2005 |
| 468 | KEYWORDS IMPORTANCE AND USES Preview: The first step in the area of search engine marketing (SEM) is to understand the relevance & importance of keywords. Keywords are the starting blocks of a successful SEM campaign. So lets dig into this section of SEM (or specifically SEO, search engine optimization) by defining keywords & keyphrases. KEYWORDS and KEYPHARASES Definition : site ... (more) Published By: Vikas Malhotra Submitted: 02 March,2005 |
| 469 | Help Search Engines get Smarter, ROR your Website! Preview: Help Search Engines get Smarter, ROR your Website! What is ROR? ROR (Resources of a Resource) is an exciting new website content description tool and format created by AddMe.com. It makes it very easy to describe the content, objects, and structure of your website so search engines and other web applications can better find and understand... (more) Published By: Dom Vonarburg Submitted: 03 March,2005 |
| 470 | Keywords usage in the Meta Tags Preview: Once the sites keywords have been finalized it is now time to start using them to optimize the site.The first & most obvious place to start using them is the meta tags of the site. There are three metatags that we can start to use them with. Header Description Keywords Lets look at them one by one: KEYWORDS and KEYPHARASES uses in THE ... (more) Published By: Vikas Malhotra Submitted: 03 March,2005 |