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		<title>Knowing If Your Site Is Optimized Or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/knowing-if-your-site-is-optimized-or-not/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Search-Engine-Optimization-300x231.gif" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Search Engine Optimization" title="Search Engine Optimization" /></a>Anyone who has a website needs the information whether their site has enough optimization to have relevant results in search engine requests. More visitors mean more business, and Internet marketing is what usually divides failure from success in the online business world. ]]></description>
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<p>Anyone who has a website needs the information whether their site has enough optimization to have <strong><a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/tips-to-achieve-a-high-rank-in-the-search-engines/">relevant results in search engine</a></strong> requests. More visitors mean more business, and Internet marketing is what usually divides failure from success in the online business world. One billion online users are constantly searching the web for information and it’s your job to make sure your website is what they see when it’s your content that they are looking for.</p>
<p>The presence of several factors in a webpage is what causes a user to click through to visit your website. To start off, you must have key phrases or words and the correct product information. It’s also good to note that even if Google is the search engine of choice for many, people do turn to Yahoo or MSN if Google results don’t satisfy their query.To know whether your site is optimized or not, look for the following elements:</p>
<p><strong>Don’t overdesign your website.</strong></p>
<p>Too much use of scripts and features such as frames or flash players doesn’t sit well with search engine crawlers. Minimize these and focus on text content so that your website is easy to find and index.</p>
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<p><strong>Have relevant pages link to your site.</strong></p>
<p>Include your website in site directories (choose the popular ones), popular blogs or resource sites.</p>
<p>Use methods that make your website convenient for search engine spiders. Optimize further by providing site maps and taking our variable text from your URLs.</p>
<p>strong&gt;Page text that contains keywords and keyphrases.</p>
<p>You have to be aware of what words people use to search for the product you offer and incorporate these into the content of your site. Have unique and informative articles with appropriate titles. Include the words and phrases in the titles, the content, and the description.</p>
<p>You need to continuously revise and add to your site for it to remain on top of the results pages. Once optimized, your website is now highly attractive for Internet advertising, such as Pay-Per-Click ads. You need to be aware of the reading audience of your website. Keep your content unique and have a niche apart from several websites.</p>
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		<title>Effective SEO: Keep it Simple, Keep It Real</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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<p>The content of your website should be your top priority if you want to rank well with search engines. From the onset, give priority in putting top quality articles and information so that the groundwork is done and all you have to do is add on and improve your page further.</p>
<p>The first thing you need to note is that your content should be informative and relevant. Simply put, your content must make sense. All it takes for a visitor is a glance to see that your website does not have anything that can satisfy their need for information. Be concise and direct. The same policy applies to search engine bots. You have to be clear in your content so that the crawlers can properly index your site on the results.</p>
<p>Do your research and take note of the keywords that are best applicable to your site’s products and offerings. Use these keywords sufficiently but do not go overboard. Have your articles contain the keywords and make them flow organically with the article. Having good writers come up with content for your website is a good idea if you’re not able to do the job yourself.</p>
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<p>SEO is a legitimate method for <a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/tips-to-achieve-a-high-rank-in-the-search-engines/"><strong>improving search rankings</strong></a> and not just a gimmick. Take your content seriously as it is key in getting visitors to your site. If you fill your page with fluff, you may get initial traffic, but without substantial content you will never maintain a loyal user base. Search engines are also getting smarter and looking at relevant content instead of mere repetition of keywords.</p>
<p>Advertisers also prefer sites that have good content, as the website reflects on their company’s principles and policies. Companies will not pay for space on generic or shady sites, and you have to maintain your website’s integrity in order to get good advertisers.</p>
<p>In the end, SEO is about attracting your target market. The user is always judge of the end result. If you respect your audience enough to provide them with good and informative articles, the traffic to your site will grow naturally. You don’t have to resort to trickery to get traffic to your site. Put the effort on quality and quality will also come to you.</p>
