Search Engine Optimization Tip 5 – Pagerank No more an important commodity, February 5th Saturday 2005

There used to be overwhelming obsession about google technology PAGERANK, Pagerank is google’s way of measuring a page’s value based on Links, Pagerank of a page can be viewed on the google toolbar or using online pagerank checker,

Measuring links based on pagerank was an important way of google judging the value of a page, Now pagerank is no more a priority, google uses various other ways in judging the value of a link, Especially google likes links originating within an authority site, Any good relevant page on Microsoft.com and Google.com domain will rank, So there are lots of new factors involved in measuring the quality of links than pagerank alone, So we recommend anyone not to worry about your Pagerank any more, Keep building links regardless of the pagerank of the linking page,

Now toolbar pagerank updates happen only once in 3 months, So google itself is not worried about pagerank much, So we recommend not to focus on pagerank of the site and never watch pagerank updates eagerly to see what your new pagerank is,

SEO Blog Team,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 4 – Effective Search engine friendly Title tags, February 4th Friday 2005

Title tags are the most important tag when it comes to onpage search engine optimization, Search engines uses title tags as the title for their search engine results,

Also during Query time in search engines, They have a split of a second to crawl through billions of documents to find an exact match, So search engine engineers mostly design their query time algorithm to fetch matches from quality sites title tags first, if the match is not found they move into content and then title and content of lower level pages,

So if you run a good quality site with lots of backlinks and if the search engines consider your site to be an authority it is important every page of your site has an effective good title tag,

When it comes to google they virtually show only the first 64 characters of a title in their SERPs ( search engine result pages ) , But our experiments show they read more than 120 characters, we added some bizarre words after the first 64 characters and google did find those words matching for the query, So google reads long titles to,

We recommend writing titles of around 12 words or 100 to 130 characters, Some search engines like yahoo, MSN etc tend to show even long title in their search engine results so long title never hurts,

Some SEO experts predict that long titles dilute the effect of a title tag, But there is no evidence to this theory, it is fact that the first 3 to 6 words are the most important words in the title tag, but that doesn’t mean words after the first 6 words or ignored or they dilute the power of the words occuring first,

Our basic recommendation

1. write titles which are related to the page,

2. write titles that are unique, don’t just copy and paste the same title on all the pages, this is especially important when you have different pages targeting different information, title tags are the gateway to that page and if the title tag is not written properly for a targeted page you will loose google targeted traffic for that page,

3. Commas and spaces in title tag are same, But spaces look better than commas so use spaces between phrases,

4. Don’t just load all the keywords on the title just target 2 to 4 phrases per page and add upto 2 phrases with good keyword combination in the title,

5. when you are targeted a particularly competitive keyword, use both singular version and the plural version of that keyword,

6. make sure the title tag syntax is proper, Title tag should be placed in the head section of an html page, Also make sure you close the title tag,

If the above guide lines is followed effective title tags will be got and they will be a powerful onpage optimization effort for your site,

Comeback for tomorrow’s tip on search engine optimization from the SEO Blog Team,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 3 – Google sandbox does it exist??? February 3rd Wednesday 2005

As everyone is aware of there exist some sort of filter in google’s algorithm which prevents new sites from ranking even if the site is well optimized and has numorous number of backlinks, So what causes this google lag,

We at Search Engine Genie conducted Numerous tests on why this lag exists for new sites and some new pages, We cannot conclude what causes this effect,

Questions which were unsolved in this test

1. Does it affect only new sites or even existing sites??/

2. Does it pertain only to links or it is caused by onpage factors,

3. Does it relate only to certain type of links like forum links/blog links/guest book links/site wide links etc???

4. Does it affect all sites or only certain type of sites??/

5. What type of algorithm triggers this type of filter??/

6. Will ever sites come out of the sandbox algorithm??/

All the above questions were unanswered when it comes to this google lag on new sites,

But we do have some tips which worked for some phrases for certain sites, Though our tests didnt bring any site out of the sandbox algorithm on the whole it did make those sites rank for some low competitive phrases which has been a small source of traffic for our client sites,

Atleast those tactics helped bring some smile in our client’s face,

Tips,

1. Avoid getting links from guestbook, spam sites etc,

2. Avoid site wide links from unrelated sites,

3. Dont have duplicate contents on your site, Means dont have contents that are copied and manipulated from other sites, have unique contents,

4. Get links for your inner pages, Dont get all links directly to your homepage, Links to your inner pages matters, It you have pages talking about particular widge say green widgets get links to those pages with anchor text as “green widgets” don’t just all anchor text to your homepage,

5. Get as much natural links as possible, write articles, testimonials, press releases, reviews etc and gain natural back links,

6. Target lots of related phrases for your site, Targeting some phrases wont bring traffic if your site is caught in the sandbox algorithm, adding numerous number of phrases will give lots of keyword combos and with bring good targeted traffic,

Hope the above SEO tips help your site from getting traffic from google even if the site is caught in the sandbox algorithm,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 2 – February 2nd Wednesday 2005

Today’s SEO tip,

When Preparing contents for your website make sure the copy reads properly, Search engines are moving towards semantic analysis of a document, they see the distribution of keywords, theming of the sentence, formation of the sentence etc, make sure all pages created for your site reads properly,

