SEO tips from Google

Here are some SEO tips from Google itself. These tips are mostly common sense. Still, if you use these tips then you can improve your ranking in the search engines. So lets get started and improve our SEO.

Online video is plus max

Online video viewing jumps as economy declines and people are spending less money this year. This is good news if you post on Youtube as it grabs 40% of all viewers. The people who view videos can even send you emails and comments.

This is made to order for SEO and a great free way to score some tasty traffic. Make a movie, post it on Youtube, and Voilà!

PR0 Pages

Getting links from pr0 pages is a good idea. This is not like before when a pr0 was a sign that the page was bad, now lots of pages are pr0. Google has lowered pr on lots of pages and it is a good idea to get traffic from many different souces, even low pr pages.

SEO science

OK, is SEO a science or art? Search engines depend on complex algo. The problem is that there is a bit of art when combining SEO with ol skool marketing. SEO can bring more traffic to your site, but marketing is most vital to help increase our conversions.

SEO to save money

Today, I talk about something that is affecting us all. The economic crisis. Well, one reason that we turn to SEO is to save money. This is because SEO is cheaper than PPC, still without sales we will all go under. The financial catastrophe is getting worse.

Google search engine breaks

Global panic as Google search engine breaks. It did not work for 45 minutes, was flagging legit sites as malware, even Google News was said to be a threat. This news means more people will look at Google as less reliable.

Importance of choosing proper keywords

You keyword choice will make you or it will break ya! Most customers do not see why having me increase their sales by 10% of their star product is a lot more productive use of my time and their money, than for me to get number one rank on Google for some low traffic keyword for some dog product that is not making it.

I spent a lot of valuable time pushing SEO and optimizing landing pages for maxiumum conversion to boost sales for a brand new product that brought in just $5,000/mth, when I could instead have put all that effort into pumping up sales for the firm's star product that was bringing in over in $1.2 million/mth. All that effort that was wasted on the dog product that was later cut.

Reddit vs Digg war

Believe it or not, there is a war on for your heart. Reddit and Digg are doing battle. Personally, I like both social scenes, but this drama will make more people aware of the power of bookmarking.

You should use these services to find new stories as well as recommend some. It is also a good idea to not push your own content.

Building Authority backlinks

Having links to your site is master for SEO. You need to get high PR links. Here are some ways you can get authority backlinks. Try to emphasize sites similar in content to what you are linking from. The results should be XLent.

Search Personalization

Search is getting tailored to the individual. Search is evolving into something more authentic. Google Personalized Search is a new way to get exactly what you need. This is important to SEO; we need to see how this will affect your traffic patterns. It is wise to segment your users into groups so you can serve them better.

will digg for food?

Social network sites may desire to ban individual who post negative comments. They also may also wish to ban an individual who constantly spam the site with off topic posts. They want new content.

We can laser focus on exciting new content, and not pile on to the bandwagon. The problem with social networking is that there are only a few individuals at the top of the pyramid. Many webs have super powerusers that rule the top of the heap. These king of the hills with their armies of "diggers" which are called upon to vote up their main stories, rule the roost. So it is hard for newbies to get to the top. What to expect, more of the same.

SEO providers

What can we expect from SEO providers? OK, so most of their work is link building. A small part is optimizing pages to get good rank, but what about metrics and analysis? Do they work on sales copy to increase conversion?

It is a good idea to find out what areas of expertise your SEO master has. Most do not do everything, but specialize in certain areas.

Big Biz & recession

When you see a big business going under due to our severe recession, it is important to realize that many smaller firms are barely holding on. Because they have no money these little companies tend to cut back on expenses more, like for example PPC. Small business SEO is a good tactic, but in a recession big biz can triumph by spending when everybody else is cutting back.

Getting on the front page of Digg

IT is important for traffic as well as that very important buzz factor to get on the front page of Digg. Factor for getting your story on the front page of Digg. First you need an exciting story to get readers to vote you up on Digg. Next, you need a dynamic headline to get people to click on your story. Then, you need the description to be alluring. And, finally, you need a good picture to pull in interest.

