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SEO Progress Report 2007-01-24 19:08:00 The site was launched on the 12th Jan, as you all know. It is now the 24th of Jan and we are starting to see some results of our work.We currently have 804 backlinks as follows:301 on Altavista13 on MSN297 on All The Web193 on YahooWe do not have any back links showing on Google yet as they do not update as often as the other search engines.We do however have a 1st page ranking on Google for the Search Term "Free SEO
Consultation"Not bad results for 12 days work.Check back soon for more progress reports.
About Us 2007-01-12 13:50:00 We have been building and optimizing websites for ourselves, and our clients for many years. Thus culminating in a wealth of experience with website creation and promotion. This website WeborDead, has been launched as a shop window for our optimizing services. The site has been set live today, Friday 12th Jan 2007, and we will be using our own SEO services on this site to see how long it takes to get the site into a prominent position within the major search engines.This is an experiment and a test to show off our expertise, watch as we put our reputations on the line. The posts over the coming weeks and months will show our performence, as we try and hopefully succeed in launching this website into the SEO world, with outstanding search engine positioning.
Our Latest Site 2007-01-12 13:34:00 We have just finished our latest work, a property portal called World Property Links UK This new website encompasses a lot of php functionality, some that we have made, and some that is freely available. PHP is certainly a very powerfull and at times surprisingly easy to use scripting language. I say this very much with tongue in cheek as there has been a large learning curve.Formatting the pages with css is another learning experience, and integration for the different browsers is a very interesting experience ;)
Search Engine Optimization or SEO 2007-01-12 13:23:00 What does your site need in order to rank higher in the search engines?Its quite simple really, your site needs SEO
.SEO is basically the ongoing process of making your site friendly to the search engines by optimizing your sites' pages and its content.If your site is not optimized correctly, and it is not search engine friendly, then the search engines will not rank it highly, or may not rank it at all - in some cases.If your competitors are using SEO, which they probably are, then you need to use it too.SearchEngine
Marketing if used correctly can earn you a substantial increase in extra income. There could be thousands of people crying out for your products or services, but if they cannot find you in the search engines, or you are not listed high enough, they will either not find you, or they will go to the websites that are listed higher than you, namely your competitors.Your website should not be just a place where your customers can go to find out about your products or service Read more:Optimization
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Search Engine Rash 2007-01-29 14:19:00 Search Engine
Rash, (abbr: SER). def: 1. to have multiple first page listings in the search engines, 2. to appear all over the Search Engine
s like a rash (note: although the term rash is generally deemed a negative word, in this case, the meaning can only be referred to negatively by your competitors)SER is a concept to describle a situation where your company's website has multiple 1st page listings for the same search term in Google, Yahoo or MSN. This can be accomplished by the implementation of a number of techniques, which include but are not limited to; press releases and other text keyword related promotions. These processes are the culmination of years of experiments with SEO, and entail a combination of on site and off site promotional endevours which ultimately put links back to your company. This may include links from your own website, and via other websites.Picking the right 3rd party websites is the key, as duplicate content penalties can be given, if you do not manage t Read more:Search
SEO Update 2007-02-09 13:55:00 Well its now Feb 9th, and I would like to update you on our progress.Backlinks are as follows.Google 13Altavista 2,290MSN 1,316All the Web 2,270Yahoo 2,541Making a total of 8430Search engine rankings as follows.Free SEO
Advice... Number 4 on YahooFree SEO Consultation... Number 1 on GoogleFree Optimization Consultation... Number 1 on GoogleWeb Optimizing Services... Number 10 on GoogleSearch Engine Rash... Number 1 on Google and Number 2 on YahooScreenshots of all of these rankings can be provided on request.If you wish to get your site listed higher in the major search engines please drop us an email. Read more:Update
7 Tips To Web Site Optimization 2007-02-14 22:24:00 Web site optimization should be one of your main priorities and you should make sure to take this serious. If you are on a limited budget focus on optimization rather than advertising. For instance will a web site which takes ages to load make your visitors go away even before they had the chance to see what you have got to offer them. So, please, take some of your valuable time and check out the 7 great rules of website optimization, which are listed below. Follow these simple guidelines and your visitors will be much happier - and so will you when you see both increases in page rank and sales. 1. Content is King - As usual! This is maybe the most important aspect of a website. Search Engines loves regularly updated content and people who are searching the internet are almost always looking for information. Regularly updated content will keep your visitors coming back but it can be time consuming to create new content all the time, so you might want to include automatically refres Read more:Optimization
