2013-10-02

Search Engine Optimization

SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization" or "search engine optimizer." Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk damage to your site and reputation. Make sure to research the potential advantages as well as the damage that an irresponsible SEO can do to your site. Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners, including:
  • Review of your site content or structure
  • Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
  • Content development
  • Management of online business development campaigns
  • Keyword research
  • SEO training
  • Expertise in specific markets and geographies.
Keep in mind that the Google search results page includes organic search results and often paid advertisement (denoted as "Ads" or "Sponsored") as well. Advertising with Google won't have any effect on your site's presence in our search results. Google never accepts money to include or rank sites in our search results, and it costs nothing to appear in our organic search results. Free resources such as Webmaster Tools, the official Webmaster Central blog, and our discussion forum can provide you with a great deal of information about how to optimize your site for organic search.
Before beginning your search for an SEO, it's a great idea to become an educated consumer and get familiar with how search engines work. We recommend starting here:
If you're thinking about hiring an SEO, the earlier the better. A great time to hire is when you're considering a site redesign, or planning to launch a new site. That way, you and your SEO can ensure that your site is designed to be search engine-friendly from the bottom up. However, a good SEO can also help improve an existing site.
Some useful questions to ask an SEO include:
  • Can you show me examples of your previous work and share some success stories?
  • Do you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
  • Do you offer any online marketing services or advice to complement your organic search business?
  • What kind of results do you expect to see, and in what timeframe? How do you measure your success?
  • What's your experience in my industry?
  • What's your experience in my country/city?
  • What's your experience developing international sites?
  • What are your most important SEO techniques?
  • How long have you been in business?
  • How can I expect to communicate with you? Will you share with me all the changes you make to my site, and provide detailed information about your recommendations and the reasoning behind them?
While SEOs can provide clients with valuable services, some unethical SEOs have given the industry a black eye through their overly aggressive marketing efforts and their attempts to manipulate search engine results in unfair ways. Practices that violate our guidelines may result in a negative adjustment of your site's presence in Google, or even the removal of your site from our index. Here are some things to consider:
One common scam is the creation of "shadow" domains that funnel users to a site by using deceptive redirects. These shadow domains often will be owned by the SEO who claims to be working on a client's behalf. However, if the relationship sours, the SEO may point the domain to a different site, or even to a competitor's domain. If that happens, the client has paid to develop a competing site owned entirely by the SEO.
Another illicit practice is to place "doorway" pages loaded with keywords on the client's site somewhere. The SEO promises this will make the page more relevant for more queries. This is inherently false since individual pages are rarely relevant for a wide range of keywords. More insidious, however, is that these doorway pages often contain hidden links to the SEO's other clients as well. Such doorway pages drain away the link popularity of a site and route it to the SEO and its other clients, which may include sites with unsavory or illegal content.
If you feel that you were deceived by an SEO in some way, you may want to report it.
In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handles complaints about deceptive or unfair business practices. To file a complaint, visit: http://www.ftc.gov/ and click on "File a Complaint Online," call 1-877-FTC-HELP, or write to:
Federal Trade Commission
CRC-240
Washington, D.C. 20580
If your complaint is against a company in a country other than the United States, please file it at http://www.econsumer.gov/.
  • Be wary of SEO firms and web consultants or agencies that send you email out of the blue.
    Amazingly, we get these spam emails too:
    "Dear google.com,
    I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..."
    Reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines as you do for "burn fat at night" diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators.
  • No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.
    Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through our Add URL page or by submitting a Sitemap and you can do this yourself at no cost whatsoever.
  • Be careful if a company is secretive or won't clearly explain what they intend to do.
    Ask for explanations if something is unclear. If an SEO creates deceptive or misleading content on your behalf, such as doorway pages or "throwaway" domains, your site could be removed entirely from Google's index. Ultimately, you are responsible for the actions of any companies you hire, so it's best to be sure you know exactly how they intend to "help" you. If an SEO has FTP access to your server, they should be willing to explain all the changes they are making to your site.
  • You should never have to link to an SEO.
    Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. These are typically useless exercises that don't affect your ranking in the results of the major search engines -- at least, not in a way you would likely consider to be positive.
  • Choose wisely.
    While you consider whether to go with an SEO, you may want to do some research on the industry. Google is one way to do that, of course. You might also seek out a few of the cautionary tales that have appeared in the press, including this article on one particularly aggressive SEO:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002002970_nwbizbriefs12.html. While Google doesn't comment on specific companies, we've encountered firms calling themselves SEOs who follow practices that are clearly beyond the pale of accepted business behavior. Be careful.
  • Be sure to understand where the money goes.
    While Google never sells better ranking in our search results, several other search engines combine pay-per-click or pay-for-inclusion results with their regular web search results. Some SEOs will promise to rank you highly in search engines, but place you in the advertising section rather than in the search results. A few SEOs will even change their bid prices in real time to create the illusion that they "control" other search engines and can place themselves in the slot of their choice. This scam doesn't work with Google because our advertising is clearly labeled and separated from our search results, but be sure to ask any SEO you're considering which fees go toward permanent inclusion and which apply toward temporary advertising.
  • What are the most common abuses a website owner is likely to encounter?
  • What are some other things to look out for?
    There are a few warning signs that you may be dealing with a rogue SEO. It's far from a comprehensive list, so if you have any doubts, you should trust your instincts. By all means, feel free to walk away if the SEO:
    • owns shadow domains
    • puts links to their other clients on doorway pages
    • offers to sell keywords in the address bar
    • doesn't distinguish between actual search results and ads that appear on search results pages
    • guarantees ranking, but only on obscure, long keyword phrases you would get anyway
    • operates with multiple aliases or falsified WHOIS info
    • gets traffic from "fake" search engines, spyware, or scumware
    • has had domains removed from Google's index or is not itself listed in Google

