Easy SEO Optimization Tips

"The Secret To Getting Listed In Google In Under 24 Hours - Guaranteed!

2009-08-04T22:13:00.003+08:00

You may or may not have heard people claim they can get listed in Google in only 1 day. It seems that nearly 100% of the people you run across in forums act like in order to get indexed by Google in 24 hours is some miracle feat that can only be accomplished by doing some "top secret" marketing tactic or advanced optimization strategy.

Well, the truth of the matter is...

Getting listed in Google in under a day is quite easy!

First let's talk about what NOT to do. This drives me absolutely crazy when I see people doing this, and is actually what I did at one time as well. The following URL probably looks familiar to you:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html

This is Google's actual website submission form. They state that you can use this form to submit your website to their index of websites and it can take up to 6 weeks for your website to be placed into their index.

I don't know about you, but 4 weeks is a heck of a long time to just wait for your website to be placed in their index rotation, let alone get a top ranking!

Never Use The Google Submission Form!

You should NEVER use this form, or any other of the top search engine's submission forms for that matter. These search engines include Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, and Alltheweb.

So, how do you get your website indexed within 24 hours?

Let's stick with our weight loss website for now, and I will take you through the steps you'll need to do to get indexed by Google in under 24 hours, guaranteed.

Go to Google and enter the broadest keyword you can think of that's related to your website. In our example, it will be "weight loss". Once you've done this, you'll see a list of Google results.

l Browse through each website and pay particluar attention to the Google Page Rank of the website.

Note: Remember, Google Page Rank is measured by the number of websites and the "importance" of those websites that link to your website. In general, the more websites that link to your website, the higher your Page Rank will be.

So, as you're looking at these top ranked websites for the search term "weight
loss", you should try to find websites with a Page Rank of 6 or higher.

Once you've found several websites like this, you should check and see whether
or not they have links pages. Usually you'll see links from their index page that say (resources, links, related sites, etc.) Now, you need to search their website for their contact information or information on getting a link from one of their high
Page Rank webpages.

Once you find their contact information you should send them an email asking if
they will link to your website in return for you linking back to their website. If you do this correctly and professionally, they will respond and will place a link on their website to yours.

If you can manage to get 1 PR6 website to link to your website, you will be indexed by Google in under 2 days. If you can get 1 PR7 website to link to you, then you will be in Google's index in under 24 hours!

Sometimes persuading the higher page rank websites is pretty tough, so there's another option you can pursue and that is...

Purchasing Text Links! - But For Only 1 Month

Purchasing links from high Page Rank websites. The easiest and fastest way to do this
is to visit 1 of the many link purchasing websites. Here are a few of the better ones that I personally use on a regular basis. I've listed them in order of which I view as the best.

http://www.linkadage.com

http:///www.text-link-ads.com

http://www.textlinkbrokers.com

Many times you can purchase 1 PR7 link for a 1 month time period for, say, $150. After the month is up, there is no need to renew because you are already in Google's index! So, basically by paying a 1 time fee of $150 you can be indexed by Google within 24 hours, with no work on your part.

Something else that I will typically do with new websites, is I will always link my older, higher Page Rank websites to my new websites.

If you own 1 PR5 or 6 website, then place a link on the index page and point it to your new website.

Leave the link there for 1-3 days and you'll quickly see your new website in Google's
index! Once you're in the index, you can remove the link from your higher Page Rank
website.

How Changing One Single Onpage Optimization Factor Can Boost Your Rankings By Over 350 Positions!

2009-07-11T12:39:00.006+08:00

Ok, so now we've selected our main 3 keywords:

weight loss story

weight loss picture

safe weight loss

Notice that all of the keywords contain the word "weight loss". This will make things
easier for us when we begin to optimize our offpage ranking factors which you'll learn
about later.

Let's Optimize Our Webpage ...

The first thing we need to do is select a page Title for our website.

The page title should:

Include ONLY our main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title,
the more weight Google will give to each of the keywords and the higher you will rank.

When creating your page title, it should not look like this:

Welcome to our website!

It should not even look like this, which does containg our main keywords, but contains an unnecessary number of words:

weight loss story and weight loss picture and safe weight loss

Although that title isn't horrible and does contain all of your main keywords, you should do a couple of things to cut down on words used.

