SEO Step 5: Your time and money budget
Make your Plan
March 10, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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In the first part of our SEO time and budget post, we asked you what amount of time versus money you want to invest in order to rank high in the search engine.
In our second part, we told you that there is SEO software that could help you ranking high in search engines.
Let’s now put [...]
SEO Step 5: Your time and money budget
March 6, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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Work like a dog to earn money quick…. what do you want and what can you afford (effort) to get what you want?
As with all businesses, online businesses are no different: You need to set your goal and you need to allocate resources to reach that goal.
Now you say: what does this have to do [...]
SEO Step 5: Your time and money budget : example
March 2, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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In the first part of our SEO time and budget post, we asked you what amount of time versus money you want to invest in order to rank high in the search engine.
Then you also need to know: if you want to be number 1 in the Olympic games, you start from young and there [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4
Meta Tags Conclusion
February 26, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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it is not because you added meta tags today that your web page automatically will rank number 1 tomorrow.
You need to:
follow all the steps in this improved search engine ranking course and
have some patience and
do a lot of work
before you will rank high in the search engines!
Technorati Tags: Improve Search Engine Ranking [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4
How to write a good keywords meta tag
February 22, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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Make sure that you only use those keyword phrases that appear in your webpage, title tag, and meta description tag. Keywords that are only found in your keywords tag, most likely will be ignored. Or worse, you will be punished.
Search engines are still machine made and do make a difference between singular and plural. [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4
How to write a good description meta tag
February 18, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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Make sure you write a text that is human readable. In other words: text that you would use in a normal conversation. This description is what people are going to read in the search engines and should invite them to visit your site!
SEO tips to write a good description
Make sure to include your most important [...]
The secret of blogging to success
February 11, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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If you want to make money blogging, you need to know the first thing about a blog: it’s a diary… Which means you need to update it, preferably daily.
Otherwise you need to make a static website: make once, let it sit forever
How many times do you update your blog?
Blogging is all about updating. [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4
What are good meta tags?
February 7, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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There are some rules of thumb when it comes to writing metatags. And of course you need your HTML right.
The correct placement for meta tags is between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your webpage. Modern day spiders love to read human readable text, so put your description before your keywords.
The correct length [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4
What are meta tags NOT for?
February 3, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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Meta tags are not there to fool the search engines.
Unfortunately in the early days of search engines, people have been misusing especially the keywords meta tag in order to fool the search engines. How?
Suppose I have a webpage about apples.
I know lots if you know that lots of people are looking for sex.
So in order [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4: Meta Tags
January 29, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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If you have been doing all stated in our previous Improved Search Engine Ranking steps, you now should have :
a website about 1 of your skills or passions
you managed to translate your skill or passion into keywords people are looking for
you wrote a title containing keywords people are looking for
Now you are ready to do [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 4
What are meta tags for?
January 23, 2010 by Stay at home jobs
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In the dark ages of the Internet, there were some primitive webcrawlers (spiders) that were trying to read the "entire’ Internet.
Since they were slow in reading, webmasters made their life easy by creating "meta tags" :
text invisible for the web visitors, but
text readable for the web crawlers.
These meta tags were originally created to [...]
Improved search engine ranking
December 8, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
Filed under Improved search engine ranking, Increase Search Engine Traffic, seo
We will give you a short tutorial spread over the next few weeks with 10 simple yet powerful SEO Search Engine Optimization tips.
Why do you need an improved search engine ranking?
Because when you rank on top, people will visit your website!
How does our improved search engine ranking tutorial work?
First an example:
The basis for [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 3: Website Title: Summary
August 30, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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You website title should contain keywords but be short enough to be a title!
Your website title should be between 50-80 characters long.
Yes, you need to count the white spaces as well, it’s all part of your title.
Your website title should include the keyword-phrase or keywords you discovered during our posts about [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 3: Website Title
Why is my website title so important for SEO?
August 26, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Similar reason as why your website title is important for your visitors: because search engines try to mimic the behavior of real people looking for the best website!
Your title should be a big clue for what your website is all about. Therefore if you have keywords in your title that match keywords that people are [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 3: Website Title
August 18, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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What is your website title?
Your website title is not the title you put on top of your web-page!
Your website title is what you put in the HTML code:
Here’s the HTML title tag of this "ranking high on search engine" site:
<html><head>
<TITLE>Overture- Keyword Selector Tool</TITLE>
</head>
And your website title will appear on top of the browser whenever somebody [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 2: How to choose the right keywords
August 13, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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You choose the keywords people are looking for as the keywords of your website. As such goes the theory
What are the keywords people are looking for?
There are 2 ways of knowing which keywords people type in the search engine:
read my previous post about the Overture Keyword Tool
If you consider yourself a good [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 2: Keywords people are looking for
August 8, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Now what do people really look for? We all know that there must be a lot of people looking for nude and naked, but when it comes to dogs, what are people really looking for? What do they type in the search engine?
Now this is a no-brainer: you just look it up at http://inventory.overture.com
Just type [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 2: the right Keywords
August 3, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Why do I need keywords? You have a point there: actually you just need good content.
How do we define good content?
