Do you blog with specific keywords in mind or just blog on things which you think is interesting to your readers?
I believe many people fall in the second group but I would to bring to your attention that search engine traffic should be the major traffic you can rely on. (more…)
Not sure if you are aware of it but there is another search engine coming up. It is called Hakia. Instead of the algorithms which Google is using, it is based on semantics or meaning. Now, recall what is the use of search engine. It is supposed to return with results which are relevant of what the user is searching for. And that’s exactly what this new search engine is doing. Hence, with this new wave of search engine, this may be a sign of danger for Google. However, to webmasters and internet marketers like us, what threats does this new type of search engine spell for us?
Have you used a Visual PageRank tool before?
Do you know that you can use it to analyse your competitors in Google?
It is important to choose a good domain name for your website. Having a domain name which is able to attract high organic traffic is already half the battle won. With viewers/ customers typing in your domain name to search for products which they need desperately, you are able to profit with these free traffic. Yes, there are people who will just put in products/services which they need into the address bar straight away, without the use of search engines. This leads us to the first method of choosing a high traffic domain name.
Pagerank is Google’s way to determine the importance of a website for a certain set of search terms or keywords. Though the Pagerank is not the only factor which gets you a good ranking for a search result, it is an important factor given all other conditions being the same. So if you have a site with high PR, you could potentially be ranked high in Google search engine results for a certain set of keywords.
Recently there have been a buzz around social networking, social traffic and social bookmarking. And it seems that social media optimization (SMO) is more important and effective against search engine optimization.(SEO). In the midst of indulging in SMO, have you neglected SEO?
Though it has become more challenging nowadays, SEO is still very effective in getting traffic to our site or blog, SEO is now not as simple as adding a few keywords in your meta tags. It has evolved into a new science. The techniques available are also classified into two main stream as “white hat” and “black hat”.