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Which are the BIG internet marketing optimization factors? It’s “fun” to focus on some new discovery because often a small tweak can cause your site to rank better overnight. It turns out that a lot of little things add up to a good showing in the search engine results and bring in traffic. Of the 100 or so factors, I’ll start by covering 5 here:

Q. Does having the keyword in the URL affect ranking?
A. Yes; It *increases* search results rankings.
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When we look at 3000 different keyword searches, 85% of the time we will find that having the keyword in the URL results in a better SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) result.

Q. Does having a “.com” domain affect ranking?
A. Yes; It *increases ranking.
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This is not to say that Google cares about if the url is a “dot com” or not. More likely is that “dot com” websites have been around longer and get more traffic, two factors known to affect good rankings.

Q. Does having a “.html” URL affect ranking?
A. Yes; It DECREASES ranking.

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Q. Does having a “/” at the end of your URL affect ranking?
A. Yes; It *increases* ranking.

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Q. Does having a URL 11-20 characters affect ranking?
A. Yes; It *increases* ranking.
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Q. Does having a URL 41-50 characters affect ranking?
A. Yes; It DECREASES ranking.
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I’ll let you figure out what the reasons may be.

Chas

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Place Articles On Your Own Website

As soon as you have several articles, whether you write them yourself or have them written by a professional, you are ready to use them online to get seen by visitors. The first place to do this is on your own website.

There are several different ways to use articles on your website to get and keep business. This article will give you information about the big benefits of using articles on your own website. Plus info on what they’ll do for your traffic, and how to place them.

Content Is Important

In the world of Internet marketing, content is king. Providing a number of articles that are free for your visitors to view, read, and distribute is a great way to increase visibility, improve your website rank, earn more return visitors, and convert more visitors to paying customers.

What’s more important content or pages?

Quality articles provide quality content for your site. You could have many many website pages without good quality content and not increase your search engine traffic at all.

You may have heard about the importance of confusing techno-terms like metatags and metadescriptions. These are functions of your website’s HTML coding; hidden text that doesn’t appear on the screen when your site is being viewed. However, these cryptic tags don’t matter as much now as they used to.

Search engine robots, little programs that crawl the web logging every page they find, no longer pay much attention to metatags. More importance is given to a website’s content than all other factors. This is why you work hard. Your hard work and your investment in professional articles pays off. The more content you have on your website, the higher your website ranking will climb.

Your website won’t shoot to Google’s top ten the minute you put up your new articles. Search engines take time because of the vast amount of information available on the web. However, the sooner you get started, the sooner you will start to see results for your website. Once the information is catalogued, you can remain high in the results ranking as long as you keep updating your website with fresh content.

Sometimes content is not enough. Building trust with your customers Some webmasters post a flurry of content to their websites, and then sit back and wonder why the business isn’t pouring in. The reason, in a word, is trust.

To be a successful Internet marketer, you have to build trust. By providing high quality information for readers is a step in the right direction, but it is not everything. Most consumers need to be exposed to your business several times before they’ll make a purchase.

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they aren’t, you will lose both the trust of your visitors and the esteem of search engines.

What’s relevant?

“Related to” is what we mean by “relevant.” Any subject that you can relate in some way to your business can be relevant in an article. For instance, say you were selling a business start up kit, you should come up with related ideas that will satisfy search engines and humans:

How to get a startup loan

Creating an advertising budget on a shoestring

Basic equipment business startups need

Creating an advertising budget on a shoestring

Internet versus brick-and-mortar startup business

Internet versus brick-and-mortar startup business

Tax tips for business owners

This is not a complete list of course. Any website about small business can generate a large number of articles with content that’s relevant.

Another example would be if you sold something like dog treats.

It can be harder to determine relevant content when dealing with niche markets. If your subject is very limited, consider including in the subject of your articles other areas that may be of interest to visitors.

In the above example it is safe to assume that most of your readers and prospects are dog owners. So given that consideration, there are lots of topics you can write or otherwise acquire that will keep readers interested and brand you an expert. For example:

How to come up with a creative name for your new puppy

Housebreaking tips for puppies

How to vacation with your dog

How to come up with a creative name for your new puppy

The best dog breeds for households with children

Whether dogs should wear sweaters

How to come up with a creative name for your new puppy

All of these topics are a natural extension of a core business: dogs and the owners who love them. They’re all relevant to the website, and a mention of homemade dog treats could be included in each article without sounding blatant or awkward.

So how do you find relevant topics?

