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Have you heard about the term web directory? This is a kind of catalogue which maintains all the information and links about different websites. A proper web directory will make a classification of the websites based on the topics they deal with, and then put them under categories. The categories will be further sub-divided into sub categories. Some of the directories will allow the site owners to submit website without paying any money. There will be others which will need the reciprocal link and they will be paid links.
When you submit websites to directories, you need to follow a few guidelines. The websites should be submitted in proper categories. Think of the theme of your website and choose the appropriate category. Take a good look at the directory and find out about the suitable categories. If they do not contain the relevant categories which correspond to the theme of the website, you may think of other options. Check the other essentials like page rank, the option of back links of the directory. All this will help you to decide whether the directory that you have chosen is suitable for you or not.
Before website submission, you can find out whether the directory is new or not. If it is cached, look for the date when it was cached. You can also check the status of the other sites which have been submitted to the directory. The directory should use the search engine optimization techniques which ensure that the websites listed under the directory will get maximum exposure. Before selecting the directory, you should also note the past performance of the directory. When you submit the URL, it will be reviewed by the editor of the directory.
The editor will look at the details and find out if the website is proper in terms of content, category and description. SEO experts should follow the guidelines provided by the editors of the directory and incorporate the details within the site. Directory submission is no mean task, and you will have to note the details before you submit the site. You must understand one thing. Directory submission will lead to increase in web traffic. This helps in promoting your business and sales. With directory submission, you can be ensured of another thing. This will help in increasing the popularity of instances and back links to the site.
If you submit website to a directory, this will also increase the popularity link. This is actually a method to calculate the quality and also the quantity of links which appear on the site. When the search engines think of the rankings of the site, they will also evaluate the importance of links. And the links may be either inward or outward. There are some directories which are edited by humans which mean that they will strive to incorporate credible information. They will be compiled by subject, quality and the websites will be positioned under suitable categories. In case of directory submission, you will have a number of advantages. The website will be indexed properly, they will obtain a higher amount of click through traffic and they will have a good ranking in the search engines.
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Of all the areas of Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization is the most misunderstood, and potentially the most important to your marketing efforts. There are millions upon millions of pages of web content out there — you can work hard, build a great site, and then be totally lost in the shuffle. SEO is important. It’s also a very complex process that requires patience, careful planning and a long-term approach.
If you’re just getting started with:
Selecting an SEO firm
Trying to start a search engine campaign on your own
Reviewing your current SEO efforts
…read on. This article should provide you with a high-level review of the SEO process, dispel a few SEO myths, and help you understand legitimate optimization strategies.
What is Search Engine Optimization?
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, defies easy definition. But here’s a short version:
Search Engine Optimization Using keyword analysis and other legitimate practices to gain the highest possible search engine and directory rankings, under a given key phrase, for a given URL.
Every SEO professional in the world just cringed, so I’ll break this definition down a bit and hopefully prevent a hail of angry e-mails:
Keyword Analysis is the process of mining keyword search data to find the best balance between the keywords you need and the best potential search niche. More on this later.
Search Engine means an automated search engine. ‘Search Engines’ include Google, AlltheWeb.com, Yahoo (powered by Google plus their own directory information), AOL Search, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. A search engine obtains its results from ‘spiders’ or ‘bots’ — small programs that come to your web site read it in much the same way you would: By reading the content on a page, and then moving from page to page via links. A directory, on the other hand, is built at least in part by human beings reading sites and other information and deciding where each site fits into the directory structure. Yahoo’s directory area and Open Directory are both examples of directories.
Ranking is the numeric rank reflecting your position in the results list when someone performs a search on a particular set of keywords.
Highest Possible means getting as close to number one as you can. Sometimes you just can’t get that number one spot. Maybe someone else has a 400-page web site solely dedicated to the key phrase for which you’re attempting to optimize. Or maybe they’re paying a fortune in advertising. That’s life, sometimes…
Key Phrase is the keyword or set of keywords someone types into the little ‘search’ field in Google or Alta Vista or any other search engine.
A URL is the address of one page on your site. Most search engines display keyword search results and provide a link directly to the page most relevant to those results, rather than your home page. It’s very, very important to keep that in mind when you build and optimize your site.
Legitimate Practices is a pet peeve of mine. A true search engine optimization campaign will not use practices such as page or content cloaking, redirects, or lists of links (so-called ‘link farms’) but relies on good coding practices, well-written content, steady link popularity work and site features that will be every bit as valuable for site visitors as for search engine ranking. Anything less is a short-term fix that will likely reduce your rankings more often than increase them.
