Thursday, April 12, 2007

What Fascinates Me About Search Engine Optimization Software SEO Elite

Being inspired by one of the best home based and possibly most talked about home based business in Australia I started to divert my mind in the same direction. The direction was to think logically and put the missing pieces of the puzzle to make money online. I found one of the most important aspects of a successful online business was the presence. The basic idea is simple; people out there need to know you and your business exist. With a lot of other company possibly selling/promoting the same product as yours it has become very hard to come on first on the Google or Yahoo search engine.

So what is so fascinating about SEO Elite? Well if implemented correctly it can do magic!

  • Despite so many same and very relevant web sites offering the product you will see that when I searched for the term Search Engine Optimization Software in Google I found a product called SEO Elite. What triggered me was that it was this very particular software (SEO Elite) that actually made it possible. This is a very big claim with solid proof.
  • If you look into my research for best SEO software, there is a concept of online and off line page optimization. Without going in to detail, online optimization basically tells you to use various Meta tags, Paragraph, Heading, Bolds, Italics, and Anchor tags. It also tells you to use proper keyword density in a web site. Off line optimization (the most important bit) is basically getting quality links to your site, this tells the search engines that your content is probably important than others out there with same type of content without anyone referring to them.
  • SEO Elite tells you what you need to know about your competitor we site, so you can start to implement the same concepts. Perhaps overtake them in search result sooner then you thought.
  • This is not to say that there is no other software or companies capable of achieving the same result for you. I am sure there are; if you know any have tested them please let me know. Best of Luck with SEO venture.

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    Wednesday, April 11, 2007

    Search Engine Optimization - Basic Rules for Search Engine Optimization

    SEO or search engine optimization is advertising by perceiving what Internet visitors may look for, to help them with web sites presenting what they are engrossed in finding. The key factor of SEO is to remember that each and every page of your web site is an exclusive thing and has to be treated suitably for search engine optimization. Here are four basic rules for quality SEO.

    The first rule is to use keywords for the titles of the web pages. The keywords are words that the internet users may probably use to search your product A lot of brain storming should be done of choose the right titles for each page of your web site that makes proper use of keywords.

    The second rule of quality SEO is to make use of keywords in the title tag as well the Meta tags. Meta elements give the information about a certain web page, and mostly assist the search engines classify them appropriately.

    The third rule for quality SEO is to make sure that the keywords that you choose are according to the marketing criteria. Make your keywords as specific as possible. This will result in good rankings of your web site in a search engine results page.

    The fourth rule for quality SEO is to make your content rich in keywords. But make sure that the use of keywords seems relevant. Overuse of keywords in your content results in discounting your page by many search engines

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    Monday, April 09, 2007

    Traffic Building - Site Promotion or Custom Lead Generation

    What is the difference between Web Site Promotion and Custom Lead Generation?

    Site Promotion: is an internet marketing term that refers to the activity of publicizing the vendor's web site to consumers.(i.e. advertising)

    Lead Generation: is a marketing term that refers to the manufacture of connections between well-matched consumers and target corporate vendors.

    Custom Lead Generation: is an internet marketing term that refers to producing specific types of visitors to your web site yourself from specific publicity about your web site offer.

    In layman's terms that simply means communicating with, and attracting a qualified visitor to your web site, willing to provide you with their contact information, and have a need for your specific offer today, and are potentially going to purchase today, and again in the future.

    What is a custom lead?

    Somebody you have communicated with

    Somebody attracted to your specific offer

    Somebody willing to provide you their contact information

    Somebody that wants your product, solution, or opportunity

    Somebody that has bought your product, solution, opportunity or a competition's

    Somebody that is capable of making purchases immediately, and in the future

    Site promotion therefore is just telling everybody about your web site, hoping they will visit sometime (i.e. branding for example)

    Custom lead generation is a very specific process that results first in the capture of a specifically defined somebody's contact information, and finally with multiple repeat sales transactions with them.

