When building or taking over a web site, I like to review the 10 tips that keep a web site clean and friendly.
1) Good Outline – Knowing the layout and content is a must. This includes color scheme, how many pages, what those pages are, and navigation order.
2) Good Content – As a web designer, I love to do the actual layout of the site but I request the client actually write the content. The reason for this is as simple as you know your business, I know the development process. Individually, we only have half the answer; together we can create an awesome site. Content should include a detailed description of your product and or service, a way for people to contact you, testimonials or comments from clients, images related to your product or service, a page of businesses your have worked with and if your site is large, a way to search.
3) Page Size – keep the web pages within 2 down scrolls. Most visitors will not go further.
4) SEO – Each page should have its own meta tag descriptions and keywords.
5) K.I.S.S. – Keep the design simple. Don’t mix and match odd colors and have to may pictures or graphics.
6) Gizmos – just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Before adding RSS, Twitter and blog feeds, make sure they are really needed.
7) Flash – Flash into pages can be very detrimental to your visitor’s experience. Especially if they take a while to load.
8) Articles – Write and post articles relevant to your products or services. These will help fill out your web site and show your visitors that you know your niche.
9) Don’t go Stale – Organized freshness is the key. A good quality website needs to be continually updated.
10) Spelling – Be sure and use a spell checker on all items that will be displayed to the public. This includes the content in your meta tags.
About the author: Rob Waibel is the owner and web developer for Waibel Online. Rob offers affordable SEO, web sites and consulting.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Be Prepared for Success with SEO
When you are ready to take that step of getting your web site, take into consideration the following items. Not only will it help keep you focused, but helps your web site builder work his SEO Magic!
About the Author: Rob Waibel has been a web developer for over 15 years. He focuses on the client and their needs. Find out more here...
- What is your Niche? It doesn't matter if you are selling houses or home made canned goods, know your audience and what they need. Keep your keywords focused on what you have to offer.
- Prepare your web copy. It's never a good idea to let your web developer fill in the words on your site. Your web designer should make your site appealing, and focused on your product or service. Take to time to write up what you want on each page. Keep in mind your keywords!
- Have a logo! If you have one, use it. If not, have one created by your web site developer or a logo company. There are many online and many are very reasonable.
- K.I.S.S. Seriously, Keep It Super Simple. You don't want to have so much happening on your homepage that your visitors get scared to go deeper.
- Other Links. If you already have a blog, twitter or facebook account about your product/service, make sure and let your web site designer know. These can easily be linked to your new web site and help add credibility.
- SEO Marketing. If your web site developer doesn't do SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, you are not going to be easy to find. If you like their work but they don't offer SEO, you might wont to hire someone or do it yourself with the help of others.
About the Author: Rob Waibel has been a web developer for over 15 years. He focuses on the client and their needs. Find out more here...
Monday, July 26, 2010
Quality SEO Tips to follow
Google and the rest of the search engine sites are always redefining how they rank pages. Here are some great strategies that work.
KEYWORDS!
The number one tool for higher rankings. SEO Co-op, Seobook are great sites to investigate the keywords you want to use. Remember to not only link your home page with these words but deep link them with other pages on your site. Build your site around these and you will see success.
GOOGLE!
Lets be honest, Google is the king of search engines, make sure your sites are Google friendly and you have set up your site in Google's Webmaster Tools.
LINK BUILDING!
The most effective way to boost results is still link building. Get link backs from relevant sites related to your market or targeted area. "I SHARE IF YOU SHARE" is a great strategy.
QUALITY!
I can not emphasize how important Quality is over Quantity. Having 5 pages of interesting, Quality information beats 100 pages of, well, crap!
ARTICLE/BLOG MARKETING!
Write up 500 to 700 word articles with links back to specific pages on your site. Leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, facebook, LinkedIn to increase traffic and awareness.
Step One: Relevance - Keep your site and content relevant to the topic or niche you are pursuing. Straying from that can and will cause a page rank drop.
Step Two: Authority - Know WHAT you are talking about! Your site and content must reflect that you are the authority on the subject.
Step Three: Conversions - having 2000 visitors a day is nice unless NO ONE BUYS ANYTHING! You want to convert as many visitors into buyers as possible.
SEO is not as difficult as you might think. It can take a little time to get all your ducks in a row. But time taken now reaps great rewards later!
If you need some help of advice, please contact Rob Waibel at Waibel Online or check out SEO Co-op.
KEYWORDS!
The number one tool for higher rankings. SEO Co-op, Seobook are great sites to investigate the keywords you want to use. Remember to not only link your home page with these words but deep link them with other pages on your site. Build your site around these and you will see success.
GOOGLE!