This would be a perfect title for your webpage:

Weight Loss Story | Safe Weight Loss Picture

Notice that I've:

Taken out all of the "ands"

Replaced one of the "ands" with a "|" character

Combined the keywords "Safe Weight Loss" with "Weight Loss Picture"

Always Combine Your Keyword When Possible to cut down on the total number
of words that are in your title!

Always Combine Your Keywords In The Page Title!

When Google looks at our title it will see all 3 of our keywords only. Combining keywords to cut down on the total number of keywords displayed in the title is a great way to boost the strength of each individual keyword, which will have an immediate impact on your ranking.

Add H1 header tags

Next we'll need to add 1 H1 header tag and place our most important keyword there.

The H1 header tag should be as far towards the top of the page as possible. When
Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page. So, it's best to place your H1 header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an H1 header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page.

For example, the H1 header tag of this lesson would be:

"How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350 positions!"

Of course, I would have changed my lesson title to contain my main keyword if I was
actually trying to optimize this page for Google. Also, if possible, it's ideal if you can include ONLY your main keyword within the h1 header tags.

Add H2 header tags

Next, we'll need to create an H2 header tag. This can be thought of as a sub heading for our webpage. You should place your 2nd most important keyword in the H2 header tag. The H2 tag should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your webpage.

Usually it's best to place your primary keyword in your H1 tags and your secondary keyword into the H2 tags.

After we've done this, we need to actually create the content for our webpage. When
writing the content, try to evenly sprinkle your main keywords throughout the copy.

Don't overdo it though.

Try to mention each keyword in a natural way as you are writing, but be sure to include at least one of the keywords per 1-2 paragraphs, depending on how large your page is.

Tip: Make sure to mention your main keyword at the very top left and the very bottom right hand side of the webpage. A trick I like to use is to include this in the copyright information line at the bottom of the website. For our example, this would be a good example:

2005 copyright www.domain.com a weight loss story

Notice that it flows and doesn't really look too strange.

Bolding, italicizing and underlining ...

Once we've finished writing the copy, we should go through and bold, underline, or
italicize some of the keywords only 1 time each, maximum. Only do 1 per keyword or it
will hurt you more than it helps.

A good example of this would be to visit the #1 ranked website on Google for the search term, "search engine optimization". Notice how they've written their content. Notice the bolding etc.

Properly include ALT image tags ...

Next, click on the very top image of your webpage (This is usually your website's header graphic) and include an image tag using the text "weight loss story header" if you're adding this alt text to your website header graphic. Click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus an extra word like "graphic" or "image"... For example, we would use "weight loss picture graphic" and "safe weight loss image". This ensures that Google won't view this as spam.

Force Google To Read Your Keywords First!

Now, remember I stated above that Google views your webpage from top left, to bottom
right? Well, in general they do. But because most websites contain a left hand column
which contains all of their navigation links...

Google WILL View all of the text in the left hand column Before The Body of the webpage.

How can you get around this? I've come up with a neat little trick that will ensure that Google reads the actual body of your webpage before the left hand column containing your navigational links.

Here is what you need to do:
Rather than creating a table that looks like this:

You should create a table that looks like this:

By doing this, Google will read the top left hand row/column first (This is labeled with a 1 above)... BUT will see that it is empty, so it will then read the body of your webpage and then read the 2nd left hand row/column which contains your navigational links! :-)

That's all there is to it!

In summary, I really want to point out the fact that, although good onpage optimization is something you'll really want to do, but it is NOT how you make dramatic changes in your search engine ranking!

This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the search engine world. Many believe that by getting your keyword density just right, or by moving your keywords around on the page in just the right places, you'll really move up in the search engines.

That is not the case at all. It is the offpage optimization factors that will get you high rankings. I will teach you exactly what offpage optimization factors are, AND how to make sure you optimize these factors perfectly for Google!

Optimize The Wrong Keywords And You'll Likely Never See Results - Part 2

2009-06-27T13:12:00.009+08:00

Ok, so back to finding which keywords we want to target.

If we scroll down, we can find some more specific keyword phrases like "weight loss story", "weight loss picture", and "safe weight loss".

