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Web Design and SEO

Venturing into an online business can be an exciting and daunting process, however it doesn’t have to be one of the key things you should learn before you begin is SEO web design, which will help your online business or website become popular and making money on its own within no time at all.

SEO web design is taking a basic idea for a website, a concept, and developing search engine optimization for that concept in the form of advertisements and articles. By choosing to go the route of SEO web design you are already securing your popularity on the World Wide Web.

SEO web design is simple take, a concept, any concept and find out what the keywords are that are associated with the topic. The keywords and key phrases can be broad ranged or easily narrowed down to a specific niche. It’s the narrower niches that tend to do really well, providing they are on a popular topic. You don’t want to have a website about dogs and toilets; the two don’t mix. But you could easily have a website about dogs and dog training.

The key to SEO web design is to plan around your keywords and SEO content that will be placed on your site. The content should be in the form of fresh, original articles that are key word optimized for your topic. Again, it’s no good to have an excellent article with toilet-related keywords if your website is about dogs. The articles that you choose for your website should be informative and above all else relevant. The articles should also be articles, not a string of nonsense words that don’t make a real sentence and is really only keyword stuffed text. That practice no longer does you any good, on the contrary, keyword stuffed text will only penalize you. It’s best to go the route of SEO web design, focusing on a key phrase or two and creating or purchasing fresh content that is keyword optimized for those phrases.

Designing a website does not have to be a daunting task, once you know what your topic or niche will be, expand on it and draw outwards. The center piece of your website should be the niche keywords for example, dog training. Then you would branch outwards into other dog training related keywords, such as kennel training, barking control, heeling, etc. This SEO web design practice is quite common and can bring a lot of visitors (traffic) and money, to your website.

Today websites are expected to be easy to navigate and easy to find. A good website is a starting point of your online marketing efforts. For many niche websites, a good search engine ranking is one of most important sources to get quality traffic. You will need to make sure your website is designed in a way that any visitor can easily find the necessary information from your products and services to photos, contact information, prices, and anything else that would be of interest once they found your site. People who can’t easily find what they are looking for on your website will simply click the back button and look for another site that is easier to navigate and has the information they are looking for laid out in an easy to read manner. Building quality links is always a challenge, but it’s also one of most important factors that major search engines rank web pages.

Internet Marketing Strategy and Web 2.0

The second generation of the Internet is different than the first generation so many things have changed considerably including Internet marketing. However, there are lots of ways that Boston web sites can capitalize on the differences and really market their website as a result. A Boston Web design firm may be a beetr choice for business in Boston. There are many things that can help you market your website from the actual web design to the content on the site and more. The following information will help you understand a little better how to market you Boston website design in the Web 2.0 world.

Links
Links are one of the greatest tools available to you to help you market your website and get more hits. The more links you can get pointing back to your website increases its ranking with the search engines so when someone searches for specific terms your website will have a higher ranking than others that don’t have as many links. It takes a little bit of time to get lots of different links but you can do so over time by having other websites list your link, posting your link in directories, and more. When you have lots of links you will see the difference in ranking and traffic to your site.

Content
Another way to market your website is through original content. It might seem crazy, but the more original the content on your site and the more original content is added to your sit the higher your site will be ranked. That goes the same for the more pages you have on the site as well because there is more for the search engines to index.

PPC
Pay per click advertising is another great way to market your site and it is an unobtrusive way to get more traffic. You simply bid an amount of money on a certain keyword or keyword set and if your bid is the highest your ad will be ranked number one or wherever it falls among the other advertisers. When people search for a particular keyword they will see your ad and possibly click. You can make money off the clicks as well.

There really are a lot of ways for you to market your website in the web 2.0 world and these are just a few suggestions. If you implement these you will certainly see an increase in traffic and the more work you do on your website your marketing efforts will result.

Basic SEO for Wordpress

If you own a wordpress blog you probably realize how important search engine optimization (SEO) can be to the success of your site.

Unfortunately the default settings in a wordpress blog are not designed to provide you with the best SEO results. Here are some easy ways to optimize your blog for the search engines.

The two most important things you can do on-site to better optimize your blog for the search engines.

Change your permalinks. Default wordpress blog permalinks will have an extension that looks like /?p=123. Not only is this not optimized for SEO it doesn’t look good to your visitors and provides no information as to what the page is about.
You can change the permalinks so that the end of the url will look like http://yourdomain.com/name-of-post/

This is very easy to accomplish. Go to your options and select permalinks. Enter /%postname%/ in the custom field.