Lets be honest, Google is the king of search engines, make sure your sites are Google friendly and you have set up your site in Google's Webmaster Tools.
LINK BUILDING!
The most effective way to boost results is still link building. Get link backs from relevant sites related to your market or targeted area. "I SHARE IF YOU SHARE" is a great strategy.
QUALITY!
I can not emphasize how important Quality is over Quantity. Having 5 pages of interesting, Quality information beats 100 pages of, well, crap!
ARTICLE/BLOG MARKETING!
Write up 500 to 700 word articles with links back to specific pages on your site. Leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, facebook, LinkedIn to increase traffic and awareness.
MASTERPLAN!
If you want to be successful, you need a plan, a masterplan.Step One: Relevance - Keep your site and content relevant to the topic or niche you are pursuing. Straying from that can and will cause a page rank drop.
Step Two: Authority - Know WHAT you are talking about! Your site and content must reflect that you are the authority on the subject.
Step Three: Conversions - having 2000 visitors a day is nice unless NO ONE BUYS ANYTHING! You want to convert as many visitors into buyers as possible.
SEO is not as difficult as you might think. It can take a little time to get all your ducks in a row. But time taken now reaps great rewards later!
If you need some help of advice, please contact Rob Waibel at Waibel Online or check out SEO Co-op.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
SEO and the Right Way
If you have been doing SEO for longer than a minute, you know there are a myriad of “ways to do things.” Some of these ideas are great; some are just, well, NOT so good!
Search engines have been around for around for about 10 years now. In this decade, a job market called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was born. It has evolved to keep up with Google, Yahoo, Bing and the other search sites as they change the way they rate pages.
Let’s take a look at some of the some items to be aware of.
- Keyword density: Flooding your web pages with your keywords can actually do more harm than good. Flooding primarily makes your page hard to read. It decreases the quality of your content and the search engines may consider your pages “spammy”, thus lowering your page rank.
- META tags: Loading keyword into you page headers is a good idea as long as you don’t FLOOD it with the same word over and over. Keep keywords relevant and consistent to what you offer.
- Links: Link Exchange sites are usually, ok, hardly EVER a good idea. Search Engines keep a list of these sites and if you are on them, down goes your ranking.
- Search Engine Submissions: In the beginning, submitting to a search engine was a time consuming process, but needed to get a good place in the rankings. Now days, search engines tend to look for new pages and sites automatically. Manual submission is quite easy if you feel that their spider is taking too long.
- Unique content: Offer your visitors high quality content that is relevant to your site. Unique and original content is the best way to attract visitors, and search engines, to your pages.
- Voice of Authority: Offering an authoritative voice is a great way to increase your links and page ranking. Know what you are talking about. Offer interviews with others who are also involved in your specialty and post them.
- Networking: Create networking associations with others in and around your field of expertise. Add links to them and ask them to link to you.
- Robots.txt: Be sure your crawler file, robots.txt, is updated, accurate and configured properly so your site catalogue correctly. Build your site crawler-friendly. Remember, crawlers, aka spiders, are very primitive beings, always choose simplicity over complexity.
Always have a plan when you are working SEO. Just loading pages with keywords, using graphics with an image map or too much flash can kill your page rankings.
Take the time now, get better page rankings faster!
Search engines have been around for around for about 10 years now. In this decade, a job market called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was born. It has evolved to keep up with Google, Yahoo, Bing and the other search sites as they change the way they rate pages.
Let’s take a look at some of the some items to be aware of.
- Keyword density: Flooding your web pages with your keywords can actually do more harm than good. Flooding primarily makes your page hard to read. It decreases the quality of your content and the search engines may consider your pages “spammy”, thus lowering your page rank.
- META tags: Loading keyword into you page headers is a good idea as long as you don’t FLOOD it with the same word over and over. Keep keywords relevant and consistent to what you offer.
- Links: Link Exchange sites are usually, ok, hardly EVER a good idea. Search Engines keep a list of these sites and if you are on them, down goes your ranking.
- Search Engine Submissions: In the beginning, submitting to a search engine was a time consuming process, but needed to get a good place in the rankings. Now days, search engines tend to look for new pages and sites automatically. Manual submission is quite easy if you feel that their spider is taking too long.
- Unique content: Offer your visitors high quality content that is relevant to your site. Unique and original content is the best way to attract visitors, and search engines, to your pages.
- Voice of Authority: Offering an authoritative voice is a great way to increase your links and page ranking. Know what you are talking about. Offer interviews with others who are also involved in your specialty and post them.
- Networking: Create networking associations with others in and around your field of expertise. Add links to them and ask them to link to you.
