I for one love the fact that Google will be ranking quality sites better now! There is no need for spamming garbage to take up the top 10 spots! If you didn't know already Google changed there algorithm so that higher quality content will carry more weight when being ranked! Check out the video below!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I did a review for SEO Spyglass so check it out!
I decided to do a little review of SEO Spyglass because I use it all the time and it is one of my fav software to use to find high pr backlinks and get ranking in the serps! So check it out here SEO Spyglass Review !
Saturday, June 12, 2010
New look!
Well I seen that blogger now has this theme design tool! so I thought id play around with it a bit! What do you think of the new look?
Friday, June 11, 2010
SEO Q&A with Joseph Archibald!
1. What are your thoughts about getting a lot of links from the same source (ex. Article Directory), is this good for ranking or useless because they come from the same source?
It is my current belief (Google changes its algorithms regularly so one has to be very open to this and expect this particular philosophy to change) that many links from the same IP address are not going to enhance your ranking performance as much as it would be improved if you had backlinks from differing IP's.(In Yahoo! and Bing, I would expect this not to be the case so much - I think you could rank well with more backlinks from the same IP. But my knowledge base is more in line with Google). If for example you were to send out 10 different articles with the same anchor text in the bio box to ezinearticles.com then I believe that you will only get full credit from one of those articles. The others still do count, but I sense that you would gain most value from the single article's backlinks. Nevertheless, a link is a link so there is still something to be said for amassing links from the same IP if its very easy to do so. Could indeed be valueable use of time and that is a big player in the world of SEO - time being well spent.
On the other hand however, there is good reason for still using this approach from the point of view that more people will see your writing - your articles, if indeed you are using article marketing. More people will scrape your article and use it on their own sites, thus obtaining further backlinks this way. And of course, if your bio box is enticing and you are gathering unique views to your articles, you will gain traffic this way. Thus it makes real sense to write more than a single article and post them to the same directory.
2. Do you believe getting high PR do-follow links will boost your search engine rankings faster than just getting lots of low PR backlinks?
Yes I do believe this. However, I also believe that there is something to be said for the "watering down" effect. This is where there are lots of backlinks coming out of a page of content and not much high Google PR links going into that page. Thus there are many pages "feeding" off that one page, while that page is not regaining sustenance. Much in the way that a dog who has a number of young puppies and has to keep them fed. If she - the mother - were not to continually be nourished, she would soon enough perish.
To begin figuring all this out when assessing for a backlinking campaign however, just causes too many problems. Today the page may only feed out to 5 other low Google PR pages. Next week it may feed out to 25. There's too much action on the internet to be too picky as to who or what you are trying to obtain links from and who or what not to. Time well spent here is time invested in obtaining a backlink from a quality web page, regardless of the current Google PR value.
3. How important is it to write relevant content around your anchor text links, do you think it gives the link more power?
Relevant content or latent semantic indexing as Google calls it, is very important now. Not long ago that was not the case, but more and more now Google will assess this to be of value. Thus blogrolls in blogs used to be an important aspect of linking to and from other blogs but now their value is very limited.
As such, writing quality content which is very much related to your main anchor text keyword phrases and embedding the anchor links within that text body is thoroughly important for good on page SEO.
4. I have read that putting your keywords at the beginning of your URL, Title, and Headlines will help your site rank better than having the keywords at the end. What are your thoughts on this?
I do believe there is something in this yes, but its not something I get hung up on too much. If for example in an article title I want to pull in views from those who are interested in the topic I was writing about, then I may write something like this... "How to ride a horse in 6 easy steps". Even though the main keyword phrase I was actually targeting may be "ride a horse in 6 steps". I write for my site visitors or article readers and not so much to please the search engines. I sense that if my visitors keep on coming then inevitably the search engines will follow along too.
5. Do you use any services such as SEOLinkvine, 1WayLinks, or Linkvana? If so what are your thoughts on them, have you found them useful?
I have used SEOLinkvine Matt, yes. Its a very good service and Matt and Brad Callen are going to be really building it up in the weeks and months to come. I believe if you are to get on board now then its the right time as the price is going to be a lot higher soon enough. You get locked in at the lower monthly price.
1WayLinks I have not used as yet no. So all I can say about that is due to it being a Jon Ledger product I would expect it to be very good too. I have real admiration for Jon's work within the internet marketing community.
LinkVana - yes, I have used that service which belongs to Dave Kelly, the highly renowned SEO'er and business man. The problem with LinkVana or LV, is that the price tag being what it is - $147 a month, its not something that the vast majority of us mere mortals can keep up paying for long without seeing some relatively early results. I have used LV on two different occasions now. The first time I kept up with it for about 3 months and saw little change in my rankings. I dumped the service as soon as the 3 months were spent! The second time was much more recent when I only invested for a month. Not long enough to see results you may think, and, no, I did not see any positive benefits to my sites rankings. But some services you do see much faster results with and those are far cheaper, albeit perhaps more limited in scope.