So, the long version of the definition would be:
Search Engine Optimization Using keyword analysis, good coding practices, well-written copy, link popularity analysis and careful site organization to move a web page as close to the number one search results position as possible for a given key phrase, in both search engines and directories.
Hey, that’s not so bad after all. But how do you get started? First, you separate reality from myth…
SEO Urban Legends
There are quite a few SEO myths out there. Here are my favorites:
The Keywords META Tag Matters. Mostly wrong. Only Inktomi pays any attention to the keywords meta tag. You should do something basic, but don’t bother putting in keywords that aren’t supported by your page content.
Search Engines can read Flash, images and video. Sorry, and Ford isn’t selling a flying car yet, either. Search engines can read one thing: Text. Anything else, while perfectly legitimate as a design tool, will not help your ranking. And relying too heavily on Flash or images may reduce your site’s visibility. Google is one partial exception — they can read some links in Flash, but still have very limited ability to read Flash content.
Mirroring my site in multiple locations will improve ranking. Actually, just the opposite. Duplication of content will generally have no effect or, worse, reduce your ranking in major search engines. Most search engines now have rules against this form of ‘spam’ and may reduce your ranking or ban your site altogether.
‘Doorway’ pages improve ranking. Pages that have lots of keywords but then quickly redirect to the main site will not help you in major search engines, such as Google. And, if someone catches you and reports you to Google or the other search engine, you may be banned altogether. A ‘landing’ or ‘bridge’ page, though, that’s designed to be as useful for users as for search engines, and does not redirect the user, can help by providing keyword-rich content that’s genuinely worthwhile.
Firms promising to get me #1 rankings in 10,000 search engines for $99.95 can help. I alternate between tooth-grinding and hysterical laughter when I see these ads. First, there aren’t 10,000 search engines. Actually, there are probably 10-20 you should really worry about. Getting listed in the other thousand or so is largely a waste of time. Second, no one can guarantee any ranking in any search engine for a specific keyword. Period. And finally, the price is less than half the cost to get an express submission in a single directory (Yahoo). Chances are anyone trying to get you to spend the $99.95 is operating a ‘link farm’ where they list dozens, or hundreds, of sites. While they won’t hurt your ranking, they won’t help, either. To learn more about how to choose an SEO firm, check out Google’s article: .
Firms charging me more money and guaranteeing a #1 ranking on Google can help. This is the latest SEO scam. I can get you a number one ranking on Google, too, as long as I get to pick the keyword or can get you ranked under a fairly unique company name. But no one, and I mean no one can guarantee a #1 rank under a specific keyword. Even Google says so.
Forget the myths — if an offer seems too good to be true, it is. The truth is that search engines are now almost savvy enough to read your pages like a human being would, so anything that will drive away a typical site visitor will also probably reduce your ranking. Things that will increase your search engine ranking include:
Well-written content
Good, clean HTML code
Useful, relevant TITLE tags
Useful, relevant DESCRIPTION tags
Relevant, appropriate links from other web sites
There are some basic steps that, well executed, will do more to increase your page rank than an ocean of snake oil. The SEO Campaign Process
A typical SEO campaign starts with keyword analysis, and then emphasizes insuring your site doesn’t impede search engine bots and follows up with ongoing link and traffic analysis. If you like pretty pictures, here’s one:
What’s a Bot? A ‘bot’ is a program used by a search engine to read the content of your site into a directory. I mentioned this briefly in ‘What is Search Engine Optimization?’ above. Keep up, now….
Step 1: Keyword Analysis. Ah, keywords. If you say the right word enough times on your site, you’ll get that coveted #1 spot, right? Wrong. Choosing the right keywords starts with you making a list of the keywords or phrases under which you’d like to be found, and typically ends up somewhere completely different. Typically, selecting the best keywords is a four-step process:
List the keywords and phrases under which you’d like to be found.
Find out whether anyone searches on those keywords, and whether they’re searching for relevant items.
Find out how many other sites are struggling for rankings under those keywords.
Pick keywords with the same meaning but a better search-to-competition ratio.
Maybe I want to rank #1 under ‘Search Engine Optimization’. Guess what? There are 686,000 other URLs in Google trying for that spot. Hmmm. But wait! Under ‘Seattle Search Engine Optimization’ there are only 19,000. So, I targeted that key phrase, instead. And guess what? We got a #3 ranking.
