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In the economies downtimes it is wise to look for new ways to sell and promote your products, services and brand. Websites have been considered a good brand promotional tool for large enterprises but it is only for the past few years that small and medium sized companies have discovered that internet can really give their business a boost and even take it to a next level.
There is no need to invest large sums to banner ads and different expensive promotion services all over the net. All you need is a decent search engine friendly website that will pop up when potential client searches for services that you have written about and offer in your website. People used to say that having no webpage means having no business. Now businessmen should know that not appearing in search engines means that your website is useless.
This all sounds reasonable but good manageable websites have been a great investment and let’s not even talk about search engine optimization (SEO) – hundreds and thousands of dollars per month for optimizing a webpage? Well this has come to an end! www.WebsiteMill.net has taken the web development business to a new level and offers websites with easy to use and good SEO tools and loads of different functions and modules only for a small monthly price.
www.WebsiteMill.net is a hosted and professionally designed solution which offers a flexible way of creating a company website in minutes. The set up process is very simple and there is no need for any knowledge of HTML or web design. The service includes domain name registration, website design, content management system for managing the site, web hosting, e-mails and support. This is quite a package.
WebsiteMill.net is not like most of the DIY website services because of its wide range of features and SEO tools. For example it allows creating multilingual websites with product catalogues and image galleries. There are also modules for adding forums, polls, intranet and a lot more to the site. Even the image management is built up so all the images can be transformed server side so no worries about large images or cropping. The system is created with all the necessary tools to make the site as search engine friendly as possible. And what’s most important – all that can be managed easily and quickly.
Also unlike other similar products www.WebsiteMill.net has no limitations on page menu structure or number of pictures or documents.
www.WebsiteMill.net provides a premium class website and high quality service with a reasonable price.
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Every web publisher wants to attain top positions in the search engines to increase traffic. To attain a high ranking, your site has to be search engine friendly.
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Search engine optimization does not give you overnight results but over time it will give you steady, quality, targeted, free traffic.
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Every web publisher wants to attain top positions in the search engines to increase traffic. To attain a high ranking, your site has to be search engine friendly.
Search engine spiders index your web site. They only read the HTML code in your web pages. They don’t read graphics, JavaScript code and other scripts and features.
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It’s important to create a search engine friendly site while at the same time keeping your site friendly to your visitors. You want to structure your pages for maximum search engine exposure without compromising the content or look of your site. After all, what good is traffic if your visitors won’t read your pages?
Keyword-rich, theme-based web sites will give you both targeted traffic and good search engine ranking.
Here are 10 easy steps you can take to make sure your pages are search engine friendly and user-friendly.
1. Selecting a domain name. There is a lot of disagreement about whether search bots give importance to the keywords in your domain name. I suggest that you select a domain name that indicates what your site is about. Even if it doesn’t matter to search engines, it’s important that it tells your visitors what the topic of your site is.
2. Focus on one theme. Search engines love specialized content. If you have several topics, then you should create several web sites. The more you focus on one topic, the more your page will be optimized for search engines and the more relevant it will be to your visitors.
3. Create multiple content pages. Make a separate page for each important keyword and key phrase. If, for example, you want your site to come up for the key phrases web consulting, web design, and search engine optimization, make three separate pages. Create a web page for each major keyword. Don’t create automated pages just to get search engine exposure. To keep visitors at your site, you have to give them good content. Keyword-rich articles are a good way to optimize your pages for search engines while providing useful content to your visitors.
4. Optimize each content page for ONE of your key phrases. Put your targeted key phrases in your content. Include them in your page title, description tag, ALT image tags, comment tags, and in internal and external links. When providing a title and description in the META tags, your listing may be displayed in the search engine listing as you provide it. Make your titles and descriptions informative and compelling to attract potential buyers to your site. Provide a benefit or solve a problem.
5. Put your keywords in your content. Search engines are looking at how often your keyword appears on a page. That’s how they determine relevancy. Short pages provide a larger percentage of keywords and are better for search engine optimization. The keyword density of a Web page is important for search engine optimization. How often you should mention your keyword throughout the text is different for each search engine, but it varies between 3% and 5% of your text. In other words, use your keyword 3-5 times for every 100 words on your page.
6. Naming files and directories. Put important keywords in all file names and directories/folder names describing the content. For example, to promote ebook covers, I name my files ebook-covers.html, cd-covers.html, box-cover.html, etc.
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8. Navigation. Have your main navigation links on your home page so search engines can follow your links and index your pages. This is just as important for your visitors as for the search engines.
