Building Search Engine Friendly Websites

Several search engines and countless SEO experts have laid out guidelines for building search engine friendly websites.  Some of these are very long and complicated.  However, the true nature of making a website search engine friendly is pretty simple. Display Information That Visitors are Expecting Offering good content on a website is one of the easiest ways to ensure a search engine friendly website.  Make it a practice to continually be updating, adding, and revising content.  A website should not be something you build today and ignore for 6 months.  Doing so will improve search engine optimization, and keep visitors [...]

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Posted by admin - October 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm

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Be Smart When Choosing an SEO Company

It is important to be smart when choosing an SEO company.  There are several SEO company red flags that should be carefully considered prior to and during a relationship with a search engine optimization expert.  Finding a good SEO expert certainly isn’t easy, but it is well worth the time and energy when the expected results are achieved. Know What You Are Paying For It is important to understand what your small business SEO company is doing.  If someone really understands something, they should be able to explain it simply to almost anyone.  If your SEO company cannot explain what, [...]

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Posted by admin - September 19, 2012 at 2:07 pm

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Methods for SEO

Complex mathematical algorithms are used by search engines to determine which website a user wants, and are important for effective SEO. This is based, in part, on closely analyzing how websites link to each other. In theory, the more inbound links from reputable sites, the better a site will rank. Getting a Website Indexed Almost all search engines use crawlers (spiders) to find pages for their search engine results pages. Today, this process is almost completely automated as Google, Bing, and Yahoo are very good at finding and indexing new content. In the past, websites had to be manually submitted [...]

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Posted by admin - September 9, 2012 at 3:40 pm

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Black Hat vs White Hat SEO

Generally speaking there are two types of SEO techniques – Black Hat (bad) and White Hat (good) Black Hat Black Hat SEO, uses any and all methods available to ensure higher rankings. It typically has a much shorter life span, because often sites with Black Hat SEO employed will be banned from search engine results pages. By using methods which are not approved by search engines, Black Hat SEO often attempts to deceive. Hidden text is on of the most common and dumbest ways to perform Black Hat SEO. Webmaster can hide text by making it the same color as [...]

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Posted by admin - August 30, 2012 at 2:49 pm

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Relationship of SEO and Search Engines

In the late 1990′s, major search engines realized that website owners we making concerted attempts to rank higher in SERPS. Some websites were even able to manipulate their rankings by keyword stuffing and other techniques. Due to the unbelievable ROI of better search results, there is a real possibility for an adversarial relationship between SEO’s and search engines. A situation where each is trying to stay ahead of the other to either take advantage of or stop the other party. Agressive SEO is not the Answer There is a downside to being too agressive with search engine optimization. There is [...]

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Posted by admin - August 10, 2012 at 2:26 pm

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