Don’t forget about relevance, either. If you want a high ranking under ‘tires’, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. And in the end you’ll likely end up getting found for ‘bicycle tires’, ‘automobile tires’, ‘spare tires’ and who knows what else. Is it worth it? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But you have to do your homework to find out.
Data Mining and Keywords If you’re doing a campaign for a large site, you may end up testing and comparing thousands of keywords and phrases. Having a good data-mining tool (even Excel will do) on hand is important when you’re doing keyword analysis. We use S-Plus, by Insightful Software. It’s saved our lives, and clicker fingers, several times.
There are several tools that help you research the number of searches and competitors for keywords. Wordtracker (http://www.wordtracker.com) is a good one — don’t depend on their results from Overture, though, unless you’re specifically preparing an Overture campaign. Metacrawler’s MetaSpy tool is worth a look, too. Ideally, look at results from a few different sources.
Keyword analysis is the hardest part of a campaign, in number-crunching terms. It requires a lot of work and may not tell you what you want to hear. But in my experience it’s critical to a successful campaign.
Step 2: Search Engine Readiness. Almost every web site we review has one or more problems that will prevent search engine bots from properly reading all content. Typical showstoppers include:
An all-Flash or all-images home page
A home page that automatically redirects to another page
Pop-up ads (does anyone really read these things?)
A site full of pages with fewer than 400 words on a page
Broken links
Navigation that is generated by JavaScript
No TITLE or DESCRIPTION tags
A major step in any SEO campaign is making sure that the site will present the friendliest profile to search engines. Happily, the investment in optimizing will also pay off in a faster, more universally compatible site.
Step 3. Content and Site Preparation. You’ve done your research: You know which keywords match your message, and your site’s HTML code is one big search engine welcome mat. Now it’s time to make sure that your site contains those keywords. This is where I most often see folks get confused — should you rewrite your web content to emphasize keywords? Yes, but with extreme caution. Should you make small, appropriate changes? Yes. Here are my guidelines for content preparation.
Don’t write for keywords (much). This almost always leads to stilted, hard-to-read prose. Writing keyword-rich content that really works for users is an art form. Be careful.
Do a little careful editing. If you use the word ‘car’ but ‘auto’ is the keyword you need, chances are you can do a few replacements without marring your carefully crafted copy.
Spend time on the titles and description tags. Make sure every page in your site has a unique, relevant TITLE and DESCRIPTION tag.
Never use an automatic page generator. Tools like WebPosition Gold offer to generate optimized pages for you. Don’t. They tend to hurt your ranking as much as help, and they generate ugly, ugly pages.
Write more stuff. More content is almost always better. If your site is just missing a specific keyword or phrase, but you think it’s important, then your potential customers probably do too. By adding a few more pages, or a white paper, or some other content focusing on those absent keywords, you’ll likely help visitors and improve your keyword ranking at the same time. And, the more text-rich your site is, the better the odds that you’ll catch longer, stranger but really important key phrases that you can’t anticipate.
Step 4. Link Analysis. Quite a few major search engines (Google, most importantly) weigh your ‘link popularity’ when ranking your site. A more accurate term, though, is ‘link analysis’, because these engines don’t just count up the number of links to your site. They look for links near and containing relevant text. So a page full of links, one of which happens to be yours, won’t help very much. But a link from a related site, near a short paragraph that contains relevant keywords, will probably give you a boost. Having keywords in the link itself is even better. A quick example:
doesn’t help much.
For search engine optimization, visit http://www.portentinteractive.com is much better.
For search engine optimization, visit Portent Interactive where ‘search engine optimization’ is the link to Portent, is the absolute best case.
There are a few ways to build your link popularity:
Contact sites that relate to yours and request a link exchange. This works really well, but obviously takes a long time.
Syndicate your content. If you can provide an easy way for interested webmasters to link directly to relevant stories on your site, you provide an instant link popularity boost, and get your message out to boot.
Start an affiliate program. If you sell a product, consider setting up an affiliate sales program.
Google’s ‘One Site, One Vote’ Rule Google awards a lot less weight to a link to your site if that link is on a page with lots of other links. That’s why so-called ‘link farming’ doesn’t work. Ideally, you want a link to your site from a page that includes relevant content and not that many other outgoing links.
