Search Engine Marketing Guide

Search Engine Marketing Guide: Things To Do To Boost Search Engine Positions And Web Site Traffic For 2006 And Beyond

By Luke Fitzsimmons

Search Engine Marketing is very important if your want your online business to succeed. It is all about good quality high value (unique is best) content, it is what the search engine want as it is what the searchers are looking for. This is just a quick list of the top of my head but is enough to keep you busy.

• Articles: this is the most powerful way for 2006 and beyond to generate good quality one-way in bound links. I will submit them to article directories and submission services, do a search on your favourite search engine for article submission services or article directories to find relevant ones for your industry. Note it is a good idea to use relevant keywords and phrases in your articles but only if they make sense.

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• Press Releases: another sure fire way to generate quality links from authority sites. Press releases are much more powerful that advertising as they are objective. Again search in your favourite search engine information on how to write a good press release if you are not familiar with them for example type in ‘tips for writing a good press release’. Then do a search for good press release submission services PRWeb.com is a very popular service

• Add regular fresh content to the site: Your Search engine marketing will only succeed if you do this - you could reuse the articles used for submissions etc… But this would probably not be the best method. Although a good idea would be to write a series of articles, use a few of them or a shortened version or an abstract (still with good quality unique content of course) for submission to the directories. Make sure you tell the readers that further articles and information can be found on your website, enticing them to visit your site to read the rest of the articles.

Make a point to add fresh content of a regular basis. For example if you are in the Overseas property industry you should add new properties, buyers guides, area guides, country guides, case studies, customer testimonials, resources (i.e. weather, travel info, car hire etc… these can be affiliate links to generate additional streams of income), again I can help.

Set yourself up a Blog and make a post to ping the search engines every time you add fresh content to your site, this will alert the search engine spiders who will come crawling to review and index your new pages. Again if you don’t know much about Blogs, use your favourite search engine to find out how to set one up. Wordpress.com is a popular service.

• Joint ventures: i.e. you email your database in return for an email to another company’s database. You know your industry you should know who to tap up for a joint venture. Don’t simply view similar websites as competitors, this is short sighted instead view them as opportunities and colleagues. You can swap links, exchange content (publish each other articles), email each other databases etc… use your imagination, get creative, there is enough traffic for most websites to succeed. As long as your website adds value and offers good quality unique content you will succeed.

• Hooks: you can offer your visitors something of value in return for them signing up to your newsletter. For example, again if you are an overseas property company Free Brochures, Buyers guide, legal or tax information

• Competitions: use incentive based viral marketing i.e. you can enter your site visitors into a competition for every friend or colleague they tell about your site or register for your mailing list.

• Optimise your web pages and articles: as this article was talking about using fresh content for your search engine marketing strategy I thought it best show you how to create an optimised page, for those of you that don’t know how.

In my experience I have found that it is important to optimise each webpage for a maximum of two phrases.

Title = phrase one | phrase two

Also try to keep your Meta keywords limited to a few, use the same two phrases first as in your title although you can bulk it out with another phrase, like so

Meta keywords = phrase one, phrase two, phrase three

The Meta description must also start with your keywords but be descriptive at the same time, like so

Meta Description =. Phrase one, information for about phrase two from your company / website name

Alt tags (first 3 images on the page should contain the phrases but also describe the picture/image, like so

Alt= phrase one company name logo
Alt= phrase two picture
Alt= phrase one photos

It is also very important to have header tags with the keyphrase in, like so

Phrase one

Start the page copy with a header tag

Then the first 50 words must also contain the two phrases, like so (I have underlined the phrases.
Copy
Then use another header with a phrase
phrase two
copy

phrase one

etc…

It is recommended to have between 500 – 1300 words on the page with a keyphrase weight of 2 – 5%

The key phrases should be strategically placed in an hour glass shape in the copy, i.e. a few at the top a couple in the middle and a few at the bottom.

But don’t over do it, make the copy read naturally with all the words in context.

