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Bid Goodbye To Duplicate Content – Google’s Penguin Update Can Nullify Negative SEO

July 25th, 2012 No comments

Are you recently perplexed by the falling search engine ranking of your website? If answered yes, you should gain knowledge on the latest algorithm update of Google, codenamed as the Penguin update. In order to cut down the spam and penalize the large number of duplicate content websites, Google changes its search engine algorithm every now and then. Once Google checks that the weak websites have occupied the first page of the search engine results, it changes the search engine algorithm and this continues the arms struggle between Black Hat SEO scam artists and Google. If you’re someone who is wondering about the reasons of the falling SEO rank of your webpage and the ways in which you can make your webpage perfect in accordance with the Penguin update, you need to know more on this. Read on to get you educated on the Penguin update.

What is the major focus of the Penguin update?

Authority, according to the Penguin update, matters more than the anything else and the major focus is on the back links and the way in which the websites gather ‘link juice’ to boost the page rank of a webpage. According to the Penguin update, Google will always give more importance to the quality and the reputation of the website that is linking to your specific domain and will not give any importance to the sheer number of links that point to the same direction. When it comes to link building, the SEO technicians will no more be rewarded for their shortcuts that they adapt in order to increase the page rank of the website.

Is content still the king?

Yes, no matter how many times Google changes its search engine algorithm, content still remains the king and the lifeblood of the web. If you can’t include quality content on your website that is relevant and unique within its own cliché, you can’t ever expect the visitors to stick on to your website only to be flooded by the harassing popups and the irrelevant and the unnecessary advertisements. Google’s latest research on LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing is being incorporated within the Penguin update and this will mean that it will become tougher for the websites to fool the search engines by uploading badly spun articles that are copied from other websites.

Does the Penguin update favor natural back links?

When it comes to building all-natural solid back links, there are no real shortcuts. Yes, Penguin will rather reward and favor the positive honest linking practices like on-page optimization and mixed anchor text and this is a good thing both for the clients and the SEO analysts. This Penguin update will level the battle field and also offer a good fighting chance for the good SEO guys against the spammers.

Anyone who is a full-time SEO worker will be happy to know about the Penguin update of Google as they can easily take the required steps to boost the page rank of their own websites. You better swim with the tide rather than get washed up on the shore by not updating your SEO practices according to the Penguin update.

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How To Grow Website Traffic Like An SEO Master

June 15th, 2012 No comments

It is not enough to have a nice looking professional website for your business or having blog for your business or having website for making money from different monetization methods including affiliate marketing and PPC advertising like google Adsense. You must ask your self that who will visit your site or blog and who will keep visiting it again and again which you can call website traffic. How you are going to get that?

If you don’t understand the importance of traffic, let me make it simpler. Website, weather it is business information site or online business blog, is just a platform. You have to tell the world (of course the online one) that, Hey I am here giving valuable information on my website or Hey, Here I am selling these products at much chipper cost or Hey, here you will find the solution to all your problems. If no one knows where your site is, who is going to visit it? Your visitors are your customers and hence traffic means the business. More traffic, more business. It’s pretty simple, isn’t it?

So here is the set of some surefire tips which can help you grow your visitors and can help you earn more business from website or blog.

Before we talk about the traffic building strategies and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), let me clear that, SEO is not about any particular thing, it’s about balance between lots of small things which are to be maintained continuously. For example, Article marketing, link building, social media promotion, blog commenting, forum signatures, profile link building, on page SEO, keyword optimization are basic things that most internet marketing expert is using today.

It does not mean that you will get success in building traffic to your website if you know about these SEO and link building strategies. The secret is in balance of these things. For example, if you are going to practice on article marketing, what newbie will do is post an article to hundreds of article directories either manually, automatically using some scripts, using online service or will hire someone to do this for him, but what real SEO master is supposed to do is choose the top article directories which are having following qualities… (i.e. ezinearticles.com)

1. Having a good position and respect in google.
2. Having high Google PR (PageRank) and Alexa rank.
3. Accepting great quality articles only and rejecting spam and duplicate article submissions.
4. Allows limited numbers of backlinks at the end of the article.