9. Link your pages together. You can easily link to all your pages by creating a sitemap.
10. Directory structure. Put your important files in the first level. Subdirectories that lie deep are more difficult for search engines to scan. Creating a sitemap for large sites and providing a link to your sitemap on your home page is a good way to get all your important pages indexed.
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“Search engine friendly.”
Search engines all have their own confidential algorithms that determine which Web pages are to be shown first. The algorithms assign weights to certain components or variables that it finds within a page. There are MANY people who can design web pages but not many can built a search engine friendly and functional web sites.
3 Important Meta Tags.
META tags are HTML Tags that describe the contents of a web page. The primary purpose of Meta tags is to help catalog and categorize the contents of a web page. If your pages do not contain them then they may not get categorized the way you’d like by the search engines.
You should generally include a META keyword tag on your page within the section of a Web page area.
TITLE
Keep your title quite short and include words relating to your subject area and should include your targeted keyword
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DESCRIPTION
The description tag should be kept between about 100-200 characters. The description should also include words about your subject area and should not simply restate the title of the page, as it should also describe the page.
KEY WORDS
Key words and/or phrases relating to your subject will also be inserted (comma separated), they should be between 200-500 characters long.
Meta tags are hidden in a document’s source, invisible to the reader. Some search engines, however, are able to incorporate the content of meta tags into their algorithms. No engines penalize sites that use meta tags properly, so it’s recommended that you always include them.
The tag of your Web page is the most important HTML tag or element. All the search engines consider the keywords in this tag and generally give those keywords a lot of importance in their ranking system. Therefore, if you were to create one page with a keyword in the title tag and another page with the same keyword in the body tag, the one with the keyword in the title will generally rank higher in most engines.
The text found in the META Description tag will be displayed to the user in the search results for many engines. Therefore, it pays to craft a good description so that you not only rank well, but so people will actually click on your link once they see it. When creating your Meta Description Tag you must adhere to the guidelines that the search engines have in place. For example, there is a limitation to the number of characters that you can use in your Meta Description. Another thing to keep in mind is that some of the search engines and directories use the keywords in the description as a way of determining if your site is relevant to the search performed. This is also where concepts and strategies like keyword proximity come into play and is a high factor for your search engine ranking.
A META keyword tag lists all the keywords for which you would like search engines to rank your site. Although not all search engines support this tag, you should use it for the ones that do.
One of the most important things that you can do for your web site and your search engine ranking to be indexed in the search engines is write a good description and title for your site. If you spend extra time on the title ,description, and tailor it so that it is definitive, concise, and follows all of the guidelines, your web site should not have a problem getting indexed and will positive for your search engine ranking.
Key element is your keywords. Keywords are the key to whether your site is seen in the search engines or not.
Most of the time when people use a search engine they search for common words or phrases like game, travel, music or business. These words are called “key words” or “keywords”. Because of this webmasters try to use key words that are likely to be searched for included within their page. The more often a key word shows up the more likely the page will rank higher in a search engine. If you over do it however you can actually be rejected by a search engine. That is why webmasters try to make each page relative to only one to three keywords. They then use those key words as the first words within their HTML meta tags, image tags, heading tags, title tag, text link tags, alt tags and even the file name of the page itself.
Target the wrong keywords and all your efforts will be in vain! Don’t waste time optimizing for words that will never bring you any traffic.
Few tips for a search engine friendly website.
Keep it simple
Make your site easy to navigate. Give a site map so visitors can see a list of everything contained on the site. They can then use this as their reference point. Search engine spider can also easily follow all your links read it content and store them in the search engine database.
All the major search engines claim to favor pages with high-quality content. They claim that to rank well on their engine that you simply need to create relevant, high quality pages. Keywords should be relevant, applicable, and clearly associated with page body content.
Cloaking is normally associated with sites doing IP and USER-AGENT serving where the internet server will present a page that will vary based upon the visitor characteristics. No matter how great the content, is considered spam by all of the major search engines.
DO keep your content current.
There’s nothing worse than visiting a website in 2008 that was last updated in 1999.
Never Spam. The following techniques are usually considered spam:
Irrelevant keywords in the title and meta tags
Meta refresh tags.
Invisible text and overuse of tiny text.
Excessive repetition and use of keywords
Overuse of mirror sites (same sites that point to different URLs)
Identical or nearly identical pages.
Submitting to an inappropriate category (for directories)
Never use link farms. Link farm are those services that generically link to your site if you agree to link to everyone else’s site that participates in the link exchange service. Theoretically, more the members of that service, more your link popularity.