These could be possible keywords we should target to begin with. Once we have our list of 3 to 4 keywords, we need to go to Google and check out the competition to see
exactly how hard it will be to optimize for the specified keyword.

We'll begin with the keyword "weight loss story" because people looking for weight loss stories are more than likely trying to find out how to lose weight and may buy your weight loss eBook.

You'll notice that the #1 ranked website for "weight loss story" is:
http://www.runwalkjog.com/weight_loss_success_story.htm which is not a top level
webpage, meaning it's not simply http://www.runwalkjog.com.

This is good news for us because, typically, if a website's subpage is ranking well in Google, we have an immediate advantage if we choose to target the same keyword with our homepage (i.e. www.domain.com). For now, just take my word on this, as I will go into more detail why it's usually easier to rank well for your homepage than any other webpage on your website.

You'll also notice that the website has a Google Page Rank of 4.

Note: Here's a quick definition of Page Rank. Page Rank is Google's way of giving a specific value to how popular your website is. It is based on the number of "votes" other websites cast for your website. A "vote" is simply when another website places a link on their website that is pointing to your website. Generally, the more "votes" or links you have pointing to your website, the higher your Page Rank (PR) will be. Page Rank is 1 of the many factors that Google takes into account when ranking websites.

In order to see your own Google Page Rank, as well as others, you must have the Google Toolbar installed on your computer. You can get that for free here: http://toolbar.google.com.

Seeing that the #1 ranked website for this keyword only has a Page Rank of 4 is also
good news for us, because a Page Rank of 4 should be easy to obtain. Remember, the ONLY way to increase our website's Page Rank is by getting other websites to link to us. Later, I'll teach you the right way to get thousands of links pointing to your website in a matter of a few days.

View The Source Code

Next we need to view the source code of this website by clicking "view", then "source" within our web browser as shown below:

This will open up a text file for us to have a look at and see if this website is actually optimizing their "Onpage Optimization factors".

* Side Note: There are 2 types of optimization, onpage and offpage optimization. We'll cover offpage optimization in the following lessons.

As we view the source file from this website, we need to look for a few things.

Whether or not they are using H1 header tags and are placing the keyword "weight loss story" within those tags. In this case, they are not... AND they aren't even using H1 header tags at all! Another great thing for us!

Whether or not they are using their main keyword in the TITLE tags of the website. In this case, they are, which is one of the main reasons they're currently
ranked highly for "weight loss stories".

Whether or not they've bolded, underlined, or italicized the words "weight loss story" anywhere in the body of the webpage. In this case, yes... they have.
They've actually bolded the keyword "weight loss stories" 4 different times
throughout the webpage. At first glance, it looks as though this is another one of the major reasons they've managed to grab the top spot for this keyword. Bolding is something we can do right away, so now we know that we should also bold some of the keywords throughout our copy.

Whether or not they are using image tags and placing the keyword"weight loss stories" within that tag. In this case, that answer is easy because they're not even using any images at all! This is definitely something we can do when optimizing our website. And another thing we can do to "one-up" this #1 ranked website. It is best to add images that are actually named after our main keyword. For example, we could insert an image and call it weight-loss-storiesgraphic1.jpg and so on.

The final thing we want to note is whether or not they've placed the keyword once at the very beginning of the copy, and once at the very end of the copy. In this case they have placed it near the beginning BUT have not placed it at the end. This is another thing we can do to better optimize our webpage.

We now know we can easily out optimize this #1 ranked website!

... Atleast for all the onpage optimization factors that Google deems as important. The reason we know we can out optimize them is because of the following things we've
found out by analyzing their website:

The website is not using the keyword "weight loss stories" in an H1 header tag.

The website did not use ALT image tags containing the keyword "weight loss
stories".

The website didn't place the keyword "weight loss stories" at the very end of the
page.

The website has a low Page Rank of 4, which can be beaten. We can easily achieve a Page Rank of 5. I'll show you the exact steps for this in the coming lessons.

The website is ranked with their subpage (weight_loss_success_story.htm). By optimizing our index page for this keyword, we can one up them.

* Remember, the main idea behind ranking well on Google is to analyze the top ranked websites and then doing those things that they're doing, BUT just a little more to on up them and obtain a better ranking.