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How to choose an SEO Consultant 2007-02-23 20:10:00 As a business owner, it is impossible to ignore the power of the Internet. With a worldwide audience only a mouse click away, most business owners can see the huge benefits in creating a website for their business. But, it doesn't matter how great a website looks if its not optimized correctly no one will ever find it.When it comes to optimizing your website, there are various steps you can take. Some business owners attempt to optimize their websites themselves, but this can be a bad idea. It takes a high level of specialized knowledge in order to optimize a site correctly. In addition, search engine optimization takes time. Most business owners rarely have the time necessary to correctly implement search engine optimization. Therefore, it is usually best to hire a professional SEO
that can optimize the site to its fullest potential, or that can provide you with the proper SEO training to guarantee you get the job done right.Since Search Engine Optimization is becoming an ever-incre Read more:choose
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5 Online Marketing Tips To Drive More Traffic To Your Website 2007-03-02 17:16:00 One of the most frequently asked questions by online marketers is "how do I drive more traffic to my websites". The answer to this question is easy. Get your websites exposed to as many internet surfers as possible. Once people can find your website, there will be a steady stream of traffic to your website. But to market your website successfully is not an easy task. Efforts, strategies and techniques need to put in place in order to be successful.Below are 5 common online marketing techniques to drive internet traffic to your websites:1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Successful search engine optimization will greatly increase the number of visitors that come to your website, since over 70% of people who are looking for products and services use search engines like Google to locate them. If your website is ranked highly by the search engines, you will get tons of free internet traffic to your website.One of the best ways to optimize your website to be search engine friendly is by Read more:Marketing
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Website Marketing Tips To Generate More Traffic 2007-03-16 11:18:00 Websites are created for one reason, to bring traffic/customers to your products or services. Getting visitors to your web site is an ongoing task, but there are a few things you can do to make your job a little easier.Here are a few Website Marketing
Tips To Generate More Traffic for your site.To market a web site you need to have good web site design, search engine rankings, opt-in email lists, and link building campaigns.Website Design - When designing your web site, you must make sure you use your design as a selling tool for your products or service.If you are creating a corporate web site, you need to make sure that your site looks professional, is easy to read, and easy to navigate.You will also need to have some good pictures on your homepage, to encourage your visitors to stay, and not just click away.Search Engine Rankings - Most people use Search Engines to find the information they are looking for, so in my opinion, this is the area that you need to concentrate on most. To Read more:Website Marketing
How to build backlinks to increase link popularity 2007-03-28 11:32:00 Building backlinks
to increase your link popularity is a major part of Search Engine Optimization. The more backlinks your site has, the higher your site will be listed in the Search Engines.We launched this site on the 12th of Jan with no incoming links at all.As of today we have over 20,000 backlinks.You can check out our backlinks on this link popularity checkerHow have we achieved such a large amount of links in such a short time?We have obviously invested a lot of time and effort to build the link popularity of our site, but basically we have used these methods.Articles - A well written article is a great way to generate backlinks to your site. Write a good Article, add links to your site in the Article, and submit it to the thousands of free article directories on the web.Free Directory Submissions - There are thousands of free directories where you can submit your site. We have a list of over 4000 free directories. It is a very time consuming job, but once you are listed, your s
