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arabera trevor harwood 17 years ago

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SEO

With the continuous advancements in search algorithms, the emphasis on producing well-cited, original, and valuable content is becoming increasingly significant. Engaging the audience by making content conversational and presenting key points upfront can enhance trust and encourage users to stay longer on a site.

SEO

PostNeesh

Business Model

Adsense
JenSense.com is a good blog about contextual advertising.
Google Adsense tips: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/static.py?page=tips.html
The best revenue options are link rentals, sponsored content, or context-based textads. Good advertising does not look like advertising. (SEObook)

Main topic

Tools

hServer Hearer Check: http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

Common Errors

but many people also make commonmistakes, like incorrectly using a 302 redirect, or not using specific page titles ontheir pages, or allowing spiders to index multiple URLs with the same content. (SEObook)

Marketing

http://chartreuse.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/why-paris-hilton-is-famous-or-understanding-value-in-a-post-madonna-world/

General

Links:
Cluetrain Manifesto: http://www.cluetrain.com/book/index.html
http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/when-unique-content-is-not-unique/
Some people say shorter keyword searchers are shoppers andlonger keyword searchers are buyers.
-Make it a conversation.-Make your point up front. People are generally distrusting toward the unknown. If site visitors sense a personis writing just for them, they will not want to click away.
Big red Fez Artticle: http://dbvt.com/blog/archive/2004/10/30/445.aspx
In Beyond Algorithms: ALibrarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust, Karen G. Schneider highlightedmany things she looked for in a trustworthy site, which included:1. Availability2. Credibility3. Authorship4. External Links5. Legality
As search algorithms continue to improve, the value of havingwell-cited, original, useful content increases daily.
• What are people talking about?• What stories are spreading?• Why are they spreading?• Who is spreading them?• How are they spreading them?

Domain

Conversion
Recently, Bryan Eisenberg, author of Persuasive Online Copywriting, made thestatement that placing a secure checkout symbol near the checkout typicallyimproves conversion rates between 5% and 15%.
Call to Action

Example hettp://www.andyhagans.com/

Link Building
Brett Tabke (owner of WebmasterWorld) wrote a quick guide worth looking atbefore building your site: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm (SEObook)
Optimization
Copy

Headlines

If I wrote a page about applying for a job, the page title and headers might looksomething like this:Search Engine Optimization Guru Looks to Help 1 LuckyClient

Online Search Engine Optimization Expert for Hire

Aaron Wall: Your SEO Expert

History in the Search Community

Author of SEO Book: A Well-Known SearchBlog

content

Top Selling Marketing Book Author

Speaker at Search Engine Strategies &WebmasterWorld

content

Directory Editor

content

Moderator at Many Professional DiscussionForums

content

Search Engine Ranking Achievements

Search Marketing ROI Results

content

Client Testimonials

content

Keywords near the top of the page, and before your navigation, may be weightedmore heavily and enhance your search engine rankings.Search engines care about the order the content appears in the page code morethan on the screen. Reorganizing the text can easily be accomplished by writing asentence above your branding images or through using a floating DIV or anotherCSS technique. (SEObook)

Use Keywords in Headings129Use keywords in headings and subheadings throughout the page—this headingshould capture the person’s attention and tell them they are in the right place.Think of these headings like you would a heading in a newspaper; a classic, straightSEO approach might be

Optimize Web Pages - Learn SEO Copywriting

You may wish to use something with a call to action as well. That would appearmore like

Learn SEO Copywriting Techniques that Drive KillerConverting Search Engine Traffic

.Heading tags go from H1 to H6, with the biggest tags being the smallest number(i.e., H1 renders the biggest font). You can change how the text appears with CSS.I usually try to get some of my primary and secondary keyword phrases and similarphrases in my page heading as well as in many subheadings. The rest of the pagecopy is usually written with sales conversion in mind, and I do not pay too muchattention to optimizing it for search engines. Natural writing should cause you touse your keywords throughout the text.I recommend using a single H1 tag on each page. I also try to use many H2 or H3tags to break up the page copy and help structure the data. (SEObook)

http://www.copyblogger.com/magnetic-headlines/

Anchor Text

Anchor TextWhen linking between your documents, you should use the words for which youwant to rank well in the anchor text.Anchor textIf you cannot use descriptive anchor text, some search engines may still place someweighting on link titles (although not as much as anchor text).Click hereYou also can make up for slightly under-descriptive site navigation links byproviding descriptive footer text link navigation.A large criteria in search engine rankings is the text used to link to a document.Sometimes it is hard to control how others link to you, but you can always do agood job of providing great links to yourself using internal site linking. (SEObook)

Title

Examples:

A good page title for this book would then be “Search Engine OptimizationTutorial e-book: SEOBook.com.”

