Posts Tagged ‘article’

The Essence of Article Development and Article Submission

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Content - The internet is stuffed with content. Short literary pieces, long novels, lovely poems, extravagant marketing lines, or simple classified ads – the internet revolves around content. It is one of the more popular, if not the most important, factors in web search technology.

Content plays a vital role in the filing or classifying of different websites according to their different categories. Keywords, existing within a particular content, are some of the driving forces behind Search Engine Optimization and other web technologies implemented by major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. It is real for many websites that the quality of their page content can affect their search engine rankings as well as audience traffic.

A website with quality and catchy content tends to get more attention online.

Many people online are seeking for quality information from various sources. If your website or article provides the right details that many users need, chances are your website or article would be visited often and would get very good rankings online. However if you have a poorly written article or page content, then users would most likely shun away from your website and just forget about it.

Article Submission is the strategy of sending out articles to article directories so that they can be viewed and shared with other websites online. Article Submission is only an effective strategy if the article or content being promoted is also worth reading. If an article is catchy or well-written then chances are, many websites would love re-posting your article on their web pages. And this is where real action begins.

In the world of SEO or Search Engine Optimization and Online marketing, content that is promoted on other websites tend to benefit the source or the one who wrote the content.

In Search Engine Optimization, if your articles contain various links that point to your website, and if many people re-posted your article with the links on their websites, then you’ve hit a very good goal. For these inbound links coming from your articles on other people’s websites contribute to your page’s SEO score. And the higher your score, the better your rank in the Search Engines.

Article Submission is really effective if you submit quality content to multiple article directories. If you submit quality articles to a hundred article directories everyday, then you’ve created plenty of opportunities for people to have access or to read your article. This does not only help with your marketing, but can also improve your website ranking.

However, it should be duly noted, that your article should be placed under the proper category when submitting it. There are often penalties given to those websites which post or re-post articles which are not categorically related. So it’s best to shun away from that practice.

Another thing to remember when doing article development and article submission is to emphasize on the keywords which relate to your website. Having sufficient and high-quality keywords can impact your article status on various search engines and directories. The more optimized your keyword is, the better the classification and ranking on the search engines.

So remember that creating content or articles online, helps your website. Submitting those articles to various article directories can also greatly affect your website rankings on the Search Engines.

Better Search Engine Placement through a Combination of SEO Strategies

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Most webmasters understand that an increase in web traffic to their websites means a higher return on their investment, and continuous influx would guarantee that they too would be able to realize what every webmaster dreams of achieving online: unparalleled success in a borderless market.

Search Engine Optimization methods have been utilized by most successful webmasters who believe that a diversified, yet organized tasks have far-reaching results than those done one at a time, with no defined purpose.

Yes, a singular approach to search engine optimization may not be enough, but rather a synergy of techniques would often prove effective in achieving higher ranking.

Gaining the top ranks using Search engine optimization may not be possible using just one campaign or marketing strategy. Multiple strategies, which involve the optimization of the pages of your website, as well as making sure that its graphics are compliant with the requirements of search engines, and employing off-site marketing strategies like search keyword density trending and link development are effective in gaining better ranks on the search engines.

There are plenty of factors that can add color to your position on the Search Engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Ask Jeeves are but some of the top search engines visited by online companies and search engine optimization managers who want to find out about their ranking positions.

Search engine optimization is getting a better response from web internet users as well as web marketing and promotions managers these days as an excellent search ranking mechanism they can employ that often translates to better audience traffic and faster ROI.

A multi-pronged Search engine optimization and online marketing project will certainly increase your visitor traffic and post the site to the top spot of the search ranking results. Understanding the needs and wants of the target online audience and providing for them can greatly aid the promotions efforts.

To better understand SEO techniques, three (3) basic methods have been highlighted below. There are thousands more ways to get your site on the top spots of the search engines, but you can start with these 3:

STEP 1: Writing Articles and Blogs

Very important details in Search engine optimization or SEO are content and keywords. Pages of a website call for properly optimized keywords or key phrases woven into quality articles to aid them to rank better and get listed well on the Search Engines.

