tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42630025775133269592024-02-07T02:36:18.290+00:00SEO - Search Engine OptimizationSEO TOOLS | SEO NEWS | SEO INFO | SEO TIPS | SEO TRICKS | SEO GUIDEsilvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-35667716081631551112011-03-26T19:48:00.004+00:002011-03-26T20:22:32.743+00:00Javascript Basics and SEO (search engine optimisation)<h2>What is Javascript?</h2><p> Javascript is a script that your browser will run [if your browser’s settings allow scripts to be run] as requested by the webpage content being provided by the server. Typically, Javascript is used to manipulate the GUI (Graphical User Interface), calculate and display information, validate forms, etc –examples:</p><ul><li>GUI: Javascript is often used to manipulate menus (that are displayed/hidden as required).</li><br /><li> Calculate: from your browser, instead of sending data to the server, then calculating [server side] and resending back new data to your browser, it is much more efficient to calculate & display using your browser/computer!</li><br /><li> Display: a web page can be better laid out to suit your browser’s window size (to avoid unnecessary sideways scrolling for example).</li><br /><li> Validate: before sending data from a form, it can be checked to see that necessary bit are filled in or valid information is entered (for an valid email address for example).</li><br /><li> Etc.: if you are so minded, you can avoid serving content to spiders that they don’t need to see, like form validation code (after all, a spider is not going to be filling in forms on you website!) this also speeds up delivery of your page to the spider - this is a good thing :¬].</li></ul><h2>Huh?</h2><p>It’s probably best to see an example – let us show the user a pop-up message. You can’t do this with just HTML. Lookout for the Javascript defined within the ‘script’ tag.</p><p><em></em></p><blockquote><em></em><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFuSXaMxiOVbii9tJ_8noNbo3s8KyYj_7atBpKEuUcksZw72YG2nuAfbJOEav6Umd1B8WIRZ9yDWb16JAdtSDDRfXOXTnOtq5KSQF7otCjjn6KVk6lL30sm1ituBQz38mJi_omf9r-Qns/s1600/javascript-example.gif"><blockquote><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFuSXaMxiOVbii9tJ_8noNbo3s8KyYj_7atBpKEuUcksZw72YG2nuAfbJOEav6Umd1B8WIRZ9yDWb16JAdtSDDRfXOXTnOtq5KSQF7otCjjn6KVk6lL30sm1ituBQz38mJi_omf9r-Qns/s320/javascript-example.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588484271354455346" border="0" /></blockquote></a></blockquote><p></p>Here is another example:<p><a href="javascript:void()" onclick="alert('Oi! I am offended :¬( Have I ever lied to you?')">This link does not take you anywhere - DO NOT CLICK IT !!!!<blockquote></blockquote></a></p><p><a href="javascript:void()" onclick="alert('Oi! I am offended :¬( Have I ever lied to you?')"></a></p><h2>OK – so where does the SEO come in?</h2><p> I’m just coming to that! So you can do wonderful pop-ups with Javascript. The problem is that search engines won’t necessarily process your Javascript and if you have links to other pages, then the spider may not know about those pages [and therefore will not crawl them].</p><h2>What can you do about this?</h2><p> There are a few simple things you can do:</p><ul type="disc"><li>If you think there is a chance that your pages might not be visible to a spider, then simply add some normal [i.e. non-Javascripted] text or images with links to those pages (you can have text links at the bottom of all your pages to all you most important pages).</li><br /><li>You can define your menus on layer and use Javascript to manipulate those layers (so the spider will crawl your links even if it can’t process the Javascript that hides/shows those layers.</li></ul><h2>If you want to look into Javascript & HTML some more:</h2><ul type="disc"><li><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp" target="_blank">Javascript Tutorials</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_INPUT_onClick.html" target="_blank">HTML: onClick</a></li><br /></ul>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-36228803966739902372008-09-13T07:25:00.012+01:002008-09-13T08:22:48.941+01:00Google, PageRank and links to SoftwareI just woke up and suddenly realised why this site has ZREO PageRank since about 2 weeks ago (it dropped from PR3).<br /><br />Oh yes, I couldn't just lie in bed - I just felt compelled to remove the offending item, and now that I'm wide awake, I might as well let you all know about this.<br /><br />Well, when I first got this blog, I changed the template amongst other things. I also added a little panel with an ad. The ad was for a 'SEO Program' that would work with your keywords (generate lists, analyze competitors AdWords, etc) - it was an affiliate link. This was all about a year ago.<br /><br />Anyway, a while back, about 6 months ago, I noticed that this software's own website had stopped showing Google AdSense. 'Strange...' I thought, '...must have upset Google'. I guess if you looked at the program, then you could find things it did that Google wouldn't have liked. Seeing as the commissions on this product was high, I didn't really worry about it and left the link in.<br /><br />Then suddenly, about 2 weeks ago BHAM! PageRank ZERO! What on earth? I of course didn't have a clue why that might have happened, and therefore didn't change a thing.<br /><br />Today I woke up and immediately thought: it is by pointing to a product that upsets Google (remember I said that their AdSense stopped working), that I have put my blog in the Google firing line. Of course you won't get any warnings - you'd better be able to think for yourself about 'things good' and more importantly 'things bad'.<br /><br />In conclusion, if Google traffic and Google PageRank are important to your website, then you really ought to keep your nose (read 'website') clean - as Google would see 'clean' that is.<br /><br />Now that I've removed the (what I believe) offending article, I'll hope to get the PageRank back. In a couple of months? Hope so - though sooner would be good.silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-17301204285118918402008-08-02T22:08:00.004+01:002008-08-02T22:21:34.172+01:00Click Quality & Click FraudSo you spend a lot of money on CPC (cost per click using AdWords, Miva, Yahoo Search Marketing, Bidvertiser, etc) and wondered - or perhaps need to understand - 'Am I getting the best out of CPC adevertising?' or 'Am I losing money on fraudulent clicks?'