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The Function Of SEO Spiders

Posted by GuestPost On July - 14 - 2010

The World Wide Web, also known as the Internet, is a very complex world. Search engines like Google need a software program that can read what’s on the web. The software program is called search engine spider or bot or crawler.

Search engine spiders follow all the links on your website page after page. When the spider visits your website, all of the page content is stored into a database. Then the search engine loads your content into the index after retrieving the web pages.

Every words in your website are crawled by the search engine spiders except those inside the frameset tag, a web page full of JavaScript, text inside the blockquote tag, image text, flash banners and objects and other exclusions.

When the search engine bot visits a website, its first move is to look for the file named robots.txt. This text file lets the spider know the web pages to index and not to index. If the bot didn’t find the text file, it will automatically index every page it reads. Therefore, create a robots.txt file if you need to hide some web pages and directories to search engines. Don’t fail to remember to place the text file into the main directory.

Each search engine has this URL submission page wherein you can request to include your website to their directory and index immediately. This particular method is used by Organic SEO Company to be able to search a new website and see on the search engine results page as early as possible. Think twice Put into practice organic SEO methods since popular search engines look for fresh content and quality links. Quality is often better than quantity.

The SEO Benefits Of Social Bookmarking Sites

Posted by GuestPost On July - 12 - 2010

One of the best methods in getting high rankings is social bookmarking. Digg.com, Reddit.com and Stumbleupon.com are three of the most popular social bookmarking sites. Below is a list of some useful tips on how to use social bookmarking to better optimize your website.

1. Headline

Write headlines that can catch attention. There are numerous bookmarks with no catchy headlines and it all resulted to low clickthroughs.

2. Description

An informative description is also needed when creating social bookmarks. Create a provoking description to stimulate interest.

3. First Paragraph

First paragraph is more important than the headline and description because a reader may leave your page anytime when they feel bored about your first paragraph. Make it more fascinating!

4. Content

Retaining the attention of the readers is the most important. Right after the first paragraph, you must be able to keep your viewers reading your entire article. Take note that posting junk articles in a consecutive manner will make you banned from submission.

5. Easy Bookmarking

It is better if other people bookmark your article and not you. Create a bookmark button that is easy to see and use so that those who will love your article or profile will be able to bookmark yours quickly.

6. Time of Submission

Time of submission is another important factor in social bookmarking. It is proven and tested that sending after 3 o’clock in the afternoon gets more traffic and not if before ten o’clock in the morning. It is proven and tested that sending after 3 o’clock in the afternoon gets more traffic and not if before ten o’clock in the morning. {It is proven and tested that sending after 3 o’clock in the afternoon gets more traffic and not if before ten o’clock in the morning.} It is also better to submit bookmarks during weekdays for more traffic.

7. Category

It is good to send your articles with the appropriate category because categories like Miscellaneous and General contains many stuffs unlike the specifics with few articles.

8. Profile

Build your profile status. In every social bookmarking site, there’s always a group of seniors and newbie. Make an effort to be one of those seniors and moderators.

8. Mingle with other Bookmarkers

It is nice to make friends with fellow social bookmarkers because it’s not easy to be on the first page if not supported by network of friends.

10. Language

Language is essential in terms of spreading the links. It is better to use English since it is widely used. If you use other language, make a translation below so that when you’re article is spread all over the net, it is more understandable.

Through the use of proper social bookmarking, any website with good contents are able to improve search engine ranking.

5 Tips to Budget SEO and Improve Search Engine Ranking

Posted by GuestPost On June - 21 - 2010

Some SEO people say if you’ve got a website, it’s difficult to improve its search engine ranking. Actually, it’s not. The success of search engine optimization depends on the acquisition of high quality and do follow backlinks. Most people used link building methods such as blog and forum postings. However, Google seemed to know the given techniques, that’s the reason why Googlebots are now searching for more backlinks.

Here are 5 ways to budget SEO and then improve search engine rankings.

1. Squidoo.com

In order to budget SEO, many use one of the popular social portal sites, Squidoo.com. With a PageRank of 8, Squidoo is undoubtedly an important aspect in SEO. Squidoo allows you to have the do follow backlink you targeted for at the same time earn bucks.

2. Web 2.0 Sites

Many web 2.0 sites are up on the net that allows you to make profiles and communicate with others so that you can build do follow links with high PageRank. Blogger.com, Linked.com, Flickr.com and others are good examples of web 2.0 sites. In order to have increasing number of quality backlinks, make sure to create profiles on these sites.

3. Article Marketing

Fresh, original and unique articles must be written in order to insert 1 – 3 links for additional links. Several article submission sites are easy to use like EzineArticles.com, ArticleDashboard.com and GoArticles.com. EzineArticles.com is the strictest among the three but if your articles are published, you acquired a valuable backlink from them.

4. Significant Website Directories

Lately, Google gives great importance to backlinks so it’s best to submit your URL to all major website directories. In order to find web directories for particular niche, use the search technique “keyword phrase” + “add URL”. Don’t do exchanging links for this is a form of black hat SEO. Make an effort to save the list into a spreadsheet or database so that you won’t find it difficult to look for the directories when you needed.

5. .EDU and .GOV Links

Google highly prioritized .edu and .gov links when computing the rankings of all indexed websites. SEO enthusiasts use search tricks to find .edu sites on Google like site:.edu inurl: “your keyword” or site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment”-“you must be logged in” to search .edu sites wherein you can post comments without the need to log in.

 

10 Free Yet Efficient SEO Tips

Posted by GuestPost On June - 8 - 2010

When you create a website, it does not end up in polished web design and error-free programming codes. You have to be aware of the search engine optimization tips you should consider right after your purchasing of domain name. So here are the 10 free yet efficient SEO tips.

1. Make your URLs short however descriptive. Ensure that you put your keywords in it.

2. Save at least one to three target keywords for every page.

3. Choose static URLs than the dynamic ones then separate the words with hyphen.

4. In your navigation links, use your keywords but do not overuse them.

5. Optimize your title tag using the keywords you targeted for. At least 70 characters must be used. A vertical bar is used to separate the keywords.

6. Meta description can be optimized by having one to two descriptive sentences with particular keywords.

7. Create quality content with the target keywords for every web page.

8. Use Google Analytics.

9. Construct a blog for your website and make sure to post an article every week. It is not essential to use a separate domain name for the blog for you can create a subdirectory for it.

10. Create links going to your website using the keywords as anchor texts in all the hyperlinks. Submit articles to do follow article submission sites, participate in social networking sites and bookmark your URLs to do follow social bookmarking sites.

Many SEO tips and tricks can be used to improve search engine ranking but the 10 given above are guaranteed successful and without charge. If SEO is done appropriately, your rankings in SERPs