June 8, 2009

Australian Article Directory

One of the most central facets of any online business is how do I come through in the search engines like Google. How do I make my site to rank better in Google?

One of the most primary facets in doing winning in the search engines (assuming the basic principles like outstanding content are already organized) is developing links aimed at your site. You can produce this a lots of different ways, some taken positively by the engines and some not so favorably.

A dependable methods, that the search engine engineers think is hunky-dory is link building with articles.

Essentially this involves composing a thorough article, preferably about something from your industry, and then sending it to a free article directory.

You really shouldn’t undervalue the importance of link building. If there is one signal that takes precedence to the search engines, in general, it is links. Sure, there are rafts of other signals, such as the domain name, but you are kidding if you consider you are going to be listed well, and easily found, if you do not have any links.

Building links with articles is easy. It is something the search engines say is okay. And, it adds value to the web, by providing valuable content that might be interesting or useful to users. The real question is what are you waiting for?

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January 10, 2009

Web Hosting Companies with SEO IP Address Geo-Diversity

What is the role of Class-C IP address in “SEO Web Hosting”? When optimizing your sites for the search engines, most SEO experts focus on building a large number of backlinks. Most experts believe that these links should be from diverse geographical locations. There is typically concern that the major search engines discount links that come from the same IP Address. Put simply, an IP Address is a unique identify number for each website. A typical address might look like this: 216.54.99.123 (four numbers that each range from 0 to 255). In techie terms, each of the four numbers is sometimes called an “octet”. When you get a reseller account from a hosting company, your IP addresses might be totally the same, or might be in a a series such as 216.54.99.123, 216.54.99.124, 216.54.99.125, etc… Your goal in building links back to your site is that the IP Addresses are diverse. You really don’t need to understand all the nitty-gritty details about Class-C IP address. Just be sure that your sites that link to the same “money-site” come from DIFFERENT class-c addresses. Your goal is to make them look like they are coming from different websites, probably owned by different people. Geographical diversity is often used to achieve this. One way to get diverse IP addresses is to actually put your websites on different hosts. This can be expensive if you have a few sites, but if you have dozens of websites, you can “stack them”, or build hubs. Each hub would have a diverse group of IP addresses. If your building your internet empire, you will almost always get reseller hosting accounts (instead of one website at a time). With WHM (Web Host Manaager), you can typically set up dozens (if not hundreds) of domains on your reseller account (limited only by your disk space and bandwidth). As a reseller, you get a reseller userid/password to operate WHM. When you create a website, it gets its own userid/password for operating CPanel. SEOHosting.com is one potential but expensive solution, costing between $5 to $7 per month per domain. However, their special Web Host Manager (WHM) allows you to select a unique class-C IP address for each of your domains. SEOHosting.com is a nice and easy solution, but there are definitely more affordable solutions. A more afforable solution is the website in our resource box below. You simply get a reseller account. When you use their custom control panel, you can assign your website to one of 10 different locations spread around the world - and yes - each one has a different CLass-C IP Address. Save money now with your Class-C IP address hosting: SEO Web Hosting Get your own completely unique content version of this article.

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April 27, 2008

Choosing an SEM CONSULTANT

Following the previous article -SEO Consultants- Here are the
most popular Internet Marketing Consulting services, and what
they can do for you:

SEM Consulting

Do you have an internet marketing plan? Do you know the goals
you want to achieve and the budget you will spend on Search
Engine Marketing? How much may you spend on each client and
still be profitable? Will a Newsletter or email marketing be an
asset to boost your latest campaign?

Those and other questions will be clarified after structuring a
comprehensive Web Marketing Strategy to fit your business model,
to drive your internet marketing efforts straight to success.

As part of the services of the Search Engine Marketing
Consultant, should be included media selection, the usage of
tools as press release, email marketing, pay per click, as well
as other web marketing mix channels.

SEO Consultant Services

The correct assessment on how to optimize your web site can be
the difference between a successful business and a waste of time
(and money). SEO consultant services shall be success oriented,
prioritizing your needs and being a strategic tool to achieve
your goals.

PPC Consultant

PPC Campaign Management is a critical endeavor to increase ROI.
The PPC Consulting Company you choose will have to guide you on
selecting the correct PPC search engines, creating the Pay Per
Click Campaign setup, defining budget, and teach your team how
to understand click throughs and conversion rates, and get to
certain decisions.

PPC Management Service

Professional PPC Campaign Management service will not just
improve your lead generation and sales processes, but will
optimize your media budget and cost per conversion, reducing
your employees’ work load.

Web Analytic Solution & Consulting

An experienced SEM and SEO Consultant will encourage you to use
high quality web analytic software to measure your web site
activity and even more important: the web analytic tool shall
give you answers.