- Robots.txt: Be sure your crawler file, robots.txt, is updated, accurate and configured properly so your site catalogue correctly. Build your site crawler-friendly. Remember, crawlers, aka spiders, are very primitive beings, always choose simplicity over complexity.
Always have a plan when you are working SEO. Just loading pages with keywords, using graphics with an image map or too much flash can kill your page rankings.
Take the time now, get better page rankings faster!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Push Your Competition Off the PAGE!
As I work SEO for myself and others, there is only one thing better than getting to that elusive number one spot, being in the top 3! The goal with this tip is to "push" your opponent off the page and thereby doubling your business dealings.
I learned somewhere that 87% of search engine traffic for a given keyword is allocated from occupying the Number 1 location in the search engine results page (SERP). I want to dispense a quick method to double your SERP positions and to improve the likelihood of your SEO keyword conversions.
Rankings the the premise for SEO; in order for SEO to be effective, it must produce ranking on the first page in search engines. This is the grand slam for any SEO optimizer. Once you have a top 10, you can use whats called the buddy system for lateral linking and pull other keywords into the spotlight.
The algorithm's used by search engines pay particular attention to a page's ability to offset all the unlikeness of a opponent's page and deem your page worthy above all others for a given search keyword or key phrase.
Each market has thier own metrics but the reality is the same once your page is in a top 3, better yet Number 1, 2, AND 3, in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The fasted way to get there, in the top 3 in a search on your keyword, is to get a link from someone in those spots already to your site!
Doesn't matter where the link comes from, rankings are by the page and there is a definate daisy-chain effect. Links from others pages form a dynamic give and take relationship. This citation from a page ranked 1,2,3 or 4 to yours can give you the power boost needed to bypass those not aware of the power in linking.
Start off by paying attention to the search engine results page (SERP), this is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query entered by internet users. Where are you? Who is above and who is in the top three. Link build with them!
Query your keywords on Google and see who has the top 3 spots. Validate these competitiors are still around.
Use keyword research to find "related keywords" based on the Number 1 ranked link from the page that ranks and add it to a new page. Use approximate anchor text and overlapping keywords to boost your new page. Let that page get indexed, then see where you land!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rob Waibel is the founder of Waibel Online, your affordable Website Design and SEO Services solution.
Special thanks to Jeffrey L. Smith
I learned somewhere that 87% of search engine traffic for a given keyword is allocated from occupying the Number 1 location in the search engine results page (SERP). I want to dispense a quick method to double your SERP positions and to improve the likelihood of your SEO keyword conversions.
Rankings the the premise for SEO; in order for SEO to be effective, it must produce ranking on the first page in search engines. This is the grand slam for any SEO optimizer. Once you have a top 10, you can use whats called the buddy system for lateral linking and pull other keywords into the spotlight.
The algorithm's used by search engines pay particular attention to a page's ability to offset all the unlikeness of a opponent's page and deem your page worthy above all others for a given search keyword or key phrase.
Each market has thier own metrics but the reality is the same once your page is in a top 3, better yet Number 1, 2, AND 3, in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The fasted way to get there, in the top 3 in a search on your keyword, is to get a link from someone in those spots already to your site!
Doesn't matter where the link comes from, rankings are by the page and there is a definate daisy-chain effect. Links from others pages form a dynamic give and take relationship. This citation from a page ranked 1,2,3 or 4 to yours can give you the power boost needed to bypass those not aware of the power in linking.
Start off by paying attention to the search engine results page (SERP), this is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query entered by internet users. Where are you? Who is above and who is in the top three. Link build with them!
Query your keywords on Google and see who has the top 3 spots. Validate these competitiors are still around.
Use keyword research to find "related keywords" based on the Number 1 ranked link from the page that ranks and add it to a new page. Use approximate anchor text and overlapping keywords to boost your new page. Let that page get indexed, then see where you land!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rob Waibel is the founder of Waibel Online, your affordable Website Design and SEO Services solution.
Special thanks to Jeffrey L. Smith
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Pages stuck? Give them a SHOVE!
You have your page up and looking good but your not getting the response from Google, Yahoo! and Bing that you thought you would get. Sounds like you have a page stuck. Lets review some SEO Tips to get that page back on track.
Search engines measure the gravity, frequency, revance and link clusters of pages. You need and want IP diversity, or links from a variety of sources, to provide the appropriate signals to search engines. Getting links from authority sites is a great way to rank higher. Understand, authority sites tend to only link to other authority sites, but with the right tact, you can acquire an authority link. Make sure your site is up to stuff before requesting that kind of link.
Ok, so lets see if we can help out that stagnet page...