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		<title>Top 6 Android Apps For Internet Marketers And Webmasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/top-6-android-apps-for-internet-marketers-and-webmasters/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Affiliate-Stats-Android-Apps-200x300.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Affiliate Stats-Android Apps" title="Affiliate Stats-Android Apps" /></a>The Android OS has proven to be a very competitive product, and has shown everyone that it is most definitely here to stay. The past year has seen an explosive growth rate of new mobile devices (including smart phone and MIDs) using this operating system. The latest version 2.2 (codenamed Froyo, which stands for Frozen [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Android OS has proven to be a very competitive product, and has shown everyone that it is most definitely here to stay. The past year has seen an explosive growth rate of new mobile devices (including smart phone and MIDs) using this operating system. The latest version 2.2 (codenamed Froyo, which stands for Frozen Yoghurt <img src='http://www.shaswatpatel.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> , has brought a lot of bug fixes and software updates that make Android even more stable and user friendly.</p>
<p>Today, practically anyone who needs a mobile device can easily opt to buy one that is based on Android without fearing any incompatibilities, lack of updates and apps or difficulties of operation. Android 2.2 is a perfect competitor to <strong><a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/apple-ios-4-released-get-amazing-features-with-the-ios-4/">iPhone’s new iOS 4</a></strong>, which comes pre-installed on the iPad and the new iPhone 4, and has the same (and even more) features.</p>
<p>Sure, you could buy Apple’s new iPhone 4, but a lot of people will find that spending $1000 to get it now (without a contract) is too much, especially when there are better and cheaper Android alternatives like the Nexus One, which has the same specs and costs twice less.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are a lot of <strong><a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/5-best-media-players-apps-for-your-android-device/">great apps on the Android</a></strong> marketplace that will suit anyone, from movie buffs to startup entrepreneurs to Internet marketers and <strong><a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/5-cool-android-apps-for-web-developers/">Web Developers</a></strong> . Below is a list of great Android apps that any Internet marketer, web master, affiliate or blogger will definitely find useful.</p>
<p><strong>Affiliate Stats</strong></p>
<p>This is the go to Android application if you have an account at Neverblue, MaxBounty or ClickBooth (all great affiliate networks) and want to check your stats when you’re on the move. The app connects to the networks directly using their APIs via secure HTTPS connections, and doesn’t send any data out, so you can be sure your information is safe. This is a must have app for any affiliate marketers who have accounts and are actively using the above networks.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2009/05/new-paypal-application-for-android/">Paypal</a></strong></p>
<p>If you are involved in any kind of online activity, you are most probably already using Paypal to send and receive payments. Paypal is practically the default payment option on the Internet, being used by more than 300 million people worldwide. With the official Paypal app for Android, you can send and receive payments and view statistics right on your phone wherever you are. Now you can pay your designers, developers and writers wherever you are or receive and check the payments if you provide said services.</p>
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<p><strong>SEO Stats</strong></p>
<p>Any self-respecting Internet marketer and webmaster should be concerned about their site’s SEO and SE rankings. The SEO Stats Android application allows you to check the status of your sites and articles on various Search Engines and social networks. For example, you can view the SERP position of your newly posted How to article from wherever you are, in real time (as you may know, Google now uses real time rankings, so your article can get to the front page for a keyword in an hour or so).</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/index.html">AndFTP</a></strong></p>
<p>If you are a web master, whose task is to manage a site, or an affiliate marketer who creates and tests landing pages, you are most definitely using an FTP client to perform the tasks. AndFTP is a free FTP, FTPS and SFTP/SSH client for Android, which can really help you if, for example, you are freelancing and want to show your client a new theme, but are not in front of your computer or if you prepared a few landing pages and need to swap them at regular intervals to see which is converting better.</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/twitter-for-android-robots-like-to.html">Twitter for Android</a></strong></p>
