New SEO Trends

We all know that SEO or search engine optimization helps improve site rankings. Since Google is the most commonly used, its standards are used as a peg for configuring SEOs. SEO basics require delivering value, creating great content and promotions, but there are times when Google changes their algorithms. So here are tips that you can follow to improve SEOs. High-Quality Sites Have you noticed that Google is now giving more importance to sites with great designs, good branding and unique content? The challenge now is to improve and make sure that ... 0 Comments

Tips on How to Make Links More Natural

Linking is an essential part of SEOs and increasing page rankings, but at times it sounds forced or too repetitive. Here are some tips to make linking seamless and sound natural. It is best to get links from various sources. Do not just rely on blogs, forums or directories. You can use all of them and add article sites, social bookmarking sites, new sites, editorial sites and many more other sources. Keep in mind that the number of domains linking to you are much more important than the amount of links ... 0 Comments

Link Bait Technique: Tickle Their Fancy

Humor is something that is universal. It can be expressed through words, pictures, or video. And you are sure that if your blog is funny enough, you will get the attention of people all over the world and even get them to link to your blog. This technique is perfect to bait links although I see one flaw – while humor is something that may be natural to some people, not everyone has the gift of expressing humor. I have seen so many bloggers try their hand at humor and fail miserably. There is nothing worse than trying ... 0 Comments

Link Bait Technique: Stir Up Controversy

I wrote something on link baiting in the previous post. Now who would not want to get some other sites to link to his or her blog, right? Well, one way by which you can do that is to stir up some controversy. Get right into the heat of things and get people to notice you! You know the saying that nice people always finish last? It is something like that, except that you do not have to be “un-nice” to stir up some controversy. The idea is to pick one of the hottest topics ... 0 Comments

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

Internal vs. External Links

What’s more important – internal or external links? Both kinds of links are very important but when it comes to SEO external links carry more weight. The reason for this is that, as we know, one of the factors that search engines look at to determine a page’s rank is popularity. The number of external links is indicative of the popularity of a page, which is why search engines give this type of links more weight. However, always remember that when it comes to external links it is not just the number that matters but the relevance of the link to ... 0 Comments

Think Link Quality Not Quantity

Quality is slowly but surely starting to get the upper hand over quantity. I have always been of that thinking but am really glad that randfish of SEOmoz has affirmed it. In his post on 12 Easy Mistakes that Plague Newcomers to the SEO Field one of the things he mentioned is the newbies’ drive to get as much links as they want. According to randfish you should NOT split your efforts across many domains. What this means is that instead of registering tons of domains with the purpose of having them link back to your main site you ... 0 Comments

Good Blogs – Dead Blogs

Ever wondered where all the traffic you used to get have fizzled down? Ever wonder why wonderful content isn’t getting the attention it should be? Well, blogs being ever so a dynamic technology driven social phenomenon, defining parameters can be a killer. SEO is a very difficult thing to grasp for non-believers that a simple blog can earn you money easy. You might have all the killer titles and content, throw in the hottest keywords but you still get zit in terms of traffic, why? You might want to step back and take a look at something you might ... 1 Comments

Getting .gov and .edu Links

Thinking of more ways to get links from sites that can actually pass substantial link juice? In case you’ve overlooked them you should look into sites with .gov and .edu extensions. Note that while a good number of .gov and .edu sites rank really well the extension does not guarantee good link juice, hence, it is still a good idea to choose among the .edu and.gov sites you want to target for getting backlinks. In general though these sites rank pretty well because they get high quality links and are of institutes that ... 0 Comments

Common Coding Errors that are Bad for SEO

According to Bing Webmaster Center’s Rick DeJarnette some of the most common errors that can tank a site include: An invalid mark-up code – To make sure that your mark-up code is valid use a validator such as the W3C Markup Validation Service. Of course when validating you should know which errors to look out for by asking the following questions: * Does your file contain a document type declaration (DTD) statement? * Are all of your tags closed properly? * Are your tags written in lower case ... 0 Comments