1. Lets start by running your keyword or key phrase in GOOGLE and see how you stack up. Head over ro Google and type in "site:" then your domain name, space, then your keyword or phrase. Like this... Site:WaibelOnline.com Access ( My Search ) All 7 of my pages came up with that keyword. No stagnation there! Repeat this process with your other keywords and phrases to assure you are being seen.
2. Keep an eye on synonyms and related search results. These can become a vauable resource for additional or replacement keywords.
3. Blog or submit an article. Use your keywords and the synonyms/ related words you found in #2.
4. Web Content Syndication: RSS and SEO kind of go hand in hand. Set your page up so others can get your headlines and updates. I recommend PRESSfeed. The have a great program and provide online newrooms in one of three levels.
5. Do it AGAIN! The world wide web is constantly changing, updating and moving. Almost as if it was alive. Keep your links diverse, boost your less compative ketwords and work on a strategy that will build an abundance of links to your target page(s).
Working your own SEO marketing and looking for idea's and co-operation? I invite you to join us at SEO Co-op. We are a group of like minded people wanting and willing to share our insites and links!
Just tell them Rob Waibel set you!
Need to spruce up that web site but are at a loss as to how to do it? Waibel Online can help you with out draining your pockets.
Search engines measure the gravity, frequency, revance and link clusters of pages. You need and want IP diversity, or links from a variety of sources, to provide the appropriate signals to search engines. Getting links from authority sites is a great way to rank higher. Understand, authority sites tend to only link to other authority sites, but with the right tact, you can acquire an authority link. Make sure your site is up to stuff before requesting that kind of link.
Ok, so lets see if we can help out that stagnet page...
1. Lets start by running your keyword or key phrase in GOOGLE and see how you stack up. Head over ro Google and type in "site:" then your domain name, space, then your keyword or phrase. Like this... Site:WaibelOnline.com Access ( My Search ) All 7 of my pages came up with that keyword. No stagnation there! Repeat this process with your other keywords and phrases to assure you are being seen.
2. Keep an eye on synonyms and related search results. These can become a vauable resource for additional or replacement keywords.
3. Blog or submit an article. Use your keywords and the synonyms/ related words you found in #2.
4. Web Content Syndication: RSS and SEO kind of go hand in hand. Set your page up so others can get your headlines and updates. I recommend PRESSfeed. The have a great program and provide online newrooms in one of three levels.
5. Do it AGAIN! The world wide web is constantly changing, updating and moving. Almost as if it was alive. Keep your links diverse, boost your less compative ketwords and work on a strategy that will build an abundance of links to your target page(s).
Working your own SEO marketing and looking for idea's and co-operation? I invite you to join us at SEO Co-op. We are a group of like minded people wanting and willing to share our insites and links!
Just tell them Rob Waibel set you!
Need to spruce up that web site but are at a loss as to how to do it? Waibel Online can help you with out draining your pockets.
Monday, July 12, 2010
SEO Co-op, Up and running, looking for members!
With a unique set of internet marketing tools and a user interface easier than anything seen before, SEOCo-op.com went live this week. Including tools such as an article rewriter, social bookmarking, social network following, page rank tracking and backlink building the site helps webmasters promote their web sites.
SEO Co-op is currently looking for charter members to help get the database loaded. Charter members receive a free 12 month subscription to the service. We are running an AdWords campaign and just started offering the membership on ClickBank as of this morning. The initial price for paying subscribers is $67 a month. Check out the features of the software at http://seoco-op.com/
A demonstration site is available at http://seoco-op.com/demo/. Use demo@seoco-op.com and password to enter the site.
SEO Co-op is currently looking for charter members to help get the database loaded. Charter members receive a free 12 month subscription to the service. We are running an AdWords campaign and just started offering the membership on ClickBank as of this morning. The initial price for paying subscribers is $67 a month. Check out the features of the software at http://seoco-op.com/
A demonstration site is available at http://seoco-op.com/demo/. Use demo@seoco-op.com and password to enter the site.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tips to help with SEO
As I work SEO for myself and others, there is only one thing better than getting to that evasive number one spot, being in the top 3! The ambition with this tip is to "push" your competitor off the page and thereby doubling your business dealings.
I learned somewhere that 87% of search engine traffic for a given keyword is allocated from occupying the Number 1 spot in the search engine results page (SERP). I want to share a quick method to double your SERP positions and to improve the likelihood of your SEO keyword conversions.
Rankings the the basis for SEO; in order for SEO to be effective, it must produce ranking on the first page in search engines. This is the crowning achievment for any SEO optimizer. Once you have a top 10, you can use whats called the buddy system for lateral linking and pull other keywords into the daylight.