<p>Twitter has become a prominent player in the online social networks industry. They have actually managed to create their own niche of micro-blogging with very frequent short updates. Affiliate marketers are now making a killing in this relatively new environment with very few competitors. If you still haven’t gotten into the game, you should really try to. Twitter has just recently released their official Android app, and it has become the best one almost instantly, mainly because of their tight collaboration with the Google Android teams. Besides providing free Twitter services like tweeting and uploading pictures and videos, Twitter for Android allows you to sync your Android calendar’s data with Twitter’s API information, so you can have the bio, description, phone and picture of the people you are following transferred into your phone and vice versa (and constantly kept up to date, of course).</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.nix.fr/en/droidanalytics.aspx">DroidAnalytics</a></strong></p>
<p>Web analytics is an integral part of doing any kind of business online. The traffic your site receives converts directly into its success most of the times. DroidAnalytics is the best Google Analytics client around, and it provides almost any details and reports you want (they’re also fully configurable and customizable). With it, you are able to check the number of visitors, conversions, page views and clicks from literally anywhere in the world.</p>
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<p>The Android marketplace features great and useful apps for everyone, and as you can see from the list above, even people that are engaged in online business activities like bloggers, affiliate marketers and web masters can benefit from owning an Android-based smart phone or Mobile Internet Device, and the fact that Android is open source and a lot of apps are completely free makes it a winner.</p>
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<p>SEO marketing isn&#8217;t a new concept by any means, but many Internet marketers – even very successful ones – tend to leave it out of their business, and many have come to regret this. Often these marketers have a specialization in paid traffic sources such as pay per click with Google Adwords or, more recently, serving pop ups with pay per view companies like Trafficvance. This is all well and good, but as many marketers have realized, once one of these traffic sources “dries up” you&#8217;ll be back to square one. </p>
<p>Any Wall Street investor worth his weight in salt will repeat the same mantra: diversify your assets. There&#8217;s a reason for that – it&#8217;s good advice. So why don&#8217;t Internet marketers, whose business assets aren&#8217;t stocks or mutual funds (for the most part, anyway) take this lesson to heart? The most successful Internet marketers know that it&#8217;s a dangerous game to play when you trust a single traffic source to be your main engine of revenue generation. So what do they do about it? They diversify. Instead of just focusing on Adwords or media buys or any other method of paid traffic, they know the value in dedicating a decent amount of their “online portfolio” to domain development for the purpose of garnering organic traffic (traffic that comes from search engines). </p>
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<p>The best part of SEO marketing is that it has a low barrier to entry – but a very high learning curve. This means that while anyone can go and get a domain, it&#8217;s difficult to properly optimize the page and learn the myriad SEO techniques necessary to get it ranking high in the search engine results pages, and therefore generating traffic. This means that those dedicated enough to learn SEO marketing or outsource optimization services to a competent SEO consultant will have a significant edge over their competition. </p>
<p>Search marketing services are by no means difficult to acquire, but it can be difficult finding an SEO consultant that is actually skilled at SEO marketing and domain development – one must take proper care when outsourcing and make sure that they&#8217;re not only getting what they&#8217;ve paid for, but that the services are in line with their long term plans. Remember, SEO requires a certain amount of maintenance – it isn&#8217;t just as simple as sending a ton of links to your site in the first week and never again. This is a common mistake of newcomers to SEO. A competent SEO consultant will be able to provide you with an excellent long term plan for your domains and explain why each step is being taken.</p>
<p>SEO marketing is an excellent method to learn and should be a part of any great Internet marketer&#8217;s business plan, whether you&#8217;re new to the exciting world of online marketing or a skilled veteran.</p>
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<p>Keyword research plays a major role when you begin with a new blog. It is the keyword research that would decide the future traffic to your website and would form all of your current stuff. </p>
<p>Now the choice is yours. That is whether you would prefer keyword research or pay hundreds of dollars to SEO <a href="http://www.kaizenet.com/">website design services</a>. If you wish to begin yourself, given below are some ways to help you begin with your blog.</p>
<p><strong>Keyword Suggestion Tool- Google AdWords</strong></p>
<p>Suppose you wish to create an immediate traffic at your blog, in such case you would have to pay for every advertisement. The keyword suggestion tool Google AdWords would guide you for the relevant keywords to be used for your blogs.</p>