Back to school SEO

  • Every SEO can benefit from a periodic refresher of the important elements of every site. Sometimes it is the simplest things that slip by and trip us up.
  • It's that time of year again when the kids head back to school and the air begins to hint at the coming of fall. I'm sure the first few days of school are spent doing a little refresh to get all the kids back up to speed after the summer months.
  • Of course SEOs don't get summer breaks and the learning doesn't ever really stop or even slow down. But that doesn't mean that a little SEO refresher every now and again isn't useful or is any less valuable.
  • Here are 10 important elements that should always remain top-of-mind with every SEO.
  • Unique titles: The page title is one of the most important aspects of your site for both search engines and users. Every page should have its own, unique title that encapsulates what that page is about in a succinct, keyword rich manner.
  • Crawler friendly: Many sites get off on the wrong foot to begin with, or fall astray along the way. All the keyword research and optimization in the world will be of little use if the site can't be crawled because of poor architecture or all your links require JavaScript. Likewise, Flash and Ajax are highly enticing tools (think: "eye candy"), but less than optimal implementation can stop search engines at your front door or leave them looking at what appears to them as empty pages.
  • Research & test: SEO is a constantly moving target. Web sites come and go, search phrases rise and fall in popularity, sites gain and lose inbound links, and search engine algos continue to change and adapt. Keyword research, site metrics and analytics should be viewed as ongoing tasks.
  • Keywords: Keywords are the foundation of any SEO program. With these in hand, you can begin to incorporate them into your page titles, headings and body text, as well as incorporating the most evergreen keywords into your file naming.
  • Compelling meta descriptions: Compelling keyword rich meta descriptions provide an opportunity to communicate with searchers, giving them a reason to click through to your site.
  • Don't compete: Each page of your site should have its own topical focus. Don't let your pages compete against one another, either because of duplicate content or trying to rank for the same keywords.
  • Build strong internal links: A lot of attention gets paid to link building, yet many sites fail closest to home with links within the site. Be sure that your internal links are optimal...no 404 errors from broken links, use good keyword rich anchor text instead of meaningless "click here" and "next" kind of links. Take this one step further and look where it makes sense to incorporate internal cross-linking to your own content.
  • Don't lose what you've built: A lot of energy goes into optimizing a site, improving search rankings, and building links. All of that effort can be wiped away in no time if you change filenames, move pages or even move everything to a new site or change your CMS without properly implementing 301 permanent redirects.
  • Participate: Today, succeeding online is about more than just keywords, search engines and rankings. You must think outside the site and participate in the greater community. On-site blogging, participating in other blogs and social media sites are all activities that serve to round out any SEO program.
  • Create great content: It should go without saying, but all your SEO efforts won't make a difference if you don't have great content on your site. Great content is what keeps visitors coming back to your site and encourages others to link to your site. Write content for your site users and the search engines will follow.

Google seo

Tối ưu hóa công cụ tìm kiếm

  • Tối ưu hóa công cụ tìm kiếm, tiếng Anh: Search Engine Optimization, viết tắt: SEO, là một tập hợp các phương pháp nhằm nâng cao thứ hạng của một website trong các trang kết quả của các công cụ tìm kiếm (phổ biến nhất là Google).[1] Các phương pháp đó bao gồm việc tối ưu hóa website ( tác động mã nguồn HTML và nội dung website) và xây dựng các liên kết đến trang để các công cụ tìm kiếm chọn lựa trang web phù hợp nhất phục vụ người tìm kiếm trên Internet ứng với một từ khóa cụ thể được người dùng truy vấn.

SEO mang lại một số ưu điểm:

  • SEO mang lại lợi nhuận.
  • SEO giúp thu hút lượng lớn khách hàng mục tiêu có quan tâm trực tiếp đến sản phẩm, dịch vụ kinh doanh của công ty. Vì vậy mang lại doanh thu.
  • Tiết kiệm chi phí truyền thông khác.
  • Chi phí dành cho SEO không lớn.
  • Giúp doanh nghiệp mở rộng thị trường, đối tượng khách hàng, thậm chí đa dạng hóa sản phẩm một cách dễ dàng.
  • SEO nâng cao thương hiệu của doanh nghiệp.
  • Xuất hiện nhiều trên kết quả tìm kiếm khiến doanh nghiệp của bạn dễ dàng được biết đến.
  • Xuất hiện ở những vị trí cao hàm ý doanh nghiệp của bạn hoạt động lâu năm và là website đáng tin cậy.

Các lĩnh vực SEO


  • Trước hết cần khẳng định, làm SEO mang nhiều yếu tố về mặt kỹ thuật, sẽ rất khó nếu không hiểu về việc xây dựng website. SEO có thể chia làm 2 mảng chính:
  • Seo Onpage: tối ưu thiết kế và nội dung website.
  • Đây là quá trình tối ưu hóa Website và nội dung các trang trong Website nhắm giúp trang web của bạn trở nên thân thiện hơn với các Máy chủ tìm kiếm (Bing, Google, Yahoo...)
  • Seo Offpage: xây dựng liên kết từ website khác trỏ tới website của bạn.

