Posted by: webmaster in SEO Tips
A lot of web pages will find an SEO sitemap useful in improving their performance. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, the process that aims to create or revise Internet sites so that it can be better found by search engines. The objective of SEO campaigns is to have websites appear in the top listing or first results page of search engines.
Internet search engines, such as Google and A9, maintain a very large database of Web pages and available files. To do this, they devise a program called a web crawler, or spider. This software automatically and continuously surfs and hunts content in the Web. Pages that the spider finds are retrieved and indexed according to text content, giving more weight to titles and paragraph headers. Spiders never stop navigating the web from page to page, to index the relevant content of the Internet. Besides looking at the text of titles and headers, some programs are able to identify default tags and keep a library of these page keywords or key phrases in the index.
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Posted by: Jason D. in Website Design
As a website designer, I get asked by my colleagues all the time on how I determine my design charges? To be honest, there is really no straight answer to that question. Most of the time, I always say “it depends on the work”. It could be per page, per hour, or per project.
Now here are my advices for aspiring designers who are just getting into the business. Before you ever give out a quote to the potential client, you need to considering a few things first.
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Article Marketing
It has been known that writing articles is one of the most effective ways in increasing traffic to your site. To some SEO experts, they consider this a MUST for all websites just because majority of the article directories rank very well in Google, Yahoo, and MSN search. So well, that it might even outrank your own site.
By writing articles, you are branding yourself as an expert in your industry. If you have many articles circulating the World Wide Web, you can even be semi-famous doing it. In fact, other companies might even seek your professional help in writing articles for them. By writing articles, you are creating a one way link back to your site; this is why you never forget to put an “About the Author” section at the bottom of each and every article that you submit.
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Wordpress
It is very common for me to ask random people about their opinion in regards to the websites, graphic designs, flash contents, and logos that I have developed for my clients. I surely like to hear the opinion of a third party when it comes to my designs. So this time around, I asked some people to give me some feedback about this blog (Web Blog Press).
One of my constructive feedbacks was from a forum member. He suggested shortening the previews of my posts on the homepage. To be honest this is something, I have wanted to do for awhile. I know that this blog is not the quickest to load and probably due to the 10 full articles that are being displayed all the time. To change that, I used a customizable plug-in to solve this problem, so to all, I give you “Evermore“.
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Website Marketing
Ok now, its time for another list so as I was browsing through the web and reading my favorite forums. I stumbled upon the TOP WEBSITE CLASSIFIED ADS.
I think this is great for local marketing and web marketing as well. Besides sending your sites to just a bunch of directories, I also suggest putting them on classified ads for free back links.
Top List
1. http://www.craigslist.org
2. http://www.gumtree.com
3. http://www.backpage.com
4. http://www.adpost.com
5. http://www.kijiji.com
6. http://www.oodle.com
7. http://www.uscity.net
8. http://www.livedeal.com
9. http://www.hoobly.com
10. http://www.epage.com
11. http://www.usfreeads.com/
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Blogging Tips
As you all know, I am notorious on making lists of directories / links where website owners can submit their sites and blogs. I have decided to collect blog directories that have the most popularity with high page ranks. I personally submit Web Blog Press and Florida Website Design to all these directories manually.
I know submitting your site to all these directories do take A LOT of time but as well all know one way links is always good to increase your web page rank. If you want people to know and fin your blog then I suggest that you do submit your sites to these directories.
Some of these sites will let you submit your blog for free and some of them will ask for a fee. I am just there to inform you all these places, it is up to you on where you want to get included.
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Wordpress
I am a website designer and also a site promoter, due to my line of work, I often get asked by my clients who started to adopt blogging on how to optimize their blog page.
They look behind the admin pages and realize that there are many PHP files within a single blog theme. Most of them are familiar with HTML coding but not PHP so, when they look around the files, they don’t really know where to add their keywords. They usually search around and look for the “meta keywords” tag but can’t seem to find them.
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Website Marketing
Most companies and website owners on the World Wide Web are always looking for ways to increase their business popularity, traffic, audience, and more. I have learned and experienced that Social Networking is one of the most effective way to communicate with other businesses and potential clients.
I would like to recommend some of my favorites FREE Social networking sites that small business owners can join and participate. They are valuable due to their back-linking advantages and advertising opportunity.
The list that I provided below is geared towards businesses rather than personal.
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Posted by: Shalyn S. in Website Design, Internet
I just want to contribute to everyone this list below. Thank you for all the people that contributed to this.
These are the most popular Webmaster Forums where you can get help from other members, learn tips and tricks, and even share your own knowledge. I personally go into these sites and contribute to the forum whenever I get the chance. I have learned many things over the years due to webmaster forums so I recommend others to experience the same. Believe me it takes time and effort to be active in all these forums but I think its worth it.
All these forums are ranked high on Alexa and also have a PR of 5, 6, and 7.
Check it out:
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Posted by: webmaster in SEO Tips
So you have decided to venture out into the world of SEO. The first thing you will need to do is determine the direction of your campaign in relation to the key phrases you are choosing to target. This article will focus on how to find keywords for your organic campaign, as the process is slightly different for PPC.
Many site owners know immediately what phrases they want. If you feel like you know what you want, before you start take a brief step back and assess if this really is the best phrase for your site. Yes, it just may very well be the perfect phrase, but if it isn’t, you could wind up spending a lot of time and money pursuing a ranking that either will never happen, or will provide very little value to your site.
There are a few key areas to look at when choosing a target phrase:
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