Unique Content : On-Page Ranking Factors

We all know by now that SEO is a vital part of a company’s web marketing campaign. Having a website, blog, or published articles on the web is great—but if no one can find your content in the search engines, then the material is useless. For years, optimizing a page was as easy as including your targeted keywords many times throughout the content and including them in your meta keywords tag. But now all those tactics are for the birds.

We thought it would helpful to compile a quick content optimization checklist of the fundamental methods of optimizing page content for a website. There are numerous on-page ranking factors that the major search engines take into consideration when determining how relevant a given page is for a specific search query. While some of these factors may be more significant than others, it is important to utilize as many as possible to gain a competitive advantage in the search engines. Enjoy!

·         The page content needs to be unique and present quality information that is useful for the VISITOR. Google has made it very clear that a web page should be build for visitors/actual users as opposed to search engine spiders.

·         Each unique page should only target one or two primary keywords. If you are targeting more and the information you are presenting is worthy of its own page then do it! This allows you to hyper focus each page toward ranking well for specific searches.

·         The page title must include the targeted keyword. Also, the closer the keyword appears towards the front of the title, the better.

·         Your targeted keywords should be scattered naturally throughout the article. Do not force the keyword into your content as your ranking can actually be penalized for attempting to keyword stuff your content.

·         Include variations of the targeted keyword (here at ideaLaunch we refer to them as secondary keywords) throughout the content.

·         Include the targeted keywords in the url

·         Use the targeted keyword in your header tags—most notably H1.

·         For any image on the page, be sure to include keyword-rich alt tags

·         Name your files with keywords in mind

·         Use the or tag for your keywords

(source: www.idealaunch.com)

New Google search algorithm prefers quality link building

After the internet search giant Google announced the Panda update in February this year, thousands of sites in the US were seriously impacted.

The improved algorithm digs in deeper into the low-quality websites to yield high-quality results for the user. However, Google claims that the Panda algorithm should affect only about 2% of the websites in the US while the original update impacted over 12% of the US search queries.

Panda update was developed to weed out content farms, thereby removing low quality or offending sites that did not adhere to Google’s quality parameters. In all, the new version aims to target low quality and spammy/scraper sites.

Microsoft-owned ciao.co.uk was seriously hit, facing 94% decline in traffic. The online-shopping portal had been in the frontline of a EU competition case against Google.

As a result, Google has been accused of deliberately reducing the notoriety of some websites. Responding back, a Google spokesperson refused claims- new algorithm targets specific websites while reducing their visibility.

The new Content Farm Panda update will boost the rankings of all high-quality websites with original information and content such as in-depth research reports and thoughtful analysis.

With this Panda update reaching many English language countries abroad, websites managed through “black-hat” SEO strategy will need to employ a proper strategy in place to reposition their website on ethical standards. (source: www.itpro.in)

Google Changes New Panda Algorithm – SEO Viewpoint

Google made an update to their algorithm late February 2011 that has greatly affected many sites and caused a decrease in traffic. The update was called the “Panda” update (aka the “Farmer” update). Google normally does major updates to their algorithm once every 1-2 years. The Panda update is a major update. This is all in an effort for Google to produce the best search results and foil black hat SEO techniques. In general Google always has the searcher in mind and they change their algorithm so as to ensure black hat SEO techniques are not effecting the relevance and high quality of the results on their search engine.

So how do you know if the Panda update effected your website? Quickly check your website analytics from January 2011 until today. Check if you see a sudden decrease in traffic from the end of February until now. Also check on Google Webmaster Tools what words you are currently ranking for and compare that to the keywords you were ranking for before.

Who did the Panda update effect? Generally if you are a website that has high quality content and it is not duplicated elsewhere, Panda would not affect you. Google’s algorithm is notorious for focusing on off page factors like in-links, but this update actually focused on on-page factors.

How do you ensure your website is not negatively affected? Make sure you are not using any black hat techniques on-page like keyword repetition too many times (keywords should be repeated below 5% of total words on page to be safe). Make sure keywords are not repeated next to each other and the copy of the page and meta tags are not ‘spammy’. Also check if there are sites out there that are copying your content like article sites, other industry blogs etc. If they are, ensure your duplicated content is removed post haste. Content should be 100% unique on each of your websites and within the website.

If you play by these rules you will find that this latest Google update actually helps your website rank higher and drops your competitors websites off the first page results as a penalty for using spammy SEO techniques. I have discovered the majority of our websites going up since the algorithm update are due to:

1.    Having a respected and historically ‘clean’ domain,

2.    Having relevant on-page content,

3.    The website is built in a standard and clean way (no extra flash or java to slow it down)

4.    No black hat SEO techniques were employed on-page or off-page

(source: www.searchengineoptimizations.co) DUKNDNQTZVTU

People can sell herbalife products online from anywhere

There are lots of herbalife products in the market which are used to reduce weight. People can use anyone to reduce their overweight according their facility. Most of people are worried for their heavy weight and in spite of using lots of way they did not get any relief. Before coming herbalfie in the market there was notion in people mind that people could reduce their heavy weight to do hard work and eat very less food. Herbalife changed this notion and now most of people are free from their heavy weight problem after using herbalife products. During use of herbalife these people did not do hard work and did not leave to eat vitamins and proteins food.

There is one of good facilities of this firm that people can also earn lot of money if they sell its products online. This is very simple task and people don’t need any extra knowledge and experience to sell its products. They will get whole information in site of myherbalife login which is necessary to sell its products.

This is business which is mostly operated by online and people who sell herbalife products they don’t have to go anywhere to sell its products they can sell products from anywhere through herbalife online.