Step 5. Submit your site. Many search engines, Google included, allow you to submit your site for free. Generally you can submit your home page and let the search engine crawl the rest of your site. Some directories and engines offer paid ‘express’ services, and some, like Teoma, require that you pay for URL submission. Which engines you choose depends on your budget and campaign.
Step 6. Review, Revise, and Keep Going. Think you’re done? Wrong — search engine optimization is an ongoing project. At least once per month, review your rankings, site traffic reports and link popularity and tweak your site as necessary. The tools you need to measure results are:
Site traffic reports. Any web hosting company should provide you with a web site traffic report, and almost all of the reporting tools in use today provide a ‘referrals from search engines’ section. Take a look at this section for a good measure of campaign results.
Link counts. Use the link: command on Google (see above) to determine your link popularity.
Your keyword list. Search on the relevant search engines to see if your ranking has improved.
Your brain. You have to interpret what you see, and decide whether changes are warranted. There’s no hard and fast rule for this, and no magic formula. Sorry about that…
So now you’ll get instant results, right? Well, not quite…
A Word About Expectations
Search engine optimization can take time. Even Google only refreshes its entire index once a month, so don’t expect instant results.
If your first registration run doesn’t generate increased rankings within a month or two, don’t panic. Look at your site traffic and search on the keywords you chose. Make sure that the search engine you’re checking actually includes your site, too — most likely the bots just haven’t gotten around to ‘crawling’ your site.
Still stumped? Find a professional. Sure, we cost money. But you may have missed something about your site that’s preventing a good keyword rank, and a second set of eyes can help.
A Solid Marketing Strategy
Obviously, Search Engine Optimization is a big job. But nothing can send more traffic to your site, for lower per-click cost. If you follow the basic steps, and keep at it, you will definitely get results. What’s really, really important is to make sure you don’t award too much weight to one step (such as link popularity) at the expense of the others. A well-rounded campaign will provide solid, long-term results.
What about pay per click? Pay-per-click services, such as Overture and Google Adwords, are very different animals. If you’ve done your keyword analysis you’re halfway there, but there are other tasks. I’ve not talked about them in this article because, well, they need an article of their own. Check back soon…
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Why should you submit your website to directories? The short answer is to get visitors to your website because more visitors to your site would typically mean more business for you. Good directories like Yahoo, DMOZ and Business.com send visitors to your site on their own. Many people use these directories to look for information. Then there are topic specific or region specific niche directories that have their own groups of users. If you want to target customers in Canada, for example, you could try to get your website listed in a Canada-specific directory. If you have a travel website, you could seek out travel-related directories. Most of the proliferating numbers of directories do not bring significant numbers of visitors to your Web site. However, a listing in a good directory, under a classification that is relevant to your site’s theme, would be a valuable factor that search engines use to assess your site. Search engines use software “robots” to locate, bring back and index the millions of websites landing on the Web. These robots cannot exercise the kind of judgment humans do while assessing a website. So the engines look at human-edited directories to provide an indirect assessment of websites. A large number of relevant directory listings (links) could help your site to move towards the top in search engine results. And if your website ultimately manages to reach the first or second (or even third) page of search results (for search words that are typically used to find your kind of businesses), it could indeed benefit your business significantly (provided you do have a good product and a good website). Submitting Your Site to Directories Unlike search engines, directories do not crawl the Web looking for new websites. That means you (or somebody else) would have to bring your website to the attention of directories. Submitting details of your Web site to the directories is the way to do this. All directories call for certain standard details about the sites submitted to them. These include a short title, the URL of the site and a short description of your site in a limited number of words. Some directories might also ask for your email address and other details. Directories also require that you submit your site to the most appropriate category. You drill down the directory structure (of each directory) and find the category that best fits your site. This is often a troublesome task as there might be more than one category where your site could be listed. One final issue is the mode of submission. Sites can be submitted in an automated fashion to “thousands” of directories. Such automated submission is not likely to meet the specific guidelines of each directory. Directories also do not like automated submissions as the sites submitted would more than likely to be junk sites. It is far better to submit your site by hand to each directory, complying with the guidelines of each. Your site is more likely to be accepted in that case. Why Should You be Choosy in Selecting Directories? Submitting your Web site to directories is a monotonous and time-consuming task. And after all the trouble, you might find that the directory takes its own time to review your site. They could also reject the site after this review on one ground or another. More importantly, a listing in some of the directories could prove to be of no value. Some directories are just “link farms” indiscriminately including every site submitted. This eliminates the element of human