Archive for the ‘Google Adsense & SEO’ Category

By Laura Taff

Whenever someone wants to purchase a product over the web, they most often utilize search engines to locate websites that sell what they want to buy. Perhaps a woman would like to find a good deal on clothes. She might type in “sale clothing for women” in the search box of Google. Anyone who sells or advertises sales on women’s clothes would want to have their website appear at the top of the natural listings provided. Otherwise no one may ever find your site. This article will go over the ways you can be guaranteed to get top search engine positioning for each and every one of your web pages so that you can start making money online as quickly as possible.

There are many things you ought to be aware of to achieve this goal. One is optimizing your site (which is adding information to your Meta tags on every page to let the search engines know what your site is about). To optimize your web page to its fullest potential, you are ought to know about keyword phrases. A keyword phrase was demonstrated at the beginning of this article demonstrates a keyword phrase when we talked about how a woman might type the phrase “discount women’s clothing” in the search box of Google. Finally you’ll need to know about linking including reciprocal linking and one way links. Now that you are aware of what need, let’s delve into each one with more detail.

Optimizing your web pages is really fairly easy. To properly optimize, it is imperative that you have the right keyword phrases. We’ll be discussing how to obtain those in the coming sections . For now, you need to know that the Meta tags on your web page should all begin with the keyword phrase you find. If you don’t know how to change your Meta tags, the help section of the program you used to build your site should have a tutorial. There are three Meta tags including title, description, and keywords. The title Meta tag should simply be your chosen phrase. If it is long enough, it could help you get rankings for another phrase. Say your phrase is “sale clothing for women”, you might also get a top ranking for “women sale clothing” because they are both found in the title Meta tag.

Next you want to put in your Meta description adding more information to describe what your site is about. Going again with the above example it could say: “Sale clothing for women from top name brands such as Charlotte Russe and Jones New York.” This way if the description appears below your listing, the people interested in your site will know exactly what to expect when they click through. The keyword Meta tag should also start with the same keyword phrase and the phrase itself should appear on your page somewhere near the top if possible. Don’t put keyword phrases in the Meta tag that do not appear on your web page content. Add a few more keywords from the content on your page and your Meta tags are finished! This free information will help, but the only way to get a guarantee that your web site is fully optimized to start making money fast is to make a one- time investment into an SEO program that offers much more info and easy tools to get you top placement in as little as thirty days. You can find a link in the resource box below on how to find the best program for this.

Keyword phrases as covered above can be found easily with Google’s keywords tool. Type in the phrase you would use if you were looking for the product you sell or advertise. Google will give you a listing of how many people searched for that exact phrase in the last month, plus show you related keyword phrases you can use as well. Look for phrases that are at least 3 words long, though the longer the better because they will be more specific. Your goal is for results of about 1,000 searches or so. After this, go to the regular Google search box and type in the phrase surrounded by quotes, like “Discount Women’s Apparel”. To the right in a blue shaded area you’ll see the words : results 1-10 of about 2,500. (Or some number such as this.) This is important because it is imperative to know how many other web sites have that exact same phrase optimized on their pages. (This will be your competition). If your phrase has more than 6,000 web sites using the same one, you might want to move on to another phrase. As with optimizing, there is a program with much better information and easier tools to guarantee you get the right keyword phrases so you don’t do all the prep work for nothing. Having the wrong keyword phrase will bring the wrong customers to your site (or no one). More info can be found in the resource box below.

Finally we will go over linking. You can obtain links to your site by trading them with another related web site (this is called reciprocal linking). You should realize that your site can be penalized by Google for having too many of these, but 100 or so is okay and a very good idea. Don’t trade links with pages that have a Google page rank of less than 3, and the higher their page rank the better. Google will put more weight on a link from a PR 5 link than a PR 3 link. The best links to your site for top placement are one way links. One way you can get these by submitting your site to web directories. There is a free software program you can get to help you find and easily submit your site to web directories. The absolute best way to get one way links is to write articles related to what you offer and submit them to article directories. For instance if you offer women’s sale apparel, you can write an article about clothing fashions, your favorite clothing store, etc. Then at the end of the article they will allow you to put a link to your site in the resource box. This way human visitors can see it and click on, and search engines can evaluate the number of “votes” for you sites popularity. There is also a free program to help you find and easily submit your articles to article directories. Look in the resource box for a link to this.

