Google Penguin Update Hammers Black Hat SEO

The last two Panda updates taught me some hard lessons regarding search engine optimization. Also, the last couple of Pagerank updates made me realize that black hat search engine optimization was just a waste of time. I saw my Pagerank fall from a prestigious value of 5 to 4. As if that was not enough, I went down to 3. The last two panda updates too cut back my search engine traffic by almost fifty percent and all my backlinks looked worthless. I never considered it simply as SEO, it's always been The Dark Arts of SEO. That was when I started realizing that optimizing your website the black hat way wasn't going to pay off anymore. I stopped ...Read more

Using Social Bookmarking for Blog Traffic

What is social bookmarking? Why do you even need it? Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online, says Wikipedia. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them, and this is one great method for getting traffic and a good google page rank. It is known that one way backlinks to a domain leads to its rise in SERP  over time. One strategy to gain these backlinks is to bookmark your urls in social bookmarking sites that do not use the ‘nofollow’ tag. I'm going to list some of the best and most popular social bookmarking ...Read more

Tips to Optimize Articles for Search Engines And Human Readers

As an online publisher in whatsoever field, chances are that you have heard the saying that “content is king.” This simply means that if you want people to be “reading you,” you will have to invest your time in writing quality contents. When writing this “quality content,” search engines are of course not left out especially when such contents are intended for publication on the internet. Here we are discussing how to write good articles for human readers and for search engines. If you are ready then let’s set the ball on motion. Keyword Research Keyword research simply entails finding the right words to use in your article. ...Read more

Why Search Engines Should Play Second Fiddle

I guess you're surprised, confused and even angry at what this dude is trying to portray here. You're asking yourself if he knows what he's talking about. Why Search Engines Should be Second Fiddle Let me ask you this, have you ever sat down to monitor your stats and noticed exactly how long your visitors spend on your site to determine the "bounce rate"? Wait, that isn't even the problem, have you ever checked the exact times your visitors spent viewing other pages?? I take it you haven't. (you might be checking your stats, but not too interested in the bounce rate). Apart from this, have you even been hit by a change in Google search ...Read more

7 Rules you should Follow for Off Page SEO

The concept of SEO involves intimate optimization of pages in the web. Moreover it is important that you have to be effective in your work in order to increase the ranking of your website. Still many people are unaware of the number of keyword phrase that they can use in each page. The general concept of SEO makes clear that the keyword density should be only 3% and however there are few top ranking companies which impute keyword density of 1.5%. But the fact is the final copy of processing the page will be based upon your efforts taken. SEO Tactics First it is necessary to understand that you are writing the content for audience and not ...Read more

SEO – The search for multi-lingual keywords

The search for keywords is vital in the process of an SEO campaign. Any company wishing to launch online in the international market should do this research before the foreign language sites for the target countries are built.Good research and implementation can be critical to the success of a company in a new market. Research and analysis of keywords help the company better know the specifics of the target market abroad, which is a major point in the development of a marketing strategy customized for each target country. A systems approach to research keywords to help you find the following characteristics in order to write the most effective ...Read more

How to Submit your Site to Multiple Search Engines at Once

Search engine traffic will always remain your largest source of traffic and as a new blogger you would want google, yahoo, bing and a host of other search engines to display your contents and posts on search results. In due time, the posts will be indexed and your blog posts will be displayed on SERP eventually but this takes rather too much time, so why not just submit your site/blog to them manually and have your content displayed on their search results? This saves time and makes search engines recognize your site quickly. I'll try to show how you can manually submit your site to multiple search engines with just one click, cool right?You're ...Read more