review that provides value to a directory listing. Such directories do not bring any traffic (of visitors to your site). Search engines also would ignore such junk-filled sites and assign no value to a link from such a directory. Next comes the issue of paying money for a directory listing. Some directories, notably Yahoo, require payment to review your site (with no guarantee that your site would be accepted after the review). Other sites would speed up the review of your site if you pay. In such cases, it becomes even more important to select the directories carefully. How Do You Select Directories? Below is a checklist that you could use to decide whether a particular directory is likely to be worth investing your time and/or money. Is the directory well organized? Does it have many classifications of real-world themes? Are there sub classifications under each classification to accommodate common needs? Is the directory easy to use? Are the classifications immediately clear? Is it easy to drill down to a category you are interested in? Could you move back and forth without getting lost? Does the directory seem well populated? Are there numerous listings under each category? Are there several empty categories? Do the listed sites appear good quality? Take a look at these under different categories. Or is the directory full of junk sites? What overall impression do you get considering the layout as well as the above aspects? What Google page rank is displayed for the site in the Google toolbar (if you have installed it in one of your browsers)? A page rank of at least 4/10 is what you should be looking for. If you are adept enough, you should also look at the traffic levels to the directory by going to Alexa website. Finally, look at the way the directory treats submissions. Do they seem to be in the directory business solely to make money from website owners? What is the backlog of websites pending review as indicated by the directory? Directories often indicate the time lag you have to expect before your site is taken up for review. You should by now have a good idea of whether the directory is worth submitting to. You should also be able to decide whether it is worth paying money, and if so how much, to get listed in that directory. New directories might not meet many of the desirable criteria above. However, if they seem well organized and filled with good quality websites, it might be worthwhile to submit to them. You get the advantage of quicker review and probably even a front-page listing. Consider Outsourcing Directory Submission By now, you would have an idea of all the bother involved in selecting directories and submitting your Web site to them. Manual submission by hand to each directory is an extremely monotonous job. It is better to entrust the submission to a dependable specialist who would submit your site to selected directories. A specialist would also know the directories out there and how good each one is.
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Why should you submit your website to directories? The short answer is to get visitors to your website because more visitors to your site would typically mean more business for you. Good directories like Yahoo, DMOZ and Business.com send visitors to your site on their own. Many people use these directories to look for information. Then there are topic specific or region specific niche directories that have their own groups of users. If you want to target customers in Canada, for example, you could try to get your website listed in a Canada-specific directory. If you have a travel website, you could seek out travel-related directories.
Most of the proliferating numbers of directories do not bring significant numbers of visitors to your Web site. However, a listing in a good directory, under a classification that is relevant to your site’s theme, would be a valuable factor that search engines use to assess your site.
Search engines use software “robots” to locate, bring back and index the millions of websites landing on the Web. These robots cannot exercise the kind of judgment humans do while assessing a website. So the engines look at human-edited directories to provide an indirect assessment of websites.
A large number of relevant directory listings (links) could help your site to move towards the top in search engine results. And if your website ultimately manages to reach the first or second (or even third) page of search results (for search words that are typically used to find your kind of businesses), it could indeed benefit your business significantly (provided you do have a good product and a good website).
Submitting Your Site to Directories
Unlike search engines, directories do not crawl the Web looking for new websites. That means you (or somebody else) would have to bring your website to the attention of directories. Submitting details of your Web site to the directories is the way to do this.
All directories call for certain standard details about the sites submitted to them. These include a short title, the URL of the site and a short description of your site in a limited number of words. Some directories might also ask for your email address and other details.
Directories also require that you submit your site to the most appropriate category. You drill down the directory structure (of each directory) and find the category that best fits your site. This is often a troublesome task as there might be more than one category where your site could be listed.
One final issue is the mode of submission. Sites can be submitted in an automated fashion to “thousands” of directories. Such automated submission is not likely to meet the specific guidelines of each directory. Directories also do not like automated submissions as the sites submitted would more than likely to be junk sites.
It is far better to submit your site by hand to each directory, complying with the guidelines of each. Your site is more likely to be accepted in that case.
Why Should You be Choosy in Selecting Directories?
Submitting your Web site to directories is a monotonous and time-consuming task. And after all the trouble, you might find that the directory takes its own time to review your site. They could also reject the site after this review on one ground or another.