Blogging Tips

Here are some blog tips to make your articles better. That said, we should try to make things work to the advantage of the user. Content is the key to a better blog, that and pictures.

Most of us use templates in our web or blog, one company that is great is bigstockphoto as they only charge a buck to use the photo in a template; other companies demand an extended license that cost $50 or even $75 per picture.

Keyword list

Creating your keyword list is of top importance for SEO. You need to know which keyword convert into sales and which do not. This will allow you to build pages and products to target the high percent conversion keyword that you need to power your internet store. Online shops often try to target high margin items, or items that are expensive. Well, in our severe recession a better strategy is to focus on products that your client needs.

Twitter limits search

Many of us are big on the social networking scene and Twitter is a must. However, it appears that Twitter is limiting search. This is strange, but it could be an antispam tactic. Still, I wonder why they would do this.

Gentlemen start your blogs!

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Masimov today orders his government ministers to start blogging. Yes, we are moving into the 21st century when gov workers are ordered to blog. Perhaps we will see video on Youtube soon. That would be the logical next step. I wonder if they need help with SEO?

Keyword Research

I have used the google keyword tool, nichebot, and keyword discovery. Actually my favorite SEO tool is Google. The others are expensive, but not all I want. Indeed, we must move beyond keyword research to understand what our users desire.

The important thing is to fill a need. First we must find a need. For example, many unemployed need jobs, cheap housing, inexpensive food. After you find the need then work hard to fill it.

Korean Blogger Arrested

A South Korean blogger was arrested today for making predictions of dismal financial future. The Korean government claims that they did this to stop the spread of false rumors that might hurt people. This will have a chilling effect on bloggers. It is sad to see South Korea rip a page out of the North Korean play book.

Those of us who have blogs need to realize that many government do not believe in liberty, they may claim such, but the reality is most tragic.

Webspam

The Google team will attempt to remove Webspam in 2009. This is a good thing because we have a lot of MFA sites. Google needs to police their adsense publishers from creating "garbage sites" that have no content, but lots of keywords.

Google Analytics

GA or Google Analytics is very important. It shows you where your customers are finding you. What site provide the most traffic. If your social networking is working.

You need data to see where your PPC strategy is making the mark, or not doing so. The problem is that GA requires a snippet of code on all your pages to have data. That said, it is an super tool.

Basics of SEO

Most of us know the basics. Here is SEO made easy to help you recap the FUNdementals of SEO. This will allow you to add a new layer of understanding to your blogging arena. The importance of being top rank is that it will allow more people to be exposed to your work and see what you do.

Web analytic tools

You already know many to the web analytic tools, but here are a few more. A list of 10 free web analytic tools that you can use in making your web site or blog better. This is a great way to find out how users are seeing your web site or blog.

Resources for Bloggers

Here are some resources for bloggers to help you write stories with excellent SEO. Remember that the most important thing is content. You need that to keep a steady stream of readers to your site.

Build your brand

Part of SEO is build our brand. Make sure that you have a powerful product that defines what you are. Your new brands are the life of your company. It is important to make sure you have put effort into creating products that are the leaders in their field, and as always make them top quality and good value for the money.

Weak brands will destroy your company. Get rid of products that do not produce profit. All products have to add to your bottom line.

Marketing on the web

You have to know your numbers to attain success on the web. It is important to keep track of your PPC campaign and have up to date information on your rankings. Also to dive into your analytics to see who is buying your products. It is great to get a lot of traffic via PPC, but you must check the conversion ratios to see if you are making money.

Does DIGG hate SEO?

Why is it that diggers hate people doing SEO? Well, one problem is spam. Please do not spam the social bookmarking sites. Most social sites hate SEO because they are tired of advertorials that pretend to be news. Make sure your article contain valuable content that people want to read.

Where are SEO jobs?