Conclusions
Build a Search Engine friendly website. Do not break any search engine rules keep your site clean surely will earn a place in the search engines. Make your pages the best they can be for your users and search engines in general, and your site will do great!
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If you are striving to grow your business across the globe, there is no other trustworthy method than the net. These days internet has become a closely competitive space and some real big brands are also in the race to win more visitors on the website. But if your interest lies in beating of it all you have to rely on stuff like SE friendly content and SEO to gain popularity. Most search engines have specific screening processes through which they place the various websites for keyphrases. An important element is the substance on the internet site, if your web site has good quality and innovative original content there are greater opportunities that the website will get more readers. As A Matter Of Fact even if you have any kind of marketing subject that you will put up any where on the internet you ought to be firm that the material has highly rated original content. By applying all the methods you’ll be confident to produce effective stuff to assist your site appear higher. Correctly researched and promising articles when uploaded on the different sites become useful inbound links for your website or web page. As the PR of nearly every article assembling web sites is quite high you’ll profit well with the search ratings. Adding to the content on the SEO article web sites you may as well regard the press releases. As you start with the work of content development, you should even maximize on the versatile keywords, seek to feature them at positions where viewers may discover them more. You may also hyperlink them to a particular web page on your website that connects to the word. Furthermore you can increase the case for the key words or also exercise the bold service at positive effect. The roaring culmination of a particular web marketing project will highly count on the kind of SEO content that you’ve produced. While fresh SEO articles that will be of great importance to the traffic and the search crawlers can gain your campaign fame, unprofessiona SEO articles will leave you nowhere. So enjoy the money by practicing the good elements correctly!
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Correctly researched and promising articles when uploaded on the different sites become useful inbound links for your website or web page. As the PR of nearly every article assembling web sites is quite high you’ll profit well with the search ratings. Adding to the content on the SEO article web sites you may as well regard the press releases.
As you start with the work of content development, you should even maximize on the versatile keywords, seek to feature them at positions where viewers may discover them more. You may also hyperlink them to a particular web page on your website that connects to the word. Furthermore you can increase the case for the key words or also exercise the bold service at positive effect.
The roaring culmination of a particular web marketing project will highly count on the kind of SEO content that you’ve produced. While fresh SEO articles that will be of great importance to the traffic and the search crawlers can gain your campaign fame, unprofessiona SEO articles will leave you nowhere. So enjoy the money by practicing the good elements correctly!
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User Friendly Web Site Development
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Some web developers often concentrate on the design and technology of a website more than the actual usability of the site. Out of all the aspects of web development, making a website user friendly should be high up on the list of priority as no one is going to stick around very long on your site it they find it difficult to use.
In our day and age a lot of businesses are now opting to operate online. The key to a successful online business is a good website but your site needs to be developed with your user in mind as oppose to what you think looks best. So how do you go about doing this?
Recognize your website users
Well firstly you need to take into consideration all of the different types of users that you will attract. For example some of your target market may merely want to browse the pages of your site with little action; they may just be using it as a research reference. For these visitors you need high quality content because remember, with a user friendly site these people will keep coming back, meaning there is a high chance they will become customers.
Another example of your target market is the people who will take some sort of action; they may purchase a product or service off you but to be able to do this your site needs to be developed with your user in mind so they can find what they are looking for and complete their transaction without any complications.
How to develop your website the user friendly way
There are many aspects that the development of your website should include, such as a focus on your content, which is one of the most important parts of your website. It should be easy to navigate, making finding information easy and it should be consistent, meaning it should follow best practices and web standards.
As I have just mentioned, content is one of the most important aspects when it comes to user friendly web development. Not only should this content be well written and informative but you should also put some thought into how you want the content to be divided up and the overall structure of your site. Questions such as; will there be a large amount of web pages or just a select few? And can you split your content into logical sections? Need to be answered. To answer these questions you need to think about the content itself and who is going to be looking at it. For example if your content is about healthy living you should split this into several sections to make it more user friendly. So you could write a basic introduction on your home page and then separate sections on diet, exercise, stress management etc. This enables your user to go directly to the topic they want to know the most about without having to search through your site.
Good navigation is also vital with your website, regardless of what line of business you are in. The pages on your site need to link so if you click away from the home page there needs to be a link back to the home page so your user can easily browse through all of the pages of your site without getting lost and frustrated. Without a good navigation where all of your pages link together you will more than likely lose potential customers to your competitors as Internet users want a fast and simple service that won’t inconvenience them, which brings me nicely onto my next point; page loading time!
Internet users are more likely to do business with websites that are fast; fact! So to keep your pages user friendly, keep that page size fewer than 32k.
