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Are You Without Mistakes In Your SEO?
Believing everything you hear about SEO will only cause you to make these common mistakes too. Take a look at how to avoid some of the most common mistakes of SEO. By the way, it is important to have a reliable webhost — we highly recommend Blue Hosting.
Visitors to your site will appreciate the professionalism of your site. Webmasters often forget the importance of SEO and substitute flash or imagery instead. Spiders will only catalog sites that use text based content. Flash causes your site to be invisible by search engines. Flash might seem impressive to visitors but probably not to search engines. If you think those fancy graphics help with SEO you are terribly mistaken. You should not use flash but instead use plain text or html to attract search engine traffic. Using well written script text on your HTML page will allow search engines to more accurately rank your site. Good luck with your graphics site, it won’t be ranked well. When you create your site in flash or place no content on your site, it hurts your ranking. It doesn’t to any good to have bad content on your site in fact it hurts your ratings. You should focus on using the right keywords to match the theme of your site.
Your keywords will affect your content in a negative way. Search engines are always on the lookout for relevant content that is useful to the target audience. So if you are able to offer them targeted information, in an organized way, then you can definitely expect to rank well. Also, make sure the content you have on your site doesn’t link to any other irrelevant sites or other bad content, because this will invariably affect your rankings on the long run. Also, if you are searching for a really good web host, be sure to check out our BlueHost review.
Using multiple domain names for the same content is a mistake. It is necessary to avoid using multiple domain names and sub domains except in certain circumstances. People think that they could dominate the first page results with many domain names, which is just a waste of time. A better ranking on your main domain is a more complete concept. Of course the benefit of doing this will make you appear better than the competition in the long run giving you a more loyal following.
Excessive domains is not the best way to achieve the desired result. SEO success depends largely on your commitment to learning about search engines. Lastly, remember to check for a BlueHost coupon.
How To Check Page Rank – And How It Affects Your Website
Page Rank
Page Rank is a useful indicator of how well respected a website is by Google. Wikipedia’s page rank for instance is incredible. Even Wikipedia began with a PR of zero many moons ago. Don’t overly concern yourself with just getting backlinks from sites with great PR.
Firstly they are unlikley to have the motivation to link to you when your site is brand new. And for another, your enthusiasm could take a big dent from the higher rate of rejections. If you want to grow a big tree, you sometimes have to start with the smallest seed. If you do want to find websites with a nice PR ranking, then read on.
There are a number of ways to find websites that have a high Page Rank, but we’ll cover just one of the simplest to get you going here for now. First off, I personally recommend using the Firefox browser – it’s just nicer than Internet Explorer, and you have access to thousands of addons and plugins to enhance your work or leisure browsing.
Search for, download and install the ‘Google toolbar’. I use it in Firefox all the time, and one of the nice little features is the Page Rank indicator on the toolbar. Simply visit a website, and you see a small bar in green if the site has any page rank. Hover over it with your mouse, and you get a score out of 10. Easy. If you don’t see the Page Rank indicator, right click your Google Toolbar > Google Toolbar Options > Tools > check the box for Page Rank > Save.
Armed with this toolbar addon, you can immediately check the page rank of whichever blogs or websites you’ve found that are most related to your business. As I said, don’t just disregard the smaller websites! Every website starts from zero, and a backlink you obtain today on a PR0 website, could turn into a link from a PR4 or 5 website as that site grows.
Now, let’s not also forget that PR is just one factor to consider when building your backlinks. Of course, this is a good indication of what level of respect Google gives the website. Also, think of relevancy. It’s no good shooting for a link from a PR5 page, if that page has no relation to your website. So apply a little common sense.
- Download Firefox & install
- Download Google Toolbar & install
- Search for web pages or blogs relevant to your niche
- Look in your toolbar – check the Page Rank score
- If you like it, go for a backlink!
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Why You Still Need Manual Directory Submissions For SEO
Manual Submissions
These are pretty much still advisable when you’re launching your website. The search engines won’t know you exist unless you have links coming into your site from somewhere else on the web. You can let the search engines know you are online with a few well chosen submissions to quality directories, social media websites and search engines.
If you choose relevant, reputable online directories to submit to, you may also benefit from a little traffic. Combine this with creating origninal content regularly and gathering some backlinks, and you should soon be receiving visits from the Google spider.
Nearly everyone I know has had an email offering to submit your url to a million search engines and directories for 99 dollars or similar. Although they probably do as they state they will, these kinds of offers in most cases are just not worth it. You might as well download a piece of free software (Web CEO for example has a completely free version that will submit your site to about 100 search engines, and there are others out there.)
A note about manual submissions. There are 2 directories out there that really matter. DMOZ, and Yahoo. DMOZ is free, but sometimes difficult to obtain a listing with. Yahoo charge a few hundred bucks with no guarantee of being listed.
Now, DMOZ is one of those that is debated, slated, and simultaneously highly rated all across the web. Accusations of manipulation by Editors with vested interests are rife. Yet, it is still very important – Google respects it enough to use DMOZ listings as the basis for it’s own Google Directory. Enough said there. Submit your website, and go away for a while. Forget about it for a long, long time. I had a reply from an Editor who was good enough to reply to me recently, telling me that for some categories there was a backlog of up to 2 years. I know, I know…
Submit to Yahoo also, if you wish to. A few hundred bucks (unless you’re a non-profit site from what I remember) and no guarantees. But if you’re building a reputable, genuine website that is useful to your visitors, then you’re in the right area to submit to Yahoo Directory without too much fear.
Quick Tips:
- Search for:(your business niche) directory
- Check the quality of the directory. If it’s been spam-bombed, forget it.
- Submit your website details to a handful of quality, relevant directories.
- Submit to the ODP (another name for DMOZ). Forget you’ve done it, and do not re-submit. If you re-submit your site you may actually go further down the queue. If you really have waited a while, contact the Editor for your category politely.
- If you wish to pay the fee, go ahead and submit to Yahoo Directory. You probably won’t have as much of a wait as with DMOZ.
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