Remember, with the free information I have provided in this article, you can get a good placement. It takes time and hard work to get placed in the natural listings this way. To get the fastest, easiest, and most guaranteed way of getting top placement through optimization, keyword phrases, and linking, you ought to seriously consider making an investment into reliable software programs that are built by people who have been selling on the internet for a long time and generating lots of money for themselves. These people know what they are doing. Guaranteed results mean you’ll make back the one time investment in these products in no time and generate more income for your products than you could have ever hoped for.

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By: Tammy Embrich

What’s all the hype about page rank? Is it really that important?

A lot of webmasters seem to think so.

Will you get more traffic to your website if you have a high page rank? Not necessarily so…

Let’s face it…to have a successful website, you need targeted traffic and lots of it. Do you need a high page rank to get that traffic?

The answer to that question is a simple “no”…I have seen many sites with a page rank as low as (0) crawl up high on the search engines. It seems that page rank is no longer that important to a website’s success.

What IS important is how a site ranks on the search engines. Good search engine rankings are what all webmasters should strive for. You will need to build a website with good, useful content and keep adding that content…the search engines love it! The more content you add, the better the search engines will find you.

Articles are a perfect way to add content and also specific keywords to your website. In fact, article marketing itself has been the most effective promotion that I’ve personally used to market my work at home sites. Submitting useful articles with keywords that relate to your business to various directories and forums has become considerably popular in the marketing world.

This will also bring you more incoming links, and this is what will make you rank higher in search engines. Trial and error has proven this time and time again. Actually, getting more incoming links will help both your page rank and your search engine ranking.

Sure…a high page rank will always help your website. But, it’s not the most important key for success. The key to a steady flow of traffic is consistently adding fresh content for your visitors. And the end result is more customers and sales.

Article Written By Tammy Embrich

Tammy owns and operates two work at home websites, a work at home forum, a recipe site and three blogs.

She offers free work at home job leads for the job seeker, business work at home articles, tips, and more. You can visit Tammy at Work At Home Jobs and Work At Home Articles.

By: Ron Porter

I can’t remember the last time I surfed the net, keyed in a specific search term, and got only one page of results. Now I get dozens of pages and hundreds, even thousands of hits. Ok, so what am I supposed to do with all these hits? One of the reasons I shop on line is to save time. And what with a gazillion sites entering the online universe every millisecond I’m gonna get beat up with all those hits! The fact is I seldom go beyond the first page and rarely dig deeper than 2 or 3 pages. So what about all those great nuggets buried deeper than the first or second page?

Research indicates that 62% of users “…click on a search result within the first page of results.” An amazing 90% of users click on result within the first 3 pages. Let’s see, about 10 results per page = 30 results for 3 pages. Hmmm, that’s a problem for the other 970 businesses that want your money. So, how do those other 970 sites get eyeballs? Enter the magic and science of Search Engine Optimization.

Getting your website to rise through all the clutter and appear at the top, or near the top, of a search requires is a combination of sponsored and organic search. To be truly effective and cost efficient for either technique, your site needs to be optimized.

A whopping $643 million was spent on search-engine optimization in the U.S. and Canada in 2005, according to Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, an industry group with more than 600 members. Sound like a lot of money? That’s because it is. But it represents only about 11 percent of the $5.75 billion spent on all forms of search-engine marketing. By 2010, total search-engine marketing is estimated to be an $11.1 billion industry! This stuff is real.

