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Lisa Orrell, The Promote U Guru 
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Posts Tagged ‘search engine optimization’Google: Solid Strategies to Rapidly Increase Your Search Engine RankingMarch 30th, 2012Hi All! The following article is a guest blog post courtesy of Kelly Marsh, a freelance writer and blogger. You’ll see that she provides great strategies to improve your search engine rankings on Google, so if you want to get on page one of a Google search, keep reading! Here is the blog post Kelly provided: If you are a small business owner, or own an online business, you know the importance of first page ranking in the Google search engine. Some believe that well done SEO can bring the desired result. However, this is not the only thing that helps one to get the top ranking. Moreover, Google maintains a top-secret and complex algorithm to decide on the websites to be displayed on top. No one has the exact information about the ways in which search engines give priority to websites. Still, it can be said that the well optimized and highly relevant web pages would get good ranking. Find out the easiest ways to get top page ranking in Google below: Keyword Research Start with keyword research. Find out the keywords relevant to your webpage that have the highest number of searches. You can do keyword research in the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Choosing the right set of keywords is half work done. Proper Optimization of Meta Tags Use the keywords in your description tag, title tag and keywords tag. You can also use the keyword phrase in the image ALT tags. In this way, Google shall be redirecting traffic to your website. However, ensure that the webpage is relevant to the keywords searched. Keyword Density Always maintain the keyword density of 1-5%. If you exceed this limit, it would be considered as spam as per the rules of search engines. Hence, keyword stuffing should be avoided at all cost. Domain Name The domain names that have the keyword phrase have more chance to get a higher ranking than those without the same. However, this can only happen if your website is properly optimized and possesses high number of quality backlinks. Backlinks Create as many backlinks as possible to redirect traffic to your website. Video marketing, article marketing, social media and social bookmarking are some of the ways to create backlinks to your website. Anchor Text Use of anchor text is also another way to get backlinks to your website and high page ranking in Google. Video Marketing This is also a great way to redirect traffic to your website. You would have to make small videos about your business or products and upload in several video sharing websites. Google would surely put your website in the top rank if it has a video. However, ensure that the video is relevantto the item searched. Social Media This is the fastest growing way to get traffic to your website. MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are some of the social platforms from where you can expect traffic to your website. This is because once you share your url on your profile, your fan and followers would re-share the same with their friends. In this way, you would get traffic to your website. Article Marketing Article marketing is also a great way to attract traffic to your website through search engines. You need to submit articles relevant to your business to several article directories with a brief bio about your company at the end of the article and backlink the same to your website. The work is as simple as that. Google Map Listing This is the best way to get visible on the first page of Google. Google would surely keep you at the top spot if you use Google Map Listing. Moreover, this favors you from your customers’ base as well. They get to know about your location in an instance that helps both of you in several ways. These are some of the ways to increase your page ranking. The more techniques you use, the more your chances to get top position in Google search engine. Using all of these would make you dominate the first page leaving your competitors perplexed. About the author: Kelly is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. Recently an article on trek bicycle attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on landscape architecture.  Why Google Places Can Help You Attract More Clients: Online or OfflineSeptember 27th, 2011Hi All! The following article is a Guest Blog from Cindy Morus and Christine Wood, Co-founders of BizFinder Local (.com). They help businesses, offline and online, get more customers with the latest technology and online marketing tools, including Google Places. And in this easy-to-follow article they are going to explain what Google Places is and why you need to take it seriously! Why Google Places Can Help You Attract More Clients: Online or Offline: Search for your business on a mobile device and click on everthing that comes up (if nothing shows up, you’ve identified your first problem). Does it look like you’re active and “open for business?” One of the first things you should see is a listing of 7 Google Places entries. Are you there? What is Google Places? It’s a huge directory of businesses created by Google. These free place pages are available for both online and offline businesses, and show up when you search for a business. Even though you mostly serve clients outside your geographic area, are you willing to work with local customers? Then you need a Google Places page! Virtual Businesses and solo entrepreneurs qualify for a Google Places listing and “puts you on the (Google) map!” If your business doesn’t have a place page your are missing out on a huge opportunity and it’s easy to get one for your business! Imagine having Google promoting your services to everyone who lives in your area (even if you don’t have any articles and blog posts out there)! Local and Mobile searches are at the top of Google’s priority list. Did you know that 82% of local searches result in offline action (a visit, a phone call, a More people search for businesses online than anywhere else, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to be credible to local customers! And if you’d like us to do a FREE Google Places evaluation for your business to see how you show up in the search results, contact us today! Many clients who come to us do NOT show up in a Google Places search and that means they are missing out on attracting new business. Thanks, Cindy & Christine! Great info and great offer! Lisa Ten Easy and Affordable SEO Tips for Small Business OwnersAugust 24th, 2010Hi All! Many new clients who come to me have spent a significant amount of money getting their websites designed and developed by a webmaster. Or, they have designed it themselves using many of the templates available. But regardless of “how” their website was done, one thing MOST of them have no clue about is SEO (search engine optimization). The excitement for their new website quickly fades when I have to coach them about SEO; explaining that without an optimized website (or blog) their chances of being found in online search results are greatly reduced…by a TON! Personally, I look at SEO as a science. So I outsource my SEO work to a specialist. However, if budget is an issue for you, and you handle your own SEO, or plan to, here is a great article I recently came across with 10 great tips you can easily implement without breaking the bank. The title is: “10 Quick and Affordable SEO Tips”. It was written by Karen Scharf, the Small Business Marketing Consultant, and her company, Modern Image Communications, also offers affordable SEO services. Here are the FIRST FIVE TIPS she shares: 1. Submit to Search Engines You want to make sure that your website has been submitted to search engines. SEO is all about optimizing your position in various search engines, but this is only relevant if you are actually listed in the search engines. When your website is brand new and it has no incoming links yet, it can be difficult for the spiders to find it, so it’s a good idea to hand submit your site to the search engine. 2. Clean up Your Site Make sure your website is organized and clear. It is especially important to clean up any dead links. Fix any errors that may appear on your site and double check to make sure your entire site’s html is up to par. There are online services that can help you do this. Since search engines primarily work and rank websites through the use of robots it is important to make sure all of the technical aspects of your website are in good working order. This helps ensure that the robots can quickly and freely crawl through your site and they won’t encounter any errors or roadblocks that force them to abandon your site too soon. 3. Use Good Keyphrases If you’re trying to optimize your brand new website for a single keyword, you’ll be fighting an uphill battle. Try longtail keyword phrases instead (a phrase that is four words or longer) because they are less competitive and easier to get started with. Be sure to research the phrases that your target market is actually searching for, and then do the competitive research to ensure that you actually have a chance of ranking for those phrases. 4. Create Good URLs Creating readable URLs is especially important if you’re using a content management system or otherwise generating dynamic URLs. While evidence suggests that Google’s new algorithm does not apply much weight to keyword rich URLs, other search engines do. And since it’s such an easy step to create relevant URLs, it’s worth the few seconds of extra time it might take, if only to make it easier on your human site visitors. Make sure that your URLs are indicative of the kind of information that your visitors will encounter on that page. 5. Improve your Title Tags Title tags are still an important aspect of search engine placement, and since they are so extremely easy to update this is a step that definitely needs to be included in your affordable SEO plan. Make sure that your title tags are keyword rich and appropriate to the subject matter of the particular web page. And make sure you use a unique title tag on each and every page in your site. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FINAL FIVE! You definitely need to know ALL 10 of the tips Karen suggests! Cheers & Happy Marketing! Lisa |
