Showing posts with label Website Traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Website Traffic. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Latent Semantic Optimization

In the recent days search engines are considered as limitless gold mine of virtual customers. Nearly 90% of the online traffic originates from major search engines.  Keeping the virtual customers in mind search engines has developed semantic search algorithm to avoid spam and delivery relevant search results to online user.
Initially, search engines used to rank a web page based on the keyword relevancy in the page, relevant back links and presence in search engines. But this has been a failure in most of the user typo keywords and broad match key-phases. Later, after the implementation of Semantics in Search Algorithm most of the failures have been minimized. The LSI methods deals with user behavior and the queries are designed based on human brain mapping. It is all about the human thinking mechanism.

Latent Semantic Optimization


Keyword Suggestions –

  • Now the process of optimization does only deals with the keywords but with semantically relevant key-phases. Our main focus is to identify semantically relevant key-phases based on the page theme.
  • On-Page factors -
  • Improve look and feel of the website (theme based layout)
  • Improve navigation architecture (navigate easily)
  • Improve content based on Latent Semantic Analysis
  • Adding XML sitemap, RDF and robots.txt file

Off-Page factors -
  • Local Search Listing (Google & Yahoo)
  • Profile creation in social networking sites
  • Products Submission in Google Base
  • Directories & Yellow Pages Submission
  • Participation in Forums
  • Participation in Online Groups
  • Press & News Releases
  • Publishing Articles
  • Blog postings
  • Ads in free classifieds
  • Product promotion in Youtube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, etc….and
  • Link Exchange Campaign (Reciprocal)

Search engines deliver the highest ROI (return on investment) when compared to any other type of media, both online and offline. Traditional forms of marketing attempt to create a desire for a product or service with the potential customers, while search engines bring visitors to you that already have that desire, which can result in more sales conversions.

Monday, September 20, 2010

5 Tips for Creating an Effective Title

Everyone knows that Title is one of the most important tags of them all and probably the most effective also, after link popularity Title is the most important factor that can affect your rankings in search engines. A well written and optimized Title is the key to success.

But if you are new to search engine optimization then it would be very hard for you to write a well optimized Title tag. Here are 10 tips that will help you to write an optimized Title -

1. Try to use your 2-3 most important keywords in the Title Tag, but make sure that it still remains enticing to your users, if it is not enticing then no one will click through.

2. Use your most important keywords first in the Title tag and use less important ones after that. As an example suppose my primary keywords are: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Optimization Services, SEO UK, in which Search Engine Optimization is the most important of them all then I will use something like:

<TITLE>Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Optimization Services, SEO UK</TITLE>

3. Make a Title tag that talks to your targeted traffic rather than filling it with keywords, use this tag efficiently such that it appeals to your visitors but still presents your important keywords. As an example:

<TITLE>Search Engine Optimization Services in UK</TITLE>

In the above tag I used my primary keywords - search engine optimization, search engine optimization services and search engine optimization UK, but still it looks enticing and says to the visitors that we offer seo services in UK.

4. Always try to use a Title tag within 60 characters including spaces, you can also exceed this amount sometimes because search engines count each and every keyword in this tag.

5. Avoid using the same Title Tag throughout your site. Try using a unique Title Tag for each web page and use keyword phrases that holds theme relevance to that page.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Simple Steps To Get More Traffic

Simple Steps To Get More Traffic

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.







Five more simple steps to gain more traffic to your website.

  • Make website SEO based and try to get high rank.
  • Purchase Advertisement package from big companies like yahoo, adwords.
  • Post your articles to directories about your new website and business etc.
  • Post Advertisement on different free advertisement websites.
  • Use traffic exchange program (exchange links with those website who have similar contents and information from your website)

Top Five SEO Tips to Increase Website Traffic

Top Five SEO Tips to Increase Website Traffic


1. Extensive Keyword Research

SEO starts with a solid keyword research and sorting. Most of the SEO professionals are impatient and always in a hurry to implement their ideas.

Well, that keeps them revising their SEO Services efforts and eventual loss of time and traffic. Keyword research for effective SEO results needs a lot of patience and intelligent calculations. Above all you should be using the best possible tools to perform keyword research for a strong search engine optimization.

For example Google Keyword Tool, Google Insight and Google Suggestions. You will get the exact number of monthly searches on Google Keyword Tool. Here is what you should do then;

  • Download them in an excel sheet.
  • Find out your kind of keywords (that match your website content and products).
  • Sort them by daily searches.
  • Collect the best ones for the Home and do similar calculations for the other important internal pages.


2. Original and Optimized Content

SEO based content writing is the best element on a live web page. Both, search engine crawlers and human beings love to read original and effective content filled with useful information. However; there has to be an efficient use of SEO content writing techniques as well. A smart and optimized content contains the right balance of the keywords used throughout the content. Usually it should be 5% to 6%.

  • Use two to three keywords in the whole content.
  • Start the content with the most important keyword and end it with the same keyword.


3. Web Page Optimization

Search Engine Crawler reads only the HTML of the web-page and so it must be properly optimizes to guide the crawlers to the right areas and content of the website. Put the keywords in Title, Description and Add more keywords in the keywords area. Do not forget to put H1 to H6 using the keywords. Alt Tags must be placed on the images wherever possible.


4. Article Syndication

Write articles and Press releases about your website, it`s products and services. Submit the articles into as many article submission and press releases into major press releases websites. Do not forget to leave anchor texts so that readers can come to your website as well.

This practice is easy and very effective . It helps the website gets crawled by the search engines within two days which reinforce s the natural ranking of the website.I f you leave anchor texts for the internal pages as well then you can expect to get your website`s internal pages caches (known to search engines). This boosts the website`s presence even more.


5. Social Bookmarking

It is very important to be a highly actively involved into social bookmarking activities. Join all the major Social Bookmarking websites like dig, delicious etc. Bookmark your own articles and press releases over there, make friends and share your bookmarks .

Social bookmarking websites are very well optimized and are cached by search engines everyday. If your website`s content, link etc is bookmarked over there then you can expect your website to get cached by Google within twenty four hours as well.

Try the above mentioned SEO ideas in your daily SEO work and experience the change in the results yourself.

Source : Google

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