Phương pháp tối ưu hóa


  • Google, Yahoo hay Bing là các bộ máy tìm kiếm vì thế nó xây dựng các tiêu chuẩn để đánh giá, xếp hạng website. Một website càng đáp ứng được nhiều các tiêu chuẩn của máy tìm kiếm thì càng được đánh giá tốt, cơ hội lên trên TOP sẽ cao hơn. Hiện nay, có một số cách thức quan trọng sau để thực hiện SEO: [2]
  • Title - Tiêu đề trang: khai báo thẻ Page Title của website ngắn gọn, súc tích, duy nhất trong từng webpage. Các máy tìm kiếm đánh giá rất cao thẻ Page Title do nó là những gì xúc tích, hàm chứa nhất của website.
  • Description- Thẻ mô tả: Nó giống như một đoạn tóm tắt nội dung của website. Khi khai báo Description cũng phải viết ngắn gọn, xúc tích. Desciption thông thường là đoạn text màu đen hiện ra bên trên đường link, bên dưới tiêu đề trang trong phần kết quả tìm kiếm.
  • URL: Xây dựng một URL tĩnh - hay URL thân thiện với người dùng và máy tìm kiếm. Trong URL thân thiện không nên có các ký tự đặc biệt (%, $, ~, ...) mà phải giống như đường dẫn thư mục trong window. Việc này làm các công cụ tìm kiếm dễ dàng hơn trong việc tìm và thu thập nội dung trong website.
  • Xây dựng Backlink: Là việc trao đổi liên kết, xây dựng liên kết tới các website khác. Việc trao đổi này dựa trên trao đổi với các website có cùng nội dung chủ đề và chất lượng tốt thì sẽ có hiệu quả cao hơn.
  • Với SEO nội dung là điều kiện quan trọng nhất để SEO một website. Nội dung của website phải hữu ích với độc giả. Máy tìm kiếm sinh ra là để phục vụ mọi người tìm kiếm thông tin trên Internet. Những Website có được nội dung phong phú, hữu ích và thông tin luôn cập nhật sẽ luôn nằm ở vị trí TOP đầu.
  • Cũng giống như các phương pháp truyền thông khác. Tùy vào tình huống mà có nên sử dụng SEO hay không. SEO hướng tới phát triển lâu dài, vững chắc nên cần một thời gian khá dài để phát triển. SEO sẽ không phù hợp với các mục đích truyền thông ngắn hạn.

2013-09-19

Google seo free tools

  • Google Webmaster tools
SEO analysis tools are
  1. http://www.trugroovez.com/free-seo-tools.htm
  2.  http://www.webuildpages.com/tools/
  3.  http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/11-link-popularity-tools.html.
  • NicheBot
A keyword discovery tool that helps pinpoint the right keywords for optimization
The SERPS Tool
The SERPS (or search engine positioning) tool helps you discover your ranking
across Google and other major search engines in one fell swoop

  • Meta Tag Analyzer

Checks meta information for errors and relevance to page content
Commercial SEO Analysis Software
Keyword Elite
Keyword analysis
SEO Elite
Automated SEO analysis
Lyris HQ
Provides a hosted suite of integrated web tools that includes marketing services,
email, search marketing, web analytics, and web content management (CMS)
SEO Administrator
A suite of SEO analysis tools
The best-known text-only web browser is Lynx. You can find more information about
Lynx at http://lynx.isc.org/
  • The robots.txt File
The following syntax in the robots.txtfile blocks all compliant bots from traversing your entire site:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
• The User-agentline specifies the bot that is to be banished.
• The Disallowline specifies a path relative to your root directory that is banned
territory.
  • For more information about working with the robots.txt file, see the Web Robots FAQ. You can also find tools for managing and generating custom robots.txtfiles and robot metatags (explained later) at http://www.rietta.com/robogen/(an evaluation version is available for free download)
  • You can find the entire database of registered and excludable robots and their identifiers (currently about 300) at http://www.robotstxt.org/db.html.

The basics of SEO involve these steps

SEO is the set of techniques used to drive web traffic to websites , optimization of the code , content , and organization of a site.
Effective SEO requires understanding that there needs to be a balance between attracting search engines and interesting human visitors
The basics of SEO involve these steps:
• Understanding how your pages are viewed by search engine software
• Creating content that is attractive to the search engine indexing
• Taking common-sense steps to make sure that the way your pages are coded is optimized from the viewpoint of these search engines
• Organizing your site in a way that makes sense to the search engine index
• Avoiding some overaggressive SEO practices that can get your site blacklisted by the search engines

2013-09-18

Creating email lists and surmounting the spam problem

The easiest way to implement email marketing is to use a service. The top email marketing providers to small and medium-sixed enterprises are Constant Contact and iContact , with minimum monthly charges of $10 to $15
  1. Besides basic email management , these services provide some important functionality , including :
  2. Tools for creating attractive HTML email newsletter
  3. Tracking, so you know which recipients click on which links in your email
  4. Targeting , so you can send different content to a variety of recipients with different interests
  5. User management, so user can modify their subscriptions without requiring your intervention
  6. Database tools , so you can better manage your subscribers and understand their behavior
  7. Compliance with anti-spam laws and relationship with ISPs to make sure your emails go through
Action items
Here are some action iterms for you to get started on the road to driving traffic to your website:
  1. Submit your site to search engines.
  2. Resubmit your site to search engines as necessary over time
  3. Get a Google Webmaster Tools account
  4. Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools
  5. Run Google Webmaster diagnostics on your site
  6. Generate a site map and register it with Google
  7. Get your site listed in the ODP and Yahoo! Taxonomic directories
  8. Work to encourage appropriate inbound linking to your site
  9. Create a topical blog and associate it with your website
  10. Publish a press release
  11. Continue to publish press releases as stories related to your site come up
  12. Create and distribute syndication feeds
  13. Create and maintain a subscription-based email newsletter

2013-09-17

Benefit: RSS and Atom

Using syndication feeds to your benefit: RSS and Atom
However , syndication feeds work well as a device for driving traffic to a site because:
  • Feed content is under the control of the publisher.
  • Most feeds contain items that are thematically linked( and can be related to a site)
  • Feed items provide content along with links back to more content on a publisher is site
  • It is easy to distribute a syndication feed
You’ll find links to these tools and to syndication resources in general on the RSS Com Pendium and on O’Reilly’s Xml.com site.