STEP 2: Submitting Content

Submissions of properly optimized articles or content to content directories do not only help in the promotion of web pages or products, but it can also improve a website’s SEO score. Content submission directories are also good sources of one-way links to a particular site.

STEP 3: Building Links

Several websites that reciprocate links with each other must be importantly from the same category or keyword topic. Exchange links help in traffic sharing between two websites.

You may test different combination of strategies from time to time, but never fail to examine results. Make a comparison study of the strengths and weaknesses of each campaign in order to establish those strategies that truly work.

To avoid “hit or miss”, vigilance in determining feedback on each campaign is not only necessary – it’s crucial.

PS: Also read, Do it yourself SEO.

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Web design-Use CSS shorthand

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

To save space and make your CSS files easier to read I recommend using shorthand syntax to declare several properties in a single declaration. How the available shorthand properties are used is described in my article Efficient CSS with shorthand properties, so I’m referring you to that instead of going into any details here.

What is the role of search engine optimization in media relations?

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

It’s a strategic decision. The keyword insight that comes from keyword analysis that you might do with a SEO campaign, where you can tap in to tools that monitor what people are searching on can be very useful in optimizing news related content.

The result of the keyword research is to create a glossary of phrases with metrics like popularity, relevance and competitiveness. You can then leverage the glossary across corporate communications. Try to get any digital asset that’s created whether its press releases, web pages, product pages or announcements to use phrases from the glossary. Get people responsible for creating the content to use the glossaries and find out what variations of phrases are in demand so that they’re using language that’s both relevant and popular.

Often times, people like to be creative in PR and direct marketing and that does not always bode well for search. Copywriters or content producers try to be clever or ironic or funny and those ways of communicating are not as meaningful to a machine or an algorithm as being literal in your word usage. That is a practical application of search for media relations. You optimize content according to what people are looking for.

Let’s say you’re conducting media relations for a client for an interview and the company web site and press releases are already optimized for certain keywords. You can coach the client to use those keywords in the interview. What happens a lot of times is that when that interview goes to print or even online, people remember the topics of the article but not necessarily the names of the companies involved. They’ll go to Google and search for those topics and when the company web site is properly optimized, it ranks highly for search phrases gleaned from the article.

5 SEO Tips To Improve

Friday, June 20th, 2008

1. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but search engines don’t read pictures. Make sure your key search terms are written out in text, not part of a graphic title you hire somebody to prepare for you. That also means you should not just show pictures of toys, but also write out the names, and possibly a keyword description with the title.

2. Have several pages of articles related to your website’s topic. Use a different keyword search term for each article. For instance, one article might use frequently the term “safe toys for babies”, while another might use the term “baby safety”.

3. What’s the URL of your website? Your name won’t help you there. Your key search term will. In this instance, I might pick www.baby-toy-safety.com, for example (if that is one of your top keyword phrases). Hire somebody who knows what he is doing to develop the right keyword strategy for you BEFORE you choose your domain name.

4. What’s the title of your page? I don’t know how many times I see titles such as “Article” or “Contact us”. Don’t expect the search engine robots to get all excited about that term. And don’t expect anybody to search for that term, either. Much better to title your page “Free article on safe toys for babies” or “Contact the *Baby Toy Expert* today”. By the way, this is the single most important place to include your keyword phrases.

5. What about that navigation menu that appears on every single page of your website? Does it say “Contact the baby toy expert?” Or “about the baby toy expert”. Or links about baby toys?” Need I say more?

20 Rare Questions for Google Search and SEO Tip

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Do you ever wonder who the smartest search gurus are? Udi is one of them, and the article from Popular Mechanics covers some great strategic issues on Google and it’s search strategy. What makes Google different, and powerful? To read the full article, you can always go to the link above, below are some quesitons I found interesting:

What makes Google philosophically different from all the other search engines? What is Google searching for that others aren’t?
I don’t think it’s about philosophy. It’s about getting people what they need, and about getting the results to be as accurate and fast as possible. We’re innovating, and concentrating just on the relevancy of results. Last year we made over 450 improvements to the algorithm.

