Wanting to improve you search engine rankings and your website? Here are 7 links to very useful tips and techniques for both blogs and websites when it somes to SEO.
21 Essential SEO Tips and Techniques
20 practical SEO tips to super charge your wordpress blog
Anchor text is the words that are used to link to web pages. Anchor text is very important and plays an integral part in Google’s search rankings. Having several keyword backlinks can better your search engine result placement for those keywords. Search engines, especially Google, put a lot of weight on anchor text.
Through Google’s webmaster tools you can discover keywords used in external links to their website. This can be helpful to learn how your website is perceived by those linking to it. From the Google webmaster dashboard, click statistics then page analysis to learn about external links to your website. This can help to know which keywords are already used to link to your site.
It’s good to know where your website stands when it comes to external links and the keywords used for those links. The information can be very helpful when building an SEO campaign.
When adding images to your website, it’s important to include the ALT tag or “alternative text.” The ALT tag can help to bring more visitors to your site as well as display information about a picture. There are good reasons reasons to always remember to add the ALT tag.
Indexing. Since images by themselves are not indexed, the ALT gives a description of the image that helps web spiders categorize it. Pictures that have the ALT tag can show up in Google index searches and potentially bring visitors to your website.
Accessibility. Some visitors to your website might be using a text browser or have a setting that permits images from loading. A slow connection or an old computer could be two possible reasons a person might prefer to surf the web without seeing images. Since the ALT tag text shows in place of pictures that fail to load, the visitor will at least get to read what the picture was and knowing what they are missing.
Give Information about an Image. A mouse hover over an image will result in the ALT tag being displayed in a yellow box. This makes using the alternative text a way to let your readers know a little bit more about an image.
Google clarified Googlebomb, another SEO jargon for Google search engine gaming. Or is that a redundancy?
What is a Googlebomb?” Technically, a “Googlebomb” (sometimes called a “linkbomb” since they’re not specific to Google) refers to a prank where people attempt to cause someone else’s site to rank for an obscure or meaningless query. Googlebombs very rarely happen for common queries, because the lack of any relevant results for that phrase is part of why a Googlebomb can work. One of the earliest Googlebombs was for the phrase “talentless hack,” for example.
More about Googlebomb via Google Official Webmaster blog
Brian Clark of the great Copyblogger has shared wisdom on five link building strategies that work.
Aside from the age-old tactic of using article directories, embracing the social media through networking emails and using social network sites and making guest appearances, one way to help the link popularity of your site grow that Brian has highlighted is to simply link out.
Linking out or mentioning links on your blog posts is what I’ve also witnessed to be a subtle way of asking for a link exchange. Sure, getting a link back may not be the usual reason why one would send link love to a person. But a link that’s reciprocated is usually appreciated.
This reminds me when an e-commerce site owner asked me to SEO his sites. I told him I can only offer blogging and other web content services since I have no working experience of a full-scale SEO gig yet. He, then, asked what are the benchmarks that will show him that my services are delivering - increase of search engine traffic from content I said. I hope it’s just that as easy with search engine optimization. But it isn’t.
SEO is not a rocket science as gazillions of experts would profess. But it’s not as measurable as your cup of tea.
Although it’s easier said than done - measuring SEO success, that is, it pays to learn some relatively concrete dipsticks that could show how your SEO projects are doing. Gauges of SEO success depend on what you want to achieve of course. Here are some that might help you picture what SEO success is all about:
Online advertisement expert Jennifer Slegg shared 25 of the most important techniques that a blogger can do if he wants his blog to get found easily to earn more traffic and get repeat visits.
Most of them tackle the very essence of white hat SEO - maintaining effective blog usability.
Aside from the regular SEO blog tips mainstays such as improving your blog’s navigation area and writing descriptive titles, one that I’d love to reiterate is writing legibly, er, more readably.
Aside from correct grammar usage, it definitely helps to keep blog readers’ eyes comfy with the use of paragraph spacing and easy-to-read fonts. Overly lengthy paragraphs and fonts that are too small can be very annoying.