<p>Once you enter the keyword, this suggestion tool would provide you with all the related and other suggested keywords. This tool also offers you “Global Monthly Search Volume” that helps you to know the frequency of a particular keyword being searched in a month. So, that is for sure that if the keyword which you have selected is not used so often then there is no sense in optimizing your blog content and website as it would result in very low traffic. The tool is non paid or is free to use.</p>
<p><strong>Word Tracker</strong></p>
<p>This is also free and very simple to use. The drawback of this tool is it mostly highlights the keyword searches done in USA. However, you could try this tool if you think your business market to be in America.</p>
<p>This is simple to use as just type your main keyword and click the submission button; it would open the list of all the related and main keywords being researches in the past few years.<br />
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<p><strong>Word Stream</strong></p>
<p>This keyword suggestion tool is also free and online but not so simple to use. The benefit in using this tool is once you search any keyword this tool offers you the entire list of the related keywords and mails it to you. This gets quite handy if you wish to create an Excel sheet for future analysis or you wish to continue your research in other program.</p>
<p>Word Stream does not provide result in raw numbers but in bar graphs according to the keyword popularity. So it is best to generate keyword ideas with this tool. </p>
<p><strong>Google Wonder Wheel</strong></p>
<p>This is the keyword suggestion tool that shows all the related keywords in an easy graphical format. Just type the keyword you are looking for in the Google search bar and click; you would see this tool on the side of the page.</p>
<p>You can see that the main keyword forms the centre of this wheel and the related keywords surrounding the main keyword. If you click any of the related keyword, it will form another wonder wheel branching from the original tree. In this way it helps to know the relevant keywords. </p>
<p>Both Google Wonder Wheel and Word Stream are mostly preferred to generate keyword ideas as they do not give you any idea regarding the number of monthly searches. The drawback is you cannot email the list but have to note it down using a paper and a pen.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/how-blogging-goes-hand-in-hand-with-seo/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/How-Blogging-Goes-Hand-in-Hand-with-SEO-300x225.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="How Blogging Goes Hand in Hand with SEO" title="How Blogging Goes Hand in Hand with SEO" /></a>One of the best and most efficient ways to boost your websites rankings in search engines is through blogging. Blogging works particularly well for search engines and can help boost your website’s traffic as well as selling. Additionally, when it comes to gaining one-way links, link building via blogging is faster given the increased visibility [...]]]></description>
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<p>One of the best and most efficient ways to boost your websites rankings in search engines is through blogging. Blogging works particularly well for search engines and can help boost your website’s traffic as well as selling. Additionally, when it comes to gaining one-way links,  link building via blogging is faster given the increased visibility that blogging provides. </p>
<p><strong>Becoming an Authority Niche Blogger</strong></p>
<p>Blogging works quite well since it’s a very effective tool to help your website gain notoriety in your niche. With an authority niche blog, you not only gain notoriety, but also traffic, and this will in its turn, generate more revenue for your site as it continues to grow in traffic and content.</p>
<p><strong>How Can You Best Utilize Blogging?</strong></p>
<p>To use blogging to your best advantage there are a few simple rules that you can follow which will help you to make the most of your blog. To begin, you can rank your blog higher in search engines by simply your primary keyword throughout your blog and posts (content). For example, the url of your blog should contain a primary keyword you’re seeking to rank for. Additionally, you might also use the main keyword or keyphrase in your posts to help you to get better results from it.</p>
<p>Secondly, improving on-page SEO for your blog can be done by simply using your main keywords in the title of your posts and to also make use of the H1 and the H2 headers for your content. All these factors should use at least one keyword or phrase so that they are more searchable and more visible to the user and search engines.</p>
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<p>Also, consider using secondary keywords or longtail keyphrases throughout your post body so that they too are searchable, but again, watch what you&#8217;re doing so far as density so that you don&#8217;t appear to have stuffed your posts with keywords, and that it doesn&#8217;t seem as though they are overused. </p>
<p>Lastly, you will want to ensure that your keywords are quite relevant to your topic and your content because if they are not, search engines will penalize for using keywords to pull in traffic that are not relevant to your content.</p>
<p><strong>Proper Use of Keywords</strong></p>
<p>Be sure that you are not repeating a keyword in the same paragraph and refrain from using them repeatedly as this may make your site appear to be spam and Google may and will ban the site for a time, resulting in your rankings and your traffic falling quite dramatically. Instead, use primary and secondary keywords or phrases in the anchor text as well for linking up to other posts or pages.</p>
