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SEO Report – Can You Over-Optimize?

July 31st, 2010

We’ve talked about keyword stuffing… in text, in meta tags, and elsewhere; buying paid links, engaging in black hattery such as white on white text and deceptive redirects. SEO is a game to some, but the penalties for ‘over optimizing’ are clear – break the rules fo the search engines, and they may exact punishment! [...]

 
 

SEO Report – Why Use Google Sitemap?

July 30th, 2010

When most webmasters start considering optimizing their website, they automatically think of making their website optimized for Google. This is because of the Google’s monopoly in the search industry. Google tries to keep its algorithm unique and has a number of search engine concepts that are unique their search engines. For example, PageRank is unique [...]

 
 

SEO Report – Black Hattery Tricks to Avoid

July 30th, 2010

SEO is by its very nature an extremely time consuming process. This fact can lead many webmasters down the slippery slope of deciding to find a short cut or a quick fix to create links and higher rankings for their site. Some will even go so far as to pay shady SEO firms to do [...]

 
 

SEO Report – PPC vs PTC

July 25th, 2010

It’s important to understand the difference between PPC and PTC programs. Pay Per Click (PPC) mens you pay for every click through to your website after signing up for a pay-per-click- program such as Google AdWords. Paid To Click (PTC), on the other hand is entirely different. Paid To Click is a rather grey area [...]

 
 

SEO Report – Affilate Plans

July 24th, 2010

Launching affiliate programs is another way of maximizing the potential of your website  Affiliate programs are an incredibly efficient, win-win strategy. However, if implemented incorrectly, you will be unable to get the desired results and the money you invest in maintaining your affiliate program will be wasted. If you are considering affiliate programs simply to [...]

 
 

SEO Report – Are Paid Links Safe?

July 22nd, 2010

Paid links are not an effective link building strategy when it comes to SEO. The ONLY time you should ever use paid links is as advertising, and these should be no-followed. Using paid links as a way to get links from high PageRank sites is not only not effective, it is most definitely not safe [...]

 
 

SEO Report – Banner Ads

July 21st, 2010

Using banners for driving traffic to your websites was one of the earliest forms of paid search. It is still a highly respected and effective way of driving paid traffic to individual websites. However, this can also be one of the most expensive ways of driving traffic to your website. When this is the case, [...]

 
 

SEO Recap – PPC Campaigns

July 20th, 2010

Is PPC the Way to Go? Engineering a delicate balance of organic traffic and paid traffic can help immensely when you start trying to maximize your sales levels. PPC or Pay Per Click programs are one of the best paid traffic generation methods, and can send your website a steady flow of traffic all year [...]

 
 

SEO Recap – Paid Traffic Options

July 18th, 2010

Naturally, the aim of all your SEO efforts is to drive traffic to your website. The primary goal is to build a website that is thoroughly optimized to bring you free traffic (organic traffic). However, while you are trying to get off the ground, get your entire site indexed, and start getting that great organic [...]

 
 

SEO Recap – Internal Linking Tips

July 16th, 2010

Internal Linking Tips We can’t stress the importance of internal linking structure enough.  With one-way links we can use many different methods to improve our rankings but when it comes to internal linking we often fall short with creative ways to improve our architecture. Most webmasters don’t think about internal linking as much as they [...]