If you’re stuck for relevant subject areas, a keyword tool can help you generate more ideas. There are a number of free online keyword generators that can jumpstart your brainstorming process and reveal topics you might not have considered

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Video marketing is an important factor for any business online. It can help you grow your business and achieve the results you are hoping for in your market. Six of the reasons you should consider the use of video marketing efforts includes showing up on the search engines, better site ranking, saving time, cost effective, and much more.

The best solution for any business currently suffering on the World Wide Web today is the investment of video marketing. Listed below are six reasons why you might consider using video marketing for your online business efforts.

1. One of the reasons businesses fail today is because they are not listed under search engine results. Video marketing provides a solution to listing your business with the search engines so the customers will find you.Bainbridge in the video produced for the US market.Image via Wikipedia

2. Ranking higher than your competitors in the search engine results is key to beating the competition. In order to achieve the highest ranking possible on the search engines you must take advantage of video marketing to increase website traffic.

3. It can be very time consuming to manage search engine marketing. An excellent solution to free up needed time and use it toward your business goals is by the use of video marketing.

4. The higher an online business’s website ranking is on the World Wide Web, the more credible the site is to the consumers. Video marketing can help your business achieve the best ranking possible by driving more traffic to your online website.

5. A video marketing investment is the most cost effective thing you can do for your online business because of the value. Once you see the success factors associated with video marketing you will realize it is money well spent.

6. It is common for search engines to remove online companies for not following the rules and regulations for online marketing. The right video ad marketing provides the right tools so you are in compliance with the guidelines set forth through the search engines so you are not removed from the search engine results.

There are many reasons to consider investing in video marketing if your business needs improvement with the current efforts online. It is money well spent if your business is currently suffering and there should be no hesitation. The primary ways your business will benefit with video marketing includes better value, increase website traffic, search engine listings, saving time, and much more.

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by Terry Stanfield

Getting your webpage ranked as high as possible on a search engine results page is one of the goals of search engine marketing and using search engine optimization on your website. But do you know how the search engine actually ranks and indexes web pages? Most search engines use a complicated process to index and rank the web pages that the search engine spiders find when they are scanning the web. Using search engine optimization and putting articles written with search engine marketing in mind will get the search engine spiders to your site but once the search engine spiders find your site they have to index your site and then assign your site a ranking within the thousands of other sites that contain information on the same topic that your site has.

Different search engines use different methods to assign a weight or rank to each web page that the search engine’s spiders find so using different methods of search engine marketing and using different percentages of search engine optimization is a good idea. If you do several different types of search engine marketing and utilize more than one kind of search engine optimization tool then it’s more likely that a search engine spider will find your web page and assign it a higher weight or rank.

One of the ways that search engine spiders determine the weight or rank of a particular web page is to index the number of times that a particular word or key phrase appears on a site. The search engine spider will assign a weight or rank to the web page based on how many times that word or key phrase appears within the web page. This is a very common method of assigning rank to web pages that is used by a lot of the most popular search engines so it’s important to use search engine marketing and search engine optimization to make sure that those search engine spiders give your site a high ranking or weight.

Another way that search engine spiders assign a weight or rank to a web page is to take note of where in the web page a particular keyword or key phrase is located. For search engines that use this kind of ranking system just using standard search engine marketing or traditional search engine optimization techniques might not be enough to get your website noticed by the search engine spiders. In order to draw the spiders of search engines that rank web pages based on the location of the keyword or key phrase on the page it’s necessary to use those words to tag your page. Tagging a page is putting that particular keyword or key phrase in the meta tags of your site, using them in the heading or home page of your site and using those words or phrases systematically through the rest of the site. If you think of your website as a tree in order to get the attention of spiders from the search engines that use this type of ranking system you have to have a particular key word or key phrase on every branch of the tree in order to get a higher ranking.

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Search engines have now become an essential part of ecommerce. Whenever we want to search for a product, company, service, idea or cause, we use search engines. It has to be remembered that a majority of people who are looking for anything on the web use descriptive and generic words for searching online and not brand terms of names.

If a website does not have search engine visibility for those words it will never be even seen by the qualified public. Here comes the need of SEO services. In addition to that, the searchers usually have a mind set that the websites that are showing up in the top half of the top page of the search engine results are the significant players of the field. Therefore, the search engine visibility of websites is a significant factor affecting the brand recognition of the company online. In order to build up the visibility of your website over the web, you need to follow some of these essential steps:

Optimizing the web content of the website: Begin with researching on keywords. Try to figure out which words people usually enter into the search bar when they search for a service provider like your company. Generate appealing and interesting web content using those keywords. The extent of optimization of your web content decides how much visibility your website has on the search engines. You can also use professional SEO services for doing the necessary work for you.