We'll continue to go through the same process for the other 2 keywords we've found. It is best to analyze the top 5 ranking websites for each keyword. If the top 5 websites for a specific keyword have a Google Page Rank of 6 or higher, it's probably not best to shoot for that keyword until we build some momentum and get some initial traffic from the easier ranking keywords with less competition.

Earlier I mentioned that keyword research was very important in building traffic. Some other very good resources for building keywords and finding niche phrases include the following:

http://www.wordtracker.com

http://inventory.overture.com (This is the same as goodkeywords.com but is webbased)

http://www.keywordlocator.com

That wraps up Part 1 and Part 2 - Targeting the right keywords.

Optimize The Wrong Keywords And You'll Likely Never See Results - Part 1

2009-06-12T10:36:00.019+08:00

Note: Before you begin, if you're NOT 100% serious about getting your website to the top of Google, don't read another word. Only read on if you plan to put into action, everything I will be teaching you. It's best to print this blueprint off, highlight areas and take notes as you learn the exact steps needed for a top Google ranking.

If you're anything like me, you've probably created a brand new website, Submitted it to a few search engines and hoped that people would mysteriously show up at your site and buy whatever it is you were selling.

After a couple of weeks go by and only a few stray people show up at your website, you decide to try and "optimize" your website around your main keyword in hopes that you just might rank well in 1 of the millions of search engines. Another couple of weeks go by and still no luck.

At this point you probably give up and decide to either build another website around a different target market or just lose all hope and quit. Well, news flash, as you've probably figured out by now, this is not the way to go about doing things.

Let me give you a specific example of what your very first steps MUST be when creating any website.

In our example, let's create a weight loss related website. Our weight loss related
website will primarily sell a weight loss eBook. Before we start creating and collecting content for the website we need to do a little keyword research. This is VERY important and should not be skipped. To do our keyword research we need to visit a few websites.

The first of which should be http://www.goodkeywords.com

They have a very good keyword tool and best of all, it's free! Once we've downloaded
this software, we can enter the most generic keyword for our website into the software. In our example, our keyword would be "weight loss".

You'll notice that in the screenshot below, Good Keywords will return a list of related terms. The "count" column will then show us how many times the specific keyword has been searched for the previous month within the Overture.com search engine. Generally, you can take that number times 8, in order to estimate the number of times that keyword has been searched within Google for the previous month.

You'll notice that weight loss was searched 1,356,100 times during the previous month.

Do NOT start off by optimizing for the keyword "weight loss"

Why? you ask... If a keyword is searched that many times in Overture, then 100 times out of 100, the competition you will have to outrank will be extremely fierce. This is not something you should try to take on right away.

Let's take a quick peek at Google so I can show you exactly how many websites are competeting for this keyword. If we go to Google and enter "weight loss", you'll see there are almost 20 million websites competing for this keyword phrase!

I don't know about you, but that's an aweful lofty goal to start with.

By the end of this course, you will be able to eventually target HUGE keywords such as "weight loss", but it's always best to start off on the keywords with less competition. Get some traffic with those keywords, and THEN you can focus on the larger keywords.

... Continue in Part 2 ...

NEW Google Sitemaps: Get Spidered by Google in Record Time. 48 Hours or Less!

2009-06-09T15:34:00.003+08:00

Straight from Google…
“Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep Google informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.”

It’s a free service. Here’s the sign-up/log-in page.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

To learn more about Google Sitemaps visit Google at:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html

Within the past week alone I’ve received several email offers selling Google Site Map Software that generates the XML file needed for $150 to $200 a pop.

DO NOT buy this software! Why?

Because here’s a list of Free Google Sitemap tools.

Highly recommend this one!

http://johannesmueller.com/gs/

http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-sitemapgen/

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

http://www.blocklayer.com/googlesitemap/Default.aspx

I’ve had Three 800+ page web sites get completely crawled in under 24 hours!

Most people don’t know about this New Back Door into Google, so Submit your sites to Google today while the crawling is quick.

and being spidered by Google fast is a good way to get listed in Google. And getting listed is the first step to get higher position and Google Rank. And all the traffic that comes with it.

An ultimately this is what it's all about - quality search engine traffic.

