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Main Factors for SEO Ranking

Posted by weblinkindia on September 6, 2010

What is SEO Ranking? Have you ever wondered why SEO Ranking is so important for your website? If you don’t know, then read the write up to determine the significance of SEO Ranking for your website.

Every website owner wishes his website to rank on the first page of a search engine like Google, AOL, MSN, etc. A website’s fate e.g. it’s ranking in Google Search Engine is not determined by a single factor. There are many important factors that collectively decide ranking of a website on the search engine. If you have been thinking for a long time why your website doesn’t rank well on a search engine then after reading this article, you can surely get answer to your queries.

Most important SEO Ranking Factors are:

  • Keywords Preference:
    The urge of a website owner of getting his website listed on the first few pages of search engine can get fulfilled by the use of appropriate keywords in the title tag. Every web user searches information with the help of certain keywords. And due to time constraint, the users browse through only the first three pages of the results displayed by search engine. So, optimize your website by using adequate keywords in content of each page.
  • Link Popularity of a Website:
    One of the most important factors that can affect the visibility of a website on the search engine is link popularity of the linking page. This means that the websites to which you link should be 100% relevant to your business and industry. Suppose, if you are dealing in cosmetics and you are linking to a site that deals in toys, then of course it will have impact on your rankings.
  • Diversifying the Link Sources for Search Engine Spiders:
    Half of the ranking game is won if the website is easily indexable by the search engine spiders. Suppose, there are 5000 pages in your website and 4000 of them are near replicas, then search engines in order to reduce the clutter can de-index these pages, thereby affecting the ranking of the site. Therefore, to reduce attrition and increase ranking of your site on search engine, use sitemaps, strong primary and secondary navigations, hub pages and images with alt attributes.
  • Domain’s Age:
    Age of the site plays vital role in determining the ranking of website on search engine. It is ascertained that the business is established, if the website has online presence of several years. This age factor also helps in building trust.
  • Uniqueness of Content
    To differentiate from other pages and flourish the business in this competitive scenario, it is requisite to incorporate unique content on each page of the site. For standing as a relevant landing page, it is mandatory to shape up the website with different and exclusive content, not by just creating replicas of already running text.

Factors Influencing the Websites Ranking on Search Engines are:

  • Spam sites/pages
  • Copied content that is already running on other websites
  • Frequent downtime or Inaccessible of server to the bots
  • Cloaking by users
  • Link acquisition from unknown links

So, in order to rank on the top pages of the search engines, it is necessary for a website to excel in the above mentioned steps. Your time, energy, & little efforts can surely make your website, a top ranking site on the search engine.

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The Difference between SEO Concepts and SEO Rules

Posted by weblinkindia on August 26, 2010

Search Engine Optimization has revolutionized the way viewers access the web and the manner in which the content for web is developed. Needless to say, SEO operates on a certain set of concepts and rules that define it and help in its improvement. Today, we will discuss some of these important rules & concepts and what basically separates them. Read on, if you are an online writer, a beginner in SEO or if you just want to know more about this interesting optimization model in a simple way.

SEO Rules
These define the basic pattern on which the optimization of a search engine works conforming to pre-set rules that may or may not be technical like:

Coding

  • Incomplete HTML tags, missing tags or tags with no association can cause a problem with SEO Checkers.
  • Too short or too long keywords are rejected so make appropriate and relevant keywords.
  • Some characters or words have no SEO value e.g. copyright or the © symbol. So, avoid these.
  • Not more than 150 characters in Image or Alt tag.
  • There should ideally be one canonical link, one <h1> tag and one tag for description.
  • Form proper hyperlinks; the details for this are available in many books and online sites.
  • Use attribute value correctly in the ‘nofollow’ tag to avoid blocking the content.

Content

  • Rankings drop for pages that are too large of if they immediately redirects the reader to another page.
  • There is nothing worse than duplicate content, which can harm the rankings of all websites that are displaying it.

These are just a few of the numerous rules that underline SEO; you can easily find more on the web.

SEO Concepts
SEO Concepts depend on various aspects like the correctness of coding and usage of tags, the number of authoritative sites linked to the particular webpage and the frequency of the pages of your website being selected by users from results.