Dont stop creating contents for your site, Keep adding some new content everyday to your site, Write some articles, add some small titbits of information here and there, Add a blog to your site, Add a forum where people can participate and add their own contents, Add a review section if you have a product website,

Contents are an important part of search engine optimization, All search engines like content rich sites, Good contents also attract lot of backlinks which is an other great benefit, Good unique contents are a great food for the visiting crawlers give them what they want( good unique contents and lot of backlinks to your pages),

SEO Blog Team,

Search Engine Optimization Tip 1 – February 1st Tuesday 2005

Before starting with any search engine optimization work Do a complete research of your industry, Analyze your competitor sites, check how their site is built upon content wise as well as link wise, Check using commands like link: and linkdomain: to find out all backlinks to your competitor sites,

For yahoo,

link:http://www.anysite.com will show links to that particular page, so suppose your competitor has some articles which has good backlinks, check the backlinks of that page using that command, for example link:http://www.competitorsite.com/article-123.html

this way you can understand how your competitor site ranks, Good popular inner pages are also a power to your main page, a good popular article page with good backlinks is very good in transfering link popularity to your homepage,

linkdomain:www.anysite.com will help determine most of the backlinks that whole domain possesses, this includes links to inner pages of that domain,

Competitive Analysis is a vital part of search engine optimization, If this part is done properly most of the further SEO work will be over, Put all that you research on your competitors in a file and do that for your site, you will see good ranking improvements,

Wait for tomorrow’s time
SEO Blog Team,

Seo Blog Introduces Search Engine Optimization Tip of the Day,

First off we wish to thank all readers who have paid visit to this blog frequently, We are very happy on the traffic our blog gets, To make our blog more interactive we would like to introduce a new section the TIP OF THE DAY, this search engine optimization tip of the day will give out a new tip on SEO for site owners/SEOs/Webmasters and everyone who likes to know something new about search engines and their algorithms,

Some tip may be common but some may be very new and interesting, We wish everyone who visits this blog will be benefited by our SEO tips

thanks Search Engine Genie Team,

Is SEM different from SEO, An interesting discussion in forums search engine watch

An interesting thread was started in searchenginewatch forums, A poster asked what is the difference between SEO and SEM, everyone gave their opinion,

Here is my opinion on the same thread,

I agree with tomslick, SEO is part of SEM,

SEM IMO consists of,

1. SEO

2. PPC

3. PFI ( Optional )

4. Link Building

5. Affiliate SE Marketing

6. ROI and conversion tracking

7. Sponsored Search engine listing(some search engines).

8. Shopping feeds ( shopping search engines )

SEO – Search Engine Optimization, Ability to improve a site to make it relevant to Search Engine Algorithm and make the algorithm rank a site based on User queries.

Source: forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=3045

Jill Whalen – SEO Lady – The Web Whiz – Jill whalen

Jill Whalen Biography: SEO People Category

An internationally recognized consultant in SEO, Jill Whalen is the owner of High Rankings which specializes in search Engine Optimization. She is also the proficient editor of the free weekly High Rankings Advisor Search Engine Marketing Newsletter. One of the experts on the internet, Jill Whalen is also famous for her effective talks on seminars and conferences.

Jill has been performing search engine optimization since 1995 and established herself in the career in 1997. Her buoyancy in the work she does motivates her in taking up new assignments from her clients and proves herself right in the way she gives away results.

A regular presenter at Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Strategies Conferences, Jill Whalen also conducts her own marketing seminars. She claims to have 5000 registered members in her site which also claimed to have an instant success within days of launching. Jill was the successful administrator and moderator of the Google Forum, at Cre8asite SEO web development Forum and also at Web Page Content Forum.

Her frequent rapport with people who writes articles on search engine optimization helps her to understand the changing trends in the market and thus brings out necessary changes in the strategy she employs. Jill’s creative expertise is proved in the articles she wrote for SearchNewz, WebProNews, WorkZ.com, ClickZ.com, Inc.com, Lycos Small Business.

The critically acclaimed Rank Write Roundtable was efficiently moderated by her. PageRank Explained written by the programmer, Chris Ridings was effectively edited by Jill Whalen. She has also started, Searchcreativ.com to design search engine friendly websites.

With gifted caliber and proficiency in the field of search engine optimization techniques, Jill Whalen leads her successful journey with strong determination and resolve unfolding newer strategies and employing better policies in the field of online marketing.

She practices search engine optimization for more than 6 years her work has brought lots of business to many website owners,

She runs a popular high traffic search engine optimization forum named the highrankings forum, I learned a lot from frequenting her forum,

Jill’s site: www.highrankings.com

Search Engine Genie the SEO company reaches 150,000 hits

This is to celebrate our increased traffic to our site, We are an SEO company who acts as a valuable resource to the SEO community, This month our traffic has soared to more than 150,000 hits, This much hits are not each for an SEO company, Only forums and SEO tool sites get more traffic than us,

Thanks everyone for your valuable support, Search engine genie will continue to be valuable resource for everyone,

Search Engine Genie Support Team,

SEO Toolbar Spam – SEO company scamming forums and blogs to populate their new SEO toolbar

Recently a SEO toolbar was launched by an SEO company, This toolbar is marketed so badly that people are spamming some of our blogs posting link to this SEO company toolbar page, i never tried this toolbar but i hate when people spam my blogs posting their link to that SEO toolbar page,