Sending out press releases optimized with these keywords: It is a fact that a press release optimized with keywords can bring your website instant appearance on first pages of the search engines but you need to make sure that each press release should contain newsworthy and relevant content. News engines, related websites and search engines will pick up your press releases thus automatically increasing in-bound links for your website and raising your search engine visibility.

Do not forget to add all press releases to the content of your website. Sending out e-newsletter containing useful information: By this, you can help your customers to know how your company works and what you can do. Add the e-newsletter to your company website and offer the articles to e-zines and other websites for free. Writing articles: You can also write articles for newspapers, magazines and other websites and add them to your web content also. Starting a corporate blog: By this, you will be able to build a plethora of content over the Internet and to have your company make appearance everywhere.

Search engine visibility can build your company and make you a leader of your field by bringing you larger web traffic that can really convert into prospective customers.

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Pay per click advertising is offering an exciting new trend in Internet marketing. The search engines have at last found a way to make money with online marketing. What do we mean by this?

Traditional methods of advertising were somewhat different. An ad would be paid for according to its duration not exposure. You would simply pay for your ad to be run for a certain length of time, regardless of how much exposure it got.

It could be shown in a variety of different places; newspaper, TV, radio and online, on a website page. Somebody decided that there could be a far better way to advertise online. It is true that not all Internet marketing methods give the same exposure; some methods give a lot of views, others less. For instance a website with heavy traffic will give your ad a great deal of exposure, so why not develop a system that pays the website host and advertiser?

If you raised prices for the advertiser you would risk losing customers. In fact it could also be detrimental to the credibility of your business. Customers and sales would be lost and your competitors will start to get the edge on you.

So what about pay per click advertising? It is a simple concept with the advertiser submitting a keyword based ad to the search engines. The ad will come up with the search results for the keyword. Each time the ad is clicked by a visitor the advertiser pays the search engine a small amount of money. This allows both host and advertiser to make money.

Search engines took this concept one step further and allowed advertisers to bid more on particular keywords to get a better position for their ad. This meant that the highest bidder would get the best place and the highest amount of exposure. Both search engine and advertiser can make better money this way.

There is a tendency to ignore the other pay per click engines and rely only on Google and Google Adwords. But it is always good to know that there are alternatives. Some of the more well known ones are Microsoft Adcenter, Yahoo Search and Search Feed. In order to turn a profit it would be wise for marketers to try out alternative engines apart from Google and Google Adwords.

Using many different strategies to bring in traffic is a smart thing to do. Using multiple pay per click methods will help to boost your business and help you to make substantial profits.

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by Gary Terrazas

In order for an Internet business to be successful, first-rate Internet marketing activities need to be drawn-up and implemented.

However, it is not an easy task to find good Internet marketing service or a good Internet marketing affiliate program. This is because there are just as many bad Internet marketing affiliate programs out there as there are good ones too.

Therefore, the very first key to finding Internet services for your company is to be able to tell the overall difference between the good and the bad Internet marketing service programs.

Being able to tell the difference right off will prevent a promising company from being ripped off by those out there who prey on businesses in need of Internet marketing services for their company.

A super tool to make use of is one known as affiliate marketing. But before you investigate this route, know that Internet marketing services affiliates that are of any worth do not charge you to subscribe to their membership or charge you for services that have not yet supplied. Therefore it may be best to avoid any marketing affiliate programme that requests money before you receive any value.

You would find it necessary to take advantage of SEO search engine marketing opportunities. To do this you have to try to optimize your website for the popular search engines relating to your target market. Depending on where you are Google and Yahoo remains top choices. Make sure that any search engine you choose to work with is relevant to your specific needs.

Do your best with the top search engines to see what techniques work and what doesn’t work for your site. By using this information you can identify the best techniques which are more suitable for successful ranking of your website.

In Internet marketing you have an option of using PPC as a marketing medium. You could do such a program with a search engine or just decide to place ads on a website already enjoying high traffic.

Do not end up placing adverts on websites with high traffic but low in relevant traffic. An ad for video games might not said to be well placed if it was paid to be placed on a popular financial magazine website.

If you decide to go the route of making use of an Internet marketing company or consultant, take time to choose the best. Investigate their track record, their status and the past projects they have completed. It is a good idea to ask them to send through their resume as well as any other business name they have traded under in the past and investigate that too.

Be sure to have them explain how they plan to add value to your business and listen to them to be able to ascertain their abilities. Remember that bad companies would hide truths about themselves so be extra careful.

Choose the best from the many Internet marketing companies available to ensure that your business is successful.

