Oct 07 2008

5 SEO Abuses That Will Get a Domain Banned

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While some of these are innocent mistakes, others are obvious attempts to ‘break the rules’ and Google Webmaster Guidelines. Most of these abuses at one time were not considered problems by the major search engines, though over the years these have become ‘red flags’ . Search engines now have strict rules in place to punish websites for breaking published guidelines. These punishments could be a 30-day drop in organic rankings to the most severe total ban of the domain from the search results.

There are many HTML validators available on the Internet to check your web page to make sure it is acceptable. The most unfortunate part of having a domain banned, is that often it is the result of either a SEO contractor or company breaking the accepted web master rules for their client (and the client has no clue about it) or a regular person is unaware of what they are doing can be a potential problem.

Invisible Text

This has been going on for years on the Internet. White text on white background…or basically whatever color your background is, don’t use the same color for your text. Why? Because it becomes ‘invisible’ to the human eye and typically is a trick used to hide keywords for ranking. This is the oldest and lamest abuse you could possibly do. It is also the most obvious to search engines.

Paid Links

Buying links, or a listing in a link directory, was common practice for a number of years. Many people paid, and still pay, to have a link on a high page rank site to boost their web site’s ranking and thus do better in organic search results. At one time, search engines really didn’t care about if you had paid a some web site to have a link back to yours. Then in 2007, Google came down pretty hard on the link exchange programs on the Internet. Google decided to give less weight to those ‘Link Directories’ and ‘Paid Links’ became a taboo. Paid links and link directories are now shunned by the search engines and they favor more of a natural link exchange system.

Doorway Pages

Doorway pages are basically web sites, or a web page, that is optimized for a keyword. The problem that the search engines don’t like about these types of pages are that it directs the visitor to the true web site when any hyperlink, URL, is clicked. Or worse, has an automatic refresh (see below) to a different web site. Thus the ‘doorway’ to the real web site. Google and Yahoo really don’t like these tactics and your web site can potentially be yanked from their search results index permanently.

Redirects

There are 2 kinds of redirects. The first is a redirect of a page when it is moved or when a web site is moved. The best way to handle this situation is by using a 301 redirect in the .htacces file. This is an accepted authorized redirect by all search engines. The other type of redirect is a meta redirect that used to be ok, but was severely abused over the years and now all of the search engines will punish you for using it.

Keyword Stuffing

Keyword stuffing is a broad term, but generally speaking, it is using the same keyword many times in a web page to such a degree that it becomes difficult to read the content on the web page. This has been a problem since the first web page was ever created for SEO purposes. To set the record on this, search engines have gotten smart over the years and recognize when this is occurring on a web page. Since this was, and to this day, still being abused, search engines totally ignore the meta-keyword content. So ’stuffing’ that information in an image or meta tag is totally useless, yet can still get your web site banned because it is obvious to the search engines that you are trying to abuse and manipulate the organic search results.

It is not hard to build a web page that follows the rules and does not break accepted webmaster guidelines. There are 5 Beginner, 5 Intermediate and 5 Advanced SEO techniques that can help in your SEO efforts. However, these 5 abuses will get a web site banned if and when it is crawled by a search engine, or reported by a web surfer.

Stay away from risky, or Black Hat, SEO techniques when creating content for your web site or having a SEO company do the work for you. It is not worth the risk of getting your web site penalized or banned.

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Oct 07 2008

Easy One Way Links To Your Website

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Online websites know that inbound links are absolutely essential for the promotion of your website. Links feed search engines so when you have more, you become more popular. More quality links will cause you to move up in search results for keywords. Of course, when it comes to back links, some are better than others. One way links from Authority Sites that have good page strength are highly preferable.

Inbound links pointing to your website are vital if you want to improve traffic to your website. Inbound links will improve your websites rankings for organic search engines and provide another path for visitors to find your website. Getting links from high traffic, authority sites are weighted more than most links. The main objective in most SEO campaigns is building high quality, one way links to your website.