Underlying Notion

  • No missing information either in terms of coding or content as it causes problems in the formation of pages and does not make it reader friendly. The Search Bots definitely avoid such websites.
  • Keep the webpage unique, in terms of the keywords being used and the content itself. It is sheer common sense- why would a website be ranked higher if it contains something that is already present on the internet?
  • Location of search term, its relevance to the page and frequency
  • Placement of the ‘Robots.txt’ file on your website guides the search bots in managing, which pages to consider and which ones to ignore while ranking.
  • Crawlers mainly check certain tags in a webpage, which should be properly formed and placed for correct evaluation like: <title> tag, tags for headings & hyperlinks and the <meta name=”keywords“> tag.
  • Content should be keyword rich but avoid the use of placing keywords just for the sake of being detected by the crawlers- it does not work. Many times you can find websites that mention a horde of keywords in a single paragraph or beneath an image but these only spoil the aesthetics of the page while playing havoc with its rankings.

Search Engine Optimization is a process that may take some time but gives valuable results for website owners and internet users. Understanding and implementation of SEO Rules and Concepts is equally necessary to get the edge. We will post more such articles in the future to create better awareness. Happy Optimizing!

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Development Of HTML 5 And Its Effect On SEO

Posted by weblinkindia on August 19, 2010

What is HTML 5? To understand what exactly HTML 5 is, you need to understand the concept of HTML. What is HTML then you may ask? HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It can be defined as the most predominant markup language, which is used for the creation of web pages. After HTML came HTML 2, 3, 4 and now the latest, HTML 5. Like its immediate forerunner HTML 4, HTML 5 is also a standard for creation and presentation of content on the World Wide Web. What is the connection between HTML and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? SEO reflects how search engines work and what people are searching for and it also optimizes the website, which involves editing its content, HTML and other source coding. So, SEO is basically used to enhance HTML source coding. Though the new HTML 5 may affect web developers and web designers as it appears to be a programming language but it is still an XML based presentation language. Its new tags and elements are very easy to use though its complexity can lead one to believe otherwise. It would be important to discuss the effects of HTML 5 on SEO to understand the concept in a better manner.

  • HTML 5 will enable a web designer to tell the search engines how to segment a page. Segmentation is the separation of a page into several separate parts like headers, footers, menu, main content etc.
  • The introduction of a new <article> tag will allow the marking of separate entries in an online publication, like a blog or a magazine. It will do away with the <div> tag.
  • The new <section> tag in HTML 5 can be used to identify separate sections on a page, chapter or a book. Each section can then have its separate HTML heading.
  • <Header> tag in HTML 5, not the same as the head element, is a blessing for SEO experts because of its flexibility. The <header> tag, unlike <H1> tag, can contain a lot of stuff, including H1, H2, H3 elements, paragraphs of text and hard-coded links.
  • Another feature, the <footer> tag, though does not allow the inclusion of information like the <header> tag, can still prove to be useful for SEO purposes.
  • One of the most important new tags would be the <nav> tag, which can be used to identify a collection of links to other pages.

The above mentioned are some of the major tags that will affect SEO apart from the new <audio>, <video> and <dialogue> tags, which will also allow further create separation of content into different categories. Other less important tags like article, aside, canvas, command, datalist, details, embed, figcaption, figure, hgroup, keygen, mark, meter, output, progress, rp, rt, ruby, source, summary, time and wbr have also been included in HTML 5. As all new innovations are not readily accepted, it might take some time for browsers to adjust to HTML 5, which will take time for HTML 5 to spread worldwide.

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How Much Do You Know About The SEO Services???

Posted by weblinkindia on August 12, 2010

Search Engine Optimization is a technique by which you can improve the visibility of your website by means of organic or algorithmic search results. A SEO may be aimed at searching several things including image search, local search, video search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This helps in building a web presence for the website. Over and above this, who would not want to be ranked on top of the Google Search Result!!! SEO is presently known more for its visibility issues than anything else. An SEO adds to the uniqueness of your business; makes it something apart from the general. Now, a question that is sure to haunt you as soon as you understand the importance of an SEO is What Kind of SEO Services Do You Really Need??? Here we are to resolve the issue for you to some extent. Let us look at some of the instances that may clear your idea of having an SEO.

