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.