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Quick wins in SEO – Part 2

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

This is a continuation of my earlier article Quick wins in SEO – Part 1.

Today almost all the search engines consider back links as one of the most important criterion for assessing the importance of a website. So you must start looking at powerful link building strategies that are capable of brining you the desired results.

Article Submission

This is one of the most successful link building strategies that helps your website get good quality contextual links. Article submission also drives quality traffic to your website from the article directories. Article submission involves writing of keyword rich, interesting and informative articles that are relevant to your website, products and services. Well written articles should be submitted to top article directories with link to your website in the author resource box.

Article directories receive hundreds of visitors each day who look for information on various topics, products and services. You will be able to tap on the potential of these visitors. Added to that, when you post your articles in content rich article directories, you will be able to get your links from pages with good PR. This will enhance your ranking further. As search engines love fresh content, they frequently visit the article directories and your links will get indexed fast. This is by far one of the best ways of building your online popularity. Article submission gives you permanent one-way links to your website.

Squidoo Lens

This is relatively a newer concept in link building and online search marketing. Squidoo lens allows you to create single page websites called lenses and publish them online for free at Squidoolens.com. You will be able to write just about anything in these lenses and also have live links to your website. Squidoo lenses allow you to create tags for your lens and this makes your back link count grow faster than any other link building method. All the pages with the same tags are automatically linked and this enhances your link power. The number of links from your Squidoo lens continues to grow.

Press Releases

This is yet another most powerful way of driving traffic to your website. If you need quick traffic to your website, then press release is the ideal way to go. You will be able to get you press releases indexed fast by the search engines when they are submitted to the right newsrooms. You will be able to get a lot of prospective traffic to your website through the press releases.

Category: Web Design

5 reasons to add a blog to your website

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Over the last few years, blogging has taken off in popularity. Should you or your business join the web blogsphere? Well as a web design and development company, we get many requests when it comes to developing a clean and static website. For clients with static requirements, we recommend integrating a blog. Having a blog for static sites can bring a significant amount of traffic when it comes to Search Engine rankings. Here are 5 reasons why you should spend a little bit more on having a blog.

1) To Market or Promote Something

A fantastic way to market or promote yourself or your business, product or service is through blogging.

2) To Establish Yourself as a Credible Expert

Are you a professional? Do you have many years of experience and knowledge in law? Healthcare? Advertising? Non-profit management? And etc? Well the Blogsphere is the best way for you to establish your credibility as an expert in that field.

3) To Stay Active or Knowledgeable in a Field or Topic

The frequency of blogging contributes to the partial success of your blog. Ideally, one should blog daily or weekly (monthly too). Your audience will love to hear about what you have to say about in regards to the current events or your matters related to your field.

4) To Make Money

Having a blog can help you generate revenue. It can increase leads, donors/investors, and clients! With hard work and commitment, your thoughts and frequency will increase revenue generation if you are a business.

5) To Increase Your Search Engine Ranks (To be Found)

The purpose behind a website is generate awareness for your audience.. Why settle for 5 -10 when you can get 100+ more a day visitors? A blog allow users to generate new content (static websites alone do not). Search Engines LOVE new content. New content in the perspective of Search Engines (Google, AOL, Yahoo, and Bing) help determine how important your website is on the web. The more your blog, the more hits you get, the higher the ranking. It is that simple and that valuable.

Category: Web Design

How to improve your Alexa ranking?

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Alexa rank has become a popular yardstick to measure the value of your website. Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank to determine your PR juice.

In this article, I will talk about one easy way to improve your Alexa ranking. This is not a method that will game the system and improve your rank, so beware.

A lot of people don’t seem to realize that Alexa rank is based on the number visits to your site from users who have Alexa toobar installed on their browser. So if you think majority of users to your site don’t have a good reason to have a Alexa toolbar installed, then you are not getting any credit for those visits! It may not be fair, but that is a topic for another day.

So how do you make sure that you get credit for these visits? Make Alexa aware of these visits by putting an Alexa rank widget on your website. You can get a widget for your website from http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/widgets. You could pick any one of the three:

Alexa Traffic Widget

Alexa Status Widget

Alexa Rank Widget

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Now, you may not want put this badge on your website because your rank is not something to crow about, or purely for aesthetic reasons. They certainly could have made those badges look better! Anyways, the solution would be to keep include the badge in the footer of your pages, but keep it hidden using CSS (use class property display : none). You can go to our homepage www.remotetiger.com and view the source to see an example.
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