The word content is too vague for comfort. You cannot be good in everything, so you need to be good in "something". This "something" should be summarized in a few words and these [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 2: Keywords
July 29, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Keywords are important just because their intrinsic value points out that keywords are a summary for what’s about to be coming.
What are keywords?
The words on my keys are my keywords…. I put the words on my keys so I can distinguish one key from another.
Keywords have to do with helping you out finding something….
Keywords [...]
Improve search engine ranking with our Improved Search Engine Ranking tutorial
July 24, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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To improve your search engine ranking we will provide you with an "Improved Search Engine Ranking tutorial". We aim at value for money, therefore we will give you this Improved Search Engine Ranking tutorial FREE!
Value for money SEO : Improved Search Engine Ranking tutorial
If you are working on your website all by yourself, you want [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 1: Passion: Conclusion
July 20, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Why do I need to have a website I am passionate about, covering one of my skills or expertises?
I in Internet stands for Information
Why do you go to the Internet? Apart from chatting and dating that is? Exactly, you want some information! How do you stand out in these heaps of information that get [...]
Improved Search Engine Ranking: Step 1: Passion!
July 15, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Start a website about your passion, skill or expertise!The best foundation of a high ranking website is a site that talks about what you are looking for!.
This is the only secret you need to know if you want to rank high in the search engine: you must be worthy to be on top!
What exactly is [...]
How to make money with your blog
June 26, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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You must have heard about "content is king"… but that is like "a shop filled with good products"…
I mean: if nobody comes to your shop, then nobody will buy your products. This is especially important when you are selling things from your own home, maybe far away from shopping malls and shopping crowds!
And; if you [...]
Does link exchange really get you more visitors?
June 22, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Yes it does, when you do it the proper way…
First and foremost you don’t automate it with a software program like SEOelite. Why not? Because the email they send out to ask for a link exchange is way too general for you to feel at ease with.
Is there a win-win
Always ask yourself: does the [...]
What is a good keyword to rank high? Summarized
June 18, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
Filed under Improved search engine ranking, Increase Search Engine Traffic
A good keyword phrase is a phrase people are looking for, you are passionate about and the competition is not too stiff.
Keyword phrases to consider are keyword phrases that:
you, your friends look for
inventory.overture.com tells you about
exist in your competitors keyword tags
don’t have too many result pages in the search engine
don’t have too many [...]
SEO in 7 seconds
June 9, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
Filed under Improved search engine ranking, Increase Search Engine Traffic
When people ask me how to rank high in the search engine, my answer is always: "content is king".
The answer I get back then is: "yes we know that, but how do we do it…"
Well: why are those Ethiopian runners winning marathons each time on the Olympic Games?
because they practice every day
because their body [...]
SEO Step 7: Dirty SEO techniques will return to bite you
April 25, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Except for really battling it out with Google in the open like John Chow did (and he lost the battle but he reached his goal first : become famous before getting kicked out… talking about SEO techniques.
But we all agree that every search engine doesn’t like the following techniques:
6 DO NOT DO SEO [...]
SEO Step 7 Don’t piss of the search engine spiders
April 20, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Search engine optimization spiders: make them your friend!
Back to real SEO today after some Internet marketing in our previous SEO Step 6 posts .
Yes, you can piss of the search engine spiders. That’s exactly what happened to John Chow’s website: he doesn’t even rank high for his own name… Now that’s really hard to do, [...]
7 quick and easy steps to increase online visitors
April 15, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Use this 7 guidelines if you want to last in blogging or making money from websites:
1 Use ads
Join Adwords or even better: Bidvertiser and get visitors that see your ad somewhere on somebody else’s website.
2 Use age old marketing knowledge
Sex sells… needless to add something here or my page will no more family oriented [...]
SEO Step 6: Think “visitors”
April 5, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
Filed under Fun, Improved search engine ranking, Increase On Line Traffic, Increase Search Engine Traffic
Like we mentioned in our previous post "Internet Marketing made fun" : you need to interact with people, because people will visit your website…
SEO reality check: although you want your web-page to rank number 1 in the search engine, at the end of the day it is all about people: visitors visiting your website.
SEO is [...]
SEO Step 6: Think “visitors”
Why don’t you do what you say?
January 25, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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Internet marketing? I can hear you thinking after reading our previous post about "think visitors": all these email, bookmarks, invite a friend button…. if it is so important, then why don’t I see it on this website? Because there is another important saying: content is king!
You cannot do everything right the first day of [...]
SEO Step 6: Think “visitors”
Who are your web-page visitors
January 20, 2009 by Stay at home jobs
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You cannot see through your website into the houses of your visitors, or can you? Well, you do have some more realistic SEO tools to help you out:
logfiles… See where your visitors are coming from! This is pretty useful: if you see that most of your visitors are coming from a link on Linky [...]
How to rank high in search engines?
July 3, 2008 by Stay at home jobs
Filed under Casestudy, Improved search engine ranking, Increase On Line Traffic, Increase Search Engine Traffic, seo
Content is king, keywords…. The real reason to rank high though is: you are better than your competition!
So it’s all about you, and your competition.
To make your part easy: look for subjects where there is no competition.
Like : "Omblogsman"…
Ranking high for Omblogsman
Why are we ranking 4th place? Because there is no competition… It’s as [...]