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The landing page design that you use on your website can make a big difference in how many customers or clients that you attract. It’s very important that the landing page design be specifically set up to accomplish a goal. You can use search engine marketing to get new clients or customers to click on the website’s landing page but then what happens? A strong landing page design can close the deal, but a weak landing page design will send your clients and customers surfing away.

There are two different types of landing page designs that most websites use. A reference landing page is usually not a hugely profitable design. You can place ads on a reference landing page that might bring in some revenue but overall the point of having a reference landing page is to give the customer some kind of information or draw the customer further into your website. You can also use some search engine marketing and search engine optimization on a reference landing page to draw the customers to another part of the site.

The second type of landing page design that is used by many websites is a transactional landing page. As the name implies a transactional landing page design is set up to get something from the customer. Sometimes the transactional landing page can be used as a sales page to convince the customer to buy your product. Other times a transactional landing page is used to get information or help a customer sign up for something. For example on a transactional landing page there might be an advertisement for a newsletter or information packet about your product or even a coupon or discount offer for your product that customers could sign up to receive in the mail or in their email which will give you the opportunity to collect valuable customer data and to follow up with customers which lead to more sales.

Transactional landing page is focused on have some type of direct contact with the client while reference style landing page is more focused on giving the customer something. You will have to decide what type of landing page is a better fit for your business or you can set up different landing pages that use each type of landing page design.

Search engine marketing is still the most effective way to get clients and customers to your web page. The best landing page design in the world won’t be effective unless you get customers and clients to the landing page. Use search engine optimization strategies on your landing page design by building tags into the HTML coding on the website that use words and phrases related to your product. That way you will draw more customers to the landing page because when the search engine spiders are out searching for web pages with that particular word they will find the tags on your web page and add your web page to the search engine results page.

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by Mark Hall

To keep the costs of your internet business down but at the same time improve the number of visitors your get to your site you need to seriously consider article marketing. People searching for a particular subject ca find your article listed in a number of places and then follow the link(s) it contains back to your main site. It is a simple matter to submit your article to these places which should, wherever possible, be popular websites; an increase in visitors to your site should happen quite quickly. Large, well visited sites are generally trusted so if your content is accepted, it should improve your reputation as well; you will become a ‘trusted’ person which means a great deal in the virtual world.

Article marketing carried out this way (i.e. more than once) will get people to look upon you as an author whose work they will seek out because the content is good. Showing people you are knowledgeable on certain topics means they will trust whatever you write and bookmark your site. Although it can take a while, this traffic from people that trust you will help your own search engine ranking; you should find that in time that more visitors that have found you in the search engines improves. The benefit of all these sites linking to your site is a increase in your ranking; the greatest benefit of this is none of it is costing you a single dollar!

With article marketing, a number of links to other sites can be inserted into it and providing there aren’t too many you will not be penalized. When your articles are good, they get spread around the internet and of course each version will have links back to your own so the more links you have, the more your ranking will grow. Sometimes, however, search engines can take some time before they actually list your site; Google can actually take months on occasion. Although you cannot rush the search engines directly, submitting more articles and using the authority sites will help enormously.

To increase your website ranking further, you need to be adding more content (preferably unique) to your website (or blog) all the time if you want your article marketing to work. Remember that visitors do not know that your website is trying to get them to buy something. Visitors are searching for information so the more precise and truthful you can be about whatever it is you are promoting the better. This is the ideal time to highlight the benefits of the product or service to the visitor. This procedure is almost like a safety net because you are explaining the process to them so they will not misunderstand. It is this approach that prevents a good many refunds form taking place.

If you want visitors to your websites then you must continue your article marketing this way; regularly submitting articles is necessary and should not be viewed as something you only have to do once. Remember, if you have an interesting site you will also receive links from other website owners who may also use your article as well; having your articles on numerous sites just improves the exposure of your site. Article marketing is still by far the easiest way to drive traffic to your website and it doesn’t cost a cent; all you have to do is ensure your content is ‘on topic’ and unique to have constant visitors.

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Using Pay Per Click Marketing

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by Jack J Giovanni

Whether you are starting to get into doing business online, or your business has been online for a while pay per click search marketing might be exactly what you are looking for to give it a boost. Although there are a variety of marketing methods that are successful on the internet, this one is still the most effective. The information presented here may be able to give a better idea of how pay per click advertising actually works and the benefits it can bring.

Essentially, when you decide that you want to try this kind of advertising, you will create a small ad referring to your site that will be put up on a larger site that many people frequently look at. Very simply, you will pay the site (that the traffic comes from) a small amount from your account but only providing the visitor stays more than 10 seconds. There are a couple of pints to remember about this: your advert will be related to the subject of the site it is being used on and these sites are generating huge amounts of traffic. However this is not the only advantage because you only pay for the advertising when it is used, which means if someone doesn’t visit your site through the link you do not pay.

