Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

On the 8 of June Google announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine is siad to provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our precious google search index.

Do you know if your website is reader for Google Caffeine! What improvement to your website SEO should you consider to ensure that your website is compatible with the latest upgrades to the Google Search Engine?

Many peopl have asked is it easy to add a "Follow Me On Twitter" button to a website. Its actuall very simple. First you add a button to hte page. The button is an image you want people to click on and then you add a link to the button. The link to send some one to your twitter would be "http://twitter.com/username" . You need to replace the "username" with your own twitter username.

Microsoft is now offering a free SEO toolkit, aimed at helping web developers improve the search engine ranking of their customer.
This product is under review by Gaelic Web Design at present and so far, we have found it to be different from most of the regular SEO products on the market. Most SEO product are all based around or on keywords – and all over the internet you hear about keywords – well this was back in the dinosaur age. The Microsoft product is one of the few products that are looking at SEO in the modern age taking into account many of the key factors required by Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It give out a lot of information and if you are new to SEO it will take you some time before you can fully understand and the value form this product.
To find out more about this product go to:  http://www.microsoft.com/web/spotlight/seo/?appid=10990002
 

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System requirements

• Supported Operating Systems are Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP2+, Windows Server 2003 SP1+, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2.
• You must have a live Internet connection.
• You must have administrator privileges on your computer to run the Web Platform Installer.
   

Many businesses are finding search engine optimization critical to their B2B marketing strategy, says a recent survey from Practical Ecommerce.

The survey found that 95 percent of its respondents thought that search engine optimization was "essential" to running their organization. An additional 3.1 percent indicated that they didn't know whether SEO was important, while 1.9 percent said that it was not.

A majority of the respondents felt that their website was optimized for search engines, but many also admitted to not fully understanding the concept of SEO. According to the survey, 82.8 percent claimed their website was optimized, but only 40.6 percent indicated they had a firm grasp on SEO.

"Organic search is a priority, but it is a moving target, so you can't spend all your time trying to watch or improve your results," one of the respondents told the source. "It is becoming less important (or at least a harder target to hit) as more social media, search personalization and the various ways of viewing search results evolves."

According to a recent survey conducted by marketing automation software provider Genius, many businesses are missing out on opportunities with B2B SEO. The survey claims only 32 percent of firms are using B2B search engine optimization tools.

 

Google Caffeine is the name of Google’s latest upgrade to its search engine. Google says that the new search tool (codename “Caffeine”) will improve the speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness of Google search.

The description Meta tag is very important to a web page, it is as important as the title of web page itself. The description Tag should not contain more than 35 words or max 255 characters. The description Tag can be used to give more space for keywords to be included as well as key phrases, that’s why the best way to write a very good description Tag is to write a very good sentence or two describing the content of your webpage, using the primary keywords and key phrases associated with this page. If you include keywords that aren’t used on the webpage, you could hurt yourself because this might be considered as a sort of Spam.

When getting your web page SEO ready you need to consider the all of the following:

• Keywords
• Description
• Page Title
• Page Header
• Alt tags behind your pictures
• Page footer
• Page content

For every individual web page you should chose you 3 primary keywords. You can chose more than 3 but you need to always decide you top 3 primary keywords for every page. Then you need to ensure that your 3 primary keywords are placed first in keyword list. 

Your 3 primary keywords should appear in:

• Your website description tag,
• At least 2 of them should be in your page header.
• Have them appearing in title of your web page,
• it’s also a good ideas to have them appear in the URL.
• Within your page content you can also tell the search engines that these are important keywords by putting them in bold.
• Make sure your 3 primary keywords are mentioned at least 3 time in you page content. 

There are several tools on the market to check your page ranking but there are some good free ways to also check your page ranking

Solution 1: Install the Google Toolbar in your web dowser. (http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie/index.html).

Solution 2
One simple way is to check to see how many backlinks the site has. If a site has no (or very few) backlinks, then it should not have a high page rank.

Solution 2
A good tool is to use the Google main search page. Many people are not aware that you can get a lot of info about your website if you enter the correct command in the Google search box. One of the main commands to use is to enter info:yourdomainname.com in the Goole search box. You need to replace yourdomainname.com with the domain name of your website

The age of a website is one of the major factors used to rank a website. Search engines tend to trust a website that has been around for a long time over one that is brand new. Spam sites often come and go quickly. The age of a domain is seen as a sign of trustworthiness because is cannot be fake.