Search engine optimization (SEO) is not ‘rocket science’ yet it is fast becoming an emerging business science that all website owners need to familiarize themselves with if they want to be competitive on the Internet.

Search engine rankings are based on the number of visitors to your website, the number of external links to your site from other websites and how well your website is prepared for search engine optimization. Your website traffic is largely determined by your search engine rankings, online advertising and direct marketing activities.

If your website is not ranking in the top 3 pages of the search engine results for Google, Yahoo and MSN then it’s unlikely that Internet Users will track through the lower ranked pages to find you. This translates into lower levels of website traffic generated by the search engines and less opportunities available to attract online sales. This is where SEO becomes very important for the novice and established website owner.

There are some simple SEO tactics that you can employ to instantly boost your search engine rankings. However, allow a time frame of at least 3 to 5 months to get your website firmly established in the top 3 pages of the major search engines.

Firstly make sure you have submitted your website URL to the search engines so they can start indexing and crawling your site. It is a much quicker process if you have a professional search engine submission company do this for you.

Also a carefully selected domain name can give you a jump start over your competitors and can bump you up the search engine rankings if it is keyworded.

SEO Tactics for Beginners

1. Identify 8 to 10 keywords that accurately describe your products and services. Select those keywords that internet users would most likely type into the search engines to find your website. These keywords will become the basis of your SEO campaign.

2. Add an eye catching keyword title to the top of your home page. Then analyze your home page content and keyword it for the search engines. This means where possible include your keywords in the body of the home page text repetitively, but also in a way that the content still makes sense and is interesting for your website visitors.

3. Insert ‘meta tags’ into the header content of your website including a meta tag title, description and keywords. You may need the help of a programmer or your website designer to do this for you. If you want to learn how to construct meta tags see the free SEO articles on my Rank1 Website Marketing website.

4. If you have a footer included in your home page design then add keyword product pages and hyperlink them to the footer for the search engines. To find out how to construct ‘keyword product pages’ see my SEO ebook the ‘Insider Secrets of Rank 1 Websites’ by Rosemary Donald for just $29.95 AU.

5. Add a links page to your website with a navigation tab or hyperlink to the home page. Source reciprocal link partners whose site content is complimentary or similar to yours and add their links to your links page/s and vice versa. Remember to create linking info that reflects your major keywords in the link title and description.

6. Use this same linking info and submit as many free classified ads for your website and products as possible. You can find free classified ad sites by performing searches on the search engines.

7. Use the same linking info and submit as many ‘free’ directory listings and business directory listings as possible. A directory submission software tool that makes this process very easy is ‘SubmitEaze’.

8. Write some free articles on your area of expertise or industry and add them to your website plus submit them to as many free article submission sites as possible for syndication.

Other useful Website Marketing Tips…

• Start off with a professionally designed website that accommodates the global reach of the Internet, has fast navigation and download speeds, is visually appealing and has a great site layout.

• Offer free articles, projects and resources on your website that are of interest to your website visitors.

• Promote specials, discount programs, customer loyalty programs, sales and competitions on your website to attract site visitors and new member signups.

• Add some customer testimonials to your home page or ‘about us’ page from happy, satisfied customers.

• Regularly provide fresh content and clear accurate product photographs on your website.

• If your website is underperforming in the search engines or has low traffic levels engage in some pay per click advertising such as Google Adwords.

• Add affiliate advertising to your website such as Google Adsense to increase site popularity and generate advertising revenue.

• Engage in some paid listings on business directories and trade portals specifically targeted at your area of expertise, product offering or industry.

• Add ‘Top 100 Site Popularity’ links to your website to demonstrate your site popularity to website visitors.

• Engage in some print media advertising that directly promotes your website and product & service offerings.

If you can bring all of these elements together in a coordinated SEO campaign you are well on your way to achieving top rankings in the major search engines. For a more comprehensive look at how to do your own SEO see my SEO ebook the ‘Insider Secrets of Rank 1 Websites’ by Rosemary Donald for just $29.95 AU.

© Rosemary Donald, Rank1 Website Marketing 13th September, 2007



By: Rosemary Donald

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All marketing people may wonder which advertising strategy should be adopted to get good ranking and higher ROI through their online business. Is it SEO that will get them higher rankings? But what about the time frame that it requires to get the site up in the organic search results. Or spending money on PPC is the best bet to generate ROI.But will that be consistent enough to let your website have a concrete online backbone?