Rather than paying for a month’s worth of ads that might bring you no clients, here, you will only pay when people notice the ad and then go on to your site. While you may be worried that your competitors might click your ads to drive up your revenues, this is simply not worth their time and does not happen very often. From a business viewpoint, pay per click marketing is extremely effective at targeting the exact market the business wants. Your ad will only show up on sites where people are already interested in something related to what you are offering.

By now most people have experienced the Google Adwords pay per click system which has grown dramatically in recent years. The process is easy to understand; all you need to do is provide Google with the phrase or word that you want people to use to see your advert. The searches that are then made on that term will bring up natural results and paid examples which may show at the side or at the top of the page.

It is this immediate effect that appeals to many advocates of pay per click marketing. Many companies use this technique to gauge how good their advertising copy will be before they use it in more expensive areas. For speed, efficiency and cost, pay per click search marketing is superior to just about every other method of advertising and that is why companies continue to use it.

PPC advertising is not only great for generating sales and qualified traffic, it’s also the one of the best possible keyword research tool available. Using PPC is really the only way to obtain guarantee #1 rankings for the most popular and “long-tail” search terms on most major search engines.

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by JD Theis

The search engine visibility of a website is very much needed for its maximum exposure and thereby gaining maximum value. SEO services provide us the space to expand the brand value of our website. At first, one can go for optimizing the content of our website for the search engine visibility. One need to be sure that they are in the right way at SEO practices for achieving high site rank. The search engine visibility of our website can be boosted by this. But, one need to be careful because a small mistake in the process can bury our sites by the search engines which will affect us heavily. A simple approach which needs to be there while going for SEO services is that to review the contents of our websites periodically. The content should be rich in relevant keywords searched and also need to be placed in the right areas of the page with correct tags within the website.

Both the internal and external links are very much essential. The back links also have a great value for search engine visibility. Links of high quality from any other sites can be attached to our optimized contents. To make this, one need to have some sort of creativeness in them and reviewing continuously our strategy. It is very much valuable in promoting content online. Placing editorial links of high value from trusted sites can be very much effective. This guarantees us white hat links of hundred percentages.

Usually the members in our family and friends can act as a good link producer. They can be contacted and informed them to post their own comments into the review sites of high quality about the brand of our website. They need to be provided with the keywords and a list of short links which should be used by them.

It’s always better to keep away from paid links. A lot of marketing agencies and SEO websites usually justifies their clients the need of having them. But actually the paid links are doesn’t possess that much purposes.

Word press CMS themes are an important tool to earn money online by just blogging periodically. Word press CMS themes are easy to manage which helps us to post the contents in the websites with a very little effort. It also helps to manage the posts and categories in the best possible way in respect to a website.

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by Mark Robertson

People usually love video, millions of Americans consume videos online and same is the case world over. A consumer is most likely to keep in mind and refer to a video in comparison to a print advertisement. These days video making is very economical as compared to the cost of a traditional commercial. Broadband is getting enormous popularity worldwide. Now people can watch videos without long download times or quality issues. Present generation considers video to be a reliable source of news and information. Online video for them is second to nature. Here are a few tips/hints for optimizing your video:

1) It is recommended that you create and submit a transcript for users and the search engines, add a transcript to each video file you’ve uploaded via your Video Status page. Create a Keyword Rich Title for your Transcript; include a brief introductory paragraph/synopsis that describes the subject matter of your transcript (and video) and be sure to publish your transcript.

2) Keep in mind that when users search for videos on search engines, often time they use the word “video” in their search. For example, “car racing video.” Therefore, in addition to the keywords that you are targeting, also be sure to include the word “video” or “videos” in your description, text, title, meta data, etc…

3) Just as with normal techniques for SEO, it is just as important that you develop links to your video for off-page search engine optimization. Try to get as many quality links to your video as possible. Perhaps submit to social bookmarking sites and friend’s blogs.

4) Create a video sitemap exclusively for your online video content so that engines can find all of your videos and understand the structure of your site more easily. This helps the web crawlers to locate your video files speedily and effortlessly.

5) It is very difficult for the web crawlers of any search engine to crawl into the video contents inside flash players so they usually prefer to stay away from such files. It is therefore advisable not to use such kind of file formats which discourages the web crawlers.

6) Create search engine friendly keyword URLs for your video pages. To do this, you can use mod-rewrite function or htaccess file so that the URLs are freely assessable and readable by the search engines.