Now your permalinks will look much better and be more search engine friendly!
Change Your Page Titles.
The first words in a page title are the most important in terms of SEO. Default titles in the wordpress blog begin with the name of the blog. i.e. “Blog Name, Blog Archive, Post Title”. For better SEO you want the title of the post to be the first words in the title of the page.

In your header.php file locate this code:

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ? > ? Blog Archive <?php } ? > <?php wp_title(); ? ></title >

Change it to:

<title><?php wp_title(' '); ? ><?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) { echo '–'; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title >

Once you have completed these steps for “on-site” SEO your wordpress blog will be in a much better position with the search engines, but you’re not done yet. Work on getting as many high quality and relevant backlinks as you can. Submit your blog to directories and write articles with your links in the author resource for publishing in article directories. When you place your links in the resource use links to specific categories, not just the home page.

Google Supplemental Results

Google’s search results are now set up in a two-tier system. You have the main, or regular search results, and the supplemental results. Supplemental results will generally show up at the very end of keyword search results. The odds that your ’supplemental’ page will be available to someone performing a search isn’t very good.

Let’s see Google official definition from their webmaster page

A supplemental result is just like a regular web result, except that it’s pulled from our supplemental index. We’re able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index. For example, the number of parameters in a URL might exclude a site from being crawled for inclusion in our main index; however, it could still be crawled and added to our supplemental index.

To find out how your own website (or a competitors site) is doing in the two-tier system go over to Google and type in site:www.yourdomain, of course you will have to put in your actual url. If your pages are relegated to the supplemental results you will actually see “Supplemental Result” written to the right of the url below the description in the listing.

The most common reason that your pages may be in the supplemental results is duplicate content. Pages with little, or no content will also be placed in the supplemental results. Another possibility is that you may have identical title and Description meta tags on all or many pages.

The best advice is to take actions to avoid having your pages placed in the supplemental results in the first place. However, it is possible to get pages back into the main listings.

Make a serious effort to provide unique and original content on all your pages. If in question you may check your pages for originality at copyscape.com. Write a unique title and description meta tag for each page. If you have pages that consist mostly of images add text so that Google will ’see’ content. There are different opinions as to how much content you need on a page but 500 words or more is best.

When you work on your inbound links do not make all of the links point to your home page. Whenever you have the opportunity get backlinks to internal pages of your website. The lack of inbound links or having only reciprocal links has often been pointed to as a cause of pages being placed in supplemental results.

Finally, don’t give up or lose hope. Most all websites have pages listed in the supplemental results. Concentrate on providing good original content as that is, by far, the most significant factor affecting how your page will be treated by Google’s two-tier system.

Ituloy Angsulong sa Google!

Google Finally Listens To The Webmasters

While Google have for some time been at the forefront of online diagnostics and the analysis of websites, one area in which they have not been forthcoming is link analysis - until now.

There has always been the most basic of functions on the Google search engine which allows you to enter your website URL and receive a very bland and unhelpful display of all pages with a link to your site. While useful in certain circumstances, it was very hard to review in details as the number could literally run into 100s or even 1000s of pages.

After much questioning and requests from some of the more prominent webmasters, Google have now given in to the pressure and added a new tool to their Webmaster Tool. The new Google Webmaster Tools allows you to receive a clear and very helpful summary of sites linking to your website, with a total of the pages linking from each site.

The service splits the numbers between internal links - links from other pages of your website - and external links - links from pages and websites not under your control. There is also the option to filter certain criteria form the results, thereby giving the webmaster exactly what they require. As well as allowing you to ï¿½drillï¿½ deeper into the figures, there is also the opportunity to download the information to spreadsheets, etc for further analysis.

Reference:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/who-links-to-your-site.html

Up until now it has been the likes of Yahoo and MSN who have been more forthcoming with this information, but the recent addition to Googleï¿½s service will pile yet more pressure on their rivals to come up with yet more ground breaking services to attract search engines users.

Search Engine Optimization Certification?

As the internet becomes ever more crowded the importance of search engine optimisation (SEO) can not be over stated. It is essential that you use whatever mans available to increase your site’s standard of SEO, i.e. how search engine friendly your site appears.It seems that every day we are being bombarded with advertisements promising high quality SEO at a minimal price, optimisation tweaks for a few dollars and other “attractive offers”. The traditional attraction of the SEO industry is the fact that the rules are constantly changing, therefore the requirements and skills required are never simple. We have recently seen the emergence of SEO certificates, but what exactly are they?