Once you have the appropriate information from the web analytic
software, the SEM consultant will assist you identify the
relevant trends and feedback for the strategic decision making
process.

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April 16, 2008

SEO and the Outsourcing of Inbound Link Building

Search Engine Optimization nowadays has a lot to do with building inbound links to your website. Building inbound links is a cumbersome tasks and webmasters have always been looking for shortcuts to do this. Webmasters buy links (as advertising as an example) or contact other webmasters to exchange links with them. The need for inbound links has created a new business opportunity in the search engine optimization industry. The outsourcing of link building emerged from the fact that many inbound links mean a high search engine ranking and/or a high Google PageRank.

There are many different ways of building inbound links. Outsourcing this tasks can save the webmaster a lot of time but it comes with a price tag. Businesses offering to take over the link building process often maintain and operate a large network of domains and websites and just add ‘your’ link to their sites. These sites are often referred to as link farms.

Others buy links on 3rd party websites for you. They often have build up a portfolio of websites/webmasters they work with. The quality of these links is often questionable and a long-term benefit does not exist. It either continues to cost the webmaster money to keep the links alive or his website might get punished by Google and other search engines if the linking websites are recognized as part of commercial search engine spamming. Punished means that either the link to a site does not have any value at all or depending on the situation the site linked to gets removed from the search engine index (worse case scenario) if other factors are involved that lead to the conclusion that search engine spamming is going on.

Outsourcing of link building also takes away the control of who is linking to a website from the webmaster. The webmaster usually just pays for X number of links but there is no option to have industry related websites link to his site (= increased value of a link). It is also difficult to verify how many links to a website have really been established from the service provider. Another difficulty is to verify how long the established links are staying in place. The danger of being over-charged is very high.

Since link building has become a profitable business opportunity search engines are aware of what is going on and are putting countermeasures in place. These are not things visible to the webmaster or explained on the search engines website. These are factors that are worked into the algorithm. Search engines use the human control factor more and more often to increase the value of the search index. Chances are that if a webmaster uses an outsourced link building strategy that at one point the campaign value goes south (turns sour).

Inbound link building should be an organic process that shows a slowly increasing number of links pointing to a certain website. Getting a high number of inbound links within a very short period will raise a warning flag at search engines. Honest webmasters will stay away from these tactics to avoid putting the success of a website at risk when there are better ways of building inbound links.

About the Author

Christoph Puetz is a successful entrepreneur and international book author. Examples of his search engine optimization work can be found at Small Business Blog, Highlands Ranch, Colorado and at Vitamin C.

The article can be published by anyone as long as the resource box (About the Author) is posted on the website including the links. These links must be clickable.

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April 3, 2008

How Lousy SEO Smothers Good Practices

Online marketers may have the best of intentions with their
natural search engine optimization programs. Yet, they drop the
ball with their impatience and eagerness to try the latest
tricks and fads.

For example, you may know that choosing the right keywords and
blending them with the visible text is a critical step. Even if
you do this well you may still squelch your effort by going
overboard in other ways. Here are five areas where you should
tread lightly with SEO:

1. Long Page Titles

Stick with one, two or three search terms with 70 or so
characters as your cap. Don’t make the mistake of cramming in a
ton of words here.

2. META Descriptions

Strive for 12-15 words. If you go over, it won’t hurt. You will
counteract your other optimization efforts by creating a META
description monstrosity loaded with too many keywords.

3. Image Alt Tags

Don’t have a field day with alt tags. Often, a web site has many
graphics and each could feature an alt tag. Stay away from the
temptation to keep repeating your keywords and search phrases in
the image source code.

4. Link Title Attribute

Desperate for any edge they can get, some online marketers have
discovered ways to pack too many keywords in the source code.
Yes, you can identify a link (the words appear when you hover
over the link), but what can you really expect to achieve by
filling up the link title attribute tag?

5. Domain, Folder and Page Names

Yes, including a keyword in a domain, folder name and page name
can help. But it can also look like spam to the search engines
and leave the wrong impression on visitors. Do you really want a
hideous URL with three hyphens in the domain name, several more
in the folder name and three others in the page name?

Your best bet is to stick with the basics - effective page
titles and META descriptions (and maybe a few keywords in the
keyword META tag). Besides that, focus on good content with
search terms spread throughout the page (with some keywords
linked to related content on the site). Finally, support these
efforts with a robust link building program (getting links to
your site from quality web sites).

Slow down. Pace yourself. And be careful what you read in the
forums and hear from your friends. Before you do anything off
the normal SEO path, you need to be very confident about your
choices and their implications.

If you go at a steady pace and test your rankings as you try
proven techniques, you’ll increase your odds of success.

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