October 15, 2011 – 6:56 am
Theoretically, websites do not get stronger by themselves, they need help. While aging a website is a factor for prolonged growth in rankings, today’s SEO tip shared below works by virtue of on-site evolution in tandem with elevated digital trust and authority (the real purpose of SEO). The undeniable value of adding topical theme-relevant content [...]
September 19, 2011 – 2:41 am
The primary reason why people use search engines is to find answers. Therefore, your websites success depends on whether or not you fully understand the questions people are searching for (the cause behind the cause) and to which degree your landing pages answer those questions or solve their problems. This is known as finding the [...]
Where you rank matters! And whether or not your listing is above the fold in natural search results or on page two or beyond impacts the click through rate. The only thing better than one result in the top 10 in Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines is two search results in the top [...]
It’s understandable why many feel the same way as the woman in the picture about organic SEO. You’ll need patience to see results and cultivating enough patience to reserve judgement is a true test of character; especially when money is on the line and your internal mental dialogue is more like a child on a [...]
Today’s post is about 20 things you either forgot or never knew about SEO, including behind the scenes insights covering SEO techniques and tactics and how they all relate in the grand scheme of producing viable, repeatable results. With search engine algorithms being more difficult to impress, creating websites that holistically reinforce themselves both internally [...]
While providing an SEO consultation a few days ago, the client had a severe problem with bleeding ranking factor from using recurring elements of navigation on the sidebar of their website. In layman’s terms, there were too many links in the sidebar. While it may seem like “the logical thing to do” to put all [...]
Google Rankings are based on finding the “most relevant” websites for keyword searches. Shared Hosting plans have many features – disk space, bandwidth and programming languages supported – that will determine whether your website will interest visitors. If your market niche requires text, images and applications that are best created using a specific programming language, [...]
February 24, 2011 – 9:05 am
What is the real value of aged pages in a website and what SEO value do they pose to present tense endeavors? Legacy pages have the ability to leverage current search engine result pages in a number of ways. Initially, pages and posts can be re-purposed i.e. redesigned to embrace new offers, new links, or [...]
February 14, 2011 – 8:18 am
We are taking a stroll down memory lane in search of fabulous SEO blasts from the past buried deep in the SEO archives. We will start with 3 practical posts and go as deep in the rabbit hole as time permits each day of this week to dig up some informative posts worth reading twice [...]
January 15, 2011 – 8:17 am
Performing search engine optimization for dynamically generated websites that use a database or feed that feature thousands and thousands of stock kept units (S.K.U’s), product brand/make or model numbers requires a different tact than optimizing a website for a phonetic keywords or key phrase. Even though model numbers are technically “keywords”; they typically have a [...]
January 9, 2011 – 1:27 am
The difference between trying to rank a new website or stagnant website that lacks topical depth, content, links or trust vs. flinging keywords effortlessly to page one within ten minutes (using a domain with age, trust and authority) is a game-changing metric. The only difference between a website that can get ranked in 10 minutes [...]
January 2, 2011 – 11:07 am
To kick-off the new year in style, we would like to share a few useful and practical SEO tips for 2011. Each keyword should be carefully considered as a business investment, not just from a viewpoint of a trophy phrase or ranking conquest to quell your competition. Acquiring a raking for a lucrative keyword in [...]
November 11, 2010 – 8:22 am
Minimizing the negative side effects of tangential traffic that reaches the wrong landing page unintentionally by remodeling the page or imbuing your pages with an alternative purpose can increase profits as a result of “changing the focal point” to managing consumer expectations. Two things you should avoid are (1) high bounce rates due to lack [...]
October 31, 2010 – 10:29 am
What’s the difference between a new website and a powerhouse domain ranking for competitive keyword-specific rankings? The answer, SEO, content, time and links… First, you start with keyword research, this includes assessing all of the root phrases, synonyms, keyword modifiers and potential keyword variations a consumer in search of a solution might use when searching [...]
October 19, 2010 – 7:04 am
Here are 5 critical SEO tips to keep in mind if you are frustrated, considering giving up or abandoning a keyword or group of keywords while engaging the optimization process. If you can see the moving parts (the process within the process) one can realize the results are cumulative. This cohesion is a synopsis of [...]
October 8, 2010 – 7:07 am
Understanding context, prominence and proximity is important for SEO when optimizing for visual page segmentation algorithm and creating an optimized template. Search engines are programmed to assess content regions above the fold and place less emphasis on elements such as recurring or duplicate code (links such as navigation, server side includes, etc.) while elevating relevance [...]
