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		<title>7 Search Engine Optimization Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Search engine optimization refers to the technique of making your web pages search engine friendly so that search engines are more easy to understand and analyze your website. Consequently, your site has a better chance to gain high search engine ranking.</p>
<p>However, please be reminded that high search engine ranking is not your only objective, and your objective should be website traffic and conversion. The following advice helps you to achieve the objectives.</p>
<p>1. Make Sure Your Site Will Not Be Penalized</p>
<p>Webmasters realize the importance of attaining top search engine rankings. Hence, they perform many search engine<a id="aptureLink_f37emKenCF" style="float: right; padding: 0px 6px;" href="http://www.egiconsulting.com/Portals/0/Images/egi-consulting-search-engine-marketing.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none;" title="Search Engine Marketing | Internet Marketing" src="http://www.egiconsulting.com/Portals/0/Images/egi-consulting-search-engine-marketing.jpg" alt="" width="461px" height="320px" /></a> optimization activities on their sites. However, improper implementation of search engine optimization can get your site heavily penalized by search engines. To avoid your website being penalized, webmasters must not commit to the following practices:</p>
<p>- Use of hidden texts or hidden links on web pages.</p>
<p>- Use of cloaking</p>
<p>- Excessive automated queries to search engines like Google<br />
Web pages loaded with irrelevant words</p>
<p>- Keyword stuffing</p>
<p>- Multiple pages, sub-domains, domains with substantially duplicate content</p>
<p>2. Select Correct Keyword Phrases</p>
<p>Correct keyword phrases allow you to drive targeted visitors to your website. Therefore, this step determines whether your search engine optimization effort can improve business result or not.</p>
<p>Do not restrict yourself and be open minded in this area. You may think that most of the search is coming from 1 word keyword. However, it is wrong. Most people uses 2-5 words keyword phrases because they are more descriptive and yield precise results from search engines.</p>
<p>In addition, think creatively and perform linguistics research can help you generate useful keyword phrases.</p>
<p>3. Optimize Title and Meta Tags</p>
<p>According to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.articleplus.com" target="_new">Internet Marketing Articles</a><a>, One of the important steps in search engine optimization is to optimize Title tag in your web page. Pages with the keywords appearing in the title tag are often assumed to be more relevant to the search query than others. Remember, title tag is the most important location of a web page after the main content of the body tag. Almost all search engines give importance to this tag.</a></p>
<p><a>Some search engines also give importance to the presence of the keyword in the meta description and keyword tag. Currently, it does not applicable to Google though.</a></p>
<p><a>4. Optimize Website Content</a></p>
<p><a>All search engines place emphasis on your body text content. The main content of your web page should contain the keyword a considerable number of times to make the search engine spiders feel that the content is relevant to the search query. The first two paragraphs are extremely important in search engine optimization.</a></p>
<p><a>To prevent your site from being regarded as &#8220;over optimization&#8221;, you should not stuff keywords heavily in your body content. We suggest that you should present the keywords in a natural way. Apart from this, your website copy should have at least 200-250 words.</a></p>
<p><a>5. Ensure Clean Coding</a></p>
<p><a>To allow search engines to index and analyze your website correctly, you must check correctness of HTML coding manually. Webmasters may build webpages from WYSIWYG HTML editors such as Microsoft Frontpage 2003, but these HTML editors may leave some duplicated or unnecessary tags in your copy especially when you edit the pages very often during web design phase.</a></p>
<p><a>In addition, search engines are not good at understanding Java Applet and Flash. If you have Flash or Java applet navigation menu, make sure to duplicate somewhere and include HTML links as well.</a></p>
<p><a>Please also check whether your website has broken links. They may stop search engine spiders to crawl other web pages in your website, it may result in loss of hundreds or thousands website traffic per month, and waste your search engine optimization effort.</a></p>
<p><a>6. Link Building</a></p>
<p><a>In case you have a little bit knowledge about search engine optimization, you likely know that link popularity is very important to attaining high search engine ranking in major search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc..</a></p>
<p><a>Yes, search engines use link analysis to determine search engine rankings. The phiolosophy is that if an inbound link points to your site, your site must have some value. Therefore, the inbound link is regarded as a &#8220;positive vote&#8221; to your website. The more inbound link you have, the higher is your link popularity. This can boost your search engine ranking.</a></p>
<p><a>However, quality of links (link reputation) is also important. If you can get an inbound link from a high popularity website, your site will get more benefit.</a></p>
<p><a>There are many methods to perform link building including seeking one-way link, reciprocal links, 3-way links, etc. Because link popularity and link reputation are of great importance to search engine positions, many search engine optimizers spend most of their time in link building.</a></p>
<p><a>7. Optimize Dynamic Website Content</a></p>