Press Release(PR)

There are several online services that exist to distribute PR, including 24-7PressRelease.com, FreePressRelease.com, and PRWeb
  • TypePad
TypePad is a service run by Six Apart that will host your Movable Type blog for a fee.
  • WordPress hosting
The WordPress organization will host a free blog at a domain like yourblog.wordpress.org. If you need more full hosting services, WordPress recommends commercial hosting providers at http://wordpress.org/hosting/.
  • Blogger
Blogger, owned by Google, provides free blogs at domains like yourblog.blogspot.com.

Backlink

Page Rank 6

  1. http://currybet.net/
  2. http://carlgalloway.com/
  3. http://sirpi.org/
  4. http://midasoracle.org/
  5. http://blog.mofuse.com/
  6. http://themallblog.com/
  7. http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/
  8. http://brazencareerist.com/
  9. http://weblogtoolscollection.com/
  10. http://eartheasy.com/blog/
  11. http://themallblog.com/
  12. http://hurryupharry.org/
  13. http://thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/
  14. http://blog.photography.si.edu/
  15. http://justintadlock.com/
  16. http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/
  17. http://businessfinancemag.com/
  18. http://jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog

Page Rank 5 DoFollow Blogs

  1. http://www.oilman.ca/
  2. http://www.communityspark.com/
  3. http://focusorganic.com/
  4. http://www.layercake.net/
  5. http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/
  6. http://justaddwater.dk/
  7. http://blog.dmbcllc.com/
  8. http://therenegadewriter.com/
  9. http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/
  10. http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/
  11. http://elleeseymour.com/
  12. http://profitsfinancesite.com/
  13. http://links.org.au/
  14. http://www.knrn.org/
  15. http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/asimong/
  16. http://www.seobythesea.com/

Page Rank 4 DoFollow Blogs


  1. http://dmiracle.com/
  2. http://blog.waxmarketing.com/
  3. http://www.retirement-income.net/blog/
  4. http://www.lifeintherough.com
  5. http://www.marketing-results.com.au/
  6. http://nthambazale.com/
  7. http://www.wordpressmax.com/
  8. http://www.alistseo.com/
  9. http://mikemoran.com/biznology/blog/
  10. http://kikolani.com
  11. http://linguisticszone.blogspot.com
  12. http://comedyplus.blogspot.com/
  13. http://www.phpcafe.net/blog/
  14. http://omgpittsburgh.com/
  15. http://www.scrapscene.com
  16. http://thesisthemehq.com
  17. http://larholm.com
  18. http://www.techjaws.com
  19. http://www.steverenner.com
  20. http://www.jhsiess.com/
  21. http://www.stomperblog.com
  22. http://www.bryper.com
  23. http://www.drownradio.com
  24. http://www.verticalmeasures.com/blog/
  25. http://www.smallbusinessbranding.com/
  26. http://www.barrywise.com/
  27. http://www.memwg.com/
  28. http://www.deardrmoz.com/
  29. http://www.howtowakeupearly.com/
  30. http://alemsys.com/
  31. http://blog.littlerockjams.com/
  32. http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/
  33. http://www.articlesnatch.com/blog/
  34. http://rumahabi.com
  35. http://www.costpernews.com
  36. http://www.wallpaperstop.com
  37. http://menstrualpoetry.com/
  38. http://lillieammann.com/blog/
  39. http://www.bokashiman.com/
  40. http://wpcult.com/
  41. http://www.rajtilak.net/
  42. http://blog.winesworld.com/
  43. http://www.javelinmarketing.com/blog/
  44. http://dmiracle.com/
  45. http://www.purplewren.com/
  46. http://fruityoaty.com
  47. http://www.stephanmiller.com
  48. http://laketrees.blogspot.com
  49. http://rumahabi.com/
  50. http://www.lifeintherough.com/
  51. http://abstract2collective.blogspot.com/
  52. http://www.jhsiess.com
  53. http://www.larsbachmann.dk
  54. http://nancyhendrickson.com/
  55. http://poeartica.blogspot.com/
  56. http://heiseidemocracy.com
  57. http://selberg.org/
  58. http://www.middlezonemusings.com
  59. http://www.canadienseneurope.org/

Manual website submission to directories

Manual website submission to directories
All you have to do is to conduct a search for the following combinations:
“add link” + your keywords
“add a link ”+ your keywords
“add site”+ your keywords
“add a site ”+ your keywords
“add your site”+ your keywords
“add URL” + your keywords
“add your URL” + your keywords
“add website” + your keywords
“add a website”+ your keywords
“add your website”+your keywords
“favorite links”+ your keywords
“favorite sites”+ your keywords
“submit URL” + yourkeywords
“submit your URL” + your keywords
“submit website” + your keywords
“submit a website” + your keywords
“submit your website” + your keywords
“submit link” + your keywords
“submit a link” + your keywords
“submit your link” + your keywords
“submit site” + your keywords
“submit a site” + your keywords
“submit your site” + your keywords
“link exchange” + your keywords
“link trade ” + your keywords
“link swap” + your keywords
“recommended links” + your keywords
“recommended sites” + your keywords
“recommended places” + your keywords
“recommended websites” + your keywords
“cool sites” + your keywords
“cool places” + your keywords
“cool websites” + your keywords
“suggest site” + your keywords
“suggest website” + your keywords
“suggest a website” + your keywords
“suggest your website” + your keywords
“suggest link” + your keywords
“suggest a link” + your keywords
“suggest your link” + your keywords
“suggest a site” + your keywords
“suggest your site” + your keywords
“suggest URL” + your keywords
“suggest a URL” + your keywords
“resources” + your keywords
“exchange links” + your keywords

Example:
add link” + google seoseowebsite design

Finding the right frequency of submission to direstories.