The answers to these questions have always been perplexing. Let’s read some facts to judge which one is the best for your online business.

1. Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising makes you acquire quick search engine placement by bidding for keywords related to your product or service.

While Organic search engine optimization is acquired by on page and off page optimizations that include link popularity, URL optimizations, content optimizations, competitor analysis etc that helps in acquiring consistent long lasting ranking results.

2. PPC campaigns benefits the most with an immediate boost of leads and qualified visitors generating fast ROI and tracking your conversion rates for websites.

The biggest weakness in natural search engine optimization is the time required to get the search engine rankings. It will take at least 3 months to see your keywords actually playing for your business on search engines. But the ranking would be consistent quality rankings that will last long and bring natural traffic and customers to the sites.

Thus as a matter of fact PPC advertising is good for quick returns with only disadvantage of the bidding cost involved. Whereas long term SEO Services can bring natural traffic and higher and long lasting marketing returns.



By: Naval Sharma

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SEO services are based on the web promotion techniques that are helpful when there is quality content. PPC is marketing technique that means pay per click advertising. There is always confusion in people about Search engine optimization and PPC campaigns. In Pay per click advertisements and prices starts to rise and shrink happens in margins. This encouraged websites owners and investors to start investments in organic SEO to a large extent. But these investments could prove frustrating if it is not a thought in the initial stages about it.

Generally in SEO services there is incapability in estimating the results and time to be consumed is not certain. PPC is faster but SEO is slower but different to PPC. To understand the SEO results it is essential to know how the SEO techniques are being implemented. Certain conclusions can be drawn form the optimized SEO techniques.

We can say that pay per click is a marketing campaign based on an advertisement model but it should be noticed that SEO Services are not advertising. In spite of this PPC and SEO are connected with each other.

The way online world has influenced people is a good trend that all online visitors are being informed about the information from the websites. This helps them in choosing them a particular product. People visit the website before shopping. The information in web pages also affects the customer daily. Thus content is very important for the online world. This content is an important part of SEO tool and search engine optimization but it is not in case of PPC.

PPC brings customers and along with it publicity to website. But it is the content and SEO that makes make people to stay on the website and thus affect their sales. To conclude we can say that PPC is an advertising model that proceeds with SEO and makes the people to visit and stay on their websites.



By: Rajeev Guglani

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Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO is becoming one of the biggest needs in web marketing world. Today competition has become tough so that we have to keep advertising/promoting our business. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is of prime importance in this scenario.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a process of making a website more search engine friendly. At the same time, it also helps our website to gain higher rankings in major search engines. Some of the major search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Lycos etc. Once we get higher ranks in search engines, then we will be getting more relative traffic to our site. As a result of this, our business starts getting greater benefits.

There are two main parts in SEO:

1) On Page Optimization

2) Off Page Optimization

Both are equally important in web marketing. On page SEO deals with SEO activities that are implemented on the website pages only. Off page SEO is more at advertising side in which we advertise our website in the internet world.

On page optimization includes certain activities such as:



Modification in Title tags

Modification in Header tags

Modification in Meta tags and Alt tags



Search engines crawl web pages and check whether the contents are relevant to the search term or not. On page optimization makes necessary changes in those tags and makes our website more relevant to search terms. In Meta tags, there are many terms in which keywords and description are given high priority.

While making such changes, one should follow some key factors like keyword density, keyword proximity, keyword prominence. One should also take care of “keyword stuffing”.

Now talking about off page SEO, it is mostly about promoting our website in the internet world. For this, certain activities are undertaken such as article submission, social bookmarking, press release creation and submission, rss feeds creation and submission and many more.

If performed both on page and off page optimization perfectly, our business will be ranked much higher and can achieve new heights of success.



By: Mike Thomas

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Before you understand what SEO can do to your business, you would need to know what SEO is. SEO is the short form of Search Engine Optimization. It actually means the optimization of your website on the Web; or in other words how visible your website is to the Net surfers. When your website in search-engine-optimized, the surfer would see it among top search results for targeted keywords. This means that the person, who is searching a product or service with the help of a keyword that also exists on your web, would be able to see, visit and do business on your website.

How SEO Can Benefit Your Business

There are many advantages that you would accrue from using SEO of your website. Some of the most important are given below:

1. Increased visibility – the moment you adopt SEO for your website – and it is correctly done - you would fin your website ranking improve for your targeted keywords.