One of the best and easiest ways to accumulate one way inbound links to your website is to list it in web directories. A few of the better ones are the Open Directory Project, Yahoo and the Authority Directory.

The ODP is free to submit, but it could take a very long time to get reviewed. The percentage of those that get accepted there is not very high either. Yahoo’s directory takes about seven days for review and costs $299 per year. The fee at Yahoo is non-refundable and acceptance is not guaranteed there either. The AuthorityDirectory.com charges a small annual fee and review is generally completed within 48 hours. Your site is not guaranteed to be accepted at the Authority Directory either, but in most cases they refund the fee if your site is not accepted.

Exchanging links with other sites is a risky way of collecting links. If you accidentally exchange a link with a banned site, it can actually hurt your sites popularity or get your site banned. Google and many other search engines have made statements that they are devaluing reciprocal links.

Building links is a never ending cycle. Links drop off and new ones need to be established if you want to continue to rank highly. It is important for you to realize that link building is an on-going process. If you want to rank highly in the search engines, you are going to need to steadily build links to your site. Link popularity will make the difference between your site appearing on the first page of search results or not at all.

Inbound links can generate traffic to your site in two different ways. Traffic that comes from click through traffic and better organic results in search engines.

Click through traffic comes from visitors to the site your link is located at just clicking directly on the link. This can become highly relevant traffic if the site your link is located at gets a large amount of traffic. Traffic increases due to organic search results can be huge.

Inbound links help you achieve traffic through both click through traffic and organic search results. Directory listings are a great place to start with your link building campaign.

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Oct 05 2008

Printed Pens Versus Other Forms Of Advertising

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Everyone knows that printed promotional pens exist, everyone has seen them and you’ve likely picked up a few already this year. Many people discount the use of printed pens as a form of advertising because they don’t see how effective it can be.

Most business owners look at a small, inexpensive printed pen and wonder how effective it could be compared to a gigantic and expensive billboard advertisement or the longevity of a long-running newspaper ad. Let’s look at the differences between billboard advertisements and newspaper ads versus printed pens and see which gives you more bang for your money.

Billboard advertisements are quite costly and usually are only up for a month or two, or for however long you want them to be there and have paid for. However, the advertisements are placed on a roadway that is frequented by traffic. People from far and wide can see your advertisement as they rocket by in their vehicles. However, you can only have a limited amount of information on a billboard because it is quite difficult for people to take note of your information as they are driving by. However, if your billboard is flashy enough and memorable enough, that may be all you need. Billboard ads are perfect if you have built the brand of your company and it is recognizable on its own.

Printed pens are considerably smaller than a billboard advertisement. However, you get 1,000 printed pens for a fraction of the cost of a billboard advertisement. Printed promotional pens last for a lot longer than a month or two in the hands of clients. Subsequently, printed pens are a more targeted advertisement than a billboard is, ensuring that the people who want and need your products and / or services have a printed pen. This can be achieved in numerous ways including mail outs, trade fairs and conferences, just to name a few.

Newspaper ads can get lost in the pages — there are thousands of ads every day in every newspaper around the world. How are people to decipher your ad from the rest — yes, it’s true, there are production artists who are fabulous at creating ads that will jump up from the news page, but that ad only lasts for as long as you pay for it to be in the paper and for considerably more money than printed pens cost.

Printed promotional pens give you more time and a more targeted advertisement than a billboard or newspaper ad. With your printed pens, you decide who sees your pens and ensure that those people actually want and need your products and services. By targeting your niche market more directly, you can be sure that a higher percentage of people who see your printed pen advertisements will act on them and make use of it — it is a product or service that they are interested in already.

With so many printed pen choices online there is something to fit the needs of every business and every budget. Check out all they have to offer today and be on the road to functional advertising that works for you.

Gareth Parkin is the co-founder of Ideasbynet, the UK’s leading online promotional pens and printed pens company based in the north of England. Established in 2001, he has taken the UK gift market by storm by the application of modern business thinking and the latest search engine marketing techniques. For more details visit http://www.ideasbynet.com

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Oct 04 2008

Promotional Products

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If you are looking for a way in which to reach out and improve brand awareness there is little doubt that logo recognition will enhance your standing.