The frequency depends on several factors :
  1. How old the domain is.
  2. What PageRank the domain has
  3. The quantity and value of back links to the domain currently indexed by the search engine
Find the best frequency for your site.
New domain (new domains also include the sites that have a few back links and the sites that have been in search engines results for 3 months or less)

First week –max 8-10 direcrories per day
Next 7-10 days –max 15 directories per day
Rest time-10-15 directories per day
When the directories list comes to the end, you should better add to max 5 directories per day during the last 10 days

Standard domain
(The sites that are less than 1 year old , display in search engine results, have some back links and indexed pages)

The best way is to start adding to directories with a high PageRank:
First week-15-20 directories per day
Next weeks -10-15 directories per day
Old domain
(The sites that are older than 2 years, have been more than 1-2 years in search engines, have the internal pages indexed, have back links from pages with PR3 or higher)
There are no special rules.It is enough to add the site on a consistent basis.
It is recommended to submit to minimum 15 directories per day.
When the directories list comes to the end, the best way is to add to max 7-10 directories per day during the last 7 days.


Secret tips for successful website submission

So, to succeed in the site submission to free link directories , you will want to follow these rules:
#1. Choose relevant directories.
  • Why are relevant sites preferable ? for two reasons:
  1. The links on the relevant pages may bring your traffic because they are related to the page theme.
  2. The search engines will consider these links as more valuable and your web pages will appear more relevant to your target search phrases.
#2. Submit your site only once .
  • Do not submit the same website to the same directory more than one time.
#3. Submit your home page only.
  • Do not submit deep links
#4.Choose the relevant sub-category form the list .

  • Do not submit your site to the top-level category (unless this is allowed by Submission Guidelines)
#5.Read the directory Submission Guidelines.
  • If your website does not meet the submission requirements , you won’t waste your time for the directory .
#6.Use the email address from the same domain .
  • Do not use a free email address when you fill in the form to submit your site.
#7.Build your links slowly.

2013-09-16

Submission of the site to web directories

Link building strategies
  • The reciprocal links were the number 1 in the SEO process.
  • Building links is a challenging  process , and reciprocal links are often the easiest ones to acquire , especially for new brand sites.
  • The reciprocal links make no more than 25% of the total amount of your inbound links.
  • But the reciprocal links between the site on home design and the site related to SEO is not a good idea.

Submission of the site to web directories
The secret to know when building  your links is that search engines like natural link structure and hate artificial link structure.
Natural links Artificial links
Anchor text varies
Grow in number gradually
If the site exchange links , the link points to reputable pages only
Anchor text is the same
Appear in great number suddenly
Many are reciprocal
The site links to link farms, or web rings , or isolated nodes.
Preparing the website for submission
  • Title
  • Keywords 
  • Description
  • Do not write the titles in ALL CAPS
Diversify your titles in a 40%/40%/20% manner:
  1. 40% contain generic anchors like”Click here”, “Read more”,”Go here”,..
  2. 40% contain a generic anchor and your domain .(ex: “visit yourdomain.com”,”click yourdomain.com”,”visit my website domain.com” )
  3. 20% of your anchors contain your keywords.

Submitting websites to search engines

Google and most other search engines use several separate mechanisms:
  • A program that scrawls the web to find sites , also called a crawler or a spider.Once found (crawled), site are placed in the search engine is index.
  • Software that ranks sites are placed in the search engine is index to determine their order of delivery when some one uses google to search for a particular keyword or phrase.
Important search engines for submission
Search engineSubmission URL
Google
http://www.google.com/addurl/
Yahoo!http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
Binghttp://search .yahoo.com/info/submit.html

The best-known example of this kind of site is Submit Expresss, which will submit your URL to 40 site for free

Useful free services and software

TinyURL: it allows you to convert , unwieldy URLs.
Alexa : analytisc keywords
Smarty: templating system PHP free.

Creating successful websites:

 The taxonomy of success
1.The website is humorous and makes visitors laugh
2.The website provides a useful free service
3.The website is an online magazine or newspaper
4.The website provides opinions in the form of a blog or blogs
5.The website provides practical information.
6.The website sells a popular produc or service
7.The website services a community and provides communication tools for that community

2013-09-15

Building links

Typically a link consists of two parts:

  • URL(uniform Resource Locator ).This is the web address of the site your link points to .
  • Anchor text.This is the visible text of the link.

Google is known to look at these factors when ranking a website googleseovn:

  1. Number and quality of the links from other sites.
  2. Anchor text of the links.( not use the same anchor text for all links either , google sees those links as spam.)
  3. Historical factors.

After the recent Google Panda Update it is important that you diversify your anchor text in a 40%40%20% manner:

  • 40% contain generic anchors like:

Click here
Read more
Go here
Find out more here
Find out info here
Learn more here
Visit this link
Click this link
Visit this site
Continue reading

Example:
<a href="http://googleseovn.com/" title="google seo">Click here</a>
  • 40% contain a generic anchor and your domain , for example:
Visit yourdomain.com site
Click yourdomain.com
Visit my website domain.com
Read more on my site domain.com
Find out more at domain.com
Click on domain.com for a full article
Example:
<a href="http://googleseovn.com/" title="google seo">Visit googleseovn.com site</a>
  • 20% of your anchors contain your keywords.

Link to google seo vn

Link building

  • SEO is the process of taking steps with your website to make it highly ranked by the search engines for your desired search terms.The key element in getting a higher page rank is link building .Building high-quality links to your website that appear natural to search engines is one and most important step towards increasing your page rank.

