Keyword selection is as much art as it is science. The overall goal of keyword selection is to find words that you think potential customers will enter when searching for the product you are offering. Learn how to balance search volume and competition to find the right mix for your website.
What is Page rank, what are back links and why do they matter ?
Many modern search engines use page rank and back links as one way of measuring how relevant a website is to a particular search query. As a gross simplification, more and better quality back links = higher page rank = higher search engine rankings for your site.
What should you look for when selecting an SEO partner?
This article shows the small business owner what to look for when selecting a SEO partner. By looking for a company that uses a proven model, the small business owner can increase their chances of success.
SEO Best Practice: Befriend The Directories
Why Directories Are Important
Directories should play a major role in your SEO efforts, well, at least the big and important ones, for the following reasons:
– Listings within major directories provide “context” to search engines. For example, if your web site is listed in the Open Directory Project under the category Pets -> Weird Pets -> Blue Cats, search engines will assume your web site has something to do with blue cats. Your web site and pages will be indexed fast…
Link Popularity and PageRank (PR) misconceptions and facts
In this article I’ll try to demystify Link Popularity and PageRank, or PR, clarify some common misconceptions and tell you how things work, in plain English, with facts and examples.
Mastering The Google Dance And The Use Of Page Rank
Introduction
Google Dance is one of those terms that crop up all over SEO websites. This article looks at the basics of the Google Dance, what it actually is and its potential impact on webmasters and SEOs.
Google gives more importance to scientific articles
The Google Page Rank algorithm, also known as PR, seems to give more importance to the impact of a scientific article rather than to it?s quoting number.
Google Page Rank Is Dead – Part III
HELP! My PR page rank is grey, call the development doctor. As the world of Google is turning a mile a minute these days, some really big changes are happening. This weekend, marketers all around the world don’t believe what they are seeing… Google’s Page Ranking system is dead.
Google PR Explained
Many newcomers to SEO mistake Google’s PR with Google rankings. This article explains the true meaning of Google PR and how it can be used in Search Engine Optimization.
Google SERPs experiment shows amazing results
Many sites get banned and even some deserve it. Yet there are many sites who receive a penalty or even a banning and they just dont know why. Most just receive a penalty and that means their site is still in the index but just not ranking well. The site owner just needs to seach for his url and if it is found you are not banned. If you cannot even find your url, well simply put “you’re out!”
The Red Herring that is Google Pagerank
Google likes to offer all kinds of neat little tips and clues regarding how it views sites. Google PageRank is one such tool, but with questionable value.
Ways In Which You Can Earn Additional Income From Your Websites
So you have a nice looking website, which has good content and is well optimised, however you are looking to earn some additional income from the site. What are the next steps you can take to make this happen? This article gives useful tips and advice, which I hope will answer this question for you.