It is also recommended to have the phrases in bold and italic somewhere on the page as this tells the search engines they are important, I usually put them in the footer like so.

Phrase one | phrase two

Last but not least it is recommended to have your key phases in hyper links i.e. linking text

For example you can have anchor links to the different header tags on the page for navigation or run of site link at the bottom of the page.

And there you have it, a quick guide on how to optimise a webpage.

Use these SEO techniques for all pages, articles, and fresh content you add to the site and you can’t go wrong, you are giving the search engines what they want, easy to understand content rich pages, regularly updated.

In return the search engines will give you what you want good-targeted traffic that will convert into enquiries.

Follow this search engine marketing guide, build solid content and good links and your search engine marketing campaign should be a success. if your liked this article and want to learn more visit loudmouse.biz

About the Author: Luke Fitzsimmons has a BA (Hons) Degree in Leisure Marketing, has passed the Google Ad words Professional Exam and has a WEB CEO Search Engine Marketing Qualification. Luke has been working online for 5 years as a search engine marketing and optimisation professional, his personal site is http://www.loudmouse.biz

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Using a Search Engine Marketing Consultant to Boost Search Engine Rankings

By Ray Subs

A search engine marketing consultant is a good resource to use if you need help developing a website that ranks high in search engine results. There are a few search engine optimization techniques that will help your website to rank higher, and a search engine marketing consultant can help you to identify and utilize these practices. The amount of traffic your website receives is directly related to the success of your business, so it is imperative that your website is properly optimized for search engines.

A search engine marketing consultant will show you how to use your website’s content, keywords, and incoming links to increase your website’s rankings. They will give you ideas you can use to improve your keyword performance and show you how to implement important changes

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that will lead to increased search engine rank and traffic. Choosing a search engine marketing consultant is an important part of the success of your website, so be sure to choose someone who will address all the important aspects of search engine marketing.

One of the most important factors in boosting your site’s ranking is keyword research. Figuring out which keywords are best suited for your website and which have the most competition is one of the best ways to make sure your site is ranked high. Using the right keywords within your niche market will help your website to succeed. You want to make sure that the search engine marketing consultant you choose does extensive keyword research to choose the best keywords for you as well as looks at your competition to see what keywords they are using.

The search engine marketing consultant you choose should also show you how to implement on-page optimization techniques such as meta tags, title tags, and keyword density, to help improve your site’s ranking. It is important that your keywords are used properly throughout your website and a good search engine marketing consultant will show you how to do so. Properly filling out meta and title tags will also help your website to rank higher. You will also want to fill your website with keyword rich content that adds value to your site.

There is more to search engine optimization than keywords and site content, and a search engine marketing consultant should also help you to build inbound links and utilize other off page optimization methods. Having many inbound links to your website from related websites is a great way to increase your search engine ranking. Likewise, article marketing is a very effective way to increase the number of links to your site as well as increase traffic.

If you run or are considering a paid marketing campaign, your search engine marketing consultant should also help you choose keywords for your campaign so that you receive the most traffic and click-throughs for any given keyword. A search engine marketing consultant can be a great help in getting your website the traffic it needs, if you choose one wisely.

About the Author: Before you start an SEO project, go to Terry Stanfield's site for information on SEO Management and more Search Engine Marketing Articles.

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Search Engine Optimisation – Helping Your Website Climb the Search Engine Results

By Helen Cox

Search engine optimisation, known in short as SEO, is considered to be one of the most cost effective promotional tools in the marketing sector and when you think about the fact that 85% of your customers will have most likely found your site via a search engine or a directory then you will appreciate how important good SEO is to get your business ranked highly in the search engine results.

The term SEO refers to search engine optimisation and search engine optimisers, who are a team of industry of consultants who carry out optimisation projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimisers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign.

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changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term search engine friendly may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, URLs, and shopping carts that are easy to optimise.