Why are links so important for your online success?

  1. Links make your website get indexed by search engines so they begin ranking googleseovn for target keywords.
  2. Search engines use links to determine how relevant googleseovn is to search terms.

2013-09-12

SEO Goals and Objectives

• Search engines drive dramatic quantities of focused traffic, comprising people intent on accomplishing their research and purchasing goals.
• Visibility in search engines creates an implied endorsement effect, where searchers associate quality, relevance, and trust worthiness with sites that rank highly for theirqueries.
• Dramatic growth in the interaction between offline and online marketing necessitates investment by organizations of all kinds in a successful search strategy.

2013-09-11

web crawling

  • A Web crawler starts with a list of URLs to visit, called the seeds. As the crawler visits these URLs, it identifies all the hyperlinks in the page and adds them to the list of URLs to visit, called the crawl frontier. URLs from the frontier are recursively visited according to a set of policies.
  • The large volume implies that the crawler can only download a limited number of the Web pages within a given time, so it needs to prioritize its downloads. The high rate of change implies that the pages might have already been updated or even deleted.
  • The number of possible crawlable URLs being generated by server-side software has also made it difficult for web crawlers to avoid retrieving duplicate content.
  • "Given that the bandwidth for conducting crawls is neither infinite nor free, it is becoming essential to crawl the Web in not only a scalable, but efficient way, if some reasonable measure of quality or freshness is to be maintained." A crawler must carefully choose at each step which pages to visit next.

Optimizing for Specific Countries

Here are a few of the top factors that contribute to international ranking success:
• Owning the proper domain extension for the country
that your business is targeting
• Hosting your website in the country you are targeting (with a country-specific IP address)
• Registering with local search engines:
— Google: http://www.google.com/local/add/
— Yahoo!: http://listings.local.yahoo.com/csubmit/index.php
— Bing: https://ssl.bing.com/listings/BusinessSearch.aspx
• Having other sites from the same country link to you
• Using the native language on the site (an absolute requirement for usability)
• Placing your relevant local address data on every page of the site
• Defining your preferred region in Google Webmaster Tools

Analyzing Ranking Factors

Here is a high-level summary of the top nine results:
• Keyword use in title tag
• Anchor text of inbound link
• Global link authority of site
• Age of site
• Link popularity within the site’s internal link structure
• Topical relevance of inbound links
• Link popularity of site in topical community
• Keyword use in body text
• Global link popularity of sites that link to the site

2013-09-09

The professional SEO practitioner ?

  • Measuring which keyword phrases to target
  • Measuring which keyword phrases to include on a page about a certain topic
  • Measuring the relationships of text on other high-ranking sites/ pages
  • Finding pages that provide “relevant” themed links

Content a website

  • Search engines place a lot of weight on the content of each web page. 
  • Search engines do a detailed analysis of each web page they find during their crawl to help make that determination.
  • Search engine performing a detailed analysis of all the words and phrases that appear on a web page, and then building a map of that data for it to consider showing your page in the results when a user enters a related search query.

search engine?

The search engines have several major goals and functions. These include:
  • Crawling and indexing the billions of documents (pages and files) accessible on the Web
  • Responding to user queries by providing lists of relevant pages.

Setting the site name

The site name is the key to you for several reasons:
  • Appears on the site header in many themes, as highlighted in the following screenshot
  • Appears as the page title shown in the top browser bar and browser tab, as highlighted in the following screenshot
  • If a browser supports tabs, the name will also appear on the browser tab for the page
  • The name appears in e-mails generated by the system

2013-09-07

SEO terminology

.htaccess
  • The .htaccess file is a configuration file for your web server. In the context of SEO, it is used to help your web server determine how to route HTTP traffic. In the world of SEO, the .htaccess file is most commonly discussed in the context of URL aliases,which are often used to create search engine friendly URLs.
301 redirect (also known as Permanent Redirect)
  • A 301 redirect is an instruction given to the web server, informing it that a page that was previously located at one URL has been moved permanently to a new URL. The 301 redirect is most commonly used in situations where a site has been rebuilt and the URLs have changed. By adding 301 redirects to the site, you are able to avoid missed connections caused by traffic going to the old URL. When a 301 redirect is used, the search engines will also update their indexes to remove the old URL for the page and substitute the new one, thereby preserving the page's indexing
302 redirect (also known as Temporary Redirect or Found)
  • A 302 redirect, like a 301 redirect, informs the web server that a page has moved.Unlike a 301 redirect, a 302 redirect indicates that the move is temporary. This option is a disfavored option as some search engines will penalize for the use of this sort of redirect.
404 error (also known as Page Not Found)
  • When a person visits a URL to a page that no longer exists (or has been moved), or types in an incorrect URL, the visitor will automatically be shown a 404 error message. The default message informs the visitor that the page cannot be found. Many sites build custom pages specifically designed to be displayed when a 404 error occurs.
AdSense
  • AdSense is a Google advertising program aimed at website owners. Site owners can sign up for the AdSense program and then display it on their site. (The ad inventory is provided by Google, often from the AdWords program, discussed next). The website owner will be paid a percentage of the revenues generated when someone clicks on one of the ads displayed on his or her site.
AdWords
  • AdWords is a Google commercial advertising program aimed at advertisers. If you want to advertise on the Google network, you can sign up for the AdWords program, build an ad and set a daily budget for the display of that ad. The ad will then appear in the Google network and you will be charged when someone clicks on one of the ads (or, alternatively, you can elect to be charged according to the number of views of the ad).