Use CSS For Search Engine Optimization 2007-04-11 10:50:00 How to use CSS for higher search engine rankings?Nowadays, when everybody is interested in getting the highest rankings possible for their sites with the search engines, it seems that the era of tables-based web sites is coming to an end. CSS programming appears to give webmasters the upper hand in this race for SEO. What is CSS?Cascading Style Sheet is a web tool that can be utterly necessary if you want to give a professional, quality look to your site. It is recommended by W3C, who manages the standards for the Internet, in order to add style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing, padding, alignment, etc.) to web documents.The Benefits of Using CSS for SEOSome of the most common examples of CSS usage, are the modification of the colors of hovered links, text placement, establishing the spacing between words, and the modification of border size and style. The style sheets can be inserted directly into the HTML code of each page, but they can also be written on a different page, in an external Read more:Engine
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Use Social Bookmarking To Generate Traffic To Your Site 2007-04-20 18:12:00 Social Bookmarking
is a great way to drive traffic to your website.What is Social Bookmarking I hear you cry.Have you ever heard of sites like Delicious, Furl, Digg, Technorati? Well they are Social Bookmarking sites. If you look at the buttons on the bottom of this post you will see the links to some of the top Social Bookmarking sites on the web.The way you get the traffic is to write a useful article and submit it to the top Social Bookmarking websites. You only have to submit the title of the article and a couple of lines of text as a little taster. To read the full article people will have to visit your site. If someone on delicious for example visits your site, reads your article and likes it, they can bookmark it. As more people visit your site and bookmark your article the higher up the list it gets on delicious, generating more visitors and more bookmarks.One of my articles made it to the popular page on delicious and the traffic went through the roof. If you look at the top o Read more:Social
SEO - Latest Results 2007-05-06 11:36:00 Well, Google has finally finished its pagerank update and we have been awarded with a page rank 4. Im quite happy with that, as I was not really targeting high pagerank sites in the link building exercise of late.I have noticed that Yahoo has been given back its page rank 10, which is very nice of Google. (How the biggest site in the world should ever be ranked a pagerank 9 is beyond me) .I also see that Statcounter has been dropped to a 9. I think this has something to do with the fact that they are selling links. Google is making a big point about penalizing sites for selling links. According to Google its ok to buy links for traffic but not for pagerank, mmm.We are continuing our link building campaign, and are currently on around 22549. That does not include MSN, as their tool for calculating backlinks seems to be down.We are only working part time on this site now, as we have many other clients projects that take priority. But we will continue to update you on the serps as and whe Read more:SEO
Wordpress or Blogger - Which one is best for search engine optimization 2008-02-22 07:24:25 Hi Mike, im considering setting up a free blog. Can you tell me if its better to use a Blogger
blog or a Wordpress
blog, from an search engine optimization point of view.RegardsSteve.Hi Steve, thanks for your question.I myself use Blogger and Wordpress. There is an seo plugin available for Wordpress blogs that automatically optimizes your titles for search engines. Generates META tags automatically, and avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs, which Google can penalize sites for.It is also fully editable, and compatable with many other plugins like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others. So from the point of view of setting up your blog to be search engine friendly, then Wordpress is best, as Blogger does not have a similar plugin, yet.You can download the plugin
SEO Advisory Service - Advice For Forum Owners. 2008-02-10 06:37:13 As I said in my previous post, we would be starting a free SEO
advisory service. Well here is the first question from Scott Nicol.Hi, I am a student and website owner. I own The Seven Forum
s.com which is now running on fully paid for servers since around August last year and IPB, which put me back £75 about 1 month ago.Unfortunately, I have not been able to really get the site to take off. Do you think you could help me out, and give some suggestions? The site is based around the upcoming Windows release Windows Seven, which has been rumoured to be coming out the 2nd half of 2009.Thanks,Scott NicolHi Scott, thanks for your email.Forum's are very hard to get off the ground.You need to create interaction with your users. Posting on other related forum's and having your site in your signatur Read more:Advisory
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Apologies, but we have been so busy. 2008-01-11 05:26:04 I am so ashamed that we have not updated our blog since August. We have been really busy with our own projects, and projects for our clients that we have just not had the time.Everyone that reads this blog please accept my appologies, we will try and stop by once in a while to give you something to read.Just to update everyone, we have just started a free SEO advisory service. The idea behind it is for people to email in their SEO related questions, and we will publish the question and our advice on the blog. Time permitting.So if you would like to be the first one, then drop us an email at webordead@yahoo.com with you SEO question or problem and we will advise you on the best way to proceed, and publish the info on here on the blog, for the benefit of all our readers. That is if we have a