Similarly, for link building strategies, one should choose the place to get (paid or free) backlinks which meets following requirements.

1. Once again, having a good position and reputation in google.
2. Not having too many of outbound links on the same page on which your backlink is.
3. Don’t do reciprocal link building, it’s too old school nowadays.
4. Don’t target on single niche, go on varieties of niches but having audience of similar interest.
5. Don’t do overwhelming link building. I have seen many people offering thousands of backlinks for very cheap price. Hire them only if you want to get fired by google.
6. Do everything naturally. Google understands that new sites can not get too many of backlinks too fast, if you grow backlinks slowly and steadily, then it will definitely help you get more traffic and higher google PR.

Note: Higher google pr does not mean higher traffic, both are far different things. Google PR is about reputation and not about traffic. A site with google PR 1 can have much higher traffic than a site with higher google pr, it’s possible and it’s natural.

Actually, this article has finished so quickly because it’s not easy to explain everything about traffic building or SEO in single page article. It’s just about sharing some quick ideas. If you liked it, please give your comments, and we will definitely improve our next articles based on your comments.

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Why Outbound Linking in SEO

March 3rd, 2011 1 comment
Outbound Linking in SEO

OutBound Linking

Before we have discussed a lot regarding the inbound links (the links that are coming to your site from outside websites) and its importance. Now let us discuss something about the outbound links (the links from your site to the outside websites) and the facts related to it.

The liking of the web-masters for the outbound links vary a lot. Some of them freely use the outbound links thinking that it actually boost the value of the site and increase the chances of getting increasing visitors. While some are very reluctant in using the outbound links due to the fear of losing the time and money that they can receive from the visitors. There are many misconceptions regarding the use of outbound links, the web-masters fear losing their visitors to other websites and also feel that outbound links don’t help in SEO. We do agree that inbound links help in increasing the page rank and SEO, but even outbound links do help in better SEO though not to the extent that the inbound link does. To better understand how it does,  we will have a look at outbound links from three perspective.

1) SEO : All the SEO experts stand on a common platform saying that the use of the outbound links to the relevant site actually helps your site to perform well with the search engines. Even I do personally believe that search engines like Yahoo and Google have their own mechanism and factors to decide the page rank and the popularity of the site, and outbound links is also one of the factor they consider. Though they don’t put much weight on it as other factors (inbound links, page title etc.), but still it is considered. I am uncertain how much impact the outbound links have done to the other site, but such sites really do well with the search engines.

Though from the perspective of SEO you need to take care of few things :

  • don’t frown the search engines by placing too many outbound links.
  • Always link to the site relevant to your industry and theme.
  • Choose appropriate keywords that you use to link your site and the other site.
  • Always use outbound links to the site that have higher ranking than yours in the search engine.

My personal advice is to focus more on the 2nd and 3rd point. If those two are done properly then it will surely help you with the search engine ranking without effecting the ultimate goal of your website.

2) Readers Satisfaction : Rather than thinking of the SEO, you must be focusing more on the impact that the links will have on the readers. The only intent behind using the outbound links is to provide the readers with the best and quality information. If some web-master has quality and fresh content written on the same topic that you do, then you must not hesitate to link it from your website.

Many people fear that this will drive the traffic from yous site to the other, but I personally feel that if you continue to provide appropriate information to the visitors then they won’t ever forget the actual source from where the information can and thus you have increasing change of getting returning visitors.

Just you need to consider that too many outbound links reduces the readers satisfaction, so you need to careful in selecting the sites you are linking to.

3) Other : The other few reasons that you can find useful to link other websites from your site are :

-        Getting linked to the other websites and sending the traffic to them will bring you in the awareness circle of those web-masters, and if they find your work useful and information they might also come back to you and both of you can enjoy a fruitful relation.

-        Also linking to other sites proves your expertise in that domain. You are placing a good content on your site and also linking the users to other site for more information on the same topic, so the way you are streaming your information makes the user feel you are well in touch with the domain and carries required expertise, and thus the visitors put more trust in you.

The above listed are some of the reasons that I feel, the outbound links are also much helpful with SEO. There might also be many other reasons which I am not aware of but the visitors know. So I am leaving the more to you, to post more advantages of the outbound links in the form of comments. Would be eagerly waiting to know more about it from the other web-masters.