Here is a map of SEO jobs. Surprise, surprise, most are in California. That would not have anything to do with Google or the Silicon Valley would it? Hey no, it would be great to see what the great state of California is doing now.

recession getting worse

As advertising is cut, even Google is affected. More emphasis on SEO, as money gets tight. The mortgage meltdown led to an economic crisis that affected many large US financial institutions. While big banks can weather the storm, many small businesses cannot handle the financial catastrophe.Their customers cannot buy as much as before. These customers hold their cash close to their chest, and stop spending. As more layoffs cause more customers to stop spending we go from a severe recession to a deep depression.

Make you blog media friendly

Do people really DIGG your blog? Making your content "media friendly" will help you get more exposure in the social bookmarking sites. Most of the hints are obvious like create short, but memorable headlines, add movies that people can share with embed, add flash animation to make your site more interactive.

However, making your blog social media friendly can also involve using controversial topics to draw readers and getting friends to comment about your blog. You become like a movie star with fans.

more SEO in the future

As retail stores strive to cust costs and survive in a severe recession, SEO looks like a great way to get customers. In fact, many stores are going online to trim their expenses. I find many "internet only" deals now.

Last minute shoppers cannot save what is turning into a very dismal Christmas, but firms can move from brick to click. They can cut costs by moving their business online. The high cost of rents, electricity, and clerks is one reason that I see many malls closing in the future. In fact, the future is clicks not clerks.

Finding Friends on Digg

My inDIGGnation at having so few friends on DIGG is because without an army of friends you never get on the frontpage. In fact, it is rare that my digs get more than a few hits. Here are the unwritten rules to making friends on digg.

Getting on top of the tube

Dominating the tube, youtube that is, should be on your list of things to do. Here are ten tips to succeed on youtube. Go from movies that are boring to hot content that will go viral all over the net.

My main tip is to post controversial content with a catchy title like "How to go from success to suxass!"

Google Trends

I use Google Trends to look at what is hot. It is easy to spot new areas that are opening up. The key is to zig where the other people zag. To guess correctly what new items will takes off and become the latest fad.

SEO for Youtube

Not only should you put your videos on your blog, but you should optimize them for high placement. Believe it or not Youtube is the second biggest search engine after Google, so ranking high on Youtube is max plus. To do SEO tips for your Youtube video place emphasis on a catchy title with your main keywords in to. Also, make sure that keyword is in the desc. Include the keyword in the tags, and last but not least, link from your blog using that keyword inside your anchor text. This will help you rank high for that keyword.

Second largest search engine on web is Youtube

Yes folks, Google is number one and Youtube is number two. This just in, Youtube is getting one quarter of all searches. I find that exciting as the web moves toward more movies and less text we might be seeing the beginning of a new paradigm. Youtube is number two search engine by traffic, but one day might be number one.

Online search ads

Online search advertising has taken a hit as we move from recession into a deep depression. Many companies are looking at using social networking for a free buzz on their product. Other feel that organic SEO is the best way to survive in an economic crisis.

Still, those that still spend money on online ads are cutting back and being far more picky about the keywords that they target - trying to get the most bang for the buck in their marketing efforts with the financial chaos is even now thinning the herd.

Getting more people to click

So how to you get more people to click your Google listings. It is called Google window dressing.

Try for a catchy headline that grabs reader attention. Make you description end in the middle of a sentence like "find out how to save big money on -

Genetic Algorithms for SEO

As science advances the formerly impossible becomes quite possible. Google uses algorithms to determine ranking, but what about using Genetic Algorithms for SEO testing. Is it possible? Well, I believe it is, in fact, artificial intelligence and neural networks could be used to improve a web sites search engine optimization.

Search is King

Getting to the top in the search engines is the most important. That is why we must look at search analytics for top ranking. Few people would argue with the premise that higher rankings equals more traffic, but we also also know that getting to the top is hard work. First we need quality content, then lots of links to it.