<br /><br />Check out some of these articles:<br /><ul><li><a title="Clicking Content Ads in Exchange for A Quality Post" href="http://www.clickqualityconsultant.com/index.php/2008/07/04/clicking-content-ads-in-exchange-for-a-quality-post/">Clicking Content Ads in Exchange for A Quality Post</a>: Here is an ethical dilemma in the click fraud arena, please leave your point of view in the comment field below. Joe Bloggs is a tech savvy individual who reads many online blogs. Whilst searching for a technical answer, he is directed to a particular site via ...</li><li><a title="Click Fraud and The Presedential Race" href="http://www.clickqualityconsultant.com/index.php/2008/06/30/click-fraud-and-the-presedential-race/">Click Fraud and The Presedential Race</a>: I am seeing a lot of chatter on the net about how click fraud may be used as a tool in the upcoming presedential campaign. Internet marketing techniques will play a big part in the upcoming campaign, and the ability to deplete a candidate’s ad budget ...</li><li><a title="Survey Results In" href="http://www.clickqualityconsultant.com/index.php/2008/06/29/survey-results-in/">Survey Results In</a>: I recently ran a survey on this site to see what type of articles you would like me to write. The overwhelming result was that you would like to read how-to articles. With this in mind I have decided to create a lot more detailed ...</li><li><a title="Entrecard Bans ClickBots/DropBots" href="http://www.clickqualityconsultant.com/index.php/2008/06/28/entrecard-bans-clickbotsdropbots/">Entrecard Bans ClickBots/DropBots</a>: A number of months ago, I wrote an article about <a title="Gaming EntreCard is it click fraud?" href="http://www.clickqualityconsultant.com/index.php/2008/01/28/gaming-entrecard-is-it-click-fraud/">gaming Entrecard</a> and asked if it was a type of click fraud.<br />The crux of this post was that people were creating click bots or drop bots to drop a virtual business card on other ...</li></ul>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-10370035761518127762008-07-18T05:17:00.010+01:002008-07-18T05:46:13.419+01:00Best Back LinksYou may have already discovered that the more your back link is <strong>in context</strong>, the better it is for getting visitors and search engine optimization/results. Also, we're talking about Google and Google PageRank right?<br /><br />So, generally, the following links strategies might be considered as 'beneficial', and listed in the order below:<br /><br /><ul><li><strong><em>Best Back Link?</em></strong>: A link from another website's home page</li><li>Better Back Link: Content Linking - a page on another site dedicated to your product or service with link(s) pointing back to your site</li><li>Medium Back Link: Link on a ‘non-links’ page (i.e. a link at the bottom of a page NOT dedicated to links)</li><li>Medium Back Link: Links Pages - your link amongst others on a page of RELEVANT links</li><li><strong><em>Worst Back Link?</em></strong>: Automated Linking Strategies - sometimes you don't have control over how/where your link is displayed.</li></ul><p>You may adopt the following attitude and spend effort accordingly: <strong><em><span style="color:#990000;">The more difficult a back link is to obtain, the more it is likely to be worth.</span></em></strong></p><p>What ever you decide, good luck with your back linking, because I'll tell you for nothing: it's not easy to get good back links! I'm not telling you anything new right? You should also keep in mind that Google PageRank does not directly relate to where you appear in the organic results. </p><p>Just carry out good back linking for real visitors and the search engines will fall into line!</p>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-60153967515608822432008-06-02T18:21:00.008+01:002008-06-02T20:31:37.887+01:00Rebranding - if its good enough for Google...<p>You may have noticed recently that Google has done some rebranding. </p><br /><p><img alt="Google Favicon" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/google-favicons.jpg" border="1" /></p><br /><p>However, not fully as you can see.<br /><br /><br />The website's favicon.ico (a small icon that shows up next to the URL in a browser's address bar) shows that Google have opted for a lower case 'g' without an enclosing box. But their toolbar still shows the old logo.</p><br /><p>On its own, its not a big deal. But when was the last time that you reviewed and/or revised any of your branding? I'm talking about logos, colours or fonts? As a matter of fact, anything that you use consistently for marketing - does it need an update? Is it more than a few years old? Does your printed material branding match your online branding?</p><br /><p>If you have not done so, then take a bit of time out to at least review your branding. Depending on the results, make the appropriate chnages - I mean, you don't wear the same outfits for years on end do you?</p>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-15569045004747345142008-05-05T06:35:00.005+01:002008-05-31T13:08:50.460+01:00Google PageRank Update April/May 2008Google has just danced its dance!<br /><br /><strong>Yep, in the last week, I have noticed that some sites have a revised PageRank.</strong> I'm not sure what it is called though - most of these have names, like 'Big Daddy'.<br /><br />How do I know about the PageRank update? Well, we keep a weekly record of our PageRank, so we were please to see some of our efforts show through a better PageRank.<br /><br />But while we are reasonably happy, I see others are wondering what hit them (or rather what didn't)! See: <a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=824694&page=3">http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=824694&page=3</a>. Mostly, I suspect that webmasters will make positive noises.<br /><br />But what's the big deal anyway? What difference does it make to you? If PageRank was all that mattered, then every result of a search would result in a page 1 full 'PR 10's.<br /><br /><strong>So, what good is Google's PageRank then?