Perhaps the simplest of all the lessons I have learned about writing for search engines is to keep my pages simple. That is to say, whether I am thinking about my readers or about Google, there is a huge advantage to keeping most of your pages con ...

Sometimes, the search engines act really strange. And this\rstory will prove how I've got top positions (80% on no.1)\rinto the major search engines - such Google, Yahoo!, MSN -\rwithout lifting a finger! What is REALLY strange? I did not\roptimiz ...

Recent studies suggest that more than 80% of new visitors to any web site get there as a result of a search engine query. If this study is to believed, it certainly suggests that working to get high rankings in the search engines might be the most ...

Why Start A Blog?

I knew about blogging and blogs for years before I actually \rstarted my first blog... So this begs the question... "Why \rdid it take me over 4 years to start my 1st blog?"

Well, why would I want a blog? After all, b ...

For your business web site, good search engine rankings and high user traffic depend on relevant content. More user traffic will mean more sales leads and then more sales. Beyond any technical tricks, content that meets the users' need for three t ...

I just wanted to share a little Search Engine Optimization experiment I ran \rto confirm the theory that Google likes content rich sitemap pages rather than \rjust a bunch of links pointing to different pages on your site. I also wanted to \rlo ...

Optimizing web pages for high rankings in the search engines involved two main processes. Firstly there is the on-page factors which include what keywords you place where on the page itself. The second, and more important process is getting the ...

Here are some observations that I have made recently:

1. On several of my own sites, I have some pages with zero page rank despite having links pointing to them PR 5 pages on the same site. These pages are now 2-3 months old. Shouldn't the ...

Yahoo has fairly recently updated its guidelines. You can read the full list at:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-18.html

I thought that a few points were of great interest to you because we have discussed these iss ...

Would you like a checklist of the important steps to take in optimizing a web site? Well, here it is:

1. Use a keyword research tool to find profitable phrases (i.e. those that are actually being searched for).

2. Build each page opti ...

With search engines like Google currently indexing over 8 billion pages, it is becoming more and more difficult to get a top search engine ranking. Type in a popular search phrase such as "Internet Marketing" into Yahoo or Google and you will be r ...

Search engine marketing vs traditional offline marketing. Most often, traditional offline marketing such as TV and radio ads cater to the masses. Out of the tens of thousands of TV viewers or radio listeners, there may only be a handful of prospec ...

There is a lot of competition to get good spots in the search engines. Proper \rhtml syntax and a clean code will help toward better positoning.

With website design mostly done with wysiwig editors now, there seems to be a \rlot of reliance ...

It¡¯s no surprise that dominant cosmetic surgery practices also have a dominant web site and presence. More than ever, cosmetic surgery patients utilize the Internet to help select a credible surgeon. If you want more quality leads and patients, ...

When you want your brand new site to be indexed into major search engines, you usually go to their free submit page and submit your website, correct? Seems like the right thing to do, right?

Well, many people fail to realize that not submitt ...