Here is something that few focus on - search analytics. This folks is very important because we need to know why people are clicking and why they are leaving our site. Going thru the data will help us understand the mind of the users so we can improve their browsing experience on our site.

Getting more links for SEO

Most, if not all of us, know that we need more links for SEO. However, what is the secret for link building and SEO? This secret is best described as the bond between links and rankings in the search engines.

Add your links slowly and make sure that they add value to your audience. When you add links make sure that your readers will benefit.

relevant sites

When you create a link it must be relevant to your web site/blog. Do not add links that are off topic and of limited value to your readers.

Social media sites are a great way to get relevant links for your site. If you link to others, then often they will link back to your web site/blog.

Driving Traffic to your Blog

Most retail merchants know that traffic is essential to their business. The road to riches is not paved with good intentions; no it is paved with hard work. Twitter is one way to get more people to visit your blog. People use Twitter to keep readers in the loop on what they are doing.

Do you dig DIGG?

Well, many of us use DIGG in different ways, such as getting the latest on breaking news, find out what is hot, creating buzz for a new band, etc. However, what are some of the rules for using this service? Here is a set of ten rules for DIGG success.

Getting more traffic to your blog

Let's face it, we are moving into a digital era. In fact, two major metropolitan newspapers the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Times are cutting home delivery and expanding stories online. This is more than the high price of pulp. It is much faster and easier to update stuff on the web. It is a lot less expensive to distribute information over the internet.

Basically, a blog is like a small newspaper. You need to increase readership. There are many methods. One great way to increase your blog traffic is to upload a movie on Youtube. This will increase your exposure as well as add to your buzz.

Social Media Guidelines

When you participate in online chats, forums, blogs, SMS and other forms of communication, please be polite. It is important to implement your own Social Media Guidelines. There are many suggestions we cab use to help make our online experience more productive.

Downloading Youtube Video

Here is a great utility to download Youtube video called flashgot. Personally, I like Youtube because I can learn new ways to interact with the web. The problem is that many movies get taken out and then you have nothing, so this is a way to store them on your hard drive.

Typo SEO

Believe it or not, some people will intentionally use word choice errors and poor spelling to create a certain "feel" to a web site, but we are talking about typo SEO, a way to rank high for alternative spellings of a common search term. Yes, keywords are often quite competitive, but a miz-spelled keyword will often have plenty of traffic, but little competition. That is because important authority sites wish to appear professional. They react to miz-spelling like main stream journalism does to a UFO report.

They fear it so much that it provides an opportunity to those who can muster the courage to tread on the thin ice of the sensational. This is but one more tool in your chest to win traffic.

car czar?

The gov wants a car czar to oversee the bailout of the the big three automakers. The key phrase "car czar" has many possibilities from the stand point of an SEO campaign. From my research Google says via our keyword research tool that car czar gets 590 clicks per month. Keyword Discovery gives us 11 for the whole year, but as people focus on the big three this number should increase.

Keyword Cannibalization

This is similar to duplicate content. If you target hundreds of pages after the same keyword then Google will find the most relevant page and tend to ignore your other pages. This leads to a suboptimal result.

Keyword Cannibalization like duplicate content is something that you should avoid. Try to make all your pages unique and target each after a different keyword. True, there will be some overlap, but do not have hundreds of pages all going after one keyword.

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Getting Authority Links

Most people know that links are an important part of SEO and one very interesting development is the hill climbing algo; we need to determine authority. Getting high value authority links will help propel your site to the top. It is important to create content that people want to link to.

Why I dig DIGG

When many other social networking sites go the nofollow route, DIGG has stayed a dofollow company. It is a great way to get news and find out what is hot in the market place. Digg can and should stay independent.

Comment Spam

I made this blog dofollow as so far no comment spam, but others are not so lucky. Comment spamming is that main reason that so many blogs are nofollow. People are tired of the advertorials that push product.

Creating hot content

They say that content is king. Most website could use more content. Creating no fail hot content is not easy, but is doable. First ask your members what they want, then start to work on it. The key is to create keyword rich content that answers the needs of your viewers.