5 SEO Mistakes Which Should Be Avoided

2009-06-06T01:36:00.003+08:00

Mistake #1 - Niche

Don’t ever try to find high paying niche! People tend to make blogs on those topics for which they can earn more but what happens at last? They loose interest n blogging and just copy and paste content from other blogs, which we all know that search engines does not like copied content and you get nothing from copied content because you don’t get high SERP therefore no traffic! Make blog on a topic which you have knowledge about and also interest. You can earn much more if you follow this tip ;)

Mistake #2 - No Descriptions and Titles on all webpages

This is the mistake I see in many websites while reviewing them. If you use a custom template for you website do remember to put Description and Title tag in all the webpages. This way you can get more traffuc as people while searching on search engines first check out the description of your webpage.

Mistake #3 - Using flash on the website

Search engines can’t index flash websites, so its always preferred that you choose a HTML template for your website or if you really want to use Flash templates make sure you provide a HTML version of the same template.

Mistake #4 - Not Linking to relevant websites

People generally don’t link to relevant webistes. Its recommended that you have backlinks from the website which have same niche as yours. This can help you increasing your SERP!

Mistake #5 - Building too many backlinks

If you are starting your website make sure you don’t start making backlinks very quickly. This will not improve your SERP but decrease it.

Thats all for today on Topic 5 SEO Mistakes Which Should Be Avoided

Improving the Search Engine Rankings of Your Blog

2009-05-20T23:52:00.001+08:00

Bloggers who are interested in reaching a large audience with their blog should consider paying special attention to search engine optimization of their blog. Reaching a large audience may be a priority for a number of different reasons. One of the obvious reasons to attempt to generate increased traffic to a blog is to generate a profit. Bloggers who rely on high blog traffic for their revenue are obviously interested in increasing traffic. However, bloggers who create their blog to promote a cause may also be interested in increasing traffic simply to allow their message to reach a larger audience. Regardless of the reason to want to increase traffic, one of the best ways to do this is by optimizing the blog for search engines. This article will discuss the importance of search engine rankings and offer tips for optimizing a blog.

Why Search Engine Rankings are Important

The importance of high search engine rankings is they can contribute to increased Internet traffic to the blog. This is because Internet users who use search engines to find information on a particular topic are much more likely to visit websites which appear on the first page of the search results than they are to visit websites which appear on subsequent pages of the search results. The websites appearing on the first page of the results are likely to get the most traffic. However, Internet users are not likely to search through more than a page or two of the search results when looking for more information on a particular subject.

High search engine rankings essentially act as free advertisement for a blog or website. This is because many website users rely on popular search engines to assist them in finding useful information on the Internet. The search engines apply complex algorithms to evaluate websites and rank them accordingly for specific search terms. As a result Internet users put a great deal of value on the search results produced and trust these results to lead them to the best available websites relevant to the keywords they specified in the search.

Tips for Optimizing a Blog for Search Engines

One of the most common ways to optimize a blog or website for search engines is through the use of relevant keywords. Specifically the practice of applying specific keyword densities to the content of the blog is a common search engine optimization tactic employed. Blog owners and others who attempt to optimize their websites do not always agree on the optimal density for keywords but many believe a percentage of approximately 2%-3% is appropriate.

Another method for optimizing a search engine optimization is to place relevant keywords into the code of the website. This includes the title tags and META tags. This is important because search engines often consider the prominence of keywords when evaluating a website. This refers to the location in which the keywords first appear. Placing keywords early in the content of the website is helpful but it is important to note the search engines view the code first so keywords appearing before the body of the blog will be crawled first by the search engines.

Blog owners can also help to increase their search engine rankings by generating back links to their blog. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways. One way to do this is to find other websites willing to place a link to the blog on their website. This is beneficial because many search engines factor the number of links to a website into their ranking algorithm because these links are considered to be one website vouching for the validity of another website. Some website owners may be willing to do this in return for a link to their website on your blog. This is known as reciprocal linking and some search engines may not value this link as highly as a link which is not reciprocated. There are also some link exchange programs but these links may not be beneficial because many search engines consider the rank of the website linking to your blog. Therefore, if the website linking to your blog does not rank well, the back link will not improve search engine rankings significantly.