</strong><br /><ol><li>It gives you an indication of how well your backlinking is</li><li>The biggest difference it can make to you is to give you bargainning power</li></ol>But before you set off, you might want to wait a tiny bit longer as some thing that the update is still in progress. You wouldn't want to undersell (or oversell your pages) is their PageRank suddenly changes.<br /><br />What ever your PageRank, remember to try to get good links - for 'good links ' read 'the more relevant links the better'.<br /><br /><strong>Roll on another quarter. And another Google PageRank Update</strong>.silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-84025649100751187772008-04-20T08:20:00.010+01:002008-05-07T20:58:13.337+01:00Dedicated Servers. Ultimate Website Optimization?"What has <strong>dedicated servers</strong> to do with <strong>website optimization?"</strong> I hear you ask. <h3></h3><p>Before you read <strong>our reasons</strong> for using a <strong>dedicated server</strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.lunarpages.com/id/rcsltdlunar" target="_blank">Lunar Pages</a></strong> , quickly consider the following <strong>positives</strong>:</p><ul><li>you have total control over everything related to hosting</li></li><li>your website performance won't be affected by others</li><li>you won't be penalized by what others do</li><li>you can pay a bit extra to have your server 'managed'</li><li><strong>you can manage your server yourself using Plesk</strong> (<a href="http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=9300-158&affiliate=188309" target="_blank"><strong>Plesk 8.x for Windows</strong></a> / <a href="http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=9300-146&affiliate=188309" target="_blank"><strong>Plesk 8.x for Linux</strong></a> / <strong><a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/demo/" target="_blank">PLESK Demonstration</a></strong> / <a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk/products/" target="_blank"><strong>Download FREE Copy of Plesk</strong></a>)</li><li>you have more options & flexibility for each site</li><li>you can have a dedicated server <strong>from around $100 per month</strong>.</li></ul><br /><ul></ul><h3>On the <strong>negative</strong> side though:</h3><ul><li>it's expensive if your total hosting charges aren't approaching $100</li><li>you have to log on to the server and feel comfortable with this</li><li>you have manage & setup your website(s), mailbox(es), etc</li><li>you have to understand a bit more about domains and DNS</li><li>You can choose between Linux & Windows operating system</li><br /></ul><br /><h3><strong>Our dedicated server case study:</strong></h3><p><span style="color:#cc0000;">We are outside the USA.</span> We use ASP scripting on our websites, but only because we found it easier to start with as we didn't need to install PHP on our PCs all those years ago.</p><p>Anyway about 6 years ago, we found .......</p><p></p><p>Read the full article: <strong><a href="http://www.rcs-limited.co.uk/dedicated-servers.asp" target="_blank">Dedicated Servers</a> - Our Story</strong> </p>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-41149729989178384262008-03-24T15:38:00.006+00:002008-03-24T15:58:47.680+00:00Effective Websites & Website Effectiveness<h5>A website’s effectiveness is the efficiency with which a visitor to a web site can achieve the goals of both, their own as well as that of the website.</h5>Before you can measure a web site’s performance you need to know the objective of the website. A website’s objective might be to provide information, sell items, educate, supplement/compliment existing off-line services, serve a community, etc. Of course it might be to provide a combination of these - for example a website might provide information about a product, sell that product and provide support for that product.<br /><br />Once you know the objective of your website, you need consider:<br /><ul><li>Is the buyer likely to buy from a website in the first place?</li><li>Do you need to educate the buyer about the product?</li><li>Do you expect the buyer to contact you offline before purchasing? If yes, then does your website clearly show your contact details?</li><li>Does the website provide enough information to proceed to the next step?</li><li>‘A picture says a thousand words’ the popular saying says – does your website provide appropriate pictures?</li><li>Is it clear to the buyer where all the relevant information is as each step?</li><li>Is the buyer comfortable buying from your website? (trust & confidence in your company, SSL, etc)</li><li>Is the sales cycle years, months, weeks or days long?</li><li>Does you website support the length of cycle? (eg does you site need to provide a way to save a basket for use upon the visitor’s return?</li><li>Is the buyer told what he/she can expect after a purchase has been made?• Does the website provide a payment type that the buyer is likely to use?</li></ul><p>These are only some of the issues to consider. Think from the buyer’s point of view to realize other issues that will be important to your customer.</p><p>You now need to consider if the website’s contents match the sales process and the buyer’s needs:</p><ul><li>Ensure that the content proportionally matches the buyer’s needs. Don’t provide too little (nor a flood of) information. If you need to, separate information in a logical manner using more than one web page (or a PDF) if necessary</li><li>Ensure the website navigation is laid out in a way that suits the buyer’s needs</li><li>At the same time the website needs to be follow industry formats (don’t be too radical or you’ll alienate your buyers)</li><li>Where the buyer is likely to have a reason for not buying, provide information to: a) Let the buyer know that these issues have been taken into your consideration b) Let the buyer know that you have answers to his/her issues</li></ul><p>If possible, get feedback buy asking customers about their experience. Get people to evaluate your site – formally will be best though you might have to pay. If you have to pay, then consider professionals in this area. </p><p>Making your website effective in this way will help to convert more of your visitors into buyers.