February 20th, 2008
Currently there’s quite a high demand for people that has a good knowledge of onlinemarketing. Even if you’re not unemployed I’d suggest that you at least put your resume on some of the leading job posting boards.
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February 17th, 2008
When you are in the business of SEO you know that to start working with new types of businesses acting in industries that you previously did not know so much about can be though. It takes quite some time to learn the dynamics behind a new industry in terms of SEO, especially in terms of which words are converting, where are the large search volumes etc.
In this regard I found a new interesting site called Optimized.org’s SEO guides. They have a not so usual take on presenting information about SEO in that they make their content industry specific. For an example check out their automotive SEO guide which gives some tips of what to think about when doing search engine optimization for the automotive industry and specifically car dealers operating in a specific region.
Although not completely there yet the future for Optimized seems to be to make a directory with SEO consultants specialising in different industries. I think this is a great idea since on of the key point of successful SEO is link building from relevant sites. As an SEO you of course have sites of interest in the industries that you have previously worked with as opposed to an industry that you never worked with.
I feel Optimized has a great take and somewhat innovative take about how to present valuable information to both people who want to do their SEO themselves as well as the ones looking for an SEO consultant … and that can maybe now found consultant that is actually recommended for their specific industry.
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January 21st, 2008
Search engine placement services is getting it thougher and thougher everyday. Not because search engine placement services are out of fashion, but the skills needed to achieve a high search engine ranking today as opposed to how it was 3-4 years ago are widely different.
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Today the most important part of your search engine optimization strategy is to have amazing PR and a staff that thinks SEO. The programmers need to know about onsiteoptimization from the start, especially if you are setting up an ecommerce search engine optimization strategy. Here its crucial that the gigantic productdatabase gets displayed in a search engine friendly way and that the customers has a lot of incentives to post the products on other pages giving relevant backlinks with good and varied anchor texts.
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The content writers needs to have a good knowledge about writing search engine friendly texts, its not such a hard thing to do but few newspapers for instance practice it.
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But above all, PR, PR and PR. Getting written about is simply king. Google places a much higher emphasis on authority sites these days and the only way to get in there is to produce great PR stunts.
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So forget about catalogue submission services, cloaking and spamming techniques and start tending to the blogger community, media and send your programmers and webdevelopers to a 3-5 day SEO course.
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November 10th, 2007
Custom Dog Tags is a pretty fun thing to make for your friends and family and give as christmas gifts.
Fat Statement seems to be a new site that just launched a very cool designer for Customized Dog Tags and after trying it out I must say Im very happy with the result.
I would consider printing these kind of Dog Tags in a huge batch and giving them away as freebies for offline marketing purposes. They also offer custom button badges.
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July 31st, 2007
Everyone has a blog now and its getting even more popular. The main reason why this is being more popular is creating a blog is very easy, just like you create an email account and its free. There are hundreds of websites which offers free blog hosting. Wordpress, Blogstop, Vox, Blogsome are some of them. And the second reason is its very helpful in the business as well as the personal use. Only creating a free blog site does not help in business, it need to have good traffics to get something from this. Here I am going to give your some tips on getting more visitors for your site.
1. Be friendly. Put links to other blog on your blogroll and ask them to put your blog on their site. Be very polite and say something good about them if you’re going to do this with someone whom you don’t know. If your friends also run blog then its easy. Just talk to them and you’re done.
2. Trackbacks are another easy way to get traffics. There are some great and big blogs which shows the pingbacks to them. They have great number of readers . This was you can bring those readers to your blog.
3. Comment on other blogs often. Visit some blogs everyday and leave useful comments on all of them. If your comments help other or if they find your comment useful they will surely come to your site.
4. Social bookmarking sites are another source for the visitors. Digg, stumbleupon drives good amount of traffics to you site if you get dugg or stumbled. There are various pluggins available for the blogs which make bookmarking easy.  Once you put those pluggins on your blog, reader will be able to bookmark your article in easy steps.
These are not the only methods to get visitors to your site. A lot of other methods also can generate good number of visitors to you blog. Traffics exchange is also another good way. Some of the good traffic exchange programme is blogexplosion and linkreferral. You can also get visitors from technorati and other blog search engines by writing on the top tags.
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July 31st, 2007
Keyword density generally means the amount of the targeted keywords in you content. It also can be defined as the ratio of the keyword and your contend. This is another factor which should be taken very carefully. If the keyword density is good then you might get very good number of visitors from the Search Engines to your site. Some people say its not really important thing but I will tell you in this article how keyword density is important and why you should care about it.
One of the main source of your website traffic is Search Engine. Search Engine drives visitor to you site according to your content crawled by the crawlers. So its pretty simple, SE crawls the website and index in the database. If you have sufficient numbers of keywords then it shows your site for the required keyword. If you have only one or two keywords into the 500 words articles your site may not be noticed. So you should use sufficient number of keywords on your content.
So how many keywords are sufficient? Experts says 2.5% of keyword density is very good. But it doesn’t matter if it goes up to 3% in my experience. People use even more keyword density on their site sometimes but keyword density is not all what the overall performance depends upon. You can find several sites coming in the top position for a keyword which have less keyword density that other websites. So, you should equally look in other factors like link building etc.
You can find several tools to check your keyword density. One of them is in SEO chat. Go there, check your keyword density and optimize your content like I said. It will help a lot.Every time you change the content or you update your site the keyword density also changes. So you should always take care about that when updating the website or changing the content.
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