Search-engine optimization is complex and it requires staying up-to-date on all the changes within the various search-engine algorithms. If you’ve got time to do that, cool. If not, go hire an expert to get it right for you. Your expert will likely focus on three key areas to ensure your site is search engine friendly; Architecture, Links, and Content.

Architecture refers to the way a site is structured. In any given Internet search, a site that is built search engine friendly will invariably appear above a site that is not.

Links are defined as websites linking to other website. The more relevant sites that link to it, the more search engines will consider it to be a trusted and valuable site, putting it higher on the list.

Content is comprised of all the text, keywords, headlines, image names, and etc on a given site. The over all theme of the site must be relevant and consistent from a content point of view in order for the search engines to make the most of it. The best rule of thumb here is: if the content helps your users get where and what they want, it will have the same effect for search engines. What I’m saying here is don’t sacrifice your users experience for the search engine. You can have your web cake and eat it too!

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About The Author

Writing about the importance of Search Engine optimization, Ron E. Porter says here about the key factors to focus on while going for the Search Engine Marketing techniques. Ron E. Porter has 24 years of rich experience in the high tech industry with various companies. For more information on Search Engine Optimization, Software Engineering Outsource, Web Traffic Monetization, Web Content Creation, Link Building services, please visit www.castlewave.com.

By: Luat Tran Van

You have two choices to consider when trying get your site ranked higher in search engines. You can hire a Search Engine Optimization Company that is an expert in the field or if you have some time, you can do it yourself.

Research your Keywords

Ask yourself what keywords you think someone might type in when searching for products you sell or services you provide. Though a keyword may be only one word it is usually a phrase made up of keywords. Phrases are more specific and will more than likely be what potential customers use when searching for products or services online.

After a quick brainstorming session write down all that you were able to come up with. Make sure to consider geographical phrases if they are important to your customers and don’t forget of alternative words that could be used (an example could be “new car Littleton”). Make sure to surf the websites of your competition to get more ideas until you can come up with a list in the neighborhood of 20 to 30.

Now you should take two keywords from your list that you feel potential customers will use most frequently. Take into consideration that popular keywords are also competitive keywords and harder to achieve higher ranking with. If your goal is to obtain a high ranking for the term “auto insurance”, the path to achieving it may be long. Try to make your keywords the ones that are most related to your business and not riddled with vagueness or extremely competitive. Make each phrase about two or three words in length like the previous example.

Now that we have your keywords we will move on to the next step.

Site Text

Your site text is made up of the wording that is on your web page. There is a phrase for search engines and it is content is king. Search engines love unique content and your keywords should be placed in key locations within the content so Google understands the relevance your site has to them. Also make sure that your copy reads well around them as it needs to make sense for your visitors who are most important.

Keywords can be placed in headings, at the top of pages, in bold or italics, used as link text for other pages of your site and in your title tag.

Add additional content after you are finished tuning up your webpage. Give more detailed descriptions of the products and services you offer. Provide a frequently asked questions page and pages of articles that pertain to your products or services.

With your design you should keep in mind that search engines cannot read images nearly as well as text. Sites that are made up with excessive flash or pictures really impede how well they can read the content of your site.

Link Building

A common way of thinking about links is that every link from another site that leads to yours is a vote for the popularity of your site. Every quality link you receive can improve your search rankings.

The quality of your inbound links is more vital than the quantity. The preferred and more valuable link is from sites that are relevant to your niche and with authority (highly regarded in the niche). A quality directory with relevant categories is another example. Just a few quality links with authority can have more value for your site than hundreds of lesser quality. Think of it like you do your personal business network. Both can have a strong effect on the success or failure of your business.

Take time to consider all the other relevant websites in your niche such as organizations, industry affiliates and non-competing companies. Send them a email introducing yourself, your products and services and explain how your website could benefit their visitors. Then politely suggest that they create a link to your website from theirs.

