Archive for the 'Basics' Category

Cross Linking Between Posts: The Good and the Bad

Cross link between your own posts/pages can be beneficial for your blog but at the same also brings some disadvantages. To maximize its benefits you should know its pitfalls so as to avoid them. The Good Cross linking benefits you in two ways: it helps you SEO-wise and helps your readers find related more easily. For the SEO part, cross linking is good because it helps establish relevancy between posts and pages. Pages containing related topics will, of course, be the ones linked to each other. Just make sure the anchor text for the links contain the keywords you need to help ... 0 Comments

Keywords in Your Post Title

As promised, here is another post on how you can best use keywords to boost your SEO efforts for your blog. Let me ask you, how do you come up with post titles? Do you like coming up with a cryptic and catchy title? Or do you think about other things? Uniquely interesting titles are good. When they are outrageous and cryptic, they do tend to get more clicks as human readers would wonder what the post might be about. However, if you focus solely on this consideration, your post might not even make it to ... 0 Comments

Going Back To Keywords

I already made my segue for this topic in the previous post – if not PageRank, then what? The “what” is the use of keywords. In the early days of SEO, a lot of people obsessed about keywords. The basic idea was that the more keywords you have in your page, then the better you will be off in terms of search engine rankings. It was not long till web writers took up the practice of keyword stuffing. That is, cramming as many keywords ... 0 Comments

SEO Benefits Website Hosting Companies?

There are a lot website hosting companies that offer easy tools to automatically install on your own servers. Now you will not experience trouble anymore in manually installing these softwares for your search engine optimization needs and you can be sure that you will not be charge an additional cost to good web host that you are looking for. It is not however difficult find the website hosting companies. One of these companies is offering the WordPress software and this is also used for your blogs and search engine optimization needs. A number of famous ... 0 Comments

What to Do with the Expired Domain You Just Bought

So you’ve just bought an old domain, what should you do take the most of it? Rebecca of SeoMoz has a great post listing the pros and cons of the top three courses of actions she recommends you take. According to her what you can do with an old domain is to: 301 redirect the old domain to an existing one; create a microsite that links to an existing domain; or overhaul the old domain and operate it independently. Obviously your course of action will depend on your current circumstance with the first two options possible only for those that are already currently ... 0 Comments

SEO – great demand in market

SEO is a technology by which professionals involved increase the appearance of any website. If you wish that your websites appears in the top list then you have to hire professionals are proficient to deal with SEO technology. They will use ways by which your website will gain the confidence among people. This will help you to earn money when lots of users will click on your website for any information. The work of best website hosting can also be done with this technology and it will make your business grow and add a new ... 0 Comments

Is SEO Really Necessary For Blogs?

We have been talking about SEO in relation to blogging for quite some time now but an old question struck me once again today. Do we really need SEO for blogs? If so, why? In order to answer this question, perhaps it would be better to take a look into what you want to achieve with your blog and what SEO does. If the answers to the two things coincide, then our original question would be answered as well. So what do you want to achieve with your blog? Different people ... 1 Comments

Domain names and their usefulness

Decision of domain names are generally by the domain name system or the DNS that states all the rules and regulations according to which different domain and sub domain names are formed. A domain name comes to use for identifying the host. Doing domain check finds the availability of domain names for a particular extension. There are a number of domain check websites available on the internet that allows you to do the same. Domain names follow a hierarchy beginning with the topmost level that consists of the generic and the country code top-level ... 0 Comments

SEO Conferences: To Go or Not to Go

SEO conferences are everywhere with speakers ranging from persons as knowledgeable as actual Google employees to more obscure self-declared SEO experts. The question though is whether there’s even really any value in attending these conferences? The answer to that question is the same as for many questions: it all depends. Depends on what? I find that the value of attending SEO conferences depends on several things including: 1) The speaker(s) - The expertise of the speaker both in their field and their ability to convey information is vital if you want to get anything out of the conference. We all know how ... 0 Comments

Importance of Site Structure

One of the biggest mistakes yet most common mistakes of new websites is not having a good site structure. It is a huge mistake not only because it can affect your users as they navigate from page to page but also because it can affect your site’s SEO. Site structure for the user: If your site is unstructured navigation can become confusing because jumping from page to page would be like leaping from portal to portal with no sense of direction. Structure is needed so that visitors can know where they are in ... 0 Comments