If you check on the internet you will come across hundreds of companies offering SEO certificates, and while there is no doubt that some of these education companies are offering the best of training available, some are not so conscious of the standard of training. As there is no industry wide recognised certificate, these companies are doing no wrong and this is the main problem.

While a certificate for SEO is a useful element of an industry participant, it is essential that you check the feedback and standard of service before employing a SEO company. In the world of the internet there are still many offers which look “too good to be true”. Those companies and individuals promising Google No. 1 and MSN No.1 for a $100 should be viewed with caution - while it is possible to work on No. 1 status on search phrases, etc, this is a long term project, and not something that will cost you only $100!

GlobalWarming Awareness2007 Contest

SEO World Championship recently announced a new contest for the keyword “GlobalWarming Awareness”. The keyword globalwarming awareness2007 was announced last week, January 15, 2007 13.00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The goal is to rank as high as possible on all three major search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN.

The new SEO Contest that you can actually win a brand new car Citroen C2. Below are the complete prize listing that you can win.

1st prize: A brand new Citroen C2. The winner will receive a new car Citroen C2 from the closest car dealer.
2nd prize: A Caribbean Cruise. The winner will receive a travel checks.
3rd prize: A Plasma TV.
4th prize: $500.
5th prize: $100.

For those who want a free one way backlink, you can submit your globalwarming awareness2007 site to BlueSEO Web Directory.

Getting the Full Referring URL - Google Analytics Hack

Reuben Yau got frustrated with not being able to see the full url in Google analytics, and now he managed to find a way to use the urchinTracker function to place the exact referring URL into the top content report. You can now see the full url of a referring source. He has all the step by step instructions on his blog. Click Here

True Pagerank Update Today

Wow, this is what our fellow webmaster, link broker, and internet marketer is waiting for a true pagerank update. I tested my site in both internet explorer and firefox to see if the google toolbar is displaying the right pagerank, and It confirmed that my site gained 1 rank from the previous pr. BlueSEO gained pagerank of 5 coming from pr4. Also my other site gained pagerank of 4 coming from pr 3. Nice update!

Paid Web Directory Placements

As we all know, Google is now officially announce that buying/selling text link will risk your site. The penalties for link buying/selling are clear. See Google post at Google Webmaster Central .

This confusion lies in the common belief that there are two ways for optimizing the link-based popularity of your website: Either the meritocratic and long-term option of developing natural links or the risky and short-term option of non-earned backlinks via link spamming tactics such as buying links.We’ve always taken a clear stance with respect to manipulating the PageRank algorithm in our Quality Guidelines. Despite these policies, the strategy of participating in link schemes might have previously paid off. But more recently, Google has tremendously refined its link-weighting algorithms. We have more people working on Google’s link-weighting for quality control and to correct issues we find. So nowadays, undermining the PageRank algorithm is likely to result in the loss of the ability of link-selling sites to pass on reputation via links to other sites.

So if you sell text links and Google figures this out they might take away your ability to pass reputation to other sites. Also buying text link is consider as non-earned links and will discount these links if Google spot them.

What will happen to small paid directory ? The directory can still operate and accept payment for review as long as the site submitted used the nofollow attribute. Who like their site to have a nofollow attribute ? No one I guess if they targeting SE not the traffic.

How to Get a Good Backlink other than the Homepage?

I visited Marc page to see if there’s a latest news/update regarding the ituloy angsulong SEO contest and while browsing his blog, I saw one blog post that interest me it’s a “free SEO tools” by Jim Boykin.

I visited the page, and read some stuff regarding the tools and seo tips. Then I stumled on the topic “tips for finding the best pages to get links from” . This topic is new for me since I’m not a big fun of reading. LOL .

So here it goes, how to find the best pages to get links from other than the homepage? Jim Boykin SEO tips, here is how.

There’s 2 main types of pages I’d seek.

The first type I’d find by asking, “What Page on their site is most relevant to the page on my site I’m seeking a link to“.

Here’s how I’d find that: I’d go to google and search [site:theirsite.com keyword phrase] to find the most relevant page. Relevance is a big factor. If I sell Green Widgets, and they’ve got a specific page on Green widgets, that would be a great page to get a link from.