Record the Results

Over time you should watch and record your search engine rankings by doing a Google search for your chosen keywords to see where you rank. You can also monitor where your visitors are coming from by watching your hosting reports. Do this for each significant page of your website.

Continue to add to your websites content and increase the links to your website over time. This needs to be an ongoing effort for as long as you want visitors to your website.

As you continue to record the results of your efforts you should see the traffic increase and with that your sales. Know where your visitors are coming from so you can continually monitor your marketing efforts successes. Only by measuring it do you know where and how to improve it.

About The Author

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By: Jim Pretin

Google is by far the most important search engine on the net. To rise to the top of their search engine, you need to improve your link popularity and you need to understand how they measure your link popularity (over 50% of all search engine traffic comes from Google, and if you can rise to the top, you will likely rise to the top of all the other search engines as well).

Link popularity is defined as the number of sites that are linking to your site. Some websites have thousands or even millions of sites linking to them, while others might have only a few. The search engines use the number of inbound links your site has as a measure of how important your site is, which translates into your search engine ranking.

The actual number of links to your site is not the only variable used to calculate your link popularity. The search engines also examine the relevance of the links to the subject matter of your site. For example, if a website that sells vitamins has 4,000 inbound links, but the source of most of the links are websites that have nothing to do with vitamins, then the algorithm that search engines use to determine link popularity will take that into account, and the link popularity score will not be very good.

It is possible for a website with a relatively small number of quality inbound links to be ranked higher than a site with a bunch of irrelevant or insignificant links. If I have a website that offers quotes for auto insurance, and I have 800 quality inbound links, then I might receive a much higher search engine ranking than another mortgage site that has 3,000 links that stem from link farms or Free For All (FFA) pages.

If you try to acquire inbound by using link farms or FFA pages, not only will it hurt your search engine ranking, but you might get permanently removed from the search engine listings. Links farms are sites where you can instantly exchange links with all the sites listed in that directory. FFA pages are pointless link directories. The search engines usually discount any links that come from either of these sources.

Now that we understand what link popularity is and how it works, we need to look specifically at how Google measures it. They use a number of variables in their algorithm to calculate your overall link score. The higher your score, the higher you will be ranked in the search listings.

One factor that Google uses in their algorithm, obviously, is the total number of sites linking to you. The more links you have, the higher your score will be. However, their algorithm is a little more complicated than that, and it is possible for a website with fewer links to be ranked higher than a website that has more links.

The reason for this is because Google also measures the quality of your links. If your website is about vitamins, and the site linking to you is a video game site, then that is not considered a quality link. The link still helps your score, but the link would help your score much more if it were from a website whose subject matter is the same as yours.

Also, Google gives a higher score to a link if it comes from a page that has actual content that relates to your keywords. For example, if your site is about jewelry, and another jewelry website has posted a link to your site on their links page, that link is not as valuable as a link to your site coming from a blog or a message board where a lot of information about jewelry is being written or discussed.

Also, they give an even higher score to a link if it contains anchor text that matches one of the keywords that describes your site. For example, if I have a site that sells lawnmowers, and a blog about lawnmowers has posted a link to my site, it helps my score even more if the link text (also known as anchor text) is LAWNMOWERS. To learn more about anchor text, go to a search engine and look up ANCHOR TEXT and you will be able to learn about it.

Another factor used by Google to score your link popularity is the diversity of keywords contained on sites linking to you. For example, if you have a site that sells handbags, and all the links to your site are from other sites that contain nothing but the keyword HANDBAGS, Google considers that to be abnormal. To get a higher score, you need to have links coming from sites that contain a variety of keywords related to handbags, such as BUY HANDBAGS, LEATHER HANDBAGS, etc.

It is difficult to increase your link popularity, but now that you understand how your score is calculated, you can devise a plan to improve your score. You might want to consider posting to forums and blogs that contain information that is related to your site, and when you post, include a link to your site.

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Information about the Author:

Jim Pretin is the owner of www.forms4free.com, a service that helps programmers make an HTML form.