Buying articles for the content

Many people want to get links, but you also need content for your web site. I bought 50 articles about blogging on the warrior forum for approx five dollars. That is a real steal of a deal. I plan to put them up on my web site soon.

Who gets pagerank?

In our SEO work we try to send PR or page rank to our most important pages, like, our home page. Most people alsi try to send link love to product pages and restrict the juice from going to the contact page.

Pagerank is passed via anchor text that causes keyword to be tagged to pages. This is how the algorithm works.

Do pages that are not indexed pass page rank to other pages. It turns out that even pages that are not indexed pass pagerank.

Google layoffs

The search engine giant is going thru a rough spot. Well, say it ain't so Joe, but we could see massive llayoffs. Analysts are predicting 10,000 layoffs due to Google not doing well.,

BREAKING Citigroup for sale

Just when you thought things could not get worse for financial markets, Citigroup is for sale. How will this affect us? Well, less spending on pay per click and more on SEO. Still, seeing the biggest bank go under will send shock waves thru our industry and make the economic crisis worse.

Site Usability

With all this talk of increasing SEO, we find out that many people do not worry about being of value to visitors. Make sure that you have a well crafted web site that will not break with an odd browser. What is your site usability score?

Boosting your SEO

Well, many of you know the importance of Title Tags and stuff them full of important keywords, but another important metric is the Heading Tag. Actually, you should always try to get at least one H1 tag on your page.

Heading Tags are a great SEO booster because they tell the search engine that this is important chapter title or column title in the case of an H2 tag. OK, so get cracking and add a few H1 tags to your pages. The results will make you a believer.

Google Keyword Tool

There are new changes to the Google Search Keyword Tool. You should check this tool out. It has many powerful new features and is free.

Google's list for SEO

Here is a list of 30 things to avoid in SEO. Most of the items are commons sense, but a few may surprise you. I am happy that Google created this list for us, and hope that people will begin to use it.

Trends in SEO

What are the trends in SEO? I see a move toward social networks and new kinds of directories that pass link juice on to the web sites/blogs.

Dont link to bad neighborhoods

The bad neighborhood link checker tool is a great program to keep you out of site blight. I use the link checker to test the waters and see who is who. Search engines will penalize links to a bad neighborhood so the link checker tool will save you from troubles.

SEO-scoop

SEO-scoop got scooped up by Search Engine People. This is a very interesting development. We should stay tuned to what is happening in the world of SEO. With the bad economy I see more consolidations as companies move to dominate the field.

Malware and SEO

Linking to malware sites can damage SEO and your rankings. Google has a safe browsing tool to detect malware sites. Please check to see if a site distributes malware before you link to it as this will put you in a bad neighborhood.

Why SEO ranking?

It is because you get more clicks in position one than two. A SEO sheet can spell out the strategy. SEO is able to help us survive in an ecomonic crisis.

Very Long Tail

Over 90% of traffic is long tail. In fact, the top 10,000 terms account for only 18.5% of traffic. That means that you should put more effort into getting those very long tail searches. For one thing, it is easier to rank for long tail, and for another it is the bulk of internet traffic.

Many people pay top dollar to the SEO firms to rank high for a few terms when they should focus on going after the very long trail.

Are some subdomains dead?

Well, in SEO it is important to have keywords in the domain name. That said, some subdomains appear to be near death. The reason is that people will target a tight group of articles around a niche domain. Today people want focus, gone are the days of the generalist web site. Also, search engines look to see the flavor of the domain.

Digg friendly content to boost SEO

One method of getting links and exposure is to create Digg friendly content to drive traffic to your website. It is a strategy that consists of making a general audience article that is highly relevant and appeals to the users of social communities.

Most Diggers are looking for fresh content. If you can provide this it makes your article a possible new source of information for your crowd, which may find you later using search engines. The key is to grab their attention and hold it with an exciting article.