</p>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-39071961574423888532008-02-29T21:16:00.004+00:002008-03-11T17:34:45.091+00:00Analyzing Website Traffic<p>How can you check and refine your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts? The quickest and probably the cheapest way is by analyzing your web traffic statistics. You have a couple of ways to do this:</p><ul><li>your hosting company may provide you with website statistics that you can simply view. This - when free (or part of your hosting package) - tends to be basic information and is probably enough in most cases.</li><li>you can download your log files and use your own web log analyzer tool. This way, as long as your log files contain all the necessary data**, you can pick and choose the website statistics you are interested in. **Log files are normally generated by excluding extended information which only advanced users and webmasters find useful.</li><br /></ul><p><strong>What statistics can your website logs provide you with?</strong> And how can you use the information?</p><p>At the simplest level, you will be interested in:</p><ul><li>the number of website visitors: what kind of visitors were they? Real people or bots?</li><li>the number of page views / the number of hits: elements like pages, images, etc that were served - *note that some people will state the number of hits on their website. But mostly what really matters is the number of page views. As an example, assume that on a particular site, an average page has 20 images on it. Then a 1000 hits may equate to 1000/20 (equalling just 50) page views!</li><li>search phrases & keywords: using which phrases & keywords is your websitebeing found? You may need to focus on some while lose focus on others.</li><li>where, geographically, your visitors are from: where are your visitors came from? Are they from a geographic location from which you will get purchases? If not, then perhaps instead of dropping/losing those visitors, it might be worth serving adverts where you will earn money.</li><li>who the referrers are: which websites/search engines are referring traffic to your website. Are Google, Live Search, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc among the referrers you are seeing?</li><li>popular pages: a simple overview will be sufficient to indicate you are on track. However, lookout for new entries indicating a potential trend (in which case be prepared!)</li><br /></ul><p>At an intermediate level, you will be interested in:</p><ul><li>comparisons (daily, weekly, monthly, annual) of various statistics: do these comparisons so that you can confirm or react to differences that are a result of trends, your advertising, your SEO efforts </li><li>errors your website might be experiencing: your goal should be to reduce errors under your control to ZERO</li><li>exact paths your visitors are taking: look out for trends and understand how your visitors think – find out what they are interested in and serve them appropriately </li><li>popular entry and exit pages: do these entry and exit statistics confirm your expectation? If not, then you need to work on these pages</li><li>what browsers your visitors are using: it may be important for you to know what browsers are being used and to ensure your website is seen by the target audience exactly as intended. Sometimes pages that work on one browser (say the popular Internet Explorer at approx. 60%) may not work exactly on another (say the less popular Mozilla Firefox at approx. 15%)</li><li>visiting bots: you should generally be aware of which bots, how often, how many pages view during each visit. Using robots.txt, you may want to control which pages/directories bots can visit.</li><br /></ul><p>At an advanced level, you will be interested in:</p><ul><li>server attacks: if these are regular, you might have to consider why, and take appropriate step to reduce them or cope with them </li><li>tracked pages: regarding the pages you are particularly interested in, you may want to find out the referrers and parameters used and subsequent pages visited </li><li>exact IP addresses of visitors: sometimes IP addresses or blocks of IP addresses may be used to control content served</li><li>visitor cities</li><li>visitor ‘stay length’: the site ‘stickyness’ is an indicator of your visitors’ interest in the content of your website</li><li>bandwidth used up: quantity of data server - perhaps bandwidth costs are important to you as your web host charges you according to bandwidth use – perhaps your pages are slow and optimising some images will speed up your site and save on band width </li><br /></ul><p>You will have realized that simply having more traffic does not mean that you are doing well. You need to spot behaviour of your visitors. Are they following the path you want them to follow? Leading to the outcome that you need?</p><p>Having said that, the more visitors you have, the more accurate your interpretation will be. The more precise your behaviour analysis will be. Otherwise there is a danger of taking the wrong action on the interpretation of only a few visitors.</p><p>As a general guideline, the more ‘sticky’ your site is (i.e. the longer your visitors stay on your site), the more likely it is that they are interested in what the site has to offer. If they aren’t staying, it could be that they got there with a false promise. Perhaps your site isn’t optimized for the keywords and phrases that you need to be optimized for. Perhaps your site isn’t visitor friendly – there are too many images, images in wrong places, inconsistent menus, difficult to read combinations of text (font/colours) and background, unclear menus, no contact details, etc</p><p><strong>Web traffic statistics can help you work out the ineffective - and effective - areas of your website.</strong> Examples: </p><ul><li>If you have an important page, but visitors are exiting it rapidly, then that page needs attention. </li><li>If you have a page that isn’t being visited much, then you could, for example, consider improving the link(s) to this page by making the link more noticeable/attractive. </li><li>if you notice that visitors are spending more time on pages that aren’t important, then you might modify that page or ‘move it out of the way’.