My general rule for the page title is to include at least one competitive and one noncompetitiveterm. (SEObook)

Longer search terms typically have less competition and convert better.This is the real secret to effective on-the-page SEO. Use different pages tooptimize for different terms. (SEObook)

The original title may have also been a bit longer than necessary. Usually it is bestto keep them at or under about ten words.Keep in mind that the home page of a strong site can be more brand oriented, butas you get deeper into a site it makes sense to place more emphasis on matchingkeywords than on branding in the page titles.

Most search engines place much moreweight on the page title tag text than any other on page element. (seobook)

Meta

Meta tag creator: http://tools.seobook.com/meta-medic/

Keyword
Tools:

Ontology Finder: http://www.gorank.com/seotools/ontology/

SEO Firefox: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html

http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/

You also canfurther target your competition estimation by searching Google for “allintitle:keyword” “allinanchor: keyword”. Pages that have your keyword phrases in theirtitle may be optimized and pages that have them in their inbound links stand agood chance of being fairly well optimized.
Alexa.com will show what other site are owned by that same person
The power ofkeywords is in their precise targeting. (SEObook)
Directories
Major

Oftentimes I do not mind spending hundreds of dollars getting links from differentsites (or directories) across many different IP ranges.(SEObook)

Some directories I highly recommend are Yahoo!, DMOZ, Business.com, JoeAnt,Best of the Web, and Gimpsy. (SEObook)

Niche

Search for things like “ + ” to find other nichedirectories.

http://www.isedb.com,

Subdomain
Subdomains in GeneralIf your main site is a thin e-commerce site, or if it lacks authority, it might makesense to keep most of your authoritative content together with the low authoritycontent. But if your site has great authority, then using a subdomain for some ofyour content should allow you to get more listings in the search results.An advantage of placing some of your content on a subdomain is that if you have astrong brand and the subdomain is also authoritative, then when people search foryour brand some search engines will feature both your domain and the subdomainat the top of the search results, and searchers will have to scroll a long way down tofind competing sites or sites that are critical of your brand. (SEObook)
Hosting
SEObook

Subtopic

Host your site with a reliable host. I recommend DreamHost or Pair.com.o (SEObook)

Site Design
SSI

SSI Without Breaking File PathsWebmasters often start out with a smaller site and later decide that they shouldstart using SSI or a dynamic content management system. To use SSI, manypeople change their file paths from .html or .htm to .shtml or .shtm. The problemwith doing this is that it can break inbound links. You can get around this bymodifying your .htaccess file.To learn more about .htaccess files, view the Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess at:http://www.wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess.shtml. (SEObook)

You can learn more about SSI by viewing the Apache SSI Tutorial located athttp://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html.

On my Search Marketing Info site (Search-Marketing.info), I use SSI for the pagefooter, navigational tabs, local left column navigation, and right-side page ads. (SEObook)

Server Side Includes is an Apache server technology that allows you to includepages or parts of a page within another page without the negative side effects ofusing a framed-based navigation system. To include another file inside of a page,include the following code where you want the included page to appear.The use of SSI for common elements, such as navigation or advertisements, workwell to allow you to control your entire site by making simple changes to a singlefile. Between CSS and SSI, you can save literally hundreds or thousands of hoursin your site design or re-design.SSI also lets you include the date last modified or current date in the page. This isoften how many of those generic one page sites have the current date in their salesletters. (SEOBook)

CSS

Using CSS to Minimize Page Load TimeUsing an external style sheet will keep many of your design elements on a singlecommon page. This prevents pages from looking jagged due to slightly differentlayout specifications between one page and the next. In addition, keeping layoutcode separate from content will decrease page load time. (SEObook)

Template

Blogs as Content Management SystemsI organize many content sites with weblog programs such as WordPress andMovable Type. Movable Type costs $199 (as of writing this) for a commerciallicense and provides many of the features of expensive content managementsystems. (SEObook)

Seth Godin offered me some great advice for site design. He said, “The best wayto make a web page is to steal an outlay idea from another website that is not directlycompeting with you.”

Software such as Site Grinder and some companies like PSD2HTML andXHTMLized convert Photoshop images to websites for affordable rates. (SEObook)