There is so much that you need to keep in mind when it comes to developing your website in a user friendly way; some more of the main points are as follows:
• Put some thought and effort into the font, text size and structure of your site. Your text size should be around 10pt but defiantly not any smaller! To accompany this you need a good readable web font; the ones that are most recommended are Verdana, Arial and Times New Roman.
• Use header tags, i.e. H1 and H2. By using HTML coding such as this it breaks up chunks of text and adds emphasis. Keep paragraphs short and to the point and use dark text on light backgrounds.
• Avoid elements such as pop-ups, movement and sound, especially when it can’t be turned off immediately.
• Use good standard web coding with CSS (cascading style sheets). This ensures your site is cross browser friendly and renders properly in all browsers.
Developing your website to be user friendly gives you the best chance possible of being successful with your online business. So when you are developing your website make sure you keep the above in mind as you are guaranteed to not only attract more visitors to your site but to keep them there as well.
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Alex Pupkin is Web Development and SEO specialist at Internet Marketing Company VN Web Group. He was born in 1972, and has been in IT sector since 1997. Visit his websites: http://www.vnwebsolutions.ca
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SEO Traffic Spider | Choosing a SEO Friendly Domain Name
Mar 11th
Only a few years back, you could be a successful entrepreneur without the need of a website. And the reason for this was very simple, before the nineties there was no Internet! With the introduction of the Internet, things changed drastically. And nowadays, it is impossible to even think of a globally successful enterprise that does not have an online presence. But what is more important is the fact, that just the presence of a visually appealing, information rich and well crafted website is not enough to get your company noticed on the internet. It has to be correctly marketed online through certain procedures so that it is prominently indexed by search engines. This is the primary reason why SEO or Search Engine Optimization has become such an important key to Internet business success.
We all know the importance of search engine rankings these days. Therefore, choosing a SEO friendly domain name means that you have started on the right note in the virtual world. One of the crucial roles in search engine rankings is played by domain names related to keywords that focus on your business and website. It definitely goes a long way in attracting target audience, getting increased conversions and generating business.
The process of choosing the right domain name needs careful considerations and deliberations, when you are thinking of starting a new website. And this is especially important if search engine optimization is going to be the main tool for directing traffic to your website. A SEO friendly domain name is one of the key factors that contribute to the success of the website. Therefore, you have to keep in mind the objective of your website and accordingly choose targeted keywords that you are planning to use to get top search engine rankings for your site. Inserting the main keywords of your business into the URL is a good idea. This is because not only is your website theme kept same throughout but Google, too, looks favorably on it.
Now, let us see what the different factors are that can be adopted to make a SEO friendly domain name.
Keywords in the Domain Name
Keywords play the role of a catalyst in a domain name. Though the keywords themselves do not constitute the entire process of SEO but they definitely contribute in making the entire procedure happen at a much faster rate.
Stick with the “.com”
The top level domain or TLD remains the most popular extension for a domain name. A .com domain definitely allows credibility boost. It is the most widely accepted extension. Of course, we can’t neglect that there are a lot of successful websites that end with a “.net”, “.uk”, or a “.biz”, but at the same time a .com extension by far is the most recalled one. If your business happens to be a new one, do you really want your customers to forget all about you just because they recalled to type in a “.com” instead of your “.edu”, and as a result couldn’t go back to your site! However, there are certain exceptions to this rule, especially if your business is geographically constrained and targets only local customers, in that case a “.au” will work as well.
Shorter and Catchier
It is best to have a domain name that is short and catchy. It is easier for visitors to recall and remember these. And you definitely don’t want a website that loses out on traffic because the domain name is too long, tricky or complicated to remember. Short names can also be typed more easily. Ensure that your domain name is easy to remember and easy to type.
No Hyphens or Numbers
Use of hyphenated or numbered domain names should be avoided. This is because it creates complications. Most often than not such domain names are forgotten easily, because it can’t be recalled where exactly the hyphen or the number has to be placed. You may end up losing your customers to other similar named websites, who do not use a hyphen or a number. And more often than not, hyphenated domain names sound like cheap substitutes of the real thing.
Type-In Traffic
This is when someone simply arrives at a particular website by just typing what they are searching for in their URL bar, and add a “.com” at the end. And a lot of people actually do that! Therefore, if you can choose a domain name that has an exact match keyword then you have better chances of receiving traffic. Also these kinds of domain names have better SEO benefits going for them.
Choosing a domain name that is SEO friendly can work wonders for your business by attracting lots of visitors to your website. With a heavy inflow of traffic, there are better chances of increases in conversion. All this definitely contributes in making your business a success.
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