SEO Tactics to Avoid

In this post i am just explaining the points you should avoid to do in SEO. If any of these are in your task list then go ahead and cross them off. They will not help you to reach high in search engine but some of them can hamper your progress.

Hidden Stuff

The days of filling a page with hidden text are long gone. Google, Bing, Yahoo and the other major search engines are sophisticated enough to catch you out at this. If you think that you can use different methods to hide content then you are just wasting your time and efforts because the collective mind of Google's web spam team is smarter than all of you.

Keyword Stuffing

Spamming a page with so many keywords does not help you at all. The content should be original and relevant to the website. Putting so many keywords in content, title or description do not help but just lower the quality of your content and lower your ranking.

Cloaking

Do not try to make two faces of website i.e. one for bots and other for human visitors. Many people do this to boost ranking it also works up to some extant but once you have been found out then you will be in trouble.

Link Competition  

If you see your competitor has so many link backs but you have very few as compare to him then don’t list your website on a host of spammy directories to bulk up the numbers. It is only the quality of the links that matters. Focus to get lower volume high quality links than high volume low quality links.

Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is also a big problem for websites. It affects website a lot. Google algorithm ranks any website according to which page it believes is original and authoritative. Google bots do not revisit website frequently if there is duplicate content, due to this website’s ranking goes lower in search engine. So always use fresh and unique content to overcome these problems.

Best Ways to Optimize Your Google AdWords Campaign

You may have noticed that Google makes it easy to set up a Google AdWords campaign, but not so easy to get a return on your investment in pay-per-click. There are a lot of levers you can pull in your AdWords campaign to influence results. Here are eight ways to optimize your Google AdWords campaign for better ROI.

1. Know Your Target Audience Google AdWords Profile

Knowing your target audience, in the context of Google AdWords, goes beyond maintaining a list of demographic parameters that describe the identity of your customers. You also need to keep in mind one important question – how is my audience using Google? Trying to get a feel for their behavioral patterns and letting that behavior inform your selection and use of keywords will give your Google AdWords campaign an edge over your competition.

2. Speak the Language of Your Audience, Not Your Own

Keep in mind that your target audience may or may not use the same vocabulary that you do to describe what you sell. Your keywords should reflect the way they talk about your offerings, not the way you do.

3. Select Primary and Secondary Google AdWords Keywords

Each keyword in your campaign has a cost that depends on how many others are bidding on it. Your primary keywords are directly related to your product/service. In case of highly competitive products, your primary keywords may prove to be quite expensive. It’s equally important to choose secondary keywords that are not directly related to your product. Secondary keywords widen your reach and can bring down your pay-per-click advertising costs if you choose less competitive segments.

4. Select Smart Site Google AdWords Placements

Apart from bidding on keywords, AdWords also gives you access to a wide range of partner websites where your ad can appear. You can choose categories of websites that your target customers are most likely to visit. For example, if you sell digital cameras, you can advertise on photography sites or sites that target gadget-lovers.

5. Use long-Tail Keywords for High conversions at lower cost

Online users are gradually using longer key phrases rather than keywords. These longer phrases have lower search volume than common keywords. However, long-tail keywords increase your chances of clicks and conversions since they are very specific. For instance, “digital camera” is a generic keyword. A long tail alternative would be “best deal for Canon 1000D.” If you’re struggling to find relevant longer tail keywords, there are a number of free Google Adwords Keyword tools that can help you discover profitable, traffic-driving terms.

6. Monitor Conversions, Not Just Clicks

While you pay for clicks, tracking overall conversions from each keyword can help you derive better value out of your campaign. This, however, requires good integration of Google Analytics and AdWords with your CRM and sales management system.

7. Optimize Your Ad Copy

Just like headlines play an important role in a traditional media campaign, having highly contextual ad copy that’s closely related to the keyword being searched for plays a vital role in conversions. An ad for a broad term like “digital camera” might lead to information that would aid the purchase decision of the buyer. However, if the search term indicates intention to buy, the copy should be persuasive and lead the user to a landing page with an option to purchase.

8. Test Your Landing Page Designs

The key to continually increasing ROI from Internet marketing is testing. Beyond testing multiple versions of your ads, make sure to test variations on your landing pages. Google offers the Google Website Optimizer tool that can help you decide the best layout for your landing page. Decisions like where to place the “Buy Now” button and what color to make it may be aided by this tool.

SEO Hosting

SEO Hosting is all about providing different class C IP address and enables webmasters to host their websites and blogs from separate name server on separate class C IP addresses. Multiple class C IP scan really push SEO score of a website to a large extent. Class C IP technique works great enough that there is no scope of its failure. Earlier Black hat SEO used to create blogs, websites and insert their target keywords as anchor text linking to their original websites. These dummy blogs and websites got mushroomed in such a spammed way that Google Spam Filters started to not to value links from these webpages that were hosted on the same class C IP as the main website.

What is Class C IP anyway, as all of us know that each IP is divided into 4 parts like AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD. For example, if the IP address is 69.65.140.134 then 140 would be the C Class. Backlinks i.e. links from webpages hosted on different Class C IP’s will score more over backlinks coming from webpages having same Class C IP.

Many web hosting companies have now come up with the concept of SEO Hosting Plans which do offer a set of Class C IP’s to host your websites and blogs. If your website is hosted on such a SEO Plan then what you need to do is just host a website or a blog like wordpress on each of unique Class C IP and post article on regular basis in these blogs with links linking to your target site but all this should not look like spam, articles must be unique with keyword density of up to 8 percent and not more than two links in a post of 400 words.

These techniques are not recommended for a newbie webmaster as it takes a lot of time in writing and posting these things. There is nothing as good as there is fresh and new content with backlinks in the field of SEO , Search Engines like Google actually do love articles but do mind to take Class C IP into consideration for link valuation.