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What is SEO ? Just Keyword and BackLink

March 1st, 2011 No comments

So What SEO is all about ?

This is basic and exact definition of SEO according to our research and understanding search engine optimization and web promotion field.

We all know what SEO stands for. Of course, “Search Engine Optimization”. This is Creativity of making your website more readers friendly, Relevant to the interest of search engine users and hence ranking better in the search engine results.

According to the recent market study and research in SEO, we found two main components of the SEO. “Keyword” and “BackLink”, year these are the two main parts of the whole search engine optimization process.

Keyword is heart of the web content and it is very important for relevance of your website. While backlink is brain of your website and it is very important for popularity of your website.

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Keywords

SEO Keyword:

Keyword is the word that describes your website content’s main topic. It also mean the title of your website. Search engines send they robots and spiders to crawl your web content and to find useful information. They use these information to serve the search engine searchers.

Search engine robots search for most popular keywords in your content, they will find density of each keyword. The main keyword of your website will have highest density in your site’s content. Through that keyword, search engine can understand your website’s content and may know that what kind of information you are serving to your visitors.

Keyword is first and most important thing, you must think of it before starting your seo journey. You might need to do some keyword research to find what keywords are in popularity, what keywords are suitable to your site and should be concentrated on.

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BackLink

SEO BackLink

Link to your site is just like votes gained by your site. More sites link to your website, your site receives more votes and hence search engine can understand the popularity of your website amongst the other similar websites.

So what kind of backlinks are more useful for SEO? Usually you should think about the similarity of the website. Search engines give more importance to backlinks between the similar sites and also will depend on the importance of linking sites.

So how to get backlinks ? Most of the time, webmaster can purchase paid backlinks from the most popular site of similar niche. Another option you can try is blog posting, blog commenting, forum posting with link to your site. If your visitors like your site and link to you on their blog or site, it will be bonus for you.

So now you know that “Keyword” and “Backlink” is the only important and must do parts of the whole SEO Process. Start thinking of it and using, finally the SEO process is totally based on research analysis and it is also slow process. You can not figure out the results as soon you make the changes. Just wait and watch….

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Very First Introduction to Search Engine Optimization

March 1st, 2011 No comments
SEO

Search Engine Introduction

Dear Readers, This is very first and basic information about search engine optimization (SEO). You should read this if you have recently created a new blog or website, or thinking of doing so.

Everyone knows about the search engines and it’s importance, but nobody knows about the behavior of search engine and how it works. I always found all webmasters crucial about knowing this fact. Only we can do this is research, study and assume about the search engines behavior.

Search engine companies are always intended to hide that how they work, and they should do. But it is very important to for us as webmaster to know about it. Search engine algorithms keep changing on regular basis as per the current market requirement and demand of information. Thus we have to be updated with the latest information in SEO (search engine optimization) field.

Here I have discussed quick tips to keep in mind while optimizing your site to get search engine traffic.

  1. Never try to trick the search engine: Don’t design your site to trick them as the algorithm of search engines are getting smarter each day, and your site may be panelized for any trick like this.
  2. Avoid over optimizing your site: we all wants Best SEO on our site, hence most of the time we all make the same mistake, which is over optimizing. Using each and every seo tactic on your page may some time put it in over optimized category and search engine may think that you are trying to trick them. So be generous and choose the best tips to optimize your site.
  3. Keep an eye on page optimization instead of whole site: Each page must have their own importance. It is not necessary that reader that is interested in one page will always like all other pages with similar interest. So decide the keyword of your page and optimize it for that keyword.
  4. SEO is slow and steady process. Be relaxed.  Keep the nature of “Wait and watch”, don’t hurry to change things like “title”, “meta keywords”, “content”. Changes will reflect in search engine slowly and it will need a lot time to study what actually you should change.
  5. Search engine loves only unique and original content. Search engine robots are always hungry of original content, so feed them, make them happy and they will make you happy.

There are lot to say about the search engine optimization, but as its based on research and study, and also it is “Slow and steady” process, keep reading and commenting here….