Many companies spend fortunes on advertising, both online and offline, in a bid to have their logos easily recognised and in the public eye.
But what better than to have your logo placed strategically right in front of a targeted audience?

By using the power of promotional products you can achieve this in a cost effective manner, increasing return on investment.

Take for example a simple Mouse Mat, for as little as 54 pence you can have one made up with your company logo and contact details and customised with your own branding. This will be seen as a welcome gift to your customers. However, it will not only be appreciated on that level, but will also achieve the following :

  • Your branding and logo will be ever present in their daily routines, it will make a lasting impression and remain in their consciousness.
  • Your contact details will be on their desk, should they need to get in touch they will have no problems in finding you.

If you have not looked into the concept of promotional advertising I would suggest looking into the vast range of branded promotional products available. You will be amazed at the possibilities, there are branded energy drinks, custom fridge magnets even personalised teddy bears.

So, you can make that impression, increase brand awareness, and even amuse your clients at the same time.

Alexis Svenn is interested in many things he finds online and in his pockets. Alexis Svenn

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Oct 04 2008

Don’t Let Digital Photos Turn Bad In Your Flyers

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Don’t let good photography turn sour get you down. When your photos and illustrations in your flyer printing project is not what you have imagined it to be, you can always go to a flyer printing company that knows what they’re doing.

Sadly, most often than not, many printing shops are not equipped and skilled to process digital photo files for your flyer printing project. They often make mistakes in converting the photo files into CMYK (which is needed to print your flyer printing project). Thus, they tend to do more damage than good. With good intentions, these flyer printing shops would often attempt to fix the problem, but nevertheless introduce new problems that sometimes are even more difficult to solve. By the time anybody can do something, the flyer printing digital photo is already lost.

The good news though, is that with digital technology, it no longer has to be this way. There are digital photographers that can supply you with digital photos that will not give you any problems especially when you’re ready to send your flyer printing project to the printers.

Ask your digital photographer with one of these things:

1 - FPO images for your flyer printing layout plus the original raw files. The raw files are those taken prior to any conversion to RGB or any other process. Skilled personnel from your flyer printing company will be able to handle this kind of images.

2 - RGB tiff images that are tagged properly and which can be handled by a skilled and professional operator for best results with your flyer printing project.

3 - CMYK tiffs set up by a skilled digital photographer who knows what he is doing. You can also ask if available, color separations already made from the raw camera files applying your flyer printing company’s own settings. Photographers who do this are rare; but are available.

Second tip to avoid getting into a jam later on with your flyer printing digital photos, go to a flyer printing shop whose prepress staff knows three important things: (1) the basic principles of color management; (2) the significance of modern hardware-calibrated displays; and (3) the proper way to view and work on your digital flyer printing photos. You need these people because they can help you with what color temperature to apply, what white balance means, and they know how to work in RGB without having problems working on LAB and CMYK to your benefit.

Lastly, don’t be afraid to get help from the experts. These skilled people will know how to go about getting you the best digital photos for your flyer printing project. So use them and they’ll probably help you get what you want for your flyer printing project.

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Oct 01 2008

Take Advantage of the Next Big Wave in Web Marketing - Video SEO

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Today, one of the hottest trends on the web and for e-commerce is to use video on your website - to showcase how a product is used, to highlight its strongest features and to depict more powerful testimonials. In the recent past, video didn’t gain much traction because they were largely ignored by the search engines. Well folks, the game has changed.

Google’s universal search format blends video as well as blogs, news, maps and other vertical search content into its results. Video thus becomes content and is now searchable. The other key video trend is the growth of broadband. As a result, advertisers, marketers and e-tailers are using more video-based content. And with the popularity of YouTube, user-generated videos are being viewed by hundreds of millions of members watching literally billions of videos a month.

Google and SEO

With this new development in organic search, it is no longer enough to post a video. Video can be viewed as content it optimized correctly for search engines (Video SEO). Most importantly, in relation to Google, video SEO is quite different than standard SEO . Google searches the entire web for content (text), but only searches Google Video and YouTube for video.