The algorithm's used by search engines pay exacting attention to a page's ability to offset all the inconsistencies of a competitor's page and deem your page worthy above all others for a given search keyword or key phrase.
Each market has thier own metrics but the actuality is the same once your page is in a top 3, better yet Number 1, 2, AND 3, in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The fasted way to get there, in the top 3 in a search on your keyword, is to get a link from someone in those locations already to your site!
Doesn't matter where the link comes from, rankings are by the page and there is a definate daisy-chain effect. Links from others pages form a dynamic give and take relationship. This acknowledgment from a page ranked 1,2,3 or 4 to yours can give you the energy boost needed to bypass those not aware of the power in linking.
Start off by paying attention to the search engine results page (SERP), this is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query entered by internet users. Where are you? Who is above and who is in the top three. Link build with them!
Query your keywords on Google and see who has the top 3 spots. Validate these competitiors are still around.
Use keyword research to find "related keywords" based on the Number 1 ranked link from the page that ranks and add it to a new page. Use much the same anchor text and overlapping keywords to boost your new page. Let that page get indexed, then see where you land!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rob Waibel is the founder of Waibel Online, your affordable Website Design and SEO Services solution.
Special thanks to Jeffrey L. Smith
I learned somewhere that 87% of search engine traffic for a given keyword is allocated from occupying the Number 1 spot in the search engine results page (SERP). I want to share a quick method to double your SERP positions and to improve the likelihood of your SEO keyword conversions.
Rankings the the basis for SEO; in order for SEO to be effective, it must produce ranking on the first page in search engines. This is the crowning achievment for any SEO optimizer. Once you have a top 10, you can use whats called the buddy system for lateral linking and pull other keywords into the daylight.
The algorithm's used by search engines pay exacting attention to a page's ability to offset all the inconsistencies of a competitor's page and deem your page worthy above all others for a given search keyword or key phrase.
Each market has thier own metrics but the actuality is the same once your page is in a top 3, better yet Number 1, 2, AND 3, in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. The fasted way to get there, in the top 3 in a search on your keyword, is to get a link from someone in those locations already to your site!
Doesn't matter where the link comes from, rankings are by the page and there is a definate daisy-chain effect. Links from others pages form a dynamic give and take relationship. This acknowledgment from a page ranked 1,2,3 or 4 to yours can give you the energy boost needed to bypass those not aware of the power in linking.
Start off by paying attention to the search engine results page (SERP), this is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query entered by internet users. Where are you? Who is above and who is in the top three. Link build with them!
Query your keywords on Google and see who has the top 3 spots. Validate these competitiors are still around.
Use keyword research to find "related keywords" based on the Number 1 ranked link from the page that ranks and add it to a new page. Use much the same anchor text and overlapping keywords to boost your new page. Let that page get indexed, then see where you land!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rob Waibel is the founder of Waibel Online, your affordable Website Design and SEO Services solution.
Special thanks to Jeffrey L. Smith
5 plans to succeed in SEO
Here are 5 little tips on SEO.
1. - Submit your website to the search engines.
2. - Make TINY LITTLE changes to your website. You do NOT want to make big changes. This is because every time you make a change one of three things is going to happen
a. Nothing is going to happen (unlikely)
b. Will improve your rankings
c. It can hurt your rankings
If you do something that hurts your rankings you want to know exactly what that element was that adversely affected your rankings and UNDO IT. If you make too many changes you will never be able to know what caused your rankings to drop.
3. - Be patient; search engines normally update every few weeks
4. - Use ranking tools or monitors to see the result these changes had on your rankings.
5. - Start the process all over again.
Waibel Online and SEO co-op are great resources for more information on SEO keywords and helping you further your site.
1. - Submit your website to the search engines.
2. - Make TINY LITTLE changes to your website. You do NOT want to make big changes. This is because every time you make a change one of three things is going to happen
a. Nothing is going to happen (unlikely)
b. Will improve your rankings
c. It can hurt your rankings
If you do something that hurts your rankings you want to know exactly what that element was that adversely affected your rankings and UNDO IT. If you make too many changes you will never be able to know what caused your rankings to drop.
3. - Be patient; search engines normally update every few weeks
4. - Use ranking tools or monitors to see the result these changes had on your rankings.
5. - Start the process all over again.
Waibel Online and SEO co-op are great resources for more information on SEO keywords and helping you further your site.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Social Media = Avalanche of Customers?
In 1989, "Field of Dreams" gave us that great quote, "If you build it, he will come." Since then, we have regenerated it up a little to "If you build it, THEY will come." In the world of the internet, this is not at all times the case.
First off, if you just handmade your website for your commercial enterprise, getting noticed can take a while. So what do you do? Build connections by using trusted and true internet marketing tools.