A Digital Point forum member with the handle of Bag has been providing free search engine optimization service to DP members since Christmas day.
Today, he or she has opened again the doors to those who would like a free SEO report:
Blog, forum, website, whatever that runs on the web and you feel like getting higher search engine rankings, this is the topic for you. And you don’t have to pay a thing, so you have nothing to loose!
It’s been a great two months of SEO blogging. And I thank everyone who has visited this site and found it helpful. Yes, if you hate it I hate you, too! Just playing! 
Before ending this year of sweet new beginnings, I’m giving you a short recap of what I’ve learned either from SEO experts and from my own search engine gaming, er, optimization experience with some Christmas song inspiration.
Allow me to be cornier this time.
The 12 Days of Searchmas
Entrepreneur.com Sales and Marketing section proposed four New Year resolutions for business people with e-commerce sites. One suggests about making a website earn a better search engine placement through SEO efforts.
Resolution #3: Increase SEO efficiency. “We seek top-five placement for our top five keywords on the organic listings of Google, Yahoo! and MSN,” says Stamp. “We took away some imagery on our landing pages because search engines [only] read text.” Stamp hired a company to work solely on search engine optimization.
The other three initiatives to improve conversion include focusing on the customer from website use to order placement, personalization of products and marketing efforts, and addition of customer feedback and reviews.
via Entrepreneur
website optimization, e-commerce site SEO, 2007 business resolution, Entrepreneur.com
If you are a serious about your search engine optimization efforts, you don’t just optimize your text content, you don’t just learn how to optimize images. Videos need to be SEO’ed, too.
The popularity of the $1.65 billion YouTube and other video submission sites has proven that videos are the next big thing.
So, here’s a bunch of SEO tips for videos from Search Engine Strategies speakers Jon Leicht, Intuit’s web marketing manager, Eric Papczun of Performics and Gregory Markel of Infuse Creative:
Aside from content optimization for related and trusted sites to link to and link baiting, Google suggests participating in services such as Yahoo! Answers to build link-based popularity. According to the official Google Webmaster Central Blog, Yahoo! Answers and similar services can help build one authority to consequently earn a good reputation.
This sounds like the “Report Abuse” feature of this Yahoo! service will soon need to be used often.
link development, link building strategy, SEO strategy, Yahoo! Answers
Thanks to Nokia, Motorola and all the mushrooming mobile phone companies, mobile Internet surfing is fast-becoming a worldwide trend. And as a webmaster or as an ambitious entrepreneur who knows that an online presence can only increase your bottom line, how do you make sure you don’t get outdated?
Mobile search optimization is the solution!
Here are some excellent optimization tips from Ross Dunn, the CEO of the SEM company Stepforth, if you want your site emerge as one which is well-armed when it comes to mobile searching:
1. Get a .mobi top level domain to create a mobile version of your site that will make your site easily viewed using mobile phones.
Although SEO is not an exact science, experts can, of course, easily tell the truth from the lies in terms of the efficiency of an SEO campaign or whether your business or whatever endeavor you have will benefit from any strategies or not.
Lee Odden of TopRank clarified five wrong notions about SEO:
Images are getting more known on helping drive traffic to a site. However, aside from writing descriptive alt tags, headings and other textual descriptions, how else do you make sure your site get the most traffic from Google’s Image Search feature?
Google Image Search can be especially beneficial to those with e-commerce sites or are using images for their e-tail business products. But how can you make this Google product help your image get your site indexed?
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It use to be enough just to have a website to reach web surfers since the Internet was a much smaller place. Now it takes work to ensure that your website shows up on the World Wide Web radar. SEODance.com is committed to bringing tips and tools to make a website search engine friendly. There is no denying the power of search engines to drive traffic to websites. Establishing good search engine optimization practices as well as taking advantage of the right web tools can make a successful website. SEODance.com is here to help by spotlighting the latest SEO news, reviewing tools, and offering advice.
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