<p><a>Search engines are not good at understanding dynamically generated web pages. Therefore, I suggest you should change your dynamic URL to static URL. If it is not possible, you should consider using some advanced search engine optimization techniques such as Mod-Rewrite to optimize website.</a></p>
<p><a>Another simpler way is to create a sitemap and list all dynamic URLs on it. This can help a bit.</a></p>
<p><a>Conclusion</a></p>
<p><a>Search engine optimization is very important to search engine marketing. When it is done properly, it helps you attract many targeted visitors to your website, and can improve your business results. </a></p>
<p>Written by Jimsun Lui from Agog Digital Marketing Strategy Ltd., a company offers <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.agogdigital.com" target="_new">Search engine optimization and search engine positioning service</a>, and is developing PHP Shopping Cart Software, visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.agogdigital.com" target="_new">http://www.agogdigital.com</a> to learn more.</p>
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		<title>Long Tail Keywords Help You Rank Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kim Nail Doing the right research on a keyword is part of being successful when you market on the Internet. No matter the marketing method you put to use, the part that makes it all run is finding the right keyword. Keywords are what makes internet marketing go. The first step is finding the [...]]]></description>
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<div>Doing the right research on a keyword is part of being successful when you <a href="http://business-development-marketing.com">market on the Internet</a>. No matter the <a id="aptureLink_zlxHZ4dqLx" style="padding: 0px 6px; float: right;" href="http://www.jmorganmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/seo-tips-for-meta-url-structure.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none;" title="Quick and Easy SEO Tips" src="http://www.jmorganmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/seo-tips-for-meta-url-structure.jpg" alt="" width="225px" height="225px" /></a>marketing method you put to use, the part that makes it all run is finding the right keyword. Keywords are what makes internet marketing go. The first step is finding the specific market that you are wanting to appeal to. After you learn what your target market is you are able to start researching keywords. You will need a specific software tool that does research for internet keywords. A lot of marketers depend on the Google Adwords Keyword Suggestion Tool. Despite Adwords&#8217; effectiveness at generating many specific keywords, programs like Keyword Elite or Micro Niche Finder are still needed to effectively complete the process. This is mainly because these external tools help you discover keywords that you wouldn&#8217;t be able to find on your own. You can use these tools to see just how much competition each keyword has on the search engines as well as who is competing. Not only will you learn the information you need, you will know what to do in order to get on the top of the Google search results.</p>
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<p>An extremely efficient way to discover hidden and profitable long tail keywords that convert is to use Google Suggest. Not many people use it but it&#8217;s extremely efficient and you can use it along with your paid keyword research tool. Discovering long tail keywords with the Google Suggest technique is really simple. To start with, open the main Google website, i.e, Google.com and not the regional version such as <a href="http://google.co.uk/" target="_blank">Google.co.uk</a>. Type the keyword you are seeking into the search box as Google Suggest, and it will return relevant suggestions. This is done quickly. You can move up and down through these suggest search queries to select a keyword. Take the guitar example, for instance; when you type &#8220;guitar&#8221; it may return &#8220;guitar strings&#8221;, &#8220;Guitar tuning&#8221;, &#8220;guitar lessons&#8221; and &#8220;replacing guitar strings&#8221;. Collect all the key-phrases that you come across so that you can save them for further research in your keyword research tool.</p>
<p>Getting extremely high search volume should not be your main focus when conducting research for long tail keywords. The important part is reaching the audience who will be more likely to want to buy your service or product. Following this plan, the long tail keywords you use will attract the customers you want. You may get fewer &#8220;hits&#8221;, but a much higher percentage of these hits will result in sales. You will quickly be able to see small streams of traffic generated by the keywords you have chosen. This is determined by the specific nature of your keywords and the structure of your keyword strategy.</p>
<p>Non-specific keywords will be more difficult to achieve significant rankings with because of the amount of competition you will face; for this reason, successful marketers employ phrases that have multiple, targeted words. Don&#8217;t spend a lot of time worrying about getting ranked for difficult keywords, but think outside the box and select your keywords. The idea is to capture the traffic that other Internet blogs and companies are losing because they are too focused on earning top spots using the generic, basic keywords.</p>
<p>A long tail keyword strategy that is carefully planned out will easily help you get to the front page of Google. Those visitors who have reached your site through keywords and are interested in what your offer is will often then convert to a lead or even a sale. Long tail keywords are a powerful tool for <a href="http://evilgeniusseo.com">Search Engine Optimization</a> that should not be ignored.</p>
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