Thursday, May 28th, 2009
As a new website owner who is trying to learn the ropes of creating, optimizing, and promoting your website, you’ll eventually stumble upon the topic of keyword research. Sure, you know it’s important — but what is it, and what exactly does it do?
What keyword research is: While the phrase keyword research can have several [...]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Choosing the right keywords is an essential SEO element in order to drive your target market to your site and improve ranking in search engine results pages.
Keyword research and selection can be both difficult and time-consuming. You need to do some research to determine the set of words that will work very well for your [...]
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
One of the first and most important steps of any search engine marketing campaign is creating an initial list of keywords. After all, everything else you do is based on these keywords, isn’t it?
Here’s some tips to help you get started on building that all-important initial keyword list:
Check out your competition—This may seem obvious, but [...]
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
We’ve discussed on-site search engine optimization in great depth – including some of the different adjustments you can make to your webpages to make them more appealing to search engines – but these techniques are only half the battle. Off-site techniques are just as important in getting your site ranked well in the search engines [...]
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Anchor text is one of the most important factors you must understand in order to earn good rankings from the search engines. Specifically, anchor text refers to the linked text that’s displayed in place of a web address – the text you click on to be taken to a new web page. Anchor text is [...]
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