</li><br /></ul><p>You expect certain ‘exit pages’, like pages with forms for contacting you. So a particularly high rate of exits on other pages allows you to evaluate and adjust those pages. As an example, on a product page there may be no description. Would you be happy to buy a product without a clear description? No, of course you wouldn't - and nor would the website visitor.</p><p>Examine your keywords and phrases to see if these are visitors that you want. Perhaps trends have changed and people are using slightly different keywords and phrases to those they were using only a few months ago. Perhaps your page needs to be re-optimized to reflect the content it represents.</p><p>Finally, check if people are looking for your company to find the products or services you are offering. Because when they do, then your company is becoming associated with those products and services. Brand recognition is something sought by nearly all companies and achieving brand recognition is most satisfying.</p>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-16130769711942593392008-02-03T08:47:00.000+00:002008-02-08T18:21:27.849+00:00Optimizse your pages for speed.Ok, so you've spent all this time optimizing your pages and you're not sure exactly how good your optimization is. <strong>Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</strong> has many facets: keywords, images, scripts, onsite/off site, links, etc. <strong>Page speed</strong> is an important factor, more for human visitors than our eight-legged friends ('spiders' to you and I).<br /><br />Wouldn't it be great if you could get someone else's opinion on your <strong>page speed</strong>? For free?<br /><br /><ul><li>Make your way to <a href="http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/">http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/</a> </li><li>For 'Enter URL to diagnose:', enter your page URL</li><li>Click 'Submit Query'</li></ul>On the resulting page, you will get quite a lot of <strong>web page speed</strong> diagnosis statistics: Global Stats, Object Size Totals, External Objects, Download Times and Page Objects.<br /><br />But the best part is at the end of the page - <strong>Page Speed Analysis and Recommendations</strong>. Currently, this section is broken down into 11 areas covering page objects, images, CSS & HTML. Helpfully, colors are used for each area to focus your attention to those areas judged to be the weakest.<br /><br />On a sample page I checked, I was surprised by the number of images I had on the page. I was pleased however, that my scripts we 'tidy' as confirmed by the analysis breakdown.<br /><br />Learn more about <a href="http://www.rcs-limited.co.uk/npd-Search-Engine-Optimization-2006-Tutorial.asp" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization</a> and increase the number of visitors you get to your website.silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-24757661726053861252007-12-25T06:54:00.000+00:002008-02-03T12:58:21.167+00:00Seasons Greetings<strong>Hi All<br /><br />Seasons Greetings from SEOmization, hope you have a great 2008.<br /><br />In 2008, lookout for new and interesting items on this SEO Blog.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Thanks</strong><br /><strong>silvertailfox</strong>silvertailfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016148071500873505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-68145359821367990772007-12-24T09:47:00.000+00:002008-01-13T21:31:42.609+00:00:::: DISCLAIMER ::::Dear Users<br />From Now on, I won’t be writing for this Blog(http://seomization.blogspot.com/) to any further extent. Due to my examination, I am unable to manage this for at least a month. For this reason, I am giving this blog to one of my SEO fellow. You can enjoy his writings and SEO TIPS in future. You need not to worry :)<br />Yup, I’ll be back after some time with some new tips and tricks on another blog. So till that time please pray for me.<br />In the last, I’ll say thanks to all my dear readers and blogger and to all the people who subscribe to this blog. I hope you have learnt something from this blog in that period.<br />Regards<br />SEOZ87 aka H VASCO<br /><br />I, SEOZ87 aka H VASCO, at SEOMIZATION, am strongly committed to entrust this blog. Indeed, I have taken measures in order to insure the confidentiality of the owner’s information, particularly the security related to its storage, access, and utilization.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-80342932537100005272007-12-07T11:00:00.000+00:002007-12-07T11:17:50.015+00:00The Key To Success Of A Website!Marketing your goods or services through the web can be a complete waste of time If you don't know how to do it properly. How many sites have you stumbled upon that look like crap, have a <a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-page-rank.html">Google PageRank</a> of 2 or less, have features that don’t work, images that are broken, links that lead to no where… Even when a site like that manages to somehow win a search ranking, nobody would buy anything from a site like that.<br /><br />So, the first step to search engine marketing is to have a professional looking site that people feel comfortable shopping on. Its not a big problem or task to that but making your site attractive to search engines is huge. Search engines don’t like bad code, or code that doesn’t validate. They don’t like question marks in URLs. They don’t like frames. They don’t like a lot of things, and knowing what those are and avoiding them will make the difference in whether the search engines even pay attention to your site, much less rank them highly.<br /><br />Once you’ve gotten the search engines attention, you have to earn their respect. For this, you need content. Single page, or brochure sites, just don’t cut it anymore. You need to say something about your website, your product, your service, or your industry. You need pictures, videos, sound clips or music, and words. Lots of words. But the words should be related to the keywords you’re trying to win searches for. Posting four or five times to a blog every week is must to make search engines believe that you deserve to be an authority in your industry. Over time, this kind of commitment creates a lot of content, and content is still King.