The Second type of page I’d seek is the one with the most “power”…call it “backlinks”, call it “trust rank”, call it “quality indicators”….all of those.

Here’s how I’d find any websites most powerful inner page.

I’d go to Yahoo and search [site:theirsite.com]

The nice thing about Yahoo is that they tend to list pages in order of importance. Same goes for a “linkdomain” search in Yahoo (the best backlinks tend to be towards the top of results). This hold true for a “Site:” search with Yahoo. The best “internal pages” tend to be listed first.

These “best internal pages” tend to be the pages that have the most external backlinks to those pages.

The 2 step said it all, simple and easy way to get the best internal pages of a certain site, hope it helps.

Google Zeitgeist Explained

Zeitgeist Explained

Originally a German expression that means “the spirit (Geist) of the time (Zeit)“.

zeitï¿½geist | Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-”gIst, ‘zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.

A few thought about Google Zeitgeist “Popular does not mean the most frequently searched”. Zeitgeist is different from Overture since the process of getting the top most searches are different.

Wondering how Google Zeitgeist came out with the most searched ? For example the word “bebo” , “myspace”, and “rebelde” ? Obviously they filtered out X-rated keywords. What else ? What was the methodology ? Here is the answer, according to Artem Boytsov, a Google software engineer,

Instead, we looked for those searches that were very popular in 2006 but were not as popular in 2005 — the explosive queries, the topics that everyone obsessed over. To come up with this list, we looked at several thousand of 2006’s most popular searches, and ranked them based on how much their popularity increased compared to 2005. (”Bebo”, for example, had very little traffic in 2005.) We also gave a bit higher score to searches with more traffic. Similarly, our “what is” and “who is” lists are not necessarily the absolute most frequent searches, but rather those that best represent the passing year.

Referral Spamming

Referral Spam or Referrer Log Spamming is another black hat way of generating backlinks for your sites.

Referral Spamming explained below:

When someone accesses a web page, i.e. the referee, by following a link from another web page, i.e. the referrer, the referee is given the address of the referer by the person’s internet browser. Some websites have a referer log which shows which pages link to that site. By having a robot randomly access many sites enough times, with a message or specific address given as the referer, that message or internet address then appears in the referer log of those sites that have referer logs. Since some search engines base the importance of sites by the number of different sites linking to them, referrer-log spam may be used to increase the search engine rankings of the spammer’s sites, by getting the referer logs of many sites to link to them. ~ Wikipedia Spamdexing

Try to view your traffic logs, if you noticed referrals from one or more site on which you couldn’t find your link, you have been hit by a referral spam.

Referral spamming is also a bandwidth leecher, traffic coming from this method is just a waste of hosting resources.

Defeating Bandwith Leeching

This apply to a site that has a lot of picture, wallpaper or image gallery on their site and received a good traffic from google image search. As everyone know Google Image Search used to display thumbnail images, when the surfer clicks on the thumbnail he/she is brought to a page with a thumbnail of your image in a frame above your page. This kind of traffic does nothing but leech bandwidth, since the surfer can view your images without the bother of visiting your site.

The solution is using javascript to break from the frame, here is how.

Javascript Code:

< script language="JavaScript1.1? type="text/JavaScript">
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);
< /script>

Just put the code between your header tag and you’re done!

Note: Using this code will redirect your surfer to your homepage, not where the images is located

Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year! Ituloy AngSulong Kabayan!

How does one build .EDU backlinks ?

Even if you believe it or not, backlinks from .EDU get additional credibility from Google than other sites would. .EDU sites are likely to be of high quality content therefore links from them are very nice things to have. Coupled with the fact they tend to be of high PR, traffic and with few outgoing links.
How to get a .EDU backlinks?

The key isn’t in just asking for links or trying to exchange them. You need to make it about them. Partner with a school, or feature a program or students in a program related to your site’s niche. Add relevant school profiles or reviews to your site, and even build an awards-style program over time. As you gain more credibility for choosing quality “winners”, it might mean something, and linking will be more automatic. Interview students or professors about programs related to your niche, and report the published interviews (reviews or whatever) to the school’s PR Director. Those are a few general tips that you can adapt to most niches. ~ Jennifer Mattern

Here is how you get a list of .EDU site, try to use this site:edu inurl:forums keyword , just replace the keyword with the targeted keywords. I used forums since community sites are the easiest way to get a backlinks. But most moderators now a days specially in .EDU community is filtering/administering the registration before you become an active member. Good Luck

But don’t forget “good unique content” is still the king!