There have been a lot of fads in search of late, such as Human Assisted Search and contextual search. Do those get folded into search as a whole? What are real trends in search and what are fluff?
So let me first tell you about Google. At Google we do not manually change results. For example, if we find for a particular query that result No. 4 should be result No. 1, we do not have the capability to manually change it. We made that decision not to put that capability in the algorithm—we have to go and actually change the algorithm. That is, we have to find what weakness in the algorithm caused that result and find a general solution to that, evaluate whether a general solution really works and if it’s better, and then launch a general solution. That makes the process slower, but it puts a lot more discipline on us and makes it more unbiased.

Whether it’s at Google or not, is there a market for human-assisted search, or is that something different?
I think that the general issue is, how do you get more input from people? How do you get people to contribute more information, more content? Search is about getting lots of signals and putting them all together. The art of ranking is, how do you collect lots of signals then put them together? Signals from people are the best signals. We have several tools—and we’re going to launch many more—that will encourage people to contribute more. This does not necessarily mean one should then create the search results manually.

I’ll give you an example of something that came last week. We were evaluating a certain algorithm that adds diversity to the result. We did live experiments, which means we launched the algorithm to a very small percentage of users and then see how that compares to the result without the algorithm. One of the queries that made a difference: The query was, New York Times address. And you would think you’d understand the query, and the first result right there on the snippet gives you The New York Times. It turns out that’s not what the user was looking for. They were looking for an address given out by a New York Times reporter the day before. And because of this diversity and because of our emphasis on freshness and highlighting fresh results, that particular address appeared somewhere in the results, and that’s what the user wanted—that’s what they went to and got the result. That was something that surprised even us. You don’t think that when someone searches for New York Times address that they’re not looking for the address. Language is like that. Intention can be ambiguous.

Putting privacy aside, to what extent does finding a profile of somebody help search?
Currently, if you allow us to keep your Web history, we will improve your search. By the way, if you do this, you can always go back and remove what you want to remove or remove the whole thing or revoke that permission. But it improves search in two ways. One is, we will tune the result for you slightly. We’re not going to change the whole page—we might change position 5 to position 3 here and there, but we’ll use whatever we can from your previous searches to adapt the current search to you. The second is, we allow you to search within your Web history, which can also be very useful. You may remember something you did three months ago and you don’t remember exactly how you did it.

Could that theoretically extend back forever in time? Is there a limit to how far back something like that could extend arbitrarily, or is there a useful limit?
When we look at the personal search algorithm, obviously time gets into it. As far as you’re concerned, if you want us to keep this, it’s up to you.

Is there a literally a slider of some sort where you say, 1 month, 3 months, etc.?
I don’t believe we do that, but that’s something we can consider if that’s a big issue. I don’t think it’s a big issue. I think it’s better to keep because you might need something from two years ago.

While we’re talking on the subject of personalization, a colleague of mine said that search as you know it is falling to the wayside and changing dramatically as social networking comes into play—trending toward this MySpace-Facebook model where people look to their friends or their community as the take-off point. Do you see that as a bona fide trend? And, if so, does search become less important?
Search has always been about people. It’s not an abstract thing. It’s not a formula. It’s about getting people what they need. The art of ranking is one of taking lots of signals and putting them together. Signals from your friends are better signals, stronger signals. On the other hand, many searches are long-tail kinds of searches. If you’re looking for what movies to see tonight, your friend can probably give you the best information. If you’re looking for the address of the business, the Web as a whole can give you better information. If you’re looking for something obscure about anything, again the web can give you much better information. It depends on the type of search you do—and how to take all those signals and put them together.

SEO Tip #10 is use keywords in your blogs title. We wrote about being news worthy a few days ago. Make sure your Keywords are in your blogs title, as that is what will be mixed in to the Google Search results. Google has been doing that in a few months, but now the news sections are getting even higher. Have you noticed my handle on our blogging and social networking area? It’s “News”, and you should always try to be newsworth, make sure you read that blog I wrote a few weeks ago.