The world wide web is constantly changing and to make sure your business keeps pace, it is important to be up to date with the latest trends and technologies. And this is why companies decide to redesign their website. Of course, there are other reasons too like re-branding the business, updating the website to reflect the present status of the company in the market, deleting old pages and upload...

Many people talk about SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Then there are many who don’t know what it is. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is how your article or website gets ranked on search engines. Ranking is how close to the top your article will appear when someone enters a search. In easier terms it means the articles title or website is search friendly. People wonder how do I get my a...

A question I get commonly asked by clients is should they be using LinkedIn and is there any SEO value in creating a profile? Well the answer to both is almost always yes, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to write up my top tips. LinkedIn in my opinion, is one of the few social media websites every professional should be using. There are many advantages to using LinkedIn, as listed by...

Many webmasters and website owners fail to notice the fundamental changes the web has taken in recent years. People still waste time with meta keywords tags, obsessing about PageRank and measuring keyword density for highly artificial sounding page copy. Get real, most of the old school website optimization tactics are completely useless, sometimes even harming your website. Many SEO tactics have...

ghosts-it-twitter effect Do you remember a site called Digg? This is a site that has been very successful in 2006. A few years earlier a site called Slashdot was that popular. Both sites exist today and are used by some fringe groups. Back in their heydays they have been notorious for their “effect”, like in “Slashdot effect” or “Digg effect”. It basically meant that in the best or ra...

1. Choose a good handle Be sure to pick an optimal handle thats relevant to your brand or campaign and easy to remember. Your handle (also known as your Username) then becomes part of your customized Twitter URL such as twitter.com/yoursite or twitter.com/yourtopic. Doing this creates a static address for future search indexing, which also helps usability for other cross-channel promotions. So ch...

Twitter is a wildly popular microblogging service. It involves writing Tweets, which are short updates of a maximum of 140 characters that tell your followers what you are up to. Although your Tweets are technically supposed to answer the question, What are you doing? Twitter has moved far beyond that. Tweets are used to share stories, link to photos, promote content, break news, and a whole lot ...

Avoid the Mistakes New SEOs Make – Forgetting the XML Sitemaps (Page 4 of 4 ) Did you forget the sitemaps? There are two sitemaps; one is for users and the other is for the search engines. What is an XML sitemap? According to XML Sitemaps, “A sitemap is a way of organizing a website, identifying the URLs and the data under each section. Previously, the sitemaps were primarily geared...

Avoid the Mistakes New SEOs Make – Using the Google Link Command to Analyze Links (Page 3 of 4 ) Google does not show inbound link data for any domains. The data is limited and distorted to prevent search engine optimizers from knowing too much. If you want to get link data on a domain use: Yahoo Site Explorer Yahoo Search’s “linkdomain” command Majestic SEO Linkscape Live Se...

Avoid the Mistakes New SEOs Make – Optimizing the Entire Site for One Phrase (Page 2 of 4 ) Target only one phrase per page. If you’re after the term “make money,” then only one page should be optimized for that word. Only in rare circumstances should you optimize more than one page for one keyword – for example, when you want to get an indented listing. If you want to increase th...

Avoid the Mistakes New SEOs Make (Page 1 of 4 ) Are you new to doing SEO? You’re probably reading as much as you can, and facing a flood of information, much of it conflicting. There are certain mistakes that nearly every new SEO makes. Keep reading to learn what they are and how to avoid making them.Focusing on the Meta Keyword Tag Do not stress about the Meta Keyword tag. If your websit...