The practice of search engine optimisation is all about making sure that the website evolves and grows. The way of doing this is by modifying both the internal and the external aspects of a site in order to increase the traffic that a site receives from search engines. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a very broad field, with various aspects encompassing a variety of disciplines ranging from Web design and development to public relations.

Below are just a few examples of the main aspects that are involved in the search engine optimisation process:

• Meta-tagging

• Re-writing your URLs

• Image optimisation

• Page Rank sculpting

• Copywriting

• Web usability

• Branding

As the Internet has grown into the competitive market that it is today it has become an essential way of increasing revenue and generating commercial success online. This commercial success is best achieved through the process of search engine optimisation however the use of SEO should include the latest ethical techniques, which is known as white hat SEO. This white hat SEO produces results that last a long time. It is about creating content for users not search engines. In many ways SEO is similar to web development that promotes accessibility and it is not just about following guidelines. As with all things white hat SEO has an opposite, known as black hat SEO. Black hat SEO attempts to improve rankings in ways that are disapproved of by search engines. Search engines may penalise sites they discover using black hat methods, either by reducing their rankings or eliminating their listings from their databases altogether. Such penalties can be applied either automatically by the search engines' algorithms, or by a manual site review.

Search engine optimisation is about more than fixing Meta information and writing content it’s about research and analysis. You need to know what a website should display and then apply this to the site to give it the best possible chance of succeeding within the search engine results.

About the Author: Helen is the web master of Search Solutions, specialists in all aspects of performing Search Engine Optimisation.

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Search Engine Optimization - Search Engine Friendly Domain Name

By Endar WS

Having your own domain name is now become so important. It is not only representing professional and credibility of your company, but it is also make your url being indexed by search engine much easier.
There is another important role of domain name that being forgot by web masters.

Search engine friendly domain name is influencing in search engine placement. If you do want to get the top in search engine, then name your domain with this kind of domain name:

1) Use domain name that represents prior keyword of your site. This is very important step in optimizing your web site. At least, this step has 2 positive impacts on your site:

# Your domain name will be much easier to be being remembered by visitors, since your domain name represents prior keyword that they want

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to know.

# You will have good positioning on search engine because url has it's important roles for search engines. This kind of url is also called with url-keyword.

For details about url-keyword, you can read our free guidance in SEO-ing web site.
This kind of url will also influence PR of your site, since another web sites which want to link to you are forced to enter your prior keyword as url in texts-link on their web page.

2) Abbreviate some words with numeric:
Eample: 2 = two
4 = for
This will also makes your url in good positioning on few search engines that sorts url based on initial-numeric domain name.

3) Make your domain name as short as possible. Long domain name will only makes your url difficult to remember and easily being forget by visitors, so this should be avoided. In the opposite, using short url-keyword will make your url memorize-able.

4) Use Popular TLD only as much as you can. The reason why it is recommended is, because popular TLD not only will make it easy to remember, but it also represents credibility of your business.

5) If your url consists more than a single word, then use minus (-) sign as the separator. This will avoid misspelling, mistype and make ease in spelling.

About the Author: Endar is a SEO copy-writer. Visit his site for the more info about effective search engine optimization to make your site listed on the top of free search engine. http://www.2search-engine-optimization.info

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Search Engine Copywriting

Search Engine Copywriting: A Comprehensive Guide For Beginners To Content Writing For Search Engine Optimization (Continued)

By Liam Anthony

About the resources

Knowing the right information will certainly give you the right results. Knowing what people want and what they are searching for will be one of the keys to make it big in this business. One of the things that can help you acquire this information is through case studies, surveys and polls that can be found all over the internet. Most of these studies provide general demographic information about internet users. If you’re lucky enough (since it is discouraged), you might even stumble with information regarding the searching habits of different demographics.

Once you have decided to use particular information from the internet, make sure that it is from a reliable author or source. Incorrect and

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inaccurate data proliferates all over the internet and it happens that you may be misled by others to use them, so, see to it that the articles or studies you are about to use are made and conducted by certified educational institutions or known private companies so you will not have any problems about their authenticity.