2. Increased revenue – the increased visibility automatically increases the traffic to the website. When traffic increases the business also increases since the people who stop by would definitely want to buy something or other from your website.

3. Bring in targeted traffic – the SEO can also help to filter out unwanted visitors. For example, when you sell leather souvenirs, you might get people who search anything made of leather, until the SEO would narrow that search venue to ‘leather souvenirs’ only. When the narrowing down is done, it means that the people who do visit your website are indeed those people who are interested to buy leather souvenirs – and hence, more often than not, would also buy some. Targeted traffic means higher profit for less effort – and for that you have to thank SEO.

4. Placement ahead of competition – SEO would be able to push you through the ranks ahead of your competition. Better still, it would make the competition ask you for links which would be a win-win situation for everyone as this would further improve yours and your competitors ranking.

5. Create a special niche – SEO is done by focusing on specific keywords that connect the Internet surfer to whatever you are offering for sale – product or service. When you SEO your website you would also be able to create a special niche for yourself which would further ensure that you stay ahead in the market. Creating a niche is one of the best ways to ensure that you maintain a leading position without too much of an effort.

As you can see from the above points, SEO is simply dynamite when it comes to boost your sales. This is possible for absolutely any type of product or service, provided it is hosted on the Web. The SEO technique can be comparable to a massive strategic advertising campaign and brand building offline. Just as a lot of effort, time and money is involved in building an adequate advertising and marketing strategy for any product, so is the SEO a sensitive and painstaking effort usually done by professionals. If you have in place a good SEO, then you are in for some very successful time ahead.

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By: Abdul Hayi Mansoor

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Search engine optimisation is the latest industry to hit the news, and is a rapidly growing sector. In depth knowledge in this area opens the door to you either sourcing out your skills to business in order to help them increase their online presence, or using them to promote your own website. Thankfully this sometimes complicated process has become a lot easier to master due to a variety of SEO Cources and information becoming available to the general public.

One such way to gain this information is through various e-books which are available all over the internet if you have the time to look for them. A quick search for seo e-books on Google will bring a large number of results, and many are distributed free of cost. The best bet is to download every one you can find and have a read through them all. Once you gain a general understanding of SEO and its various methods you can then make a more qualified decision as to whether you need to make purchases of e-books for more information or if you think you have the handle of it already. This is most definitely the place to start though as it is a low cost way of getting a feel for the industry.

Once you’ve read through the available literature you’ll want to get started on actually promoting your website and moving up the rankings. The e-books will explain the various methods required to achieve better rankings, through link building and other methods. All these things can be done by hand although it will become very time consuming and tedious, if you wish to build enough links to rank well for profitable keyword terms. Therefore many internet marketers turn to SEO software to automate the process and give them more time to work on the content of their site rather than promotion. These software programs can automatically email link requests, check your back links, find out which keywords will work best for you and every other task connected to SEO. There are many different programs out there to help you optimize and promote your website and most of them offer a free trial. Therefore it’s not hard to just look around downloading the different trial programs and testing them out until you find one you like. It must be said though that a good SEO program is a must if you want to streamline your online promotion as it will cut through the grunt work, leaving you more time to use your mind creatively to build better websites and plumb new markets.

Ok you have been shown the do it yourself alternatives to taking an SEO course, and the best ways to learn SEO at your own pace. If you still want to take an SEO course, and there are many reasons to do so, such as if it was required by your place of employment or you want to have a certificate to show potential employers, then there are some good courses out there. Your typical SEO course should be up to date with current algorithm theories and make sure you get a solid guarantee so if the course doesn’t live up to expectations you won’t be out of pocket. Most SEO Cources out there are far more expensive than just getting an e-book and some software and learning for yourself, which many consider to be the best option. So it might be an idea to do a smaller course first and see if you enjoy learning that way before shelling out for the major courses. It is hoped that you find something suitable to your situation as there is a wealth of choice out there.

This has been up until now a general outline of all the different ways you can become competent in search engine optimisation and be able to handle your internet marketing yourself. Now there will be a summary of what to do if you find it hard to get a handle on the techniques involved, or if you just find it plain boring and would rather spend your time doing something else.

