How does a web page get ranked #1 on Google? There is no doubt that the methods of the 1990s no longer work – and most definitely, not since Google went public in 2004.Back then, the content of your website’s pages was the major factor. Today, however, having links on the Internet that point back …
While Google is the number one search engine, and will likely continue to be that for a number of years, there is several thousand lesser search engines that are working hard to gain a part of the search market for themselves. The English language market for search is largely made up of a few big …
It goes without saying that if you don’t have website traffic, the other components of your web business can’t work very effectively. Without eyeballs on your sales letter, you won’t make any sales! There are many ways to generate fast free website traffic, but many of them aren’t readily available to the average, lesser-known marketer. …
We all know that search engines are very important for the success of a website. Almost 85% of new internet users find good websites by using a reliable search engine like Google. Search engines like Google fight to index thousands of pages of content found on the internet in the right order depending on several …
Search for a list of SEO factors and you’ll find that most feature at least 50. That’s 50+ elements of your website that influence your ability to rank in search engines. Sounds complicated, doesn’t it? Some SEO Consultants will tell you that ranking in search engines is about applying a precise formula to these 50+ …
“I want to be number one on Google for (insert hyper-competitive keyphrase here).” It’s usually the first thing we hear in terms of search engine optimization – a company wants to be in that coveted top spot on Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and MSN. No matter the industry or specialty, when companies approach us with their …
For years, it has been well known that Google‘s search algorithm is driven by the number and quality of links pointing to a particular URL. And as a result, it was all the rage for some time to buy links on web pages that had a high Google PageRank (PR). But in March of 2007, …
The majority of businesses now understand that search engine optimisation or SEO is becoming an important part of any online business strategy. Today it is only the most backward thinking companies that have dismissed the benefits of search engine optimisation, or have not even heard of it. The emphasis of search engine optimisation is to …
Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website highly on the major search engines. There, now that we’ve got that brilliant grasp of the obvious out of the way let’s move on to what you can do to actually create them. Before we launch into the nitty-gritty of link building, no beginners guide …
A web site does not stop with ownership. Work has to be done such as getting it optimized for search engines. Your web site has to be made search engine friendly, that is to say, it must meet certain expectations of the “crawlers” or “spiders” of search engines. The index that these crawlers have created …