Choosing Keywords for Your Website

Posted by Dan | Posted in Content & Keywords, Search Engines | Posted on 21-12-2009

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When you’re building your site you will (or should) spend a decent amount time in your keyword choosing. You can do everything manually with free tools like the Google Adwords keyword tool and manually researching your competitors and their keyword usage. This can take a considerable amount of time, but keyword choosing is extremely important and will be the building block for everything you do for your site SEO wise.

There are also many tools that have been made publicly available that will make your keyword choosing process much easier and shave some of the time it takes off. Of course, these tools don’t come free. You’ll have to pay for them, but it can be well worth it. They can tell you all kinds of information about your competitors instantly; tell you which keywords are worth targeting, and which ones you should use. Choose your keyword choosing software wisely and it’ll be one of the best investments you can make for the future of your site.

You never want to skimp on your keyword choosing process. Choosing the right keywords is the basis of how well your site is going to rank in the search engines, and essentially determine how much of search engine traffic you’re going to get.

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The Importance of Search Engine Optimization

Posted by Dan | Posted in Optimization, Search Engines | Posted on 12-10-2009

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Search engine optimization is a vital ingredient for any website if you have any hopes of your website being successful. You can build the most beautiful website and pour your heart and soul into it, but if you don’t take the time to do proper search engine optimization it will all be in vain. No one will ever see it! You need to either take the time to learn about search engine optimization for yourself or be willing and able to pay someone who specializes in it. Search engine optimization at the root isn’t as difficult as some people may make it sound. Don’t be afraid of it, even if you have no idea where to start. There are plenty of sites out there that have all the information you need to get started.

Some of the basics of search engine optimization are: keyword research, the domain name you choose, your meta title tag, meta keywords tag, meta description tag, ensuring your content is optimized for your keywords, and image names. Of course, there’s much more and to go over in each one in the detail needed would require a much longer post than what we have time for today. Go to Google and you’re sure to find plenty of resources to guide you in your venture to learn search engine optimization.

Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog

Posted by Dan | Posted in Optimization, Search Engines | Posted on 29-09-2009

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If you’re thinking about setting up you first website, or if you have hundreds, then search engine optimization is probably something on your mind. No matter what your site is going to be about, what it’s going to do, or why you’re building it, search engine optimization should always be your main priority when you’re in the planning and development phase. It never goes away either. Search engine optimization should be an ongoing process as your site grows and changes.

You’ve probably heard about Wordpress, even if you’ve never used it. Search engine optimization for a blog brings a whole new set of seo tips and rules. There are many things that you need to for a blog that vary from a static website. The first thing is permalinks. Permalinks are a way to make the URL address of each of your pages search engine friendly. You’ll find it under Settings in your dashboard. You should select custom settings and enter one of the following:

/%postname%/

/%category%/%postname%/

Install the Redirection plugin and go to Manage>Redirection>Options. For the URL Monitoring, ensure you have selected “Modified Posts”. This is an awesome plugin that makes search engine optimization for your blog with permalinks much easier to do.