7) The first thing that users see when browsing for or searching for videos is the video thumbnail. Research shows that the thumbnail you choose for your video can really effect the number of viewers that watch the video itself. Try to experiment with the thumbnails that you choose to see which ones create more interest and get seen more often by viewers.

8) Try to keep one video per page and put all video pages into the same directory or folder.

Besides the tips mentioned above for Video SEO, there are a few other guidelines to keep in mind:

9) Always make sure viewers are searching for your targeted keywords regularly. If not, try to find the closest related keywords being searched.

10) Allow users to submit comments and feedback on your videos. Studies show that viewers who offer feedback are those most likely to convert and take the desired action that you are trying to solicit, whether it be an email, website visit, or purchase.

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by Terry Stanfield

If you run a business that operates on the Web you’ve probably heard that you need to do some search marketing but you might not know what search engine marketing is. Search marketing is the process of getting listed higher on search engine result pages so that your website is more visible to potential customers. Studies have shown that people are most likely to click on the top three or five sites listed on search engine result pages and probably will never look at the other pages that are listed. So you need to get your site listed on those pages in order to increase web site traffic that you need to really be successful. You can use search engine marketing to get your website listed higher on search engine result pages and get more customers.

Traditionally there are three different ways that you can use search marketing to get a better place on the search engine result pages. You can use SEO content or search engine optimization to make your site show up higher on the search engine result page or you can use ad placement or ad inclusion in search marketing. Paid placement ads are also known as pay-per-click ads and paid inclusion ads work in a similar fashion although they are different than paid placement ads. Most businesses choose to use the search engine optimization method.

In order to get great results when using search engine optimization to increase your search result page status you need to make sure that the SEO content you put up on the website is original and uses the keywords or key phrases that are related to your business the right number of times. If you use the keywords too much then the search engines will think you are stacking your webpage with copied content and your site will be dropped to the bottom of the list. If the keywords or key phrases are used too little then your page will end up not being on the first page of search engine result pages and if your business isn’t listed on the first page you might as well give up because chances are very high that no one will see you website.

Search engine marketing might seem sort of difficult to figure out at first but it’s just a necessary part of doing business on the Web. It would be nice if your next YouTube video went viral and millions of people found your website but unfortunately you can’t count on that. But if you learn more about search marketing and use a lot of search marketing to drive customers to your website you’ll see you a large increase in the amount of traffic that your website gets. And since the main thing that you need to be successful on the Web is to increase web site traffic, if you can successfully use search marketing you will start to see great results for your business in no time. Search Engine Marketing is really the best way to get noticed on the Web.

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by Renier van Heerden

SEO,  which is short for Search Engine Optimization,  is the use of a key phrase in writing  in such a manner that that the search engine can easily distinguish it from a number writings with similar keywords. An Freelance SEO content writer writes the contents of the page in a web in such a manner that it will look very natural to the search engine. There should no unusually high usage of keywords and also low usage of key words.

A searcher will enter the search engines with keywords or a key phrase of the matter of information they want to know. Search engines usually will rank the links according the keywords in which they contain. So, in order to get top of the search engine results, the web pages need to have the most appropriate text and key words. This is the importance of the job of an SEO writer, which is to write the contents that it will appear top in the searches of search engines. The job of an SEO writer is to write the contents of the page in a manner that is very convincing and natural to the search engine spiders.

What an SEO writer should be:

Broadly speaking the Freelance SEO content writer not only has to satisfy the search engine by optimization of key words, but also have to make sense of the type of readers who read the contents. An SEO content writer should know how to write using the key word enough to keep the text on topic, but without unnecessary keyword stuffing.

Necessarily an SEO content writer needs to be a good writer. Not only that, he should have some technical knowledge of how the source of the web page appears to the search engines. It is not necessary that an SEO writer to be an expert in creating web page, but a fair knowledge of XHTML and knowledge about aspects like rudimentary tags are beneficial. . An SEO content writer should be able to write the contents to get to the point, not just to write for the spiders, but also in a clear literary form and in concise. The writer should not get overly rigid in style, but to be able to know the sense and style of the reader. The success of an SEO writer is bring in business results to the website, rather than only bringing in large volumes of traffic of untargeted traffic.

Freelance SEO writers:

A content writer is one who is general about the content and is not bothered about the optimal use of key words in their content, where as an SEO writer is one who specializes in writing contents in such a manner that it best suits to the popular search engines. An SEO writer understands the importance of key words that it plays a major role for higher rankings in search to enable increased website traffic. A professional SEO writer can help to select to write the contents highly competitive keywords that tend to catch the attention of search engines while indexing, that a content writer can’t able to provide.  An SEO writer can assure the required percentage of key word density to the contents of your website.