September 28, 2010 – 11:02 pm
What is link flow distribution in a website and why should you care? Link flow is a metric implemented in SEO which assesses the volume of link equity (accumulated PageRank, citation factor and nodes of relevance) a page has and how it passes along that equity via outbound links to other internal or external pages. [...]
September 19, 2010 – 7:51 pm
This posts highlights the SEO technique of leveraging your websites inherent domain authority by (1) minimizing hops within the website by keeping site architecture flat (2) capping outbound links on internal pages through using javascript navigation and optimizing on page contextual links and (3) using 301 redirects for SEO to recycle link-flow to new landing [...]
September 3, 2010 – 1:27 pm
This simple SEO Tip shows you how you can use wildcard * search operators to “fill in the blanks” and show you the money based on commercial queries and their search gravity in Google. Once you find a problem, then you can act as part of the solution using affiliate marketing and affiliate products. Find [...]
August 18, 2010 – 12:40 am
Creating keyword stemming (the ability to have a page returned for multiple results) is accomplished easily through using synonyms and alternative keywords for inbound and internal links. To promote this SEO tactic simply: -Jeffrey
August 10, 2010 – 7:19 am
This vitally simple SEO tip allows you to harness legacy pages to augment present-tense SEO efforts. When stale pages plateau, then simply put them to work by transferring that authority by creating new landing pages and harvesting the link equity and trust they have acquired. Time (both freshness and trust) are powerful ranking factors when [...]
Since there are clearly defined steps in an SEO campaign, following an SEO blueprint is one way to keep on track and maximize results. This effectively is known as taking SEO from theory to practice and placing concepts into actions so you can track, assess and refine results. Assessing the stages: Market Research Keyword Research [...]
If you spend as much time analyzing the SERPs (search engine result pages) as we do for the purpose of proactive SEO planning, you are bound to catch patterns or ranking anomalies which can provide insight into Google’s constantly evolving search engine algorithm. If a few or few dozen of your keywords got clipped since [...]
How many layers deep are you linking for your websites link building campaign? You often hear about the various tiers of optimization and the types of SEO tactics used by many to create link diversity, but how deep do you link (from site to site), how often and to which pages? Just in case your [...]
After you have found a niche and want to determine who the Super Affiliates are, there are a number of extremely simple SEO techniques you can use to find out which offers, competitors and/or referrer sources are worthwhile to pursue. Applying Commercial Tact It’s not like your competition is going to say, “these are the [...]
Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are a storehouse of data which can be used for search engine optimization. However, when combined with a few other stellar SEO tools creates a winning combination for data-mining your own historical benchmarks to facilitate tangible KPI’s (key performance indicators) and ROI thresholds for future keyword and conversion conquests. [...]
Using a keyword-rich premium domain for SEO purposes is still the Achilles heel for search engine algorithms to dissuade rankings from rising in the SERPs (search engine result pages) spontaneously. For example, if you a website with the name: -Jeffrey
If you are searching for proven SEO tips for new website promotion, keep in mind, there are multiple techniques to utilize when promoting a new website (each with its corresponding advantages and effects and disadvantages or short-comings). The best way to offset variance is to apply structured, persistent and ethical tactics that correspond to both search engine guidelines and end-user [...]
If you are trying to appease search engines and optimize your content through SEO, then why not look for insights from the trail they leave behind to reverse-engineer the way they interpret semantic clusters of data and the connectedness of certain synonyms, phrases and keyword combinations. This post discusses how to use Google Analytics to [...]
There are four phases or rather steps that an SEO campaign progresses through in order to reach its ultimate ranking objectives. We have outlined them briefly below and provided tips to maximize traction along the way. The four critical steps in a managing a successful SEO campaign are (1) Research – both market and keyword [...]
Inspired by a complex yet fascinating mathematical document on information retrieval from Adam Berger in 2001 on the subject of machine learning and information retrieval (PDF), I couldn’t resist the need to simplify the first concept he introduced in the preface about word relatedness which is one of the underlying principles of SEO as we [...]
How themed is your website to appease both your target audience and search engines? From the two extremes, the first being “keyword cannibalization”, where the overlap in keyword use and abuse pushes far past the norm and the second, meaning that there is no structured topic, form or function whatsoever. Having a themed topical thread [...]
Each page that you add to your site is an asset for SEO. Depending on your content development strategy and execution, you can harness the various cycles of link flow to maximize visibility in search engines. The three cycles of content (fresh, normalized and authoritative) should be part of your SEO arsenal to exercise at [...]