<p><strong>Creating a Linking Structure</strong></p>
<p>You can improve your blog’s SEO by using an internal linking structure that allows you to link all of your previous postings to the future ones or to previous pages so that the pages are intertwined with keyword-rich phrases. </p>
<p>You can also build links (off-page SEO) by visiting other blogs and leaving a link. The more places that you visit and the more backlinks that you create, the more you will boost your rankings. Exchanging links with other websites and related niche blog will help you to further build your traffic and your rank, so that your network expands and creates a better blog experience and builds revenues for you.</p>
<p>The end run of leaving links, rss feeds and trackbacks means that your blog will continue to grow and expand, but do remember that even if you&#8217;ve got the best SEO in the world, if your site is stale and isn&#8217;t updated frequently, it’s probably not going to keep the traffic that is sent to it, so do take the time to update it frequently.</p>
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<p>If you are a blogger and you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, then you need to have certain plugins and widgets. I have listed certain plugins that I have used and are importantly for bloggers who using this platforms. </p>
<p><strong>All in One SEO:</strong></p>
<p> If you are for a complete SEO package. This is exactly what you need. It has a default setting or you can modify it to your specification. The powerful thing about this plugin is that it allows you create a page title for your WordPress post.</p>
<p><strong>WordPress Automatic Upgrade:</strong></p>
<p> WordPress from time to time automatically upgrades its site. This nifty plugin allow you to update your site whenever immediately there is a WordPress plugin available.</p>
<p><strong>Akismet: </strong></p>
<p>There are spammers who are bent on spamming all the blog sites. I use to have a blog that was constantly spammed. I almost taught of closing the blog until I came across Akismet. Akismet will blocks spams for your site once you have it installed it on your site.</p>
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<p><strong>Google XML Sitemaps</strong></p>
<p>: It will generate a site map for your site which helps you rank higher on the search engine. You can set it up to automatically update your site immediately you make changes to your site.</p>
<p><strong>Onlywire for WordPress: </strong></p>
<p>This tools allow you to have your blogs links all over many social networking sites. Onlywire has over 35 top social networking and bookmarking site.</p>
<p><strong>PollDaddy Poll:</strong></p>
<p> This is a very nice tool for inserting polls in your blog and it can be easily customized to use to suit your need.</p>
<p><strong>Flash MP3 Player Widget by TechKnowl :</strong></p>
<p>If you are looking to embed mp3 flash player on your blog, then this nifty tool is all you need. This player is nice and has many options for bloggers who intend to play around with it.</p>
<p><strong>Rating Widget by Outbrain :</strong></p>
<p>It allow you to intergrate a rating system on your site. There are many rating systems out on the Internet but this is by far the best. It can be easily customized to suit your particular need. </p>
<p><strong>PayPal Donation Widgets by Etienne:</strong></p>
<p> With this widgets, it easily allow you to intergrate PayPal donation buttons on your website. This buttons can be easily customized into your blog. PayPal payments are quite secure and it is most widely used on the Internet.</p>
<p><strong>Podcating Plugin: </strong></p>
<p>It allows you to intergrate podcast into your blog. All you have to do is register with the service, upload the plugin to your site and immediately start using it.</p>
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<p>The only way to drive targeted traffic to your website is to achieve a high rank in the different search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process used to place a website at a high position in the search engine results. Different techniques are used for SEO &#8212; some of these are on page and the others are off page. The following tips would help you to achieve a high rank in the search engine results:&#8211; </p>
<p> The most important part of SEO is keyword research. There are different keyword research tools available such as, &#8216;WordTracker&#8217; or &#8216;Keyword Discovery&#8217;. These tools have both free and paid versions which may be used to find out various keywords related to your niche. It is recommended to look for &#8216;Long Tail Keywords&#8217; which have good volume of search but have less competition. </p>
<p> As the search engines are always looking for sites having good content, you must provide high quality content on your site. The content should be keyword optimized. It should be updated regularly. Always remember that the use of flashy graphics will not increase your search engine rank but a few lines of keyword optimized content can do the trick. </p>
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<p>The website should have a good layout and design. It should be easy to browse. Use keywords in the URLs and file names. Generate a XML site map for the website and submit that to the different search engines. If the site is large, you may generate a number of site maps. All the links in the website should be working, as broken links may damage your search engine rank. </p>