 

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by Mark Robertson

If you perform a simple search on video search or video SEO, you will be bombarded with numerous articles that try to explain this technique. Video search optimization, or Video SEO (VSEO) is a new bug that has bitten the world recently. Though it’s a new technique, still many companies have started using it aggressively to earn high ranking and more business.

To ensure that your video gets seen and discovered on these search engines, it is important to first learn some of the technical aspects that are important to online video as well as search.

As with Search Engine Optimization for webpages and text content, keyword research is an important first step. Prior to optimizing your videos, you will want to obtain a keyword target list. There are however, some difference with regard to how users search for videos vs. website and webpages. Namely, most users include the word “video” when doing a search. Make sure that your keyword list contains several variations with the word video, Examples – car videos, car video, racing video, automotive videos, etc….

So, after you have completed your keyword research, I would also suggest that you take an inventory of the various video search websites. In other words, take note of which sites have the highest traffic, which channels and categories are the most popular, etc… You will likely want to submit your video to as many sites as you can but it will certainly be important to get your video on the more popular search engines as well.

As a side note, pay attention to the audience that is already searching for the terms that you identified in your keyword research. Are there closely related terms that you did not include? Take a look at videos that are similar in terms of the keywords that you are targeting and view the comments and feedback from users to find related terms.

You will want to encourage readers to submit feedback as studies show that users who provide feedback tend to be more active and easier to convert. In other words, those users that provide feedback, typically are more likely to call, email, visit your site, etc…

If you can do this, it is always better to pick a video theme that is not saturated in terms of competition out there. As an example, a video about Tom Cruise will likely be very hard to optimize for as there are thousands of results for that search.

Nobody is interested in watching long and boring videos. Shoot or create short clips from your longer version of the video. This will make your video more interesting and crispier. People usually like to watch short clips online ranging from 1-3 minutes, as they are short and takes less time to download.

With video SEO, it is also important to take advantage of the ability to brand your video using watermarks, logos, text, or any additional information that will get users back to your main destination. That is the beauty of video search engine optimization. It does and will drive traffic back to your website or business.

So if you wish to succeed in search engine optimization’s mad frenzy race, video search engine optimization is an incredible new way to get exposure, and you have the opportunity right now, to get in the ground floor.

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Google search is the world's most popular search engine.Image via Wikipediaby Terry Stanfield

In part one we discussed the need to have your site indexed by the major search engines and ordered to be found in the search results. In this article we’re going to discuss three ways to have your site indexed, get into the search engines database that are safe and will not get you banned by the search engines.

Have another website (that is already indexed) link to your site

Once a site is indexed or put into the search engines database, the search engine spiders go out to those pages anywhere for once a month to several times a day. You could get a one way link back to your website from a site that is already indexed the search engines will follow that link back to your site and index it. The challenge care is to put your link on the site that is related to what you do. Ideally, the link back to your site is on a site that is already considered an authority in your field. It is not a good idea for a plumber to swap links with a web designer. Speaking of swapping links, try and stay away from reciprocal linking and buying text link ads, more about that at a later date.

Publish an article or press release that has a link to your site

This practice has several great advantages. One is that a lot of those sites that allow you to publish your articles are free and are indexed constantly because the sites are constantly being updated with new content. Watch your article is submitted to one of the sites it may take up to two weeks to go through their editorial process and the review. When sure article is approved, your site can be indexed within a couple of days.

Sign up for paid search with each of the search engines

This is by far the fastest way to get your site indexed. When you signed up for an Adwords account in Google your website will be indexed immediately. It cost very little to set up an account. You can put in just a couple of keywords that you won a bid on and did very little so that your ad does not show up on the first few pages.

A great strategy for getting your website indexed and building links to your page

I would do a combination of first setting up a paid search account with at least the top three search engines Google, yahoo and MSN. Then I would start writing articles 500 to 600 words and start getting them published on as many publishing websites that you can.

Search engine submissions are very important but if done incorrectly can get you banned from the very search engines are trying to get into.

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Have you ever wondered how exactly search engine marketing works or how search engine optimization can help your business? Search engine marketing relies on the basic principles of search engine optimization. Search engine optimization makes it possible for a search engine’s spider to find your web page and add it to the search engine results page whenever someone does a search for a word or phrase that shows up on your website.