Alexa Rank
  • Alexa.comprovides a website ranking service that attempts to rate all the sites on the Web in order of their popularity. Like a golf score, the lower the score, the better. The most popular site on the Web (typically Google.com) has an Alexa Rank of 1. The service, though not 100 percent accurate and the subject of some criticism, is yet another way of tracking the success of your efforts to raise your site's profile. To learn more visit http://alexa.com.
Alt attribute
  • The HTML image tag (img) is used to place images on the page. The tag includes an option to specify a value for the attribute alt. This attribute is intended to allow webmasters to specify an alternative description for the image, typically for the benefit of users who are using screen readers or browsers with the image display disabled.
Anchor

  • Anchors are hyperlinks that allow a user to jump from one place to another within the same page.

Back link (also known as an "inbound link")
  • A back link is a link on an external site that points to your site.
Bing Webmaster
  • The Bing Webmaster service is provided by Microsoft to enable site owners to gain access to some basic tools that help you diagnose and track your site. Registration is free of charge.
Black hat
  • Black hat is a label used to describe the use of SEO techniques that are illegal, unethical, or of questionable propriety.

Bot (also known as Robot, Spider, or Crawler)
  • A robot, or "bot" for short, is a software agent that indexes web pages. It is also called a "spider" or a "crawler".
Canonical URLs
  • Canonical URLs are URLs that have been standardized into a consistent form. For the search engines, this typically implies making sure all your pages use consistent URL structures, for example, making sure all your URLs start with "www".
Cloaking
  • Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique that involves presenting the search engine spider with different content than you show a normal site visitor.
Crawl depth
  • Crawl depth is a measure of how deeply the search engine spider has indexed a website. This is typically an issue relevant for sites with a complex hierarchy of pages. The deeper the spider indexes the site, the better.
Deep link
  • Deep link is a hyperlink that points to something other than the front page of a website
Doorway page (also known as a "gateway page")
  • Doorway pageis a page built specifically to point users to another page. This technique is used legitimately when a site owner holds multiple domain names and wishes to channel all the traffic into a primary domain. The technique is often used inappropriately by some black hat SEO practitioners as a way to create highly optimized pages targeting a specific term or terms, then push the users to another site—an online variation of the old bait and switch routine.
Duplicate content penalty
  • Duplicate content penalty is a theory that the search engines penalize sites that repeat content, or use content that is duplicated from another source. The theory is controversial, with many believing that the penalty may not exist, or may only be enforced in situations where there are other factors that indicate bad intent.
Google Webmaster
  • The Google Webmaster service is provided by Google to enable site owners to gain access to some basic tools that help you diagnose and track your site. Registration is free of charge.
Internal link density
  • Internal link density is the number of self-referential links on a site; that is, the number of links on a site pointing to other pages on the same site.
KEI
  • KEI is an acronym standing for Keyphrase Effectiveness Index. KEI is normally used during keyphrase research in an attempt to find the optimal keyphrases for a site. It is a simple ratio, most often defined as, "Frequency of search engine queries for the term/number of pages competing for the term".More the number of searches, more the potential traffic. The lower the competition, the easier it is to rank highly in the SERP. The most ideal term will have low competition and a high number of searches.
Keyphrase density (also known as "keyword density")
  • Keyphrase density is a calculation done by looking at all the text on a page, then calculating a ratio that represents the total number of words to the number of times a particular keyphrase or keyword appears on that page.
Keyword (or Keyphrase)
  • A keyword is a word being targeted for site's SEO efforts. A keyphrase is simply the targeting of a phrase instead of a single word.
  • Keyphrase stuffing is the over-optimizing of a page for a particular keyphrase. This is a disfavored practice that can have a negative impact on your site's ranking as it is viewed by the search engines as an attempt to exert inappropriate influence on the rankings for the page.
Landing page
  • A landing page is a web page that has been optimized to capture a customer, and is typically used as the target for an ad or other promotional campaign, or simply for capturing leads.
Link building
  • Link building is the process of seeking out or creating links to a site for the purpose of increasing the site's search engine relevance or inbound traffic.
Link farm
  • Link farm is a site that includes an excessive number of links. These sites are typically built purely to generate links for SEO purposes. Sites of this nature are disfavored by the search engines, which view them as inappropriate attempts to exert influence over rankings

Link text (also known as "anchor text")
  • When you create a hyperlink on a page by wrapping a text string with an <a>tag, the text wrapped by the tag is referred to as the link or anchor text. There is a search engine optimization benefit to using text for hyperlinks, as the text can then be indexed in conjunction with the hyperlink.
Long tail
  • In general terms, the long tail of a distribution is the trailing end of the distribution. In the context of SEO, the term is used to refer to targeting longer and more specific search queries, where there is usually less competition.
Meta tags
  • Metadata is, quite literally, data about data. On the Web, meta tags are the most common implementation of metadata and in the past were a key part of search engine indexing. Today, meta tags are still in use on the Web and can be found in the head section of web pages.
MozRank
  • MozRank is a site ranking algorithm formulated by SeoMoz. Often used in SEO circles as an alternative to Google's PageRank.
nofollow
  • nofollowis a possible value for the relattribute inside the <a>tag. If the value of the relattribute for a link is set to nofollow, the search engines' spiders will not follow or index the link.
Organic rank
  • Organic rank refers to natural search engine ranking, as opposed to paid ranking.
Outbound link
  • Outbound link is a hyperlink on one site pointing to an external site
PageRank
  • PageRank is a ranking algorithm created by and named for Larry Page at Google. The ranking criteria is unknown, but the scale ranges from zero at the low end to ten at the high end. The higher the score the more persuasive a website is deemed to be. There is argument, however, that the rank is no longer in use at Google and may not continue to evolve.