Your competition is fewer and your SEO results will be more effective. Now once you get your video onto search engines, it is critical to link back to your own site so you get more traffic and more ROI. Remember if they don’t click back to your site, you don’t get more business.

Formula One for Success

TubeMogul has created a simple but effective formula to position your videos online to have the greatest exposure and impact. They suggest spending 50% time on the actual video production and creation, 15% of time on creating metadata (keywords, tags, etc) 20% of time on choosing the correct thumbnail (the single image that draws people to view the video), and the remaining 15% of your efforts on promotion and marketing of the video once it is online.

In Summary

Online video is a powerful and results driven marketing tool because of its viewability, SEO and measurement values. In order to produce a successful online video / campaign, certain steps need to be taken. First, choose content that is both engaging and elicits an emotional response with the viewer; second, SEO is critical for people to find your video (remember, the more eyeballs, the more traffic / business); third, select a thumbnail to separate you from the crowd and draw viewers into your video; and finally, use various online communities to go viral with your message.

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Oct 01 2008

SEO - The Three Things You Need to Know

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Clients are always asking me about SEO. They want to know what it is, how it works, and what they need to do. What I tell them is that SEO comprises of three main components: content, code, and inbound links.

Content is still King not so much because great content creates sticky sites, but because great content does more to help your search engine rankings than many of the other tactics that SEOs use. Knowledgeable SEOs must first and foremost be great writers who can encorporate the right ratio of keywords within your content.

The way your site is coded can have dramatic results when it comes to your organic positioning. Make sure your designer knows what this means. If your web design and development company knows what they are doing, they will know how code effects your SER (search engine ranking). Your site should also be optimized, but that can sometimes have less of an effect on your SER than the structure of the code itself.

Inbound links are perhaps the most time-consuming and troublesome of the three keys to great organic SER. Don’t clutter your site with unrelated links that you trade with just anyone. Trading links does not have nearly the effect that inbound links do. Save your energy by increasing links.

If you spend your time and energy on these three core tactics, you’ll definitely increase your ranking. And the beauty of it is that these techniques only improve the stickiness of your site, the performance, and your reputation as an expert in your industry.

Ivy Hastings works for the Denver web design firm, Fusionbox. She writes for several publications and blogs on subjects such as search engine marketing, usability, web design best practices, and internet marketing techniques.

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Sep 29 2008

5 Tips to Get a Page 1 Ranking on Google

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Getting on the first page of Google is every Internet Marketers dream. Let’s face it, page one equals more visitors which could convert into more sales.

The good news is that you do not need a PhD in Search Engine Optimization to get on page one. All you need to do is follow these 5 simple tips.

Before we go on, these tips are in no way a guarantee. In fact, if you are competing against millions of others chances are you won’t make it but to give yourself a fighting chance, do the following:

1.Keyword phrase in the “title” tags.
Google loves title tags. With your keyword phrase in between these tags your chances skyrocket. If you look at results for any search on Google, the highlighted text is the title tag of the website.

2. Keyword phrase in [h1] tags at the top of the page. Most webpages that occupy the first page for any given search will have their keyword phrase in between the [h1] tags.

3. Image tags. If you have graphics on your site it is imperative to utilize the [alt] and [title] tags in your images. Put your keyword phrase in both these tags with a slight modification for each.

4. Keyword density. Regardless of how much text is on your page, mention your phrase or variations of it only 4-5 times. Do it naturally. It is important to keep the text flowing and appear natural.

5. A Sitemap. Google loves them. Even if your website is purely built for Adsense, include the sitemap. I have even included a privacy statement page on a few of mine to let Google know it is a genuine, legitimate site.

That is 5 basic SEO tips that have worked for me. Try on your site today and monitor the results. You might not be a page one king but watch your site climb the rankings as a result.

Craig McPherson has been making an online income since May of ‘07. His belief in helping others reach the same level has been his driving force. To reach your desired income level, with his help, go to http://www.nesfreedomteam.info.