Search engine marketing uses search engine optimized content to make your website easier for the spiders to find and for people who are searching the web to find. A search engine uses thousands of little bots called spiders to index the millions of web pages that are on the Internet. These spiders start at the most well known websites and work backwards following links and searching for common words and phrases. Every page that the spiders come across with those particular words on them is indexed and saved. Those pages are the ones that show up in the search engine results page when someone uses Google or another search engine to look for websites on a particular topic. The place where each site shows up in the search engine results page ranking is based on the content of the site, how many times particular words and phrases appear on the site and the relevance of the site to those search times. That is why search engine marketing depends so heavily on search engine optimization.

If you want your website to show up higher on the search engine results page then you use to use search engine marketing and search engine optimization techniques in order to get the spiders to notice your site and put your site higher on the search engine results page. People who are using a search engine to look for websites will rarely click to the second search engine results page. It’s crucial that your site be on the first page of the search engine results page or people will probably not find your site. Using search engine marketing and search engine optimization is the best way to do that.

The number one rule to remember when you are planning out search engine marketing strategies or trying to figure out how use search engine optimization effectively on your website is that your website should have 100% original content. The spiders will place your site higher on the search engine results page if the content that is on your site is original. When websites duplicate copy the spiders pick up on the repeated phrases and language and will sometimes not index a site at all if the spider determines that the content is too similar to the content on another site.

Search engine optimization and search engine marketing is more than just taking one word or phrase and repeating it a certain number of times. The content on the site has to be fresh and engaging and also contain the keywords or key phrases that will bring traffic to the website.

 

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If you’re just starting to build your website now is the best time to start planning your search engine optimization and search engine marketing strategy. The best time to introduce the SEO planning of a website is when the site design is ready and the site is ready to be launched but there is no content yet for the site. Just before the site launches is the time to bring in an SEO consultant to provide some SEO services. After the design of the website is done an SEO consultant can give you suggestions about what keywords and key phrases you need to add into the site HTML as Meta tags and where those tags should go. Once the site is tagged and the design and navigation has been tested it’s time to add in content. Having SEO content on your site from the start will give your web site a big advantage over older websites that might already have a bit of a following but haven’t had any SEO services by a professional SEO consultant.

For a new site where that site ends up on the search engine results pages can be critical to its success. In order for the site to get a high ranking on the search engine results pages it’s imperative that a professional and experienced SEO consultant creates search engine optimized content that is ready to be part of a broad search engine marketing campaign. It just makes more sense to get all your ducks in a row before you launch the site doesn’t it? Bring in an SEO consultant when you’re ready to start putting content on the site so that when the site launches your site will be instantly indexed by the search engine spiders and can start drawing traffic from search engines immediately.

If you have an existing site that is due for an overhaul or a design revamping then you should also consult a professional SEO consultant before the site is redone so that you will have a good idea of what SEO services that you need. Cosmetic work on the site is important so that your site doesn’t look outdated but changing up the content on the site will be very important. Most of the traffic that websites get comes from searches done by people who use Google or another search engine to look for website dealing with a particular topic.

You want your site to be at the top of or at least near the top every search that is done by a search engine for the topic that your site is about. In order to achieve that you need an SEO professional to write great search engine optimized content before the site launches. If your existing site has had the same content on it for more than six months you should get an SEO professional to write new content. Changing the content is a great search engine marketing strategy to draw new web site traffic and improve your search engine ranking.

 

 

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In very simply words, link popularity refers to the number and quality of the links that are pointing to your site. In the engine’s view, your site is considered important as well. These other sites consider your site important enough to link to. What is meant by link popularity can get much more complex, which is discussed further in this article. Now that we’ve gotten the preliminaries out of the way, let’s get down to business: learning ways to increase the link popularity of our sites.

However, one of the most difficult areas of SEO services is building link popularity. Try those strategies now and you can easily find yourself booted out of an engine. Solid link popularity can literally make or break a site with the search engines. In SEO, factors have become more and more important as they relate to rankings. Why? Because the engines don’t want artificially created links, so there are no easy ways to build link popularity. The days of link farms and huge link building exchange programs are over.

Rather, the engines want links from authoritative sites, or links from sites that share the same focus as your site. After each strategy, we briefly attributed it to the SEO who sent it to us, and then we provided a list of all contributors along with their companies and URL’s at the end of the article. To write this article, we went to professional search engine optimizers for their ideas. But besides the link popularity you gain by getting an authoritative site to link to you, you also gain additional visibility for your Web site. So, if you work on building link popularity, don’t forget those two basic reasons and details for requesting links.

If you use them as recommended in this article, you will have no problems. Keep in mind that these strategies aren’t in any particular order. When looking through this links, you may find strategies that are subject to abuse. Also, keep in mind that though it isn’t always stated explicitly, we’re always referring to related and important or authoritative sites as our targets.

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