    So if you intentionally will start off to generate custom leads instead of promoting your web site, your methods of advertising, communicating, requesting information, making your offer, asking for their order, and after sales communicating will all automatically change for the best for you.

    Custom leads are generated for the sole purpose of creating profits online for your business, and one of the best methods of generating your own custom leads is through article marketing. You are writing articles to communicate with somebody that is already interested in your niche market that you publish the article in.

    After reading your article, and if they like your style, and your offer they are very willing to give you their contact information when they get to your capture page on your web site. Since you are targeting somebody who has already demonstrated they are capable of buying, have bought similar items, or want your offer they will sign up, and buy in much higher numbers that visitors from site promotion.

    For example: Somebody that is wearing tattered old shoes may very well need to buy new shoes, so you think they are a prime target for your exciting new shoe offer. The reality is the best custom lead is somebody who is already wearing shiny new shoes, with a few rather new looking shoes in their closet already.

    The first person may need to buy your new shoes, but do not, they are obviously still wearing the tattered old ones you seen, waiting for that perfect pair to go on sale. (i.e. opportunity seekers)

    The second person has already demonstrated that they are willing, are capable of buying, and want to buy new shoes. They will buy your new shoes if your shoe offer is communicated in a way that attracts them today, and they will buy again in the future - they are shoe buyers. ( i.e. entrepreneurs, investors, buyers)

    The Difference is Custom Lead Generation Will Result in Creating Profits On-Line for You Faster than Site Promotion!

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    Saturday, April 07, 2007

    Get The Edge With Web Site Optimization Software

    Search engine optimization (SEO) is arguably the most written about subject on the internet. Everybody is constantly looking for that edge that will give them a one up on their competitors. Lately, many new web site optimization software packages started flooding the market – all with big promises, but very few which delivers real results. Apart from the software, there are also many companies specializing in this and whom are willing do the work for you (most of them just use the software anyway) and some even guarantee you a top ten ranking.

    Search engine traffic is still the best form of traffic that anyone can get to their web site. Spending your time and money on improving your search engine rankings is indeed a wise long term investment that will pay you back for years to come. Not only is search engine traffic free, but it is highly targeted and extremely credible. When someone finds you via a search engine, they found you via an exact search they were doing – meaning they were actually looking for what you've got to offer.

    Search engines are highly regarded by most internet users, and when you have a top listing on a search engine you automatically gain credibility. Needless to say, these top search engine spots are highly competitive and having a top rank on a high demand keyword can mean a lot of money for you in revenue.

    The common misconception amongst many web site owners is that it is impossible to get a top ranking and break into a market. I'm not trying to say it's easy, but it is possible and making the effort is well worth the potential returns. This is where web site optimization software comes in. Software allows you to do what you cannot do manually and it also allows you to do in ten minutes what might take you 3 hours if you were to do it manually. With the right web site optimization software in your hands you really can get the edge over your competitors.

    With software like SEO Elite, you can 'legally spy' on the top ranking websites and look underneath the bonnet of the top websites in your niche to see exactly why they get their top rankings. You can then simply copy what they are doing and even improve on it. By following this process for every one of your web pages you are bound to get top rankings sooner rather than later.

    The real beauty of high search engine rankings is that it tends to be self reinforcing. One top ranking page in your website will start to build your credibility amongst the search engines which makes it easier to get consequent rankings.

    SEO has become quite a competitive field and without software it is really hard to break into the top of search results. The biggest challenge however is in having the patients and the persistence. Regardless of how good your web site optimization software is, you still have to do the work and be patient until you succeed. It is important to realize that if you are going to take the time to build your website, then it is important to optimize it to get the best use from it. So many people build great web sites, but they never optimize it and they end up never getting the rankings and the traffic they deserve.

    Investing in a good web site optimization software package is wise investment and potentially a very lucrative one. As the internet is growing and becoming more crowded it is becoming increasingly harder to make your mark. The software might just be the thing that will give you the edge you were looking for, but remember that YOU still have to do it and make it happen.