Google Reindexing, How often?

Google is constantly reindexing the web. Active portions of the web may be visited several times a day. Less active portions may be spidered once or twice a month or so.

Earlier this year they appeared to have created a filter on new links / new sites to where it takes a while for your rankings to really go up in competitive markets (especially if your site is new and does not have much linkage data pointing at it yet)…thats part of the reason for my 90 day guarantee thingie…it will take most people nearly that length of time to start seeing decent movement in Google in competitive markets.

Don’t forget to mix up your link text using various different discriptive link text combinations when you get your inbound links. Some directories will only let you use your official site name and some are a bit more lenient.

Also keep in mind some of the other things you can be doing to boost your site: writing articles, participating in communities, logical link swaps, asking for links, etc.

Best of luck with your site!

Written by SEOBook of SearchEngineWatch.com

Link Build Or Burn

We all have heard what link buildings can do with our web sites and how it increases our indexed links on the search engines such as google(tm) and yahoo(tm)

Now the billion dollar question is how to do it exactly? Link building has been Google’s one of the primary factors in determining good prioritized listings on it’s databases. Back in the early days when site used to link to a certain site they know content will be valuable to their visitors, just link back with no referral links, no link tracking urls, and even does not request a link back or a reciprocal link.

Now people are becoming more and more “what’s in it for me?” syndrome and will link back to a site but it needs to be placed in mydomain.com/stayaway/dontcrawl/followme/nobenefits/yourpage.htm I think you got the point.

Now here’s my based-on-experience first-hand knowledge of how to build links back to your site.

Search engines never changed their feed methods as before but now made it more accessible even to a web beginner. The goal of these is to get as much link as they want to feed the hungry spiders (the search engine bot). They’re still “eating” .xml and rss (really simple syndication).

1. I personally recommend Super Rss from http://www.hunterdavis.com/ssrss.html to build manually my links aided by common sense. I choose main links like home, services, contact me, information, etc. and a new product/services listing page, and what’s new links to include in it. It’s very simple to use, type in the title of the link, url, brief description and click on add and your link is in the .xml format.

The format is like this:

<item>
<title>isulong SEOPH</title>
<link>http://www.blueseo.com/</link>
<description>
Isulong SEOPH is my personal blog about search engine optimization (SEO), online marketing, and web development</description>
<pubDate>Wednesday, 12 June 2006 13:14 GMT</pubDate>
</item>

Wednesday, 12 June 2006 16:14 GMT

The above .xml code does make it compatible for search engine spiders to eat it’s spider food and “digest” it easily. It needs at least to contain 10 or 20 linkpages information and it’s ready to go. Upload the generated .xml file to your site. This is generic as it can be and don’t use the google sitemapper for it’s only compatible with Google and not with the other search engines.

2. Go to http://www.pingoat.com/ and submit your .xml in the .xml feed (optional) field. Your .xml might look like this http://www.yourlink.com/yoursite.xml Make sure you select everything to submit to.

3. Go to http://my.yahoo.com/ click on Edit page and then add url via .xml. This will expose your .xml to the news category of yahoo.com and will publish it to other my.yahoo.com users as well in real-time.

4. Go to http://my.msn.com/ In the “Add Content” section, look for “Search for content to add” and type in full url to your .xml file as hosted on your hosting account.

5. Go to http://www.google.com/ig/ Login and click on “Add content” and click on “Add by Url” next to the search box and type in your full url to your .xml file.

6. Go to http://feeds.my.aol.com/index.jsp and click on “Add A Feed” type in the full url to .xml file and provide a title/tag and place in proper category.

7. Go to http://www.cflwaves.com/projects/ and download Blog Pinger and place in desired folder in your computer, browse it’s folder and open up pings.txt and place all of these:
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

8. Wait 3 to 5 days and your site will be listed on google, yahoo, msn, aol and other mini directories that are getting their content from these major search engines and directories that is if your site is not blocked or banned.

The above are rss directories that are accepting entries via remote ping. You can also get more pingers by searching it on google.

If you know or have any access to any search engine or directory that wants feed please contact me at http://www.seoreign.com/ .

About the Author: Article by Eligio Tapiador jr. freelance web developer/designer and a blogger of SEO Friendly Web Directory and Isulong SEOPH.

