Search Engines Are Doomed to Fail
Over the years the search engines were the target number one on the hunt for visitors and traffic to millions of web sites. In an attempt to keep the search results accurate and still delivering what the user is actually........

Using External Coding To Improve Search Engine Placement
As you can imagine search engine spiders have a lot of pages to get through on the web when they are indexing sites. To improve their speed and efficiency search engines program their spiders to give up easily if they.......

Forget SEO – It's All About Conversion!
Which SEO hat do you wear? Is it white or black? Or perhaps it’s a subtle shade of gray. Well, wherever you are on this spectrum, if you are like 99% of the SEO-fixated webmasters out there, you are doing all you.......

How To Indirectly Get To The Top Of Search Engines
How do you do this? By using the success of others to your advantage. Look up the top 20 web sites on the major search engines under the keywords and phrases people would find your web site. The key would........

More on Keywords
Whether optimizing a web site or searching for a hard-to-find item, consider tapping resources to locate a variety of keywords. Identify keywords and phrases that are relevant to the products, services.......

Search Engine Marketing Hype Killing Small Businesses
You are led to believe that your business will die a terrible death without the search engines. You are led to believe that only people who can guide you through the mine field of search engine optimization are the SEO......

Fresh Content Improves Search Engine Optimization
Many search engine optimization companies will sell you a search engine optimization package that addresses many of the major aspects of search engine optimization. These aspects include, but are not limited.......

Anatomy Of An Internet Search Engine
For some unfortunate souls SEO is simply the learning of tricks and techniques that, according to their understanding, should propel their site into the top rankings on the major search engines. This understanding of.......

Strategies For Submitting Your Website To Web Directories
ou can use web directories to not only enhance your search engine visibility (through increased link popularity), but by targeting niche categories and using sponsored listings where necessary, you can get a big jump......

Six techniques to triple your website hits
Over the past five years I have learnt many tricks to gain visitors. Many are great and some are negative, even getting me excluded from major search engines. For your benefit I have comprised a list of six free, easy......

The SEO Rip-Off
It seems more and more people are falling victim to bad SEO. The main complaint is that they are paying entirely too much for little or no results. Additionally, many fall prey to bad SEO practices. If you plan to hire.......

Why Getting More Traffic is the Biggest Mistake Web Owners Make
The biggest mistake web owners make is thinking that it's all about GETTING MORE TRAFFIC.  The term 'web traffic' gets over 43,000 inquiries per month according to Overture - that's over half a million queries a year.....

How To Measure Search Engine Marketing ROI
Search engine marketing appears to be a great way to advertise but is it right for you and your business? If you are not already employing search engine marketing(SEM) for you business is.....

Is Google having a tough time with their website limit?
As Google updates their results, it seems like they are having some issues dealing with so many new websites popping up. Indexing 8 billion websites is quite an accomplishment for Google. As they are......

The Ultimate Free Google Ranking Tool
The truth is that the keywords that you are targeting are often not showing your site the first months at all on the first 200 search listings. OK,if you try to get your site listed for hoooohjgaagga or something like that.....

Monitor and Increase Your Search Engine Visibility with the DIY SEO Tools
In this three part article, you’ll find many tools that any webmaster can use to monitor your site’s search engine position, and use to increase the visibility of your site in major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN......

Optimizing Flash. Can it be Done? by Joe Balestrino
Most professionals recognize the superior visual aspects that Flash has to offer. Unfortunately, Flash is also very hard to optimize. Many SEO firms would rather tell you Flash can’t be optimized than to try and.....

How do I drive traffic to a brand new website?
The one thing that all of these new websites need in order to make their existence worthwhile is traffic, which leads me to one of the most common questions I am asked and the subject of this newsletter: 'How can.....

GoogSpy: Business Counter Intelligence for Everyone
Meet GoogSpy, a special search engine that not only shows you what Google AdWords your competitors are buying, but it will display all of the search terms that rank them in the top 10, PLUS it even displays their top......

What In The World Is This Google Sandbox Theory Thing? And How Do I Beat It?
The Google Sandbox theory is just that, a theory, and is without official confirmations from Google or the benefit of years of observation.  The Google Sandbox theory has been floating around since summer 2004, and has only......

How to Get Targeted Search Engine Traffic Quickly
I only speak about methods I have used and that worked well for my business. There are a lot of people out there who will steer you in the wrong direction because they are just regurgitating old information that might have......

SEO = Search Engine Optimization, tips on successful page ranking
One of the key things to remember when developing your web-site presence is to always evaluate your competition. See what’s working for them; how they market their products and services, and even.....

A view on Google’s Patent: Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data
Google’s search results have been increasingly difficult to explain and many theories have been developed on what is going on. Most popular is the “sand box” theory, which says that a new site is put in a.......

The Biggest SEO Scam of All
“We can get your site to be number one in the search engines for the top 20 search terms you choose,” promised the telemarketer. I don’t usually give telemarketers the time of day, but somehow found......

1 Simple SEO Strategy To Get More Visitors To Your Site From Google
If you have already a website which is generating traffic, you can dramatically increase your numbers, simply by adding relevant doorway pages targeting a specific keyword. These pages have content and have your......

Source Code: Places You May Not Have Thought To Put Keywords
We all know it's good practice to put in-context keywords into page titles, meta tags and alt tags. But here are a few places you may not have thought about.
Tables - You're most likely familiar with what a table.......

Beat Google’s Dampening Link Filter with SEO Articles
It seems that Google may have introduced something called a “Dampening Link Filter” into its indexing algorithm. I’ll give you a layperson’s overview of this filter, but for more intimate details, check out........

Introducing PageRank - shattering the myth
PageRank is where the attention is focused today, and many companies are determined to find a means of improving their magic number. "I want to be an eight," they say, as if PageRank was a dress size that they........

Powerful Tactic Produces Big Traffic Payback
Well, you see, I mistakenly assumed that most everyone clearly understood the importance of link text. You know the clickable part of your link? Or the part of your linking info that usually appears in blue and leads.......

Search Engine Optimization
However, search engine optimisation doesn't have to be complicated beyond the reach of the average site owner.  Its essence is to simply make your page as spider friendly as possible, and having keyword, search......