This takes exertion on your part. Doesn't matter what type of business you have, you will need to get your hands dirty to connect and converse. Communicating with people is as simple as joining Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Myspace, Tagged, SEO Co-op!... Anywhere people communicate online, you want to be apart of.
Ok, you got your pages up in the social areas, now what? Simple, talk to everyman! Check out their profiles, posts, what games they play, learn about and talk about these things. Basically, pay attention to them.
Now the hook is set, offer tips, howto's, videos, blog posts. Show them how you can assist them and bring benefit to their life.
GIVE, Give, give. Give them a bit of what you have. Make them unable to say “No Thanks”, but instead say “More please and can I tell my friends about you?” Hook is set and you have reeled them in. This does not mean you conclude, oh no, it means you are on the right track. Keep a good customer documentation, notify with them, keep your tips and howto’s coming.
First off, if you just handmade your website for your commercial enterprise, getting noticed can take a while. So what do you do? Build connections by using trusted and true internet marketing tools.
This takes exertion on your part. Doesn't matter what type of business you have, you will need to get your hands dirty to connect and converse. Communicating with people is as simple as joining Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Myspace, Tagged, SEO Co-op!... Anywhere people communicate online, you want to be apart of.
Ok, you got your pages up in the social areas, now what? Simple, talk to everyman! Check out their profiles, posts, what games they play, learn about and talk about these things. Basically, pay attention to them.
Now the hook is set, offer tips, howto's, videos, blog posts. Show them how you can assist them and bring benefit to their life.
GIVE, Give, give. Give them a bit of what you have. Make them unable to say “No Thanks”, but instead say “More please and can I tell my friends about you?” Hook is set and you have reeled them in. This does not mean you conclude, oh no, it means you are on the right track. Keep a good customer documentation, notify with them, keep your tips and howto’s coming.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
You can blog better
When it comes to SEO, blogging is a must. You want to communicate what you know and how you can help your visitor with whatever it is you are offering.
Did you like that last comment?
Do you know WHY you liked it? In a word, "YOU"!
The most important keyword you can have in a blog post or twitter post is the word “You”. “You” makes the post familiar. Using generic words like them, they, us, me and I are not as charismatic.
Make your articles focused on the reader, not the writer OR the product. You can only motivate your reader when they think you are talking directly to them.
Let’s be honest, people are basically interested in fulfilling their own needs. If you don’t appease them, aren’t interesting to them, offering them value, they will not be back, they will find that post that does.
So, you change your post to be directed to the reader. What happens? YOU become the next viral buzz!
Next time you blog, before you post it, count the numbers of “you” words. Count the “I” and “me” words and adjust. Make the post about and for your reader.
More Information on SEO Co-op
Two Most Important Blog Words
Did you like that last comment?
Do you know WHY you liked it? In a word, "YOU"!
The most important keyword you can have in a blog post or twitter post is the word “You”. “You” makes the post familiar. Using generic words like them, they, us, me and I are not as charismatic.
Make your articles focused on the reader, not the writer OR the product. You can only motivate your reader when they think you are talking directly to them.
Let’s be honest, people are basically interested in fulfilling their own needs. If you don’t appease them, aren’t interesting to them, offering them value, they will not be back, they will find that post that does.
So, you change your post to be directed to the reader. What happens? YOU become the next viral buzz!
Next time you blog, before you post it, count the numbers of “you” words. Count the “I” and “me” words and adjust. Make the post about and for your reader.
More Information on SEO Co-op
Two Most Important Blog Words
SEO CO-OP Leads the way!
Getting traffic to your site or blog and getting a high rating on GOOGLE and Yahoo can be a task. What if there was a group of dedicated people who, when working together, could help promote your sites as you help promote theirs? Sound good?
SEO CO-OP is a co-op of like minded people who want to help each other gain notice, page rankings, site hits and search ratings. It is a proven fact that 10 is better than one, 100 is better than 10 and 250 is just AWESOME!
Right now, you can join the SEO CO-OP for FREE! There are a full set of tutorials to help you get everything set up, a great team of admin users that can assist with your questions, and other members who will post your articles on their sites.
Learn more about seo optimization, seo marketing, seo keywords and other internet marketing tools.
More Information on SEO SO-OP
** Welcome to SEO CO-OP **
SEO CO-OP is a co-op of like minded people who want to help each other gain notice, page rankings, site hits and search ratings. It is a proven fact that 10 is better than one, 100 is better than 10 and 250 is just AWESOME!
Right now, you can join the SEO CO-OP for FREE! There are a full set of tutorials to help you get everything set up, a great team of admin users that can assist with your questions, and other members who will post your articles on their sites.