<p>As the search engines love blogs, you can start a blog either by using WordPress or blogger. Put a link to your website in the blog posts. Ping your blog after each post. Submit your blog posts to various social networking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Technocrati etc. All these will help to build important backlinks to your blog and help it to get indexed by the search engines. In addition to blogs, you may also use Squidoo or Hubpages to promote your site. </p>
<p>A website which has a high rank in the search engine results usually has a number of links pointing to it. These are called backlinks. Try to build high quality links to your site through forum posting, article marketing, classified advertising, blog commenting, social bookmarking etc. </p>
<p>You can also improve the search engine rank for your site through paid traffic, such as, &#8216;Pay Per Click&#8217; advertising. </p>
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<p>People who pay a lot of attention to Search Engine Optimization often neglect a branch of it called Image Search Optimization, which is composed of techniques to get the images on your site ranked high in Google, Yahoo, Bing and other engines’ Image Search.</p>
<p>That’s not a very good thing, as image search is constantly growing and as of 2009, it accounts for 10% of Google’s daily 200 million searches, which is quite an impressive number. And as there is much less competition, you can get your images and site ranking high pretty quickly.</p>
<p>When users perform an image search and click on a results page image, they see your site right under Google’s (for example) toolbar, and many times, if you have some good headlines or images there, they will stay (probably after viewing or copying the image they wanted).</p>
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<p>Amazon, for example, gets a few million visits per month from users searching for book covers or product screenshots. This is quite amazing considering they would’ve had those images there anyway.</p>
<p>So how can you get a piece of the 20 million daily image searches? Here are the best (and pretty much the only) tips and techniques to help you:</p>
<p><strong>Set proper file names:</strong></p>
<p>Don’t just name them randomly like “owkdej50bng.jpg”, so you can avoid duplicates. Name the file with the keywords you want it to rank for and/or with the name of the object that is displayed. For example, an image of a Nissan GTR sports car should be named “Nissan-GTR-sports-car”. You can use either hyphens, underscores or even spaces to separate words, as Google acknowledges them all as separators, although the latter would probably not stand well with Apache server (and Linux in general) and some older browsers. This is the most important thing to get your images ranked well, but some established sites get away with using just relevant keywords around the image on the page (Amazon is the best example of this).</p>
<p><strong>Use all the image attributes:</strong></p>
<p>This will not only help Search Engines rank your images correctly, but will also make them compliant with W3C requirements. You’ll have to use the “title” (title of the image), “alt” (alternative text to be displayed in case the image cannot be shown), “width” and “height” (to tell search engines and other bots the size of your image) attributes together to be fully compliant. This may be a little difficult to implement if you are not a programmer, but you can always search for a good plugin if you are using a CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or OS Commerce. Search engines pay attention to W3C compliancy, so it will further increase you chance to rank higher for any keyword.</p>
<p><strong>Surrounding text and alternative text:</strong></p>
<p>The text in the immediate vicinity of the image and the content of the page in general influence an image’s ranking (again, the best example is Amazon with their random image names and missing attributes). That makes sense, as an image of a car on a health care blog would be really out of context, and therefore would not rank well. But if you have the same image on a car blog, it will show up much higher on the results page. The “alt” attribute is also considered as “surrounding text” by Google, and also plays an important role. Generally, you would have the same text in the “alt” attribute as you would in the image name. For example, the “alt” text for “Nissan-GTR-sports-car.jpg” would be something like “The Nissan GTR Sports Car”.</p>
<p><strong>Image Resolution:</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>This doesn’t play a very important role for Search Engines (as long as your image is normal sized, not 20&#215;20 pixels), but it does for humans. People who search for an image want to see it big and clear, not at a 150&#215;150 pixels resolution. Most people navigate away as fast as they can click when they see such an image <img src='http://www.shaswatpatel.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> , as it does not present anything important and it just irritates them. How can you discern a car’s rims, for example, in such a small image? But, from a site owner’s perspective, if you insert a big image directly into your page, it will take a lot more time to load and will consume too much bandwidth. The best solution here is to have 2 images – one smaller sized that you would insert on the page, and a bigger one that will be linked from it. This way you’ll save bandwidth when people read your article and just take a quick look at the image and you’ll please people who want to take a closer look at it.</p>
