Search Engine Optimization in India ( Freelance )
February 4, 2010
If you are a blogger or webmaster, you are likely looking high and low for a freelance SEO provider and finding it just a little bit difficult. Freelance SEO or even SEO is not an easy thing to come by. It requires a great deal of experience and training to get the art of SEO down just right. Many people will come to you saying they know all there is to know about SEO, but nine times out of ten, you will find that they while they might know bits and pieces, they do not know enough.
Freelance SEO (search engine optimization) is a combination of many things from links and keyword optimization to articles. It might be necessary to hire several people that are experienced in one area of SEO, which may be a lot easier than trying to find one person possessing all the skills that are available to help you out on your website.
If you post a project on a freelance website, look at the feedback of the person. If they are an experience freelance SEO provider they will have several positive feedback to back up their claims. That is not to say that you should not consider someone with no feedback if they can provide verifiable samples or references. If they have no feedback it could mean they are new to the site or even new to the freelance world, but have the necessary experience in SEO to do the job for you.
Self-confidence is needed in most aspects of life because we all need to believe in ourselves and our own capabilities if we are going to succeed at anything. Self-confidence is important in search engine optimisation too. SEO is a complicated subject and an efficient SEO campaign will include a number of different SEO methods that must be utilised in order to achieve positive results. A lot of hard work, time and patience must go into SEO and this can only be done effectively if you believe in what you are doing but also if you believe in yourself.
You must first be confident in the business that you have and the way in which you are running it. Knowing that you have developed your business in the best way possible and that you are offering your customers want they want puts you in the prefect position for website optimisation. It is highly important that you trust your knowledge and experience and that you use this to develop your website appropriately. The content, the layout and all other details of your website must be created thoughtfully and confidently if things are going to work.
Link building is an important part of SEO and again self-confidence is needed if you are going to establish productive links for your business. You have to be able to identify good link partners, be able to communicate effectively with them so that they understand the benefits of linking to your site and keep building upon the links that you already have.
Social networking websites are increasing in popularity and their role within SEO is also increasing too. A great deal of confidence is required in order to create and maintain effective social networking profiles for your business. You must be able to demonstrate your authority and expertise through the content you create in your posts and interact with other users of the site appropriately too. This can be highly beneficial when developing your brand and encouraging interest and loyalty from other users.
Article writing also plays a significant role in SEO. High quality articles relevant to your business need to be created and you have to be confident in what you are writing if you are going to communicate your messages effectively. You know your business and have to believe this when offering information and advice to others.
If you are going to help others to appreciate and understand the value of your
5 Basic SEO Rules for Your Website
January 25, 2010
SEO or Search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion.
So I present, 5 basic “SEO Rules” to follow when you launch a new website.
1) Don’t Re-Use Your Title Tag On Every Page
Many times your website designer doesn’t even realize this is being done. Your creative team is more concerned with the visual presentation than to worry about something they consider more of a minor ‘nuisance”.
Most of the time, your website has been created from a template, which ensures that everything looks the same -design wise- from one page to another. This is perfect to get the site off the ground and out there. Most WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors work this way as well, templates allow for easy production of web pages.
The drawback to this from an SEO perspective is that the Title and Meta tags are all repeated. To get your website off on the right foot, change each page’s title tag to reflect what the page is about. You’ll be surprised at the good this can do for each of your web site’s pages.
2) Keyword Research
It would be wise to do at least a little keyword research before your launch your website. Understanding how your audience searches is the most beneficial thing you can do for your website. Doing even the slightest amount of research can clue you into small idiosyncrasies that could be “gold mines” in disguise.
Keyword research can also let you know how to target the content on your page, how to word each page’s title tag and whether people really are searching on your business name. It’s well worth the time spent to discover exactly what you need to target to have a successful website.
3) Don’t Use Keywords In Images
Your designer might yell at you, question your judgment, or complain that it will ruin the aesthetics of the design, but let me put it to you this way; “What good is a great design if no one can find it?”
If your keywords are embedded in images, the search engines have no clue that keyword is related to your page. They cannot “see” your images. So if the term “camel rides” is important to your business, make sure it’s actual text somewhere within your content, not part of an image.
4) Check Your Robots.txt File
Check, double check and go back and recheck that Robots.txt file. Make sure it’s in the root folder of your domain. Ensure all the folders and files you want to be found by the search engines are allowed. Any development folders, javascript folders, css folders or private folders, you do not want to end up in a search engine results should be disallowed.
For the proper syntax of how to configure a Robots.txt file, check out: Robotstxt.org.