Learn more about seo optimization, seo marketing, seo keywords and other internet marketing tools.
More Information on SEO SO-OP
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Blogging and SEO
I just got done ready about how to use blogs to help in your SEO workload.
Let me break it down for ya...
We all know the goal with SEO is to create links to your blog and paysites. By following these simple tips, you accomplish this.
First, write something compelling that your readers will enjoy and/or use. With any luck, others will like to your blog and website and link to it.
Secondly, join blog directories like MyBlogLog ans BlogCatalog. This gives you a way to expose your blogs and what you are saying.
Comment on others work. Be nice and constructive. Avoid meanful remarks. Back to the saying "If you have nothing nice to say..."
You need to post regularly on your blog. if your blog gets stale, people will stop visiting.
Use Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, facebook, MySpace, Tagged, and any one of the other 200 social websites on the net to tell others about your work.
Need more advice? Check out SEO Co-op
Let me break it down for ya...
We all know the goal with SEO is to create links to your blog and paysites. By following these simple tips, you accomplish this.
First, write something compelling that your readers will enjoy and/or use. With any luck, others will like to your blog and website and link to it.
Secondly, join blog directories like MyBlogLog ans BlogCatalog. This gives you a way to expose your blogs and what you are saying.
Comment on others work. Be nice and constructive. Avoid meanful remarks. Back to the saying "If you have nothing nice to say..."
You need to post regularly on your blog. if your blog gets stale, people will stop visiting.
Use Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, facebook, MySpace, Tagged, and any one of the other 200 social websites on the net to tell others about your work.
Need more advice? Check out SEO Co-op
Monday, June 28, 2010
SEO Co-op
Seo Co-op is a new website to assist Seo staff in promoting sites.
There are many tools to assist in seo optimization.
Tools like the Article Re-Writer and Link Exchange are just two tools that can assist your seo marketing.
We all know that seo keywords are the key, Seo Co-op can help you with this.
Looking for internet marketing tools, then look no farther.
There are many tools to assist in seo optimization.
Tools like the Article Re-Writer and Link Exchange are just two tools that can assist your seo marketing.
We all know that seo keywords are the key, Seo Co-op can help you with this.
Looking for internet marketing tools, then look no farther.
Friday, June 25, 2010
So you want a website...
There are some basics that need to be covered prior to creating your website. Taking the time to figure out the answers will save you time and money when it comes down to the actual creation of the site.
First contingency is, “Why do I want a website?” Just having one to have one is fine, but with the right focalization, it can become the portal to drive business to you. Define what you want the site to accomplish. Concentrate on that idea. Create keywords and key phrases that relate to your idea and run them in Google Search. See what kind of results you get back and accommodate accordingly. This is part of what we call Search Engine Optimization or SEO.
Coordinating colors and graphics are essential to a good site. Colors that don’t complement and having too many or not enough graphics can make the site disagreeable to internet visitors. Website themes are all over the net and many are free.
Who is going to uphold your site? This is a powerful and usually forgotten question. Know who is responsible for keeping the site up to date. If you have an SEO or SEM plan, you may have to make changes time and again. Sometimes is a good idea to hire somebody to do that for you who is comfortable with coding web pages.
Getting the answers to these questions help speed up the development process. Finding the right person to assist you is very important. Take the time, make the plan, and you site will succeed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rob Waibel has been creating websites and custom applications for over 12 years. He is well versed in Search Engine Optimization techniques. When you are ready to get started on your website, visit us at WaibelOnline.com
First contingency is, “Why do I want a website?” Just having one to have one is fine, but with the right focalization, it can become the portal to drive business to you. Define what you want the site to accomplish. Concentrate on that idea. Create keywords and key phrases that relate to your idea and run them in Google Search. See what kind of results you get back and accommodate accordingly. This is part of what we call Search Engine Optimization or SEO.
Coordinating colors and graphics are essential to a good site. Colors that don’t complement and having too many or not enough graphics can make the site disagreeable to internet visitors. Website themes are all over the net and many are free.
Who is going to uphold your site? This is a powerful and usually forgotten question. Know who is responsible for keeping the site up to date. If you have an SEO or SEM plan, you may have to make changes time and again. Sometimes is a good idea to hire somebody to do that for you who is comfortable with coding web pages.
Getting the answers to these questions help speed up the development process. Finding the right person to assist you is very important. Take the time, make the plan, and you site will succeed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rob Waibel has been creating websites and custom applications for over 12 years. He is well versed in Search Engine Optimization techniques. When you are ready to get started on your website, visit us at WaibelOnline.com
Monday, June 21, 2010
Social Media = Abundance of Customers?