Google To Scrap PageRank? 2007-08-07 04:54:08 You heard it here first. Google
are going to get rid of page rank, or are they?Page rank is a constant problem for the Google algorithm. Having to decide the importance of a site, by the importance of the sites that link to it.Are these links genuine? or have they been purchased? or are they 3 way links? Are sites buying links for pagerank, or for traffic, who can tell? Google certainly cant.High page rank sites usually get high traffic, so how do you decide who is buying for pr, and who is buying for traffic. Who does Google penalize, and who does Google ignore.Google attempted to combat pr manipulation by introducing the rel="nofollow" attribute in 2005, but this hasn't stopped the problem.The only answer to this problem as far as I can see is to scrap the page rank altogether. Or at lea Read more:PageRank
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Take the headache out of SEO 2007-07-26 10:55:36 SEO, link building, website optimisation, article submission, directory submission, blog posting, the list goes on.How many times have you sat at your PC and thought "OK I'm going to do some SEO for my site"6 hours later, you are still sitting there, your head hurts, your stomach is empty, and you have done nothing.Search Engine Optimization is a frustrating time consuming job. You can spend weeks working on SEO for your site, and your rankings are still no where near where you want them to be.The most frustrating thing about SEO is you cannot really see the results of your efforts. It may take several weeks, or even months, before you see any change in your search engine rankings. So how do you know that what you are doing today, is going to benefit your site 3 months down the line? Well Read more:SEO
Submit Your Site To Web Directories For Traffic And SEO 2007-07-18 14:00:51 Some people love them, some people hate them, but, submitting your site to web directories can bring your site traffic, and help your sites SEO
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ting your site to directories is a time consuming job. There are thousands of directories where you can submit your site, and it would take forever to submit to them all.Therefore you should only choose established directories, with good page rank and good traffic. Established high page rank directories, are well respected by Google, so getting your site listed there will get your site more Google respect, and higher listings within Google search results.When submitting, pick the most appropriate category for your site. Google loves relevant links, so this is important. Use a good comprehensive keyword rich description for your site. This wil Read more:Directories
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Google Bowling 2007-07-05 07:05:33 I have recently been reading quite a few articles regarding Google
bowling.Now for those of you that do not know what Google blowing is, let me explain.Its basically a process by where you try to get a competitors site dropped from Google, by getting hundreds or thousands of spammy links pointing to the site.The idea is to make Google think that the site owners are trying to spam their site to the top of the search engines.Now I have heard of companies that are apparently specialists in this field, charging a fortune to carry out this type of reverse SEO, to get sites dropped from Google. But I personally believe Google bowling is a myth.Google does drop sites in and out of its index from time to time, but I don't think that you can affect a sites ranking by getting links to it from spammy Read more:Bowling
The do's and dont's of SEO 2007-06-03 05:19:27 First the dont'sDon't use frames on your website.Don't use homepage or index for the title tag of your website.Don't overuse your keywords in your meta tags.Don't overuse your keywords on your page.Don't hide text in your page.Don't pay someone to submit your site to search engines.Don't buy links from high page rank sites.Don't participate in reciprocal link exchanges.Don't try to do your own SEO
if you do not have a clue what you are doing.Don't link to spammy sites or unrelated sites.Don't call your links page LINKS, call it Resources.Don't overuse Google ads.Don't use someone elses content.Don't create pages with little or no content on.Don't fill your site with links to affiliate programs you participate in.Now the do'sDo use CSS to build your site.Do use meta tags.Do use H1 and H2 ta
Building Link Popularity To Increase Search Engine Rankings 2007-05-26 04:39:23 Good search engine rankings are what every site owner strives for. If your site is not on the first page of Google for your chosen keywords then the chances are your site receives very little traffic. Most surfers never search beyond the 1st page, so it is crucial to get your site there at all costs.Search
engine optimization is the key to getting your site listed on the 1st page of Google. A major part of search engine optimization is link popularity. Building
your link popularity will increase your search engine rankings dramatically. Getting quality links to your site from sites that are relevant will see your site move up the rankings quickly.So how do you get quality back links to your site? You ask for them of course. Most sites have a contact us page. Email the site owner and ask th Read more:Engine
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