14 Jul 09 Choices of Keywords

Choices of keywords

There are many techniques to plan for keywords in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world. It is critical to use all the techniques so that search engines can index your site better than others. It is actually called on-page optimization which is important part of SEO.

Typically, the choices of keywords are to target traffic to your site relevant to keywords that internet users will search. However, each page can be optimized for different keywords, but the most important thing is not to focus on search engines, but to focus on the content of your materials. So, here are details keywords that you can actually optimized on page and they should be done on each and every single page of your site. Especially when you have a blog, it is very effective to optimize as blogs are content based and pretty easy to implement your SEO.

Keywords density

Let’s say, if you are writing about SEO, you will probably write more than once on the word, SEO. But too much is never good and always follow your heart to write rather than worrying too much about search engines and how they will index. Sometimes, when you try so hard, it makes visitors not only to feel confused but also not to come back for next time.

Long tailed keywords

Long tailed keywords are usually very long keywords and sometimes it is good to implement on possible long tailed keywords on your site. For example, “how to make a good plan on summer holidays” are long tailed keywords and you can actually optimize for headers, titles and rhetorical questions. It is important to know that generally, search engines will omit more of the conjunction words, but if you include them, they can be searched and match up according to the relevancy of search as well.

Overlapping keywords

This is basically associated with long tailed keywords search, the best way to highlight your keywords are H1, H2, paragraph html, bold, underlined, and italics, but not overkill it, of course. For example, the keywords that can search well on “make money online” could also be searched well in “make money online information”.

Misspelled keywords

They are to avoid at all costs for me, I have some contradictions with some of the SEO masters that you can actually intend to use misspelling, however, I do not follow their suggestions because most of the search engines no longer use meta tags because of keywords spamming and 90% of top search engines have already filtered with spelling checker for search results especially in English language search.

Plural keywords

Some people actually use plural keywords to search. So, it’s sometimes good to construct your site with both singular and plural number for commonly used words. Therefore, you can actually cover both when search is sought.

Localizations of your targeted audience and keywords

If you actually install Google analytics, you can actually geo-target or alternatively know who are your frequent visitors. The selection of words can actually give them easier to understand meaning and more feel like to read it more. For example, use toilet, loo, bathroom, lavatory or restroom according to your visitors to get acquaintance with your site. If you are promoting for products or services focused on particular country, it is vital to use these localizations for your potential buyers/visitors.

Caps and Hyphens

Usually, capital and hyphenated keywords are not mentioned much in on page SEO. But they are actually practical to use. Many people overlook SEO but build millions of web pages and they do not know what they are missing. In addition, capital keywords are not treated for special but it actually looks very professional, however, with good spelling checker website such as Yahoo! and Google actually make use of the importance of capital, because in some cases, capital plays a role, for example, internet and Internet. For hyphens, most search engines consider as a space, however, indexing with or without hyphens are different, so the best thing is to use both intentionally, so that you can cover both. Or you can do some research on what type of usage and search is used on particular keywords and examine whether e-mail or email is used more if there’s a case.

So, there you go, these are fantastic methods for on page optimizations and I am sure you do not miss these, so that you can generate more visitors than your competition. Because once you have started a website, you have millions of competition and the most important thing is to offer uniqueness and attractiveness to your potential visitors. Good Luck.

Reference: SEO Book by Aaron Wall 2006, an e-book which I really like. I am not affiliated with the author and you can actually Google to buy his materials if you want.

Tags: blog, e-book, generate, google, Google Analytics, h1, h2, how to, information, keyword, make, money, more, page, pr, search engine, traffic, Website

07 May 09 The expiry date of domain registration Vs Google

Well, I am not a super blogger and can’t write many blogs anyways. There are actually two reasons regarding this.One, I don’t produce my articles on daily basis and I don’t write much unless there’s something I can definitely deliver to my audience.

I love to visit some websites and blogs just to learn more because there are fantastic people who write absolutely wonderful articles about other things.

Anyway, today, I stumbled across this blog article about domain registration length and SEO (search engine optimization), and it is actually intriguing. The article is actually part of their 30 days SEO training. I am against with duplicate content and love to credit to the original author. So, credit to thekeywordacademy.com, here is the post about Domain name expiry date vs Google SEO.

Extend Your Domain Registration Length For Better SEO

I absolutely love it, what do you think?

Tags: blogger, blogs, bookmark, domain, google, search engine, SEO, Website

18 Apr 09 Search Engines: Off Page Optimizations

Many SEO do this with short cut, fast and ineffective ways. As I have mentioned before in link building posts, it is imperative that getting quality backlinks are important.

However, many SEO people use massive submissions instantly and now many search engines discount and devalue several types of backlinks for Page Rank system. However, it is not the end of the world, you still get some quality traffic if you build gradually and right ways. Do not just alarm search engines with thousands of inbound links in a single month just to get traffic, build slowly and build properly. So, following are off-page optimization methods that you can implement.

• Inbound link anchor text, the text in the paragraph neighboring that anchor text
• On page relevancies that link to the page
• Appropriate directory listing and categories your site is listed in
• Titles of the pages linking to your particular page

Make sure you read guidelines from Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, Ask.com and DMOZ before you submit your site too.:)

Happy Link Building

Tags: backlinks, link building, page rank, search engine, SEO, submission, traffic

18 Apr 09 Search Engines: On Page Relevancy

There are a couple of ways to initiate page relevancy for search engines. One could be on page optimization for relevancy.

It involves placing your keywords in tactical locations of the pages on your website. Remember, you always prepare for search engines, but always think of your audience first. I will not crazily use too many keywords but no information. Always keep in mind; human beings are the most important factor in success of your website, at the same time, you would love to get the job done for search engines as well.

So, what are on page relevancy and its optimization?

The significant ones are

• header tags
• internal links
• external links
• headline
• anchor text
• bold, underline, italic text
• image names, image description, ALT tags
• page name, page body, title, description and
• keywords

Well, everytime you create a page, you will probably want to rememer these tips to optimize, for example, as a blogger, you can actually develope a lot of thing in one post, different headers, URL linkages, even different headers and a little bit effort to tag and name image descriptions, of course, carefully considering page name, paragraphs, title and descriptions that can actually become a really good keywords for search engines.

Even bold color is pretty much helpful, so is italic text. These functions are not only available for differentiate, but also point out which part is imperative and what not. As we all actually scan and screen most of the known keywords if entire text is unchanged. For example, placing Ads on left hand side could attract more as people start to read from left to right in majority of languages.

Try them, and search some of your keywords yourself after you optimize, and share your experiences because it works for me.

Thanks for reading.

Tags: ads, ban, blogger, invalid, keywords, search, search engine, url, web, Website

18 Apr 09 What do search engines want?

Well, From now on, I decided to write a shorter version of entry for a while to take a look at my audience reading behavior for maybe a month or so. It’s always important that I have to ensure and validate what I write, so that I do not digress.

So, what do search engines really want? They definitely want

1. text format
2. clear-cut writing
3. no frame
4. not many tables
5. not very graphical intensive
6. less java scripts
7. possibly non-shockwave files
8. no keyword stuffing/spamming
9. properly linked
10. good internal linkage
11. no html errors including any kind of programming language
12. appropriate headers and titles

This is not what people usually want but in order to persuade search engines cherish your sites by not over-accessorizing your site with bombarding these unfriendly search engine materials. Then, you are technically good with your SEO mission. Remember, you always write for your audience, not for search engines bots, but when you write, you can make use of these advantages, so that not only your audience will love it, but also search engine bots would.

Thanks for reading.

Tags: audience, content, invalid, keyword, search engine, SEO, XML