  • A Local Business:
    For a local business, what we need is a local SEO. Your business’ listing on the Google maps or any other directory can help people avail your services. Therefore, a local SEO is undoubtedly required for a local business.
  • Start up:
    By Start Up, we mean a situation when a business offers something absolutely anew. Possibilities are that people may not even be aware of what new you have to offer. In such cases, a video SEO may be of some help for presentation matters.
  • E-commerce:
    An SEO can be of great help to those engaged in e-commerce or internet marketing. People can get through to them via SEOs to search for products that they are actually looking for. You should make sure that your links have updated list of your offerings to make them find what they want to.
  • Global Player:
    By Global Players it is meant that your business has its operations in other countries as well. But often it becomes difficult to make your global presence felt world wide. For the same, you have the option of going for a language free content which may involve images etc.

This is just an absurd beginning to all that SEO has in store to offer you. You may search for many more utilities that an SEO can provide you. So, make your presence felt because WHAT ONE SEES IS WHAT ONE DOES!!!

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SEO Tips and Tricks

Posted by weblinkindia on July 19, 2010

There are no two opinions about the fact that Internet has changed the world drastically, however a more significant fact is that, even the web arena is very dynamic and ever changing. From the days when web was a distant dream today we can compare internet with a busy and congested by lane of a metropolitan city, due to cumulative growth of Web Traffic.  With the increasing Web Traffic, its organization and management has become a challenging task for SEO people.

The Challenge
Today, the challenge that lies before SEO Experts is not only management of the websites and portals, but to get prime listing on the best search engines like Google and Bing. With innumerable listings on web per day, to ensure best listings on search engines has not only become difficult but also next to impossible. However, as every major problem, even this SEO challenge has a very common and simple solution. Below are listed some of the common but very important Tips, which would help and assist SEO Experts in ensuring prime listing for their website.

Content
If designing is the body of the webpage, its content is the soul. Images, flash and animation can merely attract a viewer; however its content gives meaning to the website and offers information about it. Without target oriented and informative content, the website will lose its meaning.

Innovation and Creativity
This is only thing that can set you apart from the thousands of other websites. Presenting the content in innovative fashion not only attracts viewers but also meets all their needs, demands and is something, which will help to get better listings for your website.

Web linkage
Web is a symbolic notation used to denote the inter linkages that internet can provide the user with. One of the prime advantages of web is that one can link its pages together and by submitting them to open web directories, link exchanges and blog or discussion forums.

Explore new alternatives
In order to ensure prime listings it’s better to use explore alternative forms and forums to promote your website. One such common platform can be social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, My space and many others. By creating a profile for your website, organization or company, you will be able to link yourself with a wider audience.

Update and Manage
Internet is a dynamic world, where things change every moment. In such scenario, it is mandatory to constantly update the content of your website in order to give something new to the visitors every time they visit you.

Following these steps, will help you meet the challenges related to SEO, in a better and an organized manner. These are some of the common tips that can improve the way you manage your websites and get you improved listings on the Search Engines.

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How WordPress Can Screw Up Your SEO?

Posted by weblinkindia on June 24, 2010

WordPress is not a new term for those who keep themselves updated with the changing web environment. The emergence of WordPress has eased the task of developing SEO friendly content, thus, it has become quite popular among the web developers and bloggers. WordPress handles almost everything for you starting from the spider friendly URL’s, easy accessibility, related content, accurate structure, etc.

No doubt WordPress is excellent but there are some flaws that may screw up your SEO on WordPress. One of the biggest drawbacks of WordPress that hampers your SEO is its heading structure. The default heading structure of WordPress is slightly off as compared to other sites, which eventually hinders your SEO and affects your search engine ranking.

Let’s see, how WordPress heading structure screws up your SEO and how we can rectify it along with its drawbacks.

How WordPress heading structure screw up your SEO?

The default heading structure of WordPress sets <h1> tag on the title of every page of the website, whereas, for sidebar headings, post titles and other sub sections <h2> tags are preset. This structure does not assist web developers and bloggers in achieving high rankings on the search engines.

How to rectify it?

The only way of correcting this problem is to edit the default structure as per the standard norms. For better SEO rankings set <h1> tag for the website’s title on home page and use <h2> tags for the other articles published on the home page. <h1> tag can also be used for the inside pages like archives, contact page, single post page, etc. then only you can descend the heading tag wherever required.

Drawbacks of making correction

The major drawback of editing the default structure is that you have to give plenty of time in editing your CSS and correcting the style of headings. There are chances of having gaps between the headings of articles, especially in places where you have entered <h3> tag manually. After making the corrections, your post will have <h1> title heading with <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, etc. headings without any <h2> headings.