Another effective source of information from the internet are pages which rank high among search engines especially those that are related to yours. Analyze and learn the effective things they have done to increase their PageRank and apply them to your work. You could also check out the pages of your top competitors, you might learn a lot from them but be careful not to copy their stuff as it is since they will be constantly checking out their competition. Copyright guidelines are finally catching up with those who replicate content, ending blacklisted by major search engines.

SEO forums are also helpful in guiding you about the latest trends in the Search Engine Optimization business. Experts usually crowd in these forums to discuss the tricks and trends of the business. Moreover, new updates and trends about Search Engine Algorithms and Technology can be found on these forums so it is highly advisable that you check out those forums. However, the forums might be a little too complicated for beginners as terms often become too technical to understand even by seasoned users.

About the words

Now let us go down to business! It is time to know what are the keywords and keyphrases you will use for your copy! The key words and phrases would be the ones that you will use and try to integrate throughout the whole copy. It would be the bait you place in the hook in order to attract and hopefully catch your potential customers.

First of all, you and your client should brainstorm together (face to face if possible) about the keywords and keyphrases you want to use for the copy. It is important that you brainstorm together so that you will be able to stay true to the brand and have an effective choice for use in the search engine optimization efforts. You could make use of different keyword tools found in the web such as Keyword Discovery, GoodKeywords, WordTracker, Overture, etc. (issues regarding their usability and effectiveness will be discussed separately). These tools can be downloaded or used directly over the internet should you choose to utilize it.

In choosing keyphrases or keywords remember to start with and use popular but “not-so-competitive” terms since it would be very difficult to compete with more established websites if you have just been starting. The above-mentioned tools will help you determine which key words or phrases you could use.

One word keywords are very difficult if not impossible to compete with as it would have a more general scope compared with keyphrases. For example, if you are trying to write content for a company selling educational toys, choosing a keyword like “toys” would be a stupid idea since search engines would give around one hundred million hits for that particular keyword, while changing it into keyphrase like “toys for students” or “educational toys” would only have hits of around five million. This means that the chance that a web searcher would actually go to your website would be 100,000,000:1 under the keyword “toys” while choosing the keyphrase “educational toys” means a chance of 5,000,000:1, greatly increasing your chance of being visited. Besides, customers are more likely to refine their searches since using or typing just one word searches would mean being bombarded with a lot of unwanted information than they need, costing more time and effort.

Your keywords should specifically target (1) the product or service that you are offering and (2) what people actually type whenever they use the search engines in looking for products and services like yours. A good example would be when writing content for a company selling kilns for bricks, you should not optimize for the keyword “kiln for bricks” if most people actually type “oven for bricks” when they are looking for such equipment. It is useless to optimize for the term kiln when most people opt to type oven since a few if none will be looking for the term kiln.

You should also identify and discover various words and terms which are closely related to your keyword or keyphrases. Some key-terms and keyphrases are so intimately intertwined with others that one group associates it with a particular field while another choose to associate it with something else. One good example would be Cosmetic Surgery. Cosmetic Surgery is a medical procedure, so, it can be regarded as something related with medicine and surgery, while it is also correct to say that it is related with cosmetics and beauty. Since the fields of medicine, surgery, cosmetics and beauty are popular fields, optimizing for both the cosmetic and the surgical aspect of the keyphrase Cosmetic Surgery would bring more keyword hits for searches from individuals of both parts of the spectrum.

Another thing to consider is to integrate local terminologies or equivalents of your products or services when optimizing with key words or phrases. An “elevator” in the US would be a “lift” in the UK, a “truck” in the US would be a “lorry” in the UK, and the list goes on. When trying to sell products or services for a huge demographically different society, you should optimize for both of the groups as each would tend to search for the more familiar local term. Better yet, you could create different sites for different demographic groups, replacing particular key words and phrases enabling you to cater to both.