PPC
  • PPC is an acronym for Pay Per Click advertising. If you use a PPC advertising scheme, you pay every time someone clicks on one of your ads. The most popular PPC system is the Google AdWords program. It is also sometimes called "pay for performance advertising".
Reciprocal link
  • Reciprocal link is a link from one site to another, given in exchange for a link back. It is a link exchange between webmasters, done in hopes of boosting both sites' rankings.
Redirect
  • is an instruction given to the web server to redirect traffic seeking one URL to a different URL. There are different types of redirects, such as 301 redirect and 302 redirect, as we have seen earlier in this chapter.
Robots.txt
  • Robots.txt is a file containing instructions for search engine robots. This file is located on the server but is not used by the human visitors to the website.
SEF URLs
  • SEF URLs is an acronym for Search Engine Friendly URLs. The term refers to the creation of URLs that use natural words and phrases, rather than query strings and other abstract values (such as numbers) not associated with the page content.
SEM
  • SEM is an acronym for Search Engine Marketing. The term is broad and applies to not only search engine optimization, but also to other techniques, such as social media, pay per click advertising, and other marketing techniques focused on search engines.
SEOMoz
  • SEOMoz is a popular commercial SEO consultancy service. Learn more at http://www.seomoz.org.
SERP
  • SERP is an acronym for Search Engine Results Page.
SMO
  • SMO is an acronym for Social Media Optimization. The process of using social media to drive traffic to your site and the related process of making your site suitable for social media, for example, by including social bookmarking tools and other social sharing devices on the site's pages.
Splash page
  • Splash page is an entry page, typically decorative, used to greet visitors to a website.
Stop word
  • Stop words are words included in search queries that are not actively indexed, unless included in quotations (phrase search). Typical examples include articles and conjunctions such as the, a, and or.
Title attribute
  • The titleattribute is available on a number of HTML elements. It is used to provide a description for a link, a table, a frame, an image, or other elements. Some search engines index the titleattribute and it therefore provides another option for on page optimization. Some browsers will also display the content of the titleattribute as a tool tip when you move your mouse over the object.
White hat
  • White hat is a label used to describe the use of SEO techniques that are legal, ethical, or exhibit best practices.
XML sitemap
  • XML sitemaps lists the pages on a website in a format that is easily digestible by search engine agents. The sitemaps follow a standard convention agreed upon by all the major search engines. The XML sitemap is typically not visible to site visitors, and should not be confused with the normal sitemaps often used on the frontend of websites.

Google, Bing ?

Google provides the following guidance:
•Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.
•Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings.

Bing also emphasizes the importance of content and advises as follows:
•Ensure content is built based on keyword research to match content to what users are searching for
•Produce deep, content-rich pages; be an authority for users by producing excellent content
•Set a schedule and produce new content frequently
•Be sure content is unique—don't reuse content from other sources

What is SEO?

SEO is a process—a series of planning and execution steps that lead to a website being optimized to perform its best on the search engines.
SEO:
• Keywords in the domain name
• Keywords in a page's URL
• Keywords in the content title
• Keyword placement on page
• Keyword repetition on page
• Uniqueness of content
• Freshness of content
• Facebook activity
• Twitter activity, including influence of account tweeting
• Google+ activity
• Social media up votes and comments
• Click through rate for the site
• Bounce rate for the site
• Number, quality, and content of links to this site
• Number of internal links
• Number of errors on site
• Speed of the site

2013-09-05

Webmaster Tools API

What is the Webmaster Tools API?
   Google Webmaster Tools is Google's free service for webmasters. See your site as Google sees it, find out any problems we had crawling your site, and share info with us that will help improve your site's visibility in        Google's search results.Your client application can use the Webmaster Tools Data API to view sites in your Webmaster Tools account, add and remove sites, verify site ownership, and submit and delete Sitemaps.

How do I start using the Webmaster Tools Data API?
   1.If you're new to the Webmaster Tools Data API, here's how we recommend you get started:
Read the Developer's Guide to learn how the API works and how to use best coding and testing practices.
   2.Read the Reference Guide to learn about the web service operations and data objects that are available through the Webmaster Tools Data API.

Webmaster Guidelines

  • Design and content guidelines
  • Technical guidelines
  • Quality guidelines
When your site is ready:
  • Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/.
  • Submit a Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. Google uses your Sitemap to learn about the structure of your site and to increase our coverage of your webpages.
  • Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online.

Design and content guidelines

  • Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. 
  • Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. 
  • Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number.
  • Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
  • Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
  • Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. 
  • Make sure that your <title> elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
  • Check for broken links and correct HTML.
  • If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages.
  • Review our recommended best practices for images, video and rich snippets.
Quality guidelines - basic principles
  • Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.
  • Don't deceive your users.
  • Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you, or to a Google employee. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
  • Think about what makes your website unique, valuable, or engaging. Make your website stand out from others in your field.
Quality guidelines - specific guidelines
  • Automatically generated content
  • Participating in link schemes
  • Cloaking
  • Sneaky redirects
  • Hidden text or links
  • Doorway pages
  • Scraped content
  • Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value
  • Loading pages with irrelevant keywords
  • Creating pages with malicious behavior, such as phishing or installing viruses, trojans, or other badware
  • Abusing rich snippets markup
  • Sending automated queries to Google

Google-friendly sites

Things to do

  • Design.
  • Technical.
  • Quality .
  1. Provide high-quality content on your pages, especially your homepage.
  2. Make sure that other sites link to yours
  3. Make your site easily accessible

Things to avoid

  • Don't fill your page with lists of keywords, attempt to "cloak" pages, or put up "crawler only" pages.
  • Don't feel obligated to purchase a search engine optimization service.
  • Don't use images to display important names, content, or links.
  • Don't create multiple copies of a page under different URLs.

Search Engine Optimization

  • Review of your site content or structure
  • Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
  • Content development
  • Management of online business development campaigns
  • Keyword research
  • SEO training
  • Expertise in specific markets and geographies.