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Sep 28 2008

Internet Marketing - 5 Simple Ways to Get Higher Search Engine Ranking

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1) Create excellent Meta tags.

Meta tags are used to help the search engines decide where to place you in their listings. In other words, Meta tags are html codes that are generally inserted into the website header on a web page after the title tag. In the context of search engine optimization, when people refer to Meta tags, they are usually talking about the Meta description tag and the Meta keywords tag. When you create Meta tags for your website you should be sure to include all keyword that deal with your page. If you need any help then search the internet for a free Meta tag generator.

2) Submit website to search engines and directories.

The best way to increase your search engine ranking and placement is to submit your website to all search engine and directories. This will easily help to boost visibility and attract a lot of targeted visitors. Keep in mind that you website needs to be popular because other website owners are literally competing with you for search engine placement every day. Also the more search engines you submit to, the higher visible your website will become.

3) Build a high number of one way links.

Building back links to your website is vital in the fight for search engine ranking. Search engines see links to your website as votes of confidence. They see that a link from another website to yours means that they website owner really like what they see. Basically, the websites that are number one in the search engines have hundreds or even thousands of back links. But remember, a back link from a high ranking website is looked on more that links from a low level start up website. Any which way, build as many links as you possible can.

4) Keep your website updated with unique content.

Search engines nowadays try to keep as much up to date websites in their listings as possible. The high level ranking sites update frequently with fresh content. Try to image if search engines were not showing updated content to all users. They would end up going out of business and losing the trust of all users.

5) Join forums and write articles.

One of the easiest ways to build your search engine ranking is to increase the visibility of your website. This can easily be done by joining a lot of forums and writing articles. When the search engines see that your website in forums and article directories, they will trust your website a lot more. The more trust you build with them, the higher your website will rank. And the higher your website ranks, the more unique visitors you will gain. This method is also a great way to build a lot of high quality back links. There are many top webmasters who use this tactic for years and dominate the search engines. It will take some practice to create articles, but it becomes easier over time. This will pay off with many number one listings in search engines.

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Sep 28 2008

Build Page Rank The Right Way!

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I want to begin by explaining that link building is just as important as writing clean html pages, finding key words & having clean key word driven content in your site pages.
This link building process can very time consuming and very difficult because there are lots of sites that will do anything to block there outgoing links from the search engines and this is a very frustrating thing to those who try so hard to do this the right way.
What I want to present here is a few steps you can take to help build links to your site:

  • First thing is if you have used web services from high ranking sites or used any services is to see if you can write a great testimonial for them and include your sites link. There are many companies online that like to post testimonials and it is a fair trade for a well written one to have a link placed to give you some credibility.
  • Find forums that are ranked well in the search engines and that are related to your industry. Check them out and make sure they are using a mod-rewrite to that the your postings will count and can be read in the search engines
  • Create a web blog with well written posts and articles about your industry. It is not so important to sell your service as it is to have well written content and include at least 3 links on each blog pointing back to your site. Now remember that there is no reason to spam others blogs with your sites links, it is okay to search for blogs and makes posts on them but don’t add your link to your site, your blog link will be added automatically and your main blog is your focus for linking back to your site. Please don’t just make posts on others blogs trying to sell yourself, make a profound comment.
  • Find web directories that you list your site on like dmoz or yellow pages. Make sure to have great keywords and content. Remember that content is your key
  • Find link exchange directories and sign up for them. Find link partners but choose them carefully. If you are using a link exchange program, make sure you have full control of the category names so that you don’t get dinged for duplicate content. If you need help finding a decent software feel free to ask me.
  • If you have 2 sites then try this 3 way linking. Ask someone to link to your main site and in return you will link to their site from your other site. Make sure that your other site is build clean and has plenty of great content and use the techniques above to get that site ranked high as well
  • As I said this is not the only thing to do but it is important. To organize this process write out a plan or schedule and try to spend about 15 minutes a day on this. After that go on to something else. Be patient and you will be successful.

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