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SEO Questions - Google Rules This morning I woke up to someone having submitted a pile of SEO questions using our newsletter question form. At first I thought, "Yikes, that's kind of pushy to think I have time to answer all those questions!" But then I remembered that this was a newsletter week and I still had no idea what I was going to write about. A second look at the questions made me think that you guys would probably be interested in the answers to many of them, so it worked out perfectly. Most of these questions have been answered in greater detail in various articles that I've written, so if you'd like more info on any of them, I've linked to the relevant ones for your convenience. Thanks to Umair R., who submitted these questions. 1. Is there any fixed rule for Google as far as SEO is concerned? If so, what are the steps? If only! There are no fixed rules because every website is different and has different needs. The...

Make All Your Website Pages Sales Pages All online business owners want to attract as many targeted visitors to their websites as possible. Their favorite kind of visitors are the free ones and the best source of free targeted website traffic is article marketing. The concept is simple: you write an article, it gets distributed in ezines and posted on other people's websites where potential customers will read it and click through on a link to visit your website. The articles you write will also be used as additional content for your own website, and this is valuable for SEO purposes as well as for attracting visitors. Your articles are more than just reading matter for visitors, though; you could think of article pages as mini-sales pages. When you are adding content to your website, look at each page you complete as if you are a visitor entering the site for the first time via that page. Is there an obvious way for the visitor to find the home page, s...

Website Quality Content The Importance of Quality Content for SEO One of the most common misconceptions is that in order to rank well for SEO you have to have pages and pages of content that are packed with keywords and phrases that relate to your topic. While it is very true that you do need to have a high quality design to your website that does incorporate important keywords, it is not true that you need to pack the website with too many keywords. In fact, quality content is much more important to most website owners anyway. In fact, quality content makes a difference to search engines too. The one thing you have to realize is that website owners now need to focus on quality content more so than just seo terms. The fact of the matter is, quality content is not just something your readers want and expect to have, but it is also something that the search engines are learning from. Search engines like Google and Yahoo, for example, now have complex software ...

Google Authorship for Dummies When you do a Google search have you noticed that next to some search results there is a nice picture next to certain blog posts in the search engine results? You tend to want to click on those blog posts first don't you? Actually, according to some tests, blog posts with pictures in the SERPS have a 30% higher click-through rate than posts without the pictures. The reason that you see the authors' pictures next to their blog posts is because they have taken the time to establish authorship for their site with Google. I just managed to accomplish this amazing feat for my blog at Quickregister.net and here is everything I did to get it done: Add a Nice Head Shot of You to Your Google+ Profile Page In order for your picture to show up in the SERPS you need to have an official picture of yourself on Google+. Log into your Google+ account and upload a recognizable head shot of yourself. It cannot be a picture of your cat...

Good SEO is invaluable to achieving online success. Before you invest in a search engine optimization tutorial here are some tips for getting the most beneficial effects from your optimization efforts. 1. Text is the favorite format of search engine spiders. You can rely on spiders to crawl and read a website that has sufficient text content. If your website is heavy on graphics or dynamic content, find some way to work some basic body text into your site because spiders don't really see Flash, JavaScript or image text. 2. When creating content, stick to one topic for each page. Several topics on a single page confuses readers and leads to poorer relevancy. 3. Use your strongest keywords early on in your copy, preferably in the first sentence. Craft your sentence in such a way as to help spiders establish a relationship between keywords. Insert keywords and key phrases in subsequent sentences, but avoid overusing them as this might lead search engi...

Local Search Tips To Improve Your Business Local SEO is the use of specific techniques to rank high in the search engine results page for a local business. If you have an excellent website, one that is easy to navigate, offers a clear description of your products and services, and has features in place to convert visitors into customers, but are still not making money from your website, then you need to consider improving your SEO to increase organic traffic from the search engines. 7 Tips To Improve Your SEO 1. Target audience The first thing, you must consider before beginning any SEO is to get a clear idea of your target audience. If you are unclear about the types of people you want to visit your website, then you have not identified your target audience. In this case, your SEO will not be focused and you will not benefit from it. So the first thing that you should do to get a good idea of what people are looking for in your niche is to begin keyw...

It's common for many people, even professional web designers, to forget search engine optimization when it comes to website design. Many people still associate SEO with factors like backlink building, keyword use in content and Meta tags. However, the reality is that how a website is designed can also have a considerable impact on its on-site optimization quality. There are a number of factors that go into SEO friendly design. We'll go over several of them; those that are most important. By implementing the following website design details, a programmer or DIY site designer can make it much easier for Google to find their web page, index it far more easily and thoroughly, and improve the domains page-rank considerably. The Important Components of SEO-friendly Design Page Loading Time The first thing that a visitor to your website is going to notice is how long the page takes to load. You want this to be quick because if it isn't, many visit...