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    Friday, April 06, 2007

    Guide To Writing Attractive Titles

    Titles are an important part of a website's strategy to encourage
    viewers to enter their site. More recently, however, titles have been
    optimized so that Google and other popular search engines can pick up
    the website link more easily. In this short article I will explain the
    importance of the title and how it should be formatted.

    The title should catch the eye of potential visitors, but it should
    also be optimized for search engines. This is a balance that is
    rarely achieved, as companies often insert long and un-optimized
    slogans into their titles. Let's use the website of the fake company
    called Barnyard Depot, a barnyard manufacturer, as an example.

    Let's have a look at their current title:
    "The greatest barnyards on the planet... BarnyardDepot.com"

    There are many problems with this title. The title should be a bit
    longer, and it should be filled with more keywords. I always refrain
    from using slogans in titles. Since you only have a limited amount of
    characters that can fit in a title, you want to eliminate the
    unnecessary words, while implementing more commonly-searched keywords.
    For example, no one is going to type "planet" with barnyards, let
    alone "greatest barnyards". People might be looking for
    professionally-manufactured barnyards, or barnyards of different
    colours.

    What about now?
    "Professional Barnyard Manufacturer of Coloured Barnyards... BarnyardDepot.com"

    The phrase in the title is somewhat coherent, but we need to separate
    "Professional Barnyard Manufacturer" with Coloured Barnyards".

    Now:
    Professional Barnyard Manufacturer - Coloured Barnyards - BarnyardDepot.com

    The next step is to modify the "BarnyardDepot.com" ending. In my
    professional opinion, it is redundant to add the domain name in the
    title, as it already appears along with the Google results. We also
    want to modify the title so that we have both variations of
    "Barnyard", which are "Barnyard" and "Barn Yard".

    Professional Barn Yard Manufacturer - Coloured Barnyards - Barnyard Depot

    Ofcourse, there are more parts to Search Engine Optimization than just
    the title, but the title is a very important part of SEO. I hoped you
    enjoyed this tutorial.

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    Thursday, April 05, 2007

    Website Analytics for the Author

    Once your website is constructed, optimized for search, and launched, you next want to be sure to know how to gauge incoming traffic. How many people are visiting your site daily, where are they coming from, and what are they doing once they are on your site? Do people linger as they visit, or pop on and jump off immediately? Are they finding you via Google, or coming to you from other sources? Moreover, as you collect results on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, what can you do to increase your numbers, and consequently sales of your book?

    In my experience assisting website owners with search engine optimization, I know it is not unusual for some people to be eager, almost anal, about website statistics. Some people check them daily, and perhaps panic when a day yields half the visits than normal. Some days might show a spike in traffic, which leads to a scramble to figure out what was so special about that day that brought so many visitors. Where design, content, and optimization play important roles in building a website, statistics are also important as they can assist you in adjusting your site to increase traffic. If your website is hosted by a specific company, chances are you already have the ability to view stats. If you use a free host that only offers such benefits as a premium, you may have to install a free program to help you track the numbers.

    No matter how you do it, it is necessary to know what statistics to look for and what they mean. Here is just a short list of things to look for as you study your site's incoming traffic.

    Hits - In checking daily or monthly totals in your statistics program, you may notice a section called "Hits." Depending upon your site's activity, the number of hits to your site may be quite large, but don't get too excited yet. You may see some websites brag about getting thousands of hits daily or monthly, but this statistic doesn't necessarily refer to actual site visits. Here's why:

    Take a look at any webpage, and what do you see? Most often, you will see a page of content, maybe a few pictures, maybe an inline video or other Flash animation. On the outset, the page looks like one file, but in actuality it could be severals files come together to create the page. When you visit this page, every single element displayed is counted as a site hit. An HTML file with five pictures will count as six hits - one for each JPG or GIF file, one for the HTML. So you see, this number can be misleading in terms of overall site traffic and popularity. It may be a good number to know as you track, but other statistics will provide a clearer view.

