Content is King
The phrase "content is king" is often cited by webmasters. This means creating your site from a wide range of text, containing enough content to have a range of keywords indexed. Content is King.
Content Is Superior, But What Content?
In a previous article titled "Google's new look on links" I explained to you what Google thought was good inbound links. Having these links...
Added: 26 Mar 06
Search Engine Basics
It's worth understanding the search engine basics before you get started promoting your website. Alicia Harper talks about search engine basics in this series of articles, continued on her website.
Unfortunately getting your website up in the Search Engines is not as simple as paying someone $45 to submit your site to a gazillion search engines. Those advertisements you see all over the...
Added: 26 Mar 06
Legitimate Doorway Pages?
The ancient art of creating doorway pages is now frowned upon by the SEO industry, and it's likely to get your site banned. But what about creating legitimate doorway pages using your articles? Articles are full of content, and can still be optimised for a specific search phrase, and there is no...
Added: 26 Mar 06
DMOZ Open Directory
Dmoz or the Open Directory is one of the better known directories on the web. However, recently DMOZ has been very difficult to get into - even with decent sites. Many webmasters are wondering how relevant the open directory has become.
Sorry, Dmoz is not Home - Please Leave a Message
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Added: 24 Mar 06
Keyword Research
Keyword research is the process of finding the right words to target. Done properly, keyword research can make all the difference to a successful search engine optimisation campaign.
Research needs to be done to find out a few critical pieces of information...
What keywords are people actually...
Added: 18 Mar 06
Search Engine Optimisation
Search engine optimisation is the process of tweaking your site to achieve better SERPs, or search engine result positions. Search engine optimisation is a complicated process, which works much more effectively when using all the different techniques together in a "combined arms"...
Added: 18 Mar 06
Should You Buy Text Links?
Buying text links is a common practice for websites that want to rank well. Does buying text links work, and is it effective? Matt Colyer explains...
You can rank number one (Or at least in the top ten) for just about any search phrase by just buying text link ads, even if the web site isn't...
Added: 17 Mar 06
Increase Your Traffic For Free
Increase Your Traffic For Free discusses the basic techniques you should follow to increase your traffic for free - web directories, link building, anchor text and keyword optimization
Okay, you have your website and now you want more visitors. Don't think you're the only one, bub, but you can...
Added: 17 Mar 06
SEO 1,2,3 for Dummies
Author Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin describes the 123's of basic SEO in this article.
Seo is Search Engine Optimization. A magician's bag of tricks to get your web page on high SERP (Search Engine Rank Placement ) and High PR (Page Rank). SERP is when you search on Google for a keyword (word...
Added: 17 Mar 06
Getting Links To Your Site
Getting links to your site is an important task in your quest for dominance. Getting links, and getting quality links to your site can be done in several ways which are ethical and not too time consuming. Author Terry Echols explains.
In my experience this is the single most important factor...
Added: 14 Mar 06
Does SEO Marketing Really Work?
In this article, Glenn Ford talks about SEO Marketing; the different ways of performing search engine marketing, and what influences SEO Marketing.
SEO Marketing or Search Engine Optimization...
Added: 14 Mar 06
SEO Services - Are they For You
There are many SEO Services available on the internet. JD Donahue poses the question SEO Services - are they for you?
SEO Services line the internet super highway like gas stations. On every...
Added: 14 Mar 06
Article Writing for Free Advertising
Article writing can be a great way of getting free advertising. It's a great way to spread your name across the internet community, and can bring in a lot of traffic. Article writing for free...
Added: 14 Mar 06
Latest Web Promotion Ideas
In this article, Steve Hill discusses some of the latest web promotion ideas. Website promotion can be hard work, but sticking to these latest web promotion ideas makes the job a little easier.
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Added: 14 Mar 06
Vertical Creep in Search Results
Vertical creep in search results occurs when extra search listings appear on the search results page. Vertical creep in search results refers to the non-sponsored, non-organic results. Rob...
Added: 14 Mar 06
Redirects - the good, the bad and the ugly
Redirects are an important part of a well maintained site. As pages are deleted or moved, it's common courtesy to sent the visitor to the new page, or at least apologise for the inconvenience.
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Added: 20 Feb 06
Writing decent URLs
Site URLs are important for a number of reasons. The leading Blogging programs and content management systems produce well structured URLs, and this should be a key decision in designing your...
Added: 18 Feb 06
SEO Basics - Title Tags
Title tags are arguably one of the most important aspects of any website when it comes to getting found by the search engines. But title tags also serve other purposes, and should also be optimised...
Added: 18 Feb 06
Preventing Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is a problem with many websites, and most webmasters don't realise they are doing anything wrong.
Most search engines want to provide relevant results for their users, it's how...
Added: 15 Feb 06