Christmas crisis

The global economic meltdown is causing a Christmas crisis as people are spending less over the web. There are fewer clicks and the percentage of click that convert into sales is down.

Well, now is a good time to step up you SEO effort because you will need a lot more clicks to have the same amount of sales as last year. The few shoppers tend to be hunting for bargains as people cut back on expenses.

Future of SEO is?

Many of us wonder how search engines will operate in the days to come. Well, the future of SEO can be seen as a combination of AI (artificial intelligence) and natural language. People will search from a cellular telephone using voice commands.

Many may see this as scifi, but consider how powerful computers are today and how they keep getting more powerful and less expensive all the time. If a person from the 1958 were to time travel to today 50 years in the future they would be amaze at the power we have. Imagine the next 50 years.

blogging about SEO

When you blog about SEO, are you happy? Also, is it worth your time? Perhaps some may say that it would be better to hog all the resources and not share, but as for me, I believe in sharing information about the best new methods and strategies.

SEO is not a game. It is a way to get people to see what you have to offer. A way to get people to see your web site.

Blogging Mistakes

Many bloggers make mistakes that cause them to lose readers. Here is a list of 12 common blogging mistakes that you can avoid. Lets start with wordy and professorial tomes that bore readers. The content must be short and to the point if you want to hold interest. Try to make your posts relevant to your audience. Oh, and avoid rewriting a new source, provide fresh new content.

Blueprint of seo success

What makes SEO successful, a blueprint. Following a plan will help keep everybody on track. Help make sure all are pulling in the same direction by monitoring performance metrics.

Lower Bouncer Rate

There are many ways to lower your bouncer rate and increase conversion rate for more sales. Mot important is that if you have a high bounce rate you lose many of the visitors that you pay good money for so by making them stay on your site and read your content you increase sales.

First, you break up large clumps of text into small bite size pieces. Bold column titles and sub headings. Also place pictures to draw customers to your product. Adding video chunks from Youtube can make your site sticky.

You should try to keep visitors on you site for at least one minute. They need to read your content so use arrows and bullet points to direct your audience to purchase your product.

The new Google Analytics

Google has made a great product GA, even greater. The new Google Analytics contains seven major features. I check out Google Analytics, an awesome tool.

Boosting CTR

Ways to boost your CTR or click thru ratio. To get more clicks from your organic rankings. Using your current search engine strategy you should begin to write powerful headlines as your title tags.

Use Google Analytics to find out which keywords convert the best into sales and focus on optimizing those. It is a waste of time to try to get higher CTR on keywords that do not generate a profit for you. After you increase the click thru ratio work on increasing your conversion rate.

There first paragraph on your page must be compelling content to pull in the reader and hopefully convert them into a buyer. This is important because if you lose the reader, you lose the sale.

How Search engine crawl and index web

Most search engines are on the look out for new content. Search engines crawl and index the web with spiders. The job is to then categorize the content and find out if the links are valid.

SEO image search

Using search engines for finding images online is a great idea. The traffic I get from images in some instances is greater than text search. People can relate to an image in less than a second. The problem is to make your images memorable and inspiring.

Importance of high rankings

One of the reason, and probably the most important for SEO, is to get a high ranking in the search engines. That said, we may wonder why all the fuss. Is high ranking in the search engines that important? Well, if you are not on the top ten of a search result chances are that you will get little or no clicks. Without any traffic your web page building is all for nothing.

If you are a business you may have no choice but to close and fire all your workers, as well as look for other employment yourself, not motivated enough?

Imagine that each visitor is a potential buyer to your store, your location of the search results determines the store traffic and your income.

SEO101

SEO101 - search engine optimization goals helps neophytes learn the way to get a better rank. The techniques are simple, but do require a bit of work. Mostly, I feel SEO is link building, but on page optimization is also important.

What if - there were no Google?