    Page Views - Page views refer to the number of webpages overall visited on your site. Say you have five webpages total on your site - a main page, three pages for three books, and a contact page. In the course of a month, you find that your site generated 600 page views. This means that the five pages of your site were collectively visited for a total of 600 times. Now, if your statistic program is more advanced and allows to see more detailed results, you can determine which pages were visited most often. If, for example, 400 people visited the front page, and the remaining 200 were divided among the others, you may think you need to optimize the other pages to get traffic. Possible, but you should also consider an overhaul to the front page. When you think how the number decreases as people move deeper into your site, it is possible that the content on the front page is not compelling enough to encourage visitors to click deeper. Another statistic, Views Per Visit, can better help you determine how many people are digging deeply into your site as opposed to jumping off for various reasons.

    Visitors/Unique Visitors - These are actually two different statistics. Where Visitors refers to the number of overall visitors to your site in a given period, Unique Visitors tallies the actual number of individuals who come to your site. Say in a month your site brought 400 visits overall, and of those 100 were unique visitors. This means that 100 people made multiple stops to your site that account for your total visits. It is handy to track the number of unique visitors that come to your site, as it can help determine the site's general exposure in search and other web resources. The more unique visitors means more individual people are coming to see about your books.

    Referrals - Naturally this is an important one to know. Referrals are the actual links or URLs from which people are coming to your site. They may be links from search results in Google or Yahoo, links from your publisher or book reviews, or links from other sites that have information on your site and work. The more varied the list of URLs is lets you know of your rising link popularity, while the gradual charting of numbers from search URLs can help you indicate your rising or decreasing exposure in search.

    Average Site Visit - More advanced statistics programs may offer statistics on the length of individual visits to your site. This is a good one to watch to determine the "stickiness factor," of your site - the longer a person remains, the better. If you find your average visit length is thirty second or less, you may wish to consider looking into how to improve your site to keep people on longer. Can you add more text or graphic content, more incentives for people to stay?

    Statistic Programs

    Depending upon your hosting program, you may have a built-in stats program that lets you view the above and more. Some may come with a specific package, while more advanced programs require fees. If you do not have a built-in access or cannot translate the information, you want to consider a third-party software. Some may require you to place code on each page you wish to track, but for many the code will not compromise the design. Once you do figure out how to read the program of your choice, do more than just read the information. Learn where your visitors goes, how long they stay, and adjust your site accordingly to bring in more traffic. After each update, study your stats again for major changes. For many visitors, this is likely the only exposure to your books they will have, use the stats to help determine how to keep them coming to your site.

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    Tuesday, April 03, 2007

    Power Tips To Create an Op-Ed Article

    Here the most common tips on how to effectively write and distribute an op-ed article.

    Tip # 1 Determine your goal and target audience

    An op-ed article should be a simple and straightforward, method for communicating a message to your target audience to grab and hold their attention. The first thing to consider is the target audience, your purpose is to communicate a message to a particular group of people. Submit your op-ed to magazines, newspapers and any media that allows op-ed to be published in your target audience.

    Tip # 2 - Content

    The content that you include in your op-ed article will play an important role in the success of it. Take some time to think about what you're going to say before you submit. If you submit an understanding and interesting op-ed,it will almost surely get published.

    Tip # 3 - debatable

    The term "op-ed" is from combining the words "opposite" and "editorial." so you might want to consider maintaining an opinion that is in opposition to the article that you're commenting on.
    Tip # 4 - Follow the exact instructions for submitting your op-ed

    the best to submit an op-ed article is the op-ed editors and understands their needs. At the end of any op-ed there are instructions on how to submit your own opinion.

    Tip # 5 - Full contact information

    Be sure to include your contact information and try to use your website address as the name of your company. This way, when the op-ed comes out and your website address is placed under your name, people will know exactly where to go to get more information about you and your business.

