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Internal Linking Structures

June 20th, 2008

  Internal links are a way for you to keep visitors on your site, clicking to more and more pages and getting more and more information. Hopefully they convert to customers, so you want your pages to be as focused on sales as you can without abandoning informative content. We won’t get into ‘link juice’ [...]

 
 

Writing Articles for Linking Purposes

June 19th, 2008

If you have a new website, article submission is the best way to kick start your link building. The added advantage of using articles to build links is that you can take advantage of your articles’ value – that is, if your articles do have value. Too many webmasters try to build links by creating [...]

 
 

Keyword Density

June 18th, 2008

There are a lot of theories about keyword density. Different search engines treat keyword density with varying degrees of importance, so no method is absolute, but there are a few rules of thumb to follow. Aim for a Keyword Density of 2-5%. This simply means that for every 100 words of text, you use your [...]

 
 

Getting Links From Blog and Social Site Reviews

June 17th, 2008

We all know Google doesn’t like it when we pay for links. They see no difference between paying cold hard cash, trading favors or promising services – it’s all the same to them, and it’s all a no-no – at least as far as using paid links to give your rankings a boost. Oh, that [...]

 
 

Top Ten Things to Check if You Are Not Being Indexed

June 16th, 2008

The whole point of SEO is to appear on the SERPs. If Google doesn’t even realize you are there, you could have a major problem. There are several reasons you could be passed over for indexing, and we will cover the main ones here. 1. If you have just submitted, it might take some time [...]

 
 

Same old Keywords, Fresh New Content

June 15th, 2008

  Why is keyword density such a big thing? Why are the search engines set up to look for it, and what does it mean to your site? And why do you have to keep supplying new content along the same old lines? Relevance. Repetition of the main idea behind our content affirms that our [...]

 
 

Niche Marketing Part Two : The Hoodie Plan

June 13th, 2008

  Yesterday I went looking for a niche to fill with advertising for my fictitious pet clothing website. I found out that while there is a decent amount of search for the term ‘pet hoodies’, ‘puppy hoodie’ and ‘pet sweatshirts’, there is not any advertiser competition at all. I carry pet hoodies and sweatshirts on [...]

 
 

Niche Marketing – Taking Advantage of Undervalued Keywords Part One

June 12th, 2008

You’ve selected your keywords, and tailored your content and link text to make the most of it. But did you realize that when it comes to marketing, there might be even more keywords that you could take advantage of that have a lower CPC and could be configured to bring in extra traffic? I checked [...]

 
 

Keywords in Articles, Links and Domain Names

June 12th, 2008

 In a link, you have one chance to get it right. You do however, have some support from the surrounding text, assuming you are linking to and from the right places, as well as the opportunity to catch attention by departing from the norm.  If I am running a pet clothing store, I can check [...]

 
 

Keyword Stuffing – Can It Go To Far?

June 11th, 2008

  The order of keywords as they are expected to be typed in search is the next big wave of keyword manipulation and theory. In the content you write for yourself you probably follow your gut (and acknowledge that great content is worth more than gobbledygook), but if you supply others with content you may [...]

 
 
 
 

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