This is how WordPress can screw up your SEO and hamper your search engine ranking. We hope that this write-up will help you in taking desired steps for making improvements in WordPress heading structure for attaining good page ranking.

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Selection of Keywords, a meticulous task

Posted by weblinkindia on June 10, 2010

The densely populated world of internet has been seeing an exponential addition of websites almost every day, making it tougher for a website to get a right kind of exposure. In order to be successful in this crowded virtual world, your web promotion techniques should be distinguishing so that maximum web traffic can be diverted to your website. In addition, the very first step to make your web promotion campaign successful is choosing an appropriate set of keywords, which has the potential to make your website more visible on the search engines.

Here, in this write-up we have enlisted few techniques that can guide you throughout the process of selecting and using the keywords for your website, which will ensure that your website stands differently amongst the crowd of websites.

Understand Your Target Audience

  • The very first step towards ‘keywords’ selection’ is to understand your target audience. Different websites serve to the needs of different kinds of people; hence it is very important that your website targets the right kind of audience for the suitable promotion of the website. Once you have understood whom you are writing for, the task of understanding what to write becomes easy.

Think and Search For Popular Words for Your Products/Services

  • The second step towards the selection of keywords is thinking of maximum possible words that a user can enter in the search engine to locate the product/service you offer. It is possible that a keyword, which a user enters into search engine, is grammatically incorrect. But, you need not to worry here as such words or phrases may include more popular form of keywords that are suitable for your kind of offering.

Add relevant keywords

  • After careful selection of the Keywords/Key Phrases, make sure that two or three relevant keywords, which exactly suit your website, have been effectively used on your web page. Also, make sure to include various other related terms or synonyms of your product/service in the   website content. This will ensure better chances of visibility of your website on the search engines.

Identifying the right positions

  • The positioning of keywords on the website should be given due importance. Always use a keyword at a place where they make sense. However, don’t forget to use them in Title tags and Meta tags.  Additionally, the keywords should not be used randomly, as a netizen can easily track them and judge that you have just made the website for the sake of promotion.

Selection and usage of apt keywords is an effective mode for reaching out to more number of people on the internet and thus solving the purpose of your website in the best possible way. Correct selection and usage of keywords play a major role in the popularity of your website. We have tried to discuss on the basics of keyword selection yet there are many more aspects to be considered, which may change as per the SEO trends.

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SEO slip-ups by Designer and Developers

Posted by weblinkindia on June 7, 2010

Designing and Development of a website serves as its backbone. Their significance lies in the fact that they give life to non-existent web pages and equip them with a user-friendly interface. Moreover, if a website is known for its ultra-modern features, it is just because of website designing and development. But, web designers and web developers are generally least aware of search engines’ technicalities that lead them to commit mistakes, which ultimately generate havoc at the time of promotion of a website.

Here in this blog, we are spotting some of the major SEO slip-ups done by designers and developers while creating a website.

  1. Splash Page
    A website, which starts with Splash Page i.e. where the home page is displayed with Banner Image, accompanying a link of “Enter”, gives least space to spiders to follow the link. And, if a web page, especially the Home Page is not spiderable it will not be promoted by the search engines. Here, you should know the importance of your Home Page and design it with utmost search engine friendliness.
  2. Flash Menus
    A variety of Flash Objects are considered as non-spiderable, and Flash Menus is one of them. These are very attractive to glance at, but search engines cannot see or read them, thus affecting promotion of a website.
  3. Hidden Content
    To effectively promote a website, the entire content should be made available in the text formats. A host of designers or developers embeds codes in image or flash object, which completely restrict spiders to read the text, embedded in the Flash or Graphical presentations.
  4. Excessive use of Technology
    The excessive use of technology, especially in programming language like Ajax, by developers prevents spiders to index the web pages. The websites, made with Ajax, get loaded on browsers dynamically, which adversely affects Search Engine Optimization.
  5. Theme Design’s Versioning
    Designers, who version their theme design into sub level folders, actually create problem in the back link counting and the overall ranking of the website.
  6. Missing Alt-Tags
    In order to make the web pages attractive, the images on the web pages are left without alt-tags by developers, which lead to bad SEO of the website.
  7. Link Title
    In order to highlight that your topic is associated with some important subject, relevant keyword(s) should be duly used in the Link Titles.
  8. General Title Tag Mistakes
    Each page of a website carries distinct identity; hence it is necessary that you use distinct <title> tag, accommodating all the target keywords in it. Web developers usually use title tags throughout the website that are alike, which is a major mistake as per SEO’s point of view. Additionally, always avoid using very long title tags.
  9. Random stuffing of Keywords in Titles
    Never use keywords excessively in the title tags. Web developers usually repeat the keywords, which create irrelevance from different attributes.

