What will happen to SEO in 2009?

What will happen to SEO world in 2009 is guessing about what the engineers and product developer at Google have been working for last so many months or year. According to me, I feel that paid link war have not really come good in the 2008 but let’s hope better for 2009.

Google is maturing fast so we can tell that any changes that are decided to be made are tested for long internally before it get released in the market for external testing. The hot news in 2008 was that Google did not do much in penalizing link buyers and sellers. PageRank penalties are very scary tactics and most of the site has reduced their traffic due to their links being penalized for buying and selling.

We all are aware of the fact that Google has spent the last 12 months working on the pattern matching algorithms to detect and devalue paid links. This means very little to the link seller because it doesn’t mater them whether the links they sell pass weight or not.

The link acquisition strategy that was working for past so many years will not continue further once the Google perfect this algorithm. Most of the blatant link buying we see in the UK comes from in-house SEO teams rather than SEO Company. These in-house SEO team realized that all the SEO Company are buying links. These SEO in-house teams don’t keep latest SEO trends and waste thousands of pounds in buying useless links.

Another big issue that came up was how to handle link acquisition for new clients. Google has to cleverly watch all links buying pattern so that the link that is bought is not devalued. However if the link is spread out over few months with lot of natural link built in then Google would never be able to detect a link pattern and link would be highly valuable.

Article marketing, Article submission, Article directories for SEO increases traffic to your site

Article writing gives you an opportunity to increase the page rank of your website. The only thing you need to do is to spend little time to write informative articles that is useful to others. Articles tat you write can be submitted to best articles directories such as Articledashboard.com, ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, isnare.com, and articlealley.com.

Article marketing is the best way to promote your business or website and also to increase traffic to your site. In simple terms SEO uses some keyword optimization to achieve better place or rank in search engine which result in more visitor to your site which in turn results in sales for your business. Google offers a site ranking system known as page rank. Good page rank to your site is given on basis of quality of your website content and number of back links to your site. A website with more and more back links hold better position in the search engine.

Once you have completed your article, make a list of article directories where you wish to submit your articles. Then create a free account before you submit the article. Then make your submissions. Articles directories must approve your submitted articles before it get added to the article directory.

Try to make your article interesting and factual. While writing articles make sure that you describe the content of the articles and also it contains all the keyword associated to your subject. Do not bunch the article together in single paragraph, layout it in short paragraph so that it is easier for the visitor to read it because they rarely read the large section of the text.

While article submission most of the article directories provides you with the resource box in which you can actually place your name and little information about yourself, this is a hyperlink to your money making opportunity. This link help to create back link your site which will increase both visitors and search engine placement. Make sure you don’t link directly to affiliate site they may decline, instead link to your own site and add your affiliate link there.

What’s the best way to determine a web page value?

What’s the best way to determine a web page value?
The best way to determine web page value is treating the outdated pages and getting rid of multiple pages.
It is believed that out-of-stock product pages are not at all useful to any visitor but still carry a lot of weight. So it is necessary to do something worthwhile for the visitors and to take SEO power for granted. Outdated pages can be made worthwhile by the following:
Preserve the page and add “Related product” section.
Put some new content on the old URL and move the old content to a new URL.
Delete the pages and let the return from 4o4 header (if any of the page that has no value at all).
Move the pages to archive and amend internal linking to “leak” less internal PR.
Keep the pages but remove all references from the site; if they have to little value then think about that.
Redirect the pages to new relevant version of 301.
Next is to get rid of some multiple web pages without loosing rankings or getting in to any sort of penalties. WebMasterWorld thread discusses the issues of removing multiple low quality pages as a benefit to the users.
But before deciding what to be done to these pages it is necessary to first define its SEO value. At the WebMasterWorld forums a thread was discussed on how to evaluate the worth of page, so how can a page SEO value can be determined?
Having a toolbar PR, Organic Ranking and Traffic are bad indicator. Pages with Graybar PR get many Google referred traffics and back links too. Organic Ranking cannot be a good performance indicator because ranking come and goes as and when. There are many criteria that influence rankings like Google personalization, Geo targeting, new “Search Wiki” Google feature, new competing pages, etc. just like ranking traffics are also temporary. Traffic comes and goes accordingly. Therefore, with help of this SEO value of pages cannot be determined. But external in-links can probably be a good indicator and with the help of external in-links SEO value of page can be determined because if the page is able to pass PR it does have value.