More importantly, a listing in some of the directories could prove to be of no value. Some directories are just “link farms” indiscriminately including every site submitted. This eliminates the element of human review that provides value to a directory listing. Such directories do not bring any traffic (of visitors to your site). Search engines also would ignore such junk-filled sites and assign no value to a link from such a directory.
Next comes the issue of paying money for a directory listing. Some directories, notably Yahoo, require payment to review your site (with no guarantee that your site would be accepted after the review). Other sites would speed up the review of your site if you pay. In such cases, it becomes even more important to select the directories carefully.
How Do You Select Directories?
Below is a checklist that you could use to decide whether a particular directory is likely to be worth investing your time and/or money.
Is the directory well organized? Does it have many classifications of real-world themes? Are there sub classifications under each classification to accommodate common needs?
Is the directory easy to use? Are the classifications immediately clear? Is it easy to drill down to a category you are interested in? Could you move back and forth without getting lost?
Does the directory seem well populated? Are there numerous listings under each category? Are there several empty categories?
Do the listed sites appear good quality? Take a look at these under different categories. Or is the directory full of junk sites?
What overall impression do you get considering the layout as well as the above aspects?
What Google page rank is displayed for the site in the Google toolbar (if you have installed it in one of your browsers)? A page rank of at least 4/10 is what you should be looking for.
If you are adept enough, you should also look at the traffic levels to the directory by going to Alexa website.
Finally, look at the way the directory treats submissions. Do they seem to be in the directory business solely to make money from website owners? What is the backlog of websites pending review as indicated by the directory? Directories often indicate the time lag you have to expect before your site is taken up for review.
You should by now have a good idea of whether the directory is worth submitting to. You should also be able to decide whether it is worth paying money, and if so how much, to get listed in that directory.
New directories might not meet many of the desirable criteria above. However, if they seem well organized and filled with good quality websites, it might be worthwhile to submit to them. You get the advantage of quicker review and probably even a front-page listing.
Consider Outsourcing Directory Submission
By now, you would have an idea of all the bother involved in selecting directories and submitting your Web site to them. Manual submission by hand to each directory is an extremely monotonous job.
It is better to entrust the submission to a dependable specialist who would submit your site to selected directories.
A specialist would also know the directories out there and how good each one is.
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are a vital part of online marketing. As an Internet business owner, one of the most important things that you need to do is get people to surf through your site so that they see what you have to offer and, hopefully, buy your products or services. Since the most common way that Internet surfers use to look for the information on products or services is a search engine, then it is to your advantage to “convince” the search engine that your site is responsive to the needs of the searcher based on the keywords that he enters into it. To do this, you need to optimize your website, either by yourself or through a SEO Consultant who is equipped to provide your site with various search engine optimization services.
What search engine optimization services you will need will really depend on the needs of your website. There are several factors that you need to consider in determining your search engine optimization services requirements, including:
• Level of competition
If you are competing against a relatively small number of businesses, then your search engine optimization services requirements will not be so extensive. However, if your products or services are offered by hundreds of thousands of other Internet-based businesses, then you are going to have to avail of quite a number of search engine optimization services in order to rise above the crowd. This concept is nothing new; even in the brick-and-mortar world, the level of investment and intensity of advertising and promotions is dependent on how many businesses are competing in the marketplace.
• Keyword Popularity and Competition
Search engines operate on keywords, and search engine optimization services focus on these. Search engines utilize automated “spiderbots” that “crawl” through your site to get the keyword statistical data that is the main basis for evaluating its relevance viz. the said keywords. The higher the relevance of your website, the higher in the search engine’s list of keyword-responsive sites it will be. The intensity of search engine optimization services requirements will depend on the level of competition of that keywords that your website is aiming to rank for. For example, if your website is responsive to “book”, your search engine optimization services needs will obviously be more extensive than if your website was responsive to the keyword “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
• Actual utility of your website
If your website is a single product or service website, you will need a lot of search engine optimization services in order to drive as much of your addressable market to your site. Statistically speaking, your relative success rate will more or less remain the same and it will probably be low so the trick is to make it up in volume. For example, if your success rate also known as conversion rate is 5% and only 100 visitors go to your site, then you will probably only get 5 customers. If your break even target is 100 customers, then you will have to convince 2,000 people to visit your site. If, on the other hand, your website offers a variety of products and services, your success rate will probably be higher, which means you need less visitors which, in turn, means your search engine optimization services needs will be less.