Imagine if you can a world without Google. Well, this blog would not exist, but what would it be like. My guess is that it would be a war between microsoft and yahoo. Perhaps a big player like amazon would jump in, or even an ebay, or IBM would create a search. Hard to tell, but another possibility would be a spammy Altavista clone with millions of trashy splashy pages of junk.

Google / Yahoo merger?

Under a new president a Google / Yahoo merger could affect search. Most SEO work now is based on these two companies. Adwords rates for search ad will go up.

Create your own click to buy button

Now you can create your own click to buy button in Youtube with an easy lesson. Youtube create click to buy is easy. Make your video and add your link.

Evolution of`SEO

One new concept of SEO is HTMM or Hidden Topic Markov Model. This work is a process to locate relevant pages based on a query.

SEO Theory

Learning SEO Theory is an important step in ranking high in the search engines. There are many point to learn. First, off page optimization is very important. Well, some call this link building, but it is more like PR building.

1) Adding links
2) Optimizing content
3) Creating fresh new content.

more SEO tools

Here are more SEO tools that you can use. Most are free, some are low cost. I would add Nichebot to that list.

Free SEO tool

Here is a free SEO link checker tool. I use to to check my links. This tool is free and easy for you to use.

Banks in trouble spells trouble for all

Take a look at where we were and where we are going.

Digg bans members

To prevent abuse of its system Digg did ban about fifty members, who it claims were spamming the system. I was looking forward to all the "SEE ALICE SPAM" which clogs the blogs and now digg. You will have to digg deeper to get to the ROOTT!

Copy and SEO

Writing good copy and SEO work together. Many people stuff articles full of keywords without seeing the effect it has on readibility. Target your customers with a combination 0of good copy optimized for high ranking in the search engines.

Make sure your main keyword is not repeated again and again. Make sure to mention it in the first 100 characters, but do not be using it over and over again, because that will turn off the users of your web page.

Add compelling content that will energize and motivate your users without sounding wordy. Get to the point quickly. Your users have little time and need to make decisions fast.

Finally, add more content every week to your web site to keep it new and fresh.

Long Tail Strategy for SEO

Well, is a LONG TAIL a good strategy? Maybe not, listen to this.

Get you on adwords for only a nickel a click?

First, get a good quality score so that you only pay a nickel a click, put your keyword in the title, the header H1 tag, also subheads, and body copy (density > 2%). Make sure to bold it at least once. Place keyword in the anchor text both incoming and outgoing with at least three out links containing it. Place the keyword in pictures and the ALT TEXT tag. Also in metatags.

Now you are almost done. Go to Google Adwords and see what keywords it suggests for your webpage. The keyword you want to pay only five cents a click for, should be in the list. BTW I have keywords that I pay only a penny a click. :D

Great new social media site

Bebo is one of the best new social media sites. It is a great place to meet new people and find out what is going down. So get into the mix and find out what all the buzz is about at Bebo.

Yahoo Open?

Yahoo is trying to compete with Google. Its latest product is Yahoo Open and it will attempt to bring its search engine to developers. The promise is to make its system more accessible.

SEO Link Building

Link building is the root of SEO and without it you will not get far. Search engines look at anchor text to decide which keywords are important to your site. Think of each link as a vote.

Google heat map

There are many differences between a heatmap of Google in 2008 versus in 2005. Now it is more important to rank in the top three in Google. People pay less attention to lower ranking links. Perhaps this is because people are pressed for time ands cannot scan every link.

The result is that SEO is more important than ever as fewer firms can afford to simply be in the top ten. To compete you must now be in the first four results because those capture about 80% of sales, versus position five and below must fight for the remaining 20%. Well, so now more than ever you must be trying for position one.

The new Google heatmap reveals that users now do not look at the bottom of the page as much, but concentrate on the first few links. Also gone are the days when users would go to page two or three of results.

How Google Chrome changes the game

Well, we see that SEO in the future is about being in the first three rather than top ten like before. People no longer click on position five like before. Google Chrome changes the game by combining the search bar and address bar into a combo box.