Directory Submission Strategies

Research each directory and categories that will fit your domain/sites.
Another reason why manual directory submissions are far much better than automatic blasters or auto submissions is that you need to think through very carefully what categories fit your sites. Disregarding this important research about your site will not save you from millions of unrelated commercial messages (spam) done on your email.

Careful research of your site’s category will prompt you to write a concise, accurate description that relates to the directory’s description.
Determine the best description for your web site in each category. Since manual directory submission is one of the core promotions that you can do for your web site, it’s better to hint the webmaster or owner of the directory that you mean serious business and that your keywords and descriptions are the fruits of your careful study of your web site.If the directory doesn’t have your desired specific category it’s better to suggest it to the owner of the directory rather than be sorry.
Make sure your (USP) unique selling proposition is included in your site’s description. Your description should be unique even though it resembles description style of other web sites in your targeted directory. So if you’re company has specialties in 3 services, mention those 3 specific services in your description. If your site targets a specific audience, include that as well.
Write descriptions of varying lengths and keep it in a .txt file for cut-n-paste submissions. Directories are not similar in the number of characters it accepts so better be prepared submitting the ones they approve. Make sure there are no repeat keywords on the description and don’t try to “stuff” it with too many unrelated keywords. Remember that your site is a work of “art” in the eyes of the “human” editors of these directories so appeal to them not to the software-backend of their directory.
Whenever budget allows, use the paid or premium listings of a directory. Most free listings are often listed very slow like in after 4 weeks and doesn’t have any guarantees, remember since most of the search engines measure link popularity in the quickness your site appears in a given high - pr directory so better invest that kind of money long term on the directories rather than be sorry.
Verify your site manually by visiting the directory itself to see your listings. If your site is not yet listed in the given amount of time, it’s healthy to resubmit it to the directory let’s say an ample wait time of 4 weeks is acceptable and does not appear that you are actually “begging” the directory owner. Keep track of your dates of submissions, categories, descriptions, titles and so on. If your site is not yet listed after so much wait time on it, it’s better to contact the directory owner to know and for you to act what stuff your site contains that prohibits them from listing it.
Always submit your domain name and not a page. This will limit the directory you can submit to, but it’s better to have quality visitors rather than so many that will only consume your bandwidth.

So the next time you do your daily submissions, prioritise going to http://www.seoreign.com/.

Human-edited general web directory of quality and spam-free web sites, offering free and paid submission into our directory. 100% SEO Friendly Web Directory. Go and daily start your manual web directory submission routine and head on straight to http://www.seoreign.com/

About the Author: Article by Eligio Tapiador jr. freelance web developer/designer and a blogger of SEO Friendly Web Directory and Isulong SEOPH.

SEO’s Guide In Directory Submission

Manual Directory Submission seems to prevail on the start of the Internet and even nowadays it’s becoming the trend. From the layman’s point of view of doing business like in the actual world, your business should be listed in the trade directories, phone directories and different kind of directories that allow access to your company’s profiles, products and services offerings. On the Internet, it woks very fairly the same and there are several huge directories that you need to prioritised to be listed on it such as google, yahoo, dmoz, msn, altavista, etc. The more appropriate the directory for your domain the better to get listed. Submitting a site is merely telling a directory that is also managed by a human that your site exists and is ready to do business, thus you are suggesting it to the directory. One submission or suggestion is most appropriate.

Things To Remember When Doing Manual Directory Submission:

Your site’s meta such as title, keyword and description must be all set.
Your site’s should not contain any incomplete pages or under construction if you submit this site without this consideration, it will get you rejected fast and guaranteed.
Think very well your site’s niche products/services and concentrate on them building your pages very carefully to “zero-in” those products/services.
Products and services are very similar to your site’s meta keywords. It’s better to have 5 zeroed-in keywords rather than having 20 or 25 keyword. Concentrate on those 5 keywords. Eat, sleep, breath, and do every day things with those “keywords” in mind, don’t let anything in the world distract you from those goals.
Your site’s meta descriptions are also derived and suggested from your keywords. An example construction is below:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml“>
<head>
<title>SEO Reign - SEO Friendly Web Directory - Search Results
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
<meta name=”description” content=”Human-edited general web directory of quality and spam-free websites, offering free and paid submission into our directory. 100% SEO Friendly Web Directory.” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Search engine optimization, SEO, website, promotion, SEO Philippines, placement, website submission, submission, directory, SEO friendly web directory, web design, development, engine, ranking ” />

Base your entry on meta from the example given above.