<br /><br />Finally, you need to prove to the search engines that your site is well liked by other people too. Popular sites have links to them. Lots of <a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/10/links-vault-getting-links-that-helps.html">links from quality sites</a> and this is the key, especially to Google. If your content is worth able your site automatically get links and you don't need to do all that link building stuff later. All you need is just a good design and REALLY GOOD CONTENT. create a post that people like to linked to, after making a post ask yourself is this article deserves to be mentioned on a blog? If satisfied; post it on some social bookmark sites liek digg, del.icio.us, stumble, etc. If your post is really good than you will be able to see results from next day. So start thinking about ideas for the next Great Post!<br /><br />Good Luck and Happy Weekend!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-44846238945164235002007-12-06T06:11:00.000+00:002007-12-06T06:17:11.890+00:00Yahoo Is On Move Again!And Yes, Yahoo is now on move again. According to Sharad Verma Of Yahoo! Search they are rolling out some new features added in their algorithm to rank websites in next coming days. SO be ready to see some changes in your yahoo rankings.<br /><br />Plus Yahoo announces support for X robot tags in http headers for no index, noindex, nofollow and nosnippet functions. Previously you can use these tags within html only but from now on you can use it in http header which gives you more flexibility to achieve exclusions on PDF, Word documents, PowerPoint, video, and other file types including html files. Here are some examples of using X robot Tags given by yahoo:<br /><br /><ul><li>X-Robots-Tag: NOINDEX -- If you don't want to show the URL in the Yahoo! Search results.</li></ul>Note: We'll still need to crawl the page to see and apply the tag, so if you don't wish to have the page crawled, use robots disallow on robots.txt.<br /><ul><li>X-Robots-Tag: NOARCHIVE -- If you don't want to display cache link in the search results page.</li></ul><ul><li>X-Robots-Tag: NOSNIPPET -- If you don't want to display summary in the search results page.</li></ul><ul><li>X-Robots-Tag: NOFOLLOW -- If you don't want Yahoo! to crawl links in the page.</li></ul><br />You can read full story here <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000508.html">LINK</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-56634157135939085152007-12-04T10:07:00.000+00:002008-01-18T20:25:35.505+00:00Most Popular Searches At Google - Yahoo And Some Predcitions!In past two days both Google and Yahoo has announced the most popluar searches. Both Search engines have separate criteria for selecting the most popular searches.<br /><br />According To yahoo<br />"To come up with the Top Trends of 2007, we analyze search queries based on a number of factors, including absolute volume and growth versus previous periods, to see which themes and trends bubble to the surface. And of course, individual users and their searches remain anonymous."<br /><br />Here are the top searches in yahoo for 2007. They like it in a categorized way <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/toptrends2007/">LINK</a><br /><br /><p align="left"><img height="38" alt="Yahoo" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/yahoo.gif" width="200" /> </p><p align="left">Since Google prefer the Video Way, here are the Google Top Searches as per TechCrunch. You can watch VP of Search and User Experience Marissa Mayer Of Google revealed the “fastest rising U.S. search terms” here. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20071203_trends_webcast.html">LINK</a><br />1. iphone<br />2. webkinz<br />3. tmz<br />4. transformers<br />5. youtube<br />6. club penguin<br />7. myspace<br />8. heroes<br />9. facebook<br />10. anna nicole smith</p><p align="left"><img height="69" alt="Google" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/google.gif" width="200" /></p><p align="left">And here are some Predictions that were made for 2007. Compare them with those trends by yahoo and Google and look for yourself how interesting it is<br /><br />2007 Predictions by Mashable <a href="http://mashable.com/2006/12/28/2007-predictions/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">LINK</span></a><br />2007 Predictions by ReadWriteWeb <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2007_web_predictions.php">LINK</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-1067245799843193162007-12-01T19:46:00.000+00:002008-01-18T21:10:28.311+00:00Monday Seo Tool<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TOOL CATEGORY: Searching Google/Research</span> Welcome to Today's .... Monday SEO Tools!<br /><br />Now you don't need to remeber those especial queies to find something specific in Google. The FindForward Tool aka Uber Engine is a search tool/search engine based on Google APi that allows you to refine results based on whether your search is a question, a file, date related, wether you want blog/non-blog results and many more options. A very kool feature is the search of the Dmoz directory - results are complete with thumbnails of the various sites. Find Forward also includes a nice meta-search feature. Here is the screen shot of Fastforward<br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.findforward.com/"><img height="106" alt="Find Forward" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/find-forward.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br />Tool URL = <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.findforward.com/">FastForward Search Tool</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-70965987021611001962007-11-29T17:57:00.000+00:002008-01-18T21:22:59.180+00:00Free .Edu And .Gov LinksOk so continuing our hunt for .edu and .gov links, What? you wanna know WHY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/atom.xml"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124028279890684786" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="15" alt="" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/smilie-question.gif" width="15" border="0" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124028279890684786" /></a> Read here<br /><br /><a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/10/get-free-edu-link.html">Importance Of .Edu And .Gov Links</a><br /><a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/11/edu-links.html">Tips To Get Free .edu And .gov Links</a><br /><br />Here is another great way to get some free edu and gov links for your website or blog.