Best tools of search engine genie

Welcome to Search Engine Genie, through Search Engine Ranking and Directory placement it generates high quality traffic to your website. To build the viewer trust and loyalty and also to find online advertising opportunity, Search Engine Genie works with the customer to develop marketing strategy for website. Though there are 1000s of search engine optimization but the quality of provided by Search Engine Genie makes it special.
All the promotion methods of Search Engine Genie are researched and tested in order to provide you with the most up-to-date technology that is available. It works in such a manner that your website gets placed in the top search engine in keyword categories than any search engine submission optimization service. Most of our clients are listed in the major search engine. There are more than thousands subscriber to our websites. We Search Engine Genie provide free SEO tools which helps to verify optimization of your pages. These free SEO tools provided by Search Engine Genie help you to optimize your pages in right way for right keyword.
Now, let us discuss about the best tools provided by the Search Engine Genie:
Google Sandbox Checker Tool
Google Position Checker
Google Bot last accessed Date
Yahoo Position Checker
Competition Finder Tool
All Search engines back-link Checking
OutBound Links Checker Tool
Mod rewrite Rule Generator Tool
Content To Code Ratio Test Tool
Google Sandbox Checker Tool: This Google sandbox checker helps you to check whether your site is in Google’s sandbox for given keyword. You can enter your keyword and URL in the given field and then click submit. The tool will tell you where your site is placed in Google’s sandbox.
Google position checker: the Google Position Checkers helps you to check whether your URL appears in the first 1000s results of your chosen keyword and it will also tell you which position it occupies.
Google bot last accessed date: This tool helps you to check when your website was last accessed by Google.
Yahoo Position Checker: this tool helps you to check the position of your site in Yahoo Search Engine. Why use Yahoo position checker when you can actually find your site through Yahoo search directly?
Our rank checker decreases your burden a lot by avoiding digging through 100s of websites. Regular users of our tool are well aware that the position checker is a very good tool to check rankings for your website. Our tool checks and gives you the exact position of ranking your website is ranking in Yahoo search results. When you do a manual search its difficult to see where your site is hiding and its difficult digging through 100s of sites. We know being a SEO company how difficult it’s to manual check yahoo and get the rankings.
Competition Finder Tool: This tool helps you to find your competitors and anchor tags of their web page with which you can compare yours.
All Search engines back link Checking: this tool helps to check your back link and tells you how many website are linked to your site. Back-links are important factor in search engine optimization knowing your site back-links as well as your competitor site’s back-links is very important when it comes to search engine optimization and rankings. The more and better quality your back-links are better your website ranks in top search engines. This tool shows your back-link data from various important sites like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alltheweb, Altavista etc. Today ranking in top 3 search engines means a lot to most of the websites. We show back-link data of all the top 3 search engines here. Note: Google back-link data is not so accurate Google shows much better list of back-links when you check the data using Google webmaster tools. Our tools just checks back-links using Google search which is not accurate. Back-link data we get from Google is just an estimate of what back-links you will have for your website. For a more accurate Google back-link data use Google Webmaster Tools. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking.
OutBound Links Checker Tool: this tool will give you the top 10 URLs whom you are linking to form your website.
Mod rewrite Rule Generator Tool: This tool helps to rewrite long complicated URLs with multiple query strings into short URLs more ideal for search engines. Most of the search engines today don’t understand complicated URLs with too many parameters. Our tool will rewrite all the parameters and will make the URL look like an html URL or a directory type URL which search engines like to crawl. Though Google is much more sophisticated now and can crawl complicated URLs, Google is not the only search engine out there. So it’s important to keep your website search engine friendly for most of the search engines.
Content To Code Ratio Test Tool: Though not the best tool at search engine genie still I consider this tool a cool tool. This tool was long term pending development but after we released it we were surprised to see the massive response we got from regular and new users of this tool. Every day 100s of people use this tool and they come back to our website to use it regularly. This tool crawl a website and separates the ratio contents with code on a web page. Some search engines are keen on seeing how much text a website has and this tool is ideal to get that information. For added benefit we also give out the percentage of text on the webpage.

