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Avoid SEO Over Optimization?

Written by firstrank on August 27, 2010
Creating a website that is easy to navigate & more informative. Being a Good SEO your strategy should recognize balance of site structure, relevant content, site navigation. One shouldn’t focus solely on improving page rank with excessive on-site optimization. Understanding the proper use of alt attributes & internal links will help you get optimize in proper manner. Check out the most common on-site SEO Errors: Developing un-natural content: If you are selling notebook in Mumbai, you shouldn’t have the page targeting, “Notebooks in Delhi”. Make sure your website content should extremely relevant to your market or business. Too many internal links with Anchor ...
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Caffeine Transforms Google From Bus t...

Written by firstrank on June 10, 2010
WebProNews spoke with Google's Matt Cutts out at SMX Advanced today. He talked a little about Caffeine, which Google just announced is complete, nearly a year after its initial announcement at SES, when Matt also spoke with us about it. Caffeine, it should be noted, does not change how Google ranks content. It's all about the speed at which Google can index content. Cutts says you'll start seeing fresher results. This is separate from Google's real-time results. You'll see fresher results outside of that box as well. He compared it to having a limo waiting for you to take you where you ...
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Google Officially Rolling Out the New...

Written by firstrank on May 05, 2010
Now Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience has officially announced the new design, and included the following video: Mayer says, "We’ve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we've launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and it’s those three technologies that power the left-hand panel." Update 4: According to Brad Stone with the New York Times Bits Blog, Google is rolling out the new SERP design gradually right now (Tuesday and Wednesday). Update 3: More people ...
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LinkedIn Can Be One of Your Most Valu...

Written by firstrank on April 25, 2010
LinkedIn is often discussed as a powerful social networking tool, particularly for business professionals, employers, and jobseekers. What is not discussed as frequently is the site's ability to simply drive traffic to your site. We talked to entrepreneur Lewis Howes (who claims that LinkedIn is one of the top traffic sources to his blogs) about how powerful LinkedIn can be for driving traffic. We asked Howes why he thinks people don't generally associate LinkedIn with driving traffic like they would with other social networks like Facebook or Twitter. "Their perception of LinkedIn is of a resume, or a way to get ...
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Target Long Tail Keywords And Boost Y...

Written by firstrank on March 30, 2010
“Long Tail Keyword”  is the best known strategy for targeting less competitive keywords. For Example “Small Business Web Development” while a short tail keyword is like “Web Development”. If you compare both keywords, “Web Development” has 50 times as many competitors as “Small Business Web Development” but “Web Development” also gets far more searches each month. For Ecommerce Website it is the one of the best techniques to target Product based keywords, because the products titles are 3-4 keyword phrases. “Long Tail Keywords”  are easy to rank as compare to “Short Tail Keywords” . I agree that Long Tail keywords might ...
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Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhy...

Written by firstrank on March 04, 2010
Speaking today at SMX West in Santa Clara, Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs a new name. His comments came during the morning keynote session in a conversation with Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman. After being asked about search technologies that he thinks are over-hyped, Norvig eventually pointed out that the public’s focus on PageRank is misguided and it may be time for a new name. One thing that I think is still overhyped is PageRank. People think, yeah, you do this computation on the web ...
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Search Engine Ranking Factors that ma...

Written by firstrank on February 13, 2010
Working as a SEO you should know that what factors are important from Google Point of View. Well I have suggested some. Have a Look! Domain Value : Age of domain History of domain Keywords in domain name Location of IP address / Server Website structural design: Site Navigation Use of Headers Tags URL Structure Use of external CSS / JavaScript Website Content : Keyword Density Keywords in Title Tag Keywords in Meta Description (Not Meta Keywords) Applying <h1> to <h6> Tags Keywords in body text Uniqueness of content Inbound Link: Quality of website inbound links Quality of page inbound links Age of website Age of web page Relevancy of page’s content Location of link (Footer, Navigation, Body text) Anchor ...
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Useful SEO Copywriting tips

Written by firstrank on January 22, 2010
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Copywriting is the combination of search engine optimization and content. It’s an art of attracting search engine through good writing. The following tips may be helpful you to understand that how you can improve your site content and improve your site quality. It’s an art of writing content that All Search Engines will love. The major search engines including Google love well written, relevant, helpful content. If a normal user finds your content useful then they will link to it. Once they link to it and Google finds these links, that page’s ranking will boost. If your ranking ...
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Building Backlinks for your website o...

Written by firstrank on January 10, 2010
Every webmaster is looking for traffic and getting more number of backlinks for his sites. No doubt that importance of backlinks to your site. Backlinks are the backbone of every site. Search Engine considers them to backing of the target page. One-way linking is important factor because Google count it as number of votes to a particular page. Seo Copywriting is the 50% of the battle and the other one is getting many links as possible. Check the following points explaining how to build such links: Participate in Forums: Choose most relevant forum site to your website and which allow you to post your ...
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SEO Tips – Anchor Text Optimiza...

Written by firstrank on January 01, 2010
What is Anchor Text? It is hyperlinked text on the webpage. Webmasters use this technique to rank their website for set of keywords.Using this technique you can link your internal pages, post or you can add external links too. It helps you to improve the relevancy of that page. Some people use this technique to decrease their site bounce rate. Check out the following example : What Search Engine Algorithms says about Anchor text? Anchor text can help your site ranking in search engines. All search engines gives important to anchor text on your page. Optimization of Anchor text When linking to internal pages or post, ...
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