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Your keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu</span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Your keyword “ “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu\</span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Your keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu</span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Your keyword “ “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu</span><br /><br />Via these search queries you can find all blogs powered by wordpress and forums powered by vbullitien, using .edu or .gov domain. You can be creative (yes you can.. cheer up dude) by modifiynf the platform like instead of vbulletin you can use phpbb.<br /><br />So start testing your searching skills and get your website or blog some Authoritative Link Love. And remember ... DONT SPAM Please.<br /><br />Don't Wanna miss tips like this? There is a way... Subscribe to RSS Feed<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/atom.xml"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124028279890684786" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="50" alt="" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/rss.gif" width="50" border="0" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124028279890684786" /></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/seomization"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SUBSCRIBE TO RSS</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-7502304831593082772007-11-28T12:39:00.000+00:002008-01-18T21:37:02.629+00:00Cartoon Time!Yup SEOz Like Cartoons too <img src="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Most Searched Keyword" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/most-searched-keyword.gif" /></a><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">There are some really kool seo cartoons at seotoons blog. Go take a laugh, you need it man <a href="http://www.seotoons.com/">LINK</a> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-23571660998227805142007-11-26T10:15:00.000+00:002008-01-18T21:35:14.166+00:00Monday SEO Tool<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TOOL CATEGORY: Blogging / Keyword Research</span><br /><br />Ever got stuck in a situation where you are unable to find a topic for your blog? If yes then cheer up, here is a unique yet efective tool to solve your problem.<br /><br />Its a wiki based tool known as Chain Of Thoughts. All you need to enter a single topic and it will expand the topic in various related sub topics. On clicking a subtopic it will gives you some info about that topic if availablw and if not than that subtopic will expand in more sub topics and so on. Another good hing bout this tool is its availablity in different languages. You can also use this tool in your keyword research. Here is teh screens hot of the tool.<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wiki.chainofthoughts.com/dt/en/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137090861638197026" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="283" alt="Chain Of Thought" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/chain-of-thought.gif" width="400" border="0" /></a></div><br />Tool URL = <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://wiki.chainofthoughts.com/dt/en/">Chain Of Thoughts</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-19419484582190950532007-11-20T08:17:00.000+00:002007-11-21T04:57:22.584+00:00100$ For Nothing - Thanks To Google Paid Link Campaign!I am expecting this to come sooner or later and it seems that the time has come. A great article or story or whateva you wanna call it(hey what about CASE STUDY <img src="http://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" /> ) by FANTOMASTER in which he tell about <span style="font-weight: bold;">how a blogger got 100$ for nothing.</span>.yes literally for nothing.<br /><br />So the story is.... sometime ago a blogger named as Khamnam Robinsun posted a paid review about Shopzilla at his blog telling all the readers how much cool is this website is..of course for a little sum of money. Then on a sunny bright day Google decalre war against Paid Links and Reviews and against anything that have Paid label with it. Many blogs and websites got hurt in this war and this makes other to think about their paid campaigns. So after thinking (yeah sure they did) over this issue Shopzilla tries to bribe KHAMNAM for removing their paid review and since Khamnam is certainly not a gentle man, he accepts it. So folks he got 100 $ for removing a link from his blog for real.<br /><br />And not only Khamnam, another female SEO/Blogger named Miche May Lee(why we are crazy about them BTW <img src="http://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_question.gif" />) reports that same thing happened to her too.<br /><br />So after this Fantomaster put a link of Shopzilla over his blog in hope to get some free 100 $. Till now it is unknown whether he got the money for his cute experiment. If he got the money...then All the big fishes... be prepared ..I am next <img src="http://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" /><br /><br />Here you can read the original article at Fantomaster Blog(<a href="http://fantomaster.com/fantomNews/archives/2007/11/15/making-money-by-de-linking/">LINK</a> )<br /><br />And here is that lucky chap(<a href="http://www.khamnam.com/2007/11/14/100-for-nothing/">LINK</a>)<br /><br />So... will someone please tell me the <span style="font-weight: bold;">big Fishes </span>names and their urls.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-65008072869242230852007-11-16T11:19:00.000+00:002008-01-18T21:44:02.020+00:00Free .edu And .gov LinksContinuing the hunt for .edu links. Here is the 2nd tip to<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> get free edu and gov links</span>. You can read the previous tip here: <a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/10/get-free-edu-link.html">GET FREE EDU LINK<br /><br /></a>Type the following query in any search engine to get some .EDU and .GOV links<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">blog + .gov</span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">blog + .edu</span><br /><br />You will get all the blogs that uses either .gov or .edu domain. Read them and<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> if find any relevant blog post</span>, comment on it and put a related url in your comments.