Which would you prefer however Matt, a service that was costing you $147 a month and you had to wait 5 months to see any change in your web page rankings, or a service that cost you say $67 a month and within a couple of weeks you could see some improvement in rankings?
I rest my case there.
If you enjoyed this Q&A please check out Joseph Archibald's blog @ SEO tips!
It is my current belief (Google changes its algorithms regularly so one has to be very open to this and expect this particular philosophy to change) that many links from the same IP address are not going to enhance your ranking performance as much as it would be improved if you had backlinks from differing IP's.(In Yahoo! and Bing, I would expect this not to be the case so much - I think you could rank well with more backlinks from the same IP. But my knowledge base is more in line with Google). If for example you were to send out 10 different articles with the same anchor text in the bio box to ezinearticles.com then I believe that you will only get full credit from one of those articles. The others still do count, but I sense that you would gain most value from the single article's backlinks. Nevertheless, a link is a link so there is still something to be said for amassing links from the same IP if its very easy to do so. Could indeed be valueable use of time and that is a big player in the world of SEO - time being well spent.
On the other hand however, there is good reason for still using this approach from the point of view that more people will see your writing - your articles, if indeed you are using article marketing. More people will scrape your article and use it on their own sites, thus obtaining further backlinks this way. And of course, if your bio box is enticing and you are gathering unique views to your articles, you will gain traffic this way. Thus it makes real sense to write more than a single article and post them to the same directory.
2. Do you believe getting high PR do-follow links will boost your search engine rankings faster than just getting lots of low PR backlinks?
Yes I do believe this. However, I also believe that there is something to be said for the "watering down" effect. This is where there are lots of backlinks coming out of a page of content and not much high Google PR links going into that page. Thus there are many pages "feeding" off that one page, while that page is not regaining sustenance. Much in the way that a dog who has a number of young puppies and has to keep them fed. If she - the mother - were not to continually be nourished, she would soon enough perish.
To begin figuring all this out when assessing for a backlinking campaign however, just causes too many problems. Today the page may only feed out to 5 other low Google PR pages. Next week it may feed out to 25. There's too much action on the internet to be too picky as to who or what you are trying to obtain links from and who or what not to. Time well spent here is time invested in obtaining a backlink from a quality web page, regardless of the current Google PR value.
3. How important is it to write relevant content around your anchor text links, do you think it gives the link more power?
Relevant content or latent semantic indexing as Google calls it, is very important now. Not long ago that was not the case, but more and more now Google will assess this to be of value. Thus blogrolls in blogs used to be an important aspect of linking to and from other blogs but now their value is very limited.
As such, writing quality content which is very much related to your main anchor text keyword phrases and embedding the anchor links within that text body is thoroughly important for good on page SEO.
4. I have read that putting your keywords at the beginning of your URL, Title, and Headlines will help your site rank better than having the keywords at the end. What are your thoughts on this?
I do believe there is something in this yes, but its not something I get hung up on too much. If for example in an article title I want to pull in views from those who are interested in the topic I was writing about, then I may write something like this... "How to ride a horse in 6 easy steps". Even though the main keyword phrase I was actually targeting may be "ride a horse in 6 steps". I write for my site visitors or article readers and not so much to please the search engines. I sense that if my visitors keep on coming then inevitably the search engines will follow along too.
5. Do you use any services such as SEOLinkvine, 1WayLinks, or Linkvana? If so what are your thoughts on them, have you found them useful?
I have used SEOLinkvine Matt, yes. Its a very good service and Matt and Brad Callen are going to be really building it up in the weeks and months to come. I believe if you are to get on board now then its the right time as the price is going to be a lot higher soon enough. You get locked in at the lower monthly price.
1WayLinks I have not used as yet no. So all I can say about that is due to it being a Jon Ledger product I would expect it to be very good too. I have real admiration for Jon's work within the internet marketing community.
LinkVana - yes, I have used that service which belongs to Dave Kelly, the highly renowned SEO'er and business man. The problem with LinkVana or LV, is that the price tag being what it is - $147 a month, its not something that the vast majority of us mere mortals can keep up paying for long without seeing some relatively early results. I have used LV on two different occasions now. The first time I kept up with it for about 3 months and saw little change in my rankings. I dumped the service as soon as the 3 months were spent! The second time was much more recent when I only invested for a month. Not long enough to see results you may think, and, no, I did not see any positive benefits to my sites rankings. But some services you do see much faster results with and those are far cheaper, albeit perhaps more limited in scope.
Which would you prefer however Matt, a service that was costing you $147 a month and you had to wait 5 months to see any change in your web page rankings, or a service that cost you say $67 a month and within a couple of weeks you could see some improvement in rankings?
I rest my case there.
If you enjoyed this Q&A please check out Joseph Archibald's blog @ SEO tips!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Increased Search Engine Optimization Tips!
