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Why Start A Blog? I knew about blogging and blogs for years before I actually
started my first blog... So this begs the question... "Why
did it take me over 4 years to start my 1st blog?" Well, why would I want a blog? After all, blogs are just for
geeks, self opinionated left or right wing zealots pushing
some obscure political agenda, teenage school kids waffling
on about their zits and boyfriends or technical journals
full of terms and jargon only a rocket scientist could
understand. And I never bothered with blogs or the development of the
"blogosphere" again. Then something changed the way I viewed blogging about July
2004. I was introduced to using a blog as a tool for SEO -
Search Engine Optimization. In the crudest form it was
almost spamming, but done properly, it will get your website
pages spidered almost immediately and indexed in less than a
week. Blog and Ping The crude method involved first setting up both a blogger
(.blogspot) blog and a free myYahoo page. You add the RSS or
Atom link from your blog to your myYahoo page, so that your
blog feeds into your myYahoo website. You then write a page into your blog with links to webpages
that you want Google and Yahoo to find and index. After
posting your new blog entry, you then ping your myYahoo page
to tell it that there's a new entry at your blog. Then you
go to Yahoo, open your myYahoo page, and the blog headline
should be there. The assumption is that Yahoo would spider all feeds going
into it's myYahoo pages and because Google owns Blogger.com
they would spider all new blog entries at Blogger.com ...
and in fact this is indeed what happens. Start a blog, add
entry's to it every day, and in less than a week it will be
spidered as soon almost as you post to it. But you must post
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Russell Savige is the owner of SEO-easy SEO-easy publishes
the latest Search Engine Optimization techniques as they
become available.
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The First Search Engine Marketing Method: Content That Meets Customers Needs
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.
Search Engine Optimization With Sitemaps
I just wanted to share a little Search Engine Optimization experiment I ran
to confirm the theory that Google likes content rich sitemap pages rather than
just a bunch of links pointing to different pages on your site. I also wanted to
look at a way of funnelling Google page rank to all the internal pages on my
site as quickly as possible
I have heard from a few search engine optimization companies that sitemaps are
good ways of helping search engine spiders find all the pages on your site but
have you every thought that using good quality sitemaps can also help your
internal pages attain a very high Google page rank very quickly
I was reading a Search Engine Optimization article about how Google likes pages
with good quality relevant content and how they wanted to serve this quality
content to their surfers.
How To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking
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 returned over 8 million results!Unless your website is in the first two or three pages, it is unlikely that you will receive many visitors from search engines.
An SEO Checklist
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.
Have You Been Dropped By Yahoo?
Yahoo has fairly recently updated its guidelines. You can read the full list at:http://help.
Google - PR & Backlinks
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.
Anatomy Of A Top Ranking Web page
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 Value of Search Engine Marketing
Search engine marketing vs traditional offline marketing. Most often, traditional offline marketing such as TV and radio ads cater to the masses.
The Importance of Correct HTML Syntax in Search Engine Positoning
There is a lot of competition to get good spots in the search engines. Proper
html syntax and a clean code will help toward better positoning.
Beginners - Getting Listed In Search Engines
Once you have your web site complete and ready to be listed you need to take a slow step by step approach to get listed in the search engines. If you do it right the first time and then build on that formula, your profits and your site will benefit in the long run.
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