On-page optimizations On Page SEO requires a specific type of tact. Elements of each page, both visible and embedded in the code, can help search engines understand the content of the page, and how that page relates to the theme of a website. The opportunities for search engines to understand a page Title tag The [...]
Disrupting the trust a website has can be catastrophic to SEO. For example, if you have aged legacy content in a website that is indexed, then that page is contributing to some metric which is passing value within your website. The only exception is a completely orphaned page (with few inbound or outbound links) which [...]
The only thing better than one search result in the top 3 positions in Google is two search results from a double ranking. This SEO tip works from pushing a competitor off the first page to broadening your websites keyword funnel and double traffic and conversions. I read somewhere that 87% of search engine traffic [...]
When it comes to SEO and search engines, cache is king. One of the most simple metrics of measuring the wealth and authority of a web property is how many pages are indexed and whether or not preferred landing pages are established. However, before visitors can arrive, search engines need to find, spider, index and [...]
Have you ever wondered why trusted links are better for SEO than untrusted link neighborhoods for securing a stable search engine position? Link neighborhood directly correlates to the company you keep online and each link distinctly carries its own equivocal weight in search engines. If you have invested a significant amount of time, energy and [...]
Here are 10 powerhouse SEO tips that you can use to build a new website and make sure it gets off to the right start. First, the strategy, then a brief synopsis of the tactics are outlined below. SEO Tips to Build a New Website: -Jeffrey
Have you ever checked Google and your most cherished SEO ranking was missing in action? Even more disturbing, there is some unforeseen new website or several new sites in your place which you may have seen on page 2 or 3 in your spot? Keep in mind, it’s not the end of the world just [...]
Owning a website or blog is great, but how do you make money? One of the most difficult things can be to monetize your web property. Sure, anyone can create a website and engage SEO to drive traffic, but how many can make a profit or let alone a living from the value of that [...]
If you own a small-business, and find yourself looking for SEO basics or tips and tactics to rank your website, then here are some pointers to set you in the right direction. Just like you have got to learn to walk before you run, if you understand the various aspects of SEO, then you can [...]
A few weeks back we asked for feedback on our writing style, and specifically how we can help our readers, albeit SEO professionals or click-and-brick small business owners, improve their SEO efforts. The result: SDS How-to SEO Section. In conjunction with the daily advanced SEO written works, we will be answering your questions… so go [...]
January 22, 2010 – 7:54 am
Avoiding Google’s supplemental index in the first place is a whole lot easier than trying to get your pages out of it once they lose SERP (search engine result page) appeal. Any good SEO knows that rankings are all about indexation (which means getting more pages in a search engines index). If one day your [...]
January 10, 2010 – 3:38 pm
What are a few viable SEO solutions you can use when your search engine optimization efforts “stall out” and your targeted keywords are trapped past page 2 and simply won’t rise any higher? There is nothing more frustrating than being stuck on page 2 or worse in search engines when your most cherished rankings loses [...]
December 27, 2009 – 10:17 am
Below are 20 SEO Tips for 2010 as a stocking stuffer from SEO Design Solutions to kick off the new year in style. It’s no secret that SEO involves granular changes across multiple metrics to optimize a site, yet each layer of the respective SEO onion has its place in the hierarchy of relevance which [...]
December 19, 2009 – 2:45 pm
Creating convergence through topical relevance and links is an extremely powerful SEO technique. In other words, clearly delineating a preferred landing page or champion page to represent specific keywords sends a clear signal to search engines which pages should rank for distinct keyword variations. In specific, concentrating internal links and external links on a page [...]
December 4, 2009 – 9:11 am
Looking for a quick way to data mine competitors keywords to determine if they are worth the hassle to optimize? After reading this quick SEO tip and using a few revealing SEO tools, uncovering their precious keyword treasure troves and dethroning them will not be a problem. Did you know that most websites receive the [...]
December 3, 2009 – 9:01 am
When it comes to link building and SEO, it is a fairly safe assumption to state that search engines are a bit leery when it comes to getting cozy with your content. That is in fact, until you run the gauntlet and emerge squeaky clean after a spell of due diligence. Just like when you [...]
November 22, 2009 – 8:38 am
Websites do not optimize themselves; they need SEO, a game plan and tactful execution to overcome savvy competitor’s intent on ranking in the top 3 results for any respective profit-bearing keyword. As a result, it boils down to which site has (a) the most authority (b) the most relevant content (c) the most relevant on [...]