Moreover, it would be wise to consider placing regional information or regional key words or phrases. Integrating regional information along with keywords and keyphrases enables users who prefer more specified searches to visit your website. You would also benefit from the limited competition because of the more specified search. Most people looking for products and services in the internet would certainly prefer to find what they need locally, so adding local regional information would definitely be of great help to you and your potential client. Another benefit is that you could add another keyword, which is the regional information to your existing key word or key phrase. For example, instead of having just “plumbing services” add “Atlanta” before ‘plumbing services’. This would give you an edge over competitors as it would profoundly decrease your competition.

About the content

Now that you have the key words and phrases you would need its time to plan about the general thrust of the content, on what the content should be like.

Generally, the main idea of writing content is for it to be able to provide useful information for visitors in your site. You are primarily writing for the readers, the human visitors of your site, and about the products and services that you have to offer. Secondary to that idea is to provide the search engines information so they could properly and accurately index your site according to its proper category, so anyone who wants to look for something in particular, through the use of search engines, would eventually find what he needs. In other words, your content should be both customer-oriented and search engine friendly.

In order to do that, you need to plan properly on how to do your copywriting. The whole text should be able to give them what they need and want to know about the products and services you have. Hence, it is highly advisable that you read a lot of information about the subject product or service before you write the actual copy. The goal is to become extremely knowledgeable about the product, so you can explore all the possibilities and play with its strengths and weaknesses and write everything that is needed.

One important thing to remember is to write content that is unique. Copying content is not only plagiarism and cheating but is also a serious offense that could cause painful penalties under existing Copyright laws. More and more Intellectual Property Rights watch dogs are reporting cases of content stealing and have gained some grounds over the years. Major search engines are now penalizing sites which illegally acquire content from other sources. Penalties include permanently putting sites under a blacklist, sort of a “permanent not to contact sites” for crawlers. Lawsuits and cases about web content writing are now increasing day by day, with more countries enacting laws on Intellectual Property Rights. The risks are just too great if you plagiarize and copy content. So make sure that you quote or place endnotes when you choose to use parts of other’s content.

And lastly, your content should be written in plain, simple, and natural language so as not to destroy the natural flow of words as you write. Highly technical words and terms should be reserved for highly technical discussions, and should be discouraged for everyday internet use.

About the mood

You might be wondering what a section about mood is doing in a seo copywriting article, well, it certainly has a LOT to do about content writing. The mood of the reader would certainly affect the way he views a certain product or service. If you did not properly take care of the emotional side of your customer with your writing, consider him gone. Individual moods are affected by a lot of factors although primarily it is internal, external factors could also affect his mood significantly and luckily what that individual reads is one of them.

First of all, you should be ‘in the mood’ for writing. Good copies are mostly written by writers who are either inspired or enlightened with what they are about to write. Content writers should make sure that they are in this special mood because the consequence of the opposite would be a very bad copy. A reader is also likely to be ‘drawn’ by an emphatic copy written superbly which would eventually end up making the reader get what you are offering.

One thing you could do to achieve that is to utilize emotional appeal to the reader. Try to integrate personal articles like “you”, “we”, and “us” more often try to get your visitors as involved as possible. Avoid being too passive as it would prevent you from establishing a connection or a relationship with your target reader.

Keep your readers or customers engaged with your site. Make them think and interact by asking questions, giving riddles or trivia. All these create an air of friendliness for potential customers, and once you’ve made them comfortable reading, they are more likely to respond positively to you. As much as possible make them do all their transactions within your site, give out all the details about what you are offering so that can know everything they need to know. Trying to get online visitors ask questions and product or service information offline will be too cumbersome for them so be as accessible as possible.

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About the Author: Liam Anthony is a Copywriter/Ghostwriter for SEOGlobalPro, a Search Engine Optimization Company based in Davao City, Philippines. He graduated with a Bachelors degree in Arts with a Major in Political Science at Ateneo de Davao University, he is currently a Law Student at Ateneo de Davao Law School. http://www.seoglobalpro.com

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