Out Sourcing - Depending on the keyword you have decided to optimise for, it could be extremely easy or extremely difficult to achieve high rankings. For a non-competitive keyword, relatively few back links and optimisation factors will be needed and you will probably find it quite easy to manage a successful SEO campaign all by yourself. However for the more competitive keywords, which are often the most profitable ones, ranking high will be very difficult. For the more competitive keywords, one may need to consider outside help to build your pages search engine ranking and traffic. There are a few different options to consider here, such as purchasing the SEO services of an experience practitioner, or purchasing targeted traffic for your websites niche. Moreover there are many other forms of advertising on the internet available for you to try out, as long as you’re willing to put in the effort to find them. We will go through the various options available to you to increase the traffic to your website.

SEO Companies - If you find that either SEO is too technical for you, or your efforts have not born any fruit then it may be time to consider handing it over to a professional search engine optimisation firm. There are many different companies out there working with a lot of websites to achieve better rankings for their customers and you can definitely benefit from their resources. They achieve better rankings for your website through the same techniques you could implement yourself, but at greater efficiency and with far less time invested on your part. There are many companies offering these services and some are farm more successful than others. It is an absolute necessity that any company you choose to purchase SEO services from offers a full money back guarantee, if they don’t offer it then do not go near them. Sadly there are no free options in this category, as no one will do SEO work on your website for free as it is just too time consuming to do even to build up company image.

Targeted Traffic - Another option available to internet promoters who have not found success with search engine optimisation would be to purchase targeted traffic. This is when a company who owns a large amount of expired domains sends the traffic to your website for a fee. Depending on the quality of the traffic this can be very lucrative but this is one area which contains far more rip off merchants than honest ones. Often times you will buy a traffic package and the company will send your site X amount of bot hits which will mean your site will register a lot of visits but as none of them are actual people you will obviously receive no sales or revenue of any kind. The upside of this all is that targeted traffic is an instant solution to visitor numbers, and the relatively low cost ( $20-$60 for 5k to 10k visitors) it is not a huge outlay to experiment with a few companies and see which ones work for you. One traffic seller we most definitely do not recommend is one called http://BuyExpiredDomains.com. They have very attractive prices, and so we took a test run of 5000 visitors. On one of our websites known to convert visitors to sales, not one of those 5000 visitors made a purchase. So it makes you wonder whether any real human visitors were delivered to our site. As stated earlier though, the cost to test a company’s traffic is so small that it won’t hurt the bank if you do encounter a few duds. The thing about this kind of traffic is it’s never going to be as targeted as regular search engine traffic so you won’t be able to convert at 1/110 like you would normally. You might get one sale for every 500 or so visitors they send you, but that can still turn profitable depending on the items you sell.

Traffic Exchanges - As we all know, a budget is a very important thing when starting a business or trying to turn a profit. A free method of generating more traffic would obviously be a godsend to most websites out there. So it’s quite a good thing that these kinds of programs exist and are proving quite successful. Traffic exchange networks work by either you viewing ads and in doing so earning your own ads some viewing time on their networks, or getting a visitor to your site for every one sent to another site in the network. Both methods can work very well if implemented correctly and are great sources of free traffic. Though it sounds too simple this method has been working for many people for a long time. It’s also a great way to test out new products as the audience is there waiting for you. Many traffic exchanges work free of charge so you have nothing to lose by testing them out.

Purchasing Ad Space - When considering purchasing ad space, so many people jump straight onto Google Adwords and start shelling out money. The fact of the matter is paying per click will always be a low margin game, meaning you have a great chance of making nothing at all or even losing money. Moreover Google’s cost per click does seem to be a little extreme at times, though that is probably because so many people advertise there that it drives the price into orbit. A better option is to purchase adverts which will be displayed for a set period of time regardless of the amount of people who click on them. As long as the price is right this can be a very profitable way of going about your internet promotion. Buying advertising space based on the length of time your ad will be displayed is by far the best method for a new business, and search engines such as ExactSeek supply exactly this. Just Google ExactSeek and check out their paid inclusion program, which is a far better option than most pay per click programs.

The above methods can all be invaluable when trying to increase your online presence and the profitability of your web business. When starting out it is often very hard to catch up to the rest of the pack with all the technical things SEO involves. Therefore outsourcing your internet marketing can be a great way of getting more revenue out of your website without having to put in the man hours learning the technical side of all the methods involved. Good luck in your internet promotion campaign.



By: John Samuels

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it “ranks”, the more searchers will visit that site.

The true definition of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be stated as a highly specialized process of building a successful website. Moreover Search Engine Optimization can easily be defined as: The practice of obtaining high search engine rankings by performing keyword research, modifying the HTML code to reflect such keywords and building relationships with other websites to promote your site via a linking campaign. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.

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