With increased search engine optimization you can start to rank your website higher in the search engines. Higher rankings will be beneficial for your organic web traffic.
In this article I will first talk about some on page SEO factors that you will want to pay attention to. Further into the article I will talk about how important getting quality links are for your ranking. I will also share how you can easily get high quality back links to your own websites.
If you don't do proper on page SEO the search engines will have a hard time figuring out where to index your website. So here are my tips on doing proper on page SEO!
1.Title tags, headlines, and content need to have your keywords in them!
If you do not put your keywords in your title tags, headlines, or content you will not get indexed or ranked for your desired keywords you want to rank for. This is one of the most important on page SEO factors! So get your keywords in there, but make sure its also readable for people too.
For example if your keyword is “cooking stress relief”, you could make a title like “How cooking works well for stress relief”. Do not put your keyword too many times threw out your content, it should look natural. I usually shoot for 1 keyword per 100 words.
2.Web address should include your keyword.
Your web address needs to include your keyword in it. It will help improve your chances of being ranked better in the search engines.
3.Limit your tags to only important and relevant keywords.
If you are blogging then you probably use tags. Make sure you limit your tags to only the important and relevant keywords. If you write too many tags or tags that aren't relevant you may confuse the search engine spider and this could actually hurt your rankings.
4.Create a site map and submit it to the major search engines.
Site maps help the search engine spiders(bot) to map out your site. When the spider comes back to your site map it will see any new content that you have added and index it. So having a site map is very important.
5.Pinging your site and any new posts or pages you create.
When you ping your site or any new posts/pages on your site, you are telling the search engines to come check it out. This will help get indexed and if you make any changes to your website or pages its good to ping again to let the search engines know you had made a change!
Now I would like to talk about the importance of increased search engine optimization in the form of back links.
When search engines see other sites linking back to your site it gives the search engine more trust to your website. The sites you get links from should be quality sites, no link farms or spamming links, that will just hurt your rankings.
What I do and you can do to is find blogs and forums to comment on to get some links. Getting high pr links are even better because the search engines already trust these sites and getting a one way link from these sites will give you a boost in rankings!
The fastest way to find do-follow high pr websites to get back links from is by using some software to help you find them quickly and easily. I use SEO SpyGlass and it has worked very nicely for me! I find high pr back links all the time for my websites using it and you can use it too because it is so simple!
For more info on SEO SpyGlass Click Here!
To purchase this great software (SEO SpyGlass) Click Here!
In this article I will first talk about some on page SEO factors that you will want to pay attention to. Further into the article I will talk about how important getting quality links are for your ranking. I will also share how you can easily get high quality back links to your own websites.
If you don't do proper on page SEO the search engines will have a hard time figuring out where to index your website. So here are my tips on doing proper on page SEO!
1.Title tags, headlines, and content need to have your keywords in them!
If you do not put your keywords in your title tags, headlines, or content you will not get indexed or ranked for your desired keywords you want to rank for. This is one of the most important on page SEO factors! So get your keywords in there, but make sure its also readable for people too.
For example if your keyword is “cooking stress relief”, you could make a title like “How cooking works well for stress relief”. Do not put your keyword too many times threw out your content, it should look natural. I usually shoot for 1 keyword per 100 words.
2.Web address should include your keyword.
Your web address needs to include your keyword in it. It will help improve your chances of being ranked better in the search engines.
3.Limit your tags to only important and relevant keywords.
If you are blogging then you probably use tags. Make sure you limit your tags to only the important and relevant keywords. If you write too many tags or tags that aren't relevant you may confuse the search engine spider and this could actually hurt your rankings.
4.Create a site map and submit it to the major search engines.
Site maps help the search engine spiders(bot) to map out your site. When the spider comes back to your site map it will see any new content that you have added and index it. So having a site map is very important.
5.Pinging your site and any new posts or pages you create.
When you ping your site or any new posts/pages on your site, you are telling the search engines to come check it out. This will help get indexed and if you make any changes to your website or pages its good to ping again to let the search engines know you had made a change!
Now I would like to talk about the importance of increased search engine optimization in the form of back links.
When search engines see other sites linking back to your site it gives the search engine more trust to your website. The sites you get links from should be quality sites, no link farms or spamming links, that will just hurt your rankings.
What I do and you can do to is find blogs and forums to comment on to get some links. Getting high pr links are even better because the search engines already trust these sites and getting a one way link from these sites will give you a boost in rankings!
The fastest way to find do-follow high pr websites to get back links from is by using some software to help you find them quickly and easily. I use SEO SpyGlass and it has worked very nicely for me! I find high pr back links all the time for my websites using it and you can use it too because it is so simple!
For more info on SEO SpyGlass Click Here!
To purchase this great software (SEO SpyGlass) Click Here!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Guest blog post soon.
I will be writing a few questions to Joseph Archibald and will put up the answers as his guest post. So if your interested in this it should be up within a few days I am guessing, I need to think of my questions and send them first!
Matthew Gannon
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