In 1989, "Field of Dreams" gave us that great quote, "If you build it, he will come." Since then, we have metamorphosed it up a little to "If you build it, THEY will come." In the world of the internet, this is not all the time the case.
First off, if you just built your website for your business, getting noticed can take a while. So what do you do? Build connections!
This takes handiwork on your part. Doesn't matter what type of business you have, you will need to get your hands dirty to connect and converse. Connecting to people is as simple as joining Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Myspace, Tagged... Anywhere people cluster online, you want to be there.
Ok, you got your pages up in the civil areas, now what? Simple, talk to everybody! Check out their profiles, posts, what activities they play, learn about and talk about these things. Basically, pay attention to them.
Now the hook is set, offer tips, howto's, videos, blog posts. Show them how you can assist them and bring benefit to their life.
GIVE, Give, give. Give them a bite of what you have. Make them unable to say “No Thanks”, but instead say “More please and can I tell my friends about you?” Hook is set and you have reeled them in. This does not mean you conclude, oh no, it means you are on the right track. Keep a good customer directory, share with them, keep your tips and howto’s coming.
Need more info? We too are here to help.
First off, if you just built your website for your business, getting noticed can take a while. So what do you do? Build connections!
This takes handiwork on your part. Doesn't matter what type of business you have, you will need to get your hands dirty to connect and converse. Connecting to people is as simple as joining Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Myspace, Tagged... Anywhere people cluster online, you want to be there.
Ok, you got your pages up in the civil areas, now what? Simple, talk to everybody! Check out their profiles, posts, what activities they play, learn about and talk about these things. Basically, pay attention to them.
Now the hook is set, offer tips, howto's, videos, blog posts. Show them how you can assist them and bring benefit to their life.
GIVE, Give, give. Give them a bite of what you have. Make them unable to say “No Thanks”, but instead say “More please and can I tell my friends about you?” Hook is set and you have reeled them in. This does not mean you conclude, oh no, it means you are on the right track. Keep a good customer directory, share with them, keep your tips and howto’s coming.
Need more info? We too are here to help.
Friday, June 18, 2010
SEO the SEO co-op Way
SEO co-op brings real people hand in hand and coordinates their labor to promote each other. These are internet marketing tools that truly work. We will make sure your articles get socially bookmarked by the contributory members of the co-op. It’s immediate fame and instant recognition for your efforts. just about anyone can write a amazing article, getting it noticed and socially bookmarked is the brutal part. SEO co-op makes sure your articles are sworn and affirmed and passed on through Twitter, Digg, Reddit, StumbledUpon and many other social bookmark sites. You post your article, tell us where you posted it and we will send members out there to Digg it. Let the co-op know which site you are promoting and SEO co-op will make sure your link is posted by other members as a reference site on associated topics. Using the power of the co-op membership we make sure each and everything you do gets recognized and shared. SEO co-op brings people together from all over the country and coordinates their efforts in promoting and sharing the co-op sites. There is on other SEO marketing company that takes SEO to this level. SEO co-op is a impressive set of internet marketing tools.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Web site tips to remember concerning SEO
I am always on the look out for information on SEO and the right way to do it. I got this artical from Nick Stamoulis and BING, a light went off.
Just putting up a page or two will not get you ranked on search engines or bring you in tons of business. You need to use SEO Tools to get you moved up on the searches. This being said, Nick dropped us a line on things NOT to do!
Just putting up a page or two will not get you ranked on search engines or bring you in tons of business. You need to use SEO Tools to get you moved up on the searches. This being said, Nick dropped us a line on things NOT to do!
- We all now that keywords are the "key" to getting noticed in search engines. Nick warns us that keywork stuffing, jamming our web site with our keywords, can actually hurt our rankings.
- Javascript and search engines don't really get along. Keep your javascript to a minimum.
- Although they look nice, iFrames are a "sure fire way to kill your SEO efforts" accourding to Nick. The web spiders can't read the frames or what is in them. This means that the spider only sees one page.
- Constant changing of your content is also a BAD idea. Design your page to reflect what you are offering and keep it.
- Having links are your pages is good, having links that go no where is BAD! I use Build Traffic's link checker. Saves me a ton of time.
- It's a good idea to interlink pages of your site. You can hyperlink important text on one page to another, even your blog. Do it tastefully, you don't want your users jumping all over and not really finding what they are looking for.
- Meta tags are as important today as ever. There are some free META tag generators on the web. I use them on ALL of my web sites.
- All your images need an alt value. make them detailed to what the photo/picture is.
- When it comes to web pages, K.I.S.S. really is the way to go. A good home page and then each additional page only covers one topic.
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