SEO experiment keyword rich links webmasterworld member

A webmaster world member asks “Hi guys, I am doing an interesting experiment on two of my more throw away domains. The experiment is testing to try and determine more information about how linking to the homepage affects rankings. The testing involves various controls – linking to the root domain from the nav only using ‘home’, linking from the nav using ‘main keyword’, linking from nav using ‘variations’ of keyword, linking from content only (while nav links saying home) to home using ‘keywords’ etc, etc.
First, I should mention some points about the domain.
4 years old Owned by me Dedicated IP Canonical comdomized HTML only Ranks top 5 in Google.com for main, second and third keyword phrases. Total of 90 pages, all unique content (written by me)
Testing was done over a 3 month period, with grace periods in between testing.
Here is so far what I have found. Might tell us a little about the threshold and re ranking filters
1. Linking home from every page in content using the same keyword caused 6 page drop in rankings.
2. Linking home using keyword in nav on all pages caused the same drop.
3. Link home from every page in content using variations caused a 3 page drop.
4. Linking home from the first 10 pages listed in google.com for site:domain.com/* brought increased ranking (from 5th to 3rd)
What is really interesting is that I gotten this down to the ‘by page’ factor. When I *slightly* cross the threshold and add links to two extra pages, and then wait until they are cached, I tip the scales and drop, to page 6.
What is further interesting is that linking home from content using variations of keywords WAS quite effective to a point, after which the site plummeted.
As well, this might point to a ‘hard line’ being crossed in terms of threshold, at one point I had the website going between position 4 and 51-60 for the same keyword every second day (flipping back and forth)
My test will be about trying to -950 the website by being ridiculously deliberate in nav linking, and then seeing if I can reverse the results by removing those (and how long it takes for the trust to be reinstated to the website) “

SEO firm sued by attorney General – Washington business

SEO firm sued by attorney General:

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Visible.net and Captures.com accused of violating consumer protection and telemarketing laws
SEATTLE – The Washington Attorney General’s Office is suing a Redmond-based seller of e-commerce services whose failed promises to rev up Web traffic for small businesses drove many customers to file complaints.
“When it comes to Internet search results, every small business wants to pull rank,” Attorney General Rob McKenna said. “Merchants hoping to increase their online sales paid thousands of dollars to Visible.net and Captures.com but didn’t always receive the top listings and other services they were promised.”
The lawsuit announced today by the AGO was filed late Wednesday in King County Superior Court. It accuses Visible.net, Captures.com and their owner, Gilbert Walker, of violating state consumer protection and telemarketing laws.
The defendants also do business as WebMarketingSource.com and sell Web site design, search-optimization and other Internet marketing services, along with providing e-commerce services to process online purchases for merchant customers. They promote their services through their Web sites and by telemarketing. Packages include an initial startup fee of $3,749.99 up to $9,749.99 plus a monthly fee of $39.99 to $99.99.
Senior Counsel Paula Selis, an assistant attorney general who heads up the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection High-Tech Unit, said the Attorney General’s Office and Better Business Bureau have received nearly 90 complaints about the defendants, showing a pattern of recurring problems since at least 2005.
The suit accuses the defendants of the following violations, among others:
Failing to register with the Department of Licensing as a commercial telephone solicitor and failing to provide written confirmation of a consumer’s rights under the Commercial Telephone Solicitation Act.
Misrepresenting the ability to significantly increase traffic to customer Web sites by achieving top search-engine rankings and failing to deliver other promised services.
Falsely claiming an affiliation with other marketers including Specialty Merchandise Company, a so-called drop-ship wholesaler.
Claiming that its customer service representatives can be reached at any time when, in fact, customers are often unable to reach representatives and sometimes do not receive return calls.
Failing to provide refunds or honor cancellation requests.
Continuing to bill the credit cards of some consumers who have attempted to cancel and submitting alleged debts to collection agencies.
The state is seeking civil penalties and consumer restitution in addition to a court order halting the deceptive practices.”

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SEO Spam again needs to stop to get good name for SEO industry

We need to top these Spam SEOs and SEO companies from sending out bulk mails to get some good name for ethical SEO companies. Their claims are ridiculous.

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We have been handling SEO and link popularity campaigns since last 2.5
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Our Approach for securing links :

(a.) First of all of we analysis the campaign to get familiar with current
statistic, relevant industry and competitors, It makes us easy to approach
right link partners.
(b.) Second step includes creation of database of relevant websites which
are to be requested for Link Exchange through emails and form submissions
– if they have implemented form for link exchange.
(c.) In 3rd step : we manually draft emails as a link exchange request
to webmasters through Outlook express, we offer our web directories/site
to webmasters for link back basically, we follow 3 way link exchange process
which yields a ONE Way link for client’s campaign.
(d.) Finally, we provide link backs to those webmasters who revert us positively
to finished off with link exchange.

We ensure that we never indulge in any Spam activities as we never send
follow up to webmasters who do not respond to us in our first email and
If someone doesn’t agree with 3 way exchange we simply delete his/her id
from database.

Please get back to me for any information/queries.

Eagerly looking for your earliest reply.

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