What kinds of search engine optimization services are available? There are several, actually, but the most common ones are:
• Homepage optimization
This is one of the most common search engine optimization services available. In this service, the text of your homepage is embedded with the keywords that your website is responsive to. What’s more, the HTML program itself is embedded with keywords in the meta-tag portion, or that area in the program that contains remarks and does not appear in the homepage itself. It is always good to optimize your homepage because this is mostly what the search engine “spiderbot” “sees” when crawling through your website.
• Link popularity analysis
One strategy to optimize your website is to get the links to your site embedded in popular websites so that when visitors go to that site, they also get to see the links to yours and, hopefully, click on them. You can accomplish this in two ways: buy ad space in the popular websites or offer to exchange link space. Either way, you will need to analyze the popularity of the candidate popular website by via link popularity analysis, which is one of the search engine optimization services that SEO firms or individuals offer.
• Website promotion tools
As mentioned earlier, you can promote your site via links to popular websites which, incidentally, rank high in the search engines. These strategies are part of an SEO firm’s website promotion tools and form part and parcel of the search engine optimization services they provide.
The list of search engine optimization services that SEO companies provide changes over time. Remember that your website is not the only one that undergoes optimization, and that there is absolutely only one position for each of the Top 50 ranking for each search engine. Your website may be number one today, but as your competition avails of better search engine optimization services, you may be dislodged tomorrow, so you will always need to search for even better search engine optimization services to regain the top position. SEO companies and individuals themselves will also need to find ways and means to offer better search engine optimization services so that they can continue to justify their existence.
In selecting an SEO consultant, be sure to look at its clients and see how popular they are. It’s the best way for you to find out if their are effective and if they are constantly improving them.
Moe Tamani is an expert in with the leading US based .
Selecting SEO company through Korea search engine market environment.
In Korea, search engine market and environment are totally different from worldwide’s in lots of dimensions. Therefore, fully understanding Korean search engine environment is highly recommended for those who want to expand their sales and exposure their website to Korean web users through SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy.
To your surprise, Koreans are not familiar with the world’s best search engines such as “”or “Yahoo!”. Refer to the search volume share in Korea, Naver (NHN corp.) share more than 70% of the market, and Daum follow it while Yahoo! Korea and Google Korea shares only small portion. Korea SEO starts with understanding search engines in the Korean own way such as “Naver” and “Daum” eventually. Helping you choose great Korea SEO company, I will deal with two key points of Korea search engine market environments- Integrated search results and well-developed social media. Let’s take a look at how to select SEO company.
1. Korea SEO company which has Integrated Search marketing solution
Korean web users are used to using integrated search result to get useful information without shifting to other web pages such as ‘Images’, ‘Maps’, and ‘News’ in Google.
Korea search engines have lots of vertical in one page, so you can see various contents in one page. Especially, Naver and Daum show long integrated search result page. When you enter keyword on search tab, you will see keyword advertising (CPC, CPM), blog, community, answers, news, organic result, shopping info, video, image, and etc. all in 1 long page. Trying to follow this trend, even Google Korea made their search result more integrated. You have to make full use of it. For successful SEO campaign, you should focus not just in ranking, but also impression in various verticals.
In conclusion, basically, a creditable Korea SEO company should have a sufficient and complete understanding of this Korean special search engine environment. Therefore, Korea SEO company should be able to make full use of the integrated search result so that they can make a great impression in various verticals (Q&A,Blogs,News).
2. Korea SEO company which makes full use of well organized social media
Another feature of Korean web users is to voluntarily participate to write contents, make communities, ask questions and answer themselves by on purpose of commercial or interest. Therefore, social networks such as blog and Café, a kind of community sites which have membership account, are far stimulated in Korea. These verticals often appear in high position in search result page. Web users more likely believe the contents rather than advertisement copy even though the CPC (cost per click) of advertisement is ridiculously high.
Therefore, Korea SEO company should focus on social network sites such as blog and community as well as on PPC to take the highest place in search result page.
3. Other requirements for Korea SEO company
What is more, at least when it comes to SEO company, they have the dedicated implementation staff experiencing for many years who have leading edge SEM technology know-how andit would be better for SEO Company to be consist of professional marketers. By working side-by-side with you, great SEO company should be able to turn those visitors into sales for your company using SEO strategy.
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