Here, in this blog we have enumerated some of the basic SEO slip-ups, which designers and developers make while developing any website. Avoiding these will help them create a website that is SEO friendly.

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Effective free SEO tools for marketing professionals and web developers

Posted by weblinkindia on May 24, 2010

What is the most important criteria that decides the fate of an online business? For a successful web based business the most imperative thing is to achieve higher search engine rankings. Having higher search engines ensures more amount of traffic and thus an increased business. But what is important is to keep track of these rankings. Obtaining the rankings and other results can help you incorporate new techniques on your site and at the same time remove those techniques that are posing a threat.

Web developers and the marketers constantly search for SEO tools that help in tracking down the results of the page ranking. Here in this write up we will let you know about the latest SEO tools that enable you to measure a site’s page ranking.

Search Status

It is an extension of Firefox but can be opened easily in any browser. Using Firefox will be advised so as to avail all the plugins. This efficient tool gives you complete ranking of the site that includes alexa, pagerank etc.

Also, lets you search the backlinks, keyword density and the indexed pages simply by a right click that displays a menu. Following is the link of this extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321

Webmaster Central

This service is provided by Google and it enables you to learn about the important statistics of your site. What you need to do? Simply create a Google account and confirm that you can easily access the domain. This is a highly effective and advanced tool that enables you to know about the most popular searches that your site was clicked for and other integral information. Also, this tool can offer you ways of getting more clicks. The link is given below:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

SEO Book

http://seobook.com/

This is another extension of the Firefox, which lets you know about the details about the search results. It provides you information about the different pages and their ranking on the search engines. You can conduct a comparison with your competitors using this tool and understand the facts about their better rankings.

SEO Chat

http://www.seochat.com

This site is not a tool but a medium that links to various other SEO tools. It offers links to different Keyword related tools like Site Link Analyzer. Also, this site offers informative articles.

The above mentioned are only few tools that can help you in getting accurate optimization results for your site. There are numerous other tools that can assist in knowing the rankings and other related results.

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How to Optimize Flash for Search Engines

Posted by weblinkindia on April 28, 2010

The web pages were boring and had simple designs before the introduction of Flash. Flash came to be in use in the late 1990s and transformed the face of the web field.  The web pages now made using Flash are interactive and eye-catchy. They are able to hold the attention of the visitors and have helped the businesses to acquire more business. But the problem that arises with the Flash animations is that it does not get easily optimized by the search engines that hamper the promotional value of the websites or web pages. Here in this write up we will provide you with some ways to optimize Flash for search engines.

But first just have a look at some basics about flash.

What is Flash?

It is a technology that is designed to bring in interactivity to the pages. It was invented by Macromedia and distributed by Adobe. Advertisements, banners, videos, etc. can be easily incorporated in the web pages with the help of Flash.

How is flash useful for sites?

  • It enables even the huge sized files to be placed in the sites.
  • Gets easily combined with different technologies like PHP, XML, Video sound, etc. so it is ideal for creating dynamic websites.


How to optimize Flash for search engines?

There are certain technical Flash SEO methods that if added to Flash will facilitate in its easy optimization.

Following are those methods:

Use NOEMBED tag: NOEMBAD and NOFRAME tags are used on the flash pages so that they easily get indexed. The content has to be inserted between the noembed and its tags.

Use CSS: Incorporate CSS element along with JavaScript SWFObject. This lets you identify when the flash can be viewed by the browser. Search engine spiders do not easily crawl over the Flash made pages and rather index the primary page that carries the text, headings, etc. This will lead you to witness high SERPs.

Create a Flash site in HTML version: Offer the search engines the flash site’s HTML version that will be easily crawled over by the spiders. Having distinct HTML pages for all flash pages, enable the visitors to see the page easily. The page ranking will shoot up this way.

Use swf2html: It is a SDK tool with the help of which the text is extracted from a Flash File and converted to HTML document. This will automatically help in increasing the search engine rankings.

Thus using these methods it will be ensured that your flash enabled website will easily be indexed by the search engines and will obtain higher page rankings. Flash Web Design India

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