<br /><br />You sure don't want to miss the next seo tip or Do you? Subscribe And be informed!<br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/atom.xml"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124028279890684786" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="50" alt="" src="http://www.settings.biz/SEOmi/rss.gif" width="50" border="0" /></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/seomization"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SUBSCRIBE TO RSS</span></a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-2365049215118249172007-11-14T07:58:00.000+00:002008-12-12T08:19:16.284+00:00Future Of Google<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Aren't we all concerned about the future of Google? Since Images are more powerful than text (Did someone says Content is king?), thats why presenting you the future of Google in the form of an image. I am pretty sure you all will become more concerned about the issue after viewing this. <img src="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" /> <img src="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif" /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkaHFU8dVKAL0M1aOlbf3z9Z1Hq23L6LS04f138__LbHk_Y0qlhYS9zSF9fcWr0oYClHrotV-1r9tdl6Gz_dowlv1Zuczh_d9AupO9m_dKKV-1WSFoeawlTrXnxNLwCS3bavTP6Xym-lM/s1600-h/google-in-20-years.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132231622576829778" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="374" alt="Future Of Google" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/future-of-google.gif" width="400" border="0" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-30359031341626775792007-11-13T10:52:00.000+00:002007-11-14T05:08:57.057+00:00Msn Link: Command Is Live Again!Reported earlier by SEOROUNDTABLE that finally <span style="font-weight: bold;">MSN/Live.com</span> search engine starts showing result for <span style="font-weight: bold;">LINK:</span> command to count backlinks in MSN Live Search Engine. Though the operator is a bit different than the previous simple <span style="font-weight: bold;">link:</span> command<br /><br />For a link command you now need to use<span style="font-weight: bold;"> +link:www.xyz.com</span> and for a link domain command you need to use <span style="font-weight: bold;">+linkdomain:http://www.XYZ.com</span><br /><br />Its working at the time of writing this post, so I don't need to give you evidence by providing screen captures, but if you want you can go to seoroundtable where Rusty Brick got some screen shots while using this command.<br /><br />As for your memory refresher, MSN stops this feature earlier in March thss year cause of mass automated usage. But now its back for us ..the SEOZ.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-34146586130324965052007-11-12T06:42:00.000+00:002008-01-18T21:54:27.206+00:00Monday SEO Tool<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TOOL CATEGORY = LINK BUILDING</span><br /><br />This Monday Tool is regarding blogs and fall into the category of Link Building<strike> spamming</strike>. Since almost all the blogs and websites that accepts content from users are using <a href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/10/nofollow-tag.html">NOFOLLOW TAG</a>, So putting your website url in such blogs is useless according to some SEOz. Since every problem has a solution, So after searching for a long time, I finally succeeded to find a tool through which I can search all the relevant blogs that are not using NOFOLLOW Tag.<br /><br />Commenthunt is a blog search tool that allows user to search relevant blogs that are not using NOFOLLOW Tag. Its a custom Google search engine basically and consist of more than 1000 DOFOLLOW blogs of different niches. So to whatever niche your blog is related to, this tool is for you. Instead of wasting your time in commenting on the blogs which uses NOFOLLOW, why not utilize this practice to get some links for your blog! Here is the screen shot of Commenthunt.com<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.commenthunt.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131841613776549186" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="124" alt="CommentHunt.com" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/commenthunt.gif" width="400" border="0" /></a></div><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">TOOL URL= </span><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.commenthunt.com/">Commenthunt Blog Search Engine</a><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://seomization.blogspot.com/atom.xml"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124028279890684786" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="50" alt="" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/rss.gif" width="50" border="0" /></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/seomization"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SUBSCRIBE TO RSS</span></a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4263002577513326959.post-35010280988153525042007-11-10T18:31:00.000+00:002008-01-18T22:00:22.798+00:00Google Adsense Is DownJust went to log in and check Google AdSense and what i forund there is that Google Adsense is temporarily down. On Saturday, 10 November 2007 at 6:36 p.m. GMT. Interestingly Google is showing Temporarily Unavailable message in 23 different languages. Here is a screen shot of Google Adsense Down. Even the logo of Google Adsense is not showing.<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://seoz87.googlepages.com/GoogleAdSense.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131284629532702002" style="CURSOR: pointer" height="400" alt="Google Adsense Down" src="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/google-adsense-down.gif" width="213" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.settings.biz/seomi/google-adsense-down-large.gif" target="_blank">Click To Enlarge</a> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1