Your site’s meta title will and need to agree and be similar with your keywords and description combined. Don’t get out of focus on it.

Types Of Directory Submissions:There are 2 types: (a) manual and (b) automatic

1. Consider manual submission as like into driving with your eyes fixed on the windshield as automatic as to just driving without looking.

2. Having mentioned the above comparison of the 2 types, most seo will tell you going to the path of manual submission is best on every web site.

3. Doing submissions is a lifetime project assigned to every web site it cannot be ignored. It must be done religiously and it cannot be finished. No one can ever say that he or she is an seo guru for it will never be finished. You have to study and research all those web directories out there, don’t worry one site claimed there are already 700,000 to a million web directories recorded so you have a lot of things to do.

4. Do the submission first as an example with 2 staff (at the most) watching you how you do it. Make sure there’s a contract first before doing this.

Trying to distinguish a bad seo from a good one nowadays is very difficult but I have compiled several guides both for the would-be clients of SEO Experts and for the SEO doing search engine optimization as a profession. I’ll start with the guide for the “would-be” clients.

Guide For The “would-be” SEO Clients:

1. Always remember no SEO expert will give you enough information about a site’s seo efforts for you to duplicate them.

2. Ask to see success results for the company’s seo efforts. Let them quote you some sample domains they done with the past like for example 5 or more domains are convincing enough. Tip: The first place to look at is at the main corporate domain of the said seo company.

3. You should at least get straight answers from the following questions:

- What are some sites you’ve worked on successfully?
- For what keywords is the site ranking well?
- About how often are those keywords searched on?
- If you did not optimise the site to rank high for keywords, did you do anything for the site’s content to help it attract more non-standard search traffic?
- How much traffic does it have?
- What general methods did you use to achieve these results? (optional) If the company agrees to answer, then you’re chance are huge that this company is really an seo expert.

4. The most important point of seo quality assurance is the cost.

5. No real seo company is going to perform an seo service for a particular site for less than they could have gotten it for a year of adsense or affiliate earnings for the same amount of work. Let’s face it, the adsense empire technology is being monopolised by both blackhat seo and the good seo just because of their assured earnings per year and they could live and profit without even without a client for a year. Most of their pricing scheme will cost you more than a leg or neck or it could be more than that but the good seo will stick to their price.

How To Use The Web Directories For The Best Seo Efforts:

1. The “Do-it-yourself” Guide starts by visiting the SEO Friendly Web Directory located at http://www.seoreign.com/ and then browsing through the many listings of manual directories and submitting through them one by one.

2. Submit your domain to as much web directories as you can whether they are free, paid, and niche directories. This is the basic core of your web promotion and should be done on a regular if not on a daily basis. Hire at least 2 staff to do it for you on a daily basis. Be careful of rotten web directories that lists porn web sites, gambling web sites and all kind of illegal content.

3. Read me first. Most web directories have high PR so submitting to them without an exchange deal is very difficult, read first their guidelines and don’t just “blindly” submit to them without reading it first. Mostly exchange deals are in the form of you are (a) obligated to receive from them a daily, weekly or monthly newsletter in exchange for your free listings with them; (b) requires you to edit one page dedicated for their listings; (c) requires reciprocal linking; (d) requires a virtual card or some sort of “buy me a beer” to get you listed; and of course (e) requires one time payment fee.

4. If your site deals with wholesale products you have sourced from your suppliers, it’s best to list in that particular “niche” directories, google can mostly help like you can search “wholesale+directories” or any keyword with “wholesale and directory” on it. You can run several keyword spinners out there that are free and that can help guide you through the keyword “wholesale”.

5. One domain - one product. The trend nowadays is niche content and niche directories so it’s better to create one domain for one product that will help you do most at least of your seo’s efforts when it comes to the brand or name you carry.

So the next time you do your daily submissions, prioritise going to http://www.seoreign.com/

About the Author: Article by Eligio Tapiador Jr. freelance web developer/designer and a blogger of SEO Friendly Web Directory and Isulong SEOPH .

Link Building Guide by Jim Westergren

Link building is the process of increasing the number of links pointing to a website. This can be done a variety of ways including sending requests to other websites to link to the site, or hiring a firm to handle this for you.

I came across an article written by Jim Westergren the man who almost won the ‘v7ndotcom elursrebmem’ contest, the biggest SEO contest ever has written an article about Link Building Guide . I’d like you guys to check this out. Well worth the read!