Archive for April, 2009

SEO For Your Title Tags

Monday, April 20th, 2009

seo titletags keywords vs branding

Improving title tags is the basic foundation to start having search engine optimization success on the internet. The title tag is what appears at the top of an open webpage above the web address bar and appropriately located offers the title or subject of the webpage. It is important to know that the maximum number of characters that you can have in the title tags. Sites that are trying to use too many keywords in the title tags will have less effective results. It is better to focus on a few (one, two or three) keywords per page for title tags. Search engines use the title tags to find out if the page is spamming, so it is better to use wording that sounds more natural instead of trying to make it look like an advertisement. Focusing on what your target audience will be looking for is key to choosing the right title tags.

You can use title tags for search engine optimization purposes and to be used effectively in the search engine algorithms it is better that they are short, concise and to the point. Many people debate what title tags should look like. Placing the site name in the website title is essential for branding purposes and so that your viewers will remember what site they are on. The first words in a title tag are also what comes up when a person tries to bookmark your site so using your business name or company title is very necessary. After the homepage or webpage title follow with something to separate the page name from the keywords that you will be using. It is not necessary to have a full sentence name and focus more on highlighting your keywords and not putting in too many other words because it will lessen the optimization and make it more difficult for SEO. These keywords along with the keywords in your content will help streamline your optimization efforts and will be rewards by Google, MSN and other search engines.

On the pages that follow the home page, commonly referred to as secondary pages, you can use the same format or you can switch the format and place the keywords first and then the homepage. These simple tips will help improve your page rank and searchability and will also help you get the kind of unique visitors you want for your site.

Is Social Media Marketing for Making Money?

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

social_mediaHow can I make money with social networking?  Social networking is not about making money but rather its about making friends.  Yes, making money might be your end goal, but becoming a successful networking is the first step in creating continual traffic and a new stream of potential customers.  In the last few years everything is becoming more transparent and networks are becoming bigger and bigger.  For example if someone is in the real estate business there are some ways that Web 2.0 techniques can help bring more business and networking opportunities.  There are such companies including MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and many more.  Apart from these sites there are many other social networking sites that are also helpful.  Viewing the social networking sites as a great environment to meet people is the best way that they can be used.  Apart from the social networking sites, a personal blog is a great way to let people get to know you.

When there are people that you meet through social media marketing, then you can invite them to your blog or personal website to start to get to know each other.  At this point you can learn what the people coming to your blog for and if they show interest or not.  The idea is not that every first person that comes to your blog wants what you have, but is a helpful networking partner and can spread the word about your business.  By using great content, pictures, videos, images and sometimes gifts on your blog or personal website, people will be more likely to network for you or help you create a bigger network without even meaning to.

Social media networking is networking just at a more technologically advanced rate and with the capacity to reach hundreds and even thousands of people faster that can become potential clients or even just good online buddies.  Reaching out to new and potential customers through the use of social media marketing is a great first step to promoting yourself and is completely free!

How To Get Top Google Rankings Fast

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

page rank googleIf you want to achieve the number 1 position on Google at will using whatever keywords are best for your business it is important that you create what is referred to as an “authority presence” on the web.  There are very expensive ways to do this as well as some less expensive ways that getting a better page rank.  The faster way to get this done is using Web 2.0 resources on the web.  You need to produce content that your viewers want to see.  One great way is to use StumbleUpon.  Others include using OnlyWire, and others include bookmarking services such as Digg and Reddit.  The next thing you need to do is create press releases and article marketing.  When using StumbleUpon you need to be very keyword focused.  When you are submitting your content to social bookmarking sites you need to be very keyword-centric in order to get the results you want.  When you are submitting a press release you need to have keywords as part of the article title and the keyword density is between 2.5 and 3 percent.  No matter what the article marketing strategy that you use, you need to have your titles, tags, and descriptions need to use the keywords that you are targeting.

OnlyWire is great because it puts your article into many different social bookmarking services.  They you go to Digg and you submit something to Digg and you can use the OnlyWire service and Digg that.  You can OnlyWire videos that you are submitting to You Tube as well as press releases you write.  Google recognizes this activity and starts recognizing you as a major player on the web in terms of SEO.  You will become an authority presence in no time.  This means that a significant percentage of people in your market will go to your site everyday.  They are more likely to buy from your website than from others even if your prices are higher.  Having high Google page rank helps set you up for success and creates repeat customers or viewers for your business.