Archive for December, 2007

The basic of SEO

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

In the very beginning what we need to know is WHAT IS SEO? In simple words we can say that SEO is the process to bring targeted traffic to a website. And this is not as easy as it sounds!! Usually whenever somebody builds a website so he thinks to earn from that website, no body is there out of us who builds a website for a local PC. So here, simply if I say that when we want most of the people to know about our website so we need to do Search engine optimization. And if we make a few strategies to achieve the first ranking on major search engines then we definitely not only introduce our website to others but also it brings a lot of traffic, actually the region I’m living in most of the people aren’t aware of seo, if I tell somebody that I’m doing seo so they usually think that I’m talking about any SCO (shop-cum-office). But with the help of internet I always keep in touch with the veteran seo’s all over the world, and recently I heard that the trend has changed, there’s no more traditional seo. I know that this is time when web 2.0 with multimedia marketing are making boom and even the trend of web 1.0 marketing has gone. But even then if I don’t want to spend a lot of money on sponsored links and on placing ads on other websites so there I would have to go for directory submission (most of the people have started calling it a traditional way of seo) though it takes a lot of time but can place us on the top positioning, but this is not enough to get targeted traffic, for targeted traffic we are required to get a lot of other stuff done like, blog submission and article writing, these things can bring lots of targeted people and boost our page rank as well. And we should find relevant websites to request for reciprocal links and the most important thing here to observe is that the website we are going to request for reciprocal link should have good amount of incoming links and less of outgoing. These days Google is looking for one more thing if some website places our link on the relevant page so it much! Much! Better than a link on irrelevant pages. Now the websites like myspace.com, hugpages, orkut.com and other social linking websites are being a good way to make your website famous. We usually do blogging but now its time to do something creative, do some video blogging and check out the results.

I recently heard about the MLMgoldmine and msm , these are really good, just open youtube and type MSMgoldmine in the search bar and you will really see amazing video’s for the effective way of seo. Now I think people should change the older ideas And adopt web 2.0 technologies which is basically well known as the social technology to bring people together and share ideas, and through this way some innovative people are providing you the way to be popular

Guide to SEO Consultants and Their Services

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

SEO consultant services are varied and have diverse services that deal mainly with search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is the process of making the website reach higher search rankings in search engine queries by revising it or designing it to be easier to navigate and more user-friendly to both crawlers, spiders and human browsers. The aim of search engine optimization is increase online visibility. This is so that the site generates more traffic in hopes to convert that traffic into more sales and income. SEO consultants know have plenty of expertise to make this happen.

SEO Consultant Scope of Service: A SEO consultant should be able to provide various services to the client at a reasonable cost. The services usually offered by an SEO consultant includes but may not be limited to keyword or key phrase research along with checking out the competition, SEO web design for your site and other web pages connected to your site, working with the necessary codes and content for the site, build link popularity for the site and website SEO maintenance for the particular site. Other services of a particular SEO consultant may be excluded by other consultants. Other services which may be included are submission to search engines, looking for optimum URL’s or domain names for your site, providing content for the site or strategizing your whole Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Strategy.

Keyword or key phrase research entails researching the optimum words or phrases that are widely used during searches. These keywords and key phrases will then be integrated into articles that are relevant for the site by the SEO consultant. Relevance is important because many crawlers look for this when they go through a site. The date and information that robotic spiders seek out need to be relevant to the site they are connected to. These will help in the efficient and proper indexing of the site and will help to rank the site. This is why content is important to a web site and the same holds true for inbound links to your site relevant links are worth a lot more than links from irrelevant sites. By keeping the competition under the radar, the SEO consultant will be able to see what methods work for similar sites. This means less trial and error when picking out keywords and phrases and other methods of search engine optimization. The SEO consultant will need to be vigilant regarding the changes in trends of keywords and key phrases since these changes can be seasonal. This is where SEO maintenance work comes to fore. The job of the SEO consultant will continue well after the website is established if this is part of the agreement between the SEO consultant and the client.

SEO web design for the client’s site is also a big influence in the ranking of the site and the popularity of the site to human browsers. This is because SEO web design makes the site a lot easier to navigate and load. Easy navigating and quick loading are some of the reasons why visitors to the site might want to go back to it. The SEO consultant will most likely suggest to the client several easy ways of optimizing the web site. Among these suggestions will be scaling down the larger pictures to enable quick loading and making the site more navigable to users.

Having relevant content is also a must since relevant content is what spiders are looking for when they visit a site. A site that does not meet the requirements and needs of the internet surfer will be abandoned promptly upon the discovery that the site is irrelevant. The SEO consultant must also make sure that web pages connected to your site are easy to reach and that there are also relevant links in the site to promote it with other similar sites. Link building will help promote and build popularity for your site. There are many other sites that wish to use links as a way of getting their ranking to rise.

Site maintenance is a necessary service of an SEO consultant. In order to achieve higher ranking during searches, a site must be continually maintained and primed to meet the demands and needs of users and that of the search engine. Some SEO companies use unethical methods to achieve this goal. Using black hat techniques to get higher rankings will eventually lead a search engine to ban the site and maybe also the SEO company or SEO consultant who employed black hat methods to achieve higher ranking. Due to the numerous possibilities of manipulation during search engine optimization of web sites, many search engines have set rules and guidelines which will control and manage the sites being submitted to them. Website submissions are included in what an SEO consultant will do for a client.

Employing black hat techniques to ensure higher ranking can be dangerous for both the client and the SEO consultant. This can lead to being banned from the search engine and its services and being branded as a black hat SEO consultant.