<p><strong>Link anchor text:</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>This is directly relevant to the above point, but can also be used in some other cases. If you link from the small image to the bigger one, you should use an anchor like “Large version of Nissan GTR sports car image” instead of just “Enlarge” or “Bigger version”. This will help both your images get a higher ranking due to relevancy. Another example &#8211; if you’re linking to an article related to the image, you should use “A review of the Nissan GTR sports car” instead of “Link” or “The article”. And unlike the image attributes, most CMS software allows you to insert an anchor text by default, without using any plugins.</p>
<p>That’s about all you can do to get your images and site ranking high on Image Search. There are a few other, less known and unverified methods, but these are the ones you’ll really need.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/how-to-use-geo-tags-for-seo/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.shaswatpatel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Geo-Tags-for-SEO-230x300.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Geo Tags for SEO" title="Geo Tags for SEO" /></a>There are a lot of popular and well-known ways to increase your search engine rankings using Search Engine Optimization. Basic techniques include the use of user-friendly URL’s, the use of relevant keywords in the keywords, title and description meta tags, having a good article keywords density (2-3% is enough to get ranked higher and to [...]]]></description>
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<p>There are a lot of popular and well-known ways to increase your search engine rankings using Search Engine Optimization. Basic techniques include the use of user-friendly URL’s, the use of relevant keywords in the keywords, title and description meta tags, having a good article keywords density (2-3% is enough to get ranked higher and to avoid any search engine filters) and others.</p>
<p>But there are a few new, mostly unknown methods that can be used to gain higher rankings in specific circumstances. Those who know about them keep quiet, as they really can help improve a website&#8217;s rank and can make a great addition to one&#8217;s SEO tools arsenal. One of these techniques is using Geo meta tags on any website that has a local presence. </p>
<p>For example, if you have an online car parts store that has an office in Chicago, Illinois, you can benefit from using Geo tags when someone in that city (and even state) searches for car parts, as your online store will rank higher than others, because the search engine will consider it closer to the user and, therefore, more relevant. And all you have to do is add a few lines of code to your site&#8217;s pages (using a plugin or manually).</p>
<p>Right now only Bing and Yahoo (which is using Bing for search) have confirmed that Geo meta tage influence their rankings. Google hasn&#8217;t given a definite answer, but it&#8217;s safe to assume that they at least consider them when deciding on a website’s ranking. Also, geo tags have absolutely no negative impact on the rank, so there&#8217;s no reason why you shouldn&#8217;t use them.</p>
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<p>Implementing them is fairly easy, all you have to do is add three short meta tags to your site&#8217;s <head></head> section (next to the other tags like description, keywords, etc.):</p>
<p><strong>1. Geo.Region</strong></p>
<p>The “geo.region” meta tag contains the ISO-3166 country and state code. For example, if your business and website are located in United States, Illinois, you would use &#8220;US-IL&#8221;. You can find the codes on the iso.org website or by searching “ISO 3166 country codes” on Google (or any other search engine).</p>
<p><strong>2. Geo.Placename</strong></p>
<p>The “geo.placename” tag consists of the names of your state and city/town. Let&#8217;s take &#8220;Chicago, Illinois&#8221; as an example.</p>
<p><strong>3. Geo.Position</strong></p>
<p>The “geo.position” tag includes the latitude and longitude of your city. A great tool that will help you find them out is itouchmap.com, which Google Maps (which itself doesn&#8217;t have the ability to show the latitude and longitude of a location). Go to itouchmap.com, click on “Latitude and Longitude”, type in your location (for example &#8220;Chicago, Illinois&#8221;; you can leave out the street name) and you’ll get the exact longitude and latitude of the city. You will use only the first number after the point and a semicolon (;) instead of a comma (,) for the Geo.Position meta tag, like this: &#8220;41.8; -87.6&#8243;.</p>
<p>For example, here&#8217;s what a small business website located in Chicago, Illinois, would have in the <head></head> section:</p>
<p><meta name=”geo.region” content=”US-IL”><br />
<meta name=”geo.placename” content=”Chicago, Illinois”><br />
<meta name=”geo.position” content=”41.8; -87.6”></p>
<p>As you can see, everything is simple. And there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn&#8217;t implement geo tags (aside from possible technical difficulties), so do it as soon as possible!</p>
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