    You'll be surprised of your results when you simply submit your opinion to target publications.

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    Sunday, April 01, 2007

    Keyword Research - How to Create an Effective Keyword List

    Part 2

    Wordtracker is the most popular
    and effective SEO tool used by search engine marketers.
    WordTracker allows you to do a comprehensive search for
    related keywords, provides the number of searches for your
    keywords, then compares their popularity in the search engines
    with how competitive they are. Ideally you want to use keywords
    that receive a high number of searches but don't have many competing
    web sites for the same keyword.

    Using the free trial at WordTracker my comprehensive
    search for Spanish Shirts generates this list:

    1. spanish shirts


    2. spanish clubs


    3. football shirts


    4. overseas clubs


    5. ebay


    6. online shopping


    7. online auction


    8. apparel


    9. spanish


    10. t-shirts


    11. sports memorabilia


    12. ebay.co.uk


    13. Spanish


    14. real madrid


    15. tshirt

    The enhanced version would display 285 keywords here.
    If I click on Spanish Shirts I get a table showing keywords
    taken from all Dogpile & Metacrawler queries over the last 90 days.

    Count = 4
    This shows the number of times a particular keyword has
    appeared in the database.

    E.g. The database currently holds 327967786 words. A count of
    4 tells you that this particular word has appeared 4 times
    (this is over 90 days). The keywords are taken from major
    metacrawlers (a service that queries all the main search
    engines simultaneously).

    Predict = 7
    This is the maximum total predicted traffic for all of the major
    search engines/pay per bids and directories today.

    Since Spanish Shirts generates a small number of searches,
    I will search on a broader term ie Spanish or T-Shirts

    Spanish

    spanish 3407 6009


    spanish dictionary 3183 5614


    spanish translator 2295 4048


    spanish music lyrics 2114 3728


    spanish translation 1892 3337


    spanish english dictionary 1352 2384


    english to spanish 1049 1850 dig


    spanish to english dictionary 1040 1834


    spanish to english 1033 1822


    spanish babes 990 1746


    learn spanish 989 1744


    spanish american war 987 1741


    english to spanish translation 778 1372


    spanish to english translation 747 1317


    english to spanish dictionary 745 1314

    The first number beside each keyword is the count, the
    second is the predicted number.The list above generates higher
    numbers than Spansih Shirts because of their popularity.
    This is useful because it gives you another angle to attract
    traffic to your web site. For example you could create a
    page on how to learn spanish by integrating the keywords
    "learn spanish" in your article. The traffic this page receives
    may help sell more Spanish Shirts because the visitors will

    visit the rest of the site.

    T-Shirts

    Here are the related words for the keyword T-Shirts generated by WordTracker.

    1. t-shirts


    2. funny t-shirts


    3. tshirts


    4. t-shirt


    5. tee shirts


    6. tshirt


    7. shirts


    8. tees


    9. funny t-shirt


    10. funny shirts


    11. cool t-shirts


    12. tee


    13. funny t shirts


    14. funny


    15. humorous

    If you do a deeper search on t-shirts you get:

    t-shirts 1146 2021


    t-shirt 805 1420


    funny t-shirts 622 1097


    custom t-shirts 375 661


    christian t-shirts 185 326


    t-shirt designs 180 317


    blank t-shirts 147 259


    t-shirt design 146 257


    japanese t-shirt 145 256


    wholesale t-shirts 139 245


    white t-shirt 126 222


    vintage t-shirts 123 217


    white t-shirts 111 196


    cool t-shirts 102 180


    rolling stones t-shirts 102 180

    If you subscribe to the paid version of wordtracker you will get
    another 85 words.You also have the choice of digging deeper
    on each of the keywords above if you want to view words
    related to the one you chose.

    Conclusion.

    Doing keyword research before you write the content for your
    web site will help you to identify what angles you can use to
    attract the search engine spiders. If you create different pages
    that include these keywords you gain extra traffic because
    they receive a high number of searches.

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