5) Provide An HTML Version of Your Sitemap
Providing an HTML Version that lists the links to the pages of your site can guide the search engine spiders to all of the pages of your site. If your navigation is currently in flash or javascript, this is a great alternative way of making sure the spiders find the site’s pages. Make sure that your link to your sitemap is a simple “a href” tag, not a link formed with javascript or flash as the spiders will not be able to follow that type of link.
The five simple rules can launch your website off on the right foot. Keep in mind that these are just simple steps, there’s a lot more that goes into optimization of a website. This list is just meant as a guide to start you off, and these should assist you in your efforts until you have a full search marketing strategy mapped out for your website.
Best Free SEO Analysis Reports and Tools
January 23, 2010
Quick SEO Evaluation Tools:
Website Grader-pretty quick way to find out about your site
SEO Automatic Tool-tells you about on page search engine optimization factors
Review My Web.com SEO Analysis Tool
SEO Backlink Checker Tools:
Google Backlink Checker
MSN Backlink Checker
Technorati for blog
Competitive Analysis Tools:
SEO Tracking Analysis:
Graph of Backlinks Over Time for search engine marketing purposes.
this is a great list of tools. Please try and evaluate this tool and provide feedback: http://analyzers.pearanalytics
2010 SEO Checklist
January 20, 2010
The list of pointers to get your website on top, reach out to potential customers and ensure brand visibility in 2010.
1. Decrease Webpage Load Time:
Google’s Matt Cutts recently hinted that the load time of a website may affect its ranking in the search engines. That is, the faster a website loads, the better its chances to rank well for its niche keywords. Website load time is touted as the next big step towards improved rankings. The pre-requisites to a good webpage load time are; reputable web host and fast internet connection.
2. Get Listed in Google Local Search:
Getting listed in Google Local Search ensures brand visibility in front of visitors from the nearby places. It has been proven that the number of visitors to a website increase exponentially when listed in local search results. The reason being, a customer will always prefer to purchase a quality product which is easily available in his or her vicinity rather than order it from another unfamiliar city or state.
3. Get Involved in Social Media:
Social Media is the flavor of the season and in 2010 organizations are going to actively engage in conversation and social networking and reach out to their potential customers. Social Media Marketing is a must for every organization as it helps create brand awareness and build relationships with consumers in the highly competitive market. Micro targeting and Personalization will be the keywords in 2010.
4. Optimize Your Website Mobile Users:
With an ever increasing number of people tweeting and using Facebook from their mobile devices, a lot of organizations are now finally paying attention to how their websites appear on mobile phones. You can have your website appear on the mobile under the same URL or have a special domain for the same. The most common way is to have the domain name as mobile.websitename.com.
5. Apply Web Analytics to its full potential:
There are hundreds of web analytics tools in the market which provide a mountain of data pertaining to the visitor’s usage. Some of the most well known web analytics tools are Omniture, Google Analytics and Yahoo! Web Analytics etc. Web Analytics tools can answer the “how” but not the “why”. That is, you can find out how many visitors checked the product catalogue webpage, but not the answer to, why the visitors didn’t place an order for the product. Organizations need to dissect the data from web analytics tools and successfully apply its learning’s to enhance their visitors experience and in turn increase sales revenues.
7 Best SEO blogs to follow
January 12, 2010
Search engine optimization is nothing less these days when you are trying to find some good promotion for your site, without the involvement of publicly placed ads.
But SEO isn’t anything constant. It always keeps changing with the tactics and criteria of search engines like Google to rank websites. And there are some very good blogs that keep sharing these tricks, news and information about the changes that happen in the search engine world. Here are the best 7 blogs about SEO -
- Search Engine Land – A news and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry. Danny Sullivan, the main person behind this.
- SE Roundtable – This blog craves through and lists the best discussions that are going on in various search engine forums. The purpose behind the Search Engine Roundtable is to report on the most interesting threads taking place at the SEM (Search Engine Marketing) forums.
- Search Engine Journal – Search Engine Journal, a publication of Search & Social Media, LLC, which specializes in a community approach to the reporting of search engine news & the sharing of Search Engine Marketing knowledge & tactics.
- SEOMoz Blog – This is a blog maintained by a big team of SEO experts and is one of the best in the list. It teaches, discusses and researches on the SEO practices around.
- Matt Cutts – This is a blog by the Google Guy Matt Cutts, which is specifically not always about SEO but sometimes the posts are direct exposure of what the Google team is doing. He has been into the Google Spam control team since long time and does share some good tips about SEO.
- SEO Book – Aaron Wall, one of the best SEO Trainers around. He writes about some best SEO practices to follow and also sells an ebook that teaches every basic part of SEO for learners.
- Search Engine Watch – Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.
Is Blackhat SEO helpful for website optimization?
January 12, 2010
Black hat search engine optimization is mostly used to gain higher search engine rankings in an unusual manner. Most blackhat seo techniques break rules of search engines. Black Hat Seo is lucrative; as it works and can get achieve most seo goals in short period of time. Creating doorway pages brings in lots of pages indexed in search engines and redirecting them to your main site. With all the keywords stuffed in these pages, you get lot of targeted search engine traffic. Using cloaking you can display normal pages to users and different to search engine spiders, which helps when u need to sacrifice some visual appearance of the page the text content of the site is made search engine friendly.
Using black hat seo techniques you can easily achieve short and long term gains, with lot of targeted traffic driven to your site. With black hat seo, you gain an advantage against your competitors. You can beat the Google search engine algorithms, smartly with changing your site coding i.e. with a black hat seo technique. Many affiliates have been using black hat seo to gain an unfair advantage & have been successful with it, making tons of cash. You need to be know the cutting edge seo exploits, to with the battle using black hat seo. Keyword stuffing, cloaking, doorway pages, redirects, hidden text, code swapping & duplicate content are some of the relative terms associated with black hat seo, but there is much more to it than just using them. You need to know, what your doing in a right way. If you link to unrelated sites or bad neighborhood’s, it can really hurt your search engine rankings. Be sure you hire an expert black hat seo company, to get maximum advantage of this techniques.
Internet Marketing and SEO Training Hyderabad, Nellore
January 10, 2010
Good search engine rankings are critical for most online businesses today. You can get your website on the top page of search engines using Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising services, but such services are often too costly for popular keyword phrases. To compete profitably, your site should appear at the top in the organic (free/natural) search engine results when customers search for your products or services.
We at Picturesques.in SEO provide the necessary expertise and SEO services for your site to rank well in major search engines. Picturesque SEO administers ethical, yet proven technology to achieve top rankings. Generally speaking, once our expert team optimizes a website, the dividends in traffic may be from moderate to enormous. If the site is designed properly, it will convert much of this traffic to sales. The benefits of new customer acquisitions, high level of ROI, increased sales, broadened market share far outweigh the relatively inexpensive costs associated with hiring our SEO expertise. The outstanding return on investment from search engine optimization will be apparent when top search rankings lead to increased traffic.
SEO Tips for Title Tags
January 10, 2010
The title tag is one of the most important tags on a web page for on-page optimization. It is also the first thing that appears within the search results on which the site visitors click to go to the site. Simple SEO stuff like the title tag can make a great difference to how well a site does in the search results. However, many website owners are not even aware about the HTML title tag; they confuse it with the big bold text on the page. Here are some important SEO tips for writing title tags.
- Title lengths should be limited to 65 characters including the spaces.
- Use your keyword phrases in the title tag, taking care that the title looks natural and does not appear keyword stuffed.
- If you wish to use your site name for branding, use your brand or site name at the end of the title tag on every page of your site.
- Each page of your site should have a unique, descriptive title tag which should match with your page content. It also makes sense to reuse the text in title tag of each page in H1 header tag too – from the viewpoint of on-page optimization as well as for enhancing user experience.
- Shorter page titles are usually better than long ones. However, longer titles make sense when you don’t want to lose traffic from long tail keywords. You may also combine or overlap many keyword phrases in the page title. For example, a title such as ‘Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Tips’ can help you to rank for keyword phrases such as ‘Search Engine Marketing’, ‘Search Engine Optimization Tips’, etc.
- A compelling title can attract more eyeballs and clicks when your page appears in search results. You should therefore focus on the art of writing headlines and titles for improving your conversion rate.
Social Bookmarking Services Hyderabad india
December 24, 2009
Introduction to social bookmarking
Although social bookmarking existed from 1990s, the real value of social bookmarking was obvious only recently. Web marketers of today use social bookmarking to popularize websites and products. It has become one of the major tools in the web marketing arena. Any serious web marketing today is not possible with social bookmarking. This is why SEM service providers insist on social bookmarkings and most of them provide it as a package for those who wish to popularize their website beyond boundaries.
The advantages of social bookmarking over the search engines are many. Any well-optimized website can rank high in search engines, whereas, sites listed in social media sites really mean that the websites are liked by many visitors and thus adds to the quality of the website
What are the advantages of choosing your social bookmarking packages
At www.freelanceseohyderabadindia.wordpress.com, we have identified hundreds of high ranking social media sites and manually bookmark you websites so that you get good Google